skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"because people end up associating wealth and success with IQ, and since a disproportionate amount of wealth in America is controlled by whites people, and since minorities are more likely to live in poverty, this causes some people to suggest that those specific minorities have lower IQs or something"

This is really not how IQ testing is done. Rather than guessing about correlations in the environment to IQ and working backwards to come up with an estimate for IQ, generally IQ tests are administered.
> The contribution of the shared environment is negligible.

What does this mean?
I won’t agree until they beat South Korean players at Starcraft I.
Surely a strange case of overreaction and resultant destructions. But lets not draw enormous conclusions on 'some guys in Denver" or whatever.
Interesting thing about AI is no matter how you spin things, the more advanced it becomes, unfairness grows proportionally.

After all, isn’t that the point of AI? To perform better at certain tasks than humans? We are visitors in the digital realm, just like when we put on a scuba suit and jump in the ocean—even the smallest fish can out-swim us.
It depends.

Most software for Android is not native. My current phone can't run some applications I bought on my Motorola Droid even though I doubt they have one single line of native code. Those applications also don't show up on the Google Store (at least on my phone), so nobody will get them anyway. I had one x86 phone in the meantime, and I didn't see any compatibility issues.

As for the other player in town, Apple, they design everything, silicon, OS and SDK and operate the only application store you can publish to, so, for them, this is also something that can be easily controlled.
Sadly many groups I am a part of have moved to facebook and have no interest in moving off of the platform.

To be honest I think it's pretty terrible as a group platform. No proper discussion threads and it's hard to find stuff. But people don't have to pay to host a website/forum and there's virtually no barrier to join since most people have an account on facebook.com.

The only reason I still use facebook is for these groups.
In my experience, technical writing is at least as hard as programming. The last project I published as OSS, the writing was easily half the effort.

So don't short-sell yourself. :)
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I would actually like to get __working__ delay notifications. Last I took DB I remember delay notifications be adjusted on a "we exceed the delay already" basis.

Example: train expected at 1200, at 1155 you get a 10 minutes delayed notification. Which will be replaced at 1212 by a 15 minutes delayed notification. Which will be played this way more or less until the train finally arrives.

So you see, a working delay notification would actually be a real improvement. I have not problem with delays in general, but I do like to know if it even makes sense to wait, or if I should get a car or plane ticket to make my schedule.
Doesn't Finland have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_tax
So, the context would be: an export format for complex, multi-paragraphs textual documents with meta-information.

If you add the condition that it be human-readable, I admit I am not able to point to an existing format that is obviously better suited for this than XML.
I humbly disagree

> it would be natural for them to try paying for ads, and the obvious place to put ads are on social media

It would be natural to them to post to their Facebook page because that's what social media is for and then for their committed network of supporters to repost etc.

Remember - that's the advantage of social media - you can quickly get the work out to your supporters without having to go through intermediaries, or having to pay for advertising.
Funny, but no. It definitely alerts people and those kind of alerts come with consequences. Declaring an emergency will trigger a later review by the FAA with potential action from them ranging from nothing at all to removing the pilot's license.
To be fair, describing the employee in the post as disgruntled doesn't seem entirely unfair. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he is displeased and discontented.

That said it's probably unnecessary to pre-label, they can let people come to their own conclusions.
Agreed. I just grabbed a hook in the text to latch onto a mindset I think is prevalent. (Closely related to "us vs them", the in-group and the out-group, etc.)
Funny how they put it as:

> When watching replays of these matches, players noticed that the account owner was performing actions that would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for a human.

framing it like the agent was doing some sort insane play, when the reality is the main evidence of a player being alphastar (other than its garbage decision making) was the fact that it wasn't using hotkeys!
Claiming that we must be reliant on private corporations for free speech is a corruption of the very concept. I don't agree with your argument, but to the extent that there's any truth to it the remedy can only be to fix the underlying problem—not submitting to it.

To be clear, my objection isn't to all online advertising but specifically to Zuckerberg defending Facebook's policy with an appeal to free speech. Obviously speech without funding is weak an ineffective, but if Facebook voluntarily chose to eliminate all political advertising, it is irrational to claim that your freedom of speech has been curtailed. Facebook's existence isn't promised to you.
If you're interested in genetic engineering/CRISPR, check out the following book: Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee. He does a fantastic job of layman's writing on science, his other book on Cancer is fascinating and extremely well written, that one is called "Emperor of Maladies". I'd highly recommend both, but don't expect ANY other writing on bio to be that engaging :)

https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukh...
> But they will still put out a lot of pollution, it's the nature of shipping right now.

Which is going to be seriously restricted in 2 months time: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/30/imo-2020-the-winners-and-los...

> Will they put out as much pollution as the airline industry?

This question is so broad it's meaningless. What kind of pollution matters, and where it's emitted also matters. More Sulfur, less CO2, etc..

> For shipping, hard to say. We don't have anywhere close to the number of ships necessary for that kind of passenger scale

As of July 2016, the world had a capacity of 20 million standard shipping containers.

> We'd have to go back to sail ships to make it pollution free.

That's not the only option: battery weight is not an issue in ships; their consumption per tonne-kilometer is so low that solar can contribute a lot, et cetera.

It's still probably most efficient to just burn a clean fuel and then sequester the CO2.

> Just stopping trans-oceanic travel, or drawing it down in a draconian fashion, really does seem one of the best solutions.

Letting perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the big reasons holding the world back from making progress on environmental issues.
I think you may be in an echo chamber. Most of my coworkers watch fox news. Its even playing on tvs at work in the hallways and cafeteria. People chat about their latest dose of truth and the outrageous lies of cnn etc. I listen to npr on the way home to get the sam facts in a different light/bias and then resolve to ignore everything but local races. I wish high offices were still elected by lower offices down to the lowest of offices where all the voters actually know the people they are choosing between.
To _you_, this person wrote https://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1 (and 18 more parts, which I only put down because my body required sleep), https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks, and everything over at https://www.stilldrinking.org/essays.php.

((Who gets the reference?))
Scottish can do a referendum by themselves because that's allowed by their laws, and goes back to historical reasons. In Spain, the Constitution does not allow for a part of Spain to decide secession. It's very different stories.
I transitioned into cancer immunotherapy research after Computer Science grad school. Biology is a mess and it will take several years to get up to speed on any one research area. The best options are either grad school or finding a job which doesn't initially require a lot of bio background but provides the opportunity to learn. It's also worth checking out local biohacker spaces, they can teach some basic techniques but you'll hit a ceiling quickly. To really "start a biotech company" you'll really need to spend a long time outside your comfort zone.
Well, this certainly makes me want to never book an AirBnB again. You'd think AirBnB would be more alarmed about the reputational and consequent business hit of this sort of thing. Maybe they will be after this article?
New players (like when I first played) are likely to select individual larva before they do tutorials or learn the hotkeys, but you're right that high level players would almost never select one directly. Maybe after a hatchery has died and there are still larva remaining?
Question: A private jet is obviously bad for the environment, but how does a propeller plane compare carbon-wise to driving a car the same distance?
That was from the version of AlphaStar that they demo'd in the earlier show matches. From what I gathered in the articles over the last few days, they took in a lot of feedback from that and adjusted this to make strategies like that inhuman blink micro less possible...
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As an outside observer, it appears he hasn't donned the Caesar haircut for nothing.
Airlines with many more 737's handled it correctly. Not saying it isn't a crisis. Just saying it's an airline specific crisis, not a Boeing crisis. That's the piling on bit.

The AD sets forth two distinct priorities: high cycle and low cycle airframes. Those with higher cycles required near immediate inspection because they are presumably more at risk for these cracks, in airlines with larger fleets inspections of younger frames may not be complete yet.

Southwest (owner of the largest 737 fleet in the world) grounded their (two, IIRC) NGs that required inspection sooner and failed that inspection. I don't believe Southwest has finished inspecting the other 600 or so planes in their fleet. Qantas (an airline with an enviable safety record) found cracks in much younger planes than expected (even after the expectations had been lowered from these parts lasting a lifetime to maybe lasting 1/3 that). Qantas took appropriate action, and were another airline to experience these cracks with such young airframes I'd hope they'd ground their NGs too.
My point is, the former already happened, and made zero difference.
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But notoriously with cultural bias. Questions about 'which of these tea-service items goes with the other?' and so on.
It's simple reciprocation from game-theory perspective: when the other party lies and gains advantage, you do it too. But I feel Republicans are way more untruthful than the Democrats and simply bring down the level of discussion for everyone.

And I don't know why is it, that majority of Americans are so accustomed to lying that they tolerate it from politicians. In Finland if politicians get caught with outright lying, it's career-ending if it's bad enough. Prime ministers have resigned over it, party leaders seen their polls slump. In US if Republicans are caught lying (Democrats too I guess to lesser extent), it's a simple distraction and meh from public. Their supporters don't simply care and I guess are not capable of criticizing their own party.

I've been recently thinking that what US has now isn't that far stretch from a single-party system since the parties in power don't really have to fear losing their support. There are no other options, so they can just pass the ball between each other, putting up a show and doing whatever since people can't really choose anything else. If your only option is picking between two assholes, which one you pick? And when the population doesn't know to demand change, what will happen? Nothing.

Yes there are advantages with two-party system, but what I see it has really rotted the political discussion and ideologies into two boxes that can't possibly overlap. In multi-party systems coalition governments can be bit sluggish but at least they offer people a real opportunity for change, and letting go of the old, obsolete power structures. For a country that is so keen on free-market and unrestricted competition, you are awfully restricted in your choice of political parties.
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Honestly, the article needs to be replaced with https://deepmind.com/blog/article/AlphaStar-Grandmaster-leve... which actually goes into some technical detail. Nature.com's article is purely for laypersons and, imo, not particularly useful for HN's crowd because of how little insight it gives.

It also provides the paper and an archive of all of the AI's matches for anybody who wants to take a closer look. These can be viewed with the free version of SC2 (afaik).

Further links:

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1724-z (supplementary data available here in json form)

https://rdcu.be/bVI7G (public paper)

https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resource... (replays)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtFBLTxDxWOSrWZ8krQt6... (list of older AlphaStar matches cast by an SC2 player)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l82wBa3UoZU (one of the newer matches cast by another player)

https://old.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dpaunw/deepminds... (win/loss rates across all the played matches by race, includes apm)
The emissions control stuff, possibly illegal, under federal law, largely unenforced. Ever see 'offroad only' marked on hot rod parts, thats why. Your car should be able to respond correctly to OBD2 requests for smogging. And it will be fine IRL. Don't be a dick and use it as a pass to pollute. A good running car pollutes less and gets better mileage than stock. Infotainment? Hack away. This is my day job.
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> The phrase always originates with an accusation by party A that party B calls party C useful idiots, but there’s never any evidence backing up the accusation against party B.

I think the criteria "that party B calls party C" is actually pretty irrelevant to the concept's usefulness.

> essentially an argument meant to invalidate popular support for party B

In most of the cases where I'd use the term "useful idiot" the "party B" doesn't have much popular support, but is rather engaging in manipulation, disinformation, dishonest propaganda, etc. The realization isn't useful as a dismissal, but rather as a reminder that you need to confront both the idiot's sincere belief along with their ignorance of it's goals, implications, and beneficiaries.
With /etc/hosts blocking, I still see them, and I like it. It's like a TV that's gone to ads and then glitches out and the show comes straight back on.
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Agree, but there are many more cases where the US digging into details is more risky than Russians doing the same. Yandex is a often a better, not perfect alternative for US small businesses.
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Interesting to use the word HALO, seeing as its already used as an acronym in aviation for High Altitude Low Opening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachu...

There is also TALO, which stands for Tactical Air Landing Operation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjJdISjq8Wg
this too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
Wasn't there also a paper that came out fairly recently looking at Swedish administrative data instead which showed something on the order of 1/4 gentic 1/4 shared environment? My general impression has been that lifetime earnings had a shared environmental factor from parental help that wasn't there in other things like scholastic achievement. I'll see if I can track that down. Though possibly the difference might just be high investment income from some children moving the average in studies that take a mean rather than a median.
It's a funny dynamic; the left is having an all hands freak out over FB (who I intensely dislike also) because right wing dorks like Ben Shapiro are the most frequently shared memes on their platform. Basically because FB is a bunch of old people, and old people like right wing memes and Ben Shapiro.

Zuck's a smart guy, and there are other smart people working there; I'm sure they realize this, but they can't actually say it to the AOCs of the world for fear of freaking out shareholders and advertisers.
Most people saw what Twitter did and thought, Facebook is probably under some pressure to do the same.

Mark Zuckerburg saw it and thought, we now have a monopoly on social media based political advertising! $$$
Won't be much use if it's a joy rider
wondering why is it only 0.5% for twitter while much higher for FB ?
Then stop selling fake versions of other food. Vegan food is awesome when not pretending to be meat.
That's terrifying. Cool, but terrifying.
Young experiences are how you learn, and make a lasting impression! In high school I tinkered with computers a lot. I setup SMB shares, ftp servers, created basic websites, some basic query work. I developed a pretty solid mental model of how "computer systems" work and talk together.

Now that I'm in industry, I'm one of the people building these "shadow IT" solutions. I can clearly see how those late nights paid off.

I also act as a liason between the business and IT at times, and can help bridge the communication gaps.
As far I can tell, this is only really the attitude in the Western world. Most of my relatives live in Nigeria, and all of them use Facebook a lot.

And at that, there are still many people in the US who mainly use Facebook, especially Gen X and older, so I always question if there are as many people on this train as it often seems like.
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The retort of a generation and a look at the "meme-to-merch" economy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html
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That's not how social media works. Feeds are highly curated.

> you can quickly get the work out to your supporters without having to go through intermediaries, or having to pay for advertising.

How do you think Facebook makes money? And as a followup, why do you think people pay money to run ads on Facebook?

Like, I 100% agree with you that this is how it should work, and it's how we all thought it would work 15 years ago, but it feels oddly disconnected from the world we live in.
They are consistent with both, And if the standard were preponderance of evidence and the only evidence on the table where the forensic report, it's two to one odds in favor of homicide by strangulation.

One thing I don't know regarding a medical examiner's job is whether they are supposed to take in additional evidence, and if an ME is required to give one single conclusion. If they are required to give one single conclusion, then it still makes sense that the New York medical examiner would conclude the thing that is more probable in light of circumstances, even if the forensic evidence alone indicates something else is more probable. Because a 25% frequency isn't low enough that one would bet on the 50% frequency event being what occurred in light of the fact that the homicide would have had to happen In a secure and protected facility with an isolated prisoner.

It's almost feels like a Bayesian versus frequentist analysis question.

But in any case, if the medical examiner is required to give a single answer, and their reputation suffers if that answer turns out to be wrong, I would assume that they would factor in mitigating circumstances to allow for the lower probability scenario to outweigh the higher probability scenario in isolation. And the forensics expert who is not responsible for analyzing future cases and may not be constrained to give a single answer is free to answer based on raw probabilities without factoring in circumstances.
If a tree crashes to the ground but nobody is there to see it, did the tree actually fall?

In this situation I think there was never a real, valid problem in the first place.
I've been reading the book Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, and I think I would opt for a ship (with at least some entertainment features) rather than a plane if it meant I could enjoy a long vacation in Europe without suffering from jet lag in the first week of being there.
I think Zuck's statement makes more sense than Jack's, where Jack said that "democracy might break if we allow those ads" (not with these exact words). It's weird to see a CEO making a statement like that, like if it was his role to protect democracy. I think Zuck sounded more professional and centered in this case.
Norwegian bikers had some fights a decade or two ago.

Bombs were used and police found some really unusual weapons, including an anti aircraft gun at one club that they raided.
And now we know the plot for Metal Gear Solid 6
Now I'm flashing back to a system that passed important configuration via globals, so to call functions that relied on these globals, you had to carefully make sure that the global environment was in the right state before you called certain functions.

It was awful.
No - the new features don't outweigh the potential headache for me. I don't see the point right now, other than getting rid of the annoying popup (but still nowhere near as annoying as the windows update popups were haha).
There is always a restriction. The platform isn’t open to a variety of ideas but to the biggest spender.

Separately, while some politics revolves around untestable statements of preference (e.g. Purple team “freedom is more important than equality” vs. Teal team “equality is the best foundation upon which freedom can be built”), there are also statements of fact and it is dangerous to allow demonstrably false claims to spread (Antivaxxers are probably the least controversial example of a dangerously wrong meme on this forum, but others exist all the way back to ancient Greek democracy).

Democracy isn’t Magic: If Antivaxxers got 99.9% of the votes they would still be wrong, the only difference is they would cause more harm.
One of the best ways I've found to illuminate poor designs is to not allow the use of mocking frameworks and then see how much pain follows in the test code.
Fixed and deployed. Thanks for the heads up.
Your best bet is probably to look for a co-founder with an MS or PHD in molecular biology rather than trying to get yourself to that level from the ground up. If you have some biology background and just want to understand the specifics of Crispr, you can start with this paper[0] and just google every term you aren't familiar with until you make it all the way through. If you don't know biology at all, this[1] is a common text book in undergrad programs for molecular/cellular biology.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23287718

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/...
yes. and the soldiers need to do exactly what you tell them. good luck
You've got to be kidding, for 99% of the projects out there a dedicated server will have the same uptime as an EC2 VM, for a tenth of the price, and unlimited bandwidth. AWS is a plain ripoff and any field expert with a bit of critical thinking would not fall in the trap for long.