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IQ is a valid measure of a certain kind of intelligence. And it most certainly correlates with salary and success at an individual and a national level.

The higher your IQ, the greater the odds of you making more money. The higher the collective IQ of a nation or group, the greater the odds of that nation or group being successful or wealthy.

https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country.html

If you look at the list of successful and wealthy countries and the list of national iqs, they tend to correlate fairly well. Barring war or some external impediment, the nations with the highest iqs tend to be wealthier and the lower iqs tend to be poorer.
I won't go into details but you seem to be assuming specific, relatively unsophisticated methods. Also, not everything you mention is available or useful and it's not close to enough to for more sophisticated frauds.[1][2] Keep in mind that most ads are paid on a per-impression basis - the main reason to simulate clicks is because at some point people will notice if a specific site consumes a bunch of impressions but doesn't contribute any clicks. Ad-tech companies tend to be competent in ML since it's necessary for optimization, but fraud remains a hard problem.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/porn-run...

[2] https://clearcode.cc/blog/rtb-online-advertising-fraud/
Ah, thanks for explaining that. I'm more used to Reddit where re-posting links is more common but also more frowned upon, so I'm still unfamiliar with the culture here.
First off, the GND is just a framework for lowering CO2 emissions while creating new jobs in an industry in transition. There's no inherent legislation in it, so I'm using it as a framing for any actual bill that would be drawn up in its framework.

And I think you're right about "riders" convoluting such legislation too much to make it too political. But there _is_ an inherent problem to transitioning to clean energy, and that's: What do we do with all those people in the "dirty" energy world? The original New Deal sought to employ people as a primary effect of building US infra. If it had just been focused on infra, it may have never got off the ground.
Yes, the statistics per distance look much better for airlines than for cars, but per time it's already less so (planes go faster), and per journey even less so (typical plane ride is much longer than typical car journey).

Last time I looked, planes were 200x as safe per pax mile, but 3x as safe per pax journey.

(EDIT: "Kx safer" -> "Kx as safe", though the uncertainty is so big that it doesn't really matter)
Large American corps spend a lot on lobbying. Its not really different. Also I seem to remember that the CIA's investment company was one of the early investors in Google.
Just tried your test, and looks like I need to work on my rolled shoulders, too :)

What have you done that helped to improve it?
> Linguistic prescriptivism is terrible.

That seems rather... prescriptive.

There is no central authority that dictates the use of the English language (that is both descriptive of reality and prescriptive in that I don't think there should be).

Meaning is not purely a matter of emergent use however, it also derives from the meta discussion around that use and the collective attempts to codify use in dictionaries etc.

In this case I'm being prescriptive and saying this is a terrible way to use rate and reflects typical journalistic mathematical illiteracy. Anyone and everyone is however free to ignore my opinion of course.
I have front paged on HN and Reddit several times. Often 'only' using 5$ vms. However i was using cloudflare or at least nginx and proper caching settings.

I run several hundred dollars monthly of infrastructure but my websites are nearly all on a simple VM for about 20€/month on Vultr right now.

Web hosting only is expensive when people run badly optimizer infrastructure
I hired on Upwork for a simple thing (some pdf generation in Rails). It became evident fast the person I hired wasn’t doing the work, and no one was working against the detailed spec I gave them. I eventually marked it as complete just to get them out of my life, as I wasted more time in communication than I saved from not doing the work myself.
Not the safest. One of the Airbuses (A350?) has never had a fatality.
That's not the right conclusion I don't think. That published statistic is referring aggregates and averages.

As we know there are safer and riskier drivers on the roads.

If everybody was driving with AP the total number of accidents would drop.

However if you are already a safe driver, there's a chance that AP is riskier.

I don't want to bash AP to the ground, I think the tech is still phenomenal, and forced the car industry to catch up. However Tesla has the attitude of the classic move fast and break things mentality and not willing to take responsibility for it. When lives are at stake, you gotta do better than that.

You don't get to blame the customers for getting distracted for using a system that's literally called and marketed as Autopilot.

There's a reason similarly capable other cars in the market their systems as driver assistance and will force you to give input on tighter intervals.
According to what legislation? Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act states [0]:

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

Exercising editorial control does not make them liable for all content [1]:

Courts have consistently held that exercising traditional editorial functions over user-submitted content, such as deciding whether to publish, remove, or edit material, is immunized under Section 230.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act grants interactive online services of all types, including blogs, forums, and listservs, broad immunity from tort liability so long as the information at issue is provided by a third party.

See [2] for some examples of online activities that are covered.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230

[1] http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/immunity-online-publishers-u...

[2] http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/online-activities-covered-se...
async/await is fantastic and pretty much the direct inspiration for the exact same feature om ES6, where its a godsend.

C# i s one of the best dev experiences in any language/IDE
Current thoughts in research are that there are two major factors, each responsible for roughly half of the decline.

First is that intelligent people tend to obtain more education, and more educated people (especially more educated women) tend to have fewer children on average. This has quite obvious effects from evolutionary perspective.

The second, less obvious, is that evolution works by selecting more fit variants of genes out of the pool, and the pool is made of existing variants and random mutations that happen all the time. These random mutations are typically negative for fitness, so the evolution selects against them. However, humans these days are operating under extremely relaxed selection regime, and gene variants which would have had significant negative impact on fitness in the past, while have the exact same effect today, are no longer as detrimental for reproductive purposes, which is basically the only thing evolution cares about.

For a good reference, see Woodley of Menie & Figueredo, 2013.
I was discussing a broader topic, but if you want to narrow it to just that: how do you think scandals in the Catholic Church caused the decline of the church as a space for social connection in mostly Protestant America?
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> The most obvious evidence he's wrong is that Google's codebase is all C++ and Java, both languages that have generics and other more advanced features than Go.

Alternatively: Seeing people continue to make mistakes in those languages that are widely used has informed the position about language features and design aspects that are problematic, and things that would be helpful to have. Proposing a new language to avoid them is an (admittedly fairly extreme) solution to that.
That's because it was a draft document. In other words, you're pinning everything you're saying on a document that wasn't even done. What, you think this is some kind of "gotcha" moment? Do you really think they'd release an official document about "cows farting"?
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Some places get so strapped for cash that their content isn't even content, but thinly veiled low effort ad copy. I hardly trust online review articles anymore because they mostly focus on one new product by itself vs. in the context of a field of existing alternatives and are rarely critical these days.
Try out https://freepage.io is much easier to use than github pages. You don't even have to create an account, verify email and all that nonsense to use it. And it has social media built in to get your page out there in to the world.
> the inexorable march of time

I think it's more like pendulum swings. Those biases come and go. The Lisp world is mostly uncorrelated with them.

My pet theory is that each swing is kicked off by a new generation pushing against the previous bias, which by then has been around long enough for its weaknesses to show. It's exciting the first two or three times you go through this, but after a while there's a curious feeling of nothing much ever changing. At that point Lisp looks pretty good again.
If your 2D vector graphics system has support for rendering a path style with diagonal hashes across it, and to continue that path across different primitives (line segments, circle arcs) it seems that then the problem is then easy. You just render the entire cable as a path, starting at the fixed end. You render that path that for different positions of the pulleys and there you have your frames, with the diagonal hashes moving at their apparently correct respective speeds.
Define 'consensus'. In anycase I dont see that a fruitful line of argument. I can easily dismiss smoking causes cancer by adopting such a line.
FedEx letter is $7-10.

http://www.costhowmuch.com/ps/fedex-letter.htm

Of course, that comes with a guaranteed delivery date, insurance, tracking, etc. I'm sure the private carriers would charge more than the USPS if they were servicing the lowest end mail, but currently the USPS is monopolizing that.

Also important to note that the USPS is subsidized by the spam they deliver which primarily winds up in the landfill. If the USPS wasn't filling everyone's garbage bin with bulk rubbish every day, their clearing price would be closer to private shippers. To put a scale on that, I have one trash can in my house that is at my desk and only winds up getting garbage mail tossed in it. Every two weeks I have a 13 gallon garbage bag full of mail garbage. What is the time-cost of every household in my city dealing with that much extra junk? What is the environmental cost?
I appreciate a lot of Golang, but I really wonder how they'll do generics differently than others
For the first 2 decades or so, methane is about 86 times worse than CO2:

>While CO2 persists in the atmosphere for centuries, or even millennia, methane warms the planet on steroids for a decade or two before decaying to CO2.

>In those short decades, methane warms the planet by 86 times as much as CO2, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

>But policymakers typically ignore methane's warming potential over 20 years (GWP20) when assembling a nation's emissions inventory. Instead, they stretch out methane's warming impacts over a century, which makes the gas appear more benign than it is, experts said. The 100-year warming potential (GWP100) of methane is 34, according to the IPCC.

>There is no scientific reason to prefer a 100-year time horizon over a 20-year time horizon; the choice of GWP100 is simply a matter of convention.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...
> The Liverpool Football Club’s reliance on analytics

British sports team names are usually not written with a definite article like that. Maybe someone who knows more about grammar than me knows a proper term to describe why. Is it something to do with British English tending to treat companies, teams, etc as plurals rather than singulars ('Liverpool are' more often than 'Liverpool is')? Anyway, that 'the' shouldn't be there, and it isn't in the article.
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Literally the opposite is true. What is it about IQ that makes people straight up hallucinate the opposite of reality.
> Honestly, who cares? You're not hurting anyone. Unless you feel you won't be paid appropriately, this isn't illegal or even THAT unethical.

Ugh. Attitudes like this are exactly why the software industry will be stuck with stringent developer interviews with coding questions for foreseeable future.
Contra Vance, there’s a lot more to Appalachia than shown in mainstream media
But there's no significance. There's no evidence the precautionary principle works at all. As observed in a comment above, when you remove car deaths and murders (things unrelated to chemical regulation) US life expectancy is the same.

Just because it's not killing everyone doesn't mean it's not killing a lot of people or making their health and happiness worse

That logic is faulty. Allowing things until proven dangerous can be both not killing everyone and not killing a lot of people or making anyone's health or happiness worse.

For the precautionary principle to make a detectable difference to people's health, dangerous cosmetics would have to be staggeringly common, and cosmetics firms would have to be staggeringly willing to repeatedly sell cosmetics known to be dangerous. But that doesn't seem to be the case: are there any cases in recent times of Americans being seriously harmed by unexpectedly dangerous cosmetics? I mean, even just one?
ATHLEAN-X has a great video on the mechanics, and how to fix it [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV7l1sfEmO0
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We disagree on multiple points, but I appreciate your cool-headed and open approach to conversation.
Doesn't this mean your password manager is still single factor? Access that, access everything. That's the problem I was trying to avoid.
(Technically, I think Java modules have been floating around in weird, likely broken suggestions since before Oracle bought Sun. As far as I could ever see, the primary design constraint was always, "NOT OSGi!")
Meta: it's a weird use of "The" in the title, it's about "Liverpool Football Club" and the definite-article is unnecessary. Indeed the "The Liverpool Football Club" makes it wrong as Liverpool is one of two [major league] Liverpool based football clubs [Liverpool, Everton], at least.

Being a pedant is annoying sometimes.
I had Otpor! Co-founder Srdja Popovic as a lecturer for a Harvard/JFK School course on non violent social change.

It was a really interesting opportunity to learn from someone who has actually led non violent social change, rather than just researching/writing about it.

A bit like YC compared to other accelerators. Experience doing over talking.

Optor’s ‘Laughtivism” Strategy was quite creative and funny.

While it was never discussed, I suspect you may be right about Otpor’s sources of funding.

It could be disinformation, but it could also be true.
I've gotten good results annoying type theorists by mocking Scala and Haskell for being less pure than C++ template metaprogramming.
Yeah, it's less and less "use ads to support the content creation", it's "write content to fill the void between the ads".

And yes, review articles are a similar problem. And another indicator: if the site has "stars" in the serps, i.e. provides "aggregate rating" as microdata, it's probably shit.
> You e.g. go to Barcelona or Rio de Janeiro and you get a bunch of friends the moment you walk out of the door of your apartment (figuratively ofc), whereas in Germany it takes years to develop any closer relationship that could be qualified as something more than superficial friendship

Do you consider these people you meet on the streets of Barcelona/Rio to be more than superficial "friends"? For me, a friend is someone who would give me a kidney - that's my definition. Everybody else is just people who are hanging out with me for as long as it mutually more convenient than not.
I believe that was sarcasm, mocking that kind of very vocal people who like to argue that intelligence, gender and race are purely a social construct and have no physical foundation. Extreme offense is usually taken when someone attempts to correlate intelligence with race.
What is it about these countries that makes people that way? There are plenty of other poor countries where this doesn't happen as much. What about India, Ukraine, and Belarus makes people think it is okay to be dishonest?
> Pilots can only hold one type certification at a time

Source? I am pretty sure pilots could hold any number of type ratings (sic) at any time, but it's uneconomical for the airline to keep them rated (and current), so it's rarely done.
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My company's data analyst got his degree in soccer data analysis (and is a Liverpool fan!) It's been an interesting sector to learn about and ripe to learn from, too, as they seem to operate rather separately from what we might call "data science" here. Sport tech seems to be ripe for learning from and to cross over into more traditional tech scenarios.
There are multiple types of fraud. One is bots that give fake impressions, but another is fraudulent publishers that give improper ad placement (e.g. overlapping ads or invisible ads). In the second type, the user is legitimate, so you can't entirely rely on something that identifies illegitimate users. I think this is one reason why ads aren't always sandboxed in iframes since you need a way to detect if the ad is actually visible in the root frame.

Behavior tracking is difficult since it's hard to say that a legitimate user will never do something. E.g. large ISP NATs thwart IP tracking by giving many customers the same IP. Safari blocks 3rd party cookies.

Google has a somewhat well known bot countermeasure called botguard that does a decent job proving that you are probably running an entire browser, but that only marginally increases the cost of fraud to running a browser instance per-bot. Increasing per-impression cost for fraudsters can put them out of business, but increasing per-impression cost to detect fraudsters can put advertisers out of business.

Also, ad-targeting is often a realtime problem. You have to decide what ad, if any, to show within milliseconds. Do you never show ads to unrecognized users? How much turnaround time will you need before you can precompute a profile and start showing ads to a legitimate user? How much turnaround time do you need for detecting and blocking fraud?

Unfortunately, specific countermeasures aren't often publicly published since one of the greatest costs of ad fraud is figuring out and then circumventing countermeasures. E.g. you might have a hard time reverse engineering something faster than it's being engineered by 20 people at Google.
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Ask HN: How to get “first 10 champion users” for career app?
I've been working on PathBase (AI Chief Learning Officer that helps young professionals navigate & build dream careers).

Recently launched on PH and got decent userbase (~150k), and invaluable feedback on shortcomings (i.e. onboarding, UI/UX, bugs). Although qualitative feedback was good ("love where this is going!"), retention sucked (and I get it - the app isn't there yet).

I'm struggling to find more users to iterate the updates and get a feedback loop going and achieve "stickiness". How should I go about acquiring & retaining these users?
Bodyweight training is great (I often do it on rest days), but don't think that people pumping iron doing powerlifting are not 'practically' strong. When a person is dead lifting 500+ pounds or squatting 400+ they are strong anyway you slice it.
NoScript blocks Javascript, which blocks the majority of trackers. It doesn't address web bugs and the like, but I deal with those separately.
I just wanted to make a joke to release what I found to be unnecessary tension.
You assume the client side code is served by the middleman. But it can also be a browser based "app" that is loaded from the hdd. Unfortunately Chrome et.al has taken a step away from this model and deprecated app manifest (? cant remember the proper name) in favour of the more convenient service worker that is able to push updates in the background. Serverless/offline web apps didnt really take off. Theres ChromeOS and FirefoxOS for feature phones. But "web apps" for desktop are currently nw.js/Electron apps. It would however be just fine to use the local browser and not ship an entire browser with the web app. Most browsers allow "chromeless" mode (without address bar etc). But there needs to be a more relaxed security mode when running code as an app. Because its almost useless now with CORS and some features requiring SSL which you cant have when loading from hhd.
There really isn’t a justifiable reason to use windows 7 anymore.
In the article itself, Liverpool are correctly referenced throughout, without "The".
It seems obvious to me that even the meToo moments that lived in gray areas were still the result of failed romantic connections or overt sexual
comments or actions. No one is being fired or lambasted in the court of public opinion for being in the same private room and having adult conversations about work with a woman. This is not a nuanced issue - treat women professionally and like equals, don’t talk about politics or sex in the office and you’re golden. To make this more complicated than that let’s men off the hook and excuses unprofessional behavior in the workplace.
Voltage regulators usually have a short circuit protection circuit though.
Quit and look for a more honest company. The kind of company that would lie in this way to get business is the same kind of company that would lie to you about their financial situation or throw you under the bus and lie to a client about your role in some problem. Plus if their behavior eventually does catch up with them you won't want to put the time you do spend there on your real resume, so better to cut your losses now than waste a couple years.
There is a documentary about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
That suggests environmental chemical pollution or something cultural like cellphones addiction or too much Netflix or 4G radiation is dangerous. It will be interesting to see what it ends up being.
Yup, I’m really angry that I’m being tracked in a way I don’t exactly understand or monitor.

So I’m basically in on every attempt to kill the online ad industry even if it kills 99% of the “free” content I read and enjoy. I no longer think a convenient micro transaction system will come along to disrupt the status quo, I now think it can only rise from the ashes of the 2000-2020 web.

I also realize that in this process, at least for a transition period, we will kill a lot more small players than big ones, and quite possibly create a web where google, Facebook et.al. are the only ones to profit. Again, don’t care.
What does that have to do with your original point that Qualcomm wasn't anticompetitive in its behaviour?
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I think this is a US/British English distinction, since saying "The New York Mets" or "The Dallas Cowboys" is the norm, but never "The Manchester United" or "The Rangers" (despite being a plural).

Come to think of it, does any NFL team not end in a plural?
You could likely make the same case for zip codes when children and parents are raised in different ones.
That's not the point. Nobody denies that mathematics is involved in bridge-building. What is malleable is the perception whether bridge-building is a feat of intellect, and the position in the social hierarchy people with that ability occupy.