skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, IQ has been used to harm groups of people (specifically black and brown people) for a long time. If I didn't know you were just trying to post reactionary propaganda I'd say I was surprised you decided to leave out all the data that shows that IQ doesn't encompass all ways a person can be "intelligent".

"The assertion that IQ measures human intelligence in any general sense, or that the source of variance in IQ scores is primarily cognitive in nature, remains unsubstantiated after decades of investigation.": https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0382/3398d781543cd0edcf51f1...

https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(12)00584-3

If you're going to try to convince people of your "race realism" bullshit on this platform you're gonna have to try a lot harder than unsubstantiated shit posting.
The cost of the number of humans required to exclusively curate youtube would render the platform unprofitable in very short order.
I hate that the YouTube ads aren't at all targeted to the video that you're watching, or even your profile. Google has like every bit of data they could possibly want on me... and I literally have never seen an ad for anything I would care about.

Worse, like I'm trying to sleep, and I turn on some ASMR or meditation video, and if I forget to turn off the "auto play" feature (it's annoying to turn off from the TV interface), then I'm hit with what can only be described as used-car-guy-volume ads. "BUY NOW! LOW LOW PRICES!"

Now I just use a video scraper to download the videos I like so I can watch them while I sleep. Nobody wins when they don't tie ads to content, or ads to users.
it wasn't always the morons in charge of biz, sometimes it's just bored morons in charge of things. bloat causes this.
Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software
Thanks for your comment. We consider our pricing especially attractive if you consider the terms-of-use restrictions that large providers encumber their results with. (We dub our lack of restrictions "free-range geocoding".)

To answer your question, we currently have multiple (redundant) servers, but not multiple data centers. If we got a strong enough commitment (contract), we would be happy to operate in multiple data centers.
>remember that the initial RISC proposal was in contrast to the PDP instruction set, which was kind of ridiculously over specialized for the technology of the time.

That's a good point and I expect that it still somewhat holds true today: many of the RISC supporters (and I'm one of them) effectively assimilate CISC with x86 since that's by far the most popular CISC instruction set out there these days[1]. And x86 is the C++ of instruction sets: decades and decades of legacy feature which shouldn't be used in modern code, a large selection of paradigms copied from whatever other instruction set was popular at the time. You want to do BCD? We have opcodes for that (admittedly no longer supported in long mode, but it's there). Also do you like prefixes? Asking for a friend.

But obviously that's a bit of a fallacy, one could design a modern CISC-y IA without all the legacy baggage of x86. It's not so much that I love MIPS or RISC V, it's that I don't want to have to deal with x86 anymore.

[1] We don't yet consider ARM CISC, right?
>Youtube's 10-minute minimum length requirement for monetizing via ads.

This is inaccurate. It is suspected, but not confirmed, that the YouTube recommendation algorithm favors videos longer than 10 minutes because they increase the amount of time users spend on the platform. Videos need not be 10 minutes long to be monetized.
I love in that article the complete non-sequitur about MENSA members wearing white socks with birkenstocks. It really demonstrates his disdain.
California had a rough spot a few decades back with a lot of scammy junk-tier "trade schools". This led to the creation of fairly strong regulatory system in the area.
Your earlier question - one you presented as being in the minds of most people

No, I didn't.

I'm well aware there can be other reasons people aren't particularly/obviously invested in the topic. My reply wasn't intended to explain all such cases.

I didn't feel any need to pedantically enumerate all such points of view, some of which can be quite ugly. For example, if you believe global warming is human created and that this article is correct about billions of lives being at risk, you may cynically feel it is a problem that will resolve itself once that mass die off occurs.

People can be trying to solve it in earnest without signaling to anyone that they believe we are heading towards a doomsday scenario and that their life's work is intended to "save" us from it. In fact, those trying in earnest to find real solutions probably want to activaly eschew that framing. It won't help their work get taken seriously to identify themselves to the world as having some kind of saviour complex.

Renewable energy is a growing industry. How do you know who in that industry is just looking to make a buck and who is on a mission to save the world from global warming?

You can't actually rely on what they say to know what is in their heart of hearts. The person looking to get rich may claim to be trying to save the world because it's a good marketing ploy and improves their bottom line.

I gave up my car more than a decade ago, in part because I'm an environmental studies major. I'm also quite poor and have been for a long time. My lack of a car is consistently viewed through the lens of poverty. No one ever sees my lifestyle choice as an environmental choice.

I mostly don't harp on it. I also don't see well and have other reasons why I'm content to make my life work without a car in a country that actively makes life without a car difficult.

I don't see an upside to trying to position myself in the minds of most people as a fanatic devoting my life to leading by example. In fact, I see a lot of downside to such positioning.

I'm actively involved locally with two non profits. I'm generally the poorest person in the room. Making the rich people around me feel morally judged for things like having a car would close doors in my face, not open them.

Anyway, you and I seem to inherently frame things in a manner that isn't compatible. I feel I am pointlessly beating a dead horse here. It's not a good feeling and it's not a thing I care to continue with.
I'm so glad I quit dating for good at the time I did. All the annoying Snapchat filters were bad enough.

I wonder how much all this AI will affect societal trust. If we're all just expecting that we're constantly lying to each other to get things, might we further devolve into a very low-trust society?
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I’m not saying it’s racial at all. All I am saying is that wealth is also only loosely correlated.
Thank you. I think I would have gotten around to re-scaling the image down to a more reasonable size eventually. This saves me that effort.
And I don't disagree with you but the parent company is ginormous and the monetary sums almost unfathomable. Its revenues may comfortably support an enormous number of well-paying jobs.
There’s a lot of criticism on WhatsApp and Instagram. The most interesting are:

- WhatsApp is used by conservative political parties (notably Mohdi in India) to promote non-representative, outrageous stories. Those spread in group chats, away from fact-checking. Reducing group maximum size should help slow down and allow media to counter-message before the message spreads too far.

- Instagram is promoting a superficial, edited, material lifestyle. There’s good pushback from the company like reducing the visibility of Likes.

I don’t think that either of those examples contradicts the general trend of issues with context collapse.

danah boyd on MySpace vs. Facebook users, there were two main ones in 2007 [1] and 2010 [2].

[1] http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
[2] http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/07/21/myspace...
If we dont support the bloat wear created from silicon valley what will those javascript devs do. All the barista jobs are taken.
It's extremely disappointing how the broader US technology scene never really "got" Vine. Despite the platform's constraints, it was full of genuinely innovative content.
So it makes it interesting that you can either buy service, which seems expensive according to his experience, or spend engineering time (salary money) to build it once and pay almost nothing to keep it online. I think a lot of us would build it just for the experience, but many shops have a habit of buying things that are not their core competency.
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I'm not a big fan of anecdotal evidence, but I'll bite.

I have taken multiple (3) professionally administered IQ tests, and my highest score achieved was on the first of those, when I was eight years old.

I don't think that means anything, but there you go.
Even if commodity prices are negative, there’s still a price where it’s cheaper than landfill, no?
> Do they? Where are you getting that from?

It's either a tautology or follows logically take your pick, a system is a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network. System integrity is the state of a system where it is performing its intended functions without being degraded or impaired by changes or disruptions in its internal or external environments.

Systems that do not protect their integrity cease to exist or they change in unpredictable ways and become uncontrollable.

> it was neither designed nor implemented as a way to 'protect the power structure'.

It is designed by someone to figure out if someone else is worthy in a certain way. That in itself alludes to some sort of power structure. Also the conspiracy theory libel is a logical fallacy.
Have you considered the option of IQ being partially inherited and the parents also being rich because of a high IQ. In that case, IQ would still be the cause of the wealth.
YouTubers are getting flagged by big media companies because YouTubers are using their music or other media without getting a media license. This is not a mystery unknown rule. YouTubers know to not use music they don't have the rights to.
It looks like they're helpdesk software. Email would pretty integral to their business model so I don't blame them for wanting to do it themselves, although it wouldn't be my first choice unless I needed some feature missing from all of the ESPs.
This is not referring to Doom 2016 (which was a great game). This was a new Doom 25 Year anniversary thing with Doom 1, 2, and 3. The re-release included non-optional requirement to sign into their online service.
I guess I just don't see how this is "worthless value signaling". There's more to the environment and economy than just carbon reduction -- these are real, positive things.

Jay Inslee's page states "net-zero greenhouse gas pollution" and "transitioning off fossil fuels". I think it's clear these could be accomplished via tax or cap and trade, and most voters probably don't care much about the specific details of which.

The main point is, I don't see any evidence that if Republicans offered up a carbon tax bill, that Democrats would vote against it because they wanted something bigger. It's beyond ridiculous to suggest this is Democrats' fault because they want to do even more. Responsibility here lies 100% with Republican obstruction, and it's just disingenuous to suggest otherwise.
1. You may want to choose a less intellectually rigorous career if your IQ is low. Or you might get an early warning to work on factors you can control - for example the ability to focus, getting enough sleep, etc.

2. "With enough time..." is a totally irrelevant argument made by people who don't understand competition and how it applies to the real world, as in for scholarships, promotions, etc. Time is everything - and its a luxury. It also cuts into your free time heavily.

3. This is true. Except, when you read some code or a complex math concept, have fun if your working memory is sub-par and you can't even remember what the inputs to a function are.

"Its only important/useful subject for a select few people."

It's the exact opposite of that - it is applied to learning any field fast.
You're right, I overstated that. It might be more appropriate to say "The core development team has made it clear that they intend to add parametric polymorphism in some form".
Taleb: "“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact [measures] to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects — how good someone is at taking some type of exams designed by unsophisticated nerds."

Well, that statement is clearly false. The exams are designed by very sophisticated nerds.
FFI: Calling Rust from C and Java (2017)
tsignhua CS grads are either going to study abroad or doing investment banking jobs which pays more at entry level. Same with top tier university grads.
I was among those who believed until not that long ago that there was something genetic about the Kenyan and Ethiopian racers, but a few years ago I started reading about more and more cases of Kenyan long-distance runners having been caught doping. And then two white American female runners won Olympic gold and silver in 2016 at the 3000m steeplechase (I think it was at the Olympics), a race dominated until then by Kenyan female runners. The second American runner even beat her personal best by 30 seconds or so, anyway, a crazy number, which only proves that she was doped out of her mind. Most probably her colleague who came in first place was also doped.

Which goes to say that no
matter which genetic advantage you might have at birth there’s nothing that the socio-economic factors cannot surpass. In this particular case the socio-economic factors were very much in favor of an American runner being allowed to win an Olympic Games race while being doped, and that happened because the US is a huge market for all the athletics/related producers and almost all of the Olympic Games sponsors.
That (harder to make work) matches my anecdata :)

To be clear, I'm not saying "GP is wrong" - I was genuinely curious if maybe they had some data/studies on the subject, since all I have are personal observations, and I'm curious about the issue. I.e. How much harder are LDRs?
There’s isn’t anything controversial with admitting that race is correlated with IQ.

The controversy is from folks trying to take that correlation, reframe it as causation, and then attribute it to genetic factors.

There are tons of non-genetic factors that can affect IQ and are correlated with race: exposure to pollution, economic situation, nutrition, etc.

Then there is the test itself. I’m not sure how localization happens, but it’s a pretty hard problem that lends itself to biases.
You're right, in my head I was writing parametric polymorphism, and it just didn't make it's way to my fingers somehow.
> Basically all women are photo-shopping their pics.

What? Not a chance, unless you consider an instagram filter "photoshopping", and even then, no. Certainly not "all".
Oh, I don't claim to refute Taleb's claim because reading too much of what Taleb writes makes my head spin in a rather uncomfortable manner, and it would be unfair of me to try refuting Taleb's claims without first coolly considering them. Maybe my IQ is low after all, or maybe I just have a low tolerance for self promotion... either way, my intention is only to speak about my personal experience, which is that the IQ test I happened to take did not seem culturally biased, except perhaps to some woodsman who's never seen a straight line before (but even then I'm skeptical.)
NASA's TESS mission finds 'missing link' planets
Exactly. For example recently Taleb made a lot of fun of these linear fits, which are pretty ridiculous even for a non-statistician like me:

https://twitter.com/aedmans/status/1147494932183179264
The 10 minute limit is for having mid-roll ads - short videos are still monetized, but they only have an ad at the start of the video. Creators only go over 10 minutes so they can have multiple ads on their video instead of just one.
I have irssi reporting 25232 mem used
A move to a more oligopoly-like market is a step forward though, no?
Lie detector tests rely on psychological intimidation. The testee invariably gives up compromising information over the course of the test, allowing the tester to apply leverage or outright coercion. If no useful information is divulged, the test is marked a fail and requires a repeat.
This would be a good place to point out that most plastic and paper recycling is worse in practice, in terms of emissions and chemical pollution. The only solution is to use far less plastic. Durable products should be preferred. Items that are disposable are much better off being wood, and deposited in a good clay-lined landfill afterwards.

However, this requires tough choices, so it's easier to have a blue bin and decide you've figured it out.
I think that's a rewriting of the role of the FAA. A papertrail is a strong prerequisite to being able to adequately review the safety of an aircraft. Without strict conformance to both complete written instructions on how to build, assemble, and configure an aircraft, how would one ever know a plane, no matter how many tests you do is the same design that is later flown vs what was certified?

BTW when the plan was floated to let Boeing self certify more in the process, in the name of 'efficiency' there were objections made to the political appointees driving that.
Author of linked site speaking. Are you sure you are reading the same page? I had half a dozen articles re Bitcoin, the last in 2014...
I assume the voting history is only if they voted or not, which is sensitive for sure, but not that vital since with paper ballots you can put in an invalid vote or a vote for another candidate if coerced and there would be no way to check what you voted. With an app it would be possible to force people to prove what they voted for.
And yet directly practicing for an IQ test can improve test scores significantly. And simultaneously, some large-scale IQ measurement papers seem to use "proxies" -- things like standardized tests that are the sort of thing that educational curricula tend to include practice for. So I'm not sure how completely I can accept this claim.
They are boring, and I'm not even sure what the argument is. On the edges, I think there's a general agreement that low IQ is correlated with mental disability, and on the upper end high IQ is correlated with a certain type of cognition that makes you a good professional Mathematician or Physicist. I'm not sure what the big middle really says about anything.

If I were to guess why this IQ debate keeps coming up is that it is a bit taboo now (which makes it very tantalizing in and of itself). There is also some gaslighting going on with certain segments claiming IQ is completely junk and has no genetic basis (even partially). This triggers the contrarians, who then themselves may overstate the science, prompting responses that may understate the science ... and so on.
Out of curiosity, will search engines not punish you for regurgitating content farm stuff?
It's a library we use in the "Trinity" client for the ethereum network. The lahja library itself is however just an event bus and has no cryptocurrency ties other than being used in the Trinity codebase.

https://trinity.ethereum.org/
The strange afterlife of Cambridge Analytica and the mysterious fate of its data
Todd Howard is just happy it’s not his fault this time
Not intimately, but this is good work: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/wh...

Big props to the author too, who leans pretty libertarian-ish, for following the data where it leads, rather than trying to make it fit his ideas.
NASA seeks to break the “tyranny of launch” with in-space manufacturing
Reminder: all current, performant CISC CPUs just internally (in microcode) compile instructions down to smaller uOPs, which are then executed by a RISC-like core. CISC chips are just RISC chips with fancier interfaces.
> nearly 100% genetic -- see Kenyans and running

Kenyans/Ethiopians have held the world record in the marathon since 2003. An Ethiopian also held it for a few months in 1998, and most of a year in 1964. Were Kenyans not genetically dominant until 20 years ago? Or are there other factors that caused the rise of a large number of elite runners from a particular area of the world?

Running is one area where it is mindbogglingly obvious that there are significant genetic factors involved, yet there are clear and significant changes in running ability by country of origin for reasons that have nothing to do with genetics.

40 IQ points less on average is no joke, but also doesn't point the finger at genetics any more than it does at culture or primary education.
It kinda sounds to me like Forth wants to be used in the context of embedded programming, then.
An IQ test is a tool. Just like any other tool the way you use it matters.

IQ tests turned out to be pretty useful when investigating the effects of Lead in paint/gas/industry/other. See Herbert Needleman's research from the early 80's.

The test itself isn't really good or bad (bearing in mind most modern iq tests are heavily scrutinized for bias in race/class/income/location/etc) it's just a tool.
A frequent use case seems to be internal chat for medium size companies. I’d wager that for a majority of the user base it doesn’t need to work ”at scale”. Hopefully, outages like this will serve as a reminder.
The article doesn’t present an alternative that they should have used if they had spent more time. Are you referring to something specific?
Even the quote you cited doesn’t “vilify” anybody. It points out exactly what I described above: Wells Fargo execs created a situation with perverse incentives, no oversight, and reckless disregard for both, which led to low-level bankers predictably misusing the system. It’s not in dispute that the low-level bankers were the ones creating the fake accounts, and as the article notes, this wasn’t even desirable for the execs: they wanted the accounts because accounts lead to income, but faked accounts do not lead to income.

Your comment again points to some perceived inability on my part to “hold executives accountable”, citing some flaw with my principles. I’d invite you to review the site guidelines and my comments: at no point have I suggested that the executives aren’t culpable in both the Boeing and Wells Fargo examples. You seem to be inferring that empathy is incompatible with judgement, and that misconception is basically the heart of what I’m trying to call attention to in this exchange.
YouTube are actually adding some tech to help with this. In future when making a claim you have to add the timestamps in the video where the copyright occurs. Then the creator will get that info as well as a few simple quick-fix options to cut out that portion of the video or replace it.

It's long overdue but they do seem to be making some strides to help creators at last.
Especially an open source game which could be had on the same device without mandatory login.
I just highlighted one aspect of the Belgian tax system relevant to the discussion. Observing a tax avoidance loophole does not in any way correlate to bragging about it.

Just to make things absolutely clear, I'll even happily make it explicit: I oppose it.
He's mad about the order and the usage of important