skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t claim that there is a partial order to intelligence. Indeed, I think it’s clear that no such can exist. Let me put it this way. The set of people who can’t learn algebra (using any reasonable standard for this) is nonempty as it includes the set of mentally retarded people. I further suspect that this set is considerably larger than the set of mentally retarded people.

I further suspect but didn’t state this that if one doesn’t have exposure to algebra growing up then it is extremely difficult to learn as an adult. Children are easier to brain wash and in low level Mathematics we do a great deal of brain washing.
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Pretty clear from several comments in this thread that Non-US citizens have a hard time distinguishing the risk-levels of a US-centric vs a China-centric world. Particularly insulting to see the French comments. Ever wondered what Europe would be looking like today if it was China and USSR that ended up defeating the Nazis?
Don't know if it was the book, but "Design for a Great Day" by Alan Dean Foster is what that reminds me of.

Based off (someone elses?) short story iirc but I didn't pull it down to check.
Interesting and initial thoughts of a hive-mind type approach do seem to be the net result in which the sum of the collective is enabled to perform tasks no individual could.

One further upside of this approach would in effect allow and open up a way for different AI systems to integrate and collaborate
I just encountered this first hand. I know someone who's just entering college and was asking how they go about saving a file in Microsoft Word! Up to this point in time, they had always used a school appointed Chromebook where they never even had to save things to their local computer :|
Yeah the Apple eMate?
Ah, yes. The Andromeda Strain of course!
Honestly seeing what you have blocked out of your consciousness about yourself is the essence of shadow work as described by Jung.

We are all capable of terrible things, in the wrong circumstance. We just don’t like to admit it.
These are not private initiatives. They were the will of powerful, bright and respected people.
>It's hard to see why "economic growth involves doing more with less" would work on a small timescale but not a big one.

I would guess that the marginal value of cleverness or technology decreases over time
reminds me a bit of Piccola: http://scg.unibe.ch/research/piccola/
>I don't want to enter this debate because it detracts from the main point, but the US has been putting Latino people in concentration camps.

This is a bad faith comparison
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Not every comment needs to disagree with its parent. :)
This is absolutely a problem that could be easily accommodated if there was any desire to do so, but I think focusing on gender is a big misunderstanding of the larger problem: society doesn't care about people with disabilities. If you're looking to engage with people working towards the totally reasonable outcomes you want, I'd invite you to wade into the disability advocacy space. I think you'll find that much more productive than the men's rights space (which, like the rest of society, doesn't really care about people with disabilities). You are absolutely right that it shouldn't be like this.
Having a number short-form is a de-facto standard across most "version control+issue tracker" services.

For nearly all cases it's good enough, projects like the Linux kernel are in the end an exception wrt. their requirements and workflow. Most project are just hosted in one place so the shorthand is always clear, and has the benefit of not being "broken" if a project is renamed/moved.

Furthermore GitHub always allows the user to specify the commit message, it just prefills some hint. But it can't really know your style of using git so it can't do much more then just prefilling the hints. But you can always write them the way you want to filling in all the details needed.

Through IMHO the problem are non-ff git merges in general, not only do they motivate bad commit messages but also does "not having merge conflicts" in no way mean there is no problem. I had more then one time where a "no conflict" git merge introduced bugs.

Projects like Linux are a bit special due to the size, number of contributers and sizes of contribution.

But for most projects I can just strongly recommend to only allow FF merges and locally rebase branches on master if it doesn't work. Preferable with users using interactive rebases to create nice commit histories, alternatively squashing works to but git is just _bad_ at squashing and so are tools based ontop of it (e.g. GitHub).
I loved lugging this computer to school. Definitely made good use of the rubberized edges with a few "drop tests".

The only bad part of the design was in the power chord, which like many of those era's cables, suffered from fraying at the point of connection.

It was particularly great to be able to save school work to an FTP server (or run one yourself from the iBook) and then print from the network computers in the lab. No floppy, no problem
this is it. the singularity. ai has finally surpassed human intelligence
For the twitter latency

Have you tried slowly.app?
It's an app that simulates snail mail
Pairs you with someone based on your preferences and you can write them a letter / email that will be delivered in a few hours / days, based on your distance with said person
I don't think channel going back 15 years is good example for new creators. I would expect them to keep somewhat relevant as they have been trough enough cycles to keep some audience always.
Thx for linking to my project! I created it with dependency-free in mind so I don't actually use any library at all, hence the absence of package.json.

Lemme know if you ever need any help with ledg!
People strongly want to believe that intelligence doesn't have a strong genetic component, I think mainly for moral reasons.

If not everyone can be expected to learn and be proficient in everything due to genetics, then suddenly merit itself is also based strongly on luck, and now the belief that people with greater merit should have better lives no longer seems fair. Intelligence is now just another gift to the fortunate who are destined to have a better life. How can you feel good about using your considerable advantages to the detriment of others if your merit is the result of a jackpot paid out at birth?

Even if you believe that with enough time and perseverance you can overcome your lack of intelligence compared to another person, you have to ignore the fact that having to spend more time on something (but actually, everything) than everyone else will put you further and further and further behind everyone else in a way that compounds quickly.

Modern society is ostensibly structured this way: the smart will win. If intelligence becomes genetic, it can instead be said that "the lucky will win." And successful people desperately want that to not be the case, because they want to believe they deserve their considerable advantages. And they want to be guilt free about the miserable lives some people lead; it's their fault for being stupid, after all.
> I do miss the colourful, cutesy but extremely capable Mac's of the G3/G4 era.

The new M1 iMacs bring that back a bit. Wouldn’t be surprised to see it spread to the MacBook Air.
I guess it depends what you mean by best? Best at sending emails - gmail.com is good at that. Something that claims great security - you could try https://mailfence.com/
YouTube's algorithm used to be better, they neutered it at some point after all the articles about "YouTube Radicalization" dropped. Feels like it's heavily moderated or throttled on what can bubble up now, which probably results in less novel content and novel content is where TikTok excels.
Plotting, or generating proofs, is what destroys SSDs, afterwards the plots are stored on disk and aren't read/write intensive. Think of it as printing bingo cards (plotting) and then sticking them in a file cabinet (farming). Your printer consumes ink and electricity, but keeping all your printed off bingo cards only costs you the space the file cabinet takes up and maybe the lights you turn on to look for winning cards when they get called.
Todo-or-Die for Rust
Is "and experiences" different than environment?
I don't think so. Lawsuits do not determine the long term future; Economics i.e. the bottom line money does.

By 2031 most new cars will have lane keeping, emergency braking, traffic light & sign sensing. And likely more. Almost all cars will drive hands-off steering wheel on the highways. By 2031 a big proportion of new cars will be electric.
Oh, but on the contrary. Money buys better lawyers, more time and more research capabilities so in essence you can reliably say, at least in the good ol' USA, that money can buy immunity. The same can be said in many other countries where the corruption of buying justice is more direct.
I'm angry and ready to switch. Who's the best alternative?
Generally speaking, no. But a very crude heuristic could be the incidence of proper names: more proper nouns, more is its misinformation propensity. More adjectives/adverbs, more opinionated. A very bad heuristic, but a heuristic nonetheless.
For people who have the Atlassian Cloud offering this is not a problem and has been fixed. The only people who are impacted are the one who host Confluence themselves. There isn't much that Atlassian can do except that tell them to update the software.

If you are maintaining the software of someone else and this software is exposed to the internet that's your responsibility to update the software. If you want your service to be available from the web and have good security, use the cloud offering, that's what it's for.

And if you don't want to use external software to manage your internal knowledge, then create some shared windows folders that nobody use and quickly becomes a mess. What alternative do your propose ?
Mine was some CMake fixes for cURL when using it as a subproject in a "superbuild" project.
How do you do AEAD with seeking? Tags (MACs) every few kilobytes?
Indeed. The essay was written before the X-T30 II came out, speculating that it would be nothing more than a firmware update, and demanding that all firmware updates should be free. When the X-T30 II came out, it updated its memory and display, so it’s not possible to just give the older X-T30 the newer camera’s firmware.

Personally, I apply film simulation modes to a picture on my computer in post to the RAW file, because I don’t have time, when actually taking pictures, to decide which film simulation will work best for a given shot.
Fanboyism what gets me.
Seems many here are not TikTok users (and some never will) but besides algo TikTok video editing with music and app UX has made people so easy to jump on uploading and recording video from a smartphone, and making this toxic culture of attention from the young audience on making TikTok videos (just look for the cringe reactions of people recording TikTok users making videos).
Battery cost is still plummeting. Iron/air tech is coming to market at 1/3 the cost of lithium, with no conceivable scaling limit. It is not clear whether other storage methods will end up even cheaper than wherever battery cost levels off. If it does.

But efficiency of power transmission technology has also radically improved, so that the chief downsides to distant generation are risk of failure of the transmission medium, and of political instability at the remote site or on the route. Anybody dependent on distant generation had better have multiple distant sources.

In practice, we will end up with both local generation and storage and long-distance HVDC backup, to accommodate different failures. Countries without trusted neighbors will need more storage.
Oh, no, he's been reading Henry George. Check out Fairhope, Alabama, which has George's single land tax system. "Everybody Works but the Vacant Lot".

What are the big skeletal towers with a few plants hung on them supposed to do?
I run into Element bugs all the time. It's not the worst, but "not buggy at all" is not my experience.
>> . But she doesn't answer the real leading question of her story, which was whether she won against the misogynistic‎ Dan B.

If you care weather she won or lost that match, you haven't really internalized the lessons yet.
Still better than adding a hyphen...
"The very definition of clickbait" is an interesting topic and phrasing. Have you ever noticed that "clickbait" is often shorthand for a summary that somebody disagrees with? Like, if somebody does a summary you can disagree with, even if not maliciously or objectively wrong, people will accuse them of "clickbait". That bad faith is surmised and accusing people of "baiting" is sometimes not the greatest look, but common.
Whose original claim? syops didn't just say genetics matter. They said some people can't learn algebra or calculus.
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Systemic misogyny?
>Growth is an accounting technicality.

Dunno how you should measure wealth/growth/etc.

If we all plan on getting wealthy via moving money between accounts, buy low/sell high, and surveillance advertising, the sky's the limit.
I sometimes use this to effect. If a conversation goes down a dead-end, it's easy to take the twenty seconds then to look up that thing you wanted to tie into the conversation, and now you can rope the conversation back to that point and explore a different path.

I'm at this point right now where I take notes about things I want to loop back on when I'm having casual conversations over the phone. But since my note-taking device is my phone, I don't do much note-taking in person because using a phone like that appears disrespectful. Not sure how to break that limitation.
This is only really true when plotting to consumer grade SSDs, which are limited in the number of writes that they can support. NAS systems usually contain mechanical HDDs and can handle the write load of Chia without issue.
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Did you read my comment? Because I can't find any interpretation of your response that makes sense assuming you comprehend the actual content of my statements.
Free and World Class Primary Education for developing World. I truly believe Education is one of the biggest ways out of Poverty and it should start with Primary Education.
tl;dr KFOR, an Oklahoma TV station, ran a sensational story, either deliberately or through lack of fact checking. Other outlets repeated and then had to publish shame-faced retractions.

Reason would like you to focus on the shame faced retractions and generalize that to the media at large, while ignoring the plethora of bad faith 'news' outlets that just don't give a shit, the fact that KFOR is primarily at fault by a mile, and that commercial/ advertising pressures are the enemy of editorial rigor.
iCloud isn't end to end encrypted for the most part - anyone security conscious should be avoiding iCloud in the first place.
> Also, not that chromium did something different. They reference tons of internal bug IDs, change IDs, and this commit msg also has an URL with the non-standard domain go (no TLD):

The kernel does that too. Those key-value pairs are called "trailers", and are semi-standardized at https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/CommitMessageConventio...

The "git interpret-trailers" command exists to work with this kind of data.
Depends on the hack but the majority seem to be from parsers for various formats, from images, to unicode and text data etc...

A message has to be able to display so many different types of content. A flaw in any one of those could be exploited. Combine a bunch of flaws together and you suddenly can do quite a bit.
These are great, thanks.

Someone should do an analysis after the fact to see how well the predictions went. We might even want to do them at smaller intervals, like 1, 2 and 5 years.

The thing that's missing from a lot of the predictions is verifiability, though. As in, some predictions are vague enough so that it could be interpreted in a variety of ways. It'd be good to make the requirement "here is a concrete measure for which, if my prediction doesn't meet it, it will be considered invalid".
> There were four modules where they would do some reading, work through some example problems through interactive software, and then have some homework to work through that was almost identical to the examples.

This just does not look like a universally effective way of teaching to me, irrespective of the topic. It's hardly any wonder that some people fell through the cracks if they were unfamiliar with the subject in the first place. What about leveraging stuff that's actually been tried and tested, like the Khan Academy videos and their automated interactive, school-like environment?
I agree is not a black and white experience.
A bigger disk means you can store more "plots", which are the the files necessary for proof-of-storage, and thus makes it more likely that you will earn a block reward.. But in order to first generate these plots, you have to "farm" them which is a very write intensive process which is ultimately what is at focus here.

The creation of these files requires so much writing that you are basically writing as fast as your CPU can, until the drive dies.
Fair.

In my mind, there's a distinction between science-as-knowledge and science-as-practice. There are obviously many potentially unethical scientific practices, but I don't think gaining scientific knowledge can ever be wrong, in the sense of merely having the knowledge itself being wrong (of course, it's possible for it to have been gathered in an unethical way).
I used to do that towards the end of high school. I actually started out with "free rolls" where tournament winners would win ~10 cents and built up a 5 digit bankroll within a few months. It must have been weird for the site operators to see a user with a 5 digit balance that has never deposited money.

I eventually quit although I was making good money (especially for my age) because it was too time consuming and emotionally draining. Plus, online poker got banned in the US, meaning that the level of the game got higher. The good players found ways to play but the "fishes" mostly didn't bother. At least that was my perception at the time.
Because Bitcoin is something that some people do actually use in practice. And even then it's a rounding error in the payments I handle.
Nop, sneakers and t shirts are enough
For CS:GO, they do exactly this with player characters, to prevent simple wall hacks. Though near corners the models are always visible as the player could peek faster than the network can respond.
It’s easier to type retarded than intellectually disabled on an iPad. I wrote the modern version in my original comments. Clearly I have been discussing this topic in a detached way. You’ve formed an image in your mind about me that isn’t supported by the evidence.

I’ll read whatever response you have but won’t comment further. I wish you well. Keep up the good fight!
A multi-platform 256-byte intro
Awesome

One of us! One of us! One of us! ;)
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Latest info I could find was 5 minutes max [1], where did you see 15?

[1] https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/tiktoks-testing-even-l...
I guess you don't. That's why they're concerned.
My pleasure :) I have tons of fun doing it!
> It’s not like the body can tell if something was smooshed by a machine or by my mouth.

One obvious difference is time and fineness. The machine will grind it significant smaller than your teethes. And processed meat from machines has far longer time to sit and change.

Some other reasons are that processed food is usually not just the meat itself. but a mass that is mixed and enriched with several other elements. And in the money-driven food-industry they are usually not the most healthy things.
Ah yes, the good parts :)

I've found understanding exactly how JS works to become more confusing with class structures.

It feels like you need a PHD in JS to have a good grip on how it all works under the covers.

Using Crockfords closure strategy for me was quite straightforward and simple, and I've enjoyed doing:

const MyClass = {};
MyClass.new = () => {};
const instance = MyClass.new();

Which leaves all the "this." ugliness behind and provides a ruby-like instantiation.
Barcelona's Eixample comes to mind as a success with its 520 uniform housing blocks and 260,000 residents.
> Linus is on the side of history here.

Through not seldom the source of truth is also
hidden somewhere in the Linux mailing list.

Similar a (insane) high amount of projects on GitHub and in companies will hardly ever use the history besides a last few commits. Sure git blame is a thing, and so is bisect but how often is it used on projects besides large open-source projects?
Some Apple devs still seem to love C and Obj-C (at least the ones my former employer worked with directly) and hate on Swift. Both Swift and Rust can be written to a much higher standard where the language protects you from stupidity, but only if you give up the past and use them. While you can write pretty good C-ish code (i.e. Linux), its far too easy to slip up once and the language does nothing to save your ass.

Some of Apple's OS code is pretty ancient. Switching to Swift or Rust is not necessarily a panacea if you call too many OS routines still in C-ish.
More importantly: will it ever be paid? Let's say this is a household that decides to stop accumulating debt and starts a pay off plan. How long will it take?
I agree -- I think it's trying to provoke an emotional response.

For the sake of discussion, though, I do actually think the energy usage is an important problem.

There's a lot of things I don't "get", but ultimately most of them don't harm anyone and have nothing to do with me. I recognize many people who see benefit in cryptocurrencies might feel the energy usage is small overall compared to the potential in the technology. For the people that don't "get" cryptocurrencies, the energy usage takes it from "has nothing to do with me" to "it's harming the planet". I think it's important to resolve this issue because it will otherwise harm adoption.

Additionally, proof of stake seems viable. In a world with accelerating climate change, it seems to me increasing energy efficiency should be a moral imperative. Why do something inefficiently when more efficient means exist?
From the headline, I thought this would be about github’s squash merges, which represent an extreme anti-pattern to any sane developer.
Unity patents ECS, arrays of value types, and packing data
I like this idea of all the comments being

— thoughtfully written enough to publish

— timeless enough to reuse

— unified enough (on the same topic) to publish together

The only downside I see is that a lot of people are going to try to do the same without it being justified
Why not improve at teaching the material instead of lowering the standards?
Next Thursday.
Like what? Serious question, not trying to be snarky. My understanding of these “nature vs nurture” discussions is that environment commonly refers to anything other than genetics - effects not “in-built” that could be caused by upbringing, society, nutrition, etc.
The flip side of Social Security owning the US national debt is that Social Security's solvency is entirely dependent upon the USA being able to pay. If you assume that, then Social Security is fine for decades to come.

Unfortunately once the Baby Boom retires and their SS payments come due, there is no reasonable path to the US government being able to actually pay. Doubly not when expenses from Medicare is projected to double in the next decade.

And yes, I know it is popular to say that we can just cut the military. But that is not enough. In fact if we eliminated all government programs except social security, medicare and medicaid, by the middle of this century our federal budget still can't add up. :-(