skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is playing with fire. It's quite dangerous to study human intelligence because there's a lot of results that you might accidentally stumble on, which can be mistaken for racism, or worse, be exploited by racists.

Even if you stumble on such facts accidentally, it can very well damage your academic prospects (and sometimes non-academic prospects as well ... in places like Silicon Valley).

Many years ago I had a friend who was studying an unrelated topic at University (he was trying to figure out how to test for future programming aptitude via a purely paper test). He was administering the paper tests to students with no programming experience before their first programming class, and then studying the correlation between various paper tests and final grades in programming projects in courses (including grad courses) over time.

He found some quite good paper tests that correlated quite nicely with future grades on programming projects ... but a faculty advisor pointed out that the results of the paper test were also strongly correlated with some politically sensitive student categories. My friend abandoned the project because when it was pointed out like that, it was quite clear he was producing results that could be exploited to create a selection criteria he was not comfortable with endorsing.
I read so many different things about IQ.

It's crap.

It's the only good thing that came from psychology.

If the army uses it, it can't be so bad.

It stays the same, your whole life.

You can train it.

It's right, but it doesn't help you much because if you look at the world, the people with the highest IQ aren't the most successful.

What's right?
First of all, thanks for showing Anki to me. I see lot of apps for Anki; any suggestion which ones are good to start with ?
> Personally I think it's adequate just to fine companies for breaches and let them figure out if they want to insure or do better or both.

They'd just need to post a bond or similar, if they don't want to insure.

(Any insurance company would need to do something similar.)
When I think "successful social media marketing" I think of some kind of podcast or blog... say

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-podcast/

or

https://multithreaded.stitchfix.com/blog/
https://www.stitchfix.com/men/blog/
https://www.stitchfix.com/women/blog/

(e.g. it was reading about machine learning at Stitch Fix (SF) that I felt solidarity for them and became a subscriber)

That aviation podcast is like a freight train, but that is because they have been doing it so long.

If there is a royal road, it is to pay someone and ride on their momentum. For instance the SF company will hire pro bloggers, you work with an "influencer", etc.

This San Francisco entrepreneur staged a fake protest to launch Salesforce.com (SF)

https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-salesforcecom-c...
Tevel: Flying autonomous robots that pick fruit
A notebook might be just a little to old-school to work in the modern world, but there's definitely reason to consider having such sensitive data completely separated from the Internet.
DMCA covers "circumvention devices".
> The upper bound is there to ensure that you do not have to use BigNum in languages like JavaScript,

I think that is a far too generous read of the document. I think it's because they wanted you to be able to use a JS Number to store the value, which is the Wrong Thing To Do. In fact, using two BigInts to separately represent the fractional and whole pieces of the currency would be far better.

This is the kind of ambiguity that I refer to when I say this is underspecified.
460 passengers now banned from flying on Delta for refusing masks
> If we're being charitable we can say that the core thrust of Taleb's point remains unchallenged, while the details he quantified are either wrong or lacking in sufficient rigor to be refuted.

It seems we could put this a little stronger, as the article claims to refute all the quantifiable evidence for the core point. As far as I can tell, it does so.
Alas, infosec failures often come in much bigger lumps than car accidents.
But why would anyone do that if you can just bend over backwards with the current implementation?
Thanks, that's a really interesting tool.
Did you just call the US patent system "Open"?
No physiotherapist could really help me as I wasn’t injured and my walk was’t obviously wrong, they all sortof dismissed me. What helped was ballance exercises, learning how to use skeletal muscles and paying attention to the whole aspect of walking: in the end it should feel effortless. I was also stepping on the foot wrong, was applying too much pressure on the front of the foot and leaning the trunk forward a few degrees more than now. The rest was trial and error and it took a while to fine tune it but as soon as I found the sweet spot - and you know it, it feels just right and you’re relaxed - the rest is making this a habit so you don’t really have to consciously think about it and it happens naturally. I also fixed a lot of static postures such as sitting on a chair, etc I sometimes fall into the old postures but now can adjust accordingly

What I forgot to mention was stretches which do help but if the motion isn’t fixed the tense muscles tense back as they try to compensate for the incorrect movement.

There are multiple paths to this and yoga could be one of them. Im just a stubborn self lerner and went through a lot of trial and error. At the beginning i studied muscular imballances and did a lot of strenghtening and stretching but that didn’t help too much as my bad habits were reverting all the progress and certain muscles would tense up and others wouldnt fire. Once i figured out the correct posture it all fell into place
You make an interesting point that with enough bad regulation, you can destroy any good and sensible idea.
Yeah I remember, the german mobile phone magazines did thorough radiation tests and people actually avoided phones with too much radiation. Many people were even calling it „Elektro-Smog“.
The method is fine but I'd probably still wear a suit while setting such a thing up ... at least a jacket, gloves, full pants tucked into thick socks, and mosquito net.
> Wrong. The original goal of IQ testing was to predict which students needed special care. It is still very useful (albeit expensive) metric for that.

You are entirely correct, turns out I misremembered.

Wealth is definitely not inherited the same way as IQ, in that it doesn't show any regression to the mean. We also know that adopted children from a lower-IQ family will show an IQ between their birth and adoptive parents, which is again very different from wealth.

I do agree that IQ is not a perfect metric, but can you describe why you think IQ is more reflective of society than anything else?
Given the speculation, someone should mention Douglas Adams' concept of "spending a year dead for tax reasons" in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
You do risk weeding out those parties: The tests aren't perfect and can give low results from people who are otherwise intelligent. 125 wouldn't pass the above conjectured 130.

A piece of intuition is that if you select a population based on a criteria, the correlation between that criteria and the target in the selected subpopulation is usually greatly diminished, and sometimes reversed.

Imagine you know that being very tall is very good for basketball... so you select very tall people to be players. You will likely find that among the selected players height is not very correlated with performance, or even inversely correlated because your initial selection wiped the correlation out and potentially noise or other effects (like agility) which are correlated with being short begin to dominate the differences within that population.

This also holds for correlated traits-- e.g. if you select very tall players it may wipe out or reverse the correlation shoe-size has with performance.

As a result if you first select people for an intelligence requiring task specific capability and also select for IQ you're likely selecting for noise, and potentially selecting for people who are just really good at taking tests and which weren't actually as good at the task specific capability as a randomly selected person in your first selection would be.
> plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else

This view implies not walking is normal and walking is something you can go out of your way to do to improve on normal.

I prefer viewing walking as normal and not walking as aberrant, so I would say "not walking destroys cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else."

People are free to define normal how they want. I find my way motivates more walking and less sedentariness.
In the past I worked for an Israeli company listed on a US stock exchange. They were proud that they had customers in virtually every corner of the world, and had just six countries they couldn't do business in. One (Lebanon) because of the Israeli government, and five (including Iran) because of the US.

Most interesting to me: apparently when they first went public and became subject to US regulation they had to close quite a large number of customer accounts in Iran.
Me too. Can someone explain why Cloudflare shows up when (as far as I know) I don't use Cloudflare.
Can't be worse.
> Serious question - which of these advance American national interests or prevent human rights abuses?

You're moving the goal posts. OP simply said the president "accomplished jack-all". I can't stand the guy either but these are at least accomplishments, even if the effects of some of them are symbolic. What do you want him to do? A land invasion?
In my experience, just vacuuming up yellowjackets in a shop vac kills them. No soapy water needed.
My running style was once described as "a lot of up and down, not much forward". Geoffrey Verity Schofeld's cue "Everything FORWARD" (https://youtu.be/x7SAQsmBm5M?t=368) might help you feel like you're making forward progress. It won't be sustainable for 30 minutes at first, but that will be a nice challenge to work up to.
I wrote this before the youtube-dl controversy and now I am seeing this blog in a different light. Developers should know the basics of collaboration through git.
Let's add "Russian" hackers in the title to make it sound more mainstream XD
That wouldn't help with filing a counter-notice, as the LLC would then have to accept the jurisdiction of the US.

And US courts do "veil-pierce" through entities set up for the sole purposes of evading investor liability. (It's complicated to explain, but in a very simplified nutshell if an entity is set up for the sole purpose of evading liability for criminal acts, regulatory violations, civil torts, or responsibility for financial losses, then the courts will disregard the legal entity and just go straight to the owner(s).)
Why (asking seriously).

I am not doubting the validity of the correlation. I just want to know how one can use this info properly.
Euhm, the jsmp post certainly seems more rigorous than Taleb, not less.

I also don't understand how your first point works. It contradicts itself. Look, either statistics (because this is a problem with statistics, not with IQ specifically) can predict individuals or not. So either IQ is useful in classifying both success and failure. Or it can't be used for either. Generally using statistical values for predicting individual success or failure is, first, very unreliable in the individual case, and second, not considered "just", for good reason. If you statistically show a group of 10 people has a 90% chance of being criminal, it is considered impossibly hard to pick out the innocent from among them using statistics. Therefore the correct way to respond to statistics is to group people by IQ bands, not to give specific individuals advantages (which, granted, is often done). Of course, this will magnify differences over time, which you may not consider socially just.

Your second argument essentially states that "measures that don't take time into account ... don't take time into account". It is wrong insofar that IQ usually does take time (time since birth) into account, but nothing else. That's not a coincidence, that's because they tried other factors and they didn't matter, but obviously a tautology is always right. The point is wrong because it's useless, not because it's untrue. There are many other factors that could be evaluated against IQ, and there has been a ton of research that did so, and never found much correlation.

And frankly, it boils down to this: "being good at X" correlates across X. That's to a large extent what IQ is. Everybody has seen that incompetence extends beyond any individual skill an individual might or might not have. Research shows that competence does too. It makes sense to some extent: having exceptional skill at one particular thing allows you to advance quicker when it comes to other skills. When those skills are related this is considered "trivially true" (e.g. learning piano to learn violin quicker), but what's harder to see is that this is in reality almost universally true, and this is in fact what our school system turns out to be based upon. Skills you learn in school aren't generally meant to be generally useful, but to allow you to learn "real" skills that can't be effectively learned in school much faster.
Medical records are PII themselves.
This hasn't been the case in a long time, most streaming sites no longer do RTMP unless specialised cases, because of scaling and ease of scaling. They're mostly HLS or equivalent now.
I don't remember exactly, but on YouTube there's a guy who posts videos of him vacuuming yellow jackets and nest extraction.
Afaik the U.S. no longer sponsors terrorists. I'd love a link if I'm misguided. Further, elimination of zionists is still a stated goal of the Iranian government. I'm not saying Israel is guilt free of course, but afaik they've never threatened nuking anyone. Again, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Same reason we have private insurance companies in general.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
Those that actually use the outdated X vector graphics operations look like utter garbage compared to anything post-1995. Frankly, I'd rather my applications are at least somewhat aesthetically pleasing.

That is entirely subjective no? Personally I think Motif is one of the pinnacles of GUI design.
Many solutions which position themselves as Zoom competitors lack any of the differentiating features. Just to pick a few:

- Force mic mute on all participants except the presenter, disallow enabling without presenter permission

- Webinars for thousands of people (handful of presenters with video, multiple non-video listen-only participants)

- 50+ people with video streams enabled in one meeting

- Smart background replace with optional green screen support

Then there are all the features for education, split rooms etc. But just those four - to my knowledge - exist only in Zoom. Some competitors might have 1-3 of those, none of them have all four.

We don't use Zoom because we especially love them, we use Zoom because it's the only one with the features we need.
What do you mean by worse than random? R-squared is a measure of variance explained, not binary prediction accuracy.
Thank you for sharing the Postman talk. It's a superb set of insights.
Isn't a simple strip of plastics to isolate the battery a common "power switch"?
Maybe not so obvious. If you read a book, are you a derivative work?
Nextdns.io and cloudflare externally. Pi-hole pointing to those internally. Preferably encrypted. Preferably with Firefox due to esni support.
I was simply agreeing with the parent that the standard for evidence in the social sciences is a lot weaker than would be acceptable in physics, chemistry, etc.
Yes, and my response is "I don't see why we need to give it any credence whatsoever enough to comment on it".
Those protective suits look like something from a science fiction work. It even looks like a cell shaded rendering at second glance. I guess these hornets earned their title.
CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) is a flavor of what you're describing.

It's very effective if administered properly, and regularly, just like "working out your brain".

I did read the article, in the hopes that VR might actually bring something to the table.

I did find the "collaborative playful activity to improve patient-therapist relationship" part quite condescending (to both patient and doctor). Are none of them capable of having a conversation and reach a middle ground from where they can communicate effectively?

Is this VR solution for cases that severe?

I didn't find answers to the questions above.

But CBT works, to an extent. This (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET)) might work too, but the article needs to tone down the condescension.
X.org is one of my longest-used pieces of software. I've used it for 25 years (at the time it was called XFree86 and you had to calculate your own modelines to get hi res), and it has worked incredibly well for me. I've written software some 20 years ago that still runs just fine (some xscreensavers) and I still use it today.

Kind of a shame.
I'm more surprised about it being the first nest considering trade across the Pacific is going on for some time now...
It makes me a little nauseous to think about all the resources going to tracking down these insects, but this is truly an area where an ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure.

The scope of North America's invasive species problem is enormous. For many folks in urban areas, it's possible that you might go your whole day only encountering one native bird species (American Crow), but a whole host of invasive species (Rock Pigeon, House Sparrows, European Starlings).

History shows that early, active intervention can pay enormous dividends. For example, Alberta remains the only area in North America without non-native rats due to a major interventions:
https://www.alberta.ca/history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.asp...
They 're certainly not orthogonal, at least that's my experience. VR fans are technical, mostly gamers, congregating in platforms other than facebook (discord twitch etc). Not the usual self-obsessed facebook/instagram crowd
This is just total economically illiterate nonsense. The value of an active Facebook user for advertising is about $25/year in revenue, $6/year in profit. Facebook spent $2 billion on Oculus. They've sold a couple of million headsets. Let's say that they're all still active users. That's $1k per user.

Do you see how utterly implausible your theory about the VR just being a vehicle to drive revenue is? It's not that the numbers don't add up. It's that the numbers are off by orders of magnitude.

And oh, just by buying a Quest 2 and a few games, I'm already a far bigger source of revenue to Facebook than an average user of the social network part. The idea that they'd be knee-capping the whole ecosystem by intentionally disabling paying customers just to make pennies more on ads is ludicrous.

I think it's basically guaranteed that the explanation from my original post stands: their anti-abuse team did not consider this use case when building their bulk account models, but will obviously consider it in the future.

I'd happily make a bet that my account will not get "banned" in the next year, despite not having any Facebook friends or Facebook social network activity.
Gosh, I feel old, how do I set DNS servers in Linux these days?

I used to just edit /etc/resolv.conf and add 8.8.8.8 to it but now recent distros have "Do not edit." in resolv.conf and don't tell you what to actually edit. Why do they have to do this to us ... things used to be simple.
This reminds me a lot of the UPI payment scheme. National Payments Corporation of India has defined the UPI as an interoperable format for payments between bank accounts. It has worked out beautifully in last few years and as someone who has worked extensively with applications around UPI, a common global standard around payments would go a long way to not only enable safer and more seamless payments infrastructure but also act as a countervailing force to the duopoly of VISA and MasterCard.
Same. I can tell you from visceral experience that a tractor at 12mph doesn't outrun pissed off yellow jackets XD (are they ever not pissed off?)
Why is psychological data considered a medical record? Only the medication used, and only as long as it is relevant, should be medical.
Curious, what are people using this for?
People want life to be fair, and the fact that we are all born with different levels of intelligence disproves that.
1994: We'll need airtight space suits for an Ebola outbreak.

2020: Surgical masks are a bit much to expect people to wear during a pandemic, Ebola has been circulating in Congo since 2014, and we'll need airtight space suits for a murder hornet outbreak.

Truly, the 90s were a simpler time.
That'd probably be a good solution if the transmitter didn't need weatherproofing. I suppose adhesive film could be placed over the gap after removing the tab, though.
Are you using Firefox?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs...
> If I just make a [new language designed from scratch], the odds of anyone using it other than me are almost 0. The mechanics of how languages become popular are confusing and unknown and you are very unlikely to produce the next big language, so, to a certain extent, you don’t really have a choice, if you want to actually solve real problems and actually help real people with their programming problems.

Supposing your design is good, wouldn't this just be an issue of promotion? How is a language (and the surrounding toolchain) different from other products?
> if I present any model with an R2 of 0.35 it would be flat out rejected because it would be worse than random chance

If I was interviewing an engineer that said something like this, I wouldn't hire them. It's somewhat unclear what you even think "random chance" means in a regression context.
> The way I see it, it's just a different way to live.

The comment you responded to was prompted by this: "When I see people drive somewhere that's less than 2 miles away it blows my mind."

> So I chose to live within reasonable walking distance of places I need to go.

I'm glad that works for you, but - depending on your life interests - it's pretty literally impossible for many people.
Not to nitpick, but it's Andrew Gelman. Murray Gell-Mann is the physicist.
or my favourite: listen to audiobooks![0]

I've been taking a 1-2 hours walk in the morning for a few years, which I usually use to get groceries, and miss it dearly when I can't.

[0] Or music, but I admit I don't listen to much of that.
haha, it still works, the actual hacker gets paid, and the VPN or RPC'd computer in Russia never gets subpoena'd and the real investigation is deflected into thinking about "state sponsored hackers" in Russia, ordered by Putin himself!

"17 Intelligence agencies all agree that [the IP address of the computer used by] the hackers were in Russia, how suspicious that you don't!"
A fair lament, surely. Teaching stuff that has no immediate use displaces stuff that may be. It's not that simple because I think learning maths teaches you a broader, more rigorous way of thinking, but still, maybe maths education needs to look at itself hard.
I used to use VisualGDB but now that Visual Studio (not VS Code) supports embedded, I use that.
This is really cool, especially because I can just 'wget -qO- $RANDOM.which.nameserve.rs/api.json?callback=myfunction' which means I can use this in scripts. (For example an added field to scripts that grab from ifconfig.co)
That doesn’t strike me as anywhere near sufficient evidence that children can’t be trained for IQ tests.

I suspect the test-oriented early education available to wealthy Americans is such a large confounder that it overwhelms innate ability at this point.
Describing reality is not disgusting.