skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say it's the opposite – intellect can be trained by practice and hard work, tough it's unlikely that you'll become a genius. But changing your personal temperament looks impossible to me. It's like changing software vs hardware, the latter is obviously harder.

Sure, a smart introvert can learn how to act like an extrovert. But this will never be natural to him and will cause an additional cognitive load.
> It’s really cool, but no one reasonable said you cannot land rockets. People questioned if it’s worth it.

Not true.

> And this question still remains - they massively overestimated size of the market (they were planning to have launches weekly or more often).

No it doesn't. Even launching less often it would have been worth it.

And of course they did it the first time only a few years ago, the impact of dropping prices in launch are only really now starting to impact the industry.

They are launching every 1-2 weeks. If SpaceX didn't do Starlink there would be 4-5 other companies wanting create such constellations. Many other large constellations are in planning.

> But it successfully kicks can down the road.

It made something possible that wasn't possible before and that was the whole point.

> Boring tunnels? Look at the tunnel in Las Vegas and tell me with a straight face that this is a future of transportation.

Its amazing how people look at the first prototype of something and make judgment. The first roadster was a not really a great car. The Falcon 1 wasn't really that great a rocket.

If you said about the Falcon 1 'this is the future of rocketry'? No, Starship is where the whole development has lead to.

Boring company public infrastructure company that is 5 years old and born out of a basically a hobby project. And they already done quite a bit in that time and are winning competitive bids for other projects. Most companies that want to build transportation infrastructure spend decades in project planning.

Based on first principle you try to figure out the right solution. Then start building prototype and product and improve them significantly with each generation. What matters is speed of innovation and having the right conceptual idea.
I’m just amazed that we’re still happy to condense one of the most complex phenomena, if not *the* most complex phenomenon that we were aware of into a single scalar performance value.
China is massively subsidizing local manufacturing, in at least two ways: currency stabilization and lack of / lack of enforcement of environmental protections.
What variables am I adding ?

In what details are they different ?

http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy.html

EDIT : Perhaps more relevant:

http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/s-relevance.html#ch-s-rel...

EDIT2 : A specific example where both the Thermodynamic entropy and the Shannon entropy can be experimentally seen to be equivalent :

http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/expt-basis.html#sec-demag

EDIT3 : Ah, found the chapter discussing this specific point :

http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/entropy-more.html#sec-s-i...
A couple of examples,

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/finding-bugs-with-add...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/static-analysis-fixes...

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/address-sanitizer-for...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/sal-a...

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/28/static-analysi...

https://vcpkg.io/en/index.html

https://conan.io/
This ignores the fact that BLM affiliated groups are far more than race focused, and wrap in huge chunks of neo Marxist and post modernist ideology, such as calling for dissolution of nuclear families as the core social unit.

BLM and their cohorts were never elected to be representatives of black Americans. The default assumption of upper middle class whites who grew up in segregated suburbs is that they must be representative and most black Americans share their very radical views. I can assure you they do not and opinion polls show this.

I spent a few years in foster care and the best family I was in was a black family in Virginia where the head of household was a police officer and his wife was a public defender in a neighboring county. They and most of their church congregation absolutely despise black lives matter the organization, not the message obviously.

The organization gave itself that name to deliberately overload a moral message with their off-putting, alien, and radical ideology.

Your comment is proof that this strategy worked because if I disagree with any single element of the organization and therefore don't donate, according to your comment I am no longer morally correct and must not think that black lives matter. It's a simplistic and moralistic take evidence by your absolute moral certainty.
What was offensive about it?
Ecosystem. It's not always about the language features, it's about how quickly I can get something working. Having a large, thriving ecosystem is a big part of that.
This is what happens when marketing wonks "decide" to intentionally cause confusion and casually "rebrand" words.

Fuck the mainstream music industry, their playola extortion monopoly on attention, underpaying creators, and crowning of lesser artists while thousands better go undiscovered.
Makes life's choices easier, at least
Maybe not always the good kind of amazing?
So, the root problem here is that species are not defined by crisp barriers, particularly when we're talking about early homonids. So the old elementary school definition of species as reproductive compatibility is just one thing considered today in choosing where to put the line.

Other considerations are morphology and genetic drift. By both those measures Neanderthals are different enough to justify being a separate species, though there is some debate. Take a look at this diagram from wiki and you can see that the evolution of humans was not some sort of clean branching tree, but a messy web including substantial horizontal gene transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution#/media/...

Race is a social construct with a tenuous connection to underlying biology.
Speaking as someone in that same boat, I appreciate my parents kept a semblance of a family for my entire childhood. Hearing my friends who did not have that makes me understand that even my childhood with all of the fighting and arguing was better than that of my peers who did not have a good relationship with one or both of their parents
What mainstream languages are you thinking about? Java is obviously the one that comes to mind when talking about market dominance, but it was created/supported by extremely wealthy corporations who invested hundreds of millions to push for its adoption.

Do you have others in mind? I'm sure we can find fairly similar circumstances for most of them.
I would not call general statistical data which takes no accounting of the details of the actual circumstances "holistic"

The fact is there are tons of people for whom the side effects are a non-issue, and many for whom they would be far worse than the disease, and the statistics give no indication as to who is in which category.

The role of public health is to provide information so that doctors and patients can make better informed decisions. But the idea that decisions should be made by some third party that "knows better" is predicated entirely on the false belief that such an entity exists.
Honestly it's largely Chinese brands selling all sorts of crap. Any time you see a ridiculous-looking off-brand name, it's very likely they're using fake reviews to boost their position in the rankings.

Often they will bulk-sell a cheap product, rake in good reviews, then re-write the entire product page to a different more expensive product but retaining all of the good reviews.
Granted this isn't a peer reviewed paper, but still, a blog that gives personality scores for historical people like presidents can't be based on data.

If IQ is important, maybe it's just that intelligent people know how to take personality tests.
"incredibly hard real engineering challenges" like building a battery powered car?

A random list of real world innovations I can think of which are imo more impressive:

- Large Hadron Collider

- Multicompter. Had you expected 40 years ago the posibilities and commonness of camera drones or having hundreds of multicompter doing light shows?

- you mention dubious inovations in software world but why dismiss the hardware development. Chips smaller than what people 40 years ago thought is physically possible, stacking chips onto each other, quantum computer, filling hard drives with helium to make them more dense (something many people where skeptial about when it first came up), using heat to make hard drives store even more data, e-ink displays

- jetpacks

- improvements in robotics (most popular Boston Dynamics)

- nuclear fusion

- most recently: flying a helicopter on another planet

- maglev trains (but that kind of strech the 40 years range)

- mRNA-vaccins

- or e-bikes. Electic cars are revolutionary why not electric bicycles or planes. They are far from finished but solar powered planes exist. Is such a plane and the people working on it so much less impressive?
"Wikipedia is in desperate need of thoughtful disruption"

Thanks for that.
> Tabs have become integral to Web browsing yet have changed little since their introduction nearly 20 years ago.

I used OmniWeb on the Mac which had tabs and tab groups more than 20 years ago. It was so liberating when the official alternative on the Mac was the dreadful IE.

Still has tab features I miss today.
I suspect it's because fuel is a much more elastic product.

While you can't just throw up a new pump, you have lots of producers can increase their existing output.

Fuel doesn't change. The hydrocarbons pumped out 100 years ago still work fine. So it can be stored.

It's also a simple commodity. Basically everything runs on either gas, petrol or diesel. Not whatever ridiculous amount of chip variations.

But I'm not an economist so this is just a guess
Though I haven't looked into it extensively, here in the US I've only seen olive oil and soybean oil on sardine ingredients labels. Might be different in other parts of the world but here soybean oil seems to be the oil of choice when cost cutting gets involved.
I think one could make the same argument for a zillion things a modern IDE does, from syntax highlighting forward. It's more of a problem in theory and on early use than it is for sustained use.

For unit tests in specific, if the interface is designed well and one is used to TDD anyhow, I think the distraction goes away pretty quickly. When I'm used to TDD, I always have a bit of my mind on what the test impact is, so if the errors showing are the ones I expected anyhow, then it's not disruptive at all. Indeed, it's welcome confirmation that I'm not off track.

That's how syntax highlighting and feedback feels for me too. I may pause at a point with unparseable code, so some things will be the wrong colors and may be marked with issues. It's fine, because that matches my mental syntax parser. And when it doesn't, I'm glad to learn as early as possible that I have an issue somewhere.
This is true, when you zoom in closely, but when you zoom out, it is quite treelike. phylogeny isn't useless just because the process of speciation isn't instantaneous.
Hold on, you can't just leave this comment and not leave the details with it. How do we get on this higher plane of existence?
I prefer a good desktop any day to a half-baked laptop that is thermal constrained.

Agree with you there, while a 1T database is possible on a laptop I wouldn’t want to use it for real work!
who is 'they'?
If "you" can block homosexuals from shops, "we" can block antivaxxers from shops.

Fair's fair.
"Orthodox C++" is an abomination: everything worst about C++, with none of its myriad joys.

You might like it if you already use C and hate learning.
I’d lay the blame on the increasingly narrow and industrialized education system.
Look for small to med consulting firms in your field of interest, they’re always looking for subcontractors to staff projects. They have a sales pipeline and the good ones take care of their best subs.
To you an titzer, as much as I don't like non-modular RAM, what I am advocating for goes even beyond this.

Allow the soldered on ram to be upgradable, or put vacant spots for more ram to be added later.

Allow HBMs to be stacked, or sell a machine with the HBM not attached and I can source one myself.

There absolutely could be a socketed standard for memory.

But in general I am arguing for a more upgradable philosophy and manufacturers should be obligated to adhere to that philosophy. The technicals will always be changing, it isn't really a technical problem at all.
As customers are going to seek better hardware rather than blame the software vendors.
> There are plenty of movies and books without “good guys”

There are very few, and fewer with any success (though, to be fair, not quite none), that don’t have any not irredeemably evil guys, which seems to be the issue people raise with WH40K.
> Making a chip has been something that has been done completely methodically since their invention

The yield improvement process seems like it has a lot common with e.g. baking and intuition.
Well... historians, mostly.
One offer I was looking at recently was 0% OR $4k cash back off the MSRP. The interest rate on taking the cash back offer ended up working out to near exactly $4k. Though if you have good credit and went through a credit union you could probably get a much better rate.
many technologies bring what they touch to an industrial scale. Nothing unusual.

except maybe that new tech in the information/internet era seem to concentrate power more and more in fewer people. So to me the problem is not the scale but the instability.
Since 2003 that has only gotten better. My turbocharged engine gets 35mpg on the highway while putting out 240hp on demand. 2003 cars couldn’t do that. my 2000 A4 with mods put out 250hp and had some sort of vacuum leak every other week, meanwhile that’s normal for my 2014 car and adding meth injection puts me as 300hp with zero problems after 2 years of continuous use

Remember when cars of the 90s were so much better than cars of the 80s? Going over 100k mi/km in most cars wasn’t a concern anymore. Now a large majority of cars are going 200-300k without a sweat
Much as people credit Sun's marketing for Java's success, I think it would have succeeded even without them. Java successfully brought garbage collection to the majority of working developers at the time who were all C and C++ developers. This was a huge step forward that solved a massive pain point. Today this is far less of a compelling argument since most languages are GC'd and C++ is far less dominant, but Java was the right language for the time.
Ephemeral-iam: GCP self-service privilege escalation utility
This is the default experience of vlc, mpv, and kodi. You have to do the surveillance-navigating work when obtaining content, but then when you're relaxing you're free to relax.
> Safety is main reason why I update my cars every few years

It's probably only only worth it after a redesign (every 6 years, or so), and I'd wait for the second model year in the new generation for them to work out the kinks. That said, the EV of added safety, especially coming from a car generation build before the small overlap frontal crash test was added in 2012, is pretty good.
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On my last team, we would do QA on devices that ranged from “decade old + notoriously buggy implementation” to “new hotness, not even available to consumers yet”. The latest greatest stuff was more useful so the mfgs could understand what wasn’t done right there, but the old stuff is where our SDK team found the most value — if it ran fine there, it was pretty much guaranteed to be awesome everywhere else. Faster devices would just mask things like frame drop / memory leaks, but those good old low-end old devices were great for detecting problems and perf regressions.

An anecdote that has long stuck with me from a bicycle mechanic back in the rust belt: ~“Anyone can make new stuff work well, but not many folks still have the patience and expertise to really make the older stuff shine, but it can and it does with a bit of care.”

For work, I upgraded from an 8th Gen Intel 6-Core i9 laptop with 32GB@2400mhz and a 1050ti to a 5950x / RTX 3090 / 32GB@3600mhz with tight timings and it’s very noticeably faster for general desktop usage and development.
No the challenge is exactly the opposite.

Tons of chips still made at >130nm, and 200mm equipment for simple reasons that companies don't make much money, or not having much volume in this stuff.
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The internet is neither of these in its current implementation. It is a highly centralized but self-healing network with no organization above the oeprational level, itself built on centralized adherence to rules. Asking for organzation built on top of this to be decentralized is a weird expectation.
It's ridiculously easy to spot fake reviews.

The clearest giveaway is lots of customer photographs of the item. Multiple photos of the item and/or its packaging from different angles, adding absolutely no value to the review, is virtually guaranteed to mean a fake review.

Seriously - who takes 10 photos of their new USB cable and the box it came in?

Some companies are requesting fake video reviews now too.

Secondly, fake reviews are required to have minimum word counts. So a 100 word review about a USB cable is also likely to be fake.

Finally, they're required to be at least 4 stars; usually 5. Anything below 4 and they won't pay out.
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11683192/iq-testing-intelligen...

I look at it like this, for creative, intellectually demanding work IQ is a necessary but perhaps insufficient condition. You need to be smart to achieve success cause you are competing with other people, so smarter people will have an edge. Google is not hiring people with 90-110 iqs. So having a high IQ is needed to at least be sufficiently proficient in coding, to be considered for a good paying job, but not guarantee you will be hired, but being smart sure helps.
and for all we know, if cars were still made with carbs and solenoids and old fashion-y tech, that manufacturing might be impacted by a pandemic as well. I don't think there's anything fundamental about chips that are causing this delay. A lot of it has to with cancelling orders and manufacturers winding down and then restarting a major supply chain takes time, especially if demand shuts down fast and then starts up again faster than expected.
Stonks to the moon
Computer killing powered USB hub. (Mac murderer)

https://youtu.be/Uh6iKilgtG0

Horrific USB power supply fault. (Electrocution risk.)

https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
The "statistical polling" idea is really just acknowledging the fact that a government (if they put something like this into law) would then of course be required to "uphold that law". So it's just my way of explaining that I think it's FEASIBLE for a government to not only put something like this into law, I think a government could probably enforce it reasonably well.
wow, one wonders what the spike protein made by the covid-19 vaccines could do...the narrative appears presenting just a protein for the immune system to tackle instead of the whole virus is without risk.
>... the name "gnuplot" was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot." We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that "gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.

Sounds like a change to camel plot (cplot) might make more sense (another even-toed ungulate, not easily mistaken for a gnu)? ;)
I just had an argument about this with Amazon support. They took down a review for an item where I mentioned that the manufacturer included a card in the item's box offering to pay you for reviews. Apparently my review violated their "advertising" policy
> Further research is needed so we can figure out who is most at risk and how long this arterial stiffness sticks around for, but the findings largely match other long-term studies which report vascular changes that can last for up to three months and are not associated with the severity of COVID-19 symptoms.
(Noting again that the mechanism doesn't matter, what matters is the odds of various behavior by the host, but - I think reasonably - using "intentions of the host" as a proxy for that.)

The intentions of the host do matter.

Imagine the host picks the correct door by the following procedure: 1) picks an available door at random; 2) if that door has a goat, opens it; 3) if that door has the car, opens the other door.

I hope you will agree that this is equivalent to the problem as originally intended - Monty can be relied on to reveal a goat, and exactly why doesn't matter.

Breaking it down into equally likely cases, assuming the contestant picks door 3:

A) The car is behind door 1, Monty picks door 1, Monty corrects.
B) The car is behind door 1, Monty picks door 2
C) The car is behind door 2, Monty picks door 1
D) The car is behind door 2, Monty picks door 2, Monty corrects
E) The car is behind door 3, Monty picks door 1
F) The car is behind door 3, Monty picks door 2

When Monty reveals the goat behind (say) door 2, we know we're in case A, B, or F. All remain equally likely, and switching wins in A and B.

If Monty would not have corrected, then revealing the goat behind door 2 eliminates (the new) A as well, leaving us with only B and F, again equally likely.

If all of this remains unconvincing, I encourage you to write a simple simulation of the problem.
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Sort of like gnutar (gnu tar) which actually now is a gnu project but had that name before the gnu project because gnu is John Gilmore’s uname.
> As far as I can tell, he's full of BS

This is the sort extreme polarised view I was referring to. All I can say is NASA doesn't agree with you on this.

The problem is, if you go straight to "he's full of BS" it just kills all sensible debate. He's clearly not full of BS. He's delivering astronauts to the Space Station via his "startup". This is not something someone "full of BS" achieves.
Please don't post flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN. If something in an article is provocative, the thing to do is leave it there and fine something more interesting to comment about; or, alternatively, not to comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I pronounce llamaplot with the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative like in Welsh.
This will be a weird number because I rarely see pickups in urban centers with lots of pedestrians, but I see them all the time in rural places.
"as good as", I guess, other than the point of language is to transmit ideas, and if you're the only one that says something in a certain way for some pedantic "it's as good as" reason, you've failed. I guess reasonable people can disagree.
That said, no beaver has seen either from space.
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Just an aside - I have the perennial walking-stick kale growing at my place. I climb on my roof to to harvest it. It grows enormous leaves too.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid internet hell here. It's agitating and even exciting, but it's not interesting.

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Sounds like the perfect scenario for the creation of torture farms.
Taxation is robbery, extortion and slavery.
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