skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"SAT scores are predictive of IQ" is not the same as saying "if an individual gets a higher SAT score than another person they have a higher IQ than that person". If however you had a group of 100 people that had a fairly higher score, it is very likely they would have a higher mean IQ than a group of 100 people with a lower score. Nor is it the same as saying "the SAT is a perfect IQ test". A perfect IQ test, one that gives an individual the same score every time, and ranks everyone along an unquestioned scale, is likely
impossible.
Well the article is behind a paywall, but what I could read of it seem to be pretty trash.
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There was backlash when they tried to take away the premium lifetime membership after the last acquisition. Wonder what Automatic have planned to deal with this...
I can't read the whole article due to a paywall. But I would be curious to know how the author addresses that the winner of the mayoral election was also the FPTP winner.

> The victor in that 16-way race was Jacob Frey, who prevailed after six rounds of counting that took 24 hours to complete. He became mayor despite being the first choice of only 25% of voters.

Looks like even though he was only 25% of voters first choice, that's still a plurality. He was the first-round winner too[0]. So what difference did RCV make?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Minneapolis_mayoral_elect...
You can make the case it's also "unethical" to track everything users are doing across the whole web with Google Analytics, and then using that data to sell ads to third parties. "Being ethical" cuts both ways.
LFP's lower energy density is at least partially made up for by its higher packing density. Other Li-ion chemistries need "firewalls" to prevent catastrophic propagation of thermal failure, but LFP cells can be packed tightly without such barriers.
>...obese people seeing as much of the Islamic world...

Thanks for cutting of a very important part of my actual statement to paint me as some ignorant moron.

Also, 41 million are not obese. Now your articulating another data point to suit your narrative. I'm talking in the grand scheme. My argument was never "hur dur there aren't obese people in the Islamic world!"

The US alone has 30-45%[0] obesity among 300 million meaning. The Islamic world has 1.8 billion. Assuming we just use the same statistic on the high end of the American side for the three countries you named, that is still only 18 million. The US has 96 million on the low end. If you factor what I actually said, the Islamic world, it's again, an even smaller percentage than the 1.25% I quoted earlier.

[0]https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db360.htm
It's close to Langley and therefore doubtless has many advantages, especially in the 1980s. For example, subject matter experts are a short drive away and could appear as guest speakers. I don't work for the government, so I'm just speculating here, but surely there is a reason to keep the training facility so close to the headquarters.
I don't follow. I still think it's unethical to serve monetized content without paying the original "collaborator".

If you made a band and sold me a recording on the condition that I not resell it, it would be unethical for me to resell it. I think it would be undesirable and annoying of you to resort to DRM to prevent me from reselling, but I'm still the one violating our agreement. I have no special "human right" to listen to your music (or watch your Youtube videos), but you should have the right to enforce agreements whose nonenforcement would harm only you.
Funny because, actually, I'm not American. You might want to avoid ad hominem attacks when you want to make a point.
If we cured toxoplasmosis, then there would probably be a ton of abandoned cats.
> It is hard to make stories without some form of conflict

Internal conflict works. Overcoming primitive instincts. Also natural disasters.
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I have been leveraging `ansible` to store my development workstation setup since I found out that playbooks can be applied locally pretty easily. It removes a lot of script maintainence burden even though there are cases we still need to resort to manually written script. `ansible` is declarative, and idempotent. It reads easier than a procedural script (even to someone that has not used ansible before), and can make cross-platform easier.
The Salton Sea area also has volcanism! There's an island there with obsidian, as well as active surface geothermal features (mud volcanoes) that are likely driven by deeper magma.
> And civil servants basically work the same hours per year as workers in the private sector, in France.

Not, not at all. They retire many years before the private sector and have way more vacation. You forgot that tiny detail.
The only thing better than training all your spies in one location is convincing the world that you’re training all your spies in one location.
Thanks for the link - I'll be sure to follow that issue.
Sofia and Hatsune Miku have shown that you can have a relatable, non-human persona. Combined with the K-pop model/marketing machinery and performance capture by replaceable gig-work session actors/contractors, I can easily see a host of virtual performers who are celebrities in their own right, but with Jet Li's martial art prowess as part of their library, and fully owned by corporations.

What's not to like, no ever-increasing salary demands, multiple scenes with the same "actors" can be filmed simultaneously, the celebrity never ages, and the non-celebrity human performers behind the scenes are easily replaceable cogs: there will be huge cost savings.
I'm talking about the current CPU.

> if the CPU was created in a million year evolutionary process in which the lack of appropriate subjective feelings would have resulted in its death.

You can say that about flying too.

If the CPU was created in a billion year evolutionary process in which the lack of ability to flight would result in its death, the CPUs would fly.

Like, how is this relevant?

Can flight be properly explained in terms of signals flowing through a CPU? Yes or no?
Well fortunately you and other commenters have handled that for me :)

I don't work on ads or Youtube, and you have cause and effect reversed actually. It's not that I'm okay with ads because I work at Google. I was ok with ads long before I worked there.

I work at Google because I'm ok with ads. :)
The smallest possible scale, in fact: a pixel and its neighbors.
If a company pretends to support Linux, they should have a Linux client, whether I need it or not. They basically offer no Linux support, and all the Linux clients that come on their store pages come from developers' willingness, not GOG's.

Itch.io has a Linux client, by the way.
Veritasium did an excellent video on the history of the salton sea, here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqrZG-EBaQ
As an engineer I found if I didn't lie and pretend to support the false reality of the managers above me, I wouldn't have that job long.

Once we had a very large effort, creating a new hardware and software platform for the companies products. The CEO demanded it be done in 9 months, our estimate was accurate almost to the day-- 18 months. Politically it was easier for the PMs to agree with 9 months and then have 9 one-month delays it took, instead of getting fired for insisting on a good faith estimate.

What do you think the security in that product was like?

Security directly conflicts with the business model of cutting every corner possible and loading engineers as much as possible. A real security program would have to start with reasonable hours and goals.
Should people who have never worked on ads or with user data in any significant capacity have to disclose that too?

"I want to say that Google is unethical and ads are evil, but I've never actually worked on ads and actually don't know what data means in this context"
Yep. Hit that one too.

Learned the hard way the need for the 'nofail' flag in 'fs_mntops' field, which was undocumented in the man page in the early versions ...
I'm not convinced packages need to care. Most config users care about on a SteamDeck is going to be Steam or game specific, so Valve are in a good position to put that on some mutable partition.

For the system data, which could be immutable, they could either take an A/B approach with two different partitions, or perhaps use either btrfs or ZFS to allow the new version to be applied over the old version as a 'diff' of the system partition. On a failed update, or to rollback for any other reason the system partition would simply be rolled back to the last snapshot.
Blizzard has been dead for years and the remaining shell is just trying to beat the last few gold coins out of the corpses of their titles.
I can imagine it for textures so the cobblestone and brick don’t end up repeating.
Personally, I don't think that "solution" is as obscure as it is made out to be. This problem isn't new and has been studied for years. When a worker feels forced to work such arduous hours (as opposed to someone in finance or tech who puts the extra hours to get ahead), in a fair system, I assume one would ask "why didn't he just find a new job". The answer I come to is he can't - the threat of poverty is far to great in the US to even think about the uncertainty of leaving your current job, especially if you are living paycheck to paycheck. If you fix this problem then I believe most labor abuse would go away. I don't think it involves some sort of "reimagining" of novel solutions. Furthermore I think solutions involving overtime laws are just band-aids.

Unfortunately any kind of solution that tries to address the market side effects of labor will die in the US by the socialism boogeyman
I don't think it changes the fact that given enough compute time, there is a "GTO" strategy for imperfect information games like Dota, just as there is for poker. The AI will lose some proportion of games, but overall it'll win.

https://www.deepstack.ai/
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This isn't obvious at all. A few very specific, niche employment areas in which the US dominates (software engineering in certain niches, medical practice, and maybe show business) have a modest influx of Western European workers, but that says nothing.

Among the reasons for emigration to the US, there's not a single living soul that says "oh, I'm not legally allowed to work enough in my area of employment to achieve my dreams". It's a laughable and ridiculous statement.
They vaccinated a ton of people with Astra and then let them mix second doses and I know people who got Pfizer 1st dose and Moderna 2nd dose and just a complete shit show. I'm surprised they arn't injecting people with soup of the day at this point or some hybrid of all 3 (Astra/Pfizer/Moderna). What's funny is they find this worth bragging about while under the worlds longest lock downs and still not completely open. The whole thing is a disaster from start to finish but they have this huge inferiorty complex where they compare themselves to the USA in every way and then pat themselves on the back convincing themselves they're better in some way. Just cringe.....

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This article has approximately nothing to do with ranked-choice voting.

But about that… I’ll consider criticisms of how to use the vote count only after the vote count can be formally proven.
> It is unethical to consume content without accepting [ads]

Well in my belief, ads are unethical. These two views don't reconcile. And since I'm in control of my computer, I get to decide if the ads play or not.
> probably the most capable Haiku OS commercial system

Not knocking this Caster, but it might also be the ONLY Haiku OS commercial system
I clear all cookies up to 5 minutes after I've closed a site. I get asked to give my life away everytime I open youtube with no way to just block the request as it used to be possible. To make matters worse, I am unable to select that I don't want to be tracked because when I select "Agree", it simply goes to YouTube, when I select to opt out it goes to Google's tracking servers which are blocked across my home network because I don't want to be tracked. So I'm left with no choice to press agree, or alternatively I can simply use an alternative backend.
To be honest, popular items have more chance to be recommended, and it is hard to avoid. Popular items have higher probability to be liked. In addition, popular items have more data collected, it helps to locate potential users.
How about a headline that isn't such irritating, content-free click-bait?
Stealing from a rich man may not harm the rich man, but I still believe it's unethical.

I'm saying that I think taking things without paying is unethical, while what Google does is not unethical (use user data to provide a service and sell ads).
They are free to make that criticism but they should do it without invoking "the Unix philosophy" which Linux has never adhered to.

Unix never had interchangable components like that.
I've struggled with implementing my own version of this algorithm - so I know I don't understand it properly. I get lost because of the "quantum mechanics" aspect - I am kind of suspecting it's just an analogy for the actual algorithm (maybe it's not?)... but I'd love to see if this could be re-written without the "entropy" and "superposition"-type wording, just to see if I can finally make it click in my brain!
Two cases in war zones. How would you explain this happening in a neutral city to civilians?
true, and lots of trombones are built, as well. organs and trombones have absolutely zero effect on the things a piano must do. they're different instruments entirely, so the fact that large organs exist doesn't change how pianos are used in any way.
hard to pay for a apartment in paris in land or olives in Argentina - but I can use bitcoin.

Meanwhile it is almost impossible to send out Argentine money without government approval. This is the case for most non OECD countries....
That's not a problem specific to "nowadays." It's just a problem that emerges very quickly with scale.

Once the craftsperson (developer/carpenter/artist/baker/etc) decides they want to grow the business, they're going to hire someone to take over some of the work. More often than not, that person is not going to care as much about the craft as the owner did.

Nobody cares as much as the craftsperson/founder.
Amazing. A real, live, credible proposal for lambdas in ISO standard C.
See it's sort of a non-argument. Saying something is "unethical" is just an emotive way of saying "I disagree with this".

Because if "ads are unethical" under your definition of "unethical", then I think it's totally fine for people to do "unethical" things.
Personally I think that there has never been any foreign power involved in this.

That said, there is the possibility that something happened in Havana and now some foreign power is reaping a long running additional "benefit" without ever attacking again.
Is Crystal a GC language? Was Rethink originally a java implementation?
Main issue is sending outbound from maybe 50 countries.
> You're referring to differences in individual TV overscan settings.

I’m not referring to differences in overscan settings—I’m just talking about the fact that overscan exists. It’s a setting, but it’s generally not user-configurable on consumer TVs.

Even with TVs that have more accurate overscan, the TVs still have overscan, so you cannot use the entire area. The HUD goes right to the edge of the screen, but the 256×224 area continues past this. My feelings are that it is up to your judgment exactly what the safe area is, but taken for granted that it is smaller than the full picture.

Newer games and systems were still affected by this—the Nintendo 64, Xbox, PlayStation 2, etc. You could not reasonably put your HUD all the way to the edge of the framebuffer on any of these systems. Overscan only died (sort of) with the arrival of LCDs and HDMI.

> Certainly far more than 160 vertical pixels.

Yes, that would be absurd.
they're in bed w broadcom. also think of all the additional bite people end up buying to run em
Yes they can. Fibre optic networks have maintenance costs that are orders of magnitude lower than obsolete copper telephone networks. Eliminating outdoor active equipment combined with fibre's better tolerance of moisture improves things massively.
> They fired the low-level employees who conducted the tests and wrote a blog post "A Tough Day as Leaders" which blamed the fired employees for getting it wrong. Some leadership (the blog post of course no longer exists although I assume it's archived somewhere).

"A Tough Day as Leaders"

https://archive.is/Ro70U
as much as i like remote, and text interactions, i worked for a bit with some near-retirement guys who'd had health problems.

they could still type to program, but the typing necessary to participate in a meeting was probably beyond them without physical therapy or serious exercise regimen or something.

i'd say they needed speech to text, but one of them probably couldn't have _read_ a text meeting fast enough to keep up, either. maybe if he was provided with a 40" monitor and kept it at 1080p?

i dunno man.
Just to add some context in this particular case, Byron had seen many different recommend and self sought doctors over his life. Dr. K. in both private paid sessions and the public interview styled on his Twitch channels. Unfortunately Byron was a very sick guy. Fortunately (?) with the majority being public over the years a lot of people had an insight to how mental issues can arise and hide which brought a lot more attention to it within the gaming community.

There has also been other streamers that have taken his public talks into a deeper private session or gone to see other doctors after realising that they have things to be talked about and resolved.
Ok fine:

Their next claim is that the June heatwave was enhanced by 2°C by global warming, which is not out of the realm of possibility.

But think about it. Considering that they state that the heatwave had maximum temperatures 16-20°C warmer than normal, by their OWN ADMISSION only about 10% of the heatwave was the result of global warming. Thus, a record-breaking, unique heat wave would have occurred without global warming.

Imagine if they had stated that. You would not have seen many headlines: Global warming contributed 10% of the heatwave!

This guy is frankly so wrong and misunderstands what he's talking about so badly that he should be completely ignored and you should not cite him any more.

Imagine that global warming dries out a forested area to the point where it catches fire due to being so dry. This guy is saying the equivalent of "the fire burned at 800°C, and global warming only accounts for 0.25% of that!"

I gave the article a fair chance, and facepalmed repeatedly at his inane arguments. He's a crank and you should ignore him.
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But I’m also confused that people will blindly follow turn-by-turn road directions too. Even when road signs disagree, even past road closed signs, even on gravel roads right before the first snowfall. People assume the computer knows the map and that the map is the territory. Yes, it’s terrible UI, but people don’t ask themselves if they interpret it wrong. At least you can fix the map; not sure how to fix the blind trust in humans.
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I don't follow your logic here...care to elaborate?
Sorry you're being downvoted, I also strongly agree that new-word formation rules usually should be stricter for scientific purposes, and heuristics regarding prefixes and suffixes should apply.

There are cases that shorten words even worse (Richard to Rick to Dick by rhyming comes to mind), but all of these I know are colloquial.

There does feel like overall standards are lowered here.
I don't think it's really true to say that the issue is hardware or software. There is lots of robotics in everyday life, from autonomous vacuums in our homes to autonomous factories producing the goods we consume. The reason we don't have millions of little robots buzzing around us is... there's very little need for it.

The average human spends most of their time barely engaged, our brains and bodies are operating far below what we're capable of, the romanticised sci-fi vision of a world filled with intelligent robots performing every menial task for humans builds on the idea that humans have better things to do, but do we? We already have enough knowledge and resources to end world hunger, to bring a high standard of living to every human, but we choose not to: our problem is social, not software or hardware.

As an aside, I'd dispute the claim that hardware is lagging behind software: Tesla has lots of money and lots of smart people and they haven't been able to deliver self driving cars after more than a decade of promises (because of software).
They have every right to post no pictures signs, walk/run up to you and tell not to take photos, and not shoot at you. And you've got a right to ignore all that and take photos. Free Country™!
"We really need an IT accident investigation board to help us understand what causes wrong computer results that may harm innocent people."

"...Computer says no."
> Today's robots can't be made useful in everyday life no matter how advanced the software. The hardware is too inflexible, too unreliable, too fragile, too rigid, too heavy, too dangerous, too expensive, too slow.

You're absolutely wrong. Anyone with basic electronics knowledge and a few hundred bucks can build a passable robot body out of hobby grade servos and 3D printed parts. If you're willing to spend $10k+ you can make something quite capable.

Programming it to then actually do anything, let alone anything useful in the real world, is still out of reach for all but a tiny fraction of companies.

Hardware still has a long way to go before it's as capable as biological systems but it's usable. Real world AI is far from that in most areas.
> I would add that if you hate advertisements, you can pay for YouTube Red or whatever they call it, and remove them. I think that's a good compromise: either you use it for free with ads, or you pay to remove them.

The problem with that logic is that people don't just hate ads, they hate and/or distrust Google.

People are not going to give money to a company they hate and/or distrust if they can avoid it. That's why it's important for businesses to not engage in unethical behavior/things their customers hate.

Of course, in Google's case (and peers), they're largely immune to market forces thanks to years of anti-competitive behavior. So the consequences of being evil/unethical/shitty/etc are usually minor or non-existent.

That's exactly why projects like this are good. Because it's the only way (a tiny subset of) consumers have (a negligible amount of) power to have an impact on bad business practices, since the usual "vote with your wallet" tactic doesn't work.

And if creators lose ad revenue because people use a project like this, well, tough luck. In the short term, some of those might make less money or go out of business, but if this ends up changing (or bankrupting!) youtube, it will ultimately help creators in the long run if it means new business opportunities once the monopoly is gone and/or some of that bargaining power goes back to the consumers.