skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is the single most studied, and statistically proven, quantitative measure in all of social science and psychology.

The US military developed it not as a tool to exclude, but to INCLUDE as many males in the draft as possible during World War I and after.

The determination was that anyone below 85 IQ is literally a net drag on performance in the battlefield, and is unable to add value without a quantity of supervision that is detrimental to a fighting unit.

The harsh realities of IQ go against the grain of both of the major US political parties:

The GOP myth of everyone working hard to uplift themselves simply can't apply to about 10% of the population. There is simply nothing a person born with an 85 IQ can do to succeed in the modern world without a lot of help and assistance that almost certainly needs to come from some form of collective, probably the government.

The Democratic myth is that, given enough help, and with obstacles such as racism removed, everyone can succeed. Therefore, they believe that unequal outcomes are evidence of some form of systemic discrimination. There is no level of discrimination you can remove that is going to help the 10% of the population at or below 85% succeed in the modern world. Cash payments to this population are simply not going to ever yield any form of self-sufficiency in a post-industrial economy.

It's a miserable reality that I hate to think about, and simply makes me sad. Any one of us reading this comment could have been born with this affliction, and I think we should be extremely hones when assessing how to correct this injustice of birth and give these human beings a life that is as meaningful and happy as possible. The lies we tell ourselves do them no favors.
LoanStreet in NYC sues former employee for $3M for warning others
This doesn't seem to have any reasons to avoid matrix that I can see. The whole bridges section is strange since that's set up by each homeserver admin, and you can just.. not do that.
-march=native will still give you better performance. It's not just about the instruction set, but also heuristics taking into account cache size, latencies, topology and other things. Intel for example has this quirk that aligning functions (and other jump targets) at 32 byte boundaries speeds up funct8 calls and jumps. I haven't tested it but I suspect you'd gain more from -mtune=native with the generic x86_64 target than -march=native. Some loops that can be autovectorized with AVX instructions will probably be faster though. But cache size especially is important for deciding if some optimization is beneficial or just leads to stalls due to thrashing.
>but getting a design up on a new process can easily take a year, often more.

That's only relevant to companies that have to build all their own CPUs.

The world is not HackerNews. 99.999999% of companies can do with the radical idea of using an existing older, slower, perhaps more power hungry processor. [It can be argued this already happened - all the Spectre/Meltdown mitigations costing performance, and the world kept trucking on]. Apple's bottom line may be temporarily hurt, and AMD will be in trouble, but that's hardly an economy-shaking threat.

>Not to mention that building up raw fab capacity takes time as well.

TSMC is actually rather small in the raw picture.

>The impact on supply chains in the short term would be devastating even if the long term can be gotten under control.

We were just having a huge pandemic. We can handle merely another chip shortage.

>If the short term includes a war with China, then, well...

Which is a different matter entirely.
I'm trying to educate myself on exactly what has gone wrong at the various nuclear incidents. I got started with reading up on this well known incident.

I'm quoting a very specific paragraph. Please read the actual paper for proper context:

"The reactors proved robust seismically, but vulnerable to the tsunami. Power, from grid or backup generators, was available to run the residual heat removal (RHR) system cooling pumps at eight of the eleven units, and despite some problems they achieved 'cold shutdown' within about four days. The other three, at Fukushima Daiichi, lost power at 3.42 pm, almost an hour after the earthquake, when the entire site was flooded by the 15-metre tsunami. This disabled 12 of 13 backup generators onsite and also the heat exchangers for dumping reactor waste heat and decay heat to the sea. The three units lost the ability to maintain proper reactor cooling and water circulation functions. Electrical switchgear was also disabled. Thereafter, many weeks of focused work centred on restoring heat removal from the reactors and coping with overheated spent fuel ponds. This was undertaken by hundreds of Tepco employees as well as some contractors, supported by firefighting and military personnel. Some of the Tepco staff had lost homes, and even families, in the tsunami, and were initially living in temporary accommodation under great difficulty and privation, with some personal risk. A hardened onsite emergency response centre was unable to be used in grappling with the situation, due to radioactive contamination.Three Tepco employees at the Daiichi and Daini plants were killed directly by the earthquake and tsunami, but there have been no fatalities from the nuclear accident."
Curated list of personal blogs
Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.
> It has been true only to a certain level. […] as long as it happens it small enough number it is possible to have people point it out and make a fuss about it.

I think the opposite is true. This isn’t a historical perspective, you’re using logic to speculate. Historically speaking, there have been fakes that reached huge numbers of people, and they were more damaging then than they are today because they were more believable; the public had not yet conceived that photos could be faked, and it was not possible to see evidence of fakery. Today, everyone knows photos and videos can be faked.

I don’t know of any deep fake videos yet that have tricked a large number of people or been used for political purposes. Maybe it has happened, I don’t know, do you know? But there have been lots of influential faked photos. Just Google a little to find hundreds of historical examples of famous and misleading doctored photos. (Lots of overlap in these lists, because some of the photos are famous).

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/history.pdf

https://delmarwatsonphotos.com/photographs/famous-photograph...

https://www.quora.com/What-historical-photos-are-highly-misl...

https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-photos-history-2011-8

https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-images-that-were-retouc...

https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=29607

https://www.pinterest.com/yosomono/faked-images-everyone-thi...
Conduit's homepage says:

> Note: This project is work-in-progress. Do _not_ rely on it yet.

Last I checked it also didn't support federation.
"I was set upon this world to try and [outsmart] you, but this, is what I've become." - Beyond the walls of Eryx.
Did Medium 'win', though?

Substack only wins if the company goes public. A bunch of paid newsletters isn't going to cover their bills.
> Driving 600km in a day would be difficult if it requires a mid-day charge and a parking space near a charger at night.

I regularly did a (570mi)918km trip (Atlanta to Jelico and back) in one day in my Tesla Model 3. It took 2-3 stops totally about an hour charge time.
The app store is the only place to get extensions. That’s why it’s directing you there to a launch page for Safari Extensions.
> As much as I got a bit hyped to try using safari after WWDC - I just can't. It's so discombobulated regarding web standards that I wonder if it can even count as a "web browser" any more than emacs can.

With a bit of effort you can embedded chromium in Emacs so it's basically true.
If I recall correctly, Postgres search doesn't scale well. Not sure where it falls apart but it isn't optimized in the same way something like Solr is.
Different organizations have different requirements, so they choose different solutions. Threema Work is used by the Swiss government, Bosch, Daimler and others.

Threema and Matrix are quite different. Matrix is a centralized / federated system where data is stored on the server. Threema uses a decentralized protocol, where data and metadata (including groups) are stored on the devices only. This has advantages and disadvantages, depending on your requirements.
This product includes a quality asjuster with live preview, you can adjust and see the resulting image size.
Without propulsion they'll de-orbit in about 5 year.
Not really a linux story, its more "crowd funding doesn't work as an effective market in the presence of crooks"

And in a "bad money always chases out good money" crowdfunded projects seem mostly composed of noobs/crooks. Pros can't compete with infinite supply of people having no idea what they're doing or no intention to do anything, but willing to charge 10% less than the absolute minimum required for success, so pros can't participate in crowdfunding, the marketplace always becomes more toxic with time.
> Even when looking at non-exotica every-day vehicles like current-gen nissan leaf you get ~200 miles of range, and can recharge 240mph (more than 4 miles per minute).

You also can only fast charge the Nissan leaf once per day max because of the battery cooling issues. That's also assuming you come across two working fast chargers in a day, which is far from guaranteed.

Non-supercharging infrastructure is pretty unreliable.
Receiving compliments has always made me squirm, even suspicious.

Mr Bill Borkman was my church's 5th & 6th grade sunday school teacher. Everyone's grandpa. Wow, he could make you squirm.

When I was 19, during our congregation's coffee time (after service), I asked Mr Borkman why he complimented everyone. He got real serious. Turned off the charm. First time I'd ever seen him not be jolly. He faced me directly.

"u/specialist, my parents are gone, my wife is dead, ... So many things I wish I'd said to people I care about. So I'm telling you to give flowers to the living. Because when they're dead, it's too late."

A few moments later, he shook off the serious talk and resumed being jolly.

It's taken me DECADES to learn how to be positive, give compliments, and sometimes even receive compliments. Over time, being consistent, unselfconscious, having zero expectations, the people in your life will start to catch on too.

The whole world is shit, everything is shit, people are shit. Choosing to be positive and present is a coping strategy. It's definitely against my nature.

Compliments and other acts of kindness help. Just a little. Worth it.
I think the key difference is how the eyes are “reanimated” in the deepfakes. Rendering realistic eyes (with that trademark “spark of life”) has always been a challenge in real life emulating CGI, but now these new clips kind of capture the spark in the actors eyes much better. Luke Skywalker's eyes in the original clip kind of look dead plastic, the kind you’d find in real-time gameplay (not to mention this nose also looks like the product of bad rhinoplasty). The deepfake does this much better, in my opinion.

Elsewhere in this thread, someone posted a similar comparison clip about The Irishman and the difference is even more pronounced there. De Niro’s eyes actually look the age they’re supposed to be in that scene. The original scene had two key problems, in my option; one, they decided not to touch the eye and focused on smoothening the skin (I assume this is because of the technical limitations of doing the deaging in painstaking CGI); two, and this is a little more of a mystery, is that they thought they could get away with using De Niro’s current 80 year old voice on a character that is supposed to be 35 (ages are ballpark numbers). The raspy voice of an old man is just not something you expect out of a supposedly much younger and healthier man. They should have just gotten a voice actor who could do a convincing impression of De Niro in the 70s and dubbbed him in.
still baffled by the continued downvotes, anyone have any insight as to what's wrong about my above statement?
> let the service rot to the point anyone who can afford it will jump ship for the private sector

I think that's pretty far-fetched and can't see a good reason for this purposefully being the case. It's just Hanlon's razor, really.
Really? I've been extremely happy with Element.
> This whole article reads like someone out of touch. We went to the countryside to observe the pastoral lifestyle! Hey look at these farmers! They're "working from home" all the time! Wow look at them milking cows!

(Author here)
Fair criticism!
We own the house for 30 years and I grew up with this farmer. He is trying to get out of farming, and for good reason. It's just damn hard!

But it has it's perks. Mainly not debating yet another JavaScript framework.
Let's not forget the migrant farmworkers.
Behind the Doodle: The Doodle Champion Island Games [video]
Walmart announces plan to pay 100% of college tuition and books for associates
Not just you - I can't really see the difference either, both look pretty uncanny to me, tbh.
Why would anybody invest in a project that doesn’t exist? This sounds like a case of the Emperor’s Clothes.
Most white Americans identify as their particular amalgam of European ancestry in my experience. Most black Americans can't do that. Slavery erased their particular African ancestry.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I feel like you are trying to say more with "but then 'cases' became some kind of top-line media metric".

Should cases not be an important metric for people to know?
Within the UK we have the same law in Scotland, basically pretty similar to what you describe. This is different to England where you definitely cannot do this. Not sure about Wales or Northern Ireland.
It's a mainstream paper and it's pretty good by the standards of the British press. It's got a right-wing slant but that's not a bad thing in and of itself, it's not sensationalist in the same way the tabloids are. It's been more overtly Tory (in contrast with small-c conservative) over the last few years but I suspect that has a lot to do with our current Prime Minister having once been on their payroll as a journalist.

I tend to read a range of ideological slants when it comes to the British press, I find the Telegraph's and the Guardian's takes to be the most interesting of the bunch usually.
I used Sumatra on a very old Windows laptop a decade ago, and became a fan because it was so lightweight that it rendered documents quickly, even on outdated hardware.
As a sibling comment mentioned the verb "to rip" is the colloquial term I'm familiar with.
I wouldn't say that growth through eating is unnatural though.
For usernames it's reasonable. People identify other people based on usernames, so allowing unicode control charachters or zero-width spaces would not be good. If your username is only for login then it should be fine to allow anything.

For passwords it's just bad practice. Allow everything, and allow it to be very long.
Don't you always draw wine from a barrel after someone reports a bug?
The author appears to be working on the matrix-rust-sdk which is a dependency of that plugin pretty consistently for the last month: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/commits/master
> encryption wasn't really there (and still is experimental)

Clients could encrypt messages using OpenPGP and the more recent OMEMO seems pretty reliable to me (Conversations, Gajim).
Well in VC the answer is "the founders worked at Google" or "the founders went to Stanford."
"You cannot find any useful information about Japan in English."

Yeah Japanese history taught by Japanese people in Japanese language, in the land of Japan, that's how it works, I don't understand why you think everything should be written in English.

Or should I say your ignorant statement invokes that angry response from me.

"For some reason orientalism makes people abandon all common sense."

Seriously??????? Orientalism???
Who the fuck r u?
Seems like your white privilege is showing your racist side....
My kids are part Asian, I would break all the teeth in your mouth if I heard you say that statement in front of my children. Keyboard warrior I bet your are... fucking prick!
The Muon G–2 Anomaly Explained (Comic)
> comments and I need to highlight and annotate PDFs, also ocasionally I sign there documents with my transparent GIF signature, I don't think sumatra can do any of these

Indeed, it's a "viewer" not an "editor" :)
Looking at https://matrix.org/faq/, I see this:

Can I run my own identity server?
See also: What is an identity server?
Yes - the reference implementation is sydent and you can run your own ID server cluster that tracks 3rd party to Matrix ID mappings. This won't be very useful right now, though, and we don't recommend it.
If you want your server to participate in the global replicated Matrix ID service then please get in touch with us. Meanwhile, we are looking at ways of decentralising the 'official' Matrix identity service so that identity servers are 100% decentralised and can openly federate with each other. N.B. that you can use Matrix without ever using the identity service - it exists only to map 3rd party IDs (e.g. email addresses) to matrix IDs to aid user discovery.

As someone that really likes Matrix because of its decentralized nature, I'm not really seeing a problem here. TBH, I don't really care about mapping a foo@bar.com to @foo:bar.com. All of my matrix contacts I've just asked them what their username is, then started chatting with them.
I will seriously consider your feedback. Thanks for taking time to write, appreciate it.
Perfectly reasonable path for some people. For others, like myself, not being my own boss and working a "normal job" for years on end is the definition of hell. I know I'm in the minority though.
> this is evidence that the impact of Covid may be exaggerated

I don't think so. When assessing the impact of Covid, we look at the change in overall, all-cause numbers, like all-cause deaths. (Which do show a big impact.)

The reason we watch covid hospitalizations is that it is a good leading indicator of covid deaths. The "leading" part is important, because that allows health policy to react faster to what's happening, which makes it more effective at reducing the impact of Covid.

(You may also worry that covid deaths are being similarly over-counted, but the all-cause death numbers tell us we're actually undercounting the overall number.)

Anyway, I guess ultimately we can't stop people from misusing the covid hospitalizations number, but it is a very useful number.
> Would be good if content publishers did something like digitally signing their content along with embedded metadata

NFT for news!!
I've installed a lot of operating systems on my machines.
Installing macOS was by far the MOST painful.
Practical decentralization, where you can talk to your friend that uses a different provider?

Not just using the same client for Facebook and your corporate chat instance?
Growing Oligopolies, Prices, Output, and Productivity
> as you work the job and save/invest aggressively, start building games on the side using the skills you've developed

Oh the dreams of young single childless people.
As most of the viewing is done in digital screens, the player itself could show when media is signed, much like the lock icon in web browsers.
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Press [Submit]

2.
Thank you for your submission, that was already known issue.
6 writers you care about okay but where can investigative pieces that take months or years to create fit into that?

We’d need 10x that number, pay like 60 writers if we want to read articles that have actual research on a weekly basis, not a daily basis.
Along with this, you could maybe also enforce google safe search or similar for search engines? As far as I know, Google allows such a thing
I would like to see QC statistics from some of the large test-processing centers which have IIRC been established. Surely they send a blind fraction of known-negative or control samples through, to get good statistics on false-positive rates?
It requires a user initiated event to unmute the AudioContext first.

(This is a fallout of the constant struggle between advertising and browsers, compare the restrictions for auto-play videos. Regarding the latter, if you're not white-listed by Google, you're out of luck on Chrome and your entire site is broken. Safari's restrictions on audible sound are actually transparent in comparison.)
Does anyone actually determine what to believe this way? Like if you read a quote from a politician in a large newspaper, you don’t believe it’s real, but if you see a cell phone video of the politician saying something at a rally, you do believe it’s real? Personally my confidence in the veracity would be the opposite. There’s nothing special about video that makes it fundamentally harder than text to distort, edit, or even outright fabricate.
Now we have this info: https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText_plugins#LSP_server_for_...
Not that you should have to, but have you tried a fuel efficient style of driving? I've been able to extend my gasoline + other's hybrids MPG quite a bit from it.
Background / context from Ars Technica:

"Additionally, Blue Origin [CEO Jeff Bezos] this month finalized the hire of Austin Murnane as a senior legal counsel. Formerly an attorney at Latham & Watkins in New York, Murnane has expertise in the legal aspects of space resources. His background suggests that Blue Origin may assert that the resources of space belong to no one and that the company may stake claims to resources on the Moon and elsewhere.

In the Fordham International Law Journal, Murnane wrote a 40-page article arguing that, for modern-day prospectors—in the form of commercial space companies—the Moon, asteroids, and other bodies in the Solar System should be free of control from terrestrial governments or the United Nations and the Outer Space Treaty.

"If the Outer Space Treaty is read to have established UN sovereignty in space, it would make that organization the master of all bodies outside of Earth's atmosphere," Murnane wrote. "When one considers the vast multitude of celestial bodies in Earth's Solar System, and further notes that there are probably more than one hundred billion stars in our galaxy, plus untold millions of other galaxies in the universe, such a claim is breathtakingly arrogant."

"

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/blue-origin-is-devel...
This is something I’m interested in, but I can’t tell if I need a physical keyboard for this. It’s a coding app so it makes me think there’s going to be a lot of typing involved, but it’s also an iPad app and I imagine you wouldn’t want a keyboard to be a barrier of entry to use the app?
Nix works at a higher level and usually invokes CMake, make, Meson, etc. It doesn't have its own C/C++ build system.