skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting to control for their education environment. My understanding is many of the Asian countries ranked at the top are almost constant schooling for children up through early adulthood, which is not the case for the US and especially not the case for many countries farther down the list.

The schools tend to be very heavy in STEM subjects, which does not seem an implausible source for high IQ test performance, which favor the kind of abstract, logical thinking that STEM subjects strengthen.

So, IQ could be a measure of abstract thinking capability, and it might be the case that one's ability to think abstractly can be developed through proper education.
Your pricing for geocoding is very attractive, especially in light of Google's not so recent price spike. Are you operating through multiple data centers throughout the US?
No, it looks like this is about the re-release that just came out over the weekend of the original games.
Raw capability has nothing to do with how that capability is applied. IQ is supposed to measure raw capability. Especially tests such as Raven's which focus on fluid intelligence.
By this logic, all CSS is an attack on your users, forcing them to see your sites content under the assumption that you know better than them how it should be presented.

I tend to agree with this sentiment, but it's a lost war at this point.
I believe his biggest issue with IQ—one that worries me greatly as well—is that it is being used to create a feeling of "otherness" towards populations that can be demarcated out using a single dimensional property: IQ. History shows us this as a strategy to subjugate using other "scientific" methods of classifying people, phrenology being a fairly recent example.
Why is it useful to separate "data" from software engineering in general? What are some examples of programs that do not operate on data?
I think it's pretty clear that "trending" videos are manipulated. I've seen a video with 10k views and five times more dislikes than likes show up in trending.
That's not the only available explanations. You can find many alternatives. Specially now that we have discovered the influence of epigenetics.

For instance, average height of a population is not a fixed value but changes with the progress of a country. Presumably due to the diet improvement in the mother's generation.

Another consideration: parasites, I would be surprised if they don't influence the development of child intelligence.
A lot of the most popular content is "long-form" for no other reson than Youtube's 10-minute minimum length requirement for monetizing via ads. Video makers have responded to this arbitrary requirement in exactly how you would expect, by padding out the video length with dull filler material.

Think of the amount of writing that goes into a single 20-minute TV sitcom episode. The most popular ones have 24 episodes a year. Youtubers are expected to come up with 10-minute episodes 1x/week if not more frequently. The quality of the videos take a nosedive, the creators burn out, and subscriptions and views fall as a result.

TikTok's shorter videos can arguably be more entertaining as there's no arbitrary length requirement that incentivizes filler.
What’s New in the GitHub and Slack Integration
Malice vs. incompetence, and so on. Their excuse is believable - that they had a rewards program and that it wasn't meant to be globally required. Or is it? How did that get through testing? Were all the testers Slayers Club members?

Anyway, I'm glad the backlash worked.
Does Youtube 'make money'?

If not, what deep-pocketed company would be able to keep a competitor afloat?
I guess the list of names of god un islam, could be a start.
Like most things in the modern world, an accurate answer is nuanced.

The most sustainable way to farm would be to open pastured cattle, pigs, and sheep which would drop manure in a fallow field and add tons of organic nutrients to the soil - as happens in nature. That pasture would then be used to grow crops the next year, as the animals are rotated to another area. When an area is only used for growing vegetables, there is a net depletion of natural nutrients that have to be supplemented with external input.

The worst part of agriculture is farming ONLY beef or ONLY dairy or ONLY vegetables on acreage. I'm going to risk being contrarian to the HN crowd - but farming can't be automated in a sustainable way. The ecosystem is far too multivariate and interrelated. Sure, you can make a smarter tractor, but that land will be barren in 40 more years. Automation only works at scale, but nature does not divide into neat discrete categories without some sort of tradeoff in biodiversity or long-term resilience
What does his personality have to do with what he is arguing? Is he using “bad statistical” arguments or not?
> ircd with logging enabled + elastic search/sphinx/lucene + web frontend

Slack is way more than that, though.

My recollection is that even the initial version of Slack was more than that.

At this point, it's enough that "let's extend ircd" isn't exactly a practical answer. Either they maintain their own incompatible fork of ircd or they try to force their business desires into the irc protocol.

There's plenty of things that are "just X plus some paint" if you don't look at them deeply. That usually does an extreme disservice to the difficulty of the "plus some paint" part, and often represents a failure to understand the features involved.
This was marketing content, all the pull quotes are from investors and senior leadership. This was a marketing piece, nothing more.
This is my opinion, from experience.

> do psychopaths make better managers?

I've had 2. No, they're horrible to work for. Indifferent to you as a human, bullying, lying, destructive (edit: and manipulative). The best bosses I've had, the ones that got the most out of me, were humane and decent (Also 2 of them).

> Do they somehow gravitate towards management positions in some other way?

I guess so. Power, control, money (all of these really boil down to power).

> Or is it the management position that brings out the psychopath in people?

No. A psychopath is a definite mental phenomenon that AFAIK is something you're born with. It is thought to be perhaps made worse by bad childhoods, but it certainly isn't something you develop if you weren't born with it.

What I do see in those psychopaths that I recognise as such is that they often really driven for money/power. They're often great fun to be with because they're so impulsive, but wear you down with constant demands.

Above is just my personal understanding and experiences.
Absolutely feels like that, if it's true would be a task for DownDetector or similar sites with their datasets.

However, this may be the result of increased dependence on centralized services which gain more and more traffic, which is more difficult to handle and even simple Regex rules (see Cloudflare outage recently) can break everything.
To be honest, I don't want to ever be in charge of keeping such complex systems online.
> Bethesda suggested there had actually been a slip-up when implementing BethesdaNet support, and that logging in should have been an optional step from the get-go.

Also, prior to the re-release, Bethesda accidentally removed Doom and Doom II from the libraries of people who had purchased the games previously on Xbox 360.

1. https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/07/27/bethesda-is-fixing-t...
I want to agree with you but China is not “super industrialized”. They’ve only caught up in the last two decades and have a vast countryside which is still way underdeveloped, some at the subsistence level. So wealth might have something to do with it, but it’s also only loosely associated.
After reading this thread and considering it, the regulations seem fine, but lack of consistency between states seems to be a large pain-pont.

I realize California isn't just "any" state but needing to seek unique approval from up to all 50 states just to run an online school seems like a really high (and expensive) bar.

It would be nice if more states cooperated on things like this. Then you seek approval from the collective, rather than at an individual level.
It's a really viable fallback - I did the same thing this morning. The only difference is the team / channel aspect. While Google Chat supports those features, the effort to seamlessly fallover to "backup channels" is harder than DM-type stuff.
Start with the ACA.

It was championed as a way to fix all of the problems of our current system and give access to everybody. 9 years in and its a mess. Overrun with fraud and abuse, people were taken off the plans they were content with (after being told "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan") and put on more expensive plans. Deductions and premiums are increasing, lack of options (after being told there would be more options, not less) and now you're going to have even less people insured since employers are already opting to stop offering coverage in order to push their employees to the ACA plans instead.

And now? Now we're being told the only solution is the "medicare for all" option because the ACA is a massive failure.
Someone could, and the support would be equally ambiguous and we'll all die never really knowing the answer. So... not to be too much of a hippie here, but maybe we could all try to just stick to actual science here and not start flinging around pontification about one of the most deeply offensive and divisive topics of modern society on the basis of what amounts to tarot reading?

Just a thought. What's that quote from the Big Lebowski again?
no, he's mad about the color.
I'm tired of the "harming our youth" angle. It's pointing out a needlessly specific example of our complete and systemic inability to control substances.

Educate people the best you can as a society, use legislation to support the distribution of truth, and allow natural selection to take care of the rest.

If your teen is addicted to vaping and it bothers you, then you have failed yourself as a parent; don't put that guilt on others. At least your son / daughter has one of the least hazardous addictions in human history.
>All systems protect their own integrity

Do they? Where are you getting that from?

>and obviously the IQ test would further serve to protect the power structure of the people who designed those tests.

Not so obviously. No matter what IQ is, it was neither designed nor implemented as a way to 'protect the power structure'. This idiotic power hierarchy metaphor is completely overused by certain ideological sectors. Not everything is best understood as power hierarchy. Not everything is a power hierarchy. When you claim everything is a power hierarchy it is a cognitive crutch not unlike conspiracy theorists seeing the work of the illuminati behind every socio-political event.
There's a lot of ways to eliminate cultural bias in IQ testing. For example, you can just take a set of people that are not WASPs. You will find their relative outcomes still correlate strongly with IQ relative to their peers in the non-WASP culture.

Even if you feel that Psychologists have failed to do so, you still have to explain why East Asians and Ashkenazi Jews consistently outperform WASPs.
Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?
I am rather fond of the concepts described in "Clean Code" by Robert Martin but it seems that in real life, a really high-quality codebase is hard to come by.

While I am asking myself this question, the only one that popups to my mind would be Laravel: https://github.com/laravel/laravel (PHP)

One could think that a codebase as popular as React (https://github.com/facebook/react) would be a perfect example of "clean code" but with a glance, I personally don't find it very expressive.

This may all be very subjective but I would love to see examples of codebases that member of this community have enjoyed working with
Not to mention the stories of creators losing money to false claims. YouTube should should the money is escrow until copyright strikes are resolved one way or another because, as it stands, creators don't have the resources to fight the rampant safe harbor fraud.
It’s because of the way the conjecture is structured. It proposes that we believe a multi billion dollar corporation would risk their profit margins on the tastes of one engineer in the shadows.
YouTube is the rawest form of reality TV. Networks learned a long time ago these are more profitable than sitcoms or dramas
Ah yes, good old true-enough-that-five-examples-found-in-afternoon "all".
You need a happy medium here. You don't want to allow scammers of course, but also don't want to overly protect the incumbents so no one else can disrupt the space.
Click-baity title. Should actually be: A kettlebell workout if you can't lift weights

I'm glad the author has found a way to get in shape that works so well for him. However, the article as it stands is filled with content that may dissuade others from using free weights to start a strength program.
Can’t I just keep re-sending my AI’d profile to it until it doesn’t think it’s been AI’d?

Kinda like a system that can rule out all the wrong answers can figure out the right answer with enough horsepower?
Techne, in terms of what makes people good tools to do certain type of technical work. The other part is schooling in which grades indicate how good of a tool the person actually makes.
Zulip desktop is working to move from a electron's webview to Browserview. Slack has completed that migration and seems to have received a good control on its memory usage after that. Hopefully, once Zulip migrates it stops being a resource hog.
Vahan (YC S19) is helping low-skilled workers in India find jobs on WhatsApp
Creators rely on Youtube for their livelihood and Youtube will yank it away and say talk to the hand.
Sure, wealth is correlated as well. But perhaps wealth comes from intelligence? That seems reasonable, does it not? Wealth creation, at its most fundamental, is all about doing things more efficiently than they were done in the past. Who would be best equipped to tackle invention if not people with good problem-solving skills, as measured by IQ?

Honestly, this could be put to rest fairly "easily" (obviously this wouldn't be that easy and is never going to happen) if you took 1000 expectant mother's who have just become pregnant from Equatorial Guinea and transplanted them to various wealthy countries. Then measure the children's IQ as they grow up and compare them to the rest of the local population.

I have a feeling the difference in IQ would be negligible, and that the vast divide can be attributed almost wholly to nutrition/etc in early development, but you can't maintain that this is the case until you've actually tested the hypothesis, which as far as I'm aware has not been done.

I'm not entirely sure how the Flynn effect is relevant, unless the claim is that certain countries (African ones mostly) are not being retested at all, but European countries are. Is that the idea?
That is accurate
Golang is a joke that went too far. It doesn't take 100 IQ points to understand that Russ Cox and his minions don't understand a thing about modern (or even old) language design. This is a language designed for employers not for developers.
Until the new EU copyright law with the upload filters, YouTube didn't have to make the copyright takedowns as aggressive as it did. It went way above and beyond what the law was requiring. Why did it do that, you ask? Because if was part of whatever deal Google made with studios in order for them to give it access to songs for its failing music services.

One could also argue that if YouTube's takedown fitler wasn't as "good" (where good doesn't actually mean objectively good, but aggressive) as Google made it be, then EU's upload filter wouldn't have passed either, because then there would have been no example of anyone "doing it right" (read: taking down anything that smells like a cousin of a copyrighted work, including stuff like public works, bird chirps, etc -- just to be sure).

My point is, YouTube wouldn't have needed as many humans to check if people's taken down stuff was needed to be taken down, if its algorithms weren't designed to be so aggressive in the first place.

Google dug its own grave here. Now it's stuck between the creators who increasingly see it as a hostile/too risky service, and the people who keep calling for YouTube to censor stuff that "offends them", and who will never ever be satisfied with whatever censorship regime YouTube puts in place, just like the copyright trolls never will be either.
> That's a popular conspiracy theory, but it doesn't hold up to Occam's Razor.

Occam's Razor isn't some sort of physical law that governs human behavior.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

> Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two explanations for an occurrence. In this case the one that requires the least speculation is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation. Occam's razor applies especially in the philosophy of science, but also more generally.
> How did that get through testing?

This is Bethesda we’re talking about, remember. The miracle would be a bug not getting through testing.
Sure, but can't that be solved for most people by holding elections on a Sunday and keeping the polls open from 08:00 to 20:00? That way it is only a small percentage who are unable to vote.

Sweden has this plus early voting and we have between 85% and 90% participation in our elections. The early voting of course make it easier to manipulate votes.
This is just plain wrong on all levels.

Sure, racists are interested in race and everything related to it because they feel they are superior, and conveniently disregard the things that don't support them being superior.

But race is not a cultural construct, as evidenced by the fact that you can't culturally adapt your skin to change colors.

It is entirely possible to note the differences between men and women without being sexist.
It is also possible to be interested in and note the differences between different parts of the human population without being racist.
What goodwill? You might want to look up owner of Bethesda, a copyright trading company run by a lawyer.
A) The bank credited me back the amount so it wasn't a big deal.

b) The amount was minimal - around $7 per transaction

c) I wasn't checking my account regularly because I thought once it was fixed, it was fixed. I was usually a few weeks behind when I was getting billed and when I was catching it.

d) the tacos are magnificent and worth it.
Michael Conlan vs. Vladimir Nikitin
Call Them the Beatles of Electronic Dance Music (1997)
simple engineering problem, improve the ways humans cool/develop some water cooling system for our bodies and scale it
I guess Chomsky didn't point out the fact that opioid deaths fell last year for the first time in around 30 years. That actually dovetails with the idea that increased opportunity, low unemployment and improved wages helps.
Agreed. What I don’t get is why people try to change Go all time instead of simply using different languages for different problems. If you absolutely need generics in a project, there are a ton of languages out there that will fit your bill.
Which areas of expertise are you looking at? What languages are you looking at for job openings? Where are you looking geographically?

It's hard to generalize to just geo-agnostic "coders", I think.

>encouraging people to go into the field on the pretense of a "hot job market" seems disingenuous.

FWIW I think this is true no matter the program. By the time it trickles down to those thinking about enrolling and those people start graduating, the market becomes saturated from all of the graduates (who were already in the pipeline) and all of the people who made career shifts to the in-demand X.
In every aspect except for survival.
Blockchains have a single centralized view of data and this view is distributed worldwide with everyone keeping each other in check. Blockchains are centralized but distributed in this way.

Federation protocols have different, decentralized views of data and these views are selectively distributed with peers and distributed in ad hoc ways, and sometimes peers keep each other in check. Federated protocols are decentralized and distributed in this way.
Hey! I love this problem :) The motor you shared shows >20g/W efficiency at ~40W of power and net lift of 500grams with those 28x9.2 (100g CF props). This implies that we need to produce roughly 40 Watts with under 500grams -- hard to assume negligible structural/electronics mass so more conservatively 40 Watts under 250g or 320Watts under 2kg to make like an octocopter with some power to spare. this is roughly 1 to 4 sq meters of solar area at 32% to 8% efficiency, and the swept area of eight 28" props is about 12 square meters it's might not even look totally ridiculous!

I can find super-light 100Watt panes under 2kg on Amazon (probably actually 60 Watts) but it's definitely more like 2 - 4 times more mass efficiency than what is commercially available and not 18-30.

Silicon mass is under 4 grams per Watt of solar so I think it should be possible to get there with silicon with a focused engineering effort. Organic photo-voltaic materials have shown 6 watts per gram in the lab (imagine for space applications!) -- though they would need even larger area due to lower efficiency and act as more of a sail .... not saying it is a practical machine to make, but again I definitely think it is in the realm of possible.
Two counterpoints:

First is that there are plenty of environmental factors to consider, especially with regards to 3rd world countries. In rural parts of Africa where people are predominantly subsistence farmers, there is a very high rate of prenatal and neonatal malnutrition. And that can cause mental retardation. And so can getting malaria and a variety of other infectious diseases in infancy.

Second point is that you are assuming that race is a well-defined genetic construct. But it isn't, it's largely a social construct. Population genetics for humans is a continuum, and we just arbitrarily draw the lines.
That is the point of the article though. But they did not really solve the issue, it just highlighted a new issue. Engineers solved the flooding of the city but brought to light the fact that groundwater pumping is causing the city to sink. So they solved the short term issue but the root problem is still getting worse.
At least it'd be no worse than we have now with voting my mail.
> Manual shoveling disappeared as an occupation 50 years ago

this is ... breathtakingly naive
So one outlier (not even that much of an outlier!) proves a racial correlation? This is what I'm talking about. It seems to a lot of "us" that a lot of "you" are going to cling to these racial opinions no matter what, constantly poking holes at any argument so that your own worldview doesn't have to change.

And that's what horrifies us. Is that really a worldview you want to have?
3b. You can spoil paper ballots during in-person voting, which means a photograph of your ballot is insufficient proof that you actually cast that particular ballot.
> Of course Taleb understand statistics if he wants to, but he is just pushing his rants and loses his bearings in Twitter. Even his old friends are lamenting his online personality and bitterness.

Generic arguments about personality and character don't invalidate specific arguments about IQ.

If I indulge your "argument", from what I see on twitter is threads full of very openly nordic-/white- supremacist keyboard warriors and zerohedge trolls. Of all the people to call out in these threads, Taleb seems the most level-headed.
What a strange dynamic social media has sometimes.
A tax to capture the cost of the trash being thrown away.