skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, they were originally acting extremely forward thinking. The one thing they simply did not see coming is the mid-2000's mobile tech revolution. The cost of lithium batteries fell like a rock to where they are today (due to smartphones, etc) and that was simply unforeseeable 20 years ago. What Toyota needs now is a single skateboard platform for both BEV and FCEV and then to simply build the FC models with a dummy pack structure and keep the entire rest of the design the same.
Seniors should plan ahead and build a warehouse next to their house.
There is a lot of great info on the subject at https://antipolygraph.org/
The Flynn effect is relevant because it demonstrates an ongoing change in "intelligence" measurements on a timeframe unlikely to be attributable to genetic changes. It points to other factors significantly affecting the measurement - possibly nutrition, changes in how we educate kids, etc.
Can you give examples of what you consider to be the bloated web? From what I can tell, the most popular websites other than Youtube are still all text and images, but have enormous file sizes because of the million ad and tracking scripts working in the background.
I love your comment because I can't tell whether it's serious or an extremely well played HN parody.
I believe the point of "fast fashion" is that you buy new clothes more or less continuously to stay "trendy", rather than buying clothes and wearing them for several years until they're worn out.
Hottest UK day on record in Cambridge during recent heatwave
Ignore the rant. Look at the graphs.
Well, yes since IQ is the largest predictor we have for socio-economic achievement, and is highly heritable. Rich parents have rich kids & smart parents have smart kids & more often than not the two happen at the same time, because being smart is the best predictor of financial success.
Nobody is closing their eyes and singing "everything is fine." A large number of small packages is a good thing, and a technically strong ecosystem supports it. Having spent the last week in the internals of glibc chasing bugs in code that has no reason to be jammed into the same library that handles initial program loading, I can attest that there are good, justifiable, technical reasons to do things the NPM way, and I'm glad that there are smart, qualified, talented people implementing that.

I know it's hard for you to imagine, but perhaps the JavaScript ecosystem has some good things about it.
I think there's a better explanation at https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-..., which also discusses some possible alternative explanations.
We've talked a bit about adding TCP support and really like some of the options it opens up. However, we have to move away from the use of pickle for event serialization before we can do that, otherwise we would have some security issues with remote code execution.
I suggest https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/, slack its own self, or https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ or https://hosting.review/check-if-website-is-down/ or https://www.isitwp.com/uptime-checker/. No need to fill this site with three or four postings with non-substantial comments.
How about not trying to back your personal dislike with some army of phantom users?
Still 10 times more compared to Telegram) Not to mention transfer speed and bandwith usage.
Where is your finished data engineering book? I would like to read it.

How do you think a book gets written? Obviously you don't think that someone sits down, puts finger to keyboard, and then a book bursts into fruition. This is a work-in-progress kindly made freely available. Is it really fair to criticize the author for not having finished it yet?
I think SIMD is actually quite compatible with the RISC philosophy, since SIMD is just a straightforward extension of normal arithmetic primitives.
PewDiePie is literally the most popular vlogger on the internet by a wide margin, and Joe Rogan is the biggest podcaster on the platform, I find it hard to believe that any "suppression" they are facing is at all significant.
TikTok’s parent company wants to make its own phone
I think about this frequently during idle moments, what if I had been transported back in time? I mean, I know so much... yet so little.

Even "basic" stuff like batteries. I know the principle, but I doubt I'd manage to make a good one. I know steel is iron with some added carbon, but there's more to it than that. How about soap? I recall seeing some program as a kid about how soap is made, but without further research I couldn't even begin to make it.

There's such an amazing amount of details in engineering, chemistry, mechanics and production processes that I'm blissfully ignorant of that I depend upon in my daily life.
One intermediary goal that is interesting is to try and aim for 40 pounds of meat per year or less. I forget where I read this, I think it's average meat consumption in a non-US country.

Anyway it is a worthy goal but people shouldn't think they are doing their part of they are successful. I believe the numbers are that if all cows disappeared tomorrow, that'd take care of something like 5% of our worldwide carbon-equivalent emissions.
For push-type events there is eventkit:
https://github.com/erdewit/eventkit (I'm the author).
I assume that IQ is correlated to poverty, educational attainment, the learning styles used in schools, and the presence or lack thereof of "cram" schools.

The top 5 highest scoring countries, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and China all have a cram school culture that prepares them for the endless rounds of standardized tests they have to take to secure a position in society.

I would expect people trained from infancy to excel at standardized tests, to excel at standardized tests.

Many of the reasons I listed would explain why, in the US, the states of West Virginia (98.7) and New Hampshire (104.2), despite having very similar demographics have such different average IQs. One state is richer than the other.

It would also explain why Hawaii, which demographically is comprised of people (about 1/3rd) who share genetic lineage with people from high IQ nations, has a relatively low average IQ. Hawaii has a pretty bad public school system.

Until someone locks two children in an Edu-Pod from birth to adulthood and feeds them the same stream of information and nutrition and measures their IQ when the pod ejects them at the end of the test, we'll never know for sure, but my gut tells me that all of the people who think "genetics is destiny" are losers.
I wonder what the percentage difference is of people getting copyright strikes vs. copyright ID claims. I do hear far less about strikes themselves, i would assume (big assumption on my part so i might be wrong) if a video had a lot of views one would want to make a copyright ID claim and monetize on the popularity, that would also give the creator a chance to dispute it.

Also if you make all your living just being on youtube and no other platforms, in my opinion you are setting yourself up for failure. Youtube is a business with shareholders. They do have a responcibility for creators bringing in the money, but just like facebook, when you are a creator on youtube your ARE the product. One does not have to like someone calling them a product, but it is still the truth.
Yep, definitely. Here's details: https://zulipchat.com/help/export-your-organization

(I work on Zulip.)
Thanks! Is it easy to integrate with existing user base?
>Perhaps wealth comes from intelligence? That seems reasonable, does it not?

Trivially disprovable by looking at children adopted into wealthy families. Spoilers: they stay wealthy.
How hard is it to register and what exactlty are the requirements or rules you must follow?
Makes you wonder if Tesla’s future Full Self Driving feature will handle this scenario differently.
Does this article read like a promotion for this TikTok to anyone else? I did a google search for "YouTube competitors" and TikTok did not come up on the list. I got: DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Twitch and a few others but definitely not TikTok. In my mind, there is really no way an app can replace something like YouTube.
Then maybe they go out of business. Capitalism doesn't guarantee that a firm's business plan will work forever.
Circa £1k per person per year for 15 years. For that you take a global lead in mitigating climate change, you gain energy independence from Russia and the Middle East, a huge reduction in air and other pollution, and potentially become a world leader in renewable energy technology. Seems like an absolute bargain. Please tax me now.
It's sad because it's great fodder for racists that want to divide human society based on race.
Left-pad had nothing to do with dependencies being bad and everything to do with the fact that you could delete dependencies from NPM.

I predicted at the time that people would take away the wrong conclusion—"dependencies are bad"—from the left-pad incident. Sadly that prediction seems to have come true.
Coastal regions continue to dominate VC funding in the US
While I agree with you, I think you over emphasize the technology and under emphasize the flawed contracts.

Eg, the copyright claim system seems fundamentally designed for abuse. You can't throw humans at it and expect it to work properly, it's working as designed now. You could change it, have humans handle the decision making or w/e - but if you are going to change it you could also "simply" write a better contract. Something not so flawed and easily abusable; of which there have been many ideas, discussions, etc.
Not quite a pseudoscience but not so accurate as to warrant allowing a person's life to be upended as has been documented on many occasions [0]. Unsurprisingly, there's a history of the polygraph industry litigating against third parties that question the reliability of polygraphs [1].

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-b...

[1] https://antipolygraph.org/
Owning a Mac was a very self-selective thing back in the day, and at the time the “bicycle for the mind” ethos was a deep part of Apple’s marketing. HyperCard fit that perfectly. So, if you had the money and inclination to buy a Mac, you were also buying into a philosophy and a promise. That meant that regular people, not professional developers, were engaged and interested in making the most of their (expensive) machines. HyperCard was simple to use, and the return on investment in learning how to build with it was immediately clear.

Imagine you’re a botanist with the spare money to buy a Mac. You could spend a few hours with HyperCard and put together a beautiful plant database, full of pictures and hyperlinks. I love those kinds of stories from the HyperCard era, and it’s a vision of the power of computing that still resonates today, and is a big reason why stories on HyperCard are perennially popular.

In today’s smartphone era we have millions of pre-made apps ready to consume and use. It’s amazing in many ways, but if you think Xcode, or JavaScript and HTML are the natural successors to HyperCard than you don’t really understand what was so magical about HyperCard.
I am not fully following what you are saying. Let's see if we actually disagree. Intelligence has two parts:

1. Crystallized intelligence - essentially your knowledge / what you have memorized (including useful heuristics, experience, etc). This can grow throughout your lifetime.

2. Fluid intelligence - in reality, this is basically defined as your "working memory", which is how many pieces of distinct information you can maintain in short term memory and work with. The magic number is 7(+-2). Anyway, this influences your ability to learn, since if you keep in mind what you just read/heard, you can connect the dots.

Pieces to memorize can be grouped to make them easier to work with.

As a result, an expert in a field will have pieces grouped and organized in long term memory, and WILL appear more intelligent than an amateur in the field, when discussing that field.

In my, subjective, experience this can be enough to work in one field.

When you want to be a Renaissance man, or compete at an extremely high level, low IQ chokes you. Even a difference of 10 points between 120 and 130 chokes you.

Hopefully this wasn't a rant and you know what I mean.
The case against reality
Technically netqmail and with some other distribution (Gentoo) patches added, but I still happily use qmail.
That's great to know! I look forward to trying Zulip at some point, it seems to get a lot of love in this thread.
Because most people don't work in silos that allow them to operate with impunity. I'd assume at a company the size of google any feature is going to have minimum of 3-4 different sets of eyes on it between Engineering, QA, UX, and Product.
Yarn and Npm are package managers. They are not build automation tools. They only pull dependencies and publish them back and perform dependency resolution.

Lein and Boot are full build tools. They do package management, but they also do task automation such as Gulp and Grunt, bundling such as Webpack and Parcel, and scaffolding such as Yeoman or Brunch.

If you take only their package management subset. Then it does take only 15 min to switch from one to the other. Just like Yarn and NPM both publish too and pull from npm repositories, Lein and Boot publish too and pull from Maven repositories.

It is only once you get to task automation that Lein and Boot start to differ. Rewriting your tasks and build pipeline from one to the other will take you much longer. That's also true of switching from Gulp to Grunt for example.

I also want to add that, bundling is similar in Boot and Lein. While the tasks to do so are not, the way things are bundled is the same. Scaffolding is also interchangeable, since both support each others template formats.
While it might create a remarkably accurate visualization of the best-possible outcome, this won't tell you how it will feel afterwards, and it won't tell you about possible complications. Could be very misleading.
Some people here seem to not like the similarity to interfaces, but I think, it should be even more like interfaces. In fact, I like the interface syntax even better than the contract syntax. And the type parameter list pollutes the otherwise very clean syntax in my opinion.

So you might ask what I am suggesting. AFAIK there are two major problems preventing interfaces to be used as generics:

1. There is no way to require the methods of builtin types aka operators.

2. Compile-time type safety is very limited

The reason why interfaces have no access to operators and other language features is that the language is kinda rough around the edges. And I really don't want to hurt anybody with this statement. I love the language, but I think there are some things that aren't perfect.

For example, just imagine every array/slice would have a method (e.g. Position(int)) that would be the equivalent of the square brackets and the square brackets would be just some syntactic sugar like

arrayA[0] == arrayA.Position(0)

Same thing for operators like +

x := 1
x + 2 == x.Addition(2)

It would eliminate a lot of cases that make contracts necessary. In essence, it would mean that you could actually address built-in types in interfaces.

The second problem is related to the type parameter list. In my opinion, it would be better to simply put those types on extra lines like:

type T Generic
func Print(s []T) {
// function body
}

I mean, there should be no problem in making them available for more than one function and it would definitely clean up the function signature and look more Go-like.
Foundational Patterns for Efficient Quantum Computing
Might the solution be to give the programmer "manual" access to all levels of memory, so that we can choose which memory to use when, from what core. For the same reason that the OS should not decide which core runs what thread; you cannot progress unless you give people the power to improve things.

In extremis this also means the mono-kernel has to go, but then we're talking big a change.

Anyway I don't think the improvements are going to come from hardware or software only, we need to improve both simultaneously together, which is complex and often requires one (or atleast very few) person(s) to do the job.
This is a good example of respectful criticism. I wish others would follow your example.
It's a web framework, similar to React/Angular/Vue. It comes with router and xhr utilities (like Angular), but it's smaller and faster than React/Vue.

What makes it interesting is that it has a very pragmatic philosophy: if you have 10 mins to spare, going over the getting started guide will cover the majority of what is really needed to build a meaningful web app, which makes it ideal for devs who aren't interested in complicated webpack setups and just want to get stuff done (you can use it idiomatically from a plain HTML and a CDN, even).

People like Mithril because it's more "vanilla JS" than other frameworks.
The victim in Crimea annexation is Budapest Memorandum (1994) that protected Ukrainian territorial integrity in exchange for Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons.

The United States (and other western countries) are concerned that Crimea annexation encourages nuclear weapons proliferation.

Sanctions against Crimea discourage potential annexations and lower chances of nuclear weapons proliferation in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit...
OG Doom has online features, though.
> "vast quantities of plastic are now no better than garbage"

That's because they are garbage. Anything that can't be re-used without expending more resources than can be reclaimed is garbage.

This equation changes all the time, and it will change in the future, depending on technology and market rates. Today, Chinese labor might not want deal with the plastic. Tomorrow, some other country might. The day after tomorrow, Garbagebots can do the job.

That's why stockpiling and and landfilling is exactly the right thing to do, for the time being. Even burning for energy isn't necessarily that bad, modern incinerators can be relatively clean.
"In particular if we are talking copyright claims abuse, could you give a ballpark number of the number of humans you think youtube needs to hire ?"

That's a really rough one. Not only do I not have an algorithm for a computer to determine if something is copyrighted, I don't have an algorithm for a human to determine if something is either.

Since you're probably going to be stuck with an adversarial system based on claims and counterclaims anyhow, I'd submit the problem is probably more related to a lack of symmetry. The content creators put stuff up, then there are thousands of entities that can analyze their stuff automatically and make automated claims with no apparent consequences for being wrong. The individual creator then gets notified of a claim, but they know nothing about the claimant, whether they make routine fraudulent claims, whether they have legit ownership, etc., and have to address them relatively individually, by appealing to an opaque system that tells them very little about why the ruling is what it is, and where all the penalties appear to fall on the content creator rather than the claimant.

Something needs to be a bit more symmetrical there.

This is something where a "YouTube union" might start really being dangerous to YouTube; suppose the union puts up a page where they ask all the members to record exactly what claims are made on what content, with all the (meager as it may be) metadata YouTube gives them on the claims. I betcha some patterns would emerge. (I believe there's already some word-of-mouth about certain claimants but I bet this would make it even worse for YouTube.)
I have read his books, they're good. It's just amusing.
>But race is not a cultural construct, as evidenced by the fact that you can't culturally adapt your skin to change colors.

But people who believe in "races" don't think that it's just a matter of skin color. They think that skin color (or whatever other feature) is a marker of some deeper difference. That's where the mistake lies. Otherwise racial differences would be of no more significance than, say, differences in hair or eye color.

Racial categories are nowhere near as objective as you suggest. For example, Italians used not to be considered "white" in the US. Many Americans who self-identify as "black" would not be considered black in many parts of Africa.
Singapore and Hong Kong were cities before AC existed.
What is it that you want, which you're not getting? I also use and love daemontools. Stability is a feature.
> When asked about why a redacted audit or report from the auditors wasn’t released, Voatz co-founder and CEO Nimit Sawhney, who co-authored the white paper, gave multiple reasons. First, he pointed to a nondisclosure agreement with the auditors. Then, he stated that there was no way to share any more information about the audit without revealing proprietary information about the system. But one would expect a redacted report or even an abstract of the report for transparency’s sake, given the stakes of introducing a new system to our already rickety voting process. Depending on the secrecy of its system architecture is such a poor security mechanism that researchers have even coined a term for it: security by obscurity.
They make it hard to correct those things too. You have to re-upload the entire thing as a new video instead of being able to edit or replace existing videos to deal with copyright claims. But then their algorithms also seem to demote content creators from deleting or unpublishing videos so correcting those things actually hurts your channel in the long run.

One of my more popular videos could never be monetized because I added a song (via the old YouTube editor interface) that turned out to have a copyright claim but the interface doesn't allow me to remove or change the background music in post. So I'm given the option to delete something with 911k views and annoy my viewers with a duplicate upload or just cut my losses.
The judgement from April was not posted on HN at the time, and as a (YC S17) it's relevant to HN. It also appears, from a brief search, that there are active social media conversations elsewhere than HN that have caused attention to be paid to Lambda School this week.
They are also getting flagged for things that are obviously fair use. The idea that a travel vlogger loses their entire video's monetization because they walked by a restaurant playing music is absurd. The music isn't even a substantial part of the video.
A similar power imbalance exists between workers and employers. If the worker doesn't get paid, they face the prospect of having no money for rent, let alone suing their employer.

Happily, the Department of Labor exists and merely mentioning their name is frequently enough to scare an employer into compliance. I think a similar arrangement could probably be found to even the playing field in copyright, but finding the political willpower to get this done will probably prove difficult.
Couldn't that be dealt with in a private court?
So the name will convey the right message to anyone with flight time? And this makes it perfect?
Highly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962936
Depends where you live, too. Some places having "engineer" in your title implies licensure.
Is it? Memory exists to be used.
It’s only a problem due to obsession with the very narrow component of intelligence that IQ tests measure. If we didn’t place such an undeserved and inordinate emphasis on this single trait, it wouldn’t be an issue.

High IQ may or may not correlate with success in our civilization, but considering that our civilization is highly dysfunctional and has positioned itself on the verge of numerous forms of self-destruction, how much does that really matter? There are clearly many more components than IQ-style intelligence that contribute to a good life and a stable society. Anyone who thinks that either a person’s or an ethnic group’s performance on an IQ test says anything about that person’s or group’s value to the world is an idiot regardless of what their IQ might be.