skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason why the validity of IQ as a measure of intelligence (and even the concept of "intelligence" itself in some cases) is so vociferously denied by many is precisely due to its very important implications for social policy (answers to the "So what?" question). That IQ is a valid measure of intelligence, is rooted in an individual's genetics, and that individuals and ethnic groups vary in their IQ (or average IQ, for the latter), would necessarily have to imply a complete re-evaluation of the interpretation of social inequality, and of the approaches towards mitigating it.

I personally think that this re-evaluation is absolutely necessary, because the current model of social inequality, in which any differences between individuals and groups are attributed to environmental or cultural factors, cannot hope to ever lead to constructive policies aimed towards helping all people - regardless of their genetic potential for intelligence - to achieve their best. Even worse, certain policies which are now being advocated - such as the elimination of standardized testing - are actively harmful.

To answer your categorical imperative: yes, I would much prefer to live in a society where genetic differences in the intelligence potential between individuals and groups is acknowledged, because it would lead to far more sensible social policies which would benefit all - high IQ or low IQ.

Finally, even if you consciously choose not to care about IQ, eventually reality will rear its ugly head and force you to take it into consideration if current social policies cause a lowering of average IQ. If there is such a drift towards a lowering of IQ of the general population, whether through higher reproduction rates of the low IQ segments of the population or immigration, many of the amenities which you take for granted, such as a functioning infrastructure, which can only be supported by a population which is above a certain IQ threshold, will start to deteriorate to such a degree that the IQ problem will become impossible to ignore.
I've made similar points on topics like this, and bar none, every single time, it is downvoted into oblivion. People seem to have a difficult time with forecasting data that goes against their preferred outcomes.
Decent for writing web backends, APIs, RPC services. The high number of libraries also help. The language is very simple, which is good or bad, depending on who you ask.

Tooling could use a lot of work though. After switching between vim-go, gopls, and a handful of other language server implementations, I've given up on auto-completion, definitions etc altogether. Maybe it's my setup...

Overall, I'm pretty happy with running a fairly big Go app in production. Would I choose Go for my next serious project? Most likely.
Ok, thanks for the explanation.

Full disclosure, I have a doctorate in psychology (but have been out of the field almost a decade now), so am well aware of the "actual" psychological research.

Personally, for my money, IQ lead to the development of most of modern psychometrics, which I think is probably psychology's largest contribution to intellectual knowledge, but that's probably my quant bias showing.

Sure, behaviourism has had a bunch of successes, but it's only necessary for psychology, and definitely not sufficient.

Classical conditioning I'll give you, but I definitely didn't hear much about either instinctual drift or childhood amnesia relative to IQ.

> theory of perception,
Which one? are you talking about the information processing model or the gestalt models? I'd probably agree with you on Gestalt, but not on IP (which I think is the steam-engine metaphor of the mind of our time).

I'd agree that it's not the most essential question, but it's definitely one of the most studied.
Except powering global civilization with solar means using most ground-mounted large scale solar fields, not covering rooftops. The latter is more a way to game utility billing systems, and is inherently unfair to those left paying for grid power and subsidizing the grid for the solar powered free riders (who get the reliability benefit of the grid at low cost.) Rationalizing the design of grid billing to make everyone pay their share of this reliability service makes rooftop solar much less attractive.
That is true but a chef is classed as a (usually) expert so knows what they're talking about. Put another way, I value the opinion of a chef about food than everyone else.
What policy changes does Ritchie recommend? I saw a mention of IQ testing for job interviews (and can imagine the kerfuffle if Google or Facebook a test score of 130 before an initial interview).
Because medical coverage/insurance programs pay for it, for one.
It does however is quite hard to do it in hundreds of locations, possible undetected, over prolonged time periods without being personally there.

"I can always go and stab someone" is not an argument pro autonomous killing drones either.
And most websites that host the conferences (such as youtube) will change to break those older versions of youtube-dl. This is the kind of project that needs constant maintenance.
Go more than makes up for this in the deployment aspect, since deploying Python in 2020 (Python 2, Python 3, conda, pip, venv, system interpreter, poetry, etc.) is still a mess.
Non-exported struct fields are a way of preventing your library from being composable. Checking if a value implements an interface is a way of writing surprising bugs. The standard library uses both of these features extensively, to give users bugs and prevent itself from being composable.

Checking that the user uses all values bound to variables but letting them discard errors by not binding them to a variable is a weird choice. Channels panicking instead of returning an error is a weird choice.

It's ok and I would like to to use it instead of Java.
I haven't seen anyone hold that platforms shouldn't be allowed to deplatform things and that people shouldn't be free to choose to stop using them because of those decisions.

Can you point me to a comment that says that?
Have you tried GoLand?
Now that you bring that up, if we had a 100% accurate poll that would be really good for productivity wouldn't it? Perhaps it wouldn't give voters the same feeling of self-determination but it'd save a lot of resources in fundraising, going out to vote, counting votes
It does lots of things right

1. Built in support for tooling, testing, formatting etc

2. Trying to make concurrency mainstream

3. Large and developer friendly standard library, there is hardly any programming language where web backed can be written without using a framework or a library. Go is one of those.
Thank you for the link. I think there's an argument that the syrian rebels were fighting terrorism before they were themselves terrorists, but I agree that the US should not be involved in the conflict, and definitely shouldn't fund paramilitary groups with the potential to become terrorists. The U.S. now admitting it was a mistake is important though, because the point of sanctions is to force a government to change its policies.

Geopolitics is messy. In the end I don't see any other strategy besides war that could force Irans hand. If the choices are 1. Show the world that purposefully funding terrorism goes unpunished 2. war, or 3. sanctions I think sanctions are the choice that provides the greatest amount of utility, even if they do harm many.
I've only ever used zoom in browser but jitsi does use more resources, in my experience ,on Linux. but the grand scheme of things my workflow only uses video calling a few times a week. I can spare the compute to spare myself the privacy.
Project Gutenberg has a standard footer for their books that includes "Project
Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission."

So commercial use actually requires that you strip Project Gutenberg's trademarks and redistribute only the public domain text.
If you're cooking anything with meat or imported produce, you're still damaging the environment, regardless of where it's cooked. Also your leftovers need to be put into something(often plastic) and stored in a refrigerated or frozen environment(electric/carbon costs), then reheated(electric/carbon cost). If you get tired of eating the same thing after 3 days and the rest rots away in your fridge, you've just created a ton of waste, or if you think to yourself you're going to spend 3 hours doing weekly meal-prep, but then flake out and don't do it, you just wasted everything. Some people are just terrible chefs or do not have the energy for it after working 50 - 60 hours in the week.

Also you could make a case that large houses with nice kitchens also have environmental costs to build and maintain, and living in small apartments with communal kitchens or restaurants nearby is better.
My understanding of the literature is that IQ generally becomes about fixed as you enter adulthood (early 20s). It's not fixed at 16, it's still subject to a high likelihood of change in one direction or another at that age.

I think the main value of IQ on a societal level, besides identifying individuals that need help, is in recognizing that people just innately have differing abilities and, without any external influence necessary, will have different outcomes. There is a narrative being pushed very hard currently that differences in outcome between groups automatically implies discrimination, and fundamentally it's hard to argue with that logic unless you're able to accept that there are just innate differences between people and groups that cause them to have different abilities and make different choices.
It wouldn't surprise me if the evidence for a genetic component to intelligence is weak. It's hard to imagine there's NOT a genetic component (genetics effects all the rest of the body, so why not the brain?), but given the sorry state of statistics in social sciences,the evidence may well be poor.

Also, Robinson is right to point out that this entire question is irrelevant to the question of equality vs equity. The latter is simple a matter of values, after all.

But holy smokes, look at the contortions Robinson makes to claim that we can't possibly know whether academic performance is limited by genetics! It's laughable.

I do like his story about Sara Slow -- I was that kid in grad school stat mech. The prof was a terrible lecturer. I got stuck on the assumption of equal a priori probabilities in phase space, and I had a hard time with the rest of the class. In fact, grad school largely destroyed my curiosity b/c I didn't have time to stop and chew on things like this, I just had to soldier on to the end of the course.
Zoom is the CCP; they are separated only by the vaguest legal fictions.
Grow a pair. Racism to Persians is wrong.
> most beekeepers choose to euthanize more aggressive hives to deliberately breed calmer, safer, bees.

I wander why they don’t just requeen?
I also would avoid walking 4 miles. But Jesus, don’t you Americans have bikes?
Every time I see this article it's been upvoted a couple hundred times and I don't know why. It doesn't really bring anything new to the table, it's just one way to see the qanon thing.

I looked into qanon a couple days after he started posting and I concluded it was completely fiction, probably a teenager pranking /pol/. Had there been no mainstream coverage of qanon it would have died there, but sites started talking about it which drew the crazies over to 4 and then 8chan until the Christchurch massacre caused 8chan's shutdown and rebirth. Qanon is nothing more than a story of loonies that should be pitied and irresponsible journalism.
To the point though, if somebody told you that Bills Burger Bin had great burgers and you responded with "How would you know? Where are all the burgers you've made?", that would make you a jackass.
Wait a minute. Is it DCMA takedown or DMCA takedown ?
...have to do some catching up before they can crush a Math 55.

A freshmen-only class like Math 55 implies that at least the high school experience was somewhat privileged.
Why did you remove the photoshop not allowing banking notes editing. Is this true?
And that is something you would like to accept as a fair reason why someone in your family was ran over by a random teenager who found a driveable car standing around?
To take it a step further, if that was the forecast 4 days in a row, you would expect it to rain one of those days.
What does statistics predicting individuals mean? It is well-studied, well-established, and hopefully uncontroversial that adult men are several inches taller on average than adult women.

I can use that information to predict a wide variety of things with very high confidence, but I can’t use it to tell you how tall any individual human will become. That doesn’t make it wrong nor useless.
My fingers are getting real tired from typing if err != nil all the damn time.

I do like it for small things - compiling to one (albeit huge) binary and its relative speediness is nice. I wouldn't use it for large systems though. The amount of code really balloons over time, relative to, say, python and that SLOC correlates to bugs and maintenance cost.
When the OP(top commenter) mentioned building the "Next Thing", I thought we finally are going to discuss about building an alternative to YouTube. But here we are trying to save what's already lost like OP said

Youtube-dl was great and it's huge loss but it seems any efforts in improving or maintaining it will just be harder now. Instead if we could focus that energy on building something robust and resistant to such actions we might actually have solved this.
This. Snopes does not need a smear campaign as they already have very little credibility due to it's blatant political bias and subjective takes on what they think is "objectively false".
Thank goodness for clarifying. I was really perplexed .
Did you actually read the README, or are you just spreading rumors? Because I did and have no idea what you're talking about. BTW the README can be found at https://gitlab.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl if anyone wants to see for themselves.

As for the test cases, this is what the article has to say about it:

> they are automated test cases where the test just downloads the first 10KB, which amounts to a couple of seconds at most. This is certainly fair use, but the project is fully functional without these test cases.

So what part of this article are you agreeing with? I doubt we read the same article.
For sure. But JS is JS, and far more ubiquitous than Lua. So QuickJS still has a place.
> "it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal."

Is it? Note that the person here accused is both Jewish and Mexican:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/09/04/lawyer-accused-flashi...

Other examples exist of people being removed from their jobs for the same if you Google for it, though many of those are more ambiguous.
> Copyright law is always a balance between creators and society.

Copyright law was created for promoting progress and useful arts.

Current copyright law is a horror that's totally skewed towards hoarders of intellectual property who only want to take away more and more from the public all the time. Garbage like DMCA 1201 should never have been allowed to exist.

Reverting this mess back to the original intent would be hugely beneficial for the public.
Purposely funding terrorism does go unpunished, if you're a US ally. This is my point, that our sanctions against Iran have nothing to do with "morality". They are about power.
If they were wrong, but “less wrong” than all others, you should pick their model (unless you have an oracle, because the alternative - flipping a coin or “relying on your intuition” is rarely better).

Also, it doesnt make sense to look at a single prediction to evaluate a model.

Out of all the predictions they have made (did you look at individual state predictions?), how many were correct (and how confident were they?) - how many were wrong (and how close to 50% were they?).

That is how you evaluate a model (aka cross entropy)
I've tried reading a few different editions of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. The first one was free (public domain) but the formatting was so terrible I couldn't get through the first page. The text was center aligned, missing periods.

Then I bought a version of it for $3 thinking the formatting must be better if I'm paying for it. It was not. I finally bought a $10 version of it and the formatting was still awful enough that I couldn't get through the first 5 pages.

For older books it feels like you have to buy a paper copy otherwise the formatting is somehow unreadable.
Ghost acquires IVEEL, opensources premium themes
Is there any evidence of such attempts to neuter Mother Nature actually working? Unless, global trade ceases, can this effort be maintained and successful over the long haul?

I'm not suggesting it's bad or wrong to try, only whether there's evidence that the odds favor doing so.
Why can't it live in outside of github say in a gitlabs repo?
The trick is to think before you write. The same goes for programming. If you already know what you are going to write or build then you can reach very high apparent productivity, the time spent on thinking about it isn't accounted for.
These suits do not seen airtight at all, quite the opposite in fact.

I think they are just sting-proof suits.
> Ecommerce uses the pull model almost exclusively

This varies by country - the majority of e-commerce retail transactions here in Finland operate on a push model - in checkout you get redirected to your bank or wallet provider where you login (2FA) and authorize the transaction.

The merchant usually gets confirmation of payment immediately.
Just thought it's maybe not as relevant, but yes it's true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
Protocol limits what is possible. Legacy defines performance. Gnome is X11 first. Wlroots in Wayland first. It should be possible to optimize Gnome.

Wayland was created because of horrible X11 performance [1]. It is not Waylands prime time yet but X.Org still works and maintained. Phoronix.com should have checked contributions [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

[2] https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xserver/graphs/commit-ac...
I find myself reaching for it over other languages when I want to build small servers with a bit of in-memory state or a bit of heavy processing. For little search-engines, Go is perfect. While writing servers in Flask + Python is much more convenient, I still prefer Go because I don't run into the limits that Python has.

The development process is fluid enough that I wish the language was suited to more usecases. When I need to handle complicated data (e.g. abstract syntax trees), I use Rust or Haskell because of their rich data types. But it tends to be much harder to get things running in those languages (borrow-checker and monads, respectively). I want to reach for Go to make those problems go away, but then realize that it would be really painful to try to express the program in Go. I understand that other people are unhappy with Go's development process, particularly if you deal with package versioning.

The language design itself may have been backed into a corner where adding generics will create an ugly mess (what will the standard library look like if it tries to maintain backwards compatibility?). Time will tell.

The tooling is mostly pretty good, but many things feel half-baked (compared to more mature ecosystems). On the spectrum of 'written in a weekend' to 'dozens of developer-years of work', the package "net/http/pprof" feels closer to the weekend side. There are bright sides, like having the production parser available as a library.

It's a language that is frustrating in different ways from other languages. Instead of fighting with Cabal/Stack, you have to write a million `if err != nil {}` statements. Part of what makes it frustrating is seeing how good it could have been.
Can you elaborate on private struct fields? The same criticism would apply for any OO language with access control / visibility of fields right?
Somewhat interesting, however the guy lost me more and more the longer he argues. So, the various anomalies in the dataset are somewhat interesting, but having weird outliers in the margins is an entirely expected effect. Just because there are not many datapoints. So when you filter for something marginal like Trump winning New Jersey, then the statistical error increases and therefore it is entirely unsurprising that something weird happens. Thankfully, these systems are designed to work with probabilities, and these outliers are weighted down.

Additionally, getting worked up about a 3% chance of Biden winning Alabama. I mean, what does a 3% chance even mean for a one off event, compared to a 5% chance or a .3% chance? I know fully well, that it means I should bet $100 if I can get more than $3000 payout, but the trouble is that is only if we bet often enough. (Perhaps often enough on different things.) For a one off thing, the important part is, it is with a very high degree of certainty a loss of $100. So any claims that Bidens chances of winning are too high should be regarded with high suspicion.

Also, I listened eralier to Nate Silver's model talk [0], where he discusses quite a few problems with low quality polls in some states.

[0] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-nation...
These purported high scores are mostly legit and based on a comprehensive IQ test, not a 60-quesiton memorized matrix test. I dunno where you get that idea from.

If you read the biographies of these high-IQ celebrities, ,s you will see that their non-acting accomplishments generally match with their IQs. They attended prestigious schools, as was the case with Sharon Stone, or tested well , as was the case with James Woods, who attended MIT.
What do you think about the effectiveness of masks in France?

https://i.redd.it/vfij6vxnobu51.png
Do you believe that humanity can only allocate resources to one problem at a time?
I find your comment odd, given the high percentage of "XXX hosted SCM is down today" posts that are about Gitlab.
I think they might be able to.. The asian longhorn beetle seems to be in check in the US (though another pest, the emerald ash borer they've given up on controlling).

But those are species that don't have centralized nests.. This might be easier if you can trap them and trace them back to their homes..
That isn't the criticism. The criticism is the appellation of it being "unlikely."

For example: anyone paying attention to the Rust Belt ±1980-2016 would have dramatically upped Trump's chances in Pennsylvania and Michigan. FiveThirtyEight had Hillary with 70%+ chance of winning both, which to me, shows a deep ignorance of actual cultural factors.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of probability. Low probability events do happen, and it doesn't inherently mean the estimated probability was wrong.
If I tell you you're not likely to get two heads in a row, and you do, does that make me un-reliable?

It's unfortunate we can't just run the election again a few times, and actually find the rate at which Trump is elected given the polls.

And it's not empty signalling if 538 assigned Trump a higher chance of winning; they were pretty much the only ones saying he has a chance. That is why people think the models are useful.
The real victims are the people the data is about, not the entity improperly storing the data.

The entity that stored the data is to some small extent a victim, but most importantly they are a perpetrator.
Have you considered using a tiling window manager? I've been using bspwm for years and it just uses X. I don't really miss anything about floating window managers, and since switching everything feels more stable and portable
The narrative comes from the medias inaccurate and misleading coverage of the polls in 2016. Many news outlets all but declared Clinton president before the election.
Agreed. It's also good because of this: :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860432