skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link?

I've only seen unsubstantiated nonsense from MSM when it comes to this topic...wild extrapolations that ignore the real terrorism problem in western China.

Also I've never seen any evidence of the scale of this operation that is claimed in MSM...just satellite pics of random buildings with captions we are supposed to take as gospel truth from historically problematic/misleading media sources...very Iraq-WMD-esque coverage...

Manufacturing consent seems to have a common pattern, I can't be the only one noticing it.
He is saying what most people are thinking. How many people really do want to have a child with Down syndrome if it can be avoided?
I'm not saying ASML -> cutting-edge capacity, but the opposite. Having cutting-edge capacity probably means you're dependent on ASML.
There seems to be some implication here that you believe joining mensa means you associate with people only for their high IQ. Just because that's the entrance criteria doesn't mean you hang out with some subset of those members soley based on their IQ.

Just as joining a sports team doesn't mean you only hang out with members of that team because they enjoy the same sport - the same holds true for people who join mensa or any other group I'd imagine.
> OpenAI's DoTA 2 system wasn't playing the full game. I think the final version could play 17 of the 117 heroes

Limiting the number of playable heros in DoTA2 really isn't important when it comes to evaluating the skill of the AI. Most real players trying hard to win already play with a limited hero pool dictated by the current patch verison.
I doubt I would be able to juggle 2 jobs with my current pandemic induced schedule. Basically, my time is spoken for during the week from 630am until 8pm. And that gets me 6 hours of work. I need to find 10 hours outside that time to get myself up to a 40 hour workweek.

I'm pretty lucky in that my wife is a stay at home mom. My sister in law has a dual income family. They basically never see eachother, because one has to work during the day during the week, and the other works nights and all weekend. They're lucky one of their jobs is so flexible.
The real estate costs don't go away, they just are paid for by the worker instead of the employer. Now you need to either dedicate square footage to an office setup, or get a bad back working from the couch or the bed or other common home furniture ill suited for long work hours. Maybe you legitimately don't have room in your apartment for this, and now need to invest in another bedroom. Maybe you need to buy faster home internet, or move apartments entirely due to a lack of ISP choices at your address. I've never heard of a business offering a stipend or remote assistance subsidy of any sort to their workers to cover any of this, from whatever great savings are reaped from saving on real estate costs.

I think there is a happy medium, where maybe offices cut back to about 25% capacity or so. People would instead drop in and work like a university library. You could go there and print stuff out if you didn't have a printer at home. If your laptop blew up, you could go there and get a replacement from IT. If you preferred, you could rent out a substantial desk with several monitors and a good chair if you didn't have the space at home, or focused better in that environment. You could schedule in person meetings with your team in a well appointed conference room if you wanted. You could host social events. Maybe even a gym or childcare facility. I think that's my ideal for the office environment going forward: less a sweatshop and more a clubhouse.
I think most people would equate "not meeting collateral requirements" to being undercapitalized.
As I am currently watching a documentary on the college admissions scandal I would love to see a correlation between standardized test scores, preparation in dollars, and IQ.

My initial assessment is that there isn’t any correlation between IQ and test scores, ergo the tests are measure of preparation and preference not merit or performance.
That was the original point of an MBA it was for a small number of highflying midcareer executives in large companies who had several years of real world experience.

Now a lot of the time its gamed for points on immigration systems.
No coordination needed in a supply limited scenario with sufficiently inelastic demand. That's not a prisoner's dilemma. In that case every single bag has multiple potential interested buyers, which means each supplier can individually have buyers bid against each other and see the sale price go up. Organization of course might let them do even better, but it's not necessary. There is no market share to be gained from the supplier point of view (though as the article says, those higher up the chain may have different motives and margins) because supply just can't be ramped up instantly with a good like coffee. It doesn't matter if a farmer would in principle like to have 10x as much to sell, they have what they grew, and could only respond to demand by increasing supply slowly (and there is the risk of overshoot). If they don't raise prices they're just leaving money on the table, since every bag will get bought.
my ignorant hypothesis is that being too far from average decreases your chances of having a healthy social life and being highly social would be the underlying factor in predicting health both physically and mentally.
A person can improve an aptitude test score with some appropriate training, but a higher IQ person will tend to score proportionally higher given the same training/experience.
"Talk about a strawman"

...YOU are the one who claimed everyone that was complaining had a legitimate complaint about law and order and enforcement of local codes.

I mean it's literally in the first few paragraphs of the piece that some dude thought the black and brown guys at the car club were "scary" so he reported them.

"Are there some people who might have complained for dumb reasons?"

"dumb reasons"?

I think the term you should be looking for is "bigoted" reasons.
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High IQ people seem to give off different vibes. :) https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/
Associate the fingerprint with the ID in the “what money have we issued?” database, probably. This sounds like a more practical version of my “use leaves as money” idea, and that's what I did. The impressive part of this research is realising that there might be a pre-existing “fingerprint”, and finding a way of looking at it. They probably assumed “how this is useful” was obvious.
Sounds like you're describing me... except I lack the intelligence
You could but you, obviously, don't have to. The problem is not about the content though, it's about linking to it. So someone linking to this old article if there are recent, better sources could very well be doing it maliciously.

Think of it this way: if someone linked to an old article that used some slurs that used to be mainstream-acceptable at some point but aren't any more, would you feel uncomfortable? I hope you would. The reason people don't have this visceral reaction when it comes to trans people has a lot to do with broader lack of understanding of non-cis minorities.

There's an obvious problem with figuring out what the intentions of someone writing are. And we absolutely can't tell if e.g. someone dead naming is doing it on purpose or not. Not knowing and willing to learn is absolutely fine. But since you can't tell oblivious from malicious, you have two options: ignore assuming innocence or ban assuming malice.

Internet discourse is not courtroom, you don't have to assume innocence and it's absolutely fine to have a higher standard for communication on Reddit. Not that I think Reddit does, but it could. ;) So, again, what should you do with misgendering or dead naming? Since I sympathize with minorities and the oppressed, I would ban. But I'm absolutely sure many, many people would find a way to label what I'd considered hate speech "a freedom of speech issue" so I'm not at all surprised that this is causing a stir over on Reddit.
We still don't know who was the killer.
> StarCraft is built in such a way that you can't create a perfect, 100% winrate agent.

The worry isn't about perfect winrate, it's about finding strategies that can consistently cause the AI to lose over and over.

In a cooperative environment, a high percentage is great.

In a competitive environment, that .1% of scenarios where it's really weak will suddenly become the majority of games it faces.
> It seems to you weird but the same agent probably wins against GM's most of the time. humans have weaknesses too

This is the whole problem though. AlphaStar beats GMs but can lose to weird strategies.

On the other hand, GMs will almost never lose (Most likely >99% winrate) to a Diamond player no matter how weird their strategies are.

The AI has strengths, but it also has glaring weaknesses. Imagine if you had an AI flying a plane and 99% of the time it was far better than a human pilot but 1% of the time it crashed and killed everyone. I would not fly on that plane.

Maybe a bunch more training data and time would solve this type of problem, but I'm skeptical.
IMO in this particular post, I was simply providing direct evidence refuting the claim that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China and not engaging in a nationalistic flamewar.

I can point out many examples of nationalistic, flamewar-instigating posts in this thread (such as the top comment) far more deserving (again, IMO) of reprimand than my little comment.

For instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570631

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570349

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657173

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571261

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26571461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657057

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568989

Some flagged/dead but egregiously bad comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26570411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569353

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26569931

Obviously you can’t comment on them all, but I feel slightly targeted for my relatively benign remarks when there are much lower hanging fruit.

Regardless, I respect your judgement and the moderation that you do here, so i’ll do my best to refrain from directly responding to propagandistic lies and disinformation.
I'm a diehard cwm user today, but when I was a teen I loved OSX' interface (specially with Tiger) among KDE3 and the Slick icons and some transparent theme.
Also somewhere on archive.org. Not sure about linking to it from here, but should be easy to find using their search. Quite surprised that it's not on streaming services!
> Graham Linehan is one of the most doctrinaire anti-transgender individuals, anything he writes on the subject should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

Aimee Challenor advised an LGBT rights charity called Stonewall from 2015. Stonewall advises Girlguiding (UK’s equivalent of girl scouts)[0]. If one accepts that accusations made against her are legitimate, one has to take Stonewall’s recommendations—and hence trans-related Girlguiding policies—with a large pinch of salt, too.

(Hint: those policies made headlines in 2017, when Girlguiding started to admit males who identify as females but choose to remain biologically male. Weigh that together with Challenor’s and her husband’s background, and the evidence of her father working together with her and influencing her political agenda.)

Challenor remained on Stonewall’s advisory board, even though she left the Green Party over her “serious errors of judgement”, until 2019.

I can’t help thinking that perhaps trans community is doing itself a disservice by not being picky as to whom it lets to represent itself, which in some cases may give ammunition to anti-trans sentiment.

[0] Stonewall has downplayed the involvement Challenor has had with their policies, but they’d be bound to do this regardless.
They would keep a DB of the note fingerprints and look them up in that. Thus, this would only work if online or something.
I feel like people are slowly waking up to how insane our collective addiction to (and glorification of) caffeine actually is.
Brazilian here. Most of the coffee production is in the south and south-east (São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Paraná). To get the coffee in bulk to where it can cross the gap, it has to travel thru shitty roads that have more craters than the far side of the Moon and some that aren't paved at all.

Then it gets to the Amazonas river. It's so wide, some Portuguese navigator tought it was a fresh water Sea. There's only one bridge conencting the city os Manaus in the north bank to south and sone ferries scattered all over.

Then you have to cross half the Amazon jungle to get to a port in Colombia (Venezuela is not an option for obvious reasons).

Tl;dr, the Darian Gap is the least of your problems if you want to move coffee by land from here to the US.
Is it faster though?
which they also do for years.
By the same logic we should print charts of heart rates and body temperature from starting from 0. Regional temperature over time plots should always start from 0 kelvin, Google's stock price should displayed from 0 to 3000, etc.

I don't know about you but I would be annoyed if my smart watch app displayed BPM starting at 0 making my changing heart rate an ignoreable fuzz.

The idea that "charts should start at 0" is an absurd dogma that is immediately recognizable as such by anyone that has ever worked with data visualization to make decisions.

A better guideline is to display a reasonable range that lets you see historically what has been possible with a bit of buffer. For relatively Guassian changes a few standard deviations is good.

In general your limits should not be outside of the bounds of what is reasonably possible. Coffee trade is not going to 0 anytime soon, and suggesting that visually is dishonest.
50cm sat image: https://twitter.com/capellaspace/status/1374758445304397825
So there are still spelling errors in the result, is this just due to the zodiac killer being bad at encryption initially?
That doesn't clash with my observations at all. Environmental activists of all strains, including climate enthusiasts, are overwhelmingly white.
I think it's quite important to state the OS you're using. All Browsers tend to fly on Windows, except for ironically MS browsers. Safari tends to be fastest on MacOS. Basically every mainstream browser sucks in performance, memory usage, cpu, battery usage and so on, on Linux distros, comparatively to the former.
Mainstream UK press has serious problem with TERFs, so my question was genuine: is my understanding correct, that the issue stems from someone linking to misgendering, dead naming article?
Also keep in mind that that pretty small community is able to do what we've done already, e.g. D can pretty much catch C++ exceptions!
> actual 1x1 images used for formatting would stop working

I see that as a feature
Can anyone explain why Google doesn’t prevent dynamic code loading on Android?
And what in the particular case that can be considered as bad sign?
My org tried open seating and switched back. I've heard Intel did the same.
A more accurate title would be:

"Mensa membership is associated with mental and physical disorders"

because the authors of the study base it on a survey of Mensa members.
Gwern's Algernon Argument is relevant here: https://www.gwern.net/Drug-heuristics

Logically, it's likely there must be trade-offs for higher IQs or it would have been selected for more strongly.
Mac hot key tools?
yeah i just cross the street by standing on the yellow line as cars go zooming past me like it's nothing now, it's fun! try it sometime people do it every day to purify the vida
Makes sense, we see more clearly how fucked up the world is :) That's a heavy burden.

But I think it stems also from being an outlier, never quite fitting in.
How soon we forget (Microsoft) history.
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My experience at MENSA meetings was a bunch of people bragging about their IQ. Many had their IQ listed on their name tag.
I’ve been using Linux on the desktop since Mandrake 7. I mostly use Debian these days (ever since Ubuntu switched from Gnome 2 to Unity). For a while I just used tiling window managers (xmonad, stumpwm) because I couldn’t make Gnome 3+ work for me. Recently I tried Plasma again and I’ve mostly settled on that being good enough. At this point, I have no confidence in most of the people involved in the Linux desktop initiatives: I’d probably fund MATE and maybe even the Trinity Desktop environment: the best Linux desktop setup I ever had was KDE 3 apps on Gnome 2
Agreed. I made a personal decision years ago, never to buy any Made in China products. There’s always better alternatives, of higher quality and also by supporting local manufacturers.
FWIW, the "specification" now only has historical value, and possibly as an inspiration for implementing features that were once considered. It is nothing more than that, nor has it ever been.

The test-suite is canonical: being able to pass a significant number of tests, allows you to say you've implemented a significant portion of the Raku Programming Language.
Well now you are describing me :-)
> My initial assessment is that there isn’t any correlation between IQ and test scores

This is completely false - I'm not sure how you got that assessment.

Many test scores (e.g. ACT) are heavily IQ/g-predictive.

SAT used to be better at predicting IQ/g but it's still pretty good.

g-factor is the single largest predictor of academic success (which, these days, is mediated mostly by test scores).
> The definition of inflation has gotten conveniently flexible. We see stock, real estate, healthcare, and education prices rising while some goods and services have gone down.

Stock and real estate prices are assets, so have always been excluded from definitions of inflation, they're essentially inversely proportional to the interest rate. Rent (or the owner's equivalent rent) is included in CPI.

I share your concern about rising healthcare and education costs though, but that is largely a political choice - other developed countries are able to provide them for substantially lower proportions of GDP. (Healthcare costs will inevitably increase over time as countries populations age, but other countries spend much less on healthcare and achieve better outcomes.)

Good post from Noah Smith on inflation: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/your-local-price-changes-a...
There are vast social circles in society where public shaming and defamation are a shunned approach to social conflict. I'd go as far that this is the silent majority of people and its just tech people who don't get it right. Not quite far from the observation that many tech people lack social skills.

To address your point - from an tech-outside view, there is definitely something like "Cancel-Culture", but its difficult to realize if you don't have an alternative perspective on handling conflicts.
You can counterfeit that serial number. It's much harder, perhaps neigh impossible, to counterfeit this fingerprint. Thus a database of existing fingerprints tells you whether it's real or counterfeit. If you kept a database of serial numbers, you'd additionally need to store who has which bill or you'd still not know whether you're the sole owner of this serial number.
> Joining a club because you have a high IQ is like joining a club because you have a leg or a head

That's a bit too loose analogy. A more precise is like joining because one is tall.

While the principle still somewhat holds, the difference is in the consequences. One may join Mensa because they're likely to find people with similar tendencies/interests, as much as tall people may like certain sports.
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Thanks! I hope there will be more endeavors like this.
Nothing really sticks out in the cipher as being inherently complex or requiring advanced education, it's more of just a puzzle where you're meant to figure out arbitrary rules, which in this case weren't even consistent throughout the entire cipher (adding some artificial difficulty). It's pretty out of scope of encryption because it was meant to be broken.
Now? The three body problem in Newtonian physics is not analytically solvable.

Analytically solvable problems are rare, simple unicorns that have even more rare practical application.

Almost no practical system is analytically solvable.
I assume they would fingerprint every note at manufacture, then compare every note at purchase time to see if it matches a known good fingerprint. You would need to completely remake all bills in circulation with a new style and make invalid the old style, and equip everyone that takes cash with a fingerprint machine. If they tried to just slowly scan in existing bills people would just keep making the fakes, I would imagine.
Coffee is not very different than other commodities. Much of it is in trouble at the moment.

Supply chains continue to be disrupted due to myriad of reasons. Its not only missing containers, you can argue they are still somewhat misplaces but its not just that - changing rules (COVID), changing borders (UK) , unstable financing (try to get money from any factor or revolver that is not a bank, good luck now), changing market tastes , changes even related to humans (unemployed disruptions along the supply chain workflow).

There has been many unsung heroes from the pandemic but at least as far as USA is concerned, I am still amazed we can still buy stuff from amazon with 2 day delivery.

(To wit - amazon also is not helping by limiting FBA inbound capacity to sellers)

Spot prices are all over the place. It will be like this for a while.
Honestly that sounds amazing. Just to be able to run around and get appointments or errands done during the day avoiding traffic and work a little longer at home has been a godsend.
Regardless of the minor controversial views held by RMS, this recent development is a dishonest attack on his person based on false accusations parroted by blatant liars. I don't think such precedents should be given any chance at success.
Huh? I have met many high IQ individuals in my life and they've all looked relatively normal. Are college professors unusual looking? Are doctors and engineers unusual looking? I just don't see it. This article is a fluff piece based on a non-scientific survey of a non-scientific sample size.
This isn’t even close to true. Front end crash compatibility for example has been a thing for decades.
A friend of mine had the saying "Innovation is for the product not the employees." When a talking about a former place of work mentality. I use it in my cover letter when I explain why I choose to apply to X company by stating that they don't fit this mold.

Same during interviews, when asked if I have contributed to open source library, I answer not at at work and that I don't program that much on my free time. It may not serve me well but it is the last bastion of honesty that the hiring process allows me. Besides that you are still just selling yourself to whoever take interest in your case.
In the US you have freedom of speech until you start to impact the status quo. See: McCarthyism, Fred Hampton, etc.
What really gets my goat about the RMS situation is that he's not neuronormative, the same people lambasting him are the same people who would deride judgement calls that harsh against someone who's on the spectrum, yet somehow he's an acceptable target.

Yes, he's awkward as all hell, and yes, he makes people uncomfortable sometimes and has no social filter, but his contributions are too many to be ignored and his behavior to me seems to be without malice.