skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another quote from him:

"My personal opinion about it is:

A) I hope it's not true. I would much rather live in a world where there are not big group differences.

Number 2) I understand why it's a sensitive issue. Because it was used in a way to oppress people for a long time. So I'm not blind to that.

Number 3) I am a scientist. So when I say something like 'The results of the studies do not allow us to come to a high confidence conclusion about it.' That's what I'm going to say. So I've been attacked because I haven't been willing to categorically rule something out, which I think is absurd..."

"The scores are, as you say, you do the tests, you find differences. However there are differences in average environment that these people experience. So the really difficult statistical question is, is it the difference in average environment these people experience, or is it genes. And it's a very difficult question..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQdq8mOEd8

https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/twitter-attacks-and-de...
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I hope so, but I fear it will be forgotten in the next month or so, like everything else that trends.

But then again, the BLM movement has been around since, what, 2013?
It has been studied pretty extensively. For example, see this survey https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1997-30052-009

In pretty much every study within group differences are far and away more massive that between group differences. Unlike other things like height, eye colour, or facial hair growth, intelligence is highly variable even between identical twins. The genetic link seems weak at best.

It’s also more or less impossible to study with great accuracy - you’re trying to study how race affects intelligence, but how do you correct for non-biological factors? Race is deeply intertwined with economics, education, nutrition, healthcare, and every other aspect of society and culture. Any study you do, regardless of results, will have a mountain or potentially over corrected or under corrected factors.

Finally, what are we even studying? Defining intelligence is a nightmare, and a quick glance at history shows how the definition of intelligence has changed over time and between cultures. Trying to look at how race’s biological factors affect intelligence irrespective of sociological factors is in many ways a fool’s errand - the very definition of intelligence is wrapped right up in those sociological factors!
While I agree. I'm seriously getting annoyed with every single expensive thing being compared to the US military budget (that is 1 trillion if you include the stuff hidden in the other parts of the budget).

Things need to stand on their own if they are worth. Removing the military is not politically viable, so we can come up with 1000s of fantasy project we could finance.

However, the problem remains the same, what is the alternative use for those 21 billion. No matter if you can use the military budget, in that case you also need to evaluate alternative uses for those 21 billions.
I always saw sources like yours to be a bit of "confirming the obvious". Of course the average iphone user spends more, the average iphone user has a more expensive phone, and therefore more disposable income. Android has cheap handsets, Apple does not.
Scout positions have hidden antennas. Demolition charges. Also probably useful in cold/windy areas where dexterity is hard.
Vue is pretty good at generating SVG (I use Vue+SVG on https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/) but there's a trick for making it work with Canvas too. https://simblob.blogspot.com/2018/03/using-vue-with-canvas.h... — it will make the canvas drawing function depend on the right data in Vue, so that if any of that data changes, it re-draws the canvas automatically.
Honestly, I think the authentication method used by the credit bureaus is pretty good, and I think that other companies can license it or something. They ask you multiple choice questions that require you to know elements of your credit report. They have the data to make plausible false options. It certainly seems to work better than Google's recovery process for gmail.
> Personally, I'd feel comfortable saying "nobody is talking about cause X", if related cause Y was being talked about 100x more.

I'd truly encourage you to go engage with the literature and experts on this subject. You might find that your "100x" expectation is wildly inaccurate.

> Why not just link to the experts addressing it?

Because they are easy to find for people who are interested and spending time navigating the literature for people engaged in an intellectual denial of service attack is a waste of time. Same reason I stopped engaging with quacks causing trouble in my field of expertise.
Since this is a gaming article..

A soon to be released patch offers world of Warcraft players an in game upgrade (additional bag slots) for players with MFA setup. I would have thought this would be supported by a community.

Instead, the feedback I'm seeing everywhere us "it's just a scam to make you setup the authenticator, don't fall for it". I cannot fathom why people think this, when it's a free offering and protects you more than them.

It just shows how differing some community views are from the security community.
DeCSS was printed on T-shirts.
> it’s a little like the Mafia

The Mafia didn't build things. It just came in and took over things others had built.

Apple built its app store. It built the iPhone. It got its users fair and square, by providing a product that users want. If you think that's the same as the Mafia, you have a very skewed view of business.
care to tl;dr?
I have no idea about Hsu's research, but if you think that 'skilled scientists' in academia are not often as ruthlessly political as anyone else then gosh, do I have some research bridge projects to sell to you.
When Google reader shut down I switched to, and now pay for, https://inoreader.com for reading (they have a free ad-supported tier or paid tiers). The HTML and iOS browsing experience is excellent.

For dealing with sites that don't support RSS, I run a paid service https://kopi.cloud - it allows you to give out anonymous mail addresses to services such as Twitter, Linked-in, Facebook, etc. that can be configured to publish all mail received as an RSS feed.
These were usually used at the front lines, to communicate with people stationed a little further back. Radio signals can be detected and eavesdropped, especially in WWII days.
The Larry Nassar case exposed major cultural issues within the MSU administration. Is this treatment of Steve Hsu the pendulum swinging in the extreme opposite direction, or out of control woke-ism?
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> The problem is categorically not solved here.

The "problem" being your convenience. Sorry, that's not anyone's problem but yours.
> Coworker needs my attention immediately? Call me.

I despise unsolicited phone calls. It’s figuratively kicking in your door. I can delay a Slack response for a few minutes. I can’t delay some jackass barging into my “office.”
Charging iPhone users more was actually one of the suggestions Phil Schiller made. I'm pretty sure Spotify charges more for people who subscribe from within the iPhone app. They made a lot of noise a year or two ago about this and ended up with this approach.

Personally, I'm very skeptical of subscription options since many companies are bad actors; making it difficult to cancel or throwing adds and promotions at you.
An EMP attack would destroy the power grid, your modern electronics may survive but without anything to power them.
Personally I don't think any of this is particularly related to "dangerous questions," but you do you I guess.

In which he downplays racial bias in police shootings: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/re-post-joe-cesario-on...

In which he says lack of segregation is the reason for racial underperformance: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/03/claude-steele-on-chall...

Interview with an open white supremacist, check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux
True enough—and yet, the App Store by not offering software upgrades, has in many ways pushed developers to the subscription model.
> I hope it's not true. I would much rather live in a world where there are not big group differences.

This is why these questions are deemed dangerous. They have the possibility of challenging and upsetting deeply held beliefs and narratives. What is there to fear but an observation and the data it’s based on?
From the campus group calling for his firing [1]:

>However, these categories overlap & are all rooted in Hsu’s beliefs in innate biological differences between human populations, especially regarding intelligence --an unscientific position which makes him unsuited to direct a research institution’s funding or its graduate studies

Humans are, biologically, extremely diverse. Visible attributes, disease risk, geometry of the physical body, etc. Some groups are more prone to certain genetic disease risk factors, for example.

Doesn't it follow that the brains of different groups of humans might group into certain traits, including intelligence?

I'm asking in all sincerity. I'd love to hear if there's some evidence that my thinking is wrong.

[1] https://twitter.com/GradEmpUnion/status/1270829006439485441
> the whole

Is nothing like the situation with respect to Apple, so I don't see how your extended analogy here is relevant.
He’s a hack. Most people in quantitative genetics think he’s a hack. He’s still a fully tenured professor making a lot of money & free to choose his research agenda. It’s just that he shouldn’t be head of research and really amazing faculty have left at least in part because of him.
Isn't app store just a package repository with added friction? Wouldn't something like the BSD ports tree or slackware be earliest?
I use ssh because it's easier to use than nc, and there are very few hosts with encryption performance slower than network performance. On a 10g line it might matter, but gigabit or usually doesn't.
> Hsu sparked outrage again when he cited a 2019 study in a blog post concluding, "there is no widespread racial bias in police shootings."

(from link 1)
I would beg to venture expired certificate, firmware goes to validate itself, comes back expired, crashes because this scenario wasn’t considered, repeat.
No one said you can't criticize him. I wouldn't go out there alone without a sure way out. But the smug, self-righteous predictable knee jerk condemnation from many people I would suspect barely venture outside is, as always predictable, and distasteful.
Indeed! Unless it's a wired LAN connection, zstd will not make things slower on lower settings, and can make it faster
Yes that is the figure I point out whenever I look at Mac business. Which has 100M Active user [1]. i.e at least 20% of Mac users are Apple registered developers. They will all need to buy a Mac it also contribute to their Mac bottomline. And since there are also tons of Web Developers and Developers form other domain on the Mac, it would not be far fetch to say Developers is one of the largest user group on the platform.

This is also the reason why I dont buy the argument about App Store 30% cut bringing you the development tools. Those are well covered by the $99 and more. Now thinking about it, I would be surprised if the reviewing of Apps were not covered by the $2B annual developer fees alone.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/there-are-now-100-million-...
openssh sftp does half of this. you can get a file with one or two args (sftp remote:file [localfile]), but to put a file you need to echo put; sftp localfile remote:file gives "cannot connect to localfile".
You might like Ryan North's "How to Invent Everything," the survival guide for the stranded time traveller:
https://www.howtoinventeverything.com/
Anyone who unironically says "social justice warrior" doesn't deserve a leadership position, IMO.
Thanks. This seems exhaustive and very well researched.
This is a very quick summary of the opinion he was fired for: https://youtu.be/XHUSl9FLAmE

His firing was called for here: https://twitter.com/GradEmpUnion/status/1270829003130261504
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> One of the video clips is taken from an interview I did with YouTuber Stefan Molyneux in 2017. Molyneux was not a controversial figure in 2017, although he has since become one.

I’m going with he is in way over his head, and didn’t know who this guy was who interviewed him, or is lying. 10 minutes of research in 2017 easily would have shown this.
assuming you only use unloaded servers with hardware a accelerated AES.
I love this trend and hope you're right that it grows.

A year ago, all of my hours were optimized, quantified, and monetized. My work and social calendars were equally overstuffed, leading to a frantic feeling of being too busy and falling behind on everything.

Now I have time to experience JOMO, the joy of missing out.
Few, if any, of the concerns are directly about his research, but about the other things he does. In general I'd say that anyone doing research like Hsu's should be extra vigilant and careful, because their research will be used by "race realists" to push forth their theories. And legitimizing those views is bad.

If you want to ask these kinds of questions, you need to be sure that you can't be accused of a conflict of interest, Hsu's done, basically the exact opposite of that, and intentionally associated himself with some really uncomfortable people. That context has the consequence of throwing Hsu's motives into question as well.
I think ultimately a university cares about its image more than anything. Nuking a tenured professor from a VP position is small potatoes for better optics (no matter the merit of allegations). I think the allegations do have merit at least for someone in an administrative position, not a purely academic one.
> Part of it is being beyond reproach

The problem is that he was largely removed for refusing to lie about the state of the science. But the state of the science is not politically acceptable.
Because the way it is done really. Putting it all in some gigantic money pit with 50 governments each helping finance one part or another, each part bought from some company from each of the governments. The project is so slow that its out of date before its close to being finished.

However, 21$ billion allocated more like it was for Commercial Crew/Cargo by NASA would make more sense. Have many competitors who get a little money and get more to those who can actually prove out the system.

Building advanced commercial fission reactors and helping them with getting threw the currently idiotic license scheme would probably be an even better return on investment then fusion. But somehow the world has decide that fission is evil and only fusion can save humanity, even if that makes little sense from a physics perspective.
So if you believe something to be a fact and supported by scientific research, and that fact is offensive to someone or a group if people, then you can be “cancelled”? American academia is in trouble.
I agree, I also hate talking on the phone. I believe that's true for most people though, which makes them question themselves if they really need to go through that awful process. At least that's how I reason about a problem before bothering someone with what's essentially not their concern.
Look no further than chemical "cleaning" products
Taleb wrote an analogy to this in “Antifragile” when he introduced a banker and a London cab driver to illustrate a similar conclusion. It was (for me) one of the key insights I took from that book.
Oh yes.

My favorite:

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

Check the dates.
He went out there, blindly, but with every intention to live. He also survived for over three months before succumbing to poisonous berries. Some of these comments would suggest that he intentionally went into the wild just to die.

For your question, none of your business.
A lot of business are just a few customers away from being unprofitable. That being said, people do often underestimate their chances of being laid off.
> To call it "damning" is an understatement

It is? I still don't see one meaningful example, and you didn't give any either.
> Everyone can talk and point things on the screen

I think you may be making some unconscious assumptions about everyone having the same abilities. Deaf or mute people can't talk. Blind people can't point at things on a screen. And even people who can talk might be more comfortable writing, e.g. people who are self-conscious about their accent.

For these reasons, I think that the recent increase in remote work, though forced on us by the pandemic, gives us an opportunity to better include people who might be inadvertently excluded in an on-site environment.
Videos from years ago are being taken out of context in order to make him seem racist and sexist. It is ridiculous.

We have gotten to the point where no matter what you say or do, there is always a victim ready to complain.

And now it’s even worse, if science doesn’t back our political beliefs or feelings , let’s just shut down science!
This should be a top-level comment.

If the author's claims are true, I can hardly MSU for the decision.

A geneticist hosting and associating with a white supremacist and being a holocaust denier are not exactly the sort of academic liberty we should be standing up for.
Is your perception of yourself being a procrastinator a result of having "been indoctrinated from an early age to be productive, to schedule every moment"?

Taking a view from Positive Psychology, the ABCDE explanation for this thought pattern might go something like:

* [Activating event] You observe yourself not working on side projects

* [Belief] People without side projects or their own businesses are failures

* [Consequence] Label oneself a procrastinator, and feel bad

* [Disputation] People can have meaningful/successful lives without having side projects. People require maintenance in the form of leisure/downtime. Your procrastination is yourself striving for leisure/downtime.

* [Effect] Feel good about activities you previously labelled as procrastination.

I'm not qualified in this area, but this helps me, at least.

https://positivepsychology.com/albert-ellis-abc-model-rebt-c...
We have tons of unused capacity. Energy shortages would be indicated by high energy prices, but they are low. China had been building coal plants before actually having demand for them (creating a great place to mine BTC in the process), then expanded to build coal plants all over the world. The US is swamping international markets with fracking oil. In OPEC, the hate for each other still seems to be stronger than the desire to increase prices.
He appears to be using PPC Leopard. The iOS 2.2.1 SDK is the latest that can be made to work on that. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/iphone-os-221-sdk-ppc

So, I'm going to go ahead and say it's impossible.
maybe the rangers should start taking deposits lol. "safety deposits" as insurance against future rescue. i say that sarcastically, but it actually doesn't seem like the worst idea ever.
I don't think it would be an ideal if everyone were born exactly the same. Seems like a lot of beauty in the world around us comes from our different faces, thoughts, beliefs, culture, etc, all born of how we're all different.
A couple of clarifications, from the links:

1. He wasn't forced to resign. He was requested to resign by the president of MSU.

2. He's still a tenured professor, and he will be returning to that role.

3. The group trying to oust him is the GEU (Graduate Employees Union, affiliated with the AFL-CIO), which represents 1200 graduate assistants at the University.

Apparently Dr. Hsu has made some controversial statements about genetics. The GEU's accusations appear to be about perceived racism.

One of Dr. Hsu's sins was appearing on a program with Stephane Molyneux, a conservative commentator whom they call "a white supremacist". I've watched several of Molyneux's programs and he is hardly a racist. Conservative and white, yes. I guess that's bad enough these days.
There's nothing preventing you from having an unrestricted device but having your improved experience. Plenty of people chose only to rent movies at Blockbuster Video because it was a bright and clean store with no porn. That didn't require Blockbuster to make their own special VHS or DVD player that only played the movies they offered.

> I have no problem with restrictions that improve overall experience

I'm sure there are plenty of restrictions that would improve the overall experience for many people of many things that are still banned. Plenty of people would like all of a certain race banned from their apartment complex or town. I guess by your argument if they opt in to that experience because it's better for them it's should be no problem.
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Probably the best way to understand hardware is to write a emulator
I posted yesterday on a group that the best way to understand CPU is to write a virtual machine(kind JVM), a mate said that him wants to write a pet project, a emulator for CHIP 8, I think that this is a better way to understand a simplified architecture of computers
I installed 10kW on my home DIY in AZ. Cost was $1.00W and $0.70W after tax incentive. It took me 3 weekends all by myself. It works out to like 1.7c/kWh over the life of the asset. Next step is to add batteries and go off grid. Right now, the utility pays me 9.6c/kWh so I’m not in a rush until they further sabotage net metering. My cost pre-solar was 14-16c/kWh. Also, the cap on grid connected was 10kW and it’s about to go to 20kW.

Oh, and I had never done it before. Read a lot and watched videos. Technology is making it plug and play.
>needlessly hooking an embedded device up to the Internet is a bad idea

It's a video player, some of the common uses of a device like this would be Netflix, Amazon Prime, Youtube, and DIAL.
I think building a assemble in space, space telescope would be the best use for a mega project in science. I admit I don't know enough about colliders to evaluate the scientific impact.

But I think once we figure out how to assemble gigantic telescopes in space, the options for astronomy and maybe physics are huge.

With the ability to launch cheaply now, and with Starship maybe even cheaper in the future. You can build something truly gigantic in space.

What I think is more practically pressing is a commercial competition for next generation of fission reactors, but that was pressing since the 1970s and politics has ignore it. So that's not gone happen.
Part of the scientific process is being skeptical and considering cases and asking probing questions. He didn’t make a blog post that said “lol racial bias is fake.” He discusses it with respect to research on the matter.

It seems you don’t feel that’s an acceptable question to ask: is racial bias in police shooting real?

I’d call that a dangerous question to ask, and try to answer honestly, because it could get a person fired.
Up until today? You have no idea what you are talking about. I have colleagues at the university that have been trying to have him removed for years; several have left in part because of him.