skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:

-It's basically a HBD blog. HBD proponents love to pretend they're doing "science" by posting huge walls of texts that masquerade as papers but would be thrown out of any respectable peer-reviewed popgen journal. (popgen, not psychology.). Here's an example of titles on this blog: "The Catholic Church and Western Genetics", "Racial Ancestry and IQ", "Population Differences in IQ-Related Genes", "Expert Surveys on Race and IQ". Note that at no point in any of those posts, any actual geneticist is mentioned, only "intelligence researchers". Many of these, like Lynn, Rushton and Kanazawa were found to be guilty of conducting absolute trash science or outright fraud (https://medium.com/@evopsychgoogle/a-critique-of-rushton-and..., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3332228/, http://risk-resilience.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/jour...). Many of these researchers also get funding from very shady sources like the Pioneer Fund. This alone should send all kinds of warnings about the motivated agenda of the people putting forward arguments here.

-It does nothing to address any of the points raised by Taleb, such as nonlinearity and convexity. This sentence right here shows how mathematically illiterate the author is:
>I’ll say more about this below, but here note in passing that Taleb never explains why a non-linear trend would invalidate IQ in the first place.
The author also doesn't seem to understand that covariance between a fat-tailed distribution and a gaussian one isn't well-defined in the first place and as such measuring samples' covariance makes no sense. You don't need "a study" to prove it, it's just math.

-It basically parrots the same points over and over again, distorting the word "predict" to the point of meaninglessness: IQ predicts this, IQ predicts that. Well of course when we live in a society where many of your life outcomes are somehow tied to your ability to sit down and take a pen and paper test, IQ is going to correlate well with these! "An artifact number that drives a bunch of correlates" is not what normal people (read, people outside the Pioneer Fund buddies) mean by intelligence! In fact, nobody really agrees what is meant by intelligence, which is why AI isn't a thing and likely won't be within our lifetimes.

-You're basically a one-reply account, who posted just so that challenges to your debunked notion of IQ wouldn't get the last word. Again, let me doubt good faith is involved here.
Broadly speaking test instruments often do similar things that some consumer devices do as well, but 1) with greater precision, accuracy and stability 2) over a much wider range of parameters.

For example, a spectrum analyzer is similar to a radio receiver, but the SA usually covers a much larger rage (typically 9 kHz - 1.8, 5, 12 GHz), the SA can handle a huge range of input powers (typically something like -1xx to +20 dBm), and it can accurately measure power levels at all frequencies, has a variety of filters and analysis functions and so on.

The RF section of some of these is actually mostly made of standard COTS parts - input assembly (these use very high grade connectors because of the repeatability requirements), programmable precision attenuator, mixer module, YIG LO etc. -- except all of these are high precision, RF devices, which simply cost a lot of money.

The 80/20 rule applies as well. Well, maybe more like 60/40. An SDR can get you most of the stuff a proper SA can do for a fraction of the price (and can do some things an used SA from the 80s or 90s cannot do). A very good audio interface can serve as an audio analyzer, given the right software. A common pattern is that you can get the capabilities to do something, but not the accuracy of a real test instrument.
I'm surprised at the lack of checks and balances in place. That one person had unchecked control of the game.
The latest iteration is Quake Champions.
Lol. :) I was just about to complain about the font. Monospace: great for code and legal documents, terrible to read!
I want to say Tetris has stood the test of time. It has actually followed through to modern times, but I’m pretty confident I could play it on a gameboy today and not feel stuck in the past - just playing a game that’s been around a long time.
My guess is because that’s what they’re sold on and offered. Also perverse incentives come into play. With companies it’s quarterly results, with consumers it’s consumerism culture and the insane financing dependency people are hooked on.

Valuing up-front over TCO only makes sense for very large purchases and for business investments.
I don't have anxiety about busy turns or cars behind me, but I still roll my eyes at elective left turns and stop signs, because I can't see how they're expected to save time. I would believe it could work out if you do rolling stops, accelerate hard between stop signs, and perform left turns with narrow margins. But if you're not driving that way, many "shortcuts" seem utterly counterproductive.
I definitely understood that, I just don’t find it convincing. The pattern matching is as good as it can be, and as suited to survival as can be, and kludgy is never the term I’d use for that. It’s just an oddly negative way to frame the most competent and complex thing we don’t understand yet.
It'll be a while, but I think the next step is a move towards web. I've built it to run in browsers before, but that was a while ago.

Because DOME sits on top of SDL2, porting to other platforms shouldn't be too difficult in the future. Lofty goals!
Bet you $500 it won't.
This comment kinda reads like "Can you name a 1913 car that's aged better than the Model T? There's a reason they sold so many." And yet, for many people, it's not their preferred choice today.
I think the biggest counter-argument to this is the problem of "mal-investment". In a lot of ways the business cycle operates as an explore-exploit optimizer.

During boom periods, credit conditions are loose. Which allows for a large degree of innovation with new and speculative business models. This is important because as conditions and technologies change, the frontier space of what's viable needs to be explored. Tomorrow's economic titans are today's wild-eyed entrepreneurs.

However most of these crazy ideas turn out to be just that. That's where the importance of recessions come in. Credit crunches and market downturns impose economic and efficiency disciplines. Firms that were coasting by on good conditions without delivering real productivity gains are culled by the downturn.

The entire phase of the cycle is important to maintain a healthy economic ecosystem. My fear is that if we banish recessions to the dustbin of history, we'll find ourselves increasingly burdened with bad investments as a larger and larger share of the capital base. Instead of getting written off during a downturn, jubilant markets will just keep throwing good money after bad managers, broken business models and overhyped vaporware.
Seriously I feel like we could resolve a lot of this if the orgs that seized assets, etc had to pay back everything, including legal fees, losses incurred due to seizure, and paid with interest charged at the same rate as late taxes and fines payments.
Hey, coming from a Doom perspective, Splatoon “has a network stack.”
> After strong AIs are common, we can persue the even more interesting task of dumbing them down in fun ways

An artificially handicapped or limited smart ai in video games is often obvious and not fun.
So it is—the life we receive is not short, but we make it so, nor do we have any lack of it, but are wasteful of it.
Styled scrollbars just might happen
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scrollbars-1/
The link inside the link says that clicking on the favorites menu would cause the browser to crash. Not exactly ship-able.
Intel had schematics for all their motherboards.

Interesting, I didn't know that. Was that true all the way up until they left the business? What was the most recent generation of motherboards for which they published the schematics?
Well, yes, a big enough global pandemic can derail a lot of our current systems. That is exactly where it gets problematic to me: To what extent is what kind of crisis a reasonable scenario that has to be taken into consideration? Is it reasonable to widely prepare people for a civilization ending pandemic? A meteor impact? And to what extent?

The potential costs are limitless (both in money and in lifetime because you can never be too prepared), the potential benefit is absolute, the risk (when assessing by statistical impact on total human lifes so far) very low. How do you possibly weigh such things?
I don't think anyone has mentioned yet that wine doesn't work yet on Catalina. Until that's fixed I'm staying with Mojave.
On that note, did you know there's also justify-items and align-content?
Ah yes, I think it was $70 here in Australia.
"But overly tight money is really really not the way to make land affordable."

It is the other way around. Please google "asset price inflation".

"It's an exceptionally destructive approach."
Only in your head my friend.
>Playing Doom today needs to be approached like any other nostalgia trip

I see this a lot in regards to older games especially things like doom or goldeneye. I understand when it comes to graphics or some tedious gameplay features and controls but I find from an actual core gameplay standpoint, a lot of older games hold up a lot better than more modern games. I'd rather manage ammo, while searching obscure tunnels for secrets and keys shooting at blurry pixels than press 'space' for the next qte between beautiful 30 minute cutscenes after the umpteenth tutorial guided linear coridoor I receive the next shiny trophy for walking down where the only risk is having to restart 3 seconds earlier from the last auto save point with a possible bonus for failing too many times accompanied with a link to the ingame store where I can purchase ammo or armour for the price of a cup of coffee.
As a player, I spent most of my time finding the key to unlock some door, rather than killing monsters.
Posted and discussed 9 days ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22139975
A friend of mine who's in his mid-20s works at an infosec firm where he and quite a few of his colleagues have recently obtained ham licences.

They went along and tried to engage the local club. They gave up and now refuse to deal with them. He suggested to me that either someone needs to start a digital-only club, or, as recently happened with our overarching national body, someone needs to intervene and take over the club to keep it relevant.
> is because supporters want someone else to pay for it.

Yes, obviously? Preferably the people with more than one megayacht?
Here you go: https://www.uber.com/blog/new-york-city/uber-copter/

I promise it's almost always the fastest (I knew someone who had corporate access to it for big clients).
This has been around at least as long as the 1980s: back then I was a teenager and had an exchange visit with this kid from Paris, I remember him describing how they flipped words around to make their own slang. One that stuck in my head was "chébran", a reversal of "branché", which literally means "plugged in" or "connected" but in the era of Minitel and other early networks was used to indicate someone who was hip to current trends.
I think the title is appropriate. I read more and more content (in what used to be considered the more intelligent news sources) that I could pull to shreds line-by-line, yet the publications are successful and apparently this content is being lapped up. Their seems to be just enough sophistry, pretentious verbosity and reinforcement of existing beliefs to make the reader believe they have read an accurate and objective appraisal of the situation, and to feel confident to regurgitate this speciousness on command as if it's the truth. I'll read some obvious rubbish and can almost predict point-for-point exactly how someone's words will proceed - and these are educated people, supposed to be able to distinguish. It's depressing.
You're mentioning the current, disconnected meaning, while the original author showed a possible origin of those expressions. I dont know if they're valid but they're certainly interesting and potentially right.
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You're absolutely right. You don't have to believe me but I called the last recession. It's not bad news that's frightening. It's a disproportionate government and market reaction. Governments making a lot of noise to protect weak hands. There are a lot of weak hands, many created since we "survived" the last scare, and it's not going to take much to bust them. Stay safe everybody and enjoy living history as usual.
There are actually a large number of particular interests in ham radio overall. One interest is public service. The disasters in Montana couple years ago, in California fires, and in Australia are helped out by hams who can operate in environments without regular power. Hams supporting events such as the Chicago Marathon, which is so crowded that cellular networks are overloaded and not reliable in emergencies.

Another interest group are folks who build their own radios. One very active group are those who build Elecraft radios, which end being up competitive with the most expensive radios out there.

Another very active group are ham radio contesters, that draw hams from all over the world to compete, including events in morse code.

An event that happens every four years is the World Radio Team Championship: https://wrtc.info/ . Again, hams from all over the world converge, the first year was seattle, another giant event was in Boston, another in Finland, and most recently Germany.

A particularly exciting merger of ham radio and computers are the modern digital protocols, particularly FT8 and FT4 that are effective even in low power and compromised antenna situations. This has been created and supported by Joe Taylor, K1JT, a Nobel Laureate.

A very serious technical challenge is communicating by bouncing signals off the moon called EME or moonbounce. This is at the edge of abilities, and only a few amateurs are successful at this.

As far as age is concerned, many clubs today are taking up the challenge of getting young folks interested. Tim Duffy, K3LR, has sponsored an event with very young folks: https://dxnews.com/forum/forum/yota-ycp-scouts/13318-k3lr-wp.... One very active ham is Violetta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or512r7vels
Hi! Sorry about the late reply, your comment was marked as dead before.

I'm from Sweden where basically every single person has an app on their phone which functions as a digital ID, used by the government and a ton of companies. Every time we sign in to (or sign up for) services that handle taxes, banking, insurance, benefits, payments, utilities, etc. we use our mobile ID. There are a few other countries that I know have similar solutions, for example Finland and Estonia but many still don't. You can read more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_signature

The big problem is that these solutions are all different and it's close to impossible to integrate them all. This is the reason why many global startups that require identity verification fall back to less convenient and secure methods, e.g. Revolut, Monzo and N26, to name a few. I believe that for truly convenient identity online there needs to be a single digital ID which works for everyone. This is what I'm currently working to achieve.

If you have any thoughts I'd love to discuss it further!
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See https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjt.html.

The spread of activity of FT4 and FT8 is worldwide and extremely active.
Are they not law enforcement?
I don't think that is what he means. I am guessing he means very few people will ever even know about this. So why should the people who randomly come across this information do anything about it?
Also there are morse modem apps you can get on the smartphone and just put it next to your radio. It's a non-issue these days.
I took a year of German in graduate school so I could read German philosophical texts. On thing that really struck me about the language is that the main verb in a sentence goes at the end. So a German sentence translated word-for-word into English would be something like "I to the store in my car went."

Also I remember learning that German philosophy students prefer to read the English translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason because it broke up the impossibly long sentences of the original.
I don't know; I rented a truck in an NYC outer borough for a move and had the hardest time navigating through the city because I had no easily accessible way to figure out where trucks were allowed.
To some extent standardized assemblies have been used for a very long time. HP System 2 (the cute 1/3 rack units) is from the 60s, System 3 from the late 70s (I think), though the actually walked back on that one and later replaced the standardized cast aluminium parts with unit-specific sheet metal bending (3478A and others). Later they re-used the display/input modules, both HP and Keithley did this for a lot of their later DMMs and SMUs.
Does it reveal the plot? To me "un jour sans fin" seems like it could just be figurative, like a day that seems to never end because it's boring or miserable... which is kind of what Bill Murray's life is like at the beginning of the movie.
Thank you. That's a great site!
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s/I remember all of the pain points he did/I remember all of the pain points she did/
Great answers everyone! Thanks! (I aspire to be a future programming language designer (amongst too many other future aspirations!), so this information will be remembered into the future!)
The first two digits of the serial number gives the years since 1960 of the revision for HP.
MLFinLab 0.5.0 Release and Looking for New Research
Hi Everyone,

We have released the latest update to the MlFinLab package which now includes the following implementations:
Useful Financial Features:

* Structural Breaks

* Market Microstructural Features

* Entropy Features

Other:

* ONC Clustering Algorithm

* Improved Feature importance

* Add time data structure

* Add Z-score filters

We are just about finished with the textbook Advances in Financial Machine Learning and have started to implement a few papers from the Journal of Financial Data Science.

Namely:

1. Codependence module based on information theory.

2. Feature Importance: Model Fingerprint

If you have a couple of papers or tools that you would love to see open-sourced please do leave a link in the comments section and we can review them. There are 3 textbooks coming out in 2020 on FinML which we are waiting patiently for.
I remember watching the New Orleans breach in TV in Ireland where I was at the time and it was a bit odd - the only US news we had pretty much was CNN and that had been going on about the levys being likely to be breached about every 20 mins for the 24 to 48 hours previously. And then they breached. And then the president came on saying no one could have predicted they would be breached. Which was odd - I guess no one unless they'd turned on TV anywhere on the planet...
We have huge problems with policing in this country, no doubt. This is simply not comparable to the systemic oppression and persecution of political and ethnic undesirables in places like China.

Note that millions of us Americans who are disgusted with systemic racism and authoritarian overreach in our country are free to discuss it openly, assemble in opposition, and vote our conscience. Do you imagine a person in China is likewise free to engage in a public discussion about Uyghur concentration camps?
Verlan has gone into common use by all strata of the general population, not just immigrants. It's been the case for 50+ years. It's much decried by the usual suspects like the Académie and whatnot but the truth is that everyone uses it.

The phenomenon is also accelerating, even the most trivial and shortest words are getting commonly reversed: là (there) -> al, pas (not) -> ap, moi/toi (me/you) -> ouam/ouat, ça (that) -> ass, bien (well) -> ienb, pied (foot) -> iep, etc. Lots of fun to be had when explaining all this stuff to other non-French speakers.
How capable are the satellite communication devices (Iridium, Inmarsat, etc) in a disaster? Do the satellites get overloaded easily?

They aren't that expensive any more, you can get a phone for around $500 and basic plan for $50/month.

Or you can get a satellite communicator (mostly meant for hiking in the backcountry) that can only send an SOS message or text message for ~$300 for the device and as little as $12/month for a basic plan with a few SMS's included.
not sure if you're a fucking idiot. oh, wait, I am sure. you are a fucking idiot.
Again, a lot of what passes for "DMT" on the street is actually N,N-dimethyltryptamine, which (while also a very powerful psychedelic) is NOT the same as 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (aka 5-MeO-DMT), which is the subject of the Forbes article.

It would be prudent to find out which "DMT" you're getting, and educate yourself on the difference. You really don't want to confuse the two.
As someone who regularly plays games from the 80s, I have to disagree. Unless you're playing a game from an iterative franchise where all are trying to achieve the same vision (sports, cod, simulator), older games absolutely can be compared to modern ones. Obviously the graphics can't, but if the gameplay sucks or the level design is monotonous then it doesn't matter how modern or old a game is. Look at today's Blizzard, who keep pumping things out that annoy their own fan base. Annoyed to the point that people petitioned them for wow classic, and are now petitioning for them to re-release the original warcraft 3.

The best example off the top of my head is the speed running community. The most popular game is super mario 64, which came out in 96. It has a smoothness to the controls that is almost never achieved even in modern games.
I read a Romero comment somewhere pointing out how cover mechanics are a way for designers to slow the game down and also deal with the different constraints of consoles. In that sense, Gears of War is more or less the anti-Doom.
The Lindy effect Wikipedia article has further reading on this as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Seperate but related, I hope it draws attention to the fact that FM receivers should be a legal requirement in mobile phones. Even if just for emergency purposes
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A preview of coming attractions in this thread:

- Weight loss isn't hard, just eat fewer calories than you burn.

- Keto will obviously make you lose weight!

- I lost N lbs by meditation and intermittent fasting!

- Being hungry sucks.

- Anybody can do it, this one trainer put on 100 lbs, and then took it all off again!

- Being fat is just another sign that you're lazy.

- It's sugar's fault! (Alternatively: It's artificial sweetener's fault!)

- A vegan diet will make you lose weight.

I'll get us started: Being in a caloric deficiency for weeks or months is one of the most miserable experiences you can have. Constant hunger, no energy, always hangry... Yeah. Being hungry sucks.
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Anyone distrusting government agencies ONLY NOW because of one politician is ignorant.
Not until you factor in energy storage, at which point it’s far more expensive, and carbon intensive.
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I’m currently playing through the original Doom games on Switch. They’re a lot of fun still! Even Doom 3, the weakest of the series, is very enjoyable in handheld mode.

They also don’t constantly nag you or hold your hand.