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> we can't find any lasting intervention (beyond very early childhood) to improve people's IQ

We have, actually! It's just that they've all been implemented already. Iodine supplementation was huge. (Childhood Iodine deficiency results in an adulthood IQ deficit of ~15 points)

The next big IQ improvement looks like it might be iterated embryo selection [0] which is currently possible and will soon be practical, but has a whole host of ethical issues attached to it. (Is it right for the children of the rich to get another advantage like this? (Not a question for the Talebs of the world who think IQ is bunk, but one I'm sure many will be asking) Is throwing away dozens of viable embryos ethical? Are we 'playing god'? And further down the line, is using CRISPR-Cas9 to directly edit the genome of your descendants OK?)

0: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection
I think that's just HN's flamewar prevention method. Any story with a low score and a large number of comments are pushed down quickly, this is in addition to the fact that the post is getting flagged which pushes it down further.
Reading https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/doj-google-suit/c21c1..., the missing part seems to be “of mobile device usage, in the USA”. It says:

“In the United States, Apple iOS devices — those running on Apple’s proprietary mobile operating system account for roughly 60 percent of mobile-device usage. Apple’s
is a closed ecosystem; Apple does not license iOS to third-party mobile device manufacturers.

Another roughly 40 percent of mobile-device usage comes from devices that use Android, an open-source mobile operating system controlled by Google. Unlike iOS, Android is licensable, which means third-party mobile device manufacturers can use it as the operating system for their devices. All other mobile operating systems, combined account for less than one percent of mobile device usage in the United States.”

(Of course, whether that’s correct is a different question from whether that’s what the DoJ claims, but it doesn’t seem farfetched to me that it is correct, too)
> this is a time to use revenue instead of profits

Totally the opposite. Capital projects are greenlit on profits. The profits Google delivers to Apple are a better argument against it building its own search engine than the revenues.
I believe you misread my comment; I said that the full-screen, minimize, re-size isn't part of the server-side decoration extension, but was part of a more basic xdg_shell protocol through the configure event.

I was objecting to the fact that you said that windows did not have this capability without the server-side extensions, whereas I think they can be through configure. I did not dispute whether sway had server-side decorations or not.
Yes but if that somebody was a chef, I would value their opinion more.
Maybe, but it's a fair bet that they'd have the same or higher fixed costs, lower traffic, and the same or lower revenue per search. Apple hasn't really demonstrated that they can operate data infrastructure at that scale with Google's cost structure (nobody has, but especially not Apple).
Illustris Simulation of the Universe (2014)
As tptacek pointed out, it did not cost Apple close to 0 marginal cost to implement.

Apple spent a lot and continues to spend a lot to retain its enormous share of wealthy users, which is why Google pays as much as it does to be default. Exactly how much to attribute is probably impossible to calculate, but certainly not close enough to zero to call it pure profit.
Lloyds, in its insurance period, was really a co-working space. That approach to insurance required multiple people to assume part of the risk. Each insurer would sign their name on a contract, below other names. This is where the term "underwriting" comes from. They had to get together somewhere to do this.

It's probably not authentic, but you can see the Hollywood version of Lloyds Coffee House in "Lloyds of London" (1936)[1], around 25:30.

[1] https://archive.org/details/1936LloydsOfLondon
Yet Google is still my favorite search engine, and I've seriously tried them all.
That seems odd to me - sure in the water rowing is slower (friction is way higher), but in terms of muscle use and energy output, rowing uses way more muscles and gets better range of motion in the legs.
I think most people would use alternatives to Zoom if they weren't obliged to use it because their university or their workplace have some kind of partnership with them.
You could make the same argument about the mail system.
My fault? More like my consciously made trade-off of time vs speed.

And it worked stunningly well. You see, I figured that whatever I targeted I'd do about 80% of the time. So, 35 a day is about ~1000 a month, and I reckoned I could hit that 10 months in a given year.

My first year of Japanese was basically RTK + KO2001 and JLPT2 grammar study. I was a few points off passing JLPT2 inside 1 year of study. At the time it say I had around 2 to 3 thousand vocab, and could read all Jyoyou kanji, plus understand almost all sentence structure used in daily life.

My 2nd year of Japanese I acquired an additional 10k vocab. I passed JLPT2 and came a few points short of passing JLPT1.

6 months into my 3rd year of study I passed JLPT1 and never touched studying Japanese again.

It has always been a big part of my life since then, and I credit that brutal effort with me really turning my life around. It was an absolutely epic adventure.
Was this a leisurely pedal or were you going hard?
Reionization – End of the Dark Ages of the Universe (2016)
I love it, and consider it surprisingly and even “unreasonably” effective.

My favorite feature is its simplicity. It imposes very little cognitive load, allowing you to spend more time thinking about the problem you are trying to solve and less time on language gymnastics. I am way “over” being impressed with that kind of cleverness. I am much more impressed with what a program does than with cleverness at the code level.

Go mostly picks the right features and avoids those that just add complexity, and it mostly gets that right.

It doesn’t get everything right. I am disappointed with channels and I do think it needs generics, though I hope the latter do not add much complexity and are not overused.
Are you a lawyer, random internet comment writer?

Also, per HN guidelines, please don’t insinuate that I can’t read.
I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. For the projects I've used it with, it works fine up until I need some complex data structures, then it falls apart into bunch of runtime-casting-infected code. Also, I don't find that it makes threading less error-prone than a language like Java.

I've switched most of my personal projects over to Rust and so far I'm not looking back...
You may have your causation/correlation confused.
How about physical mailing?
I imagine user clicks are an important signal which helps a search engine refine its results. If no one ever clicks on a particular link for they were shown when searching for "foo", then there's something about that link that makes it a less attractive result.
More importantly, I bet your hour a day user never comes close to the energy nessesary to build the bike and associates electronics in the first place
Great summary.

> The cost of this is often verbosity or repetition

This may be seen as a cost but it's also a significant gain during debugging.
Armies of nationalist trolls are policing Weibo for any sign of dissent
It seems to me attitudes started shifting around the time the iPhone was introduced. I suspect it was a combination of many people perceiving Apple as benevolent, and the iPhone being seen as a toy or accessory rather than what would be a primary device for the average person a decade later. I recall a conversation in which someone responded to some criticism I had with "they built a Playstation for adults, what's the problem with that?".

Of course, that kind of power corrupts regardless of its wielder's benevolence, with there being recent examples of Apple imposing, or being forced to impose censorship on services provided through third-party apps (e.g. Telegram being forced to censor doxxing of Belarusian police), and smartphones play a much more important role in society than game consoles do.
> Humanity does not stand on its own, we still need nature to sustain ourselves.

Working towards reducing that reliance sounds like a better investment than hoping that a fragile system keeps stable if we undo the changes we noticed we cause (a system that had multiple extinction events in the past)
Keep up the good work man!
Thanks for pointing out ranking search results as a technology investment required; I tend to think of it as part of indexing but a good call out.

I purposely didn't want to go down the "quality" rat hole because that tends to devolve into subjective opinions (see DDG threads throughout HN). My personal, subjective opinion is that blind tests would likely reveal very little differences and thus justify their major investment in brand advertising made by Google.

(not blind but compare https://duckduckgo.com/?q=best+wallpaper with https://www.google.com/search?q=best+wallpaper; do you really want 3 pinterest results to this query; this is the burden of being the dominant search engine - you're the one people will game)

--edited for typos
Seriously, I think the Justice Department is missing some qualifiers.

I'd assume it's referring to both only US traffic and only mobile traffic.

Because if you make it worldwide or include desktops/laptops, it's laughable.
Saudi Arabia is the open ally to Israel and UAE is the secret one?
Startup time, browser extensions and I don't want to log in again in an app, if I'm already logged in in the browser.
> It’s not comparable to companies operating in western democratic countries.

You read the article? It's censoring due to pressure from Israeli (democratic) and jewish lobbies over talks of Palestinian liberation.
Apropos, I searched "ddg bang patten" and got garbage results, so I added "!g" and Google found DDG's own page on bang patterns.
Can I ask which JTAG debugger specifically? I’m in the market for a good one.
I could be wrong but I always thought the fact Google has such high penetration of Google Analytics makes their ranking a lot easier. They can see how much time users spend on site and other behaviour. This must make it a lot easier to know which results are "good".
> Homosexuality stopped being a mental illness in 1973 (or 1987 if you include sexual orientation disturbance), so that's not in the last 2 decades. This was a great success, there were studies that pointed at a marked decrease in suicides among people in same-sex relationship over time.

And while it's progress for psychology itself, and good for society, it's certainly not an achievement. People were killing themselves and being institutionalized because psychologists were calling them insane, and this stopped happening when psychology chose to stop calling them insane. I can't claim an important discovery in abuse prevention if I choose to stop abusing someone.
The biggest source of Google search traffic is doubtless Chrome, and Google doesn’t have to make a deal for that.
The law forces private property owners to pay taxes they don’t want to. The law forces restaurants to serve “coloreds” even if they don’t want to. Private property rights operate within limits circumscribed by the law. And a good law to govern that is the First Amendment. Just extend First Amendment rights to online spaces that are operated by monopolies or near-monopolies.
If you primarily care about user experience and lack of friction, accepting both centralized and decentralized approaches as means to an end, you usually end up with something centralized.

Trust me, as a screen reader user who often transmits high-quality audio, I know that a web client just won't cut it in more advanced scenarios. WebRTC implementations work... kind of. Sometimes. An actual app gives you much more flexibility and control, and makes the UX much better.
The question here is how hard do you ride (given by the heart rate). Do you ride at 120bpm or 160bpm? If it's 120bpm, you can probably increase the output with little training or just by accepting a higher heart rate. If it's 160bpm, something seems wrong.
Key thing is in employment. The damage of the pills vs likelihood of an episode at work. (Work may not know if your mental health diagnosis). Once you hit retirement you can stop taking medication.
I can't seem to find a cite for this (may have been in a video) but I remember Joe being asked about open source, and he responded that he'd like to but rocket stability and especially guidance software is an absolute legal minefield in the US.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think it's subconscious bias in my case of preferring Google to all others.

My process: think of something I want to find, think of all the keywords I can, type them into the search engine.

Google helps me find what I'm looking for faster than Bing or DDG.
If I make my living from training and presenting webinars to people of varying technical skills, I'm picking the best tool for the job - not the one with the best backstory or license.

If this were a tool for a group of friends for casual chitchat or games, then I might pick on other merits.
What redundant X-rays?
Landing pages that display links to multiple music streaming/purchase/play sites are extremely common nowadays. Pretty much every music distributor offers them. Example: https://distrokid.com/willsmith
New evidence supports the belief that South Africa's education is not all bad
Oh, I didn’t mean lock vs channels/goroutines. I meant in general prematurely optimizing by using Go’s concurrency primitives. It’s so easy to goroutine-ize a simple for loop with a waitgroup, but it can quickly get complicated with stop channels, cancellations, error handling/propagating, graceful shutdown which is then a source of bugs.
See another reply in this thread for how that strategy worked out.
And 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
You're absolutely right about the suffering the the commercial stuff and the open source stuff being more flexible.

However, when a product needs to use a certified toolchain to meet required safety standards, and to be supported using that toolchain throughout the product life, it does have its place. Doesn't stop you using GCC or LLVM in addition for the better diagnostics though. But you would not want to bet with people's lives on the assembler output of optimising compilers, when it comes down to real life critical stuff in production. You could use it, but independently validating the toolchain would be really expensive. The commercial toolchains (allegedly) provide behaviour guarantees that standard compilers do not. Probably more expensive than forking out for the commercial licences in most situations, which is most likely why they are so costly.

Doesn't mean that us devs don't wish daily for GCC and LLVM levels of user friendliness and features though...
They said “worldwide” for the other figure and failed to specify the region [in the article] for the other. I think you’re right, but it’s still deceptive, and I’m inclined to believe it was deliberate. Even though the DOJ does seem to clarify in the actual filing, it rubs me the wrong way, and the article summarizing the events is misleading.
Car fatalities in Finland: approximately 250 per year. That gives an idea of the orders of magnitude difference that can occur with security breaches. There have been breaches where every person in a whole country has been affected.

Most importantly car accidents have a known variance and are statistically predictable.

There are insurers that will take on one-off unpredictable risks (reinsurance), but equating cybersecurity to car insurance makes little sense.
I slapped together a static site generator in (mostly) Bash the other day and it renders all of my 6 shitposts (Node for MD -> HTML conversion) in 2.7 seconds flat and I'm perfectly happy with it. Or I was. Now your post made me want to rewrite it in Go, for science.
Incredibly sad news. And this made me even sadder:

"Extortionists demanded around 450,000 euros (in bitcoins) in exchange for not publishing the clinical and mental health data of thousands of people.

The criminals started to publish the data of 100 people every day in the encrypted web Tor two days ago."

As someone that strongly believes in privacy and freedom I find so depressing that some technologies seem to be exclusively used to commit crimes.
Pretty sure the privacy policy for Analytics prevents them from doing this.
If the C-team need to give a virtual presentation for 1000+ employees, people forgetting to unmute their mics or allowing them to unmute without permission is a complete and total dealbreaker for a product.

I know that these aren't complex features code-wise, other solutions just have decided not to implement them.
The problem with a lot of this solutions is that they won’t hold for complex projects. If all you are doing is turning on some leds and connecting through usb, it works okay.

Try heavily time-sensitive synchronized SPI transfers and going deep into the hardware layout becomes necessary.
> If strong man Randy Savage wanted to give a public speech on your front lawn, you should have the right to say no because that's your property. You should also be able to say yes.

Correct. Because of private property laws, not free speech. The problem isn't (exactly) whether companies have a right to do this. The problem is that increasingly they are our primary method of communication, and want to be, and with lockdowns, have to be.

If private companies are the only way we communicate, we may still have a free speech problem. Just as if everyone only communicated using yoghurt pots and strings, and a private company owned the strings and decided whose should be cut.
I never understood why people are looking for things which are boring and I think it is mostly employers who do. They should look for something which is good and solves their problems. I don't know how something with the attribute boring is of interest here as other attributes for a technology/PL might be much more important...

Actually they mean something different with "boring": It is just a lack of courage for simply saying "We are most conservative, do not want to move forwards and are not willing to take any risk. Also we are scared of specialists and talent and want to stay mediocre. Actually working with us is boring."
> In my time as maintainer, I declined numerous requests to support piracy sites and DRM-protected content. I can not speak for the project in the last years, but from what I've seen that policy has remained. To me, this is the right policy any legal project should follow.

Seems to me that the best method of retaliation would be to let the code + issues + PRs become decentralized and this policy changed.
> I always find the anti-environmentalist position that pops up on HN interesting. For a technical audience, they are amazingly unaware of "Systems Thinking". Saying "MEH, there are other pollinators" is lazy thinking. Our ecosystem is a vast web of interconnections. You cannot predict how one HUGELY important species being destroyed will affect the rest of our ecosystem.

FWIW honeybees are not part of the native US ecosystem, they were imported from europe. They are likely important if not critical to the pollination of several cash crops, but they're not an ecosystem concern in and of themselves.

However giant asian hornets are rather indiscriminate in their hunting, in fact their main prey in japan are large insects like mantises (as well as other hornets). GAH taking root in the US would be an unmitigated disaster all around, not just for beekeeping.
it's a history thing: back then, everything was serverless^WCGI and you didn't need to do any http servery things at all: just read stdin and write to stdout. web servers were an afterthought and turns out if you needed performance, you had to do it in C anyway, so nothing came prepackaged. then the web 2.0 happened and suddenly hello world is being done over http instead of printing to stdout, so new entrants obviously designed their stdlib around this.
People with iPhones use their phones more than people with Android.
>Psykoterapeutin on tehtävä merkintä potilaan jokaisesta psykoterapiakäynnistä viivytyksettä ja ajantasaisesti. Käynniltä poisjäänti tai käynnin peruuttaminen, joko potilaan tai psykoterapeutin aloitteesta, on kirjattava. Hoidon alussa merkintöjen pitää olla perusteellisempia, ja potilaan hoitosuunnitelma pitää kirjata selkeästi.

>Psykoterapialle on tyypillistä, että psykoterapeutti tekee psykoterapiakäynnin aikana muistiinpanoja. Psykoterapeutin tulee viivytyksettä psykoterapiakäynnin jälkeen laatia muistiinpanojen keskeisistä kohdista varsinaiset potilasasiakirjamerkinnät.
>Is GCHQ having such difficulty finding staff?

They're trying but apparently there's not enough ballet dancers to fill all the roles.
Moderate - not going all out, but definitely working my legs. To the sibling question - don't have a pulse meter, so no idea.
Please don't use this kind of hyperbole. It's really not an interesting conversation when it leads into platitudes like "everybody did this" and "nobody did that" and "an entire group of people is arrogant and obstructionist" which neither of us have any way of proving or disproving. I wish this open-source-holy-war type of comment was not so common on Reddit and HN, it's about as constructive as the endless Emacs and Vim flame wars.

If you're trying to illustrate the trend that GNOME and XFCE (and KDE, and LXQT, and MATE, and Budgie, and Mint...) all have different goals and ideas for how applications should behave then yes, I would say that much is obvious by now, and it has only gotten more obvious over the last few years. If you have a technical solution to this then I'd love to hear it, but aside from that I don't care to bicker about whose fault it is that your applications broke, because honestly no answer is going to pleasing for you to hear. Unless I'm mistaken then we aren't paying customers, this is all just random no-warranty open source and there's no support hotline that's going to care about what's broken.
>Why not say that money goes towards paying employees, or server farm costs?

Because they don't have to pay (almost) any employees or server farms to make Google the default.
I think any inferiority is mainly because DDG doesn't build a user profile. I tested this the other day by searching for 'rust'. On Google the entire first page of results were either about the programming language or some game. DDG had something about iron oxide as the third result.

Whenever I use DDG, I just have to remember that DDG does not have my personal profile, and adjust accordingly. Then the results are fine, and even better if I'm searching outside my normal profile.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874602
There’s nothing from someone implementing a single extensible compositor that everyone standardizes to build their DE. It’s the same as Xorg and X11.

Right now there’s a bunch of competing compositors with different use-cases but nothing says it has to be true forever.
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