skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because this is the sort of thing that actually matters. The latest police brutality incident or Trump tweet don't really matter. Technology like this will determine the contours of civilization for centuries to come, if we're lucky enough to survive that long. Exactly how and by whom these technologies are deployed are the most important decisions being made right now (aside, perhaps, from climate-change related policies).
> It's a series filled with Steve Urkel-level parodies of nerds.

Not really. Steve Urkel was a nerd, but in the show that just meant “annoying personality”. The characters in Big Bang Theory might have annoying personalities at times, but at least had interests and attitudes that demonstrated they were actually nerds, not just annoying.
While in this case, I've heard it before and it seems to come from actual scientists, so it's probably not just a journalist's imagination. But in general, I agree that it's frustrating to read articles about trends which don't show numbers, particularly graphs, making it difficult to judge. There are so many articles making scary claims like "X has dropped to half what it was a decade ago!" but it turns out that X fluctuates wildly anyway and the recession or whatever had a massive temporary effect on it.

That said, my 2c is that high IQ causes people to become professionals and being a professional reduces the number of children they have. From my personal observations, poor people seem to have children as their purpose in life while professionals have other purposes and don't feel as much need for children.

Contrast this to most of the last couple of millennia where the highest status men had lots of children to multiple mothers, and famines were common, which would wipe out the poorest people. The poorest people would have included those least able to climb the class hierarchy by being merchants or intelligently winning the games of politics. There also wasn't social welfare to enable the poorest people to support as many children as they want. It sounds like a breeding ground for intelligence.
It's the false positives that make me worry the most about Gmail :\ I sometimes get personal emails from family shoved in the spam folder - they're in my contact book, they're starred, they're relatively frequent emailers in both directions... but still, in to spam you go.

The false-positives are usually so absurd, that I have to assume they have no boundaries for their ML-whatever. If it says spam because it has decided that contact books are only worth 90% positive signal, then into spam it goes. ML > any hard-coded rational decisions.
That privacy policy was linking to my other app. I just updated my app store page and it should link to the correct privacy policy now. Please have a look now and let me know if you have questions. Are you using the pure black theme? Can you try disabling the pure black to see if the dark gray helps with the jitter?
This is a great insight. It's hard to break the habit of defaulting to the node voltage method when it's been beaten into your head via practice in EE labs. In the lab I used in college, something like ~90% of the ammeters were broken or wrong (mostly due to blown fuses by other clueless undergrads), but the voltmeters were always reliable. Defaulting to the voltmeter also meant you didn't have to move things around on the breadboard. I think this hands-on experience influenced the way I approach circuits even if they are on paper or a computer screen.
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Are there any trans main characters in a broadcast TV series? Not Netflix original, not Hulu, not satellite or cable, but ABC/NBC/CBS/Fox free-to-air broadcast TV. I can't think of any off the top of my head, and I think that comes down to the demographic targeted by broadcast TV: People fifty or older.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/television/tv-audiences-and-...

> According to the analysis of audiences of 5 networks measured using Nielsen’s Digital Content Ratings in September 2018, 59% of live TV viewers ages 13 and older were in the 55+ group, compared to just 5% who were aged 13-24. The median age of a live TV viewer worked out to 56. MarketingCharts’ own research – US Media Audience Demographics – has found that weekly broadcast TV viewers are skewing older over time, and cable TV viewers also have a growing skew towards older adults.

Also, let's look at the other broadcast medium, radio:

https://www.marketingcharts.com/demographics-and-audiences/m...

> While the age distribution of network radio listeners skews towards the 45+ demographic, a large share of Americans of all ages listen to network radio. The study also points out that listeners are spread across the US and tend to represent an attractive group in terms of their income and education levels.

Also graying, but more slowly. And, yes, it's a trend:

https://www.westwoodone.com/2015/06/24/this-just-in-new-data...

(Graph on the bottom shows median age of radio listeners increasing.)

My point is this: Shows made for broadcast media are not going to change because the people making those shows know their demographic and aren't going to shed viewers by doing things their audience considers controversial. Viewership numbers are low enough already. Broadcast media is in a death spiral and whatever stereotypes, representation, and lack of representation it currently has is what it's going to have from now until it goes dark.
This feels like snake oil. A grave without cremation has to be way less energy consuming than controlled "compostation".
My "first" programming language other than BASIC as a kid was probably learning Inform to create interactive fiction with

http://inform7.com/

It was a pretty complex language, and meant to use English syntax to mix both the fiction writing and the coding. So you can end up with code that looks like the following, for example

---

"Stage is a room.

The old lady is a woman in the Stage. Understand "mother" or "stepmother" as the old lady. The old lady is active. The description of the lady is "She looks plucked: thin neck with folds of skin exposed, nose beaky, lips white. Perhaps when her fortunes are mended her cosmetics too will improve.""

---

And it obviously gets more complex as you create things like objects with weights and inventory limits etc. My experience of it is that when it worked it was pretty magical, but when it didn't it was utterly maddening to figure out how to get it to parse.

Kinda felt like a voice help that barely works.

Best of luck with this, I like where it looks like it is going, but it simply has to be /really good/ to be value-added and not frustration-added
Regarding the font size, it doesn't use the system wide font size because during my testing, I found it wasn't reliable for the custom fonts as the same size would look different for different fonts. I will include a way to change the font size in an update (either tomorrow or the next one, I need to see how much change I will have to make in the code). I will add it in.
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Don't share pictures online. If you have to, send them via e-mail. Host your e-mail using a private provider. Make your family do the same.
"Only the very poor, the very young, and the very old don't carry some kind of mobile device these days."

Good on them.
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I cut my teeth on the 68000 (even made my own motherboard) but I must say that writing assembly on the ARM architecture is pretty agreeable.

The main idiosyncrasy with ARM assembly that bothers me is how immediate values can only be values that you could obtain with an 8-bit number + 4 bit rotation. So for anything else I have to use a literal pool somewhere nearby my code.

Still, I think 32-bit ARM is the best architecture to introduce to first time assembly students.

If anyone out there wants to learn it, get a $10 Orange Pi and Pyeatt's "Modern Assembly Language Programming with the ARM Processor" textbook. Hell, you could just get Qemu with a Debian armhf image if you don't want to buy the board and search for free ARM assembly tutorials.
So you don't want to hear about this at all? Because my news feed still features plenty of news about other things. One mention about this every week or so is too much for you?

And there aren't a lot of other countries that currently have a million members of an ethnic minority in concentration camps. And tech/AI is an integral part of this oppression. How is this not news?
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It's not a globalized economy that's made perverse incentives, it's local control that prevents enough housing to match the number of jobs in the area.

Also, it's only sort of "liberals" that are the problem, the real problem is those who claim progressive values, except for when those values may affect themselves.
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> pinning the problems on nimbyism is admitting that market solutions are the best we've got, which I think is wrong.

I'm all for public housing too (more competently executed than last time, please), but Tokyo is a good example of prices being fairly reasonable relative to the size/prosperity of a metro area, and that's been done with the market.

Besides, you'd need to upzone for public housing complexes anyway. There's no conflict here between the socialized solution and the market one, really. The government can make what public housing it can do, and the market can handle the rest.

> why shouldn't people have a say in what happens to their neighborhood?

Because it turns them into reactionary assholes? Because land is in fixed quantity and quality, so letting people with a monopoly on it command even their neighbors to not let people in is a terrible idea? Because mandatory single-family home zoning is classist bullshit that is designed to keep out the poor and working class? It's economic segregation, pure and simple, and you can't be economically progressive while supporting it.

One of the starkest changes going from the US to live in Munich was that suddenly, I didn't notice neighborhoods being obviously rich or poor or middle-class most of the time. Nearly all of them are sort of middling, and have people with an obvious variety of incomes. Even if I focus on it, it's hard to slot neighborhoods into a particular income bucket. And the most obvious cause of this is that SFH-only zoning does not exist here, not in Munich and not anywhere in Germany. Thus, would-be rich neighborhoods cannot keep out the working class by making sure that nobody can build fourplexes or apartments that might be more affordable.

edit: to be clear, I'm not categorically opposed to community input on neighborhood design. But letting specific neighborhoods and cities decide on zoning density has been an unmitigated disaster. So yeah, let's maybe not do that.
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Just one bug though. And it sounds like they found it. Phew.
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Given that's exactly how Liverpool just beat Barcelona to reach the Champion's League Final, I believe it.

https://youtu.be/4NhlXGMDNq4?t=250
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That paper described the inspiration for Basis, but Basis itself is slightly different.

https://github.com/binomialLLC/basis_universal#quick-basis-f...

> Internally, Basis files are composed of a non-uniform texture array of one or more 2D ETC1S texture "slices". ETC1S is a simple subset of the ETC1 texture format popular on Android.
To my knowledge neither of these conditions have occurred in response to the 737 Max technical issues. Corporations listen to customer complaints that are backed up by losing revenue - as was shown with the issue where a passenger was beaten up on a United flight, people are extremely price sensitive when it comes to flying - there is math that can make the 737 unprofitable, but I think it's unlikely that the math will turn in that direction, it would take an extremely negative PR issue to start this.
> Privacy is a fundamental part of Apple's selling proposition

From earlier today :

"Note: Though we cannot bring an official Tor Browser to iOS due to restrictions by Apple"

(https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-85)

Money is the only part of Apple's selling proposition. It's nice they cater to the privacy conscious for the time being, for the time being.
> How about JavaScript and '==' versus '==='?
> Or going back and forth between languages that use '==' and JavaScript?

That's a mistake I make often, but it's exactly because Javascript is different here from all other languages that I use.

Let's say I had to use a language with ':=' as assignment, I would still accidently type '=' all the time.

> Let's say over all of history there have been a million C/C++ programmers, and each of them has made that mistake ~5 times, in total.

> And let's be generous and say that 95% of the time it was found before it got anywhere near production.

> That is still 250,000 bugs introduced.

Well, so what? That's 250,000 out of maybe a hundred million bugs. I'm not saying it's good language design to have this behavior, quite the opposite. I'm saying it's not a big deal, especially considering all the other footguns in these languages. It's also not like these languages are going change it.
It's a social problem that both liberals and libertarians care about (both decent sized populations here in my experience) and is also related to technology. It would be weird if it wasn't popular here.
Funnily enough, distrowatch.com have already removed Antergos from their list. And looks like acrolinux has climbed up a little to 18th spot.

I personally will be still using Antergos for a little while longer. Then trying out arcolinux.
Sounds like you are looking for Legal-ese.
Using NL as a macro system for quickly inserting code, instead of as a way to hide actual code, seems like a good use-case. I wish the website was more informative about how much you can do with it, how far it goes to automatically generate snippets, and what kind of language support it's planned to have.
> No single human needs to hold a billion dollars or more. There is no good reason to allow this sort of thing

Just utter totalitarian garbage. What make you, or anyone else the arbiter of someone else's legally obtained property. Right to property and ownership is enshrined in the constitution for this exact kind of demagoguery.

It's another thing if you called for stopping wealth accumulation by illegal means, and those laws already exist. But what you want is the ability to thwart someone else's basic human right to property - modulate it with populist moral sounding immoralities of upper-limits. FYI, YC's portfolio has a net worth of $80B [1]. Do you want to pitchfork against the YC folks now - who are enabling HN?

[1]: https://qz.com/987043/y-combinator-will-back-10000-startups-...
The US on a large range of measures has never quite joined the ranks of the mainstream West. It has the largest GDP, sure, but with inequality rates approaching 3rd world levels, that wealth isn't sufficiently distributed to bring its human development on many measures up to that of other nations. It's very obvious to W. Europeans, Canadians & Australasians who spend much time in the US that life is harder and poorer and less socially mobile for vast swathes of the population.
This is why you need state level bills with teeth to end the stalemate.
Blackface normalised the racist stereotype of African Americans, not necessarily actual African American culture.
So... What happens when they inevitably run out of money and go out of business?
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If it fell 1 point per 10 years, but used to grow 3 points, that is a much stronger change than the bare number suggests. (My numbers are made up and unsourced)
To an extent, yes. And no.

I mean, sure, I'm all for lawyer jokes. (What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? One is a bottom-dwelling mud-sucker and the other is a fish.) And when they complain, I can point out that the alternative is that we erect the guillotines in the parking lot.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people to whom the nerd stereotype more-or-less applies, but who are not tech billionaires, prominent scientists, or otherwise powerful. And they're the ones who get to pay the consequences of the stereotypes. If you are a Silicon Valley millionaire, that you spend time arguing that the Hulk can beat Superman is a quaint eccentricity. But if you aren't BBT is just another source of ammunition against you.
> but, he asked, why should they be treated as sagacious experts when they come from a completely different arena

Because they have a history of getting impressive shit done. Not complained about, but actually done. And they have the will to get it done, and a bunch of capital to put behind that will, even if they were taxed at whatever ridiculously high rate Giridharadas wants them taxed at.

Giridharadas is welcome to disagree with successful people, but they've at this point proven their opinions do tend to matter when it comes to shaping the country whether we want to pay attention or not.
I agree I always figured if the circumstances of my death allowed for it I would just go on a hike deep into the mountains, lay against a rock and die. I am not a huge fan of cremation or the traditional casket approach.
Not a direct correlation, but its pretty easy to see how it can happen, or at least partially.

Eg: Less active = more weight gain = higher likelyhood of GERD and sleep apnea = less sleep = lower attention span and memory.

Boom, lower IQ because of lower fitness.
Generally, I like it.

One bit of feedback is that you’re using the same (or at least similar) arrow for upvoting as you are in other places to collapse a thread. And I found that confusing.

It seems a little redundant to include both the upvote arrow, and upvote by swipe.

But looks great.
From Wikipedia:

"A total of 157 people aboard the two aircraft were killed."

"The National Transportation Safety Board ultimately determined that the accidents and incidents were the result of a design flaw that could result in an uncommanded movement of the aircraft's rudder."
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Haptic Feedback, too much. Please don't do it on every push/pop.

Home page a bit overloaded, not very clear what the default HN page is. News? Front? Classic?

Comment and upvote count not too prominent enough. These two, together with the headline are what you glance for when scrolling the feed.

Personally I feel on the XS font size seeems a bit too big, seems about right for a normal app, but for a HN-Reader I'd go one smaller (for everything basically).
Perhaps because the US imports a lot of its intelligence and is the number one preferred destination for people wanting to be the most successful?
Well, anecdotally, the reason my mom ended up as a programmer is because she had an admission/scholarship to study engineering in college revoked because she was a woman - they didn't technically exclude women, but they told her they already had one in the department and didn't need any more. So she got a degree in math (this was before computer science was a thing) and ended up working for engineers, taking their problems and turning them into code.

Now I can't say how common this was without statistics, but you can see it paints a picture of how discrimination in one area could potentially affect another in a systematic way.

It could well be (and I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest it) that reduced discrimination in areas that require both technical and soft skills have caused an exodus of women from mere coding, because it's both more lucrative and enjoyable for many of them.
It's like applying recent patches to Intel CPUs - your CPU is now slower, but safer ;-)
It's purely soft-power influence, so far. It's documented in detail here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Invasion_(book)
Now we deport them when their visa expires.
Right, but blaming "wealthy liberals" as the headline suggests seems to miss the point. I think this has less to do with wealthy people or hypocrisy in politically liberal people, and more to do with the fact that everyone is blue in SF, even the conservatives. The author seems to be pointing at naturally conservative people and going "you voted democrat, why aren't you living up to progressive values?".

Maybe there is a faction that are hypocritical about this for local issues, but is that actually the main driving force behind the housing crisis? It seems to me that there's a lot more actual conservatives in SF than maybe the voter party registration gives credit for, and blue SF politicians know that they have to represent those people as well.
Lots of things that are obvious are wrong. You'd have to show a) we're getting worse at things that we've started offloading to phones (maybe probably true? but demonstrating causation would still be difficult), and if true, b) that IQ tests measure those same things.

Unless you show both of those you haven't shown that dropping IQ rates are related to the proliferation of mobile devices.
> Right to property and ownership is enshrined in the constitution for this exact kind of demagoguery.

Yea that 200 and some year old document written by God himself... or was it rich white slave owners that wanted to keep all of the wealth to themselves rather than share it with the British who financed its creation?
The problem goes deeper than that. I've have discussion with highly educated people in San Fransisco and it becomes obvious they really don't understand this is basic supply and demand problem. The first step in fixing this is somehow teaching econ 101 as a PSA.
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That's great that you have enough time and experience to consider all of this easy. As someone who works a bit higher up the stack, I rarely go as deep as configuring Nginx. This setup may take you a few minutes, but I usually end up spending an entire Saturday on stuff like this. Having done this for a few years, I would rather spend my free time on other things.
They don’t matter to you or they don’t matter at all? Just looking for clarification.
> still smearing everybody else but themselves

a news alert popped up on my phone today about "bird strike possible in ethiopian crash...". I didn't bother reading it, but I thought seriously ? What media outlet did they pay off to even think of trying to divert attention and who in their right mind would think propaganda like that would be effective ?
Hahaha that is a great story. Though it does seem like teaching and advising are different skills and one can be good at one but not the other.

I have been watching Steven Skiena's lectures and reading his book, and I like both of them, but the lectures most of all because of his relaxed and practical approach. Skiena himself says that CLRS is a "better" book than his (and also more up to date) but I like the Skiena learning curve better.

In contrast, Tim Roughgarden's lectures and books are more mathematical, but his proofs seem reasonably well-motivated and clearly explained to me at least.

I also like how both of these guys point out that coming up with new algorithms or proofs from scratch is incredibly hard and you shouldn't expect (yourself or anyone) to be able to do so quickly or on the fly. Success with algorithm puzzle exams, algorithm puzzle "programming" contests, and algorithm puzzle "technical" interviews is largely based on familiarity with a large body of pre-existing algorithms and data structures and experience applying them to a wide range of problems. That sort of knowledge and experience greatly improves your odds of guessing the (often sneaky and non-obvious) trick required to solve a particular, usually weirdly stated, algorithm puzzle.
I would like to know your other experiences. I'm an Indian who has suffered at the hands of Indian outsourcers and want to know what the common patterns of dishonest behaviour are.