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EQ is a load of poppycock; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi48uZjpJDk

What you are referring to are people with high IQ who are not well socialized and thus develop neuroticism and have emotional instability, which can happen for a variety of reasons but I think it is common among high IQ people and blood lines of high IQ people because of societies inability to understand them.

I was going to post a long tirade (which would've probably traumatized everyone here who read it) as EQ is a particularily onerous topic for me but I think a few short paragraphs will suffice.

In my case, I have high IQ and a near-eidetic memory which means I have what I call a "refactoring imagination"; I could imagine the perfect assembly of a car engine down to each measurement (or a few measurements that would allow me to make accurate guesses of the remainder) then iterate that complex system in my head over and over. That drawing can get put away in the brain and brought back 20 years later if relevant.

Now take a 6 year old child who always has his hand up in the classroom because he's bored, knows the answer from the book after reading it once or what the teacher showed them, and can anticipate what the teacher wants with a high degree of certainty. That child figures everyone else is just like they are is just as bored as they are (because that's the kids think); this goes on for weeks, the teacher becomes bewildered by the other kids (that profoundly gifted child is very good at selling the idea kids are smarter than they actually are to a relatively new teacher who hasn't developed out of that thinking yet) goads them a bit and through no fault of their own, the other kids begin teasing and assaulting him to take out their jealousy.

This snowballs due to an inference pattern of bad situation and that child then becomes what I call "the scapegoat student" for the remainder of their academic schooling.

It takes two parties to make a kid well socialized; the child and society. If society doesn't want to socialize a kid properly, they won't be. The kinds of people who latch on to EQ are the kinds who cannot accept they are "not special" and are also the kinds from whom I derived much abuse.

In the case of primary schools, getting your kid out of that situation requires moving to another district or state because the teachers are there to bring the bottom of society up to a functional level, not to allow the talented and gifted to soar. This produces the incentive, ultimately, to use some students as scapegoats.

The rest of what you mentioned is interesting to me, I'll take the tiem to look into it. Thank you.
I am really curious if we are going too see players adopting AlphaZero tactics. Games I saw goes so against current intuition and it would be interesting to see chess evolving.

Current crop of GMs benefited greatly from short feedback loops by using computers, but they still operate in explored problem space.
Re: travel, indeed - context is king. I’ve lived in six countries for years at a time over the years, and am now six months into a new one - still learning the language and getting to grips with everything, but it’s great, even if our house flooded and our car washed away - escaped with our lives from the raging torrent, so it’s just been an exercise in patience, mopping, and masonry.

We travel for long periods, ambling around a corner of the globe - the last few years have seen four months in Uruguay, six months in the stans, six months in the Balkan states, and six months pottering about the indochinese peninsula. This is why I view most people’s idea of travel with some disdain - showing up somewhere and banging around the sights isn’t travel, it’s stamp collecting.

I find it helpful, as it all provides context - and the different biases and beliefs people hold are just fascinating - particularly when you find them beginning to rub off on you.
Nobody has more experience on this set of circumstances - absolutely nobody. Some may have a better idea than others of how this is going to play out, but that's all.
I am less opposed to requirements about what must be in a structure for safety of yourself and surroundings. I am very opposed to preventing building whatsoever, or artificial limits to density. People think when they buy a house they have the right to ensure everything around them changes as little as possible. I disagree - you have the right to your own land not changing, but you should not be able to stop your neighbor.
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Haoyi is an amazing guy. Last night at 8pm and 2pm this morning I submitted two PR to the Mill, he merged within one hour. In about 7 years, he helped to create an eco-system around Scala:

- REPL (ammonite)

- build tool (mill)

- JSON serializer(uPickle)

- web framework (cask)

- test framework(uTest)

- http client lib (requests-scala)

- HTML tag lib (scalatags)

- parser(fast parse)

Scala development and tool can be divided into four categories

- Java (OO): wrong idea for many developers. Use Kotlin if you like OO.

- Haskell (pure FP, even HKT): good for fun but not for profit. Use Haskell for pure FP.

- Erlang (Actors): fibers are better. Use Clojure if you like Actors.

- Easy: practical FP, the above tools from Haoyi. Use them if you program in Scala

I'd guess all is done after work. Please support him to make Scala better: https://www.patreon.com/join/lihaoyi
lol at the accusatory and indignant tone.

1. apple is a hardware company not a software company. to wit: they do not sell mac os and if they did i might buy it.

2. i don't care a lick about any other features or "stability" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22845629). i simply said that i appreciated the workspaces feature. can i buy this feature ala carte? i would gladly. can i pay the devs that built it for their work? i would gladly.

3. i maintain my cognitive dissonance the same way you do when paying a 2x markup for commodity hardware.

edit: man every day i can't help but feel more and more that people in tech (at least as this site reflects) are some of the most self-righteous.
Meh... it’s a bit of both. Nazi comparisons are just annoying now, and people outside Germany tend not to realize how much of a faux pas they are, triggering reflexes of both “I’m sorry” and “Go fuck yourself”.

OTOH the help was a bit lackluster, especially at the beginning. I’m not sure about the “hundreds” of patients —- it’s probably closer to 100 than it is to 1,000 especially when only considering Italian patients. In any case it’s fairly symbolic considering the scale of this in Italy.

The cause of all this was probably bad timing more than any unwillingness to help. As Italy was most in need, cases in Germany were also growing explosively. There was probably just too much going on, and too much uncertainty to easily part with resources that might be needed rather soon.
SS: I was trying to update a comment with references [1] and, quite frankly, it was tedious. I made this script to make it easier for myself and others to include references in the future.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892516
That was the first attack. How about the second attack where they show how to encrypt a bitstream?
Very cool. I did something similar with an ESP8266, and an iftt web hook configured to flash the hue lights in my house and SMS me. I think texting is no longer offered by iftt.
I was impressed when PG admitted this. Empirically, people with kids almost never achieve outlier levels of success (since attention is a zero sum game, and kids force your risk appetite to be lower [1]). But this is an extremely politically incorrect thing to admit, and people seem to be in denial about it.

For the record I plan to have kids (because kids are awesome), but want to push it off as far as humanly possible. It's basically a sign that you've retired/don't have anything that important left to contribute other than steady-state levels of productivity.

[1] I think having Fuck You Money is the best way to prevent kids from lowering your risk appetite. But attention is still a zero sum game (even with nannies helping to offload some of the work), so money won't save you entirely.
The author was probably talking about the logistic function being parameterized by 3 parameters, x0, L, and k [1]. The point the author is probably making is that if you are fitting a perfect logistic model to data, 3 data points should be sufficient to determine 3 parameters that unambiguously parameterize the curve.

A separate set of 3 parameters also parameterizes the SIR compartmental model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...), the solution of which also looks like a logistic curve. But this is a model-based (dynamics-based) solution whereas one may be interested in just fitting the logistic model based on the assumption that it's going to be logistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
There must be a lot of people thinking they won't be getting the full experience if they start this year. I wonder if this will be the pin which pops the credit fueled runaway costs bubble?

Anyone who ends up not bothering with it at all will at least have great reason for not having a degree - well I was all set to go to such and such, but then coronavirus, so I started work for a while instead, and just really got into the whole working hard thing...
Is this post a parody?
As a EUian: look overseas. Many universities in Europe offer programs in English. It'll be an even mind-broadening experience, and it's significantly more affordable (I'll take this link from 2018 as a baseline: https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance... ).
So I guess on an air gapped computer, it's a good idea to set the fans to 100% in BIOS, rather than smart control / auto.
> 3.4 Attack 2: Breaking Authenticity

> With the first attack, the FPGA can be used to decrypt arbitrary blocks. Hence, it can also be seen as a decryption oracle. Thus,we can also use this oracle to encrypt a bitstream, as shown by Rizzo and Duong in [41], and generate a valid HMAC tag

This requires the first stage of the attack to succeed. If it fails and the FPGA cannot be used as a decryption oracle, there's no way to generate a valid encrypted bitstream with the technique outlined in the paper.
We've changed to that from https://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes/copying_is_not_th....
As another data point - Building a hackintosh is so much simpler now than it was 5 years ago.

The reddit forum at r/hackintosh is pretty helpful for getting started and has a nice repository of builds.

AMD Ryzen CPUs are fairly well supported now. My current system is a 3700x with radeon 5700xt gpu. I use OSX for my daily work, and Windows 10 for gaming. It's a great setup for $1000. My OSX geekbench specs beat out the latest standard 16" Macbook Pros.

For developers - One thing to note is that Docker is not supported with AMD hackintoshes. There are some workarounds but they seem fragile. Otherwise, everything else works great for me. I am mostly on cloud based apps/tools. Others also pointed out that Adobe, and vmware has issues. virtual box works.
Why would making a startup make you an expert in startups, but making a kid not make you an expert in kids?
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> The people around you will be vastly less ambitious. This will rub off on you.

Most community college people I have encountered are extremely ambitious — they are working full time while busting ass to achieve in school. The myth that community college is a bastion of the academically weak is wrong. I saw plenty of people at my prestigious school with ambitions that centered around parties and getting laid.
We've since changed the URL. It was originally https://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes/copying_is_not_th....
Key graf:

“One of the best things you can do is call someone else facing a similar problem and talk them through it. When you talk other people through their problems, you come up with wiser perspectives and solutions for yourself.”
Adam Grant, author of "Give and Take"
My understanding is that these tools are mostly being developed to allow reopening of things once the first wave dies down, with infrastructure in place to support contact tracing and reduce the impact of any second wave.
Surviving an awful experience can lead to some surprisingly positive effects
also Adobe software requires patches, which is a little bit more of a dealbreaker.
See my reply in the sibling comment thread. Basically, the second attack is not possible without the first succeeding.
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Having dealt with people in the animal rescue world I think there is another aspect to this. First make sure you are stable and taking care of before you try to help others. I have seen plenty of people who completely neglected their own physical and financial health while helping others. This works for a while but if you don’t take care of yourself eventually others will have to take care of you. I think subconsciously these people believe they are doing good but they can cause a lot of stress to the people around them.
You might be right. I wished they'd publish what exactly they aim for and what the plan for different outcomes of this experiment is.

For now they seem to aim at R = 1, which means waiting for the vaccine with whatever is possible to keep it at 1. (Probably not much more than barbers and very few school classes.)
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I'm in exactly the same boat as you. I want to help build the city of the future, but as a data scientist, I have no idea where to start.

This is advice I haven't followed myself, but might start following: talk with people who are working on building megastructures--not necessarily in your city--and ask how they got started. There aren't any online bootcamps for how to build a monorail, so "tribal knowledge" is probably the only way to go.

I'll let you know if this methodology works for me!
OP of the article here. Sorry the server got hugged to death, I launched the site a few weeks ago and wasn't expecting it to end up on the HN front page. It's back up on a better server now (and will be seeded to Scuttlebutt soon).

Happy to answer any questions.
The video is only 15 minutes long. You can just watch it in less time than it would take me to summarize.
People rarely use stock, unmodified revolvers for steel challenge or USPSA, and they rarely shoot factory ammunition. Almost all of the modifications are about intentionally trading reliability for speed.

I don’t dispute what you’ve seen but I don’t think it’s representative of what would be used for self defense or combat.
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Oh, I didn't mean those signed to huge corporations, I'm talking more like someone who works a regular job and does writing as a hobby. I wouldn't feel bad downloading a book from Stephen King or an album by some new NME-supported band that's filling up stadiums. But music that gets put on Bandcamp or self-published books - I have to buy. If only to support artists. I'm not a fan of being forced to shell out money, yeah, I think copyright laws are in a horrible state. But when the choice is mine to make, I'll gladly financially support works that I like.
yes haoyi is taking concrete action to move scala forward
South Korea has a pretty big biotech industry considering it's size. Samsung has a biotech division as an example.

So they have the know how, and it's just a matter of effort and time to execute.
How is the stability of Hackintosh?

What about updating to newer OS versions (minor and patch releases)

Is that experience better?

I haven’t looked into it since 2010
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Every one of the “reports of reinfection” I have seen was along the lines of: tested positive continuously for 2 weeks, then tested negative twice, then tested positive again a couple days later. There is no evidence in any of the cases I saw that the person was exposed to another infected person during that time period.

This should not be called “reinfection” (even though there are a bunch of sloppy media headlines calling it that) but rather “poor test sensitivity during the last stages of the infection”.
Honestly I think this should be something that regular websites be allowed to do too. It seems odd that something like Postman can’t exist as an client-only “offline” PWA.
This experimental API seems rather weak? A dialog box speedbump is both inconvenient and insecure.

It seems like peer-to-peer should imply that you can connect to mirrors without trusting them? Any data you download gets verified. But I guess that means you have to trust that there are no security bugs in your client, or eventually you'll hit a server that exploits it.

In practice, I think picking one caching server might be more reliable. (Much like setting GOCACHE when fetching Go modules, or configuring DNS with a list of servers.) We should be aiming for making caching servers interchangeable, but not necessarily connecting to random servers all the time.

This moves the problem one step back, since the caching servers will be connecting all over the place (much like recursive DNS), but at least it's running in the cloud with better connectivity.
There was a long interview on youtube from John Taylor Gatto I listened to once where he said essentially creativity must be constrained for society to be stable. Your anecdote reminds me of this. Teachers focusing on test scroes is a great way for this to happen. I'd mod this comment up it I could.
I think the OP's point may have been that Alireza had to flee Iran to play international chess. He's been living in France for the last 7 years afaik.
Why is parenting the only endeavor where thinking and study and research are useless?
How so? What Browser/OS/Resolution?
That's something to strive for - that those around me will want to say that on my deathbed. I mean, there's not much else that is going to matter to me then.
> [...] if we continue having paralyzing social inequality and international conflict, which destroy what we build

"We" (meaning the US and other developed Western nations) don't have "paralyzing social inequality". Social inequality, yes, but it's far, far from paralyzing. Also, "we" might be involved in international conflicts, but these destroy only a tiny fraction of what we build.

Your if-condition evaluates to false.
> The same goes for software: distributing what others make is wrong and should be illegal. Making something similar yourself? Fine, go ahead with it.

If you're doing it "similarly" after knowing the original, isn't that just "copy my homework, but change it a bit so the teacher won't notice"? In that case, why provide copyright in the first place?

The same goes for audio, I guess. If my (potentially perfect) recreation of your song is allowed, why bother protecting it in the first place?
Since it's not linked in the article, this is about this: https://dat.foundation/

And here's a walkthrough of building a simple chat application: https://docs.dat.foundation/docs/kappa
Sorry that the server crashed, it's back up now and that's talked about in the article :)
I have a Samsung Galaxy myself but it's less accurate than a real medical device. Readings depend on how you hold your finger against the sensor.
I have two kids and I've achieved a lot since having them, but Paul's root argument is absolutely correct. I've staved off a lot of the deterioration by investing tons of money into systems that make family life easier, rather than fight things like house cleaning services and such from a point of "efficiency."

I have far fewer material things, a very basic house, and not very nice cars, but an equally important shift is your financial mindset on helping your family's stability today as well as into the future.

Re-reading this, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Wish I could reword it, but it's how I feel, I guess. Maybe it'll help someone out there. Having kids is tough!
So, that's actually not my argument. But, though you're trying to dunk on it, it is a solid argument. Here's why: the cryptography in DNSSEC is obviously outmoded (it's PKCS1v15 RSA signatures, most of them 1024-bit, with an outlandish hack that combines spoofing and a KDF to prevent zone enumeration). The protocol "supports" P-curve ECDSA signatures, and, of course, both the P-curves and the NIST DSA signing algorithm are themselves outmoded --- and that's the frontier of crypto in DNSSEC; Geoff Huston did studies of this and found a substantial fraction of deployed DNSSEC verifiers can't even handle that. The point being: it will take decades, literal decades, to get the baseline level of cryptographic competence we expect from secure messengers (to say nothing of modern signing crypto) into DNSSEC.

And every new deployment of 1990s-grade DNSSEC makes that problem harder.

If we started from scratch, the very first thing that would change would be the notion that cryptography is too expensive to support online signing, which is one of the two original sins of DNSSEC. The entire protocol would be drastically cleaner, easier to deploy, and, of course, much more secure.

This is not the core argument I have against DNSSEC (for that, just Google [against DNSSEC]). But it's a good one. What they say about PHP holds true for DNSSEC: it's a fractal of bad design.

I don't know what BGP has to do with any of this except to say that DNSSEC obviously doesn't do anything to prevent BGP hijacking attacks; attackers who control BGP control IP addresses, the things DNS maps in the first place.

I'm doing my best to keep these responses varied and interesting, because an HN search will show this is an argument I've made here a lot. Hopefully I'm doing an OK job of that.
It's certainly true that forcasting using exponential fits is bound to have huge error bars, but it also seems foolish to "show" that it can't be accurately done early on a curve without noticing that it is fairly easy to fit (and relatively stable) once it becomes non-exponential (e.g. once rate of change is constant).

Of course in many cases there are external bounds that are similarly useful, for example when you know the maxima (e.g. full population size). Then the question to the early data is simply whether a fit to an exponential is "better" than successively higher order polynomials.

Currently, this forcasting information seems not particularly helpful at all for fitting epidemiological data for Covid19 since nowhere do we have data for a case where strict distancing hasn't been an effect of high death and hospitalization rates well before 50% of the population would provide any effective immunity.
It is relevant, because the unsafe features are still there, regardless how many use them, language culture and what not.

Likewise Clojure contains the main features of CLOS and makes use of them to interop with JavaScript, Java and C#, regardless how many in the community make use of it.

A language is made by the language specification and its standard library, not by whatever the community feels as trendy.

Present us a full compliant Clojure implementation minus CLOS, and lets see how far it goes.
I want to chime in that I absolutely agree that copyright terms need to be shortened and copyright laws need some fixing. Their current state is absolutely for the benefit of big corporations and doesn't help small authors as much.
You should! Been coding in Scala in my day job for the past 5 years, and it’s a great language - my personal favourite. Elegant/beautiful AND practical. The mix of OOP, FP, really robust static type system, and great 1st class concurrency support is a direction most languages are moving in, and Scala already nails it. There’s a significant learning/ramp-up period, but it’s good learning that helps your programming in any language, and once you start getting comfortable with the language you become quite productive.