skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Iranian, I have to say that while your last sentence might be true (Saudi Arabia sucks after all), I'd still rather live in a world where the opposing superpower would pressure my country to respect human rights and stop funding terrorism, fundamentalism, and misinformation. (See what North Korea's effective foreign immunity has brought its people.) This, of course, is hypocritical on the US part, but hypocrisy is better than complacency.
I remember SAR being a differentiating factor in the pre-smartphone era, at least in Europe.
I do this regularly when I walk around our neighborhood or to a nearby park. I usually make sure to hold the book up to help my posture, and look around frequently. Haven't ran into anyone yet, and often saw them before they looked up from their phone and saw me (most people, I've learned, don't walk on the proper side of the road). Allows me to get a lot more reading in, really, and helps me focus and digest what I'm reading a bit more when I want to.
If AI has human like rights to read and learn and create derived works, what other rights does it have?

Perhaps we should figure that before we start a dystopian nightmare of written material.
Why Are Discussions about “Hiring Being Broken” So Broken?
Agreed. Debating IQ is a particularly boring fetish and is far too prevalent on forums like HN.
We're dealing with these types of issues at my workplace and I'd really appreciate some solid advice on what to do. Doing what the article says and having as few of them as possible in production doesn't feel right to me? But at the same time if you have a lot of them it feels like you run into some The Boy Who Cried Wolf type issues.
> Wayland will take a long time to reach the maturity that X.org has had for decades

Xorg (the server) is from 2004 (16 years ago), the X Consortium was founded in 1988, and Wikipedia puts X11 itself at 1984 (36 years ago). Wayland's initial release was 2008 (12 years ago). Wayland is either 3/4ths the age of Xorg, or 1/3rd the age of X11 - bluntly, if they don't have their act together now, why should I expect them to ever get it together?
Also 35% is a huge effect size. There really should be a comparison to other metrics.
Depending on one’s pace of life, 60 minutes is not very long, and also gives enough time to enjoy the travel to the store.
Is there a torrent link? Also, I know IPFS is still new, but growing rapidly, so some day each of these books will just have a CID on IPFS, and basically to publish all the books as a list you'd simply publish a list of the CIDs.
4Chan Smear Campaigns Seek to ‘Red-Pill’ Boomers with Fake Snopes Content
I'm admittedly biased as I'm tall and have walked everywhere all my life. 2 miles only takes me 25 min.

In that case the whole journey is really 4 miles. I was thinking in terms of a continuous or largely continuous journey (such as walking to the shops and back) being 2 miles.

That said longer journeys can be treated as exercise. Why go to gym for an hour each day when instead you can spend that hour going to places you're going to go anyway.
Theoretically, someone could exploit a vulnerability in the SS7 [0]. I’m not sure how common these are in the wild, but it had happened before.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7
I saw the unicorn when using firefox, but when I switched to chromium, the PR opened fine
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/
Free software does not constitute a free service. It’s open source, host your own GitLab instance.

Furthermore, this is as if GitLab is the only service to block Iran. I didn’t say the Persian people, I said Iran.
The specification is not sloppy, it specifies precisely the wire format, and does expressly cover this problem of how the values MUST be interpreted. The specification does not cover how the application should render the amount when showing it to the user, so when applications show the amount to the user they can of course still render it in a culturally appropriate way.
Only speaking for myself, there are several reasons why I don't and probably never will subscribe to a service like Kindle Unlimited.

I don't read all that much. I used to in the past, but not any longer. I don't know where you get the assumption that things like Planet eBook are specifically targeted to people who read a lot.

I have no intention at all to buy into Amazon's walled garden.

I want to own my books, not having to take the risk that books disappear from a subscribed service at any time.

I sometimes read books from Project Gutenberg, I also often buy books; but only if they have no DRM, or if I know I can strip the DRM from them. Only them I can be sure that I really have the book available for reading at any time and any device.
I mean people get repeatedly owned through SIM swapping either due to socially engineering the absurdly poor security of the telcos or buying access to the zero security internal network (SS7).
I don’t see the conceptual difference. Could one not describe the HTML (containing a payto: link, delivered to a web browser), as a “push”, and a subsequent click on that link as a “confirmation”?
I have a local DNS server that forwards over TLS (DoT) to Cloudflare & Quad9, round-robin.

Page alternately returns WOODYNET @ rrdns.pch.net and CLOUDFLARENET. I like the pch.net info - it's something about Quad9 I didn't know.
One X.org developer started Wayland and some (but not all) others joined.

In any case, i wasn't referring to X.org developers - i explicitly mentioned that they do not want to maintain it anymore.

I was referring to those who want to see it continue existing in one way or another.
It’s almost impossible to do a straight comparison of taxes since the level of services is buys you from different governments is different, and each government (in American states and European countries) divvy up the taxes in varied ways between income, property, sales, tolls, and probably a whole bunch of other ones.
I fully agree. My guess is that this is targeted at hackers, to make it more difficult for them to influence the upcoming election.
Same way they worked before computers? Fax machines still exist.
These seem to be PDFs of books-gone-into-public-domain that are likely available in better ebook-style formats on gutenberg or similar.

While I guess you were just going for driving traffic to your site via HN, is there anything else of actual value I missed?
Would it be weird for you if I told you yes? My guess is that if you spent those 60 minutes a day walking back and forth to the grocery you would see tremendous benefit in your life in many areas.

If you have a headset for your phone. Call someone. You're interpersonal relationships get stronger.

If you're working through a issues, spend the time thinking about different alternative approaches.

If you're learning a new subject, review in your head what you've been learning.

If you're preparing a talk, dictate different ways of presenting it to a voice recorder.

If you're stressed out about the world, spend the walk finding things you are grateful for.

If you're in a relationship, compose a poem or two for your partner.
> I already have prepared the WLS data set here, and it has a good IQ test, so I will use that.

It's linked in the second paragraph
Audiobooks are great for walking. Not sure if that was what the OP was implying.
How to store ether values in DB?
Need advices or maybe links where to read on how to handle Eth in exchange / custodian wallet applications?

Is it crucial to store values in wei?
Which trade-offs rounding to Gwei brings?
I dunno, this is probably the best-case for IQ, to be honest.

Remember kids, IQ was developed to predict which children would perform best in school so that they could be streamed, and that's what it's best at.

I don't think that the author is abusing statistics here at all, as the variance explained by IQ on grades is always pretty large (in psychology, 35% explained is super, super good), and if I really cared (i.e. you reply and ask for this) I could probably dig up another few datasets that show the same or higher association.
Fair enough. The police officer would still not be guilty of the rape.
This is great, thank you for creating it and sharing it. I'll be sharing this with all my colleagues!
Very nice. I don't think I've used them before.
Twin studies bear it out quite strongly. Identical twins perform far more similarly on IQ tests then do fraternal twins or non-twin siblings. Identical twins raised in separate households perform extremely similarly to twins raised in the same household. It’s not a myth, it’s just controversial because our society values these abilities so highly.
Is it though? I bet you get similar correlation with wealth. Many different measures of wealth give correlated scores. People that are born in wealth usually stay wealthy. People that have more wealth generally occupy higher status work.

Sure wealth is an interesting thing to look at societally, but it offers no insight into human psychology.
Who was it who said, "I have two doctors, my right leg and my left leg?"
Regardless as to whether Gnome "does well" in the regard of performance, you must admit that for some of us choosing a competitor like wlroots over one like Gnome introduces a whole new adventure in replacing all the features of Gnome with standalone applications to use with wlroots. Plus a tiling window manager is a totally different workflow.

Not everyone has the time for curating a desktop environment with individual utilities, and not everyone likes tiling WMs. i3 gave me an RSI.
I think there are two ways to manage these types of issues.

1. Bring it fully legal and have a large impact on how it is done in cooperation with government. It could be beneficial to allow government insight so that it can prepare the general public about what is going on or how society might reflect on it. In general I believe we should be aware of all of the things this data can do. If during full disclosure people want this data regulated so be it.

2. Criminalize it (hard mode). It looks like with GDPR it will be criminalized and it will rely on companies using good faith on acquiring data like this. It will be regularly impossible to defeat all criminal actions but there will be no question who has the athority on such measures.

With regards to both methods i see huge problems in the public understanding who is using and how the information is used. So it seems for now there is a few options left. One of which is to restrict knowledge and keep good people in power with the opportunity to use this data. Even with that we fail daily.

everything is a struggle but perhaps this issue might shape how humans interact with eachother in the future the most.
Do or do not, there is no try :)
How did they work a few decades ago?
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. The author makes good points, but realistically it's a fool's errand trying to disprove tweets using a litany of R^2 incantations.

There are important caveats to what the author's done here:

1. Taleb's real point is that IQ is mostly useful for avoiding (extreme) incompetence rather than selecting for competence. Taleb constructed his argument using statistics which are either incorrect or underspecified, which invites the kind of analysis the author made. But that also means the author isn't substantially engaging with what Taleb means, because Taleb is abrasive and doesn't care to be specific.

2. You should be skeptical of any statistical analysis which leads with Pearson's r (or Spearman's rho, or whatever correlative measure) or the associated R^2. It is a top line measure which is useful but incomplete. You may miss out on the nonlinear relationship or nonperiodic relationship entirely, either of which could hold most of the variance. There are also many ways in which the variance of two things can be associated without there being a predictive relationship. Simply stated: as a statistician would tell you, if all we needed was R^2 then there would be no papers, only abstracts.

A little bit of statistics can be a dangerous thing. I'm not defending Taleb per se; rather I'm saying that both sides are arguing past each other and we probably shouldn't draw a conclusion from either.
"Mental health treatment has come an incredibly long way, just in the last couple of decades."

Personally I am not convinced about that. Or do you mean that from an academic perspective?

Because in the real world, the therapy method I have mostly seen, was and is keeping people calm with pills.
There is always Project Gutenberg [1]. I suppose there may be pros and cons to each, with Project Gutenberg being generally older books.

[1]. https://www.gutenberg.org/

Fun trivia: I once took an NLP class and discovered that I could predict whether a text was written by Edgar Allan Poe or H. G. Wells with ~86% accuracy based on the presence of one word: "whereupon". The language had changed enough in 60 years such that that single word was no longer used.
Yeah that's a fair point. For me walkability is a key factor in choosing where to live. Thankfully in the UK it's pretty easy to live in walkable places.
The second author, F Thomson Leighton, doesn't just work at Akamai Technologies, he's the co-founder and CEO.
You’d be surprised at what lenghts rich people go in order to reduce the tuition or get financial aid for their offspring. The rich are well informed and know how to use all the loopholes..
Right, I can name another one after operant conditioning. The stroop effect, and that's it to be honest. Can you supply some more?

Like the entirity of personel selection for many, many years was based on IQ like measures, and it was the base for all of the work ETS have done on standardised testing (item response theory and all that).

Can you explain why you do not believe IQ to be rigorous?
True, but that still doesn't justify crippling a device. If it was the other way around - browser (and apps) integrated seamlessly in the desktop, all use cases will be covered, including yours. And we'd be having a powerful and sleek OS that can do everything for everyone without the weight of the windows/mac behemoth.

With the mere action of including lxc in it later, it shows how much full functionality is wanted in such a device. But it's ass-backwards now.
This talk "The Real Story Behind Wayland and X" by Daniel Stone (a longtime X developer) may debunk some misconceptions in this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
It should be an option to ask hospitals to purge your data or have some kind of intentional and deliberate opt in/opt out conversation at some point in care.

This is a double-edged sword though. Case history is incredibly valuable for physicians and personally I would likely opt for them to retain it if I'm going through any kind of chronic illness. My wife went through a very severe illness that lasted over two years. We saw numerous hospitals and doctors over that span and the ability to have the hospitals exchange her data completely and accurately was instrumental in ensuring timely and accurate review of her case. Sure I could have done that with some kind of data checkout/checkin mechanism but I wasn't in the best state of mind to be able to implement all of the resiliency mechanisms required to take appropriate care of that information.
Serious Q: I remember taking an IQ test long back and it was a bunch of pattern matching questions. How did they figure out that good performance in this correlates with cognitive abilities that translates to real life intellect at tasks ?
Next Step: Implement Truecolor in linux console (fbcon).

It is partially done, but the remaining work requires "large amount of code".

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cec5b2a97a11ade56a7...
Thanks, that was interesting. :)
Well now the patient data is not really locked away in a specific office.
I can imagine building a model that is a derived work, but I don't see why all models trained on a corpus that contains some text can automatically be thought of as derived from that text in a creative sense. Models like GPT are using the text as a specific instance of the latent relationships that make up our language. The text is an example of english to learn from, it's not a creative work being extended.

Training a language model, I would argue, is equivalent (in terms of being derivative) to generating a list of the top ten words in a corpus of text. Not really a derived work.
White House Chief of Staff: We Are Not Going to Control the Pandemic
This just loaded fine for me in Firefox. I'd give them the benefit of the doubt for this one, after all this PR contains 10k commits and 120 comments, and then quite a lot of approvals.
A one hopefully positive thing that comes out of this is the obsolescence of the use of personal information for purchases. I don't know when exactly it was thought that knowing someone's name, address and social security number was enough to make hundreds or thousands worth of credit loans or purchases, but it has to end.

Now what you have to do is register at multiple services a block of using your PII for credit loans, company memberships, paper-sent address change etc. It's outrageous how much effort you to have to go through after becoming a victim of a crime, and for at least credit block you have to pay with your own money.

Some Finnish MP in Twitter had some good points how to modernize the current system and I dearly wish they would put that on their agenda ASAP. When those 40k names with full addresses, phone numbers, SSNs etc, start getting spread around, it's going to be a hell of a shitshow.

Well not that it isn't already. The hacker also accidentally uploaded the whole database for a brief moment, which from my knowledge was downloaded by at least one person, containing most if not all of the mental health records data.
"White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday that the US is "not going to control" the coronavirus pandemic, as cases surge across the country and nearly 225,000 Americans have died from the virus.

"We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas," Meadows told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
The comments from President Donald Trump's chief of staff come as coronavirus cases surge across the US and the administration continues to consistently disregard advice from government health experts to wear masks, social distance and avoid large gatherings as a way to curb the spread of the virus. "
Dogs can handle it, except for rock salt. For you, get some good boots for walking - they exist (Saloman boots are super comfortable for me, but everyone is different!). Walking in the winter is the best (other than freezing rain), I find - quieter, less people, more calming. Then again, I have a lot of Scandinavian heritage ;)
Previous discussion (150 points, 268 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20555229
I have a similar day job, and would love to start consulting on the side. Legal and worries that it could be seen as “conflict of interest” prevent me from starting however. How do you manage that?
> I don't see any investigation of whether IQ can be altered through nurture (which I think it can)

IIRC, one thing that we have studied pretty thoroughly, is that IQ — that is, the number IQ tests spit out — goes up when people are under the effects of stimulant drugs during the test. (Even neurotypical people, whose executive functioning is just fine without such drugs.)

This is one major reason that IQ is considered a separate thing from the g factor.

Essentially, g factor is "trait intelligence", while IQ is "state intelligence."

While IQ might be altered by nurture/environment/situation, g factor cannot be, by definition. g factor is supposed to be what you get down to when you remove all the state-intelligence confounders. That's why it's a more interesting number to study.

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To couch IQ vs. g factor in a cute analogy: think of ability scores in Dungeons & Dragons, vs. savings throws in that same game.

g factor is essentially your INT ability score. It's defined at character creation, and it's effectively static (for regular humans; the only things that alter it in the game are supernatural.)

But you don't use your INT ability-score directly for anything in the game. Instead, you use your INT modifier — which has your INT ability-score as its base value, but then aggregates on top all other temporary or semi-permanent bonuses/maluses from magical effects, equipment, etc.

If you do a number of "saving throws vs. INT" at a calibrated difficulty level, and average them together, what you'll get is a measure of your character's current INT modifier, not their INT ability score. Their IQ, not their g factor.

(The analogy is surprisingly even tighter than this: people who go into INT-based classes get a proficiency bonus on their INT modifier, somewhat like people who do lateral-thinking puzzles all day get a proficiency bonus on IQ tests. And there are situational modifiers to difficulty, just like there are confounders in the questions to an IQ test.)
It's not a particularly arduous "adventure". We maintain a list[0] of programs which use these protocols. And wlroots != tiling window manager: there are multiple wlroots-based compositors which do not use the tiling paradigm, the most developed of which is probably Wayfire[1].

[0]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/wiki

[1]: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
More effective, perhaps, but it's also dancing on the edge of the law. In the Netherlands the public prosecutor doesn't pursue cases of ethical hacking (afaik the other party can still file a civil case if there are damages though, and I would assume reputational damage counts), but they totally made a case against a person that claimed to be white hat but offered to fix the problem for around 20'000 euros. Specifically:

> De man nam contact op met de praktijk en meldde dat een kwetsbaarheid toegang bood tot de persoonlijke gegevens van artsen, waaronder e-mailadressen, gebruikersnamen, wachtwoorden en bankrekeningnummers. Vervolgens stuurde hij een offerte met het aanbod om voor 16.500 tot 23.000 euro de kwetsbaarheid te verhelpen. In die offerte stond volgens het OM een 'dreigende mededeling': "Er zal waarschijnlijk een boete betaald moeten worden wanneer dit openbaar is en er zal een flinke reputatieschade plaatsvinden." Het OM schrijft dat de politie na onderzoek constateerde dat op de laptop van de man de gevoelige persoonsgegevens stonden en dat zijn ip-adres te relateren was aan de inbraak.

From https://tweakers.net/nieuws/167792/om-eist-twee-maanden-cel-...

Summary translation: he found an issue in a doctor's office, told them "you'll probably get fined if this becomes public and there will be large reputational damage" and sent an offer for 16.5-23k euros for a fix. The public prosecutor saw the message as threatening (blackmail) and therefore decided this wasn't simply a white hat reporting an issue and offering legitimate services. Upon investigating, sensitive personal data was found on his laptop.

So is hacking into their printers to send a message proportional to the issue? I would say yes, but one might also argue this goes beyond what is strictly necessary to prove the issue. (Another guideline is that downloading your own PII to confirm an issue is fine, and that it can also be fine if you accidentally find PII but don't request more than that first record, but nothing beyond that.) You might argue that they didn't listen, but I don't know if that's an argument a judge finds compelling.

Different countries can have different systems, not sure how white hat hacking is treated in Iran, the USA, Brazil, or other countries that seem to enjoy putting a lot of citizens behind bars.