skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Facebook proved pretty clearly that humans are not a solution to this problem. It doesn't matter if it's an algorithm or a human, at the end of the day the creators believe YouTube wants to censor their content so they will ascribe that motive to the execs, the engineers writing the algorithms, or the humans manually curating content.
Cool, I want to get one of those also, but they're not selling it and I don't see any links about when we can buy it, for how much, and when it will ship.
Exactly. Though to be fair what most people (even right-leaning libertarians who tend to flog the race/IQ thing the most) mean when they think of "race" isn't really well correlated with genetics either.

In the US the people we talk about (and again, suspiciously, tend to be the focus of this IQ stuff) as "african-american" or "hispanic" are members of predominantely creole populations with staggeringly broad genetic backgrounds. Which you'd think would get them thrown out as obvious confounding outliers, but yet...
Intelligence has been proven to be partially heritable. I don’t think that’s in question.

But the claim is that IQ measure wealth, not intelligence.
I would posit that even mass manufactured is slightly off point. For instance, if you can produce bread dough of the same consistency and quality with 4 ingredients (flour, water, salt, yeast) how does scaling it, in a factory or by hand, make it less healthy?
Another observation: as with any slushy area of science, peoples' willingness to apply skepticism and what they are willing to question tends to be determined by their politics and other biases.

Liberals are happy to question IQ and especially race/IQ work while conservatives are happy to question stuff like those gender blinded recruitment studies or those academic trolling studies that try to link conservative opinions with mental illness.

The reality is that all of it is very questionable because the entire field is riddled with shaky methodology and down right bad science. From what I've seen of the replication issues the whole field is worse than nutritional science, and that's bad.

The degree to which a scientific field is politically weaponized is usually inversely proportional to its "hardness." You don't see the same thing in math or physics. Liberals and conservatives oddly never disagree on the value of Pi or the formula for the Carnot efficiency of a heat engine. The closest things to hard science that you find massive political disagreements on are climate change and evolution, and I've noticed that more serious conservative thinkers are coming around on those topics because the evidence is overwhelming.
The backup plan defines how long "for a while" will last. Anywhere between a few months and the rest of your life.
> Slack is more like sunlight

Yep. It's pleasant at first and a genuinely useful tool when used correctly, but if you're not judicious with your usage, you could get burned.
I have compiled a few videos from youtuber music educators that I follow. The current situation is worse than most of us think. One of them, Paul Davis, even had a copyright strike for playing HIS OWN music. LOL! So ludicrous!

- Craziest COPYRIGHT STRIKE from YouTube ever?! (Paul Davis)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvH77m_3MVU

- What I want to teach, but can't, thanks to Universal Music Group. (Adam Neely)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryFmUjtwEY

- Why Record Labels STILL Suck! (Rick Beato)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTl9V8cjH0
If the course is less than $2k or $3k (can't remember the exact figure), the regulations don't apply. Also, it depends on who the payer is. If the purchasers are solely companies (think corporate training), this regulation doesn't apply.
On YouTube, if you make a 10 minutes long video, but include 10 seconds of copyrighted material, the copyright owner gets 100% of the revenue, the creator 0%. I think this is YouTube creators main objection to the plattform.
> Spoilers: they stay wealthy.

But not as much as their non-adopted siblings. Correlation of 0.23 vs 0.33

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-pe...
Knowingly and willingly usually refers to the level level of awareness that is required to be held culpable for a crime or violation. If the Lambda school was unaware that they were committing the conduct proscribed by law then they would have a defense (assuming knowingly and willingly was the standard required). However they do not need to be aware that the conduct was proscribed by law, just of the the conduct itself.
I work in the industry too. I'm always curious about what other's in this industry do when they're on HN, so if you're able can you share what you do?

As far as me: I'm the lead engineer for the mobile and api products at one of the major software providers for independent waste haulers in the US. My family owns and operates a hauling operation in CA, so I've spent my entire life surrounded by the inner workings of solid waste collection, hauling, and processing.
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Interestingly, my article from a few years ago has a very similar motivation and initial figure. And it too ends up at append-only programming. But it does so in a very different way: http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers

(I still program all my side projects in this way.)
That’s not well supported by the literature. 100 is not a magic number representing competence. 140 vs 100 is still relevant outside of socioeconomic factors.

Among the illegal drug trade and other criminal activities IQ strongly correlates with success and positions even well past 100 IQ.

The US military found increased IQ over 100 to strongly correlate with lower training costs. So initially flat out IQ tests and now an IQ proxy is still used to screen people before they can take jobs requiring significant training.
Hmmm, almost exactly half the specs of OnePlus 3, way more expensive than OnePlus 3 when it came out 3 years ago.

How this is better than installing lineage Os on oneplus 3? -- https://download.lineageos.org/oneplus3

I understand anyone who wants privacy need to pay extra, but is it really justifiable to pay this much for that?
'but my gut tells me that all of the people who think "genetics is destiny" are losers.'

Try doing a sport competitively at a high level, where the whole team is eating the same, working out the same, and some plateau at a 315 deadlift and start getting injured all the time and others keep going to 450 without any problems.

And that's ignoring obvious things like deformities, asthma, insulin resistance, etc.
>It's either a tautology or follows logically take your pick ... Systems that do not protect their integrity cease to exist or they change in unpredictable ways and become uncontrollable.

OK, let's go with a tautology, in which case it is a meaningless red herring to your argument of power hierarchies. If every system protects its integrity (even those not based on these mythical power hierarchies), then it doesn't really introduce anything interesting to your argument.

Truthfully however 'the System' you're referring to is ill defined. It could mean anything.

>It is designed by someone to figure out if someone else is worthy in a certain way

No. It was designed to identify children who are struggling in school. That was the original goal. That is not the same thing as 'figuring out if someone else is worthy', though I'm sure you can contort the language to fit this. It has since been used in a wide variety of contexts, all of which are varied and differ in the target of study and purpose of study.

>That in itself alludes to some sort of power structure.

No. It doesn't. Just because you say it, doesn't make it so.

>Also the conspiracy theory libel is a logical fallacy.

You're demonstrating the same kind of - if all you have a is a hammer, everything is a nail - type of thinking. You've alluded to the fact that everything can be distilled down to some power hierarchy. That's a tell-tale sign you've come down the ideological rabbit hole.

Here are other ideological cognitive crunches:

- Libertarians see everything as a struggle between collectivism and individualism.

- Communists see everything as a struggle between bourgeoisie and the proletariat.

- Feminists see everything as a struggle against patriarchy.

- Conspiracy theorists see everything as a struggle against the Illuminati (or some shadowy cabal)

The world is complicated. Ideology helps to make sense of it by introducing useful abstractions ... but only to a point. As much as ideology helps, it can also be a crutch.
It's on par with most other phones, which I agree is huge. Smaller would take a lot more work, so I'm okay with a larger first version.
Things that are not important at an individual level can absolutely be important at a societal level.
No. Adding humans is a terrible idea.

"More Than 500 Hours Of Content Are Now Being Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute".

Do that math. Filing copyright claims can be completely automated. Humans can't keep up with that.

In my opinion, YouTube should enjoy Safe Harbor laws. When someone wants to make a Copyright claim, they should have to post a bounty. If their claim is found to be without merit, they forfeit the bounty to the person who created the video in question. And this should be resolved by a governmental judicial group, who also gets a cut of the bounty.
> * Mr. Demetre, a 63-year-old retired draftsman who spends several nights a week at her apartment because it’s bigger.*

> A roofing contractor, he had repaired her roof a few times... He lives in the big house that he built on 60 acres in the country, with tractors and a satellite TV for watching sports. She lives in a brightly decorated home with no satellite TV in the college town of Columbia, Missouri.

> Mr. Pastoret moved from his family home to an apartment 250 steps from hers. He comes over every evening for a supper of fruit and sandwiches. He washes the dishes. She dries and puts them away. They watch the news and “Wheel of Fortune,” holding hands, then go out to the front porch.

Do those really seem like stories restricted to the upper crust?

These people aren't broke, to be sure, and it's worth recognizing that pressure to live together to save money is part of how income affects divorce rates. But most of the people in this story are widowed or divorced with kids - they have property and maybe savings, but not enormous incomes. A house in Columbia, MO is $200k, and several of the other people have apartments.
> "It would be nice for him to stick to topics he's an expert in" Well if everybody sticks to his/her own expertise that would mean the end of HN ... And I'm not even talking about twitter.
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More intelligent people by definition are able to make better decisions - you wouldn't be considered intelligent if your decisions were more often than not poor.

So, to say that "wealth comes from intelligence" is false implies that, whatever it is that allows one to get wealthy, making better decisions is not the decisive factor... which I may agree with in many cases, but not as a general rule... and when measuring the wealth of a whole country, the general rule would certainly tend to dominate. Geography and resources availability also play a big role, of course, but as we can see easily, many countries that are quite unlucky with regards to those things still manage to score very highly on the wealth rankings - and perhaps not coincidentally, have high average IQ.
Video game engines often have plugin systems like this that listen for hooks or events and can act on them. It does make extremely complex things a bit more simple.

But the chart in graph 1 still applies, often when adding new functionality you realize you need to add or remove modularity and extensions.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20556643 for a rough estimate.

Facebook has 30000 moderators.
I think that's an unfortunate way to see it. Ignoring the possible resilience to using more recognised naming conventions and having gone around the houses in languages for good and bad I'd go more along the lines of "software engineering is hard, the tools to do it well don't need to be"
I think Twitch is probably better off not trying to go after the non-live market because it's tough to surface both live content and recorded content well using the same layout and the tools for deciding what recorded content to show is much different and involved than live.

I do wish they would do better with organizing the VoD section though it's so hard to find particular VoDs even for simple things like Critical Role's once a week show that happens at the same time every week much less a less scheduled streamer.
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Fascinating! I wonder if anyone has looked into a way to create an artificial transport and trap mechanism for mineral ores... would be really convenient just to have a specific mineral accumulate.

Also, here's an article about using mushrooms to recover up to 80% gold from e-waste: https://explorebiotech.com/researchers-turn-e-waste-gold-usi... I guess that might be related.
Are they going to explain why they butchered Doom with the Unity engine? It's not like there is any shortage of programmers eager and able to create yet another proper Doom port.

It really feels like Bethesda threw some young intern at the project who lacked cultural context for Doom and therefore didn't treat it with respect.

Edit for source: https://mobile.twitter.com/noteinso/status/11548092916411514...
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> The problem is that a modern CPU is so fast that just accessing the L1 cache takes anywhere from 3-5 cycles.

Access to RAM on a MOS 6502 is about 2-6 cycles, isn't it? The total amount of RAM in a 6502 system is usually roughly the size of a modern L1 cache as well. It would be interesting if you could just program with an L1 exposed and structured as a main memory rather than a cache ...
It is definitely possible. Imagine an engineer gets approached by some other corporation that wants to boost a few videos, ads, etc.

It would not take much to nudge the system in that direction. The resulting payoffs could be in the billions.
It's not an Android variant, it's a Debian variant.

Yes.
http://melpa.org/#/org-pomodoro with Emacs OrgMode
The Hitman reboot and its sequel are great games, but the crap surrounding it is disheartening.

Figuring out which version of Hitman 2 you should buy on Steam when you already own Hitman 1 requires a flow chart just to understand the different packages, expansion passes, gold and silver collections, and what have you.
Yeah see the people that are caring about this are caring because it has used up all of their available RAM, has pushed stuff into Virtual Memory, and it is causing performance problems for their system. Or, if they are IT, it is causing performance problems on their users' systems.

This is a pretty reasonable complaint when you're talking about a system with 2gb, and a chat application that uses 1.5gb of memory...or heck, a 16gb system when you have programs that legitimately need as much memory as you can give them and are being starved of it. Nobody would begrudge this usage if it was necessary for the task, but it isn't. Not even close.

Edit: Apparently this is better than it used to be, but there have been times when Slack also ate up CPU like crazy. Which, again, no biggie if you have plenty to spare, but when you don't...and even then, if you have plenty to spare, you're still going to be annoyed with Slack if it's eating all of your battery because the CPU is working really really really hard at...um...dunno? If it were mining bitcoin/monero without your knowledge or consent then at least it would be DOING something.
> Second paragraph seems a little conspiracy theorist-y to be honest!

I agree, though it's always worth remembering 1) that AI and automated marketing and responses will only get better as time goes on, and 2) there are a lot of unemployed people who can, could, and will shill for things on the internet. If there is a profit motive 1 & 2 will likely happen.

The problem is separating idiots from deliberate misinformation.
In MS Teams you can click the '...' next to a channel and then click 'channel notifications'. The options allow you to mute 'all new posts' and also to mute 'channel mentions'.
Usually yes; the rate for fixed mortgages tend to be higher than adjustable. Looking at rates today, I'm seeing about 3.75% for a 30-year fixed; 3.125% for 15-year fixed, and 4.25% for a 5/1 ARM; but it's more typical in my experience for an ARM to come in near or below the 15-year fixed rates.
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> as soon as they switched to their Electron client, it has become yet another resource hog that I have to put up with.

FWIW I use Zulip every day -- I work on Zulip, and naturally we use it among ourselves -- and I never touch the Electron client, because I prefer the experience of a browser tab.

Chrome's task manager (shift-esc) reports that tab is using 281M right now. Less than Gmail, or some old GitHub tabs (>1G, yikes!), or a freshly-started VS Code (... oh wow, or my Emacs which is at 337M. Wasn't expecting that.) Not sure how that compares to the Electron app.

As another reply pointed out, there is also a terminal client! You might enjoy trying it: https://github.com/zulip/zulip-terminal
Re: stores that promote home cooking, their prices make them largely inaccessible to the broader market (and those who make less) since they tend to be branded "health food stores" and the markup is 50% or more.

Heck, even the difference between two (differently named) grocery stores in my area, owned by the same larger company, can be that bad and neither is touted as a health food store.
The engine is open source. The levels aren't.
Yes I probably wasn't as clear as I should have, that of course 'race' is very loosely defined.
But it's not just completely made up is my point. Saying it is completely a cultural construct is just plain wrong, and as such not conducive to convincing anyone in an argument.

And then of course with ever increasing mobility, the differences are probably 'smoothing out' so to speak.

>Otherwise racial differences would be of no more significance than, say, differences in hair or eye color.

Interesting example, because red haired people generally have more sensitive skin and are prone to burning in the sun. This is an example of the kinds of differences that it is actually interesting and helpful to study.
Surely non-US governments should just reject software with intrusive telemetry?
The rights holder most definitely would not have a claim to pull the whole video down. If a human looked at that and saw it was music playing at the mall that was incidental to the video, it would be a clear case of fair use.
I love that there are 3 hardware kill switches, and that turning all 3 off "additionally disable[s] IMU+compass & GNSS, ambient light and proximity sensors." There are so many ways in which clever hackers have teased out information from thin streams of always-on sensor data.

It would also be kind of cool if they added physical LED lights reflecting hardware activity, normally covered by some physical blinder that you could remove if you're curious--for example, a light indicating WIFI traffic, one for each sensor, etc.
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> with an equilibrium point somewhere

The problem is, due to limited information, it is impossible to know where this equilibrium point is. You still have to just make your best guess.
As mentioned not on the switch.

The PC has better than a DRM free version though, the source code of the original engine was released and there are several updates that keep the game feeling modern. Only the game art must be purchased legally. If interested look up "zdoom", which is the updated engine I used and remember.
> "I believe, but cannot definitively prove that paper ballots cast at poll sites is the most robust against attack"

Here's how a Blockchain voting system can work:

1. Person casts vote using a voting machine.

2. Voting machine commits a change to a publicly available blockchain. The commit includes metadata such as the actual choice you made. It can optionally include even more metadata, such as "place of vote", "timestamp", "gender", "age".

3. Your vote has been cast, and the blockchain has been been modified.

4. The voting machine prints a "receipt". Your receipt includes a "commit hash". You can use the hash to see, identify and verify your record has been registered with the blockchain. So can everyone else.

5. When the voting is done - a simple python scripts traverses the blockchain - counting how many votes were given to each candidate.

This design ensures transparency and security. No compromises. You as an individual can know for a fact that your vote has been cast, and has been counted. As a society, we can finally verify and make sure our elections were fair game.
I think you just described meeting people in real life.
Blame YouTube because they made the system. And if you dispute the claim, the clamer gets to decide if the clame was false. The system is totally wrong.
I can't say much publicly, except to say that nearly everything you just said is wrong.
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Deferring the problem seems like a viable strategy in this case. Plastic recycling seems like the kind of thing that technology might have something to say about eventually - especially if the plastic is already conveniently sorted into its own dedicated place. If petroleum demand falls to the point where oil wells shut down, and there's huge piles of plastic ready for the taking just under the surface, the economics of digging it up become more and more favorable. Plausibly, the problem could solve itself in time.
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Glad everyone learned their privacy lessons.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-july...
Todd Howard is probably upset he didn't get a chance to reskin Cacodemons as dragons.
Prevent other people from scamming students out of money.
An updated article includes Google confirmation they are running studies like this.
Don't think youtube wants the liability that comes with active decisions.

Imagine making a mistake that favors a pirate, lawsuits. Make a mistake that favors a copyright troll, endless hate?
I agree this author seems more interested in self-promotion than anything else.

However, I don't think the purpose of this book is to cover these subjects in their entirety. Most of the time, with books like these, I would just like to see definitions, use cases, why it's used, maybe even what it replaced in the space it exists in. Materials like this aren't meant to make you an expert, they are just meant to show you what's out there, why it's out there, and (maybe) what was out there before. They give you context with which to google things.

Either way, everyone expects something different from educational materials. I personally would not use this book, but I get the idea he was going for.
In some instances, reliance on counsel's opinion can at least be a defense against claims that you intentionally did something wrong.
Wait, what? Where do you see that Doom was ported to Unity for this?
For anyone who doesn't want to read the article to find out who, they're talking about Kraftwerk.
But you just proposed the solution. A penalty for a failed copyright claim. Penalty+human intervention would cut the claims dramatically.