skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, here's a reasonably rational response to a hotbutton claim like that: I think most numerate folks would look at that data and view a "race/IQ correlation" as at least a reasonable hypothesis.

But come on, it's weak. The relationship that chart shows clear as day is wealth. Wealth is super correlated. The top of the chart are exlusively industrialized democracies. The bottom are exclusively impoverished (and mostly unstable) backwaters.

And within those cohorts, sure, you can kinda/sorta say that east asians sit above europeans, maybe. Or maybe not. Four points of IQ are nothing -- it's like three decades of development per the Flynn effect, or maybe one decade of really focused investment in education.

There are counteless other good hypotheses for a weak signal, and this isn't an area amenable to direct experiment, so realistically we're never really going to know.

And the same stuff is true of the linked article. It's poking holes in specific statements by finding rigorous numbers that "disprove" it, but only very weakly. Basically, the point to the article isn't that "IQ is solid science", it's that Taleb's paper was too aggressive in its conclusion. Which is sort of a yawner, and not really a good excuse to bring race into the discussion.

But yeah. It's possible that darkies are dumber or that the gooks are smarter. It's possible. What drives those of us on the left absolutely bonkers isn't the possibility that you might be right, it's the fact that you look at messy data like this and immediately go to the least tolerable conclusion as if that's what you want to be true. And... yeah, yuck.

(Edit: and right on cue three quick responses about "but that doesn't prove race isn't correlated, here's another hypothesis for why race might be correlated!", which sounds to me suspiciously like "I really want race to be correlated with IQ!" The truth is we just don't know, we might never, even if it is it's weak, and I for one would rather live in a world where people don't want this to be true than the one I'm stuck in. )
Why isn’t Sierra Leone colored correctly on that map?
Can you go after your old counsel using your new counsel for damages?
At some level, were you amazed though? I feel like people in places like /r/learnprogramming should be linked stories like this whenever they post "should I learn python or java".
Thanks for the link. I searched the internet, but I couldn't figure out which ones are the good ones.
>But a race is a particular genetic line

No, it is not. "Races" are identified by a range of superficial characteristics relating to appearance and by language and cultural background. The connection to genetics is very loose. The idea that black people in Africa all belong to a single "race" would seem quite absurd to most Africans, for example.
“Lah ja” in Hindi means “take away”
I imagine only the bay area is able to compost it by industrial composting?
That makes some sense. I'm not sure where I stand on it.

On the one hand, it seems a bit unjust that smaller creators should be snuffed out for things that wash off the back of established players. A two tiered justice system isn't just.

On the other hand, it's a reasonable (and more cost effective) way to do more than nothing.

A bit gross, but it would probably work in YT's favor to suppress cries of injustice early. Would this even be a scandal if it only hit small creators?
Both Singapore and Hong Kong are basically cities. That's like talking about the IQ of London/New York. They also have extensive air-conditioning.
Doesn't matter from a CO2 point of view. Sheep are better than cattle in this regard, but you still have to transport sheep, feed them crops in the winter, and so on. The net CO2 cost is still high. You're better off from an efficiency point of view in using that energy to grow more vegetables. We could probably grow forests for the carbon capture on most Welsh hillsides where sheep are grazed.
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> YouTube faces no competition for creators.

Twitch could have been a competitor, but they surprisingly don't seem to care about that market ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
It's not just a problem, it's an incredibly tragic reality that we're not socially equipped to dispassionately discuss how we should respond to it
That's an amazing story. Did PWC's people go to jail as well?
One of his repeated criticisms of analysis like this is using regression to fit datasets that don't necessarily follow a straight trend line.

His larger point with respect to IQ is that it only predicts substandard IQs. Measures like the variance are largely influenced by the effects of IQs below the average, not above the average.

A second point which I don't see addressed is that IQ measures share features with testing. If how you test in school affects future income, and testing well in school predicts testing well on IQ, then more robust analysis is needed. A sample space of people in a wide band of IQ ranges who all got about the same grades in school would be a true test of the predictive value of IQ on income.
A carbon tax doesn't imply spending money, only moving it and changing the incentives. Money is only spent once it pays for some limited resource, whether that's human time or a truckload of ore.
We have multijunction cells with 47.1% efficiency (as of June 20th).

Other than the price, what's the significance of single-junction 50% efficiency?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CellPVeff(rev190702).pdf
Quant finance is nakedly a battle of wit. The one with the smartest technical staff wins. So of course you go out and collect all the smartest people you can find, no matter what it costs.

Typical businesses are based on customer and partner relationships, acquisitions, deals, strategy, licensing, lawsuits, marketing, and business processes that can be executed reliably by interchangeable cogs. Any snowflake intellectual superstars they're interested in are for executive roles.
I think the point cryptica is making is that there is only one, central blockchain (logical centralization). This has a few centralizing effects on political centralization which is what most users probably care about:

1. Governments need only to track one blockchain to track every BTC transaction. Attempts to deal with this mainly entail coin tumbling, which involves giving your coins to a centralized trusted entity. Larger tumblers are more effective, creating an incentive for further centralization.

2. The central blockchain is a performance bottleneck to event throughput. Attempts to deal with this mostly have to do with federation, i.e. forcing people to transact through another entity (usually a company you pay fees to) if they want faster transactions. Federation is much closer to centralized on the centralized/decentralized spectrum. Usually companies respect regulation from centralized government (meaning a government could force them to not process your transactions) increasing centralization further. And historically, federation happens unevenly, i.e. a large number of email users federating under GMail, which creates further centralization.

3. Mining competition has a very high entry cost because the minimum investment for entry is very high. The solution to this is pools under a centralized pool manager who typically collects fees and may or may not collect data on pool members.
Yeah, a bust clock is right twice a day. Maybe that's one of those times.
I wonder when the next article like this will reappear... I mean it seems to be the case in AI that periods of hype and periods of winter regularly change and it seems we’re reaching the pinnacle of hype of our latest form of AI
If this is the case? Why didn't they do it already?

It sounds like those books: you can make million in a year! Hear is my secret!

Yeah, uuhhhh why aren't you doing it?
> Go has polymorphism

polymorphism is often distinguished into ad-hoc polymorphism (interfaces) and parametric polymorphism (generics) – i'm guessing GP was referring to the latter?
One of my favourite papers discusses this (and more):

> Top 10 Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics

> 1. All psychological traits show significant and substantial genetic influence

> 2. No traits are 100% heritable

> 3. Heritability is caused by many genes of small effect

> 4. Phenotypic correlations between psychological traits show significant and substantial genetic mediation

> 5. The heritability of intelligence increases throughout development (from 41% (age 9) to 55% (age 12) and to 66% (age 17); "unlike the other findings, this one is limited to a specific domain")

> 6. Age-to-age stability is mainly due to genetics

> 7. Most measures of the ‘environment’ show significant genetic influence

> 8. Most associations between environmental measures and psychological traits are significantly mediated genetically

> 9. Most environmental effects are not shared by children growing up in the same family

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/
The zoning in my neighborhood is actually fantasy. The zoning for residential has FAR limits that one would expect in the outer suburbs, whereas the actual housing is quite a bit more dense. Only a small percentage of buildings conforms to the zoning limits. Which means even the most trivial change requires a variance.
In the Netherlands, political advertising is much more strictly regulated than in the US. And there are other EU countries with even stricter rules.
It looks like there is general distrust on the online tests (searching Reddit posts). Can you recommend a few if you know any?
The 2000 SAT is supposedly an IQ test, and I boosted my score by 100 points by doing 10 practice exams. So, IQ probably tests some objective human faculty, but insofar as the 2000 SAT is an IQ test, it is clearly the case the IQ tests can be studied for (hence all the expensive SAT prep tutors).
Use the registration system we have now, where you give each voter a token (literally, even if you want - a qr code on a paper card) to vote?

I don't know why arguing that blockchain doesn't magically solve all your problems means that it can't be used to solve any of them.
> …the UK has reduced CO2 consumption by 38% since 1990.

The UK is a country, not a civilization. They don’t have to solve the same coordination problem that the entire world has.
How to make electrical muscle stimulation feel natural to virtual reality users
Election back-end security is important. However, that has little to do directly with the discussion at hand about voting security.
No, but these [1][2][3] sure do:

[1]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916156099...

[2]: https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/

[3]: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716.full...

You should have very little confidence in the predictive power of most psychology findings since the founding of the field.
Nope. "Race" in humans is a cultural construct, of interest primarily to people who want to feel superior to other humans ... and the people who study those people.
This definitely isn't a slap at Lambda School. From what I've heard they are fine, and their response on this thread shows they care and are working on things. At this point I'm far less familiar with the market than I was several years ago. I remember dozens of places popping up nearly overnight and hearing horror stories from students - Lambda wasn't one of those.
IQ definitely does not measure anything learned. Malnutrition and genetics appear to be the dominating factors.
> 40 IQ points less on average is no joke.

Which is why it's almost certainly junk science. 40 points on a scale normalized around 100 is an absurdly large disparity to try and hang on genetics. Are there any heritable traits that show that kind of variation between human populations?

Height is a pretty obvious one that ranges dramatically worldwide, but the gap is more like 13%, not 40%! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w...
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Private schools that don't operate in the student's best interests pretty quickly can be a larger economic problem for everyone. These schools can be expensive and having a bunch of folks who want to do the work to move up getting ripped off is not in society's best interest.
Or, it serves as an appropriate barrier to prevent people from scamming prospective students out of huge sums of money.
Fair enough. I too find culture change jarring. Also, I understand your original intention now. Hopefully you understand now why you didn't get any traction.

If you haven't done it already done it, I bet a reworded (and shorter) version of your question will get a better response.

Just leave out anything personal, anything that could seem like you're patting yourself on the back. Right?
Learned something today. I thought lambdas operate without state.
How do you save the planet throwing money at coal?
That's disappointing.

I don't think it's wholly unreasonable to expect specific quantitative claims — let alone ridiculing other people's opinions as "hilarious" — to be backed by at least some quantitative reasoning or knowledge. Instead, you posted contradicting other people's arguments, even though you had literally no reason at all to believe that what you said was true.

You say you were merely uncritically repeating claims published in the vulgar media, presumably by politicians and salesmen. Do you want to lower Hacker News to the intellectual level of politicians and salesmen?

You can do better. I've seen you do better in other comment threads in the past.
> American libertarians are fine living with a $10k limit, Aussie ones will be too.

Are they? I'm not even a libertarian and I'm not pleased with the $10k limit.
Christ and Digital Media
> but I don't know how much this had been limited by motivation vs technology before then.

The answer I've always found has been it's a bit of both. Motivation drives technological development but motivation is also very heavily driven by the available technology. You have to conceive that a thing is possible before you can think about what tech can be developed to do it for example.
The last game they made for Doom was 2016 right?

So they’re doing this 3 years later??

I’m amazed people haven’t moved on to other games
Can we please agree that recognizing the rigorous science on the heritability of IQ does not imply racism?
What information am I supposed to be taking in from this, other than that he loves guns and hates TV news? What bearing does this have on TFA?
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I expect it will have a very low false positive rate.
Generic arguments about bad methodology don't invalidate specific arguments about IQ. If he used bad statistical arguments himself in this case, we are in impasse.

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.
The law has a few concrete, definitive truths but a huge volume of interpreted and subjective (and contradictory) statutes as well. Otherwise we wouldn't need lawyers in the first place
We use this at work alongside Gitlab.

Works perfectly.

'Bot' scripts can also be added to do things like tell a channel when a repo has been pushed etc. Very handy.
It'd likely also require proof of liability insurance.
> What if you wanted to buy a $25,000 car in cash from a dealership?

A Dealership in America is never going to say No to an actual buyer, but they'll encourage you to finance (that's where they make their profit) or bring a check (large amounts of physical currency and filing Suspicious Transaction Reports are annoying).

Only private sellers want actual cash because our financial system exposes the recipients of any other form of payment to too much fraud risk.
They should be putting humans towards problems that large creators have but not specifically towards the large creators. That way they can help everyone. Those people would naturally be dealing with the large creators more often just because they are heavier users.
I can't recommend any, but that it's why I mentioned doing a bunch of them and not just one.
> Copyright claims is a perfect example.

Yep.

One of my favorite subscribers to watch is some guy (Harald Baldr[0]) who travels around remote areas of the world and vlogs it.

But he's said a number of times how even 10 seconds of background music can cause his video to get demonetized and then all ad revenue for the video goes to the record label who owns the copyright and there's absolutely nothing he can do to combat it.

This happens even if his video is 30 minutes long and has nothing to do with the music at all -- it just so happens he's walking past a store or hotel lobby that has music on.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKr68ZJ4vv6VloNdnS2hjhA/vid...
This seems like a reasonable agreement. Pay a fine (they can afford it I think), get in compliance, everyone moves on.
Good point, but someone could say that IQ is correlated to Wealth (and not the other way around)?
Wonder if the creators will get organized enough to create a co-op company to run a video sharing site where they get all the pie.
Studies with twins could offer some form of either repudiation or confirmation.
That’s what the “hypothetically” was for- it was meant as an illustration that there could easily be a third effect loosely correlated with both. For this to dispute Taleb’s claim, you have to think that income is also correlated with intelligence and not more strongly correlated with other things that IQ could be measuring.

That example probably popped into my head first, because of the long controversy around IQ tests cultural effects and the history of using those tests to make arguments that race determines intelligence
I am so sick of this “you must be online for this single player game” nonsense.

The number of times I’ve lost a connection while running Hitman and so lost half the game is absurd.
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Well, the key word here is "try". There is evidence suggesting that controlling for confounding factors is very difficult and many studies don't succeed. From the outside, I'm not sure how much confidence we can have that they succeeded?

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/24/you-need-more-confound...
Isn't "building structures of popular power" the definition of politics?
Your AI will be out-competed by an algorithm something like this:

If (hasboobs) {return true}

else if (no_shirt and no_fish and no_beer) {return true}

Basically all women are photo-shopping their pics. Any man posting a shirtless pic that isn't an unflattering pic from a fishing trip is photo-shopping their pics. This holds for very loose definitions of "all". It's an arms race. Eventually I think it will be expected that people photoshop their pics.
They have so many goofy things going on over there. One example is certain bands will never make 'trending'
All the guys at my gym like to try an app that gives them better abs and lats. So both men and women like to do this.
>Few companies are willing to accept that ceiling for fear of losing market share.

The question I find interesting is: is this assumption correct? Is service scale the dominant factor in market share, or could you win a significant piece of the pie with a "Smaller YouTube by Humans"?

In theory, a more human touch could attract content creators, who in turn could bring their audience. Whether that would translate to significant market share, though, dunno.
> Businesses don't do this.

My old bar owner had no option but to pay the liquor distributor in cash (for various reasons) with both parties having no intention to engage in tax evasion.

Well, maybe the bar owner was but I believe liquor receivables were how the tax man determined if he was under reporting income so his books had to align with the distributor.
Sounds like a city planning problem rather than an engineering problem. Engineers design solutions to specifications, budgets and constraints. The latter two often dominate the shape and form of the final solution. That the poor areas flood first doesn’t sound like an accident. I am reasonably confident that the original designers presented all of the caveats in their solution, and the elites were happy with the trade-offs and signed off accordingly.
> YouTube, like Netflix, doesn't have a special sauce

But they do have the eyes. If you want your videos to be seen, there's no Youtube alternative. Twitch would be, but they seem to be banning people for political reasons too.

Network effect is real and very strong. It will be very hard to create real YT alternatives.

We have Bitchute and PeerTube, but they severely lack content and the viewers.
Toyota is also probably stuck in a weird version of the sunk costs fallacy at this point, having spent R&D money continuously on hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles since the 1990s. Luckily for them, a good hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is just a good EV with a really weird "refillable battery", so their sunk costs aren't likely to sink the company because the rest of the "drive train" is the roughly the same for HFC and battery EV.
Congrats to the marketing team at FarmWise for landing this Forbes piece. There was nothing really interesting or useful in this article at all.
Just run the process in reverse between the before and after plastic surgery to derive the detection net.
I don’t know. If we could it wouldn’t be a good use of time or money.
I found that odd too. I like TikTok, but it’s really nothing like YouTube. TikTok is basically a better Vine.
Yes. I assume they're referencing the chemical spill several years ago, and the water has tested clean consistently since.

I've never heard of other issues with the water quality in Charleston (assuming it's city water and not straight from the Kanawha), and I consider it some of the better-tasting municipal water in the Mid-Atlantic region.
I took this quote to mean the following:
Engineers are well equipped and positioned to understand the set of solutions that are available to them and the material negative impacts of those solutions (e.g if we build a dam at spot x, the region y might have an increase in floods). But engineers should not be given the ability to make decisions about which of set of negative impacts a society should bear, and that should instead be a decision made collectively.

So the interface between the engineers and the people is not to find solutions together, or to find flaws together, but for engineers to find solutions and flaws, and the people to pick the one that they are happiest with.

(I'm not certain my understanding of the quote is right, just sharing my interpretation / an alternative to the ones you shared)
I don't know as I've no specific information on what they actually did.

However, it sounds a bit like backdating stock options type thing, and a fair amount of people went to jail over that across various industries.
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