skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ and university degree still works as a performance predictor in countries where free public university education is better (harder to get, gives more prestige) than private university education, so all the "good" students go to the best public universities (for example in my country - Poland).

There's still some inherited factors (who has better access to tutors at high school and who can move to a different city for 5 years without having to work). But at least you don't have to get a mortgage to afford a degree.

I think it's precisely because of recent communist history (in 1989 99% of population was equally as poor) that the private universities couldn't overtake the public ones. Not enough rich kids to make a whole university out of them - so instead the trick was to pass exams well enough to outcompete the other 49 candidates for a place at the best public universities.
This was posted here regarding some similar discussion a while ago.

"Falsehoods programmers believe about prices"

https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585
Definitely criminal negligence if true, but Terapiakeskus are not guilty of the hack nor the leaks or the blackmail. You can't blame your own crimes on others making them easy to commit; that's on the level on blaming a rape victim for being drunk.
Wow thanks. I was saying that just in order to show the most basic example.
oh, so sorry, indeed, gitlab, other company. Gitlab Inc. San Francisco, United States, must obey us law.
The point is: statistically, having above average IQ can give you some advantage. Maybe 5%, maybe 25%. The same advantage can come from many sources, like: be born on the "right" country, have a certain weight, height, skin color, religious belief, economic background, etc.

Think about the USA. The year and city where you're born/raised can outweigh your IQ when trying to predict income, life expectancy, etc.
> your completely wrong assertion

Oops, apologies Reelin I wasn't paying attention to who said what, that was feanaro who was wrong.
Stuff like this was my biggest concern with the mandates for digital transformation in medical record keeping.

The security of a locked file cabinet cannot be understated.
There's no good reason to have personally identifiable information stored in the system. They could easily issue each patient an alphanumeric ID which is not tied to personal information yet uniquely distinguishable..

This is a system design failure to begin with. Design sensitive systems with only minimum required information. The alternative is to have a massive framework to make sure PII hadn't leaked. And then a legal and financial frameworks on top of that..

after all if a leak happens it can't be undone. Damage to the people will be long standing and cascading.

Best is to have a system that have no or minimum PII.
I missed the news story where the RIAA is going after chrome and the one where they filed a DMCA complaint against the uBlock Origin repo.

Anyone who read the justification in the original complaint would see how these are different, but it doesn't matter; the RIAA is not pursuing them so until they or someone else does it's irrelevant.
> Are you objecting to the use of data for training, or to the compilation of training datasets?

The GP is objecting to the casualness with which privacy rights and intellectual property rights are ignored by so many in the AI community, not to a choice of whether they object to one or another specific manifestation of how the community is doing so.

[edit added]: Those who would argue "no, there is no casual ignoring of rights", consider for example the official DMCA takedown instructions for the collection [0].

[0] http://the-eye.eu/dmca.mp4
I find this really useful! I seem to frequently run into dns weirdness. Does it work internally e.g. diagnosing dns queries on a local net?
<old fart hat on>

Hasn't Make been launched in, like 1976? And vi in '77.
Congrats on rediscovering them.

<old fart hat off>
Marking Issues as Regressions
To actually prove to me that IQ is a thing, you would have to show me that what you call IQ is innate

This does not follow. IQ is a thing because they test children on it without warning and without any prep and their performance on these tasks they’ve never seen before in their lives predicts their performance in school better than many other tests.

You can’t say the same thing about, say, a language test for a child unfamiliar with the language because the kid won’t understand it at all. The IQ test is designed to be as unrelated to experience as possible in order to measure the capacity for abstract thinking and the ability to solve novel problems when you first encounter them.

Since you’re undermining a test of your ability to solve something novel, studying for an IQ test is cheating.
Something similar applies here with weapons. If you are a legal weapon owner, it is expected of you that you take care so that nobody can just pick up your gun and start shooting. You need to store it unloaded, munitions stored separately, and all that jazz. The same thinking goes for the unlocked car thing? What if a child gets into your car, starts it up and drives over their siblings? In a way, the car owner would be responsible because they didnt ensure the car was properly locked.

Same thinking should apply for sensitive data. If it gets stolen, it should always be the responsibility of those which have been charged with taking care of it.
OK, and from the article it looks like GitLab is blocking all access to their site. So is your understanding that GitLab is currently much more restrictive than GitHub in this regard?
I kind of agree, not because cheaper earphones are good but because how disappointing the noise cancelling on the expensive models is. According to most reviewers the best pair right now is the Sony WH-1000XM4 and I ended up returning them after a couple of days because of the inadequate ANC. I imagine that it's even worse for older/cheaper models.
> Also IQ is a sub- component for general intelligence.

This is the bit that is more important to me and something I dont see in the IQ debates. Some "smart" people are fast learners, others quick witted, some have great memory, others can distill lots of conflicting data, some are great communicators, others just work really hard. One IQ number is supposed to reflect all of that?
> They don't use HTTP. HTTP is used to bootstrap the player, not to feed the content. The content itself is served over another protocol such as RTMP and that protocol is a streaming protocol (it sends chunked data) and it wasn't intended for downloading files and writing them to disk as a singular binary blob. Obviously it can be used that way but it's fair to say services like youtube-dl are using the protocol in ways it wasn't originally intended to be used rather than content owners serving content on a protocol that was always designed for distributing files.

Not true at all, most YouTube videos are offered as plain webm files.

Also, keep in mind that recording TV's is legal.
http://linear.ups.edu

A very detailed open source interactive linear algebra textbook written in sage, by Rob beezer
I would appreciate if the spec explicitly stated that requests using this scheme are neither value carrying nor authorizations. It would avoid so much hassle if they clearly stepped back from any appearance that this is a money transmission mechanism.
I think this assumes a correlation between high IQ and fringe personality, which is a bit of a hollywood myth. I remember reading in "Understanding Psychology as a Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Statistical Inference" by Zoltan Dienes that there is little correlation between IQ and mental illness. This study seems interesting in correlating IQ and personality traits: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6480832/
wchar_t_2_nsstring(app)
> The adjusted R2 is 0.356, so IQ explains ~35%.

Ouch... “Explains” is used here in a very strict technical sense whereas I guess Taleb uses it much more roughly (just the statement “between 5-13%” must make you pause).
The c levels are oblivious. They think the company is one thing when its the opposite. This is what adds the to head fuck of working there, you behave how the ceo recommends and you will get targeted for dismissal by your boss more than likely.
For a lack of a better word, your ideas seem really misguided to me.
Maybe Iran wouldn't need to defend itself if they weren't being attacked.
Glad you were able to find it! I should have linked originally. For anyone else interested the repo is at https://git.mehalter.com/mehalter/mehalter.com

It was also fun to make a groff template to output a file you can open with man too lol
> There's no good reason to have personally identifiable information stored in the system.

They’re medical records. Seems inherently likely to be PII?
I wasn't talking about innate in the context of heredity. I meant produced by the mind as opposed to experience. I am not convinced that someone can't learn to score better on IQ tests through practice
It's git - what do you need low-latency for? Download directories, trees, as the initial requests, then send a second request for the source code you want to download. Then the bottleneck is download speed instead of latency.
“Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list. With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.“
> Have always been able to accept.

Legally yes, practically no.
You're getting down-voted because people don't agree with you, not because you're fundamentally wrong.

All the responses "not illegal in COUNTRY X"; how is this relevant? Is the RIAA using a law from <UTOPIA_COUNTRY> on a company based in <FANTASY_LAND>?

You can absolutely host this repo with a country & business that doesn't recognize or cooperate with US laws. Your choice is somewhat limited.
I love it when experts explain to users why their opinion is wrong.
Nice comment. I'm sipping coffee and much to my shame i thought this was going to be some meta joke about screwing with some sort of master list of DMCA'd repos on Github or something. Sipping coffee, reading comments, chillin.. then read yours, and almost spit it out at how much funnier this is than i thought it was.

I re-opened the link and actually used my eyeballs, and yup.. it's the damn Youtube-dl library on the /dmca repo, bahaha. I almost whooshed the joke entirely, so thanks :)
It's pretty funny that among the discoveries made in the field of psychology IQ is one of the strongest and most maligned at the same time. Meanwhile unreproducible junk is receiving accolades.
>Wouldn't it be better to simply invest that money in better security to begin with

ou are arguing for behavior without providing any suggestions on how to achieve it. "Wouldn't it be better to simply do the right thing." is not a solution.

What I propose is a set of policies and incentives that archive what you want.
The real story behind Wayland and X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ
You seem to mostly agreeing with the effect but arguing for more collectivism over individual rights which is a personal preference.

There might be blips on the developmental indices which means on some metric like infant mortality, the improvement rate has stalled compared to last year or the overall metric has actually gotten worse but it will require a monumental disaster to go back to where infant mortality was in 1990 or even 2000.

On Freedom House, which I used to often quote, I have commented extensively in this thread [1]. To summarize, Freedom House metrics are completely qualitative and subjective. They have not published the "raw data" for the last two years of rankings. Raw data here means their subjective rankings for the various criteria which they then combine into one metric. Poppycock of the partisan kind being marketed as objective truth. Makes me cringe that I even used to believe in it. Freedom House raises $30,000,000 annually from Donors to create these metrics. Ask yourself what they are selling (alarmism: "Freedom is in danger") and to whom (donors).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24577995
Rather than a "insane feat of software engineering" I would define PalmOS as rather "extremely simple", complexity-wise on the level of classic macOS despite appearing a decade later.

Right now, mobile stacks are usually even more complex that desktop stacks.
The question is..if a AI reads a book is it against copyright?

Or is the trained model a derived work of those books?
ARM-based Chromebooks are not new. But IIRC they were mostly 32-bit machines with few cores running at relatively slow clock speeds. Still they were great machines for many purposes, and very inexpensive.

What seems to be new here is that this machine is built on the Snapdragon 7C, which is an 8-core[0] 64-bit machine running at 2.4 Ghz. And it has a touchscreen, a 180-degree hinge, and it will sell for $399/£399. I'll probably buy one if I can boot real Linux on it.

[0] Not sure if those are 8 actual cores or 4 hyperthreaded cores.
Concur. I never dreamed I would find a space-themed movie impossible to watch in its entirety but this turkey was the exception to my rule. And I'm 72!
China (hell, vaccinations/flat earth too) has shown that this isn’t terribly effective. The ‘west’ has been pursuing a policy of “if we enlighten them, they will revolt”, and it ain’t happening. Some have been enlightened, others have had their own biases strengthened, and the government has simply continued unchanged.
>Always amusing to see one side of a conversation respond with “lock it down” the minute they get some push back. Cancelled.

While reading the comment thread is now ten minutes I can't get back, to the site's credit they reopened comments just a few hours after one of their admins closed them.
In fast-paced games it is essential to disable vertical synchronization as well, trading possible tearing for less input lag.

Does Wayland support this?
The GDPR fines alone might end up bankrupting them (and rightfully so IMO). The only upside, if any, is that this might serve as a warning to anyone claiming that one doesn't have anything to worry bout if one doesn't have anything to hide.
I should have phrased the comment better, it probably came across as passive aggressive, which wasn't intended. My brain is not working this morning.
This is very cool and useful, thanks.

However, saying:
"Suppose you wanted to train a world-class GPT model, just like OpenAI. How? You have no data.
Now you do. Now everyone does"

Is quite a stretch. You need much, much more that 36GB of quality data to train a world-class GPT model.
I handed my notice in at my current job and ended up arranging a flexible ~2-3 hour a day contract with them. I used to commute for an hour both ways so I thought my day isn't actually any longer, but I get an extra chunk of money which helps a lot. If I was to leave my new job I could still afford to live on those hours a day anyway, so it's a nice backup if things don't work out.
> 1. Blocking Iranian IPs, as opposed to accounts, is almost certainly over-compliance. Note that the vast majority of websites do not do this. Even big ones, such as Gmail, do not do this.

How do you define an iranian account? It's a complicated rule set there. Iranians not legally resident in Iran are exempt from the sanctions for example.

I feel like IP bans are correct. If you're evading sanctions and internet censorship, you use whatever proxy and many do just this. Companies under these sanctions can write it off as not being the wiser and the users get to where they need to.

Closing accounts with an IP login from Iran does feel like an unnecessary step here.
> I was principally annoyed at the lack of usability in Crimea, as any way you slice it it’s part of a country that is not being sanctioned in the same way and the citizenry did nothing wrong.

If "doing wrong things" is a criterion for being blocked on GitLab, then there are _so_ many organizations and states which should be blocked, and arguably hundreds of Millions of people who serve in military forces which do wrong things etc.

So, there is really no justification for this regardless of slicing. IMHO.
Yes, this is one of the surprising things about human intelligence, most intellectual/cognitive abilities are positively correlated. Hence the g factor.
Depending how you define the top. I don't believe they are intending one new globally synchronized and architected payment network.
Tons of schools separate implicitly by wealth simply by charging high tuition and not offering (enough) financial aid to every student who can’t afford it.
There are a number of skills that are based on experience (as opposed to innate) that would greatly help you on an IQ test. The most obvious one is being able to sit still, try hard and follow directions. This may be what you're testing for, which is Taleb's claim about "IQ" being associated with obedience and success in a typical office job
The author of the post is a copyright holder of the screenshots as they are derivative works. (At least if the screenshots are good enough that they form a creative work)
Okay so Wayland is a no go and X.org is too crufty to attract contributors.... Where is the "rewrite it in rust" crowd when you need it? :)

The X11 protocol is the surface you need to maintain but swapping the internals should be do-able. Maybe we should have some call to action or reverse-auction or something. I'd love to support a viable path forward (I feel this effort would be a bit like neovim).

Personally I think it could start as a Xephyr or Xnest type project (to allow you to run rootless X) and then extend it with a from-scratch protocol that slowly replaces X (starting with support for simple but useful applications and going from there).

But clearly I only barely know what I'm talking about. Probably the reason things are the way they are is because of how the whole OpenGL / Vulcan etc. thing is not resolved, so any potential replacement has no foundation to build on (but this is something I don't know anything about).
JSMP:
"...this example is a theoretical use case where using IQ testing is not so useful.
To look at something a little more realistic, let’s say a company wants to avoid people with a performance more than 2 standard deviations below the mean. (Perhaps such employees have a risk of causing large harm, which could for instance be an issue in the military.) And we again compare admitting people at random vs only taking applicants with above average IQ."

[for reference, if using IQ as an indicator for performance, 2 standard deviations below the mean would be 70 IQ]

Taleb:
"The argument by psychologists to make IQ useful is of the sort: who would you like to do brain surgery on you/who would you hire in your company/who would you recommend, someone with a 90 IQ or one with 130 is ...academic. Well, you pick people on task-specific performance, which should include some filtering. In the real world you interview people from their CV (not from some IQ number sent to you as in a thought experiment), and, once you have their CV, the 62 IQ fellow is naturally eliminated. So the only think for which IQ can select, the mentaly disabled, is already weeded out in real life: he/she can’t have a degree in engineering or medicine. Which explains why IQ is unnecessary and using it is risky because you miss out on the Einsteins and Feynmans."
This has to be a nightmare for the patients. According to the article, some are already struggling with depression and anxiety.

> The information published could not be more sensitive: it included the patient's name, personal identification number, telephone number, email address and residence address, together with the content of the therapy sessions.
Woah, this is beyond just "bitter taste." If these values are potentially stored in JS Numbers, this scheme is completely dead on arrival. It is not acceptable for currency to be stored in a floating-point data type, full stop. This proposal needs to at a minimum define a datatype for how these values should be stored, not just leave it up to implementations to throw it at `var currency = x;`

This RFC is woefully underspecified, and the fact that there's an amount of its already-small specification devoted to "7.5. Bitcoin Address" makes me question their priorities and destroys a lot of confidence in the proposal.
Breaking into a low security is one thing but distributing private personal information is IMHO ten times worse and senseless too
I think it's pretty misleading to call it JavaScript, though.

My description would be: a subset of EcmaScript tailored for the TechEmpower benchmark environment (which I think is supposed to be disqualifying, but hasn't always been in practice -- see: Actix).

I think it's a cool project, but I have qualms about using TechEmpower as a way to boost experimental projects.
The number may be higher than 5% but it's because exponentially more and more non-Chinese competitors can outcompete more and more based on price the higher the tariffs on Chinese goods are.
Author here, and I have the same pair of Sennheisers too! Wonderful headphones, and I did some mod where you remove some foam inside the earcups which effectively makes them like the next model up (not sure which guide I followed, but this [0] might have been it).

As I mention in the article I'm not a fan of Bluetooth, though I do use that on mobile devices. Some have better connection and codec support (depends on Bluetooth version and phone too). I have to say the Corsair wireless headset I reviewed and use, has been quite good. Audio quality in terms of wireless is great, never a problem there. I haven't tried to specifically measure lag, but nothing I noticed at least.

So I can compare more directly with what you know in the HD555. The Senn's are more comfortable (lighter, a little softer in all places) and have a clearer, more natural sound, to me. The Corsair's sound good to me as well, but tuned differently (as I wrote, more multimedia focused). I haven't tried equalizers, but that's always an option.

The wireless freedom is great. I use a wired keyboard and mouse at the desk, but headphones always have a wire moving around the desk, getting caught on something, or just annoying if I want to get up and move a little in the room.

Happy to answer any other questions. For me, the Corsair hits a nice price point and quality, works well for what I want. The higher end wireless ones quickly get more expensive, and I'd imagine that money would get you more in a non-wireless set, at least in terms of listening quality.

[0] http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mo...
You have this completely backwards. The victims here are the patients whose information was leaked. The care provider failed in their duty to prevent the leak.

If you want a rape analogy, it's like blaming a police officer for failing to prevent a rape due to the police officer being drunk.
Of course it is a derived work.
Yes, and it's somewhat irresponsible for the author to present it this way. Taleb is not being specific that he's talking about variance of performance in his claim. That is only one way to measure the relationship between two things (via covariance and then correlation). But it's not the only way. In fact Taleb's claim is actually underspecified here, so in lieu of rebutting it with a calculation of Pearson's r, the author should try to critique it more holistically.

As it stands, an R^2 of 0.356 is not actually a refutation of Taleb's "5 - 13%". Taleb probably shouldn't have quantified his point without some rigor behind it, but the author's single counterexample doesn't substantively respond to it.