skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's strongly correlated with outcomes in life and better than any psychological test we have.

First we should understand that IQs and life outcomes follow normal distributions and there's plenty of exceptions to the rule...but as a general trend, the relationship is indisputable. This has been studied for over a century. This suggests that IQ tests are fairly good at gaging mental faculties.

Height gives an advantage in many ways across human society. This is a physical attribute that we have little control over, yet it influences outcomes in jobs, social interactions, sports, dating, etc. Height also follows a normal distribution across populations. There is no reason to believe that mental faculties do not have similar physical mechanisms and that a normal distribution does not exist across populations.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...
I hate how removed videos don't retain a title. It's one thing for a video to be taken down, it's another to see a mystery box taunting me from my favorites playlist. What forbidden knowledge (cat video) is forever lost to time?
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9275336

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619799

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1378043
I would love some links to this case. That is a wonderful counter to the endless reams of self-driving car propaganda that shows up in my personal life on a frequent basis.
Moreover it (was?) in many professions considered part of the role.

Lecherous / womanising professor is a popular trope.

e.g. Donald Sutherland in Animal House
The ‘biggest mistake’ people make when starting a business is raising money
IQ is bullshit. Children surrounded by adults who believe that bullshit correlate highly with adults who maybe aren't doing the best job caring - and possibly nobody is at fault there. IQ is literally another example of the abject failure of psychology as an intellectual discipline. May it one day be rectified because the subject matter is fascinating and obviously deeply important.

Choosing to not let children in your care do IQ tests is correlated with sensible, caring, intelligent adulting. No really. Really.
For fairly obvious reasons, "look the other way at the government's indiscretions in exchange for raising per-capita GDP to ~10k USD" isn't an appealing bargain for anyone in the developed world.
> Because no one spoke out.

Did you?
IQ is BS. 25/hour is pretty good in most zip codes. Don’t under estimate just how large the income percentiles are, especially for singles. I’ve probably had fewer relationships than you and I’m more than likely older. Modern society erected some serious issues with interpersonal relationships and formations therein. How are we going to meet when there’s so little time and money left over after we’re done fulfilling our societal or personal needs (chores, self care, etc)?

This is also part of why I would never go anywhere near wrecking a relationship by being someone’s “other guy.” It’s too important to society to respect when two people are able to work through all the hoops society places against decent, healthy relationships to go around affecting them when they occur. Edit- Hell, I donate monthly to a charity that benefits single women and mothers to at least feel like I’m doing something for the women of the world that I’m likely to never share my life with.
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No mention of Dell spending $67bn to acquire EMC and with it VMware.
I don't see how two massive profitable companies with more members and locations and revenue are somehow worse as a brand than WeWork because of something as silly as a brand name. Perhaps WeWork is meant for those who look at such superficial details when dealing with office space but it's not the majority.

Anyways whatever brand they had has transformed from asset to liability now when 75% of the valuation evaporated in 2 weeks. An overinflated bubble investment with no serious metrics or leadership is not clearly anything of reference.
funny you say that because growth mindset seems to be one of the clearest examples of modern feel-good science.

invariably when a topic about intelligence gets posted we need someone to come around with an IQ around the 140 mark (I have no reason to doubt they are being honest fwiw) to tell us how because they personally failed, genetic intelligence is really unimportant (smarter rebuttals acknowledge that genetics plays a major role in intelligence, but that IQ is a really poor proxy of this, which is debatable).

this ultimately culminates in Almost Everyone Can Be Good At Almost Everything If They Try Hard With A Good Minset, The Growth Mindset. the science is weak. it's baffling how her book can be a "must-read".

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/08/no-clarity-around-grow...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/07/growth-mindset-4-growt...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/what-is-your-mindset

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Criticism

edit: this article only addresses MENSA members, so i think this submission is bad. most well-adjusted intelligent people want nothing to do with MENSA. so even the claims of the submission are questionable.
> Anyway, what I'm trying to say is IQ is bullshit, and discipline, social skills, and connections are priceless.

IQ is not bullshit. It's quite good at what it does: measuring intelligence.

Maybe you were referring to the idea that being smart will inevitably make you successful, which is indeed bullshit.
Depending on how long ago it was removed, if you Google the YouTube video ID, you may find the title in the search results.
> IQ in general is not a protected category

On the other hand, IQ was one of the direct methods of discrimination used in the flagship case establishing the doctrine of adverse impact discrimination (leading to a popular myth that IQ discrimination is itself entirely illegal), and the cases where IQ discrimination (high or low) in employment has been found to not be illegal have invariably involved the employer presenting the kind of business necessity evidence needed to overcome the presumption of adverse impact discrimination that occurs when discrimination has a negative differential impact on a protected class without direct targeting, so discrimination based on IQ (or, for the same reason, factors indirectly associated with IQ that don't happen to completely negate the negative differential impact without transferring it to a different protected class) isn't generally legally safe even though it isn't directly prohibited.
So basically, it means that using Tencent's database Chinese Government can block access to unwanted sites in user's browser?
I feel like this entire 0.0005% vs 0.0007% chance discussion is somewhat off-track, because it doesn’t matter. More can be less.

Personally, and I tend to believe it’s not very different than average, I don’t want less chance to be hit. I want more control and awareness, which can reduce risk fundamentally. I know that accidents happen, but I also know that chances grow by orders of magnitude if I fail to detect dangers and/or make predictions. Malfunctioning traffic lights can do much more harm than your average drunk driver. Not seeing someones intent (or steering/braking problem) does that too. If autopilots provide me a way to reduce risks by clear means on my side, I would not mind [with a great share of egoism, but that’s how it works] if on average it could harm crazy leapers even more than human drivers do. Because the road is a source of danger (due to natural physical/perception failures) and by skipping safety checks they enter a potential chaos which is un-manageable by definition. Heck, I’d better coexist with a tech that never gets tired to send me clear “fuck off” messages, than with human drivers who e.g. think they are smart enough to not brake, because “our current inertial frames render a collision unlikely anyway”, or whatever bs they believe when doing this. But it’s a false negative for me, idk for sure if they see me at all or estimate their reaction time correctly.
> Developing an alternative Kernel is the main problem

I wonder if that's a bigger problem than a web browser that can compete with Chrome and Firefox.
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Wwith access to all your files they'll also have your (software, GPG, etc) signing keys.

So, it's not just a matter of being able to read from any system in your network. They'll be able to impersonate people (including with valid signatures), sign new software releases, and more.

Sounds especially useful when disappearing people first, so there's no "Hey, I didn't send that!".
You can get good bread in the USA, it’s just that it’s $6 a loaf instead of the $0.87 bread loaf of white bread from Aldi or Walmart. Most people just don’t see the point in spending more money on food than is absolutely necessary (likely to our detriment).

My mother-in-law criticized me and my wife for buying fresh salmon as being “too expensive” despite her being a millionaire, and it being quite affordable for us. She thinks tuna in a can is “good enough”.
For me the problem with Redux is not that it’s complicated, it’s that it’s wildly verbose and adds a huge layer of misdirection to an app.

Some apps are complex enough that they need this. In my experience, a lot of Redux apps really aren’t all that complicated, and people have used Redux because it’s The Thing To Do.
Even to a lesser degree of dysfunction, gifted kids often find that they can do reasonably well at a wide array of activities. If you're instantly competent at 10% of everything you try, you quickly have more than enough things to keep you busy, engaged, and interesting at parties. Why would you suffer through anything else?

Which is one of the reasons I studied the board game Go for almost 4 years after I lost all hope of ever being good at it. At the time it was one of the few things I did despite being just good enough to teach complete beginners, but never any better.

The guy I was learning from was a really good teacher and was charitably amused by my lack of progress. I knew I was never going to find a gentler way to fail and be okay with it.
> Its not related to Blaze apart from naming.

And functionality (and architecture?); I started my career at Google, and am now at a mid-size place that uses Bazel and it's almost identical from an interface perspective
x86 does do out-of-order execution however, so while it's true that you'll never read a half-written value, it's still important to use the atomic types to ensure that reads/writes across threads are performed in the right order.
The book "Moonwalking with Einstein" was my first introduction to memorization techniques. I had no idea these techniques existed, much less there were competitions for them. I drove my wife crazy trying to impress her with memorizing pi to 100 digits and memorizing a deck of cards. She was not impressed...I moved on to the next hobby.
I was in a similar situation... Though, really didn't get that type of advice, we did spend a year when I was in 3rd grade learning German (of which I've completely forgotten). In some ways it was interesting, in others it sucked. I seem to be very lopsided in both how I learn, and what kinds of things I can handle in abstract and concrete concepts.

I do really well with math, and can carry concepts well from reading... but man, I hate reading fiction, I have way too much trouble remembering names vs. events. For comparison 760 math, 580 verbal for my SAT scores, not bad, just lopsided.

I can relate to the social issues many in this discussion have eluded to though. Depression, anxiety, OCD and work really hard to not let myself fall into my own traps.
The opinion piece is actually very thoughtful and asks some good questions that go beyond the simple narrative “ICO equals scam”. At Finnovation SF today the excellent regulator panel did mention a sea change going on behind the scenes in that regulators in the US do start to be more creative than say 10, 15 years ago. One topic of course is the desire not to fall behind when it comes to technological innovation.
9 months is 3 quarters, so it seems more like they are charging 1.2 quarters if you drop out after 5 weeks.
I did first 2-years undergrad at a CC. My calc course had _2_ people from mensa, 1 failed.

Anyways, the idea in academic literature -- that some super smart psychiatrists know the Right Questions to ask which correlate with _g_ -- is aggravating.
When I was 30 (3 years ago) I was in the exact same position as you, to the tee. I decided to go BACK to school and get another bachelor's degree in something I actually cared about even though I already had a master's.

Now I'm in my second year in a PhD program in a biomedical program.

Point is: a lot of us start to feel like we made a mistake and it's too late to fix.
I see it as a form of self-control. I actively enjoy the simple foods I eat, and I'm not someone who gets sick of eating the same thing lots (as long as I like it in the first place), so it stops me eating random stuff and over-eating without realising it. It's also easier than trying to count/track macros/calories/etc with everything you eat, because you just have set things you always eat.

People also regularly bring up the "food enjoyment" thing, as though eating the same few things means it's not enjoyable, but I personally very much enjoy the routine things I eat, and that's why I made them routine. I'd much prefer to eat my regular lunch that I know for a fact I'll enjoy, than some random cafe/takeaway/pub lunch that will be hit or miss.

I think maybe some people are just wired to get bored of eating the same thing, and others aren't, because some of my friends think I must hate food to eat the same things all the time, but I see it as quite the opposite. Just like these comments here are full of people who think the Norwegians are insane and boring, and others "get it" and do the same or similar.
Is this American dream - just for some live in comfort? Slave in most senses? Government you have no say?

Why is this posted again.
Not your own data - you know there is a spy, and NSA helps you to isolate him and feed him salted info.
There were no unchecked facts in the original post. It is a fact that I have got 100x speedups, and it is my personal experience that 10x speedups rarely come close to exhausting the opportunities.

It is a fact that I did not notice any reference in the article to GCD or the techniques that have made it a success.
Consider hiring a virtual personal assistant and delegating the low impact, high (time) cost tasks. There will be an inherent limit to how much money you can make if you try to do it alone.

If you truly want to learn to build a business, realize that you aren't a software developer anymore. You're a businessperson and thats completely different. It's a different field and you can have a lot of fun learning it. It's a reward experience.

I say this from experience. I grew my company from 2-3k MRR and did it all myself. It was only when I realized I needed to hire myself out of low level tasks and focus on the important things did I start to make real strides. It wasn't long before I was well beyond that MRR level (now have 6 employees)
Side-related but it's one thing probably easier to add to a culture of extended family (where several generations stick together and live under the same roof etc). Not so much in Western countries where nuclear family has become the norm and we basically consider "external" or indeed "extended (family)" our parents as much as our future grand children, you know, on a day-to-day basis. The real links are stronger and more persistent than that it seems.
China has many other more effective means of blocking websites for users within China mainland.

Since Tencent is used for a malware list instead of Google for all users who have their iOS region set to China (even if they aren’t physically in China) this would technically allow them to falsely flag websites as malware even for some people outside of the country. But, this is a user configurable setting, and you can always bypass the warning.
No, I was pointing out that China is unique in that they would have no moral qualms in coercing their citizens abroad using violence. I'm sure my coworkers from the EU probably don't ever have to worry about being in a situation where they would have to choose between spying or hurting their family.
This is great! I was looking for something like this a year ago for benchmarking imputation scripts as part of a paper. This would have been awesome to use. Will keep it in my in the future.
> What if you don't want to?

Then your software should be excluded from gov purchase. You'd be ok to keep selling to non-gov places though.
But you don't have to go to a specialty bakery to get good fresh bread. I can get Acme Bread at nearly any grocery store in the San Francisco Bay Area -- and lest someone (fairly) say, "Yes, but that's the Bay Area," anyone who grew up in the southern US probably knows Publix, the biggest grocery store in that region, is justifiably famous for their in-store baked breads.

I think there's sometimes a tendency among Europeans in particular to write off all American food as being essentially the same as the most iconically awful brands we have over here: Wonder bread, Velveeta cheese, Hershey's milk chocolate, Bud Light beer. And that's just not true.

I'm sort of inspired by Vox's article on the "boring lunch" here to start packing simple sandwiches again, which I haven't done in years. If I do, I'm probably going to be able to get pretty good bread, butter, cheese, and meats -- they're just not that hard to get here.
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I think K-12 education system makes high IQ people lazy because they don't need to try hard to get through a curriculum that was designed for people who learn more slowly. So this sets in as a habit.

I went through gifted programs and thinking back, I probably could have learned calculus by middle school if my education had adapted to my learning rate, but it didn't. We still had the same text books as every other 4th grader, we just covered more of the material in a year.
> Something that has been mushed up from its original form to the point of being unrecognizable

So it does include flour and pasta?

Edit: olive oil and butter would also seem to fit the bill.
Did you mean to write “promiscuously” explained?
stealing jet engine/materials science data and software data are different kettle of fish.

different kinds of bottlenecks. I’m assuming one set is more easily transferrable than the other.
While I'm sure that depends on the store, many supermarkets I'm aware of -- including Safeway out here in Silicon Valley and Publix in Florida, where I grew up -- have in-store bakeries.
The other option is to just proxy the request and hide IP address. In fact they should just offer that as a service to their users.
"It is impossible to die from hypothermia in cold water unless you are wearing flotation, because without flotation – you won’t live long enough to become hypothermic."

Great read.
I would guess it has something to do with not experiencing certain kinds of difficulty and the reactions that come with it until a development window has passed. Everyone expects good things from you and congratulates you for achieving them without any effort during the years you are supposed to be learning about things like difficulty and success and failure and life doesn't ramp up in difficulty until well after some things are fairly set. Afterwords when things go beyond "effortless" difficulty you start to get negative feedback from people around you and yourself and this is a novel experience outside of the period where negative novel experiences are internalized as normal.

(Related: fairy tales and scary stories told to young children help them cope with a dangerous and difficult world, "too scary for kids" attitudes build adults who have trouble with the real world.)
... using machines that british people invented.

get the overall point, but not sure this is a good example.
Oh, awesome excuse. Carry on!
"Socialism" being an ambiguous term would not be that much of a problem if people stopped pretending it isn't and every socialist is a tankie. It's hard to believe someone is arguing in good faith if they criticize anarchists for trying to build a totalitarian dictatorship.

We have a problem with people seeing Ms. Scott from England, thinking her skirt is a kilt and getting angry when she claims she can't play the bagpipe.
One thing though: "well" is very idiosyncratic here — a different biology leads to different reactions. IMHO the most important is to listen to your own body, learn in time what makes you "well" and what doesn't. Might be very different even between siblings. Use data whenever possible to rule out misguiding perceptions.
You don't even need the shoes in all cases:

> "Many theories are offered up as the secret to Kenya's success in long distance running, but one of the most commonly cited, especially by Kenyans themselves, is the hard, active life the children here lead. Most run long distances to school each morning, and when they get home they are sent out to tend to the goats or sheep. There are few televisions, let alone PlayStations or Xboxes."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/11/04/3614032...

It's definitely true that the marathon is somewhat less accessible than short or mid-distance running, but it doesn't take years of marathon running to be a top marathoner. Much of the fitness transfers from mid-distances. Many competitive 10k runners post elite times in their very first marathon race. This means that in practice, the marathon is very nearly as competitive as that for a middle distance race.
If you commute by car, what about being able to charge where you work (or park for work)? I think that's even more necessary than apartment or street charging. The car is just sitting there and the daylight hours are best for solar electricity on the grid, so it's win-win. You can even take a work break to move your car so the chargers are fully utilized by other EV commuters.
Lol, people keep taking about Uber building internal products because 3rd party stuff can't "Uber" scale, I think the real drive to build internal apps is to save on licensing costs.

Take chat, hipcat is like 5-10 bucks per month per user. Uber has about 20k FTEs, 40k contractors all use chat. That's 3 to 600k per month just on chat.

Don't forget scale is expensive.

I can't imagine how much that many slack licenses would cost.
Some teams in pro cycling bring their own mattresses to ensure that bad hotel beds don't ruin results. Guess nba teams need to step up their logistics.
Here’s a better example that’s not as obvious: if I am not aware that ze was an accepted pronoun and someone told me to use it, how do I know its real and not them jokingly using “the” with a French accent? Should I report it as someone fooling around?
IQ isn't BS as much as you may wish it to be. I don't know why people feel the need to deny science just so everyone can be on a more level playing field. it's comforting rhetoric but not supported by the evidence.
you can have an apple id and not have any apple device.
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