skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your subjective first person experiences. The what it's like for you to perceive, imagine, remember, dream. The reds, sounds, tastes, smells and feels of your experiences. There are precise philosophical terms for the above. Qualia and phenomenal are two such terms.
Validation. A field is incorrect, but only because it hasn't been touched yet so don't show an error. Or it's incorrect because the value isn't allowed based on another change you made in the form.
Can't exactly conflate energy with carbon though, because manufacturers will use green energy at various stages of the manufacturing process.

Just to put numbers on this, according to this article from 2014[0], an iPhone has an embodied energy of 278 kwh, which is about 10 days of energy usage for the average American household.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/the-e...
Users (who run full nodes, and everyone can run one!) actually make decisions in Bitcoin. There's no voting or democracy; everyone is free to run whatever version they want (or make their own version). When users run different versions (with different validation rules), it creates a fork in the blockchain. Miners are dumb and greedy; they just follow the most profitable fork. In practice, upgrades and forks are coordinated in order to minimize disruptions.

In the end it's like any software; everyone can run whatever version they want. When open-source software is combined with monetary policy, it gets little bit more interesting. No user is willing to run a version of monetary policy that makes their money worse, thus it's guaranteed to be the best form of money, now and forever.

Energy use is the cost that has to be paid for predictably sound money and global monetary network that is open to everyone. If 0.1% of world's energy goes into securing it peacefully, then it's a very low price to pay.
You have to explicitly ask to leave, and they'll ask you to get out of the car anyway as soon as you say you don't consent to a search. Depending on how long it takes the dogs to arrive you could argue about it in court, but good luck.
It depends, some countries do, some don't.
Viruses may exist ‘elsewhere in the universe’, warns scientist
Is a mental disability not caused by genetic disorder, injury or illness. This would invalidate your claim. You wouldn't use a contergan victim as a example for the thesis that not all can learn shot put.

Isn't the whole point that you can't simply look at the gene of a person and know what his mind is capable of except for genetic defects and even then it's hard to estimate.
My brother is an airline pilot. He is given exactly zero hours of simulator time for "All engines out". That flights have survived the event does not contradict the fact.
You would think that anywhere that is not an extreme would be a better choice to build a project from scratch that is supposed to be 'the most' sustainable but also attractive.

Perhaps this is a side-effect due to the state or country chosen, where there are no realistic alternatives? Even going to a more moderate location slightly farther away from the equator doesn't seem all that difficult vs. really sticking with a desert.
Meritocracy was coined to satirize the concept.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
I laughed like a dork! ^_^ cheers, I needed it!
You should not conflate someone arguing in bad faith with someone is arguing in good faith. Their whole agenda is to distract you from the problem you are trying to solve.
This feels like the “nature versus nurture” false dichotomy all over again. Even the tagline tries to frame the debate as a false dichotomy of two extremist positions:

> The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

Most reasonable people know that human beings are the product of both nature and nurture. Your genes alone won’t make you successful, but they can help (or hurt) your progress in many ways.

The article touches on the actual nuance of the debate further down: The real debate seems to be about whether or not the genetic influence should be studied. Opponents argue that studying it could open the door to discrimination or, at the extremes, eugenics. The opponents would rather not look, under the idea that if we ignore it then nobody can use it against us. I don’t find that argument very compelling, and I kind of doubt it’s very common anyway. I think it gets attention because it’s a way to inject controversy into the subject, which is a way to get more clicks.
In year 2021, I can tell you, not only genetics is taboo, culture is also taboo now. If an academic dares to say that culture matters in student outcomes (learning, discipline), the person can also get canceled.
I love this. This quote is the most valuable part of this post for me.

p.s. even if they have a beautiful brochure, they still have the name “polkadot”.
Show HN: Touchbase – online account-sharing social network
Why are people jumping from environment straight to genetics? There's so much in-between.
Ask HN: Deciding Cadence vs. Drools for Rules
I am trying to built of a rule checker for with expectation of large number of requests (~10K requests per second of sensor data). I have experience with Drools for building rules engine. However Drools does not scale and I don't need the flexibility of a full-blown engine. I recently came across Uber Cadence, it promises to be scalable and distributed by design. I have not used a workflow engine before but it appears this might work for simple rules. Wonder what the community thinks about it.
> Given the difficulties of distinguishing between genetic and environmental effects on social outcomes, he wrote, such investigations were at best futile: “There will be no reason to pursue these types of research programs at all, and they can be rendered to the same location as Holocaust denial research.”

> Over the next year, a biosciences working group revised the program’s funding guidelines, stipulating in the final draft that it would not support any research into the first-order effects of genes on behavior or social outcomes.

This is absolutely disgusting, to blatantly attack scientific inquiry this way. Shame on these reactionaries.
http://web.archive.org/web/20210906184046/https://www.newyor...

https://archive.is/Qs3EL
I wish. Technologically speaking, bitcoin is the worst coin. It does literally everything wrong. Unfortunately, it was the first and continues to be the most well known coin. It attracts a lot of undeserved attention that should have been directed towards much better coins like Ethereum and Monero.
The game hasn't happened yet, so far as I can see? Date is still to be determined.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is there any indication that most US universities cared about their academic reputation in the first place? I don't see any.
I hope you don't think this article in any way supports your belief that some people can't learn algebra/calculus due to any kind of genetic traits, because I don't think the complexity of either rises to the level of "difficulty" that only gifted minds can comprehend. Very, very little in this world does.

Your belief should probably be considered heretical, even among your conservative colleagues, because your colleagues should recognize how deficiencies in one area can be made up for in other areas, sometimes (but not always) at a higher efficiency cost.

Where genetic gifts are lacking, determination and perseverance can almost always make up the difference, especially at a basic algebra/calculus level.
The political message is bound to be either that the border wall is an insurmountable barrier with devastating consequences, or that it's trivial to get past and a complete useless waste of money.

It's logically possible for it to be both at once, depending on context but it's an interestingly contradictory aesthetic.
https://lichess.org/

It's the best online chess platform by far - super slick and fast UI, lots modes and tournaments, analysis tools, many of the best players in the world play there frequently. It's open source and completely free, miles ahead of any paid competitor and the team behind it seem to have admirable integrity and insist on making a great product instead of selling out.

(No idea how it ranks on the "known-unknown" scale, it's obviously a popular website but not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of FOSS.)
Thus a neat effect of such a law would be that SOC manufacturers would not purposefully break compatibility as much as they do now. Sounds like a win-win to me!
No.

First, it is not illegal to have a car or cash.

Second, in the US at least the government does recognize a limited right to privacy in the form of the 4th amendment which spies to States as well. An officer cannot search you, your car or your home without a warrant from a judge or a tangible reason to believe you are committing a crime.
What does transatlantic have anything to do with it? A flight from NYC to SFO is bad too.
> find it amazing that it can remain broken for so long given the costs associated with it.

For the same reason that hazing has lasted as long as it has.

"I got hazed, so you will, too!"
"... Aren't you going to get that?"

"Right now, I am talking to you."
Not a 19th century scholar; can you provide a couple links to the current situation?

Or reference the points you are trying to make to make it easier to search? For instance, most of my results right now are pertaining to the civil war economies of the north / south United States
Hello, fellow mathematician. The first step in your proof which doesn't convince me is the claim that, in general, "levels of intelligence" exist, admit a partial order, and can reliably predict whether certain people can learn certain topics.

In general, you'll find that "leftists" believe that psychometrics is bogus in terms of science. Instead, it masquerades as science in order to fool the public into believing that biased public policy is neutral. There's no denial that some folks have brain damage, developmental disabilities, etc. but a denial that standardized tests are an appropriate proxy for genuine medical diagnoses.

Community colleges should present themselves as a public benefit. We shouldn't ask that everybody pass any class, simply that everybody has the opportunity to attend/audit any class. It is unfortunately true that the typical university administration is clueless and money-grubbing, preferring graduation rates to other metrics.
LSD alone does not create any violence, it does not bring any evil into your mind from the outside.

It mostly shows things that usually stay in the unconscious part of our mind. It is more like a lens than a seed.

Of course Barely being able to contain violence is concerning, but let's face it, it is a daily struggle for a LOT of humans. Our good intentions dp not always weigh up when for example we are starving to death. Anger, greed or hatred, are some of our common struggles, but most of the time they stay hidden in our subconscious, bc we do not like to see ourselves as persons able to perpetrate violence.

But only when we see it (it requires honesty, not necessarily lsd xD) and we resolve to work on it, can we really grow.
Just out of curiosity, where do you go to play online? I've entertained the idea of trying it out but then suffer analysis paralysis when trying to actually pick a platform to play on.
How much does it cost to use Ethereum Layer-2?
1. verify it against published benchmarks for that model
2. open up the case and see if it’s actually what you bought
That guy has limited capacity, and will only support bespoke odd configurations of custom operating systems for so long until he gets a job, realizes this is way too much of a timesink, and announces that from now on, everyone gets a Chromebook.
Aren't these making it past BlastDoor, written in Swift?
Yes you can. But few libraries actually do that.
Beyond just battery flash slowly wears out over time, degrading performance. Based on my Nexus 6 I would love it if the EU dictated batteries must be replaceable, but you need an overabundance of flash so a few years in there are still cells left to balance wear across.

The Nexus 6 automatically throttled performance based on battery left, but at some point the battery wore out to the point that less than 1/2 an hour of use got you below that threshold. After that the phone was very laggy and frustrating to use. No way anyone would want 5 years of that experience, updates or not.
Go check ctemplar, it is not without faults, but it seems to be that, or set up your own lavabit/tutanota server
In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Quiet World”
Obviously there are people who couldn't learn a given topic under one type of educational regime but who could under a different regime. But that doesn't eliminate the obvious: Some people can't learn a given topic at all, under any circumstances. OP's example of the mentally retarded (which I learned recently is a valid medical descriptor) is just an extreme example.

It's so funny watching people scramble to avoid admitting that genetics has a huge impact on humans and their potentialities.

Granted, as a species, we are the closest to blank-slate out of any species ("niche-switching is our niche"), but reality doesn't go away just 'cause we don't like it.

A good deal of the folks enmeshed in various delusions related to their belief that reality is socially constructed, I've found, are folks that have little concrete experience with reality. Academic types, those who've exclusively worked in knowledge-production or in offices. Rock climbers and farmers are very much not prone to these delusions, for a couple of examples.

Try to convince a dog breeder that dopey English Mastiffs are just an environmental change away from gaining the intelligence of the German Short-Haired Pointer, which can practically solve Sudokus.
The paragraphs are numbered, here is #10:

"10. In or around March of 2021, investigators planned one additional transaction with CHASE HITE, but this time, Postal Inspectors intercepted the packages containing the money and seized them and arranged for the tracking information on the USPS package to reflect that the package had been lost. One of the intercepted packages, containing $28,060 in cash, also contained a box for a heated shoulder wrap. On the box was a distinctive label including a logo that I associate with Wal-Mart. Records received from several Wal-Marts located in the Evansville, Indiana area reflected that such a wrap had been purchased in the days prior to the shipment of the box. The purchase was made with cash, and security footage showed two individuals, a man and a woman, making the purchase. The individuals are both wearing face masks, but the man’s overall appearance is consistent with that of CHASE HITE."

From my own involvement with some civil litigation, I remember my attorney saying that a legal case is like building a wall, and the facts are the bricks. Each brick makes the wall stronger. So, the purchase at Walmart and the Walmart box being used are facts that fit this idea.
Well in Spain everybody says to care, yet I see what I see. Not to mention that everyone complains about the low rankings of spanish unis, but I'd say that's mostly a consquence of money and some biases at play.
Yep, that's the kind of thing I try to consider in this subject. I think his take is intriguing and distinct enough to possibly have merit, but it's difficult to discuss it directly with the creator because... well, it's hard to discuss benefits and difficulties with a firebrand.

For what it's worth, I suspect Yegor's view is somewhat closer to Erlang as well, given both end up collapsing into a model of both functional purity and message-dispatching, if I understand them both accurately.
> Why do you think so? What makes you think subjective experience is not just another type of brain function, like smell, taste or value judgement?

The key here being "not just". The reason is because there is no conceptual identity between subjective states and brain functions. They're entirely different things. This doesn't mean brain states aren't involved. It means a reduction or identity can't be stated as the solution without explaining how the subjective comes from it.

This is basically the modern version of John Locke's secondary qualities of perception (color, taste, etc) not being the primary qualities of objects (number, extension, etc). Neurons have objective qualities identified in science. But how they have secondary qualities is the big mystery.
I’m perfectly happy for a language to have feature coverage for others to do what they like.

I’ve found incredible success using JS (TS) as a functional language. Oh my god I love it. It’s so easy to test. So easy to reason about. So predictable.

State is my enemy. Optimization can be hidden away in the form of memoization rather than partially mutating object state.

Does this work for all use cases? Nope. Classes are fine. They sure beat the five or so fake ways to do classes before ES6.

I’ll settle down now.
> Why on earth would a manager be allowed to set tolerances like how you describe, tool or no tool?

Because the tool allowed it. What you’re failing to grasp is that UI has a massive influence on how humans behave.

People see empty fields and think they should fill them out.

Jira very frequently encourages over-specifying things by the ticket filer (it doesn’t hide fields by default and “helpful” human behavior is to provide as much info as possible).

The second order effect is that the project managers realize they can add fields and people start filling them with data. This is great for visibility without having to poll all of the employees! Except now it’s garbage data because the wrong people are filling in the data or they are bad guesses and inevitably that rolls up into a report that causes problems later.

Jira is a bad tool because it misleads both people and product managers into thinking they can get data from it that they realistically can’t.
My $5 wrench goes a lot further if I skip the backdoor, and go 'talk' to the target directly. The end of the encryption is always the simplest vulnerability to exploit.
Decentralized means there's so many nodes on the network governments can't hope to shut them all down and stop transactions from being processed. Anything else is centralized.
There is no problem that I am trying to solve. Maybe that's your thing?
Greedy AI agents learn to cooperate
It is the most well-known one, but Ethereum is the one with the most users and DeFi. What is your critique of Ethereum?

* Just saw your edit with the coins listed. I agree, but I also think it's just a matter of time before a DeFi system gets more attention than Bitcoin.
There's something I always thought about but haven't been able to express clearly, and that's about "shared mental models". For example, with Go, the standard library is huge, people tend to not use many libraries, especially ones that change the language, and most people write code the same way. That means that for any two people writing Go code, they share a big part of their mental model about what code should be. That makes it "boring" when one reads the other.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you could put Scala. There are already a few ways to use Scala as a language: Java with better types, OO all the way, functional all the way. And then there are ecosystems. Zio, cats, Akka. All of that means that for two people writing Scala code, the shared mental model is going to be small unless they use it the exact same way.

You can infer some things from that. Languages with big standard libraries that are somewhat good will allow people to share a bigger part of their mental model compared to languages with bad standard libraries (people will create replacements) or languages with very small standard libraries. Languages with a lot of features that are actually used will have a low amount of shared mental models, but also languages with not many features as people will reimplement things themselves.
Turbulent Music, Turbulent Life
This seems horrific to me. Why do people let companies do this to them? Let me guess.... US health insurance? (i:e the need to always be employed to be covered)? A former (US) colleague I had, every year after 9 months he quit the same job to go round S America on his motorcycle. Then after 4 months travel he got hired back. They couldn't manage without him. Eventually they started saying he wouldn't be able to keep doing this and return next time, so he smiled sweetly, said "OK" then 4 months later said "do you need anyone?" and of course they snapped him back up. Part of why he was so good at his job was having a decent break and recharging. In fact arguably he was far more use to his employer by doing this, than what they "wanted" him to do, i:e stay there all the time only 2 weeks annual vacation get burnt out. Sometimes people have to turn to this sort of extreme behaviour to have any sort of life outside work, in the USA at least. I suppose he risked no health insurance for 4 months, or bought some. Maybe now he's older that wouldn't work. Well, please people, look after yourselves.
You cannot pay US taxes with anything other than US dollars.

No matter what you have - the Mona Lisa, gold bars, the hope diamond - they will not accept it. You must sell it to buy dollars.

That is not a coincidence - it is the entire point … and it means there will always be buyers for dollars and they will always have value.
I think we can still have discussion about functional illiteracy. That is group who can technically read, but not at level needed for every day life. Very likely there is certain part of normal distribution who can't reach that level. But how large we can expect it to be is good question to consider.
> It’s amazing that this company continues to fall up, and that the founders have taken on roles as the ruling digital gurus of Australia

It's probably because they primarily target non technical folks. Our IT department has inherited numerous Atlassian products adopted by business units and it takes at least a year or two to unwind them if ever.

In the meantime the just keep cashing those checks.
Surely you see the negative consequences of past inquiry as, at the very least, a cautionary tale?

The idea of, "Science at all cost!" should, by now, be thoroughly debunked for a number of very clear reasons, some specifically in this area of genetics and psychology (is there an exception for Poe's Law when talking about genetic behavioral outcomes?).

We must be careful, and Dr. Harden does seem to understand that, which is good.
It's an ok product until you run into performance issues. Which due to said horrible backend engineering is numerous. Also their support is awful.