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A timebomb as in "matter of time before the problem exploded" (they spill/poison waters/etc).

The half-lives involved are so large compared to societal time they don't really matter (and doesn't really play into the metaphor). It's not like we just need to store them for 1-10 years and then we're OK. Plutonium has a HL of 20K years IIRC.

Btw, conventional time-bombs also lose their potency over time (e.g. TNT breaks down in thousands of years). But the explosion can be programmed much earlier, and similarly, the byproducts can mess things up much earlier than their half lives.
Yeah, I'm honestly not sure how to interpret this.

Either you assume that IQ is 100% not genetic, or you have to admit that race seems to be correlated.
This is a really frustrating issue with criticism/response to Taleb.

Taleb: "There are problems with A because of B reasons"

Response: "B reasons prove A"

I really don't understand why this is so common. I don't fully agree w/ Taleb that the academic demographic he tends to pick on is so lost to navel-gazing that it is completely unable to understand the context of his arguments, but it's really odd how common this is.

To clarify, I'd love to see someone who actually understands Taleb's arguments to push back at him from the same premise. He says some really controversial (and potentially hugely important) stuff that needs to be challenged and peer-reviewed just to get a basic second opinion on it. This has yet to happen really because of what I described.
> Slavery was an institution that the Lincoln era republicans felt very strongly about eradicating, and they were otherwise fairly hands off

The same people fighting to free the slaves also typically thought it would be ridiculous to let women vote. They simply were not the libertarians you imagine them to be. Social deregulation was not on the agenda.
Why is it hard to believe that an engineer would engineer something that agrees with their own beliefs?
Exactly right. Indeed, the inability of "baseload" power plants to curtail their output is a big part of the reason they are rapidly becoming uneconomical to run.

Here's what Erica Bowman, chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute, says about it:

> Baseload is kind of a historical term. It’s not really relevant to how electricity is produced today…What you need is dispatchability... and [coal and nuclear] are far slower when you compare them to a lot of the technology natural gas plants have.
Predominantly market size, it was considered a speciality metal and we didn't need nearly as much of it in the past. More on the lines of going to a specialty store than Walmart so you'd either go to a broker to get what you need or buy it directly from a mine if you needed a very large supply.
> Everyone agrees Go needs polymorphism.

Huh? This couldn't be further from the truth.
You're right, and I didn't mean to imply that a few centuries was a particularly long time (just that this is the time in which my scant knowledge is useful).

Telescopes and microscopes also provided the motivation for improvements in lensmaking in the 17th and 18th centuries, but I don't know how much this had been limited by motivation vs technology before then.
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hello, sorry for late answer.
i'm using Mac OS X 10.13.6 (17G7024) and Chrome 72.0.3626.96 (64 bits)
Burnout fucking sucks. I thought I went through it once in the past (and maybe I did), but when compared to how I feel now it was nowhere near as bad. I recently tried a few things: 1) nootropic supplements, which have helped a bit to an extent; and 2) take a week long tech-free vacation to the mountains, but when I came back my state didn't really change.

I think my burnout is due to feeling utterly unchallenged at work. The work I've been doing feels way below my pay grade. I'm also attempting to grow my own SaaS business and growth is very slow (3 years in, at $4k MRR), which makes that "light at the end of the tunnel" of going full-time on my business seem unreachable at times. I also have a 5 month old, so I'd also factor that into the lower-bound of my stress level (but I do feel like she helps me slog through hard days more than anything).

I'm starting to be more open about my mental health with family/friends, and I feel like I'm in a rut and not sure how to get out of it. I wish I could take a sabbatical.
Australia/SE Asia is very hot, as is Mexico/SA.
It's the US where there currently isn't a strong "second place" to Tesla yet. There are a lot of competitors depending on region, but that's also the problem is that there are so many competitors that quality is a very broad spectrum and margins are low. VW's (US EPA mandated) Electrify America (and its alliance in turn with players like ChargePoint) is probably the one to watch for up-and-coming national second place competitor to Tesla's charging network, but they are years behind in build out right now.
It sounds like you're unfamiliar with the Higher Education Bubble and it's root causes.
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Very little has actually come out of that '07 case though. There were the Paris Climate Accords but those and the clean energy plan designed to actually achieve them were immediately ripped up so as much as they're legally required to there's not actually much being done at the EPA that isn't rolling back regulations.
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You know, I've wondered about this exact attack. Also from wallwarts that plug into USB-C ports.

shudders
I think the study is controversial because there is huge bias in the way people are educated in these different countries.

No human capability is likely to be 100% genetic.
You can find free online tests. They should take at least 30 min. Do 3-4 different ones to confirm you get about the same score (less than 5 points difference).

If you live in a big city, you can probably find a place to do it for less than $100.
These things happen when you're just getting starting its normal we live and learn.

Just hoping they start a slightly more flexible cohort for people who are working and looking for the next promotion
Yet Bjorn Lomborg is pro carbon tax.
I don't see how California's tech innovation is proof that regulation isn't stifling innovation in other, tangentially related at best, sectors. I would also argue CA regulations stifle a lot more industries than just education.
That's because he tends to go after things that are widely misunderstood in the first place.
A lot of companies provide that kind of thing, you can easily find (good and not that good) IQ tests by searching for "standardized IQ tests" (or the equivalent in your local language). You can also contact the Mensa organization and they can put you in contact with a testing coordinator (see https://www.mensa.org/mensa/about-us).
You can improve your score by practice. It's one of the many issues.
To be picky, that is unfalsifiable.

I think you're probably correct but shaming the engineers in the hopes they'll stop it has repeatedly failed to work: that's why this isn't a thread about VW. IMHO it's because actions from a single individual carry too much risk for enough to accept. It needs collective bargaining.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this. When counsel tell you something is legal, and it isn't, there's little subjectivity.
Sure, but it could be a positive sign. GP's position could be a transitional phase on the way to enhanced understanding of the world and USA's actions in it. It worked that way for me, anyway. This was approximately my attitude in 2004.
Denver (and Crusoe before it) implements OoO behaviour on top of a VLIW core via dynamic translation. It performed fairly competitively, but in the end the complexity moved from one place to the other and was hardly worth it.
I wonder if it could be the difference between areas that rely more on agriculture vs areas that must rely on their tertiary sector (where education counts for more).
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I've always found this argument strange. Your comment isn't specific enough, so I don't want to put words in your mouth, but in general –

Do people really believe youtube engineers are encoding their values into the algorithm, intentionally or unintentionally?

Intentionally, I just can't imagine. What might this look like? How does it get through code review? Is it broad enough to apply to the entire ranking algo, or does it only act on tiny pockets that the offending engineers specifically care about?

In the unintentional case, certainly they're twisting specific knobs like engagement time, ad revenue, vids watched per session, etc... but is that encoding a specific person's taste, or a broader company's thirst for revenue? Do they even care about taste, or just metrics?

In other words, I find it suspect that youtube's policy is "More Jordan Peterson conflict vids", and more likely that it's "float high activity posts to the top", creating an echo chamber.

To be clear, I think there's some blame that rests on youtube eng (and let's be realistic, the broader product teams bossing eng around).

But it's not for encoding their tastes, it's for indiscriminately allowing the tastes of their markets to echo in a feedback loop that becomes a screech of extreme content. Not always anti-social, or even politically directional, just extreme flavors of whatever it is.
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I would correlate it more with food security than with heat.
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The problem is, it has been show time and again that most IQ tests are socio-economically biased. And every "proof" in this paper is a correlation that would also hold true is you replaced "high IQ" with "had rich parents".
Creator here.
A while ago I found a link here to "Silent HN" which was HN without any comments.
That experiment got me thinking how I use HN. When I observed how I use this site I realized that most often I would open the link to the discussion to read the top comment.
Sometimes to explain what the linked stuff is about and sometimes to get an opinion about it.

So I created Hacker News + Top Comment, which displays the Top Comment along with the headline in one big list.
I found it to be really useful for the way in which I read HN. Maybe some of you like it too.
Of course I'm open for suggestions and discussion.
YouTube faces no competition for creators.

There's Vimeo, but you either keep paying a monthly fee, or they drop your content due to the 5 GB maximum limit for free accounts. So if you want to publish stuff and no longer worry about it, you need to make sure that you have a subscription going with a valid credit card.

Vimeo is only worth it if you're looking to host video content behind a paywall.

Also for website owners Vimeo drops tracking cookies with no way to turn the behavior off, whereas YouTube has a -nocookies mode that doesn't drop any cookies. On the other hand YouTube has started to serve ads on embedded content as well and in the -nocookies mode they can't notice Premium accounts either.

These are technical issues that could be solved by alternatives, but aren't. We aren't even talking about the lockin effect of YouTube having the huge audience that it has. Nowadays it's more lucrative to host videos on YouTube even if they are meant for embedding it on your website.

Also TikTok is cool, but it's very niche and it's in no way competition for YouTube. There's also the issue that if you're worried about privacy and ads, the fact that TikTok is free (and therefore ads or data driven) and owned by a Chinese company ... is a problem.
Ouch.. those high school guidance counselors. I don't think an adult should ever limit the potential of a kid.
> There does seem to be a mild correlation with outside temperature. Could some places just be "too hot to think"?

Well ... perhaps in some way:

Since 1991 there has been the presumption that persistent heat affects the IQ over
generations. It was initially assumed that living in lower temperatures requires a higher
physical fitness and causes higher social demands. Richard Lynn, a professor at the
University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, also assumes that the colder temperatures
increase the brain volume. Whether brain size is at all related to intelligence, is
controversial.

In general, a hot climate is considered a disadvantage for the development of
intelligence. The reason is nowadays primarily seen in the high physical energy demand
and the resulting stress.

Source: https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php

Another study suggests infectious diseases might be a cause for lower IQ scores. In that case, perhaps infectious diseases spread more easily in hot climates?

See: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-average-iq...
Having a backup plan to YT is kinda like my backup plan if my house burns down: a rough time.

It’s not insta-death, but it’s not going to be like it was for a while.
Im curious what people will get out of determining measurable IQ. What are their end goals.

1) You dont get smarter. Its not like knowing you are 120 vs 100 IQ changes anything about your ability to solve a problem

2) IQ is more of a speed of learning not an ability to understand. With enough time you can learn anything (challenge placed) the biggest barrier is discipline and desire.

3) IQ is abstract and is very useless within any context. If you want to know if someone is good at math give them a math test. If they are a good writer look at their portfolio. IQ is like determining someone is good at being a chef by only asking them questions. IQ is very far from any specific field of knowledge.

IQ is like space knowledge. Its only important/useful subject for a select few people.
We can keep playing the "maybe there are other factors besides DNA that could explain small differences in IQ"-game until the cow comes home. The sad thing is that eventually we'll probably find some genuine correlation between genes and some measure of intelligence (controlling for every other conceivable factor). (Maybe we won't, but I wouldn't bet on it in a prediction market.) Not sure what'll happen once that day comes.
YouTube has been facing some form of creator backlash for years now.
1. Set up a WordPress site, regurgitate content from content farms.
2. Set up WordAds.
3. Profit.
theres an interesting sam harris podcast featuring charles murray on this topic which is well worth the listen imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Rmbfi6YrE
Missing generics certainly had some influence on golang, but not sure I understand your point. How does adding generics lead to a reliance on dependencies, or the absence of generics reduce reliance on dependencies?

The relative lack of "dependency hell" in golang compared to other languages is because of the great standard library. Golang also never had an official/proper (imo) solution for package management until just this past year or so (although people worked around that a bit)
is the youtube trending page algorithmically generated or human-curated? Its complete garbage. If the first 20 videos are really what most people want to watch... god help us lol
Right, he has multiple honorary doctorates according to Wikipedia.
the correlation isn't the controversial part, the fact that IQ is one, or the dominant causal driver for different outcomes is.

and also, there is not a single piece of evidence on this planet that IQ is 100% hereditary.
> Either you assume that IQ is 100% not genetic, or you have to admit that race seems to be correlated.

Or, bear with me here, you have to admit that IQ tests can only measure trained skills that correlate loosely to raw intelligence.
I mean, some capabilities are going to be nearly 100% genetic -- see Kenyans and running.

But my concern is that if there is a genetic component to intelligence at all, that is a problem. 40 IQ points less on average is no joke.
What would we need to change about our part-time classes to make it accessible to you?
Some other open Slack alternatives I know about include:

Matrix[1]: maybe the most impressive. A chat _protocol_ with multiple server and client implementations, gateways to everything, and just out of beta.

Zulip[2] (as mentioned), Rocket.Chat[3], Mattermost[4]---Slack clones. open source, developement open to pull requests to various degrees, can pay to have hosted in cloud or get support.

Non-free or qualitatively different solutions include Discord, MS Teams, and the original IRC, I guess.

Apologies for any inaccuracies or omissions; I'm not an expert in the space.

[1] https://matrix.org/
[2] https://zulipchat.com/
[3] https://rocket.chat/
[4] https://mattermost.com/
You speak the truth on here and you get down voted, like clockwork. It's as though people live in denial about a) the deep state existing and b) that it moves the world in a direction it wants.

I just can't get my head around why with so many counter examples available, anyone, ANYONE would wish to move anything more leftward. It's like they are asking to be murdered by their own government. This country fought a world war against collectivism and not wants to embrace collectivism? What? Why? You will not be happy living in a dirty, gray apartment building swilling your ration of cheap vodka. That world sucked, it sucks every day if you live in China, Venezuela, Argentina, Cuba, North Korea. Those places are ass and have always been ass. You won't be empowered, the elite won't be brought to heel, nothing promised by leftism is anything but a huge disaster for regular people. Ukranians were starved to death by Stalin. Get real.
I use the free version of sophos for linux plugged into rspamd. Hopefully it has a better detection rate since Sophos. I did it this way since I read about the poor detection rate of ClamAV. Tbh we've blanket banned exes and their ilk so I'm not even sure if we need it anymore.
If TikTok plans to make money from ads it will have the same problems YouTube does. Advertisers will get restrictive on what types of videos they want their products on.

They'll also need their own copyright detection system when lawsuits start coming their way. Then we'll have come full circle.
Okay, new startup idea: dating website that uses AI to detect when the other person is using AI to make themselves look better.
Well it never had a way to make money. Also there was a lot of "executive churn" which got in the way of actually shipping code. https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-t...
I can't help but agree. Go, to me, was known for its shorthand cleverness in design - capital letter instead of public, for replaces whiles, etc. It was a breath of fresh air. This overlap -feels- a bit wrong when viewed in that context, in my opinion.
That is literally what I said -- "you must assume IQ is 100% not genetic or..." == "IQ is purely measuring trained skills".

The issue is that I think there is very little evidence to suggest that IQ is only measuring trained skills.

Otherwise people could get much, much better at IQ tests given practice, but this does not seem to be the case.
If IQ isn't genetic, rabbits would have the same average IQ as humans.

But that does not mean "races" have to have different inherent average IQs.
That's not true. There are definitely papers that tries to control for socioeconomic factors.
If there would be a button for claiming copyright that has a checkbox above saying "I accept liability for falsely claiming copyright." the problem might fix itself after enough lawsuits?
There is this theory that life in the Northern Hemisphere is very hard (because of Winter), so there may have been some kind of a harder natural selection there in the past. People in the North seem to be obsessed with building, working and thinking about the future ("I need to be ready, winter is coming").
This does not address the substance of Taleb's arguments. Read Taleb's original article:

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

He's showing us that psychologists' statistical methods are faulty, that IQ advocates don't understand the underlying mathematics and blindly plug things into R. Lo and behold, in rebuttal, psychologists try to prove Taleb wrong by plugging more things into R.
I owned several Windows Mobile phones, one Blackberry, and one Palm device before iPhone and Android came out. I know the history. They were not popular devices. Even just looking at Blackberry sales by themselves, sales of these devices pre-iPhone were absolutely insignificant [1].

Same thing with email. Hotmail/Yahoo/AOL pre-dated Gmail by quite a long time, but Gmail now owns something like 80% of all webmail traffic.

I think your confusion might be where I said "these things existed but no one really liked them" maybe you read "these things didn't exist before"?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266240/global-revenue-of...
Quote: "They also readily cited service snafus. Thirty-four percent of respondents said they’d experienced a driver refusing to leave his or her car to hand over the meal. Twenty-nine percent said a driver refused to walk all the way to their door for the delivery. Nearly 1 in 5 (17%) reported that a driver had dropped the food at the door and left, without any interaction. "

And that's why I never pay in advance. Pay when delivered, to the delivering person, receive the receipt and done. And on expensive orders I test what I get before I pay. Usually this annoys the deliverer but I follow with : "Either you get this back and I will complain about you to your boss or stick around for 5 minutes and you get a tip". I don't mind tipping delivery persons, and on food I do like 5%, which is very much in my country and I can see their eyes lit. Sometime I get the same driver on my door several times in a row, apparently tipping is rare hence they make sure they get my order.
The fact that the "IQ crowd" often falls back to racial arguments like this (based on shoddy statistics) shows why people should be deeply suspicious of their motives.

"We need to openly talk about race differences in IQ, lest the neo-nazis appropriate it and use it as recruitment propaganda" is a very common refrain, and pretty transparent in its intentions, as it itself acts as recruitment propaganda.

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1116342266195476481 <- this Twitter thread addresses the country-IQ argument effectively, and I haven't seen it properly refuted so far.