skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frustrating issue is that they don't state in what situation. I'm certain that most people will just do fine with only 100 kanji characters for daily life, or no kanji at all if they're just a tourist. But if you're applying for a full-time Japanese speaking job in a Japanese company, knowing only 777 characters is a joke (which is about the 5th-grader level). Just like a programming language, the level of fluency required depends on a task.

p.s. just confirmed that the list is not enough for filing a tax in Japan. They don't have words like 所得 (income), 控除 (deduction) or 医療費 (medical expense).
The VR computing revolution presents the opportunity for us to get back to the "bicycle of the mind" frame of mind: where computing gives us tools to augment human intellect. For example, there are a set of office applications out there that (i) can make an office worker 10x more productive at his/her job than otherwise and (ii) are only possible to build in VR/AR. The goal for us/people in this ecosystem should be to find them and build them.

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
‘It's techno-racism’: Detroit is using facial recognition to make arrests
I've never been able to find a recipe online that had an accurate time estimate. Maybe if there was a way for users to give feedback in this particular area, and then display it to you when you browse, that might be really cool. Who knows though, maybe I'm just slow at slicing and dicing :)
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Because sucessfull isn't just a billion $

Higher IQs live longer and generally are happier.

To be even more successful anyone can work on conscientiousness.
> Or they realised that praise is meaningless and 'making an impact' is overrated.

indeed, by success people usually mean make lots of money, is this the definition of success to a High IQ person? maybe, but perhaps it means why can't I solve Fermats last theorem or something they think is important.

Or put it this way - smart people will only solve the problems smart people see as problems.
And that’s also why SFTP is slower than FTP: because it’s a separate protocol implementing its own windowing which interferes with TCP’s, thus performance goes down the toilet when using SFTP over a high latency connection.
It points very strongly toward intoxication. There is just enough false positives that they are required by the state to also take a blood test.

It's a confirmation, and when you're about to sentence someone on the spot with what is often a life changing, multi year disqualification from driving, the courts require the police to be absolutely sure.
There is a point that is missed here, even if some points seem familiar. Maybe I'm an outlier, but: I turn out to have top half-percentile IQ (as I'm sure many on HN do), which is not the disconnected genius level that the author describes, but still about two standard deviations above the average. I'm only moderately successful career-wise -- a "follower" in the author's words. Excellent grades from education. In professional life, not destitute and getting a decent amount of professional respect, but nothing outside of what you'll expect to find in a decent-sized company. Salary is likewise. No ambitions of being a boss. I can take technical leadership roles temporarily, if it feels like a good fit, and that's great fun. I'll get bored after a while, and it takes a lot of energy & focus to do well.

The biggest reason I can identify for this moderate and not spectacular level of success, is that I just don't care so much about being super successful in my career. I also crucially lack the energy and drive that some of super-successul people the author describes obviously has. Even if I was born in a millionaire family with excellent connections to power and prestige, I doubt I would have been an entrepeneur or a successful academic.

The vast majority of things you'll do in those professions just seem so boring and tedious. Elon Musk's 100 hour workweeks, all year every year, seems like hell. Ditto for most successful entrepeneurs I'm aware of. Even if they lead fascinating, cutting-edge technology development. I'd much rather spend most of my time learning new things, satisfying my curiosity, playing computer games or learning new skills. As well as spending time with the people I love, which means I deliberately choose to not work 50 hours per week in a high-demand software-related job far from home. I'm certain in a different life I could move to California and do much better, but there's so much in my life today I don't want to sacrifice to do that.

I've just never found a subject that interests me enough (money-earning or otherwise) to dedicate my full effort to it. There's certainly something to the author's points of being surrounded by like-minded people, but there's three or four of them near my hometown that I've met through university. We have fun and get along well, but we won't change the world. Maybe that's a waste. My goal in life is to be happy, not earn power and prestige. Sometimes I wish I had the drive and interest to do cutting-edge research and development in a new field, but when I visualize that, it seems like a lifestyle that will require cutting out so much of what I currently love.

It's probably not possible in the human condition to be truly happy, but I'm certain I'd be more unhappy if I spent all my time doing ambitious things that I don't have an innate drive for.

Maybe I could work super hard five years and then retire, but I'll most likely be able to retire early anyway. Anything can happen in those five years. It's not worth the risk.
It's kinda hidden in the webpack config using a loader (written by the same guy!) that does the heavy lifting

https://github.com/dfrankland/image-xterm-loader
I've seen people with high IQs be arrogant because they believe they are better. I've seen people with high IQs be extremely humble.

Guess who was better at getting along with others? Getting along with others has little to do with intelligence and a lot to do with attitude, which requires controlling yourself. Treating people with gentleness and kindness requires humility.

If someone really is highly intelligent, they should use that intelligence to first control themselves instead of blaming others for holding them back.
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It seems that you consider the sharpe ratio to be not worthwhile. Would you be able to elaborate on that point? As someone who is getting into algotrading, I’m currently using the sharpe ratio to quantify risk, but would like to hear another take on it.
JMAP doesn't solve it at all.
I get why certain keywords (e.g. "crisis actors") are ranked down, YouTube has rightfully been under fire for actively promoting this crap.

What I don't get is why the author whines about rating content by source. Anyone basing a statement on Alex Jones, Breitbart or RT should be removed from any promotion (i.e. search, "next video") features, there can only be crap as a result of relying on these "sources". As long as Youtube doesn't remove the videos outright there is no censorship and frankly I wouldn't have any problems with removing them either.

Social media platforms need to wake up and realize they have a responsibility to society - just like "classic" media - and that is to further democratic discourse instead of helping to destroy it. Allowing lies and propaganda fabrications to spread is nothing less than destruction of democracy.
Not clear about how you distinguish between "users" and "active users"? If by "users" you mean people who have signed-up, i.e. provided an email address, then how do you know they are real persons and not some sort of robot, or hackers trying to exploit your site?

As @yesenadam suggests, perhaps you could promote your site on Show HN and then you might get some relevant feedback.
Sports as in watching and talking about sports, or practicing sports?
It's interesting to see all the progressives in this thread get bent out of shape over a government program that provides cheap food to the masses.
Not to undermine how serious the situation is and that these people are risking a lot by fighting for independence, but I wish we had fewer of these 'oh my god, people are getting death threats' headlines. Anyone and everyone get hate and threats for unpopular opinions online, it's not news.
How is it "democratic discourse" to ignore statements of certain people? Last time I read a dictionary, democracy did not make a difference between citizens.
>What does this have to do with anything? The problem with too much US debt is that we have to make interest payments on that debt, which now makes up ~10% of the annual budget

Where are those debt repayments going? The majority go to US citizens. That's the point. Government debt are assets (read: wealth) to the owners of the bond.

It's astonishing to me how many times people fail to look at both sides of an economic transaction. It's like Ray Dalio talking about China weaponizing their treasury holdings yesterday. Yeah, China is going to "hurt" the US by selling bonds it bought for $1000 to someone else for $700. Who does that hurt again? Not the US; the debt repayment remains the same, no matter the holder.

>It's also going to get a lot worse if investors start to worry the US might default on its debts and demand higher yields on return.

You're missing a part of the logic here: interest rates are low because there is high demand for these instruments. It's easy to talk about some hypothetical scenario where people "demand" higher returns[1], but in reality, people the world over are lining up for US debt and many other investments that pay far less than treasuries (speculative equity, for example). Creditors don't get to choose their returns; they are at the mercy of those putting the capital to work.

[1] I'm sure you, as do I, want higher returns right now. How do you intend to demand this?
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While certainly influenced by it, we don't live in the past, we live in the present. There was a time when one could say that the British weren't one of the worst offenders when it came to expansion. But then they were. China's expansionism might be new but that doesn't make it less of an issue.
This isn't about boasting, nor it's about "wanted to be recognized as smart". You can be as humble as you honestly can, up to the point of avoiding showing achievements to other people for fear of their reactions (and believe me, I know this very well. You learn to behave like that quite fast), and yet the communication problems will persist. It's difficult not to become a misfit, to feel like you are fundamentally different to the people around you. The article mentions that your arguments won't convince "average" people, and neither do theirs convince us; this is also something I also feel deeply.

I guess I can't complain much; at least I got a good job. For a very modest definition of success I could even consider myself "successful".
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> Most non-native students of Japanese will almost always encounter that word in hiragana, katakana, or even Romaji--encountering that as a kanji is actually remarkably rare.

Interestingly, it's very common for students of Chinese. The word 可爱 (kě'ài, "cute") is dirt-common, but it isn't native to Chinese -- it originates as a loan from Japanese.

This isn't clear to the Chinese themselves, who use 卡哇伊 (kǎwāyī) if they want to refer to the Japanese word.

There's another modern word for cute, 萌 méng, which is also a loan from Japanese, though I think popular awareness of it as a weird loanword is higher, since its literal meaning ("sprout") is so far removed from the concept "cute".
> Last time I read a dictionary, democracy did not make a difference between citizens.

To quote Karl Popper: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

Democracy needs provable facts to work, it ceases to work when the electorate gets flooded by destructive lies.
My life was in shambles mainly because of ADHD. Once I found drugs that helped a bit I managed to start programming and it turned out I am very good at it. Even though it's still daily struggle to put even 2-3 hours of work it's enough to make mid 6 figures after taxes. I am very lucky to be that talented. I often feel I don't really deserve it as others work harder and will never find that much success.

If anyone of you is always told how intelligent you are but struggle in school and work I encourage you to get tested for various conditions. Diagnosis and meds can change your life even if it doesn't cure you.
> Raynal’s lifestyle was becoming so unbalanced that his family was beginning to worry about him. One day, he ran out of his room in a panic, telling them that all of the color had bled out of his vision. His mother bustled him off to an ophthalmologist, who told him he appeared to have disrupted the photoreceptors in his eyes by staring so long at a monitor screen. Thankfully, the condition persisted only a few hours. But then there came a day when he suddenly couldn’t understand anything that was said to him; he had apparently become so attuned to the language of computer code that he could no longer communicate with humans. That worrisome condition lasted several weeks.

This sounds hard to believe. A lot more people use computers nowadays, for equally long periods of time if not more, and neither of these symptoms seem to be a thing. So... what's going on here? Embellishments to the legend?
> That quantity doesn't change very much (in real terms) over time.

That may have been generally true for the last 6000 years, but I doubt it will be true over the next 100 years; once asteroid mining becomes remotely viable then the price of gold will plummet.
Unfortunately most of my books are in storage at the moment and I can't get the exact details for you. But I do have a book on Tesla's inventions and patents. I found that very interesting. The diagrams and descriptions are very informative. I think the book is: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Patents-Nikola-Tesla/dp/1566...
There's nothing requiring that to be true. There are whole ranges of socialist ideologies based on removing the state, and so reducing or removing hierarchies, including pulverising large employers into smaller units.

There are others (with significant overlap) based around retaining market mechanisms, but externalising labour conditions and salary, and so using market mechanisms as a resource allocation mechanism. A market is only a threat to workers if there is a significant negative impact from being made redundant - some socialists believe society should strive for a system where we encourage businesses to make people redundant by making themselves more efficient; redundancy protections are a band aid for a lacking welfare system.

It's not for nothing that Marx and Proudhon violently agreed that one of the most radical policies you can pass is providing cheap credit (though they disagreed about agreeing...) - make credit cheap and you make exploitation of labour far harder because it becomes easier and lower risk to leave to work for yourself.

Sure, state socialist ideas ideologies would have the issue you describe, which is one of many reasons why a whole lot of socialists find them more objectionable than capitalism.
Some of the smartest people I've ever known from college became professional stock market investors and traders. Not a single one of them has significantly outperformed the market.

I think of stock market investing as a white collar gig economy job. Both depend on some central entity, which makes a killing (brokerages in this case), and have extremely low barriers to entry.
Yeah when I got near the end of the post, I was quite surprised. You spent a boatload of time on this and all you do with it is make a PSA on reddit going "hey lol I looked at all these papers and they're all overfit". Someone in the comments asked about sharing the work and was brushed off with "nah, the code is a mess".

This reeks of unscientific work, exactly what s/he describes the papers to be. While the results are in line with everyone's expectations (hence it getting upvotes despite offering zero proof, people already believed it and like it being confirmed), and so I don't really doubt they did try to reproduce papers and failed, it also isn't a reliable source in the slightest. If they were serious about disproving the papers, they could just have written down the steps, even if it's just a few lines of notes with snapshots of the code for each paper.

Just a list of papers isn't going to help the authors defend themselves, the methodology (if it can be called that) is so vague that the authors would basically be starting a "he said she said" discussion.
> Just look at how EU was forced to erase more than 50% of Greece's debt.

Greece is a member of the EU.

> Or look at how US hedge funds are still fighting Argentina (in court) to recoup some of the money.

Private interests aren't the nation's interests, until they are large enough or invest enough money into PR, see United Fruit Company.

It also doesn't mean that any and all questions of international diplomacy will be handled by the military. But if push comes to shove, and the country with the far superior military isn't happy with the conditions of the default (or nationalization, or annexation, or... anything, really), they tend to come down not to international contracts, the UN, or ethics, but to military strength. Consider the situation in Ukraine for a well-documented example that certainly would have played out very differently, were Ukraine and Russia similar in military strength (that is in this case: if Ukraine still was a nuclear power).
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I don't understand why you're so comfortable having a giant corporation decide what's true. HN is so bizare sometimes.
If Google only shows provable facts in the future, Google is pretty much useless in the future.
Maybe I misunderstood the article and the memo, but it felt very much like it was saying, “I have to deal with racists at work, like that time no one supported a political issue that I care a lot about”. Maybe it was more the article’s editorializing rather than the memo itself that gave this interpretation.
Google calls mainstream conservatives, including Jewish ones, Nazis in their internal documents. [1]

Antifa attacks the elderly and journalists routinely, but face no censorship on Google.

Google employees have repeatedly testified that Google is intentionally trying to steer public perception, and that they knowingly lied about doing so to Congress. [2]

Google is not on the side of tolerance.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noHtKljPgJc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_XzcTINGOg
How is treating lies as if they were truth any form of legitimate discourse? Especially when the lies are specifically crafted to undermine democracy?

Any durably functioning society has means to shun & shed liars & those who work to destroy the society. Treating rules as absolute rarely works well.
I'm not surprised by this finding; too many smart people are working on the same problem.

When it comes to investing in public markets as an outside player, I've seen three moves which can work....

1) Identify a consumer product category going through the technology adoption S-curve, ideally something which isn't very subject to short term innovation cycles or disruption.

My wife spotted the trend of people spending more on pet drugs before we got married and invested. We've ridden it for well over 20 years...

2) Buy when the entire industry is a flaming wreck and there is blood in the boardroom; assuming there is a good reason that demand for their products to continue.

I've done this several times in natural resources (gold in the early 2000's, oil in 2016) and it worked out decently.

3) One I haven't executed yet; certain firms are basically bets that a specific event will occur, at which point the demand for their product will go bananas. Buy in the quiet period and sell once the event happens.

Requires great patience to execute well.
I see so only those with "correct opinions" should be allowed to talk

Only those on the Authoritarian left should be allowed access to the Social Media Publishers (as they are not platforms)

Libertarians and conservatives should be shut out of the conversations because of our wrong think...

Nice position you have there comrade
If platforms edit like “classic” media, then they won’t count as distributors under Sec 230.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
This is self selecting nonsense with a pile of no true Scotsman and a good dose of mawkishness, very transparently downplaying the work of successful people.

I wouldn’t want to know you, whatever IQ you have.
Nassim Taleb wrote a thorough rebuttal of IQ as a concept, if you can trudge through the math:

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-...

It's also worth noting that no one in the field of neuroscience (or genetics, for that matter) takes IQ seriously. It's solely an abstract toy for some psychologists to play with.
> Maybe they'll add an option to enable ftp or something.

I guess not. More likely there'll be plugin to add this functionality back.
Cynically, because he believes them on his side?
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Indeed, Norway protects farmers in order to ensure agriculture is kept alive, as well as keeping remote areas habitable. I think that's a good precaution. However, Norwegian farms are very inefficient compared to for example Dutch farms. And given that energy is very cheap in Norway, they could have built a lot more greenhouses.

As a foreigner living in Norway, I can say the food in the supermarkets is quite bad compared to what you get elsewhere. And while the onions, cabbage and root vegetables that are in the shelves are produced in Norway, most of the other products actually come from elsewhere, mainly from the Netherlands and from Spain. Just check the country of origin labels next time you do shopping. I know I am often wrong in my assumptions of where food is coming from.
Loved your "red pill" analogy.

Although I don't use Lisp in my daily programming, I do tinker with it when exploring new concepts. Basically I find that any abstraction can be quickly, not necessarily efficiently, implemented using Lisp. The absence of syntactic and even semantic constraints allows novel ideas to be tested which would be too awkward in more "conventional" languages.

As it has been said, many advanced systems contain an incomplete, faulty implementation of Lisp. So cutting to the chase, simply use your favourite Lisp system and hack away.
The biggest problem we have over Fake new and "lies" is too many people associate opinions and feelings with facts, and if anyone opposes those opinions or feelings then they are "Denying their reality" or "Their Truth"

Further even factual "truth" should always questioned, debated, and explored, no one gave Google the power to say what is "Truth" and then to expel any other idea that challenges said "Truth" that is dangerous for society
> I see so only those with "correct opions" should be allowed to talk

No, exactly opposite: those who repeatedly and knowingly distribute lies to manipulate people (e.g. "crisis actor" crap) should be silenced, for they are not interested in furthering democratic discourse, but rather in destroying discourse.
Wait, what did I miss? I thought the writing was bad (both contents and style) so I didn't click through to the medium article, is that where they ask you to invest in their stuff instead?
Quite the irony for people who disagree with you to vote your post down. Apparently that's the approved kind of censorship here.