skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligence strongly correlated with education (~0.5), and adult intelligence is mostly determined by genetics.

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/39/5/1362/802787

The correlation between intelligence and income also substantial, but seemingly not quite as strong. The correlation between intelligence and wealth is weaker still.

https://www.bcaresearch.com/images/Peter_PPT_presentation%20...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
I mean, you're essentially arguing that people like me (people that grew up in deep poverty) wouldn't benefit from a college degree, but here I am. A software engineer because I was able to afford college through benefits and grants that made it near-free. I didn't go to a top tier college. I went to the local community college and used that to go to the local University to get a degree in CS.

Well, here I am. Are you saying I don't exist? Without my degree which opened quite a few doors, I'd be still back home in poverty.
File that under "Not even wrong"

Women in Turkey are allowed to study and participate active in the economy. Ditto with Kurds. The purges of academics were mostly in humanities.

There are a shitload of tensions between the white and black turks, between turks and kurds, erdogan is hardly the most pleasant person in the world and has lots of enemies, with the slowing economy country imploding at some point is not unthinkable, but so far the day to day life in Turkey is chugging along just fine.
What a delightfully garbage take!

Also:

“The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk. You don't get to pick and choose.”

PG has clearly never encountered two leftists in the same room together. We argue on critical issues more than a thanksgiving dinner table.
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I don’t understand what about this car is “homemade.” The headline doesn’t make any sense. And if it does, it’s in a paternalistic (maybe racist?) sort of way.
> Drop the "follow your dreams" rhetoric

The most important part of "follow your dreams" is to not let your imagination run away. You can get very close to what you want in life if you take a realistic perspective and understand basic finance.
I see this argument, about physical demands, a lot, and I don't understand how it's coherent. Somebody is going to do these jobs. Is the argument that it's not fair for kids who could go to college to be that person?
> They don't market nearly as effectively

It's not in the interest of any European government or university to get flooded by American (or any other foreign, non-EU) students. The only reason some German states haven't introduced a fee for non-EU residents yet is probably that their number is not that high yet. But some other German states have already set up such extra fees. Some other countries place fees on English-language programmes, while those in the local language remain free.
reminds me of the documentary that Moxie Marlinspike, of Signal fame among others, did a few years back about fixing up a boat in south Florida and sailing it in the Caribbean.

https://vimeo.com/15351476
Ron's first law: all extreme positions are wrong.
Outline looks clean and very similar to Notion. We use Notion in our company. Wondering if Outline could be a cheaper alternative (and with an API).
Exactly. This is especially true in the context of contemporary US Politics, where the average between the Democrats and Republicans is way right of the political center.

In any case, I guess it all comes down to this:

“A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied”

-Larry David
The pain part can be useful: if you have a tooth infection, that nerve tells you before the infection spreads to your brain.

The heat and cold sensations aren't terribly useful though.
> So I can’t support the Republicans because they are immoral jerks who are selling out democracy, undermining the rule of law and sold out on their international security position for partisan posturing long before Trump showed up. And I can’t support the Democrats any more because they are indulging in crazy leftist economic fantasies.

Bang-on 100% accurate. It's a bunch of immoral jerks versus a bunch of fantastical hooey.

Add to that a difference in rhetorical style: Republicans skirmish aggressively and keep their commentary "on message," while Democrats tend to virtue signal and use identity politics to galvanize their followers.
Tsunami UDP is not a good replacement for aspera?
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Problem is that you don't have completely clear directives regarding what's expected of you, and you therefore infer those expectations by some kind of subjective (and perhaps subconcious) reasoning.
1. Just because we don't agree on the answer doesn't mean that there is no correct answer. If there are no correct or incorrect policies then there is no need to vote.

2. There is strong agreement on lots of things:

95 percent disapprove of people using cell phones in movie theaters. (Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel Poll, 2014)

97 percent believe there should be laws against texting while driving. (The New York Times/CBS News Poll, 2009)

96 percent have a positive impression of small business. (Gallup Poll, 2016)

95 percent believe employers should not be able to access the DNA of their employees without permission. (Time/CNN/Yankelovich Partners Poll, 1998)

95 percent support laws against money laundering involving terrorism. (Washington Post Poll, 2001)

95 percent think doctors should be licensed. (Private Initiatives & Public Values, 1981)

95 percent would support going to war if the United States were invaded. (Harris Survey, 1971)

96 percent oppose legalizing crystal meth. (CNN/ORC International Poll, 2014)

95 percent are satisfied with their friends. (Associated Press/Media General Poll, 1984)

95 percent say that “if a pill were available that made you twice as good looking as you are now, but only half as smart,” they would not take it. (Men’s Health Work Survey, 2000)

98 percent believe adults should watch swimmers rather than reading or talking on the phone. (American Red Cross Water Safety Poll, 2013)

99 percent think it’s wrong for employees to steal expensive equipment from their workplace. (NBC News Poll, 1995)

95 percent think it’s wrong to pay someone to do a term paper for you. (NBC News Poll, 1995)

98 percent would like to see a decline in hunger in the world. (Harris Survey, 1983)

97 percent would like to see a decline in terrorism and violence. (Harris Survey, 1983)

98% would like to see an end to high unemployment. (Harris Survey, 1982)

95 percent would like to see an end to all wars. (Harris Survey, 1981)

95 percent would like to see a decline in prejudice. (Harris Survey, 1977)

95 percent don’t believe Magic 8 Balls can predict the future. (Shell Poll, 1998)

96 percent think the Olympics are a great sports competition. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution Poll, 1996)

(source How To Monroe 2019, by way of https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-to-win-an-election/)
There is a very vibrant SMW hacking community with very functional GUI editor that can act as a springboard for getting into assembly patches ranging from simple changes to sprite behavior to whole new game modes. If you love the game, it's a joy.
I agree with duxup to the extent that any group of people can engage in such behavior - after all there have been plenty of corrupt regimes that are ostensibly communist or democratic but in practice are anything but. On the other hand I don't think that misbehavior is evenly distributed, and you make a good point that rule of law in capitalist countries means very little when authorship of laws is essentially available via auction.
So why do they have a huge Wh/km advantage over rivals such as Porsche? https://www.xautoworld.com/opinion/taycan-201-tesla-range/
> with no company standing behind it

One misinterpretation of this mindset I have heard: "They just want someone who they can sue if things go wrong."

If my business depends on something, I want to know that attention is being paid to it.
Don't you need a rich economy for advanced products to be successful and profitable?
Yes, and if you think posting something people are going to disagree with on Twitter takes a great deal of courage, you are probably not used to holding any very controversial beliefs at all.
I asked a mechanical engineer in hiring if a double major on a resume made any difference to him. He said that if the major was not related to engineering, he really didn't care about it. They're paying you to be an engineer, nothing more. I studied Russian and in aerospace engineering in the US, employers absolutely did not care about it. I now resent the time/money spent on that coursework, and wish I had taken stats or CS, maybe dabbling in Russian on my own time.
In that case, what’s wrong with the people who benefit from the education paying themselves? In a capitalist society, Journalism degrees should cost less than a STEM degree.
This is impressive. We think of Super Mario-style platform games as "simple" but in reality, wow... the engine for Super Mario World really is a state machine with thousands of values.

In many ways, a game like SMW is more complex than a lot of the fully 3D games that came out in the following decade.

Sure, a game like Quake or Tomb Raider had to crunch a lot more math for each frame of their fully 3D worlds. However, 2D games like SMW offered a much richer range of interactions between player/enemy/environment compared to those early 3D titles. It was quite a while before 3D games caught up.
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German engineers during WWII seems to refute this claim. History shows that talented engineers drafted machines of mass murder with smile, as long as it would fund their departments and I'm sure there were other considerations in their decision to comply as well.
One of the tricks to good leadership in my opinion, is running interference with my leadership or leadership from other parts of the organization, when they try and create new projects or otherwise divert resources to something that isn't a priority. It's a big part of my job to take these meetings so that the core teams delivering value don't get tasked or bogged down with them.

Meetings aren't going away, and in most cases these are requirements coming from outside of me or my team. Part of the trick of leadership is deciding what you can say a hard no to and not even engaging, what you need to do a soft no to by taking meetings (sometimes useless) in order to maintain good relationships, and then for things that are important but would cause new work, to do a lot of work at the leadership level ahead of new tasks impacting teams so that you can help them maintain their velocity.
More people need to be aware that Uniqlo sources some of its cotton from Xinjiang where the Uyghur were/are detained.
> Paul Graham should totally write things like this on his own site!

He sure can, but having a platform and competence in one area doesn't mean your skill applies to another. This whole article is a fascinating example of the Dunning–Kruger effect.

The idea, of two kinds of moderates is interesting. The framing is, at best weak and at worst very flawed, shallow and a gross oversimplification.

The shots at the left, at marxists, are palatable. At no point does this article take a genuinely "moderate" stance on the current political climate. Rather it takes an insidious right leaning view.
Why are so many people under the delusion that money spent on salaries is “wasted”? A charity’s sole purpose doesn’t have to be to funnel raw cash to a target group.

If you’re running an animal shelter, who the hell is the money supposed to go to, the animals? Of course the money goes towards paying people to look after the animals. Money spent on those people’s salaries isn’t being “wasted” under any reasonable sense of the word.
> Is the argument that it's not fair for kids who could go to college to be that person?

Spot on. When I make that argument its from the perspective of me at 18 with the options to do either. I think you're making an important counter point that many don't have the option to begin with, due to money, citizenship, parental/child care, relationships, illness, education level, etc. - although scholarships heavily target most of those demographics.
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I mean I think he’s being honest. He’s saying that he is looking at a system in which he’s literally amassed billions of dollars and doesn’t see any reason for sudden changes. He’s just not interested in exploring how those two facts interact.

What I am hopefully pointing out is that he could be doing a better job of trying to understand why people who are literally living in misery and despair might be seeking more radical change. The fact that some of his decisions may have directly let to the misery of some of those people makes this conversation complicated.

It’s relevant that the greatest political problem in society right now is people hoarding vast amounts of resources, and that he’s literally doing that. Of course he doesn’t have to agree that this is in fact the greatest problem today, but he could at least note that many of the people he’s supposedly analyzing do believe this.

He’s almost certainly capable of having a more nuanced discussion that recognizes his own position and perspective, but is choosing not to do that. This isn’t an academic treatise it’s a personal essay about his own subjective impressions, and he’s leaving out the most important aspect of his own lived experience.

You might even call that omission intentional
I wonder if that's intentional, as it's not the first occurrence.

For example, movies that the user has already watched keep showing in the grid. If one stops watching a series mid-season, there's no immediate way of preventing the show from displaying in the list of current movies (removing the entire series from history works, but it's not immediate, and it's too drastic).

If I want to expand on a movie, rather than watching it, the area I can click on is tiny compared to the whole banner surface.

I think all of those are patterns of a strategy to shove content down the user's throat - it makes sense from a (dishonest) business perspective.
You can keep the master (current) version and store diffs/edits in a separate collection.
3.7bn over 13 years? There’s no way that anything will become of this. Of course, that’s not the point. I suspect that exactly one car will ever be made, the car that the despot Erdegon will get to drive in for the cameras.
How does one regenerate their micro biome?
This sounds like moving the goalposts for the definition of work.
The typical pattern is starting at the edge during the primary then shifting to the center during the general. Making it back to the center is indeed a good path toward success, but makes commitments during the primary much less credible and give the impression that the candidate is just saying what will get them elected. Overall this is terrible for voter trust in elected officials.
Oops, thank you for the correction!

So the ellipsis is only when the user must actually enter or select some information, not if it's just a simple confirmation.

The Windows 95 guidelines seem a bit less clear about this, but I think they follow the same idea.
It's amusing how simple Everything is: it just searches the file database in Windows by name. It doesn't search file contents. I am not sure why this isn't the way Windows search works.
Trade school is a good, viable path, but you do make a good point.

Ask an old electrician what they want their kid to be, and (excluding the scenario of a family business) it's usually "not an electrician"
I don't own the post anymore and can't unpublish it. But even if I could: it's annoying that I can't just post my shitty first drafts of things to some random website and not have them get periodically featured on a huge, busy community. That's what blogs are for. I have a backlog of blog posts, about a dozen entries long, none of which are published because I don't feel prepared to defend them here. I guess you can say "good, you have a personal journal". I don't feel great about that.

(And, for the nth time, I have just a teeny tiny sample of the problem Paul Graham has! It's not like what I write is all that popular. Paul Graham has a rabid fan base here.)
Steve Jobs was great at many things, and I definitely preferred Apple when he was at the helm. But I do not think we should seek to emulate this aspect of his management style.

What does calling names accomplish? If the software sucks, criticize the software. Life is hard enough when other people aren't degrading you.
How are the goals of this project different than cockroachdb?
i'll never understand people's preoccupation with other people's ideas on things it is known those people are not experts on.

paul graham has a phd in computer science. he is a successful startup founder and vc. that is the extent of what i'm interested in his opinion on.

if a famous political theorist started opining on the organization of software or product/market fit or angel investing how many people here would take them seriously?
Agree with rest. All are trying ro get their pipelines going and breaking up their monolith(s).
Couldn't the same be said about any level of education? The law of averages means that yes, on average not everyone is going to see massive success.

That doesn't meant we should deprive them the right to get an education.
No, lithium price makes very little difference to lithium battery price. All those "industry analysts" from McKinseys and such suggesting it have never set their foot in a battery factory.

The biggest price components of lithium cells is cobalt oxide used in cathode plates, followed by nickel in cell chemistries using them. Both are not cheap at all, and their supply is famously unstable. Metallurgical cobalt goes at $30-40 per kilo in China, and battery grade cobalt oxide at almost the same price.

So for a 200kg battery pack, you will be paying 2000-3000$ only for the cathode material.

Second after this is plainly volumes. Tooling costs are very high. Even model 3 and BAIC EU are rather low volume by industry standards. You have to add to that that EVs don't share chassis/platform with any other high volume car, and thus can't share the bodywork tooling costs.
Game Boy Emulator in Python
Eh, unless you're going to Stanford, Duke, or an Ivy League (or maybe USC or $REGIONALLY_RENOWNED_SCHOOL), the networking is definitely not worth the price tag.
Impeach Apple /s
This comment is exactly what I mean about the post being off-topic for the site.
There's nothing wrong with an English degree if you intend to use it and have a career path with it in mind. Unfortunately I have no shortage of friends who went with college because they were expected to, got an English degree because it was easy, and now work dead end jobs they dislike.

While I'm picking on English degrees because it's easy pickings, it's not unique. Take any degree, throw enough people at it and you'll end up with a lot of degree holders not having career paths open to them.
> Am I right to think computers should adopt a more parallel architecture and design, and to expand on techs like OpenCL and CUDA, and generalize those technique to everything done by a computer, because we've hit a frequency limit?

Intel Skylake has 8x execution ports with 6x way dispatch PER CORE. Typical code can achieve more than 1-instruction per clock tick, maybe 3 or 4 instructions/clock if you really work hard at your optimization. With 6x instructions/clock as the hard limit due to the uOp cache.

That's a normal CPU. Modern CPUs are incredibly parallel. They just "pretend" to be serial, so that the typical programmer doesn't have to think of those parallelization issues. A combination of compiler (aka: dependency cutting), and CPU (aka: Tomasulo's Algorithm) works together to achieve this parallelism (out-of-order, superscalar, pipelined).

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EPIC / VLIW are "leaky abstractions", which bleed the parallelism into the assembly language. But you don't get a lot of parallelism out of EPIC / VLIW, not compared to SIMD anyway.

So if you really have a huge amount of parallelism available, SIMD seems to be a superior methodology (and modern compilers can auto-vectorize loops when the compiler detects the parallelism).

I'm just not sure where EPIC / VLIW techniques come in handy. Its not parallel enough to compete with SIMD, but its still more complicated than traditional CPUs.
> Autoplay is indeed very annoying. If at least it was muted...

If I understand correctly, you can mute autoplay - there's a volume icon to the left of the age rating of the screen (mid-right. You won't hear any autoplay sound again, for any session, until you click on it again.
Like he said, they were supposed to imply they were police officers, as it was some kind of (pretend) police charity. A masculine sounding voice would obviously help, compared to a prepubescent boy's voice.
100% agree with everything you've written here. I'd also add that there is absolutely no such thing as an accidental moderate in a way that warrants any sort of prideful thinking.

Additionally, there are political world views that are often described as moderate, but are legitimately their own political world view. Namely, in the US political system, the democrats are a big tent party of liberals and social democrats with clear ideological differences between the new democratic caucus and the progressive caucus. Those liberals are not moderate, they're liberals which are much closer in line to conservatives ideologically as they both support free market capitalism.

Anyone who is an "accidental moderate" in a truer sense of the word has never spent any time thinking about politics in any sort of unified sort of way. Politicians should have a both a unified theory of change and a broader political framework for which they rationalize their decisions. While many people describe the Clinton's or Obama as being moderates, they are not moderates, they are liberals, which just happens to be it's own fully unified political theory to the right of socialism and social democrats and to the left of conservatism, nationalism, and fascism.
You are right, there is indeed text indicating that.

However, even the text itself is worded to leave out the sudo implication to the end of the whole paragraph, which is typically skipped by anyone who simply wants their OS installed.
7m? I guess most African countries are just choke full of engineers, way more than they can utilize. Of course, having moved to one of these countries, all real construction is done by the Chinese.
Probably to compromise computers - there have been more than a couple examples of CVEs related to the Intel Management Engine.
I agree that parliamentary systems make it difficult to form a government, but I disagree that those 30 parties are less meaningful than major parties in the US or UK. Each one represents a unique community within Israel, reflecting the diversity and disunity of the nation itself.

Also I would argue Netanyahu failing to form a government two times is a good sign for Israel. That man is divisive and harmful.
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BOAT = Bust Out Another Thousand, as anyone that has owned any boat can tell you.

Glad I got mine sold off a while back. Maintenance is costly.