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Chomsky wrote the definitive progressive answer to all this 50 years ago:

https://libcom.org/files/chomsky%20-%20iq%20building%20block...

Still timely and fresh, especially considering that he was critiquing Herrnstein 20 years before The Bell Curve.

Because he's smart and unafraid, either of science or the truth, Chomsky never denies the possibility of a genetic component to IQ, even IQ/race. What he denies are the ideological assumptions people make about the social consequences that must follow if those findings are true - assumptions which he brilliantly lays bare and then demolishes. He also questions the scientific significance of the research - even if it is true (a phrase he uses a lot).

Since not one of his arguments depends on Herrnstein's scientific claims being false, the issue of science denialism never comes up with Chomsky. He lets his opponents have everything they "ask" for empirically ("even if it is true") and refutes them on other grounds.

This must partly be because (ironically?) he's smarter than most people (including most other progressives) and therefore wasn't about to walk into the trap the left finds itself in 50 years later - a trap which must be tightening, if an article like the OP appears in the New Yorker of all places. But there must be more to it than this. I think the progressives who find themselves having to challenge this research as false (rather than inconsequential and insignificant, as Chomsky does), actually share many of the ideological and meritocratic assumptions that Chomsky writes about - for example the assumption that wealth and power must necessarily flow to those with higher IQ. They don't want to give up this assumption because they belong to the meritocracy themselves (or are part of the class that identifies that way). Because of this, they can't accept Chomsky's argument much more than the Herrnsteins can.
I got very deep into the Poker rabbit hole from another hacker news article a couple months back.

This is the journey I would suggest for someone starting out:

1. Johns Hopkins Poker course[0]. Taught by a CS professor who's very passionate about Poker. It's targeted at college students and it's very well explained.

2. There are two different MIT Courses. I thought that 2016's [1] was better than 2015's [2]. But 2015 has better guest talks. "Poker Economics" and "Decision Making" are must watch.

3. Matthew Janda's books "Applications of No-Limit Hold 'em" and "No-Limit Hold 'em for Advanced Players" are both really good. They take a theoretical approach to the game. Applications was written before good poker computers were common. The author goes very deep into all the thought process and things you want to balance when playing.

NLHE for Advance Players runs common situations through strong bots and abstracts away good strategy principles that you can apply at the table. It's a lot easier to read than Applications.

4. Another good book that covers some of the math and optimal opening ratios is "Modern poker theory". It's more focused on showing charts, ratios, understanding the math. It also has good principles but Janda's books seemed easier to put in practice.

5. There's also some really good seminars on Jonathan Little's channel. "Play more Aggressively"[3] is particularly interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBYvo69VZ2Gl3ZtdPmcsW9Q

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62nDLA_A8gs&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTkq4OsG_Yc&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXiZPwJ-s8E
> People strongly want to believe that intelligence doesn't have a strong genetic component, I think mainly for moral reasons.

More so because there is no proof for that.

Individuals exhibit different levels of intelligence. Sure, life is unfair.

However, individuals do not necessarily inherit intelligence from their parents' genes. Seriously, who could think that you could build a lineage of "gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

What we observe could be explained by many other more convincing factors: early learning activity, more care to the child's education, logical and clear answers to the kid's questions about the world around him, help with the homework, etc. With proper early learning activity for the baby, and amazing teachers for the early teachings, the kid has a strong foundation. From there, compound returns.
I understood you would like an "alternative solution" to dozero trust RDP and SSH "that don't require Windows"
> "you have to be hard or else you won't survive"-mentality

Europeans often have this opinion but I don't think it's an accurate reading of the issue. The issue is not that Americans work too hard, it's that this hard work is no longer actually amounting to anything. In the past, you could pay for college by working summers at the local restaurant. Today the average debt is $30K and you still won't get a decent job.

The article (and others) just show that American men are starting to put their efforts into places that do reward them; namely, the trades and entrepreneurship.
Maybe it's just a personal experience thing? I came across both ways of thinking as a junior dev, so to me retained mode was just a footgun rich environment.

I could imagine if you had decades of experience using retained-mode, though, then you'd find that way of thinking more natural.
Not in my discussions with most progressives. Most progressives will readily deny reality to uphold their ideology.

For example the gender paygap has literally been statistically shown to be negligible when you account for the choices women make (parenthood, for example). Yet it's still a central political rally point for the feminist movement.
also, and this is personal taste of course, it can get to be pretty soul-crushing working with and being around mostly people that don't value a nuclear family, when you yourself do. this was a major reason for moving away from the video game industry and greater Seattle area and returning home to South Dakota a few years ago. it took a lot of mental and emotional effort to kill the lifelong dream I worked toward since elementary school (I turned 30 this year) and "settle for" a local government programmer job... but so far it's been 10000% worth it, I'm much happier than I've ever been, I'm going to start a family very soon, and I'm surrounded by people who have the same core values as I do. nobody in the greater Seattle area wanted to hire a white male with no degree but a frankly ridiculous amount of self-driven personal project experience (plus some team project experience from a few contract positions and an unfinished (stopped halfway when the college fund ran out—best decision of my life) degree) in the fields of game and web development, but my hometown was overjoyed to get someone exactly like myself to write SQL and learn all the ins and outs of the public education system and how it interfaces with state and federal requirements. it's not my first choice of work by a longshot but without having money to either finish a degree (like all my friends did) or make my own gamedev startup (in an increasingly flooded market to the point of ridiculousness), I've finally found happiness, and, more importantly, a very direct path to achieving the actual lifelong goal I kind of always had but never knew it: starting a family. like you said, you can't put a price on something like that.

my best friend had a complicated career trajectory that began with a music education degree, until he found out he hated teaching music to middle schoolers, then he decided to get a two-year online CS degree. this put him in a fair bit of debt as he comes from a very poor upbringing. he got married and moved to the D.C. area a couple years ago to work for a CRM shop there and while he loves the work, he hates the crime and bullshit of the Big City Life, and while he and his wife have gone from enjoying it to tolerating it, they're moving back here to South Dakota at the end of this year before they have children.

I wonder if, going forward, with the advent of remote work and the like, we're going to see less and less people who come from rural/suburban/otherwise sub-100k-population cities choosing to either move back to areas like those they grew up in (if not where they grew up specifically) instead of migrating to The Big City to Make It Big, for these exact reasons. there just doesn't seem to be much to gain from moving to The Big City anymore, if starting a family is your ultimate goal in life.
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If you are a certified EE, you almost certainly paid for your own MA with your own taxes.

So I don't have a problem with the MA, but the framing of "life is wonderful in Europe" is missing the fact that the only theoretical upside is you had less choice.
The most frustrating, and most fun moments I've had hacking on a computer has been scripting InDesign, so props for that!

Most printing shops I've had to treat with will also accept PDFs, is that the case? Because then, there's a case to be made for converting your templates to HTML (gives you access to a huge amount of tooling) and printing them to a PDF through a headless browser instance (like pptr.dev). That has worked for me in the past, and is accessible and good quality (though I did not need accurate CMYK, so YMMV).
Interesting. Why posted here?
Its gone up only 50% in the last decade and it's nationwide and not just cvs
It almost feels as though economics discussion is made complicated on purpose. Almost none of the comments and article mean anything practical to me. A country issues debt to itself? In money it can print?

Here's the crux:
The US goes into 'debt', to pay for something. Where did the money (resources) come from?

- it printed it itself -> that isn't debt, just 'money creation'

- someone else -> it is debt, owed to another entity

You can't pay your groceries by taking a loan from yourself, you either have the money or you don't
I've always thought the "progressive" position was this:

1. Genetics, upbringing and culture all matter

2. Diversity within an ethnic group is extremely large - often similar magnitude to diversity between ethnic groups

3. Therefore, to judge someone on their ethnic average will be inaccurate at best, offensive at worst

I think that this position has been misconstrued by pop-right / alt-right figures to create a false narrative in the culture wars.
Why not incorporate this into jq itself, like perhaps adding some command line arguments to switch to HTML mode?
> But then people use that to argue that the people at the top deserve everything they have.

Doesn't genetic endowment imply the exact opposite. If the "people at the top" got there because of a factor over which they had no influence—what was once called a gift—how can they deserve their place? You might argue that they are the people who should be at the top because of their abilities, but that has nothing to do with whether they deserve it or not.
Yes...they do not prosecute
I'm not sure what the name comes from, but it's not going to land very well in Japan.

漏らす mora(su) = To wet, esp bed wetting (o-morashi), also as a sexual fetish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omorashi

ション shon, colloquial short form of 小便 shonben, urine, pee
Standard formats like JSON, XML, and PDF are arbitrary encoding defaults, but on a slightly higher level.

If I send your system something obscure like an SDIF audio file you're not going to have the tools to do anything with it unless you can find and install an SDIF library.

What if the OS could do this automatically because a typed schema and standard API was built into the SDIF (or any) standard and installable in the same way code dependencies are?
> This is great in terms of success as a website, but it's underwhelming in terms of describing a technical problem.

A bit of an intro punchline, even though I agree it admittedly doesn't say much on itself :)

Fwiw most of the work is that there's little "static" traffic going on -- images and cacheable responses are not very CPU intensive to serve -- but what isn't static (which is a good chunk of it) is more problematic, but more to come on these
There are already tools for xpath, but using css selectors is much more aligned with what I write every day, so that's nice.
The author of this blog post is probably prepared to risk it, on the assumption that the people that they are writing about really don't want to be in court testifying under oath on this matter.
This describes my experience with ADHD except your head is filled with impulsive thoughts (noise), so you struggle to string together a bunch of numbers in a logical forward progression through a formula, which also induces cognitive load when recalling the formula to your working memory when it is overwritten by the impulsive thoughts.

I can get around this by brute forcing the numbers into the formulas on paper and going through each step slowly but surely, even steps that people can do mentally. I just need significantly more time than my peers to finish.

Taking stimulants and increasing my dopamine levels across my synapses alleviates much of the working memory deficits I outlined.

I wonder how many of these students that struggle were just undiagnosed ADHD and not deficient in an low IQ mental handicap sense.
Of course. I'm not saying that using Win32 or Cocoa are wrong (at least for a Desktop OS where you don't want to hand over full control to an app), just that they're closer on the spectrum to Qt than bare metal.
Another 10x larger company copied us, what to do?
Our bootstrapped company (www.Hypofriend.de) got copied by a VC-backed company that has raised over 150M www.McMakler.de.

Thoughts?
Here's the evidence:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nickmulder_alwaysonestepahead...
I used Tutanota but have moved away recently. It's a very pretty walled garden, but a walled garden nonetheless.

I've just accepted that email isn't secure, so don't use it for secure communications.
We have to realize that medical doctors are not, as a rule, scientists. They typically get their doctoral degrees without personally ever doing any actual science, beyond pre-cooked experiments in lab classes. Instead, they have read a great deal about what other people who did science said. But what people say is not the same as what they do, and paying attention to what they say is not a substitute for doing what they did.

Instead, doctors are obliged to memorize a great deal of what they are told are facts. Probably most of what they are told really are facts. But there is nothing systematic distinguishing facts with a great deal of support from those that are just repeated lore, like the business about airborne disease transmission.

Doctors have rejected evidence for airborne transmission because it contradicts what they were taught are facts, with no warning about how shaky any asserted fact is.

Another source of resistance is that facts, to be believed, need a theory. A fact without a theoretical mechanism by which it must operate is rejected. We saw that for cholera before germ theory made sense of it.

For a current example, in doi:10.1093/gerona/glab115, it turns out that having had a recent TDAP vaccine (which you can ask for at any pharmacy) turns out to predict, very robustly, a 40% decrease in onset of dementia among patients at an age where they are at risk for it. A 40% effect size is enormous! At this point, nobody knows why. Is it the tetanus, the diphtheria, the pertussis antigens? Or something else mixed in? Nobody knows. But without a demonstrated mechanism, nobody can allow anyone to see them to take it seriously.
Interesting! Reminds me of James Clear and the way he used blog posts as raw material for his book.

PKM geek-out time: Edw519 has been using HN as a tool for thought. Producing intermediate packets in the form of comments. If those comments were more interlinked, it would be closer to a Zettelkasten.
"A good opportunity to introduce `gron` to those unfamiliar!"

Thank you - appreciated.

I haven't done much work with json but have had reasons recently to do so - and I immediately saw how difficult it was to pipeline to grep ...

But what I still don't understand is that some json outputs I see have multiple values with the exact same name (!) and that still seems "un-grep-able" to me ...

What am I missing ?
Other traits like height, health, beauty vary and are influenced by genetics. Intelligence varies between species, and is therefore, at least in part determined by genetics.

Presuming that there are only mentally disabled and normal people is the weird hypothesis. The baseline idea should be that it varies just like health and height. Affected by both genetics and outside factors such as malnutrition and injuries.
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> The term “toxic masculinity” does not and is not intended to imply that masculinity itself is toxic.

I much the same way that “unusually large microbe” does not imply that microbes are generally unusually large.

The “‘toxic masculinity’ means masculinity is uniformly toxic” thing is a reading so tendentious as to be incompatible with good faith.
It's a legacy of socialist systems where you can have 2 years of paid maternity leave and then go back to your previous job.
Nobody is perfectly rational, and even if they were, because incomplete information would still not result in rational action.

This applies for cooperation as well. As soon as you have such an organization the people inside that have the same intensive problem. This equally results in the cooperation itself not being rational.

What forms of cooperation works depends again on how to align interest of the people inside them.
The amount of detail in this site -- all publicly available and in the public domain -- is incredible. In particular, I think that the section about the physics of the weapons are fascinating, detailed, and terrifying. I find it oddly compelling to read 'forbidden knowledge' of this sort.

As a site, it also has that 90s "pure html" lightweight vibe...
> Scotland is also piloting a 4 day week. Mainstream adoption is just around the corner imo

Nonsense. That is nothing but a new tax on larger enterprises (or, same thing said differently, a subsidy for local companies i.e. small and medium businesses).

Also, what is wrong with HN readers?

Appendix A shows who the participants were. Government organizations. Like we didn't know most government employees couldn't get their work done in 2 days.

I'm amazed by the incredible amount of ignorance at display on all topics but programming.
What would the benefits of fitting a HTML parser into a JSON parser tool be?
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I believe (s)he meant an alternative to the InDesign rendering workflow that runs on Windows.
Take a 20% pay cut and work four days a week, then.

Who or what can possibly stop you?
Again, no expert, but glucose, insulin levels and blood oxygen have been measured in a drop of blood forever, so I guess they are sufficiently homogeneous and also available in sufficient amounts even in small drops of blood for that to work. But the promise of Theranos was that basically every serological test could be performed on a drop of blood (even many tests with the same drop).
Yes, and awk and others. I meant something semantically closer to the need, with css selectors.
Not a dev issue, a dev feature for accessibility
Once upon a time I was using pup[0] for such thing as well as later I changed to cascadia[1] which seemed much more advanced.

Comparing the two repos, it seems pup is dead, but cascadia may not be.

These tools, including htmlq, seem to sell themselves as "jq for html", which is far from the truth. Jq is closer to the awk where you can do just about everything with json. Cascadia, htmlq, and pup seem closer to grep for html. They can essentially only select data from a html source.

[0] https://github.com/EricChiang/pup
[1] https://github.com/suntong/cascadia
They use VPN, Ad blocker and every other apps which people indiscriminately give permissions to, They buyout such apps with significant number of users from the play/App stores and extrapolate the data collected through those apps.

I wouldn't be surprised if publishers directly pay App Annie under the table to boost their stats.

As far as YouTube screen-time is concerned Web, Game Consoles, Media centers & smart TVs would account significant screen-time and it's unlikely App Annie's data hoarding apps are installed in them(Unless say shoddy media center bought from Ali express).

That said, TikTok might well indeed take over YouTube sometime in the future as they are doing what YouTube did in the beginning - Home videos sans shitty cameras, Now YouTube is all about top 1% creators with Michael Bay movie budget for each video.

P.S. Not an endorsement for TikTok, Never used it, Will never use it for their moderation practice against the disabled.
The json output likely contains multiple objects. Can you request more specifically the object(s) you need and grep on that?
It’s NPR.
The sad part is APU boards seem to be backordered until next year :(

https://www.pcengines.ch/newshop.php?c=4
Related question: do we need device drivers?
>Cryptocurrency endorsements will be ushering in a new world of financial hell for this world's disenfranchised communities.

Wait until you hear how banks treat people! At least with crypto it is your choice, whereas banks are the unavoidable gatekeepers to money.
All links being to freely accessible articles, i.e.

No paywalled sites.

No sites that require sign-up, even if just using FB/Google/etc login.

No sites that demand that I remove ad-block.
I know you're joking, but just to clarify for others: Nothing about Chomsky's work is postmodern. On the contrary, Chomsky is a well-known and fierce critic of postmodernism, both in his political work and in linguistics. He's been openly criticizing "postmodern" thinkers and authors for decades. See for instance [1]. Moreover, his approach in linguistics has frequently been criticized as being too "scientistic" because he re-oriented linguistics towards the natural sciences. After all, he's the one who brought formal, recursive grammar formalisms and grammar hierarchies to the field.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=772WncdxCSw&t=1s
It's all trade-offs. k8s is feature-rich, flexible and configurable but that also means high complexity. Simpler tools might not tick all the feature boxes.

As long as your applications follow 12-factor principles it shouldn't be too hard to move between different orchestration tools and you can pick the one that best suits your needs.
>However, individuals do not necessarily inherit intelligence from their parents' genes. Seriously, who could think that you could build a lineage of "gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

Genes determine differences in intelligence between say a human and a dog or a human and a bird.

Genes also determine physical size, skin color and basically every difference in human attributes.

What black magic makes it so that these genes just happen to not at all influence intelligence among humans?

You can't see it but ideology is influencing your bias. You are unable to see how ludicrous it is to say intelligence isn't inherited when literally every single other thing is.
There are plenty of decent houses in safe areas across the Midwest for $50-100k.