skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Looking at the SD in the survey responses suggests that the position of the researchers polled in this survey wasn't accurately represented by the quote you posted.

There's one or two charts in the article, showing how many experts believe the IQ gap is 0% genetic, how many believe it's 10%, and so on, up to 100%. There's a large spike at 0%, then a noisy, mostly equal distribution up to 100%, where it drops back down to near zero - i.e. almost no hereditarian believes environment plays no role. So yes, there's no consensus, but the view that IQ is hereditary is well represented among experts - moreso than the opposite.

The Flynn effect disproves nothing, much like the increasing average height doesn't imply height isn't heritable. As I don't believe IQ is 100% determined by genes, there's any number of explanations that are consistent with heritable intelligence - changes in culture, environment, upbringing, nutrition, air quality, levels of athleticism, etc. For example:

"Similarly, researchers have shown that differences in the ways boys and girls spend their time (e.g., playing with Legos) (Bornstein et al., 1999), toy selection (Goldstein, 1994), and computer videogame experience (Quaiser-Pohl et al., 2006) are responsible for differences in their spatial abilities, also loaded on g."

> The example you use to critique the video I posted is also not very generous

The example was to show the video author was being deliberately misleading, going out of his way to hide data that opposes his conclusion. Meaning everything else in the video is probably similarly cherry-picked.

> what is intelligence anyway and how can it be measured, if at all?

I don't see how minor fuzzyness in the definition of intelligence casts any doubt on clearly defined IQ scores, especially when IQ has been shown to be such a useful and important measure - IQ is very predictive for success at other tasks also considered to require intelligence, such as academic achievement - this is referred to as being g-loaded. Moreover, the more g-loaded a test is, the more heritable performance on it is [2].

> Another relevant question is what exactly is the scientific support for "race" as anything other than a meaningless label[0]?

Race is simply how closely related people are, at a very coarse level, where clusters correspond to races. See this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22052174

[1] https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/13/stephen-j-ceci/signi...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4437459/
When I'm looking for something, I'll usually have already done a thorough search around on google, ebay, amazon etc... and it's unlikely that targeted ads will show me something I've not yet seen.
I think the idea of startups offering perks as a way to compete with big companies is a good one. Being more flexible on how employees work and offering things most big companies don't (fully remote, for example), is one of the things startups can uniquely offer.

The thing about fiddling with liquidation preferences is that it's very hard to change and will have minimal impact on the bottom line for employees. Liquidation preferences only matter in the case of companies that fail, where they might make the difference between making $0 and making a tiny bit of money. Employees will make virtually all of their money on the companies that are successful.
Dispersed was the word I was looking for. Nothing was added to the fuel to dilute.

I incorrectly use Diluted probably because I had an old roommate was in water tech always use the phrase jokingly, "The solution to pollution is dilution".

I will edit my post to be correct.
Missed that. Thank you!
There's two things about recessions. First, they end. Second, it does not follow that banning/severely regulating advertising to consumers would trigger another recession.
That surprised me too. I found that Mathematica could solve it if you give it the denominator as 1-u^2 for the eventual substitution. Perhaps it just doesn't try very hard to look for substitutions? I could believe it not giving a lot of "coverage" per time spent compared to more advanced techniques.
Yes! I’ve replaced so many HOCs... hooks are so much cleaner.
What stands out is a substantial decline in submissions about Google.
Huawei offers devs $26mm to build apps
Are you using "The West" as a synonym for "developed country"? Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Cultural_definit... with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#Economic_definit... .

> Cultural definition: In modern usage, Western world refers to Europe and to areas whose populations largely originate from Europe, through the Age of Discovery's imperialism

> Economic definition: The term "Western world" is sometimes interchangeably used with the term First World or developed countries, ... It is also used despite many developed countries or regions not being Western (e.g. Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao), and therefore left out when "Western world" is used to denote developed countries.

Minor point: Hong Kong has never been a country.

Regarding "Just reform your country's institutions", many countries still struggle with the effects of European colonization, while the European profited immensely.

As one example, it's hard to care about economic freedom "and other basic liberties" when the US helps the UK overthrow your democratically elected government in order to put a dictator in place, in order to protect Western oil interests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... .
EKS or Fargate – What's Cheaper?
Show HN: Dynamically trace go programs with eBPF
a11y. i18n. They did a lot there.
Well, there are many forms of distortion. When it comes to spacing in particular, yes, there are many people who are quite sensitive to it, others less so. You can Google "keming" for more information on that.
It's not right to say that only one is real. That's biased thinking, and shows that you're trying to push politics rather than find the truth.

Furthermore, the organization you're talking about isn't even NAS -- it's NASEM: the "National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine". [1,2]

[1] https://nationalacademies.org/

[2] https://twitter.com/TheNASEM

This was all described in the article.

Furthermore, there are a bunch of other groups with the acronym NAS:

Nationaal Arbeids-Secretariaat", a trade union federation in the Netherlands from 1893 to 1940
National Academy of Songwriters, a music industry association for songwriters
National Apprenticeship Service, the official UK government body responsible for apprenticeship coordination
National Archives of Scotland, in Edinburgh, Scotland
National Association of Scholars, an educational organization based in the United States
National Association of Schoolmasters, a former trade union representing teachers in the UK
National Association of Seadogs, a Nigerian confraternity
National Audubon Society, an American environmental organization dedicated to conservancy
National Autistic Society, an autism-related charity in the United Kingdom
National Salvation Front (South Sudan), a South Sudanese militant group
Nautical Archaeology Society, a British archaeology charity
Nord Anglia International School Dubai

These are all very real.
Name/brand recognition doesn't mean it "worked". In order for it to have worked, you need to actually spend money on the product or cause someone else to spend money on the product.
Kind of a shame.. There are a few areas where FireFox absolutely smokes Chrome. The way it reflows some heavy DOMs interactively is almost magical in comparison.
Describing this as a "media frenzy" doesn't seem valid. It's quite notable, and certainly not something we'd want to see repeated.

If this was dire enough that they didn't have time enough to empty over the ocean or desert, it may well have been justified. That should be investigated, though, and not just assumed. IIRC, LAX has had a significant history of pilots deviating from required flight paths, etc.
World's First “Living Machine” Created Using Frog Cells and AI
Absolutely, but dealing with categories of errors is much harder with unstructured error codes.
I’d be afraid that they would cause politburo style politics wherein it’d be a pretty big umbrella but ultimately it’d result in the main faction always winning. At least with with Repub/Dem bipolarity there is room for movement and adjustment (to the right or to the left).
Well, yes. Those examples were chosen to be cartoonish stereotypes. Extremely statistically unlikely events would look... strange, to say the least. Sort of like the flapping of a butterfly's wings resulting in a hurricane.

Also there has been some discussion about how quantum events would only affect the microscopic and the macroscopic would remain the same. This is false, quantum events can only occur in the microscopic, but their effects can propagate to the macroscopic in ways beyond our comprehension. Take the experiment itself, the outcome of a quantum event propagates to the life or death of a human being.

Lastly there have also been remarks about how death needs to be guaranteed because QI only promises consciousness not health or a lack of suffering. I will address that here too. That is a perfectly fine way of viewing QI but there is a distinction we should formalize to make it clear.

Greedy QI and Perfect QI.

Greedy QI just branches from the present moment to whichever consciousness will persist. This can result in a local optimum where you are maimed but alive.

Perfect QI always picks the best branch point of every present moment to account for all future possibilities. I argue this in assumption #2. Once the bullet has say, pierced the brain stem, there is no greedy choice from there that will save you. Perfect QI likely won't maim you as that would limit your survival possibilities. It's the global optimum.

There is still a problem with this though. What if there is more than one timeline where you always live? How is one chosen? My guess would be either it's randomly chosen, or there is only one timeline. Let me elaborate on the latter with a mathematical analogy.

You have an infinite list of real numbers. These numbers represent different timelines, the value being how long you survive. If you order them, you can always find a larger finite number looking at the next one, but none of them are infinite in value. Since QI assumes immortality not longevity we will assume the limit of this ordered list is infinity and not a finite number. Thus there is one reality in which you live infinitely, and that's the limit of this ordered set. The only chance for approaching this limit is through a mechanism like perfect QI.
Reactions-based or high visual fidelity are the main limiting factors I immediately think of.

There are many games where these aspects aren’t core to the game but there are for sure many where they are.

I was pretty surprised by PUBG’s success in the mobile space - Then again I sunk an immense amount of time into Ring of Elysium when it came out on PC and that was in many ways mobile-esque in gameplay and visuals.

So there’s probably more crossover potential than I acknowledged in the earlier post. I think a lot of my opinion on the limits of cross-platform (multiplayer) gaming was formed back when Quake 3 got cross-play between PC and Dreamcast. It was an absolute bloodbath.
I don't know, these charts were quite intuitive for me. Of course these are not without faults.

First one is obvious.

Second one becomes quickly clear when you realize that it has to be total of hours over some period of time. Otherwise it would not make sense.

Third one is quite interesting. It is very informative and interesting to observe.

These charts could be made better naturally.

Title and short description would definitely help.

For the second one I would also include totals - for each day, for each time period and most importantly grand total that has to be the same for days and periods. Also small explanation that this is hours distribution over period of this and that.

For the third one I would fix units of the duration. Current ones are difficult to interpret. Hours scale would make the most sense probably - 10, 20, ..., 40 (a normal work week, in the middle), ... 80.

I do not think that there is nothing bad in having multiple interests. Distributing ones time between multiple interests is a difficult task to tackle but it does not make it automatically meaningless. It is actually a good idea to have some time management and good data always helps.
Great story and glad to see you gained so much from this wonderful community.
Noted and updated to remove.
Why was a story from 2017 submitted today?
Thanks for spending the time explaining the problematic code.
Thank you for taking the time to type all of that out!
What do you think early employee equity should look like relative to founders'? And what should employee #1 equity look like relative to #2, #3, and so on? In a fair world.
Steam has refused every single refund I’ve requested over the years, from €1,99 to €20+, unplayed or not.
Nice!

After a year of using emacs I wrote a few lines of elisp to put in some hotkeys for functions I use all the time and now I finally feel like a freakin' hacker-wizard, lol. Good times. I ain't never givin' this shit up.
SAT may be a game with rules too simple for DL approaches to outperform state-of-the-art traditional solvers right now, but SMT (Satisfiability modulo theories) is another story:

https://papers.nips.cc/paper/8233-learning-to-solve-smt-form...
And even more importantly this will eventually foster more palatable/unavoidable kinds of advertising to avoid the arms race entirely, e.g. product placement and endorsements.
Should the government pay me to study computer science? Should they pay for there to be more computer science training slots in universities? CS is also a valuable workforce, with massive shortages in the US. I don't really think the govt should pay for me to train, or pay to improve the number of educational spots.

At the same time, it does seem like medical internship conditions and pay are ridiculously terrible, underpaid, way overworked.
I think you have a typo in the second code example:

let students = useDbDatum(`classes/${classUid}/students`);
let uids = Object.keys(students || {});
let paths = studentIds.map(id => `students/${id}/name`);

studentIds on line 3 should probably be uids
Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds
An ATC recording of the incident is here:

https://youtu.be/mIA90evz8gs

The issue was a compressor stall on one of the engines. Not critical, by the pilot's own admission. ATC offered a hold over the water to dump fuel, which would have been a normal thing to do. Fuel dumping is normally coordinated by ATC. It was declined as unnecessary.

Then, suddenly, they are dumping at low altitude over a city (which is to be avoided if at all possible). Now, I don't know for sure what happened in the final minutes. Dumping fuel is certainly better than crashing, but it is hard to understand how the crew got into that situation given what happened earlier. There are still questions to be answered.
So €70k/year before taxes is a normal dev salary in Romania? Are you sure, since that's basically German level of salaries but with much lower COL.
Do you have any sources for this?

Because if that's the case I'm coming over to join you. :)
If I understand you correctly, then "luck" is another word for "we don't know". That's reasonable, but then we shouldn't make strong claims to knowing.

There's a cruder version of this argument, according to which all success is luck. I hear that, or things that sound like it, a lot, but it's too simplistic and usually too self-serving to be plausible. Though many successful people will be the first to tell you they were lucky. (I always remember https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1621845)
Have you seen https://wakatime.com? It would provide more detail into your existing tracking, and help with your goal of spending more time on productive projects.
Moving Forward from Chrome Apps
The credentials you found in the app.module.ts are just credentials to identify the client (not the user). It is just to give an extra layer of security and only allow specific applications access to the server. User authentication is handled through tokens for example.

The architecture looks more like this:
Client -> Asp.Net Core server with SapphireDb -> any database server

SapphireDb is not a database. Its more like the connector between database and clients. Because of that there is no package for a NodeJS because it would just be proxy.

Yes I think it is production ready. I'll add a section in the docs describing the criteria this opinion is based on.
I can notice bad kerning, that's not what I thought we're talking about. We're just talking about the distortion difference between these renderers we have, not arbitrarily terrible distortion. And awful kerning is not the kind of distortion a renderer like Chrome's has.
Hi, I'm the author of Cap'n Proto, and co-founder of Sandstorm.io. When Sandstorm failed, I went to Cloudflare where I'm leading the Cloudflare Workers project. We're using Cap'n Proto (including RPC) pretty heavily there!

That said, it's true that Cap'n Proto relies on its users to contribute improvements to the implementation. We don't currently have a team who can dedicate their time to building out capnp implementations in every language.

At present, within Cloudflare, the heaviest use is C++, with some stuff in Go, Rust, Java, and Lua. Hence, if you look at the C++ implementation you'll see it's been pretty active. At the moment we don't have a JavaScript use case so haven't put effort into that implementation. But given that Workers itself is a JavaScript platform, it seems reasonably likely that we'll end up putting some work into the JavaScript/TypeScript implementation at some point down the road.
substack FTW
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We help non-profits (churches, schools, etc) connect with their communities via technology. Currently still a small team, but we must be doing something right, because we're growing.

Seeking an iOS Developer - https://a3a.me/fB75f - Remote

Read about our great Engineering team's values here:

https://medium.com/@aware3/tapas-teamwork-850b0b06f43d
This is planned and will come soon.
Put on the expletive glasses: https://youtu.be/yjw_DuNkOUw
Drones are already killing people based on which phone they're carrying.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d738aq/us-drones-target-t...
The thing is that not all servers in datacenters are maxed out to 100% usage all the time. A low priority process using idle resources could be used allowing for huge total cpu-power (given the scale of goog/fb/amzn datacenters) at no additional cost while if an agency wants $5B worth datacenter an agency must buy a $5B datacenter.

On the other hand those idle resources could be rented to an agency at a discount price
Sure, but the context of that quote was basically "... to kill you".
In contrast to Operator Mono I'd also advise peeking at Fantasque Sans Mono and Victor Mono as Operator-lites.
16 GB of RAM and I use Safari mostly and Firefox from time to time with less than 20 tabs usually (less than 10 in average, I guess).

I check Data written in the Activity monitor — Disk.
Yup... fixed!
Did GRU Hack Area1?
The Area1 research report on the Busisma hack seems broken. Coincidence, spike in demand, or actual intentional hack by GRU?
https://cdn.area1security.com/reports/Area-1-Security-PhishingBarismaHoldings.pdf
This is not even true. Firebase Realtime Database supports offline-first while SapphireDB is just streaming results to the client, like RethinkDB or Meteor.
Aaaaand the EULA and menu buttons are in Italian when I download from the en-us version of the site. I knew there would be 90 languages, but I didn't know I'd need to learn all of them to use Edge!
Note that making the lowest tier product cost less requires the highest tier product to cost more.

(Say the lowest tier widget costs $10 and sells 1000 units. The higher tier costs $20 and sells 100 units. The average revenue per unit is $10.91. The question then is, how many units would they sell if the single-tier unit price was $11?)
The distance is a few miles longer but the average speed is higher so it ends up being the same time, just much more pleasant because of the lack of billboards and wider lanes.
JFYI, in order to try and solve a specific problem some 13 years go we envisioned (and also started as POC) a "OFS" or "Overlapped File System", where a filesystem contained also a (partial) image of itself (mappable as image):

http://reboot.pro/topic/2887-boot-bartpe-as-img-from-hdd-wit...

Basically a same file (same extents) was accessible both from the "outer" and from the "inner" filesystems.

Then the idea was abandoned as another valid (and also simple/existing) solution to the actual problem was found through the use of "included in the standard" CDFS graft points:

http://reboot.pro/topic/2887-boot-bartpe-as-img-from-hdd-wit...
We have gained an effective competitor and lost an ineffective one.

Just because it's the same codebase doesn't mean they're not competing.
I have a hard time relating to these findings.

Advertisement almost never works on me. And, the few times it does work on me, I'm actually quite glad and appreciative because I only buy products I really want or really need.

If I look at all my credit card, amazon and ebay purchases for the last several years, which i do often, i see it's just the things I need/want: gas, maintenance, groceries a few times going out to eat, etc. almost 0 merchandise, those things don't make me happier.

It's pretty rare that I see an appealing advertisement (to me). but it does happen.

ads don't really say much about the product. but, I do find them interesting because they say a huge amount about segments of our population: their hopes, their dreams, their perceptions, how they want to be seen, how much they care what others think, etc. it's a great case study for humanity.
Product Engineering for Startups
The suggestion of not having anything to do with these mazes is in effect a suggestion not to have anything to do with any extremely successful company as far as I can figure out - so, at what monetary point will a company become a maze?
If you want to have PouchDB without being tied to the CouchDB-backend, check out RxDB. It supports replication via GraphQL.

https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
http://www.nrmp.org/main-residency-match-data/

79.5% match rate for PGY-1 positions.

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That does include US and IMG candidates.

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The 95% number comes when you only look at US med school based candidates. That suggests a much smaller gap between demand and supply.

The rate for an intentional candidate matching into an American program is in the 50% to 60% range. Lots of doctors want to come work in the US, but residency programs simply do not have the capacity to accept them.
Oh definitely, FB was the most amazing thing that I have ever seen for a few years. Instagram or any other social network never gave me the kick that FB used to give. It was like a new ability to browse the lives of the people you know.

I don't know what happen, maybe there's no money in this service maybe people simply got bored with each other's ordinary life.