skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, would you mind giving us all a hint here? I'm curious.

Given IQ like many other human traits can be modeled as GxE, one can optimize the "E" part, which boils down to avoiding ruining the realization of genetic potential of the child (i.e. the influence of the environment is often negative). There is a list of small factors in early life that are associated with IQ and related life outcomes. Mostly these tend to have something to do with pre-natal, natal, and early childhood environments.

To give just one innocent example - the month of conception statistically influences many life outcomes, including lifespan (+ 6 months of it if the child is conceived in winter and born in autumn), likelihood of Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and 2-4 points of IQ difference.

One can argue here about statistical controls, but let's avoid this line of thinking.
See my comment below. You have been emailing me every two month for more than two years.
I want flying toasters.
I did something like this in 2016 for chips challenge and after one day of a few people poking with it it wholely flopped. But I think that game is probably a perfect format as well
Companies have to stay marketing stuff like this because it converts at least a portion of their users. If they were honest, they would lose most of their potential users. Look at my other comment about company marketing being a mirage.
We changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-m..., which points to this.
>(Check the username, check his commentary history, he's just Another One Of Those.)

Wow. You are so off the mark I don't even know what to say. It's this kind of thinking that divides the world. It is paranoid us vs them garbage.
One could argue anyone that owns an iPhone.
This is why you should always get a second opinion before sending a company-wide email
>but it's a fairly toxic pattern to make categorical statements about "what women want" or "what men are like" when the spread of human character is so broad.

It depends on your definition of toxic and your definition of truth. The belief that categorical statements have zero relevance in this world is an ideal that is just too unlikely to be true. Broad statements can be made about both men and women.

For example Women tend to have bigger breasts then most men. Men tend to be physically stronger than women. Men tend to run faster than women. Women tend to be shorter then men. Men tend to weigh more than women.

These are all the same exact broad generalizations of the same nature that you pinpointed above but have the strange opposite effect. You say it is toxic to make broad generalizations but despite this you and most people would agree that you'd be insane not to notice the general differences in physicality I mentioned above. This is a contradiction.

Why is it when someone makes a generalization about the physical differences between men and women there is no resistance but as soon as someone mentions behavioral differences like how women tend to be attracted to stronger men that person suddenly violated a social contract?

It makes perfect logical sense. We see it all the time. Women are generally attracted to men that are stronger than them. There are tons of exceptions but the generality is real.

The delusion that's occurring within our society today is that although we are aware that biology can control physical differences between men and women by some black magic we cannot even fathom the fact that this same biology controls behavioral differences. No... biology must make men and women have the exact same intelligence and the exact same behavior according to current social thinking. Does this make sense from a logical standpoint? Again... No.... So why do we delude ourselves with this false notion?

We do it because we are afraid of sexism and racism. We are deathly afraid of inequality even though logically inequality is biologically built into us. No one is actually created equal biologically in terms of intelligence, behavior and physicality. It goes against everything we know about biology and natural selection. In order for something to be naturally selected it CANNOT be equal.

What is toxic is the attempt to paint a pretty idealistic picture of the world at the expense of truth. Equal rights for all does not mean people are born with equal biological traits.

Don't let an ideal hide the reality of the world we live in, but also don't let the ugly reality of the world pervert your ideals. We must learn to coexist with the contradiction.
It is not “delayed payments” it is called wage theft.
Maybe trying to to save the business relationship with Apple?
Only the English voters decided to leave. The UK will become more fragile because of this.
been throttled trying it every few hours for me , seems to be hosed by the popularity. checking network requests spotify may have enabled cors and killed it outright?
https://archive.is/Y7aH6
It’s too transparent for me to even ironically play into the joke, but yeah I mean it’s not much more than a custom case. I don’t mind the joke. Honestly at least 2 people on their team will go around saying “outrage is still good PR” so if you’re trying not to let them win....

Obviously this marketing campaign only worked because they went through with fab. The joke didn’t make headlines, the lengths they went to did.

It’s not purely landfill. Those dumb cases will do their job. As a marketing campaign, they obviously won this one
This will sell like hot .. chickens?..no. chicken legs,...anyone..wings:)
Both are inspired by Airdrop...
I enjoyed using a $20 rtlsdr dongle to listen to phone calls on the iridium satellite phone network using a window pointed antenna made out of scrap wire, a stick of balsa, and a milk bucket, http://erewhon.superkuh.com/milk-bucket-1626MHz-helicone.jpg The https://github.com/muccc/iridium-toolkit made it easy.

It's not an amateur mode but is something you can do as an amateur. And it's actually easier than decoding weather satellite images.
Bullshit. Write me a better cat detector in SQL, or protein folder, or super-human board game player. And, by the way, ML does write SQL [1].

Deep learning has all these disadvantages and difficulties because we moved the goalposts too many times and now want so much more out of it than regular software. A model has to be accurate, but also unbiased, updated timely and explainable and verified in much detail; also efficient in terms of energy, data, memory, time and reuse in other related tasks (fine-tuning).

We already want from an AI what even an average human can't do, especially the bias part - all humans are biased, but models must be better. And recently models have been made responsible with fixing societal issues as well so they've become a political battleground for various factions with different values - see recent SJW scandals at Google.

With such expectations it's easy to pile on ML but ML is just a tool under active development, with practical limitations, while human problems and expectations are unbounded.

[1] a neural SQL patent: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/af/78/be/92ee342...
I prefer the term "candy shell security". Hard outer layer, warm gooey center.
Kneel jerking PR response
If you're on android, Google very much has your contacts and who you communicate with, where you go to eat and where you call for pickup, and your interests via search and gmail...
"We deeply regret exploiting our workers to the point of riot. We never intended to exploit anyone any further than just short of a riot."
A lot of smart people knew he had to be a kind of fraud, but they thought he was their fraud -- it was assumed he was making money through some kind of front running.
Let me fix this for these guys:

"We truly regret getting caught for this egregious behavior and we have committed our entire organization, from the top all the way down, to ensure we don't get caught doing this again."

Seriously - WTF? Who runs a business like this?
The EEC was a legal mess. It was the result of too many subsequent small changes that were adding up in a non coherent way.

The Lisbon treaty was long overdue and it did manage to improve how the EU works.

Now that the UK is gone, we should further perfect it. The UK has always been a detractor of any real initiative to improve peaceful coexistence of continental EU states. Acknowledging that without them we can better work together would be a huge step forward.
This has been my #1 dating advice for my friends who seem to serially jump from one dating attempt to another. They are so afraid of being alone that they grind themselves into the dirt chasing any and every opportunity that might maybe turn into "the one".

However, like most advice, it's never heard until they are ready to hear it.
Dont buy it they spammed the shit outta me even after I unsubscribed
It's an article quoting a fragment of a quote from another article. I wouldn't get riled up without getting more context.
I've been thinking of doing this so long and its amazing the convergent evolution happening here.

xlights.org seems like a fantastic project.
All very good points.

I also think it’s crazy that the UK would even hold a referendum with a 50% threshold on such a key aspect of the country. Try make a change to the American constitution and you’re looking at 66% support in both houses and 66% of the states backing it. That is the right way to do it IMO for such fundamental changes.
Countries' control over imports is not absolute; they are bound by international treaties (at least in a game-theoretic sense). More specifically, everyone is a WTO member and the WTO sets rules on how countries are allowed to control imports. You are required to grant all WTO members the same level of market access, absent a comprehensive free-trade agreement. This is known as the "most favored nation" rule.

So, the UK can't say they don't want to import German cheese. Once they allow any foreign cheese into their market, the MFN rule means they have to allow all foreign cheese into the market. Likewise, if they wanted to ban German cheese, they'd also have to ban cheeses from everywhere else. The only situation in which they'd be able to allow one country's cheese and not the other is if they had a comprehensive free-trade agreement or a customs union... you know, the exact sort of thing that they just left.
There's a lot of marriage mafia happening in india where female wouldn't divorce husband but live off his salary in their house which will be partitioned has the possibility of ownership as well. I know a family where the divorce ran for 30yrs, the lady seemed to wasted his life and career. She used to go to his office and scream at him and due to that embarassment he changes job often and he is not able to shift for work other city or country as well. He recently got divorce after 30 years now he is 55yrs.

So now a days guys tend to get some evidences by some spy tech filing divorce or clearing doubts.

Females are also scammed by guys after all analysis as well. People somehow tens to hide their loans and make their partners pay it off.

Regarding data, it can be got from anywhere. In the roadside store where people recharge mobiles, shopkeeper notes down names and number and address, that info can be bought. Nowadays easiest place in matrimony sites and from people who work there that's actually rich data where people describe about their family, status and groom or brides salary. Every year there data leakage from govt and private mobile companies with aadhaar details.

Hiring detectives are old school and works, some rich people do before marriage and social media analysis.
I recently solved 3-D languages. They’re going to be amazing.
I’ve been making parallels to Southeast Asia all week lately. I need you to take a trip to one of those cities there and book a hotel room in a 5 star place. Outside of it, there will be slums (right out your window). A five minute drive, you’ll see people bathing in the ponds (not vacation bathing, brushing their teeth, taking a shit, morning routine bathing). Think through what the end result of this line of thinking actually creates, the case studies are all over the world. You can afford this, book a trip today and just get the perspective. You will not need to imagine what your theoretical thinking leads to, you can be your own ghost of Christmas future and literally see it.

It’s a disaster, we are tech people, just scale up or scale down, use the inductive step to complete the proof. If we are not proactive with these things, we won’t have quality of life.

You would not want to be in a society like that. Once you neglect and let the situation deteriorate, the only way you can achieve an environment that matches your identity is via a dystopia, where the best and the best congregate in the best gate kept part of the world. A shining city, a 5 star hotel, encapsulated from it’s neglect.
There's also the issue of "long covid" - people who before they caught it were perfectly healthy, but months later are still suffering from symptoms such as fatigue or breathlessness. I haven't seen any good data on how many people this affects, although it's estimated to be around 2% of those infected [0].

The important thing is these cases are often reported (by media) in young people, not just old people. What affect would it have on the economy if 2% of the working population suddenly couldn't work and needed life long welfare and medical support?

[0] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.19.20214494v...
How ironic that you use cheese as an example. The incredible richness and diversity of cheeses across Europe is directly due to them being mostly made and consumed locally in historic times. We would certainly not have that richness now if there hadn't been various historical barriers to trade. And indeed, that richness is already dying out as people increasingly buy EU-subsidised 'standardised' cheeses from outside their own countries and overlook their locally made cheeses.

> The infinite variety of French cheeses — one of the finest achievements of French culture — is gradually being eroded and dumbed down. Only one in ten of the cheeses now consumed in France is made with raw-milk or “lait cru” in the authentic manner.

> Search where you like in the finest cheese shops in France, you will no longer find a Bleu de Termignon or a Galette des Monts-d’Or. They are among 50 species of French cheese that have vanished, like rare flowers or butterflies, in the last 40 years. Other varieties, like Vacherin d’Abondance and M. Michelin’s hand-made Mont d’Or have been reduced to a single producer.

https://unherd.com/2020/02/the-slow-death-of-french-cheese/
Turning plastic gloves into grape soda [video]
Imagine someone giving a human name to a popular robotic assistant device. And the results of that for people with said name. Their lives would never be the same again. This is sad.
How do you reconcile this with past predictions that we will have a 20 hour work week today, given improvements in efficiency, and yet we have half as many workers instead?
good job india, chaos is the only way to fight against capitalism that uses your people as slave
> However, it's not that a similar thing is unseen elsewhere. If I delete some text from a document, save, and close the application, and in 5 minutes, I want to get it back ... If the user wants to keep the original, they just use "Save as ..."

That would put the responsibility on the user to remember all that. If I decide to do something like that, I'll need to save the original myself, and allow the user to go back to it.

But yeah, now I get the appeal of having something like this. I've added it to my todo list -- if enough people want this, I can certainly implement it (it would disrupt quite a bit of my internal workflow, since I view "videos" as constant, and optimize them as such. so I would need to find a workaround for editing in place, but it's certainly doable).
Ask HN: Is there an Android app that pings a server and rings when it's down?
I have an indie SaaS that sometimes goes down. I have statuscake set up, but their emails will not wake me up in the night (DND on).
I'd pay for an app that pings my server every 5 min to detect errors. If my app is down, it would check that google is up (to rule out network problem on the device). It would immediately generate a notification. After 3 checks have failed, it would trigger an alarm, even if "do not disturb" is on.
I think it would be easy to monetize, just sell the app. Not as a service, just as an app.
I've been searching for something like that but couldn't find anything, only comments on other apps that expressed the same need.
If anyone knows an app that would do this or wants to program it, please let me know :) my Java skills are not up to date so I can't realistically program it myself.
How was the UK gov blocked from running trains? From what I read some lines actually did get nationalized again after how poorly Virgin & co run some of the lines.

For sure privatizing them in the first place was a pure UK decision with - IMHO - predictable outcome.
That wasn't as available option. The EU was unwilling to negotiate a provisional exit deal prior to the UK referendum. And after the referendum passed and was implemented by Parliament, there's no way the EU would have negotiated a binding deal if it could have been vetoed by a second UK referendum.
How to Make Acrylic Ornaments with a Laser Cutter – Snowflake DIY
I made a new video recording my working process of making a crystal-like acrylic snowflake, also I summerize some tips that could help you cut out acrylic patterns with clear edges.
Hope you spend quality time with your beloved one. Happy holidays!!
Congratulations?

I think that perhaps you think people are paying a lot more attention to your theory than you think.

We are talking about scientific consensus, and you seem to be talking about something else.
Purposeful 1st party omission.

Or maybe an oversight by Wireguard, but with the way Apple limits API access in iOS for 3rd party I'm non-plussed.
She Noticed $200M Missing, Then She Was Fired
thats sweet. what type of images do you get? is it just weather?
I thought so (I also like the game). It's a bit about the game, some history and the world championship.
Apple and that company doesn't care. They are just apologizing because they have been caught not giving salary for many months + other evil things.

First they played trick like saying Indian people are bad. Its a dark data in India. And China fueled it (Retweeted such news showing India is Bad).

They should know India is not China where people don't speak if they are abused.
The law has teeth and that can be made to bite, if the woman is savvy enough to use it.

However, knowledge and applicability of the law is not fully understood in rural areas, the ones where domestic violence is a more pressing issue. Not that urban areas have less scope of DV, but that in urban areas, there are more options to the victim and a lot less social stigma.

Things are changing now. Due to prevalence of internet and penetration of mobiles and cheap smartphones into all strata of society, women are more knowledgeable than ever.

Rape and sexual assaults are issues that are, in my view, a universal issue, with only change between various countries in the world being the degree of reporting and recourse.

Even in that area, India is changing. Social stigma for reporting rape is very low in urban areas and rapidly reducing in rural areas. Women are more willing to report it and society is less stigmatic towards it.

One of the reason why there is constant news of rape.
Provenance, as a concept and specification, is well established in digital domain, as described by W3C's PROV specification https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ Ability to trace, audit, and reproduce artifacts or processes are some applications of provenance that align with needs for explainability in data analytics and data science/AI (XAI).
Section 498A was ridiculous. It allowed to rope in accused husbands’ relatives — including parents, minor children, siblings and grandparents. Kids who could hardly comprehend what's going on around them would be arrested along with their whole family in unsubstantiated dowry cases.
The Key Role of Impurities in Ancient Damascus Steel Blades (1998)
whoa, so are you just listeing to casual people's conversations? thanks for this!
Just as a thing to keep in mind, if you're using Algo (or any other vpn software) with a commercial cloud provider, you'll hit more captchas and blocks than usual. For example, going to walmart.com will give a captcha page before being allowed on their website. Some websites will return HTTP 403, and some will just timeout.
Check out the comments on the youtube videos and on twitter. I think the KFC team understood their audience really well here, and appealed to a sense of humor most companies don't understand.
Thanks!

I would say I have the trimming should be working quite nicely ;) I do it similar to Final Cut. I will take a look at handbrake just to make sure. I assume you mean handbrake.fr, yes?

About conversion - right now, I save videos as .mp4 h264 format, and can easily add h265 in the future. This should cover 99% of usecases (IMHO :D) -- and will allow presets for youtube/fb/insta/twitter and the like.
Tr33-D notation? treenotation.org
Ha ha I love the HN Merry Christmas threads! It’s a nice break from the more “pure” tech and startup talk.
I don't think there ever has not been interest in hybrid approaches - I think each I've looked over ten or more years, there was at least one hybrid thing (Neural Turing Machines comes to mind). I think the problem is no one has figured out a way to make them "work".

Or not even that they don't function but you need a way to demonstrate that such things are "really good", that they solve real problems that neither "business logic system" (the real existing remnant of GOFAI) nor neural networks can solve. And the key both logic systems and neural networks have is how they pretty standardized. logic systems are like regular programming and neural networks have their train/test/verify cycle understood (and even with that, they're probably overused/misused at this point given the hype).
DNSSEC doesn't provide anything valuable in terms of privacy. All it does it make it so central governments can more easily censor their controlled tld. If DNSSEC had been rolled out in Libya back in 2010 I doubt the Libyan Revolution would've happened.

TLA cert authorities are bad enough. MTA-STS is would make running your own mailsever harder and leash you to one of a dozen cert authorities. If you don't think that's a problem then remember what happened to dot org, and think what will happen to these cert authorities given enough money and time.

I've run my own mailserver for a decade now and I am strongly against everything you suggest. But it doesn't matter what I care about. If everyone uses only one of a handful of email providers then they'll just slowly close off their walled gardens anyway. It's already happening no matter how many superfluous cargo-cult standards independent mailserver operators implement.
Perhaps the connection with the article here is that young bodies fossilize better, and more males died young.
can you elaborate about the opt-out public profiles?

I never ever used Triplebyte, yet they seem to have some kind of a shadow profile of me? the only way I know is since I saw that they shared my details with Facebook[0]

Definitely feels like —- whatever their intentions are —- they do seem to use some scummy “growth hacking” techniques with little respect to privacy.

[0] https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/whos-sharing-my-data-and-wh...
That's not obvious at all and you're just making things up. Most Americans who emigrate to the EU do so for family reasons like marriage, or because they got a better job offer. Very few do so for benefits. Serious medical conditions like yours are rare.
Great, which is the oldest laptop currently you hold?