skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm just arguing that it's possible (not certain) that race probabilistically determines life outcomes such as income partly for biological reasons, not only systemic racism or culture. Those other factors exist but I don't think they're obviously the only factors.

Measures to reduce black poverty can certainly help reduce black poverty, but I don't think it's known that they can bring blacks up to the same level of poverty as whites. So we may never completely solve the problem of black poverty with assistance.

> disproved over and over again

Can you identify even one of those disproofs? I've never found any and nobody who's tried to convince me they exist has ever produced any.

B) the race/IQ link doesn't line up with our modern understanding of genetics.

How is that?

C) the disparities we're studying show up in contexts that can't be explained by IQ.

There can be other differences besides IQ, and there are environmental and cultural factors.

D) the disparities we're seeing are larger than we would expect to see given IQ gaps.

That's consistent with my idea.

E) the IQ gap itself has decreased over time in ways that are inconsistent with a view that is purely biological.

Straw man.

> It's not intuitive or expected that a biological adaptation to sun level would affect the brain to the degree you're claiming.

I'm not talking about skin color but "black" in the commonly used meaning of the word. Indians and Australian Aboriginals don't count regardless of the color of their skin.

> You're claiming that there's a shared racial genetic outcome. So what are the shared genes for people with that race? Where are they?

I'm not claiming there are shared genes causing it. It might have appeared independently for different black ethnicities.

If the idea of a correlation happening independently is too far fetched for you then another possibility is their shared lack of recent Neanderthal DNA.

> You don't know what these genes are, or how they affect intelligence, and how they're linked to skin color, or even what percentage of the Black community shares them, but you're super-convinced that there's a strong link between our brains and our ability to get a sun tan.

You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not super convinced. I just think it's a realistic possibility.

Not knowing about the genes is not a reason to dismiss the possibility they exist. Even Darwin discovered evolution without knowing what genes were. Should that whole theory have been rejected until genes were discovered? Should dog breeders have stopped doing their job until genes were discovered? Of course not. This idea that we can't know it exists without identifying the genes is obviously ridiculous.
I came here to make this exact point.

The skeuomorphic to flat transition that the Windows Phone did was beautiful and groundbreakingly different. I loved it. Shame about the rest of that OS.
Why isn't Linux configured to better preserve battery life on laptops by default? Power usage has been an issue for over a decade. If it's just a matter of a few tweaks, surely it could be done?
I'll confess my bias up front: pairing has never worked for me, and I really just can't write serious code unless I'm in my own head.

Having said that, let me now ask pairing proponents: can you give me a rough idea of what you believe the economics to be? Because from my perspective the two people working together on the same program need to deliver value twice as quickly as a solo programmer merely to break even. Based on what I've seen my median estimate for how much quicker things go is ballpark 1.25x, and then throw in some amortized benefit for knowledge transfer and camaraderie. But in my biased opinion find it a stretch that you even hit break-even with high probability.

So, I would love to hear from pairing proponents how they think about the development economics and the size of the win.
> I'm not sold on UBI -- no one has managed to give a satisfactory answer for why it won't lead to persistent (even if minuscule) inflation everywhere.

Inflation is persistent - the Fed has an inflation target of 2%! Year over year, that's the inflation rate and they manipulate spending and money issuance to hit it.

If you are holding onto large amounts of cash and not getting a 2% return, you are losing money and that's intentional because the government wants you to either spend it or invest it.
This is a useless comparison. Certainly the existential malaise experienced by many in the first world is incomparable to the necessities of keeping your family safe from instability and violence in the third world, and the aspiration to acquire the stability of the first at great risk.

But scolding someone for pouring out spoiled milk because there are children dying of thirst in Africa does little to fix the fact that the milk has gone bad.

Our great grandparents generation were traumatized by depressions, wars, and deprivation. We are afforded the luxury of being isolated from such experiences. That is no reason to declare society a finished product, and reject any criticisms of it.

Many of us want to have a hand in building a future in-which they can believe, and in-which they and their children have a meaningful place. But the world has become too big, too complex. Humans are increasingly cheap commodities to be consumed and replaced by massivr structures both private, and state - all hell-bent upon the minimization of the impact one is permitted to have on society. It is tempting to give up on ambitions, and instead live an easy, somewhat comfortable, if uneasely purposeless life.

Edit: added a lot, first two paragraphs were the original comment
Yeah, the mention of the "super brain" sure sounds like it.
If the grid goes down nationwide for any length of time it's worse than any event in the last two hundred years. Spent nuclear fuel pool failure is one thing to consider.
Julia is that language now. Previously I had sunk cost fallacy regarding Python, but now we are building a brand new application from scratch, and we chose Julia.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, and especially not generic ideological flamewar. It turns specific, interesting threads into generic, boring ones. (Flamewar can be exciting, agitating, or maddening, but not interesting in the local sense of that word.)

This is a classic example of a thread getting sucked into a nearby black hole, which I wrote about earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27110515.

Pro tip: if we don't add the black hole to a thread, the thread won't get sucked into it.
This launches the web-based Werkzeug debugger on Exception:

pip install django-extensions
python manage.py runserver_plus

https://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runserver...

This should run IPython Notebook with database models already imported :

python manage.py shell_plus --notebook

But writing fixtures, tests and (celery / dask-labextension) tasks is probably the better way to do things. Django-rest-assured is one way to get a tested REST API with DRF and e.g. factory_boy for generating test data.
Lung and heart damage can be the result of any virus. Just look at any article pre 2020.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h...

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.h...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=St....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X1...
Thank you for the pinball number count link. The days they included that in Sesame Street were the best days and now that I have this link every day can be a best day.
My understanding is that Serious Adverse Events are not necessarily reactions that can easily be attributed to the vaccine (unlike a headache occurring soon after the vaccination), so we have to check whether these results are statistically significant and/or whether any patterns can be found in terms of what these events actually are.

I don't think 0.4% vs. 0.1% with n=1127 is significant, and the study mentions no patterns were observed.

We still have systems like VAERS to ensure side-effects that are too rare to be caught by a study of this size still get caught.
The Myths That Hint at Past Disasters
I'm fairly confident that non-verbal autistic people would be extremely happy to be able to effectively communicate with other people. And I'm sure autistic children with extreme touch sensitivity would love to be able to get a haircut without being in pain. My autistic relative would be much better off of they were able to learn how to live independently as easily as everyone else can, without having to take classes on it and live at home for much longer than everyone else.

Not every autistic person is like Elon Musk. Many (maybe the majority) have significant difficulties in their life, which are not just due to a personality difference.

Not sure why there is this push to make it not considered a disorder. Just because you have a disorder doesn't mean you are worth any less than other people, or that you can't accomplish great things. It just means you will have extra challenged in your life. Acknowledging that isn't a bad thing, in my opinion. I'm not autistic though, so my opinion is somewhat less informed, although even one autistic person can't speak for everyone.
This. Paul Davies (prominent SETI researcher) states in one of his books that he wonders if biological life is a transitory phenomena.
Some/many Europeans pretty much take the month of August off to go on holiday. That's in addition to other holidays/time off throughout the year. People in many jobs here in the U.S. are lucky to get 2 weeks off total per year.
I use the 28-200 Tamron on the A7 III. It is amazing for the price. It's a good size and weight for what it is. It isn't always mentioned online, but it's not bad at macro either. For my purposes it strikes many of the right compromises. Rent it and give it a shot.
"We identified N=2,000 users who shared false political news on Twitter"

Who gets to say it's false?

Activist journalists?
I believe the idea is that Windows laptop makers make more money from preinstalled bloatware (McAfee, Candy Crush, etc.) than the cost of the OEM Windows license. So if they ship the laptop with Linux which doesn't support the bloatware then they don't make as much money as compared to the Windows version at the same price.
Fair enough. I don't have the data to back it up. What countries do you have as examples for me to inform myself with?
You can't eat bronze, but you can eat without agriculture just fine. Agricultural species are vanishingly rare compared to foragers, though different kinds of ants are known to engage in both farming and ranching.
To me, there’s also the question of how the box was marked — safety deposit boxes have a locking outer door and a removable insert that can have a second lock on it. I would be shocked if USPV allowed this customer to post any identifying data on the outer door, and I haven’t seen a report either way on whether or not the FBI was allowed to open the outer door to access the insert if that’s where the label was placed.

For what it’s worth, the original article is pretty awful — it provides only one perspective (that of a wronged customer), didn’t mention if the author contacted the FBI for comment, and also didn’t mention that the FBI was authorized to seize the “vaults” of boxes, but not granted the right to open the boxes themselves. Most of this is mentioned in other media reports, and in total paints this story very differently: USPV was involved with wrongdoing, there is a high likelihood that some boxes contain evidence of further crimes, but there will need to be some court-appointed team that has to go through the boxes in order to uncover this evidence while protecting all the other owners (and their identities) from the FBI.
And if you use a replica for analytics the overhead on performance is tiny!
I have a lot of sympathy for education about neurodiversity and any form of spreading acceptance of those who are different than ourselves or what’s considered normal. However, as another comment mentioned, this seems overly reflective of a Hollywood depiction of autism and the supposed hidden intellectual super powers of autistic individuals. Autism is a wide spectrum and seems to only be widening as we understand more about neurodevelopment. Some people with severe autism will never be independent, complete a basic education, or even verbally communicate. Yet others may find themselves only being diagnosed as adults and/or achieve traditional metric of success. Not that one or the other, or being neurotypical, is an assessment of an individual’s value to their colleagues, friends, or family. I think Mark Rober’s recent video in reference to his son addresses this well.

What irks me about this article is that autism could be replaced with practically any other identity. Different perspectives, hard workers, curious individuals are always valued whether neurotypical, neurodiverse, or of any other identity.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or take HN threads further into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I enjoyed the fableHaven series. But YMMV, tastes are different.
Please don't take HN threads into ideological flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you reject volunteering?

Do you reject volunteering for non-profits? What about non-profits that have some paid employees? What about for-profit companies that you believe have a net positive effect on the world? What about jobs that you think are fun, I dunno maybe white water guiding, that happen to be for for-profit non-benevolent companies?

The whole idea of "you shouldn't work if you're not getting paid" is a category error.

If you want to do work, do it. If you're getting paid, great. If you're not getting paid but you want to do it anyway, great. If the only reason you want to do this work is because your current alternatives suck, well, I'm sorry to hear that, but you should still pursue your best alternative, which may be working unpaid overtime.

Mind you, in some cases, it makes sense to say "because I am part of a bargaining collective, I will eschew personally-beneficial options, as part of our collective negotiation strategy". Respect! But that's only sane if you're actually part of a bargaining collective. It is (usually) completely idiotic to imagine that you have solidarity with other people who do not see themselves as having solidarity with you.

All of the above comments are super generic, because moksly made some very generic comments, including "never work for a company for free", and I think moksly's advice, when taken as written, is utterly wrong. Now, specifically in the case of working paid or unpaid overtime, as with any other question about workplace environment or about compensation, the only reasonable thing to do is ask what your alternatives are, both short-term and long-term.

Tell me, if you're against overtime being the norm or a regular thing, what advice would you give to a hypothetical person who has no known alternative employment and a dependent to support, and who knows that their boss could hire others to replace them? Would you honestly say to them "never work for a company for free"? Surely instead you would say "do what you gotta do, and also btw try to find a different job, and also btw good luck buddy I feel for you".

The sentence "never work for a company for free" is utterly wrong-headed.
But the other ones also say it out of respect? I’m surprised how much I am enjoying the show, but I wish they hadn’t showed us his face in season 1.
Im Replacing Ryu with the Lexus
Can I Email?
Agree.

It's why I love indie films, indie games, garage rock, zines....
Oh really? I lost my nspire CX CAS so I bought a new CX II, I gotta check it out.
This definition of "rational" strangely excludes values such as reliability, endurance, initiative, charm, beauty, or leadership. But when has it ever been the case in any society for people to simply bow down to geniuses? Hasn't intelligence often taken a backseat to charm and beauty?

Intelligence is but one value competing in an ecology of values.
Icon is a design magazine. If you've ever been to a museum with a gallery of 20th C British design, you'll have passed at least one item in "Festival of Britain style". It was a thing in the 50s.

You're probably right that the Festival of Britain isn't a household name any more, though.
IMO you are a fool if you think every USA-based CA has not been NSLed for their private keys. I am saying it is impossible to know so good OpSec demands we assume the worst. Feel free not to act accordingly, but I will act like all TLS is broken all the time.
Mostly speculation, but I think a big part of it is that MacOS will heavily throttle as it needs to, and I imagine that Windows laptop drivers get a lot of love in that space too since the manufacturers want to get good battery life in their machines as well.

I'm sure a huge component of it is just people-hours spent in figuring out the right balance of defaults that don't just mess people's setups up.
Asdf: Manage pyenv, rbenv, nvm and other environments with one tool
Id-Software/Doom: README.txt (1997)
> However, most of those people have no problem with accepting the scientific consensus on unrelated topics.

A venn diagram would show a significant overlap between these groups, there's a lot of overlap between young earth creationists and climate change "skeptics", the same is true for flat earthers and other conspiracy groups. It's rare for people to believe in just one conspiracy and the other conspiracies they believe throw out just about every branch of science we have.

When you add the two party system super groups to the venn diagram you'll see most of these grouped to a specific side, which indicates a strong degree of ideological bias is at play.
I suspect they tried to activate AutoSteer, didn’t realize they failed, and let TACC (which did activate) drove them straight into some trees. So much for automatic emergency braking.
What a non-issue.

The linked amendments that thoroughly resolve this complaint have already been adopted by parliament. This article is therefore picking a fight with an old version of a working document.
The Chinese government is also vividly aware of this: China's social credit systems, internet firewall etc. are all means of control designed to get ahead of the civil unrest they know is coming when China's growth rate slows to one more expected of a developed economy (but due to corruption they're still going to have massive inequality). They're trying to pre-oppress their population, because once the perception of upward mobility falls apart, they'll be in a lot of trouble.
Passive income is about "do once, profit passively forever after" and this fits that -> write once, revenue forever.

No income source is truly "free". Either you pay with time or money.
Yes, but the transistor density is lower than TSMC's 5nm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nm_process
How could they include that and not this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE

Edit: Youtube commenter claims the kid rocking out on the stairs is "my cousin Lenny Kravitz". Plausible. Am I being naive?
It's not a matter of just a few tweaks. It's a few new tweaks each generation, as Microsoft and Intel keep changing their minds on what the "right" way is to put devices into low-power modes, and then not thoroughly documenting those changes let alone upstream them for inclusion in standards documents.

And then there are the hardware bugs which require workarounds in firmware or drivers, and the firmware bugs which require workarounds in drivers, all of which are only developed and tested against Windows.

The set of power management options that Windows 10 exposes to the user has been steadily dwindling to the point that on a new laptop you basically only get to customize how long before the screen shuts off and how long before it goes to sleep. All the more detailed options you had in early Windows 10 or in Windows 7 are no longer exposed, because there's no consistent way to map such controls onto the ever-shifting set of underlying platform features.
Too early to say, I think.
The actual reason they don't need to retract anything is that the sensational articles already paid off, and they're now off to write another unsubstantiated claim of a headline on something else.
The ballot box is supposed to be that "earmarking" system. If it's not working, fix it.

The problem with directly earmarking taxes is that whoever pays more taxes gets more control over government spending. People with more money already have too much control of the government; I would rather not support policies that make it even worse.
I add pension and sometimes health insurance too (if it’s good like in Germany I don’t). But you have a point and I should define it as “cost of living in a country for above 180 days per year” not taxes.
In my experience, you use the psychedelics to give inspiration, and then you complete the artwork once you're (mostly) sober. Anything else and I and my friends couldn't complete anything coherent. But the dose makes the poison too: low doses of psychedelics can help with creativity and the flow state without making it impossible to focus or complete less-fun specific tasks.
The phrase "six-figure salary" is so strange. We're almost always referring to slightly above $100K. Does anyone ever say "I make six figures" and mean $900K, or even half a million?
> your claim that IQ is a permanent number that can be accurately measured before adolescence

Not my claim.

As you surely know, IQ tests are scaled by age according to how normal people develop. So an individual who undergoes unusual life experiences can easily have their IQ change with age since their development would deviate from what the rest of the population has. If every person had all the best IQ enhancing interventions, then I would expect IQ scores to be more consistent with age since the environmental factors are controlled, leaving the inherent factors to dominate. But that's not the world we live in, and you can "train for the test".
Did it also change air conditioning? I have been on sets thrice in my life, and everytime it has been uncomfortably hot.
ksh does floating point. bash started out imitating ksh, but then got distracted and wandered off.
Where the hell can you even go online these days to avoid metrics? Maybe we should also be asking more of social media companies that know what these metrics are doing to us.
> they largely blame the more generous unemployment payments and stimulus checks for making people less likely to take low-paying fast food and retail jobs again

This will be an interesting test case for the basic income gang. Especially now that some states are blocking the extra $ and we'll have stratified sample sets for comparison.
Some Internet related things use DNS. A lot do not.
Some past related threads:

Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18240502 - Oct 2018 (44 comments)

How Elmo Ruined Sesame Street - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10697939 - Dec 2015 (187 comments)

‘Sesame Street’ to Air First on HBO for Next 5 Seasons - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10054774 - Aug 2015 (84 comments)

The Man Who Became Big Bird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512972 - May 2015 (4 comments)

How Sesame Street Changed the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625237 - May 2009 (7 comments)

I'm pretty sure there have been others, maybe just not with Sesame Street in the title. Can anyone find any?
What Are Market Makers?
Ya I keep seeing these kind of arguments, that something has "fundamentally changed" but I just don't believe it. Maybe just wishful thinking... In a year when the stimi stops/runs out, people will need money and will return to these jobs.