skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is not at all comparable to IQ, which is neither well-understood nor well-defined.

IQ is very well defined - it's the grade you get in an IQ test. Sure you can have a bad day when you take the test, which is a shame. But that's the story of life. Whites have bad days too. If I have a bad day on my Google interviews can I ask to retake the test a few days after? No. You wait a year and sometimes you don't even get that - you're done, depending on the company.
Black people are not taller than White people afaik, and anyway height is only one quality out of many that a good basketball player needs. There are plenty of tall people (both black and white) that can't become basketball players.
And I would assume that going hungry on basketball tryouts or team practices would make you a lousy player: you need to be well fed with good overall health and nutrition.

> What's scary to me is that the unstated opinion in some of my social circles is that this situation is the result of whites simply having a higher IQ. As your post seems to imply here.

Idk what the big deal is really. Somehow people think we are all gonna massacre each other if you acknowledge reality. Whites having a higher IQ is a known fact. It doesn't mean they are better people, it means though you will see more of them in gifted programs.
And let's not act like some silly gifted test on 8 grades really determines someone's future - it doesn't. You get multiple chances where you can prove yourself academically. And yes, people from good homes get the unfair advantage of having parents who provide more tools and push them harder to excel academically, on top of sometimes having a higher IQ. It's extremely unfair as life usually is. But we should be able to make an honest conversation about it.
> I personally think the WHO has been comprised and don't trust them, but I used data associated with them since a lot of people do trust them still.

> If you won't trust this data what will you trust?

Peer reviewed research, for starters. This database is like VAERS, which is likewise useless and filled with garbage reports. It's not vetted for accuracy in any way, it's a dumping ground for any random report that gets submitted.

> The most trustworthy source is anecdotal but I know that's not accepted in arguments either.

Because the plural of anecdote is not data.
Because people don’t actually want to pay 5x-10x for craft items and that’s how much it costs. Craftsmen are in competition with labor in the 3rd world that gets paid 2-10$ a day instead of 50$ an hour
in the USA, it's just the reverse.

You must stop for a yellow (amber) light if it is safe to do so.
Sending a taco truck to the port is a great marketing move.
Gopher, Gemini, personal blogs on static sites and Neocities have that spirit back.
Hmm "advertising company" as in "a company that is in the business of selling ads"? So same like Google, DuckDuckGo and Brave?
An H-1B is an employment-based non-immigrant visa; which is to say that it doesn't lead to a right to remain permanently in the U.S.

A green card (I-551) is indeed, not a visa, and I was speaking informally when I described it as such. It is a document that proves the holder is a permanent legal resident, which is an immigration status. The right to permanent legal residence is established through an immigrant visa, such as the EB visas for employment-based immigration.

If you are already in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, your employer will file an I-140 petition for (e.g.) an EB-1 visa. Once a visa is available (this is the long wait for Indian/Chinese applicants in many categories), you can then file a I-485 application for adjustment of status on the basis of the approved I-140 petition. Assuming the I-485 application is approved, then you will receive the I-551 "green card" as proof.

In short: yes, the story is exactly about employment-based immigrant visas.
>You can't un-make the choice to adopt electricity, you can make the choice to support Signal or Telegram or MMS or whatever.

But... you absolutely can. This is getting pointless. You're not going to be convinced, nor are you willing to engage in any meaningful dialogue here.
A millennia from now, I think people may well be kind of shocked to learn that we got to the moon in 1969 if a collapse, global recession or some other calamity derails the latest efforts to get back there within the next few years.
I worked on Opera Link, the first built-in synchronization between different installations of the Opera browser, both desktop, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile (+ a web view).

Favicons got included in the data from day one, and it was awesome to get the look and feel of your bookmark bar/UI with the correct icons right away.

Back then we stored the booksmarks in a home grown XML data store (built on top of mysql, acting more or less as a key-value store). This worked quite nice, and it allowed us to easily scale the system.

One night the databases and backends handling the client requests suddenly started eating a lot more memory, and the database started using much more storage than normal.

As one of only two backend devops working on Opera Link, I had to debug this, and find out what was going on. After a while I isolated the problem to a handful of users. But how could a few users affect the system so much?

As a part of the XML data store, we decided naively to store the favicons in the XML, as a base64 encoded string. While not pretty, a 16x16 PNG is not that much data, and even with thousand of bookmarks, the total overhead on compression and parsing was neglishable. What we did not foresee was what I uncovered that night; A semi-popular porn site had changed something on their server. They had started serving the images while also pointing browser to the same images as the favicon! Each image being multiple megabytes, sent from the client, parsed on the backend, decoded, verified, encoded back to base64, added to the XML DOM, serialized, compressed and pushed back to the database...

Before going to bed that night, I had implemented a backlist of domains we would not accept favicons for, cleaned up the "affected" user data, and washed my eyes with soap.

I miss those days!
FreeCAD has decent BIM support for A/E/C (using the Arch modules) and works great on Ubuntu. For civil work, use Blender (turn units 'On') and get it setup for GIS with various plugins and pull data from sources like Google Earth.
Mike Cannon-Brookes pledges $1.5b to climate initiatives
Another great software anecdote.
During this chip shortage due to supply chain issues, Tesla sourced some alternate chips and updated their software in a few weeks to accommodate. Meanwhile the GMs & Fords of the world have spun down factories & sent workers home, not having the same agility.
Hmm, I saw someone from levels.fyi report recently that tech salaries had gone up a lot recently, and so they needed to push faster updates to their data. Does Hired really have good data on this, or are only the lower-quality jobs placed on Hired? When the two conflict, I don't trust the data from Hired.

The nice thing about levels.fyi is that they report data per-company, which I can verify from friends and acquaintances is fairly accurate for those companies. It may not give an "industry average" but as long as you know precisely what information you're getting you should be able to draw your own conclusions.
FDA authorizes booster, mix and match doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines
It’s slow and inefficient without scale and tooling. Just like how most people don’t have custom cars because it’s too expensive
He's certainly saying the right things to have the state-lobby put him in the awards lists. I cannot imagine how this tripe warrants any award at all, and a bagging a Hugo in this case is absurd.
It's hard for me to imagine that those who advocate for removing gifted programs truly believe doing so will make education fair. Since when removing competition for scarce resources will increase equality.

Just look at silicon valley. Few schools there, if not none, have gifted programs. The result? Tutoring schools pop up left and right. Families with means simply find good tutors or tutoring programs for their kids. RMS? check. AOPS? Check. Singapore Math? Check. Thinking Academy? Check. Private programs for STEM experiments and projects? Check. Creative writing? Check. Critical writing? Check.

Do the left really think that removing gifted programs will hinder the overachievers in the valley? Do they really think that the engineers, among whom more than 30% are PhDs, can't tutor and inspire their kids (if they have talent) with top-quality resources? But what about the poor kids in China town? What about this really talent kid whose parents struggle to have ends meet? Those who have talent but don't have means suffer. So much for so-called progressive social justice.
If you're genuinely open to new information, I would direct your attention to excess deaths[1]. There is more likely underreporting of deaths than inflation.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
And we tut-tut the Romans for their plumbing.
I rode in a model 3. The ride is awful for a normal family car, as well as the road/wind noise. The owner admitted as much, terrible for the ~50k they paid for it. It's not a luxury car.

The status symbol is changing as well. As more people experience them , they quickly realize that compared to BMW & Porsche, they're not that special past the shiny iPad on the dash.
Remote SSH would make me swap from my current code-server setup in a heartbeat.
Always interesting to see some hypertext history. I have a personal connection to KMS, so it was interesting to see that although it wasn't mentioned in the article, it was included in the references - just like in the original WWW proposal. ( https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html , although maybe the reference was lost in the HTMLization )

KMS was a a multiuser networked read/write hypertext system, a commercial spinoff of a CMU project from the 70's called ZOG.
> But it is meaningless __to western european cultures__ since they did not write about it __in the dominant languages__ nor they stablished commerce __with europe__

Added the implicit bits. That doesn’t take anything from your point, I just think having the perspective explicited helps grasp it better.

It will also cover the discussions when ancient China will be found to have had extensive links as well, etc.
You have a typo in your query (acquires) but strangely even with the correction first three results are irrelevant.
My (Punjabi) great grandfther told the Census takers this in the twenties in Detroit. Worked like a charm apparently.
I think the point is that there might be a bunch of independent bad guys, but there is only one "you". You're not allowed to make a mistake, ever. Ten bad guys could get caught, but if the 11th breaks in, you lose. They only need to get lucky once.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll have to give it a go.
De rigeur link to https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library
Power attracts the corrupt.
Intel Makes ControlFlag Open-Source for Helping to Detect Bugs in Code
https://github.com/IntelLabs/control-flag
The CCP is quite unlikely to come out with a quote that they're cracking down because they feel insecure in their position. Very unusual for any regime to admit that. But it seems the most obvious reading of the situation.

> I think Xi is quite clear on his view of China's place in the world

Yes, Xi may have a view. Again, the problem for the regime, and presumably the reason for Xi's crackdowns, is that China, as in the population, is less clear on its view of Xi's place in China.
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It took them way too long to switch over from the initial "sell electrics only to a niche crowd that wants to be unique", leading to absolutely ugly cars like the BMW i3 and whatever Citroen calls their abominations.

Check the top selling electric car list and it's all normal looking cars with electric drivetrains. It wasn't just the production that messed up, but also the design and marketing department.
> We can now finally have a Mac Cube

Fascinating idea. Perhaps Apple could finally match the ideal Steve Jobs dreamed of but couldn't realize in the infamous Power Mac G4 Cube.
This is why I live in California. I want to prefer the outside to the inside. I want fast food to be non-existent. I want walking/biking to be quicker than driving.

Anything that nudges me towards a better lifestyle is a bonus.
Detached makes sense, you need to airgap for noise
Plenty of professionals take business trips and present and share their work. It's not unusual to want to carry your work computer home, to a hotel, or to a conference and have enough power to comfortably continue working on it.
Cabinets are not almost exclusively made to order in factories. At least the ones that aren't picked up in a box at Lowes. We just had a new bathroom installed and each cabinet was hand made--in a factory settings of course, to our specifications.
> regions in the universe

This has nothing to do with natural numbers. What does have to do with them is simple practical considerations like that you need two apples to treat two horses. This is why (small) natural numbers do, in fact, exist - in a very clear practical sense. And if you only have one apple and get bitten by the second horse who is now upset, you can only blame yourself for ignoring such an obvious fact.
The competition is stagnant. The web is a hostile cesspool and you need tools like ad-blockers to make it bearable, just like you had to buy antivirus software back in the day. The competition doesn't provide that, and this is where Firefox can differentiate itself.

Casual users don't care about technical differences, but they will care about "install this browser and see no ads nor cookie banners ever". The Enterprise will be happy to pay for this because of the security benefits.

Hell, I'm talking about casual users but the truth is that Mozilla has even managed to alienate power users with stupid & useless UI changes and "features".
Yeah, we had the School of Salamanca, and the state-of-the-art Liberal Constitution from Cadiz, but somehow, we the Spaniards fuck things over spectacularly, as if we had a curse.
Nope, the article specifically addresses your point:

> consider college campuses and their central quads, which typically do not have automobiles even today. The ones people admire are the older ones, not the newer campuses, which tend to be functional but aesthetically mediocre
This sounds worse all the way round.

1. It is a less general solution to a relatively common problem so less beautiful.

2. It probably does not work if your link is a deep link into another app, e.g. Netflix. Especially if that another app can in turn link elsewhere, e.g. IMDB

3. My default browser on Android is Firefox, cause I like my uBlock Origin.
> It's like how nerdy types could easily slap together their own Dropbox

Let's be honest, setting up and maintaining your dropbox clone, versus installing one executable once, are not the same kind of "easy".

> And then MS can start adding all kinds of collaboration tools built in, from pair coding to bug tracking, time tracking and so on.

But they can do that just as easily today with the vscode app. The fact that this runs in your browser does not help (or hinder) at all: As you said, offline VSCode is just a glorified browser.

> I can imagine an enterprise giving devs just this

presumably they would have to give you a laptop to access it, and any laptop that can run it in the browser can run it offline, this is 99% the same codebase.

Overall I also don't understand where this fits between offline VSCode and Codespaces. Codespaces makes sense because you don't even have to clone your code, and the compute/build happens elsewhere. Plus collaborative features can be added with no hassle because authentication is already baked in.

But this seems like it brings 0 value over offline, except skipping a 30 seconds install, once.
I know some companies are pretty angry at the large shippers for sharp price increases (and IDK at what point that really becomes 'gouging'). But I wonder if there's a sort of 3rd order effect going on here, where shipping companies have made the problems which they then tripped over (and clogged the ports in the process):

- Shipping companies realize that they can make more money by sailing empty back to pick stuff up in China, rather than wait to load up with goods leaving American ports

- American warehouses get unusually full with stuff that can no longer get onto an out-going ship

- Firms who have goods arriving at the port don't have warehouse space to receive them (or trucks to move them), so they linger in the yards at the port

- Shipping companies are then slowed down waiting at the ports

... and perhaps there's also a whiff of tragedy of the commons between shipping companies, in that even if they realize that this is the impact of leaving goods piled up unable to leave the US, any one firm doesn't benefit from choosing to wait to load up before sailing back?
Agreed. All of the above. The garage in front thing has a name as well 'snout house' as it looks like it has a snout.
What is this about?

This refterm? https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm

Or a cats-in-space anime?

Or Handmade Hero?
Maybe you’ll join the billions of people who do not drive everywhere they go.
Most of these are opinions, and the list is far far too long (there's 136). Funny that simplicity, excessive decoration and, moderation get mentions, but conciseness does not.
Yeah it definitely seems less risky than the mRNA/adenoviral-vector approach. I know a guy in the Phase 3 trials who had some really bad side effects from the shots, but they only lasted a day. Unfortunately now he's stuck because the mandates all require one of the authorized vaccines, and there's essentially no data on whether it would be safe for him to take one after Novavax.
It is one thing to observe that a language can't express a pattern, but something of an entirely different order to invent the exact primitives that would enable capturing the pattern and others in its penumbra into libraries.
Yaws is found in Africa and was there before 1492. But syphilis was in the Americas before 1492 as well..
Uh, go to a place like r/badhistory where they actually cite sources for their problems with it for a start

Actual academics have problems with it
> estimated 55 million Native Americans died of disease

These estimates vary wildly, by more than a factor of 10.

One large source of error is the accounts by Spanish Conquistadors. They are suspected of greatly inflating the numbers they conquered, in order to boost their prestige back in Spain. It also seems doubtful their censuses were more than just wild guesses.
Older houses also assumed you had a wardrobe, so likely you were on the cusp of that change.
> everyone reacting to the news and TikTok video are shocked

reacting to tiktok videos in an overly exagerated shocked manner is exactly the point of tiktok videos, it is not really a reflection of the content.
Better insulation such as compressed cellulose will beat a 10 foot air gap any day.
Chamfers can be done by extruding the chamfer shape along a wireframe of the geometry to be chamfered, then subtracting the extrusion from the original geometry. I'm not sure how I'd do fillets in OpenSCAD, though.
This is bad math, not researched heavily but in 2020 discord had 300 million users. 285kb goes a long way with wasted energy and bits flowing through the pipes. I agree generally with what your saying though gzipped sizes are what's being sent some CPU usage somewhere to unzip. less bytes == less waste?
> What I don't understand is why we cater to the sensitivities of the people who keep it going. The constant change and inconsistent versioning of the protocol does far more harm than good.

Part of the trouble we have with communicating between one another has to do with the fact that the inner states of interlocutors are only partially observable to one another. i.e. I have no idea what you are feeling in your head and what you have experienced apart from what you communicate to me through expressions or words, and vice versa. You can use any words you want with a person, but you have no idea how the words you use will impact their internal state. You can make a guess, but it's not guaranteed.

When some words are used by bullies to bring violence onto other children, it adds a new dimension to an otherwise benign word. I play the violin and the word "retard" is used often, because it means to play the music "slowly". But when it's also being used as an invective against a child by a bully, well now it has a darker meaning.

I can go through life simply saying this word without thinking about other people's feelings. But it's going to change the way some people perceive certain conversations. For instance, if I am conversing with someone who has not played violin and does not speak French, and has only seen this word being used by bullies to make other children feel lesser, or has been bullied themselves using such words, that is going to increase anxiety in the internal state of this person. They will wonder why I am using that word, and they may question whether or not I have bullied people in the past using that word. They may recall memories of themselves being bullied. Now all of a sudden the conversation is derailed just because you said the word "retarded", even without any ill-intentions.

While it would be nice if we could write down a word and settle on a definition for all time, that's never going to happen. The reason for this is we will never be able to settle on a universal dictionary definition for all words, and even if we could, no person can really know the dictionary definition of all the words they use, so it definitions would end up being ad hoc anyway. The meaning of words therefore comes from the dictionary as well as our own personal experience with the way those words are used. Unfortunately, we all have different experiences with the way words are used -- for me the word "retard" is the word I see at a beautiful violin solo before I play it. For others it's the word they hear before getting stuffed in the locker. In order to maintain copasetic conversations with all individuals I encounter, I strive to understand these "sensitivities" as you call them, but really they are just different perspectives, and no one is more or less valid than another.
This is a classic fact check where they admit the basis of the claim is true, but then deny the impact and call it mostly false.

They might be right about the impact, they might not, it is a complicated system that is fudged up. I doubt there is a single cause. But, if you believe the OP, that lack of trucks is big part of the problem today, then the fact checkers are most likely wrong and should update.
Those are likely some really solid applications as a result.

In my experience redux just enables developers to sprinkle global state everywhere which makes tests a pain to write and code hard to debug.
I like some suburbs. However, not far from downtown San Jose, within the city limits, there is some interesting tract housing developments: they have soundwall like structures surrounding these neighborhoods that are built like a maze. Once in it can be hard to find your way out without GPS to one of the few entrances/exits.

So that’s in a city, not even the maligned suburbs!
> not having the same agility

More like for not being able to port their cobol-ass running UI for anything but the one target chip it was developed for lmao.
With all the problems we hear from Amazon (overwork, pip, vested RSU schedule) I suspect that they are running low on where to get new folks.