skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A high IQ seems a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to be intellectually successful. If we take the extreme case of Nobel Prizes we see that most of them have IQs 3SD above the mean. We can infer that there is a minimum IQ score requirement to do a certain job, for example:

- Nobel Prize level scientist ~150 IQ

- College professor ~130 IQ

- Engineer ~120 IQ

- Machinist ~110 IQ

- Heavy machinery operator ~90 IQ

The trouble with IQ, and the discussion that surrounds it, is very simple. IQ seems to have a strong genetic (read unchangeable) component. The reality of IQ is a big F.U. to the concept of free will and a big F.U. to the narrative of "poor people are just oppressed, it they weren't they'll be just as successful as Bill Gates and Elon Musk".
The reality of IQ is, in my opinion, the greatest taboo of our society. The narrative of the entire modern left rests on this taboo not being broken.
Now you can start downvoting, but if you do it, please explain why there aren't highly successful people with low IQs (except in sports, maybe).
The difference between Barbara Streisand and the RIAA:

- Streisand wanted privacy. Once private information is broadly released, it can't be hidden again, and trying to take the private information down just disseminated it more.

- The RIAA just wants to stop a tool from being used to violate their copyrights because that causes them financial damages. Unlike Streisand, they have the legal power, under the DMCA, to go after the creators of those tools for financial damages. It doesn't matter if people make copies of the tool, since they can go after all of the copiers. So, unlike Streisand, they can be made whole for their financial losses.

In fact, I would be surprised if someone from the RIAA wasn't on Github right now recording the usernames of the people forking/PRing the youtube-dl code.
While technically correct, this misses the point. Very few features are part of the core Wayland protocol; off the top of my bind, there's the input methods, and a few ways to describe shared memory with the compositor and some callbacks to handle device registration. That's it.

For example, top level windows and popups themselves are an extension in Wayland (xdg_shell protocol rather than the defunct wl_shell), and so is the rather basic feature of compositing on the GPU (dma_buf) rather than going through some shared CPU memory.
It's not stackable?

Also, pity that they market it as a toy.
> it is a small dataset

10k is definitely large enough to draw conclusions. I think your concern about generalization is much more relevant.
I'm curious about users. Why did you choose to use Pale Moon?
I run my own DNS resolver at home, and it's coming up with my own public IP address, with my ISP as the name. Neat.
The balance I think I'd want is... basically an equivalent to old slider-style phones but with modern messaging/communication apps. Give me a slider phone with Matrix/XMPP/SIP support for messaging and calls and I would be very happy.

Ideally FOSS too, so I don't have to worry about it being unpatchable in 3 years and can keep using it as long as it's useful.
I doubt they use a socket that would allow the battery to be isolated, it's probably directly soldered in for weight and reliability. Otherwise they could just ship the battery uninstalled and let the user plug it in when he gets it. A weight of 0.15g doesn't give a lot of room for extra components like a battery socket.
Very well worded, diplomatic, and 'safe' views. However it is clear that the global leadership and rights holders have discovered that they can take a sledgehammer to the freedoms of collective society and most of us will not even comprehend the real issues in our ennui, and a few will murmur and very few will actively pushback.

In a better society, it ought not have been possible to take down general purpose software with dubious claims of their "clear intent".
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Fair, I apologize. I can't edit the comment anymore to remove it.

I assumed the parent didn't read that part since I assumed that if they did they would comment on that section, but I should not have worded it that way.
Yep! I'm seeing this as well.
The Raven tests are so boring that I'm not surprised that people do better under stimulants (mentioned elsewhere in this thread).

I also tend to go off on inner rants like Feynman about round manholes, because the tests do not always seem to have unambiguous solutions.
Necessarily weaker, though. You can't break out an electron microscope and numerically confirm observations about emergent outcomes from a billion individuals with their own psychologies. Either we allow for "softer" observations/experiments or we throw up our hands and give up.
Starting with the core use case for most people seems like a smart engineering and business decision. Chromebooks value proposition is to be the simplest, safest and cheapest laptops to access the web. It makes it clear what people will be able to do with it and makes it different enough to more general laptop to be marketable. Building this on ChromeOS seems like the simplest way to reach those goal. Extending Chrome means that most of the UX is already understood by users and the codebase is already built with many of the same goals in mind.

I completely understand wanting to have more capabilities on these Chromebooks though. I ran elementaryOS on an HP Chromebook for many years and it was amazing for the price. A great battery life, good keyboard and touchpad and a full blown OS that is also lightweight and snappy. But I think that the annoying thing is that the same hardware isn't sold by the manufacturer without ChromeOS.
Solid state really refers to not using gas plasma (vacuum tubes). Personally I would call MEMS devices like this solid state, even though it has moving parts. Everything in it is in the "solid" (physics solid) state, there is no liquid or gas involved.
Europe actually has stronger IP protections than the US does, so that would make things worse.

Most Asian countries don't care much about IP, but what host would they be able to find that users could trust enough to download the software from?
No pretty sure candidates poached in a hot tub for a few hours beforehand
Remember when killer bees were the big scare? They were moving north. Everyone was worried.

Whatever happened with that? I haven’t heard about them in years.
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> wealth

Assets/wealth is actually pretty uncorrelated with IQ among adults.

Saying that wealth is the same thing as IQ is a conservative position, IMO.
> I remember in the 90s people all thought Stallman was crazy. And by people I mean developers, Linux users, people on usenet, etc. We all appreciated his contributions but at the end of the day just figured he was wearing a tin foil hat.

Yeah. Pretty much the only people who took him seriously were the folks who wanted to lock down computers, or were being paid to do so.

I remember going to a west coast science fiction convention in the early '90s (most likely a Westercon or LosCon, possibly a BayCon) that had a panel on "computers and copyright" or something similar.

I don't recall the panel itself much, except that it was a fairly small room, but one bit stuck in my mind from the Q&A: An audience member said something to the effect that the necessary restrictions on copying would just be implemented in hardware rather than software. I think a panelist dismissed his statement, but the audience member insisted that it was possible, and that he had X years industry experience to prove it. At which point the conversation started getting very loud with a substantial fraction of the room speaking over him (and each other) saying he was wrong.

And that was it. I'm pretty sure most of the folks in that room came away with the impression that "information wants to be free" and there was little that could be done to oppose that.

It was about a decade before that whole exchange came to mind again, when "Trusted Computing" started gaining traction and criticism.

I've occasionally wondered just who that audience member was, what their "industry experience" was at that point, and what they've worked on since.
An interesting read and a great concluding paragraph
Haha I rolled in here to see if it was his son.
Breaking internal APIs is also what Linux does. Nvidia and other out-of-tree modules must have a rather hard time with adapting their code to an ever-changing kernel.

Sure there are people who argue for stable APIs. It works for Linux though, and I think that's due to two reasons:

1. There is real value in breaking changes allowing the kernel to move faster.

2. People are not forcibly upgraded to a new kernel. They can do it at their own leisure, when their distro (with manual updates) or personal testing deems it working well enough.

Sonos has recently had some bad publicity for trying to force breaking updates onto people, not in terms of APIs but in terms of actual basic functionality. Their recovery move was to allow people to keep their original functionality, but users accept as a trade-off that doing so will not be compatible with devices running the newer and better software. As far as I can see, this approach resonated much better with the public than the original forced one.

I believe that embedded hackers will have much less of an issue with breakages if the trade-offs are clearly communicated and control over updates remains in users' hands, including a way to revert to a previous version if things go wrong. It doesn't have to be company vs. users necessarily.

But yeah, whether it's worth in business terms to accommodate this exceedingly tiny and understandably demanding minority, that's a different question.
Upon googling it, the amount of outcry as a response makes it pretty obvious to me that it's considered exceptional and not normal. Does anyone have any aggregated studies about social media and firing?
>> The concrete idea of a tree owning itself is dumb.

> What about a corporation being a person?

What about a group of trees being a corporation?

The difference is that humans can articulate their preferences in ways that other humans can understand. Trees cannot (nor are we equiped to listen to what they can say).

Although the idea of a tree-owned corporation is pretty enticing.
This is dangerously inaccurate information. To those reading this, the US absolutely considers blocking Iranian IPs a required action under the sanctions. The person posting this could get you in serious legal trouble.

With that said, most companies do not start blocking these IPs until they are either contacted by US authorities and asked to comply or via the recommendations of an audit by an outside private company.

Please do not trust what this person is saying. Remember, violating sanctions can get you a prison sentence, not just a fine.
As a veto member of the UN security council, China will simply prevent any response. In addition, they pay massive amounts of money to African countries to vote their way. Look into Ethiopian-Chinese relations and the Ethiopian cholera outbreaks and you'll see why the WHO leader (not a doctor I'd add) did nothing but shill for China.
UPI payments are built on a very similar standard [1]. The way click jacking is circumvented is two fold. Firstly, there is 2FA required for completing any UPI payment. Secondly, every payment request is mapped to a receiver who must have completed their KYC. In case of suspected fraud there is a redressal and recovery process.

[1]https://www.npci.org.in/sites/default/files/UPI%20Linking%20...
Hey nice to see your product develop. I think Joan Jett uses this.
In my opinion it has. A few decades ago was a shift toward jungian therapy. A massive improvement.
> hypocrisy is better than complacency

This is a great phrase, I'm going to borrow that and use it.
I live in Sweden and grocery stores here don't usually have a lot of chilli peppers and certainly not many hot ones. But the hot ones I have found here (mainly habanero and ghost peppers) have been fresh.

The only dried chilies I've come across are ancho.
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What are the best practices/choices today when choosing your DNS servers when it comes to privacy?
My Lenovo Duet claims to be supported until 2028 (it's a MediaTek though).
This is pretty much every discussion of tests in America. Perhaps it's because I'm somewhat in the latter group [though I've never taken an IQ test], but it seems like most commentators are in the former.
So if eugenicists selected for height, then measuring how tall people are would be "linked to eugenics?"
Sort of: it doesn't differentiate between DoH and normal resolution (it only does IPv4 TCP & UDP resolution). This means that it will return Cloudflare (i.e. ASN of CLOUDFLARENET), but probably the same Cloudflare as if you are using Cloudflare's public DNS servers.

Tip: You can check a specific DNS server with dig and curl:

UUID=$(uuidgen)
dig ${UUID}.which.nameserve.rs @1.1.1.1
curl --silent https://which.nameserve.rs/debug.txt | grep ${UUID}

and then do a ASN lookup on the IP address

Note: the debug page is unofficial, and may change, so don't bake this into anything.
I have one question about IQ (or the g if you prefer to make the distinction): So what? What are you going to do with this information?

* IQ is fixed; a test at, say, 16 will give you your intelligence for the rest of your life. (16 is arbitrary because I am uncomfortable with psychological testing of young children, but you can make the argument to roll this back to 6 or 8 if you like.)

* IQ is hereditary.

* Skin color (and ethnicity in general) is correlated with IQ. Sex is correlated with IQ variance.

(Am i missing anything here?)

Here's a clarified from of Kantian categorical imperative: Would you like to live in a society based on those principles? (I forgot to add, "given human history".)

IQ testing is very valuable at the low end, to identify individuals that need some form of help. I, personally, am a little uncomfortable with other policy extensions.
If you want fire insurance for a factory, the insurers will inspect what you're doing, the safety precautions you have in place, your testing regimes and so on - and charge you more (or refuse to insure you at all) if they don't like what they see.

And as there are multiple insurers you get a competitive market - meaning the insurers who are best at spotting real problems prosper, while the insurers who miss problems or worry about non-problems are less profitable.

And if a company can't get insurance at all it's not because one guy was being a hardass - they've had a bunch of chances to convince different insurers, all of whom have refused, rather than blame for them going out of business falling on some government agency.

This is appealing to people who love free markets and small government, as there are multiple competing insurers, and all the inspections, monitoring and even the payouts happen at no cost to the government.
Old Linux person here - what does Keith Packard (man who restarted work on X when it was stagnant and made x.org) work on these days?
Try 'LessPhone' launcher for Android.
I thought along similar lines when I heard the Las Vegas high schoolers got hacked/dumped. Why not make standard the use of false/given names to these services which can't be trusted with PII but must transact in it? Part of enrolling for school should be getting your fake name & fake identity for the school DB, another pen name for Doctor 1, &c.

The DMV should provide New Identities as a Service, if the problem's going to be this bad.
> ou are arguing for behavior without providing any suggestions on how to achieve it. (sic.)

Yes, I did. I provided you with this solution: "simply invest that money in better security to begin with"

> "Wouldn't it be better to simply do the right thing." is not a solution.

I never said that. But what I did say is indeed a solution.

> What I propose is a set of policies and incentives that archive what you want.

Well, it certainly makes incentives, but probably not the ones you had in mind. For instance it incentivizes middlemen to scrape off valuable resources that could have been used to secure the actual data. At best this lowers the profit margin left over for the hospital to improve the security, but it's way worse than that. Instead the middleman actually incentivizes hackers to crack into the very system the middleman "insures," exactly because huge insurance payouts are involved.

Perhaps the hackers could fake a mental disorder and get committed at the hospital, which would make it far easier to get insight into how the data security system works, and then plant a backdoor or leak that way. This means the hacker would both get money from blackmail and money from insurance payouts (win-win for him), making the incentives from the insurance scam absurdly bad. But perhaps that was the goal all along?

Meanwhile the owner is already disincentivized from securing the system further, because he can claim that he already did enough to secure it, while what he actually means is that he insured it... Whatever he paid for, was certainly not free! The only one incentivized to look into the matter, is the insurance company itself, because they're the ones who stand to lose the most money if the system fails. And even they don't want to waste money on a matter they might not even understand themselves. Meanwile their biggest incentive isn't to secure the data, but to not pay money to the patients. And perhaps the easiest way to avoid that, is to hire a PR consultant instead of fixing the data system.

Certainly the least of their worries are the patients, who are the real losers here, from being trapped in a game of exploitation for profit, and who quite possibly have to pay a much higher fee for the services of said institution because of it. Luckily, Finland is a welfare state, so that extra cost probably won't be billed individual patients (depending on how this privately owned hospital operates), but instead it will most likely be forwarded to the taxpayers, which – while spreading the cost on more hands – is still extremely bad.

Overall, introducing an insurance scheme only adds another problem, without fixing the initial one, because how would you rate the probability of the system failing? That's what sets the insurance fee, after all. Thus, for the insurance companys part, it's far better to overbill, which would just result in increasing cost, without much benefit to anyone.
Perhaps they could put a tiny antifuse in circuit with the battery inside the IC package. Supply external "programming" current to the IC, and it would melt the antifuse and get the battery going.
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That'd make sense since what I read was that the attackers didn't actually target this company and that they gained the data by just randomly scraping. It'd also explain why they sat on this data for like two years.
I think you've confused the US system with the UK system.

The US has always had lawyers; a great deal of the founding fathers were themselves lawyers.

Fees were never fixed by legislation, generally cases were simpler back then so they didn't have or need time-based billing (that was a relatively recent development).

Individuals already can represent themselves in small claims courts. Federal courts are intended for much larger cases (and in fact there is a minimum threshold for cases to be in federal court) and capping legal fees there generally wouldn't benefit either party.
Hopefully they murder humans
The standard has been ~100 DPI, so a 200 DPI display should by default get 200 % scaling with no extra configuration needed.
I think Uighur, Tibetan and Hong Kong people might disagree.
I don't know about the greenscreen bit, but BigBlueButton is likely the closest that I know of. It may well have the feature; I've never checked it out myself. That can also be done by making a fake camera processing pipeline locally, but that's certainly not typical usage.

Overview: https://lwn.net/Articles/817146/
Notes from deployment for a virtual conference: https://lwn.net/Articles/830436/
Calling it Asian is racist /s
> Or "look how smart I'am, my race must be better than other races, everyone else is beneath me".

Yeah it's a super popular trope among racists on the internet.

That said, I find the leftist rejoinder "IQ tests are racially biased" to be pretty unconvincing given that most of the tests are non-verbal. Much better to focus on the large confounding environmental factors than to deny there is any sort of intelligence gap at all.
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Taleb’s most incisive claim is that IQ becomes less predictive as you go up the scale, and that it is therefore more useful as a diagnostic of deficiency (<100) than a predictor of genius. It’s sort of like how very low or high levels of certain things on blood tests can predict illness, but not wellness.

I don’t see that claim addressed very well here.
> People want life to be fair, and the fact that we are all born with different levels of intelligence disproves that.

I think that the way we as humans decide to structure society determines whether life is fair, not natural circumstance.

Just because you are born smart does not mean you are born more deserving.
> What if... you kept github in the loop?

It is like wanting to keep Twitter in the loop when migrating to federated alternatives like the Fediverse. Twitter (or Github) wont federate in good faith and will actively attempt to capture as much users as possible.

> What if you could make a federated/decentralized git that doesn't care whether the git repo is made available by github or my-fancy-federated-git-host?

Git is distributed already; remotes work like that.
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You can look up "Surveillance Capitalism" by Zuboff for numeral examples of Facebook's overreach.

Consider "A 61-Million-Person Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilisation", the 700,000 people whose emotional states Fb experimented with, the documents which revealed how Fb tried to pinpoint when young Australians and New-Zealanders were vulnerable to advertising.

The difference between AB testing and Facebook's experiments should be obvious to anyone familiar with those experiments, as the aim has been to research and alter human behaviour in general, whereas AB testing has to do specifically with understanding user engagement and satisfaction with regards to the product.

Trying to dress up this experimentation as AB testing or no different than AB testing is incredibly dangerous. As a psychologist extremely familiar with both this kind of experiments and AB testing, you really, really should see a difference.
A strip of plastic means you have to have a spring at that end of the battery, a hole in the device for the plastic strip, and enough structure around the battery to hold the spring and battery separately. The hole also makes waterproofing more difficult.

All of this would add weight and size, and those trackers are really small and really lightweight. Judging by the photos, the battery is just hard wired to the circuit, and the whole thing is encapsulated with a thin layer of epoxy for waterproofing. That's by far the cheapest, easiest, and most reliable way to build something as lightweight as possible.
What about the claim that IQ is only useful at the low end where it's a detector for intellectual disability? And the possibility that this may explain most of the correlation between IQ and performance?
But the DMCA notice mechanism does not.
Why write so much? Everyone has a better idea, that is why.
What's the relevance of your comment to the topic?
I had never heard of this service before today. Thanks MPA!
Did one for my project that discovers more servers [1]
Not an easy task I tell you that.

[1] https://dnsadblock.com/dns-leak-test/
Dilbert's principle seems to good rather true at most companies.

> leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow