skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replace evolution with adaptation (since the misnamed "evolution" might equally mean regression in capabilities, intelligence, or any trait that can be measured in general, like speed or lifespan, as long as the new version if fitter for the environment it operates in) and when, we're in the state of "mimetic adaptation".

Which is not as good as "mimetic evolution" sounds.
> You wouldn't expect TWs to dabble in the prod codebase.

I actually think you should expect TWs to dabble in the prod codebase. At least for TWs writing docs for developer products. To write the Chrome DevTools and Lighthouse docs I frequently looked at the implementation to figure out how things actually worked. From time to time someone would file an issue on the docs and we would realize it's really just a flaw in the product that can be relatively easily fixed. I couldn't get engineers to prioritize the work but if I put in a fix myself someone would review/approve it. Rather than jump through hoops to update the docs to reflect this quirk, it was often faster to just put in a fix in the product itself.

> if you're going to hire people who are great technical writers, why would you have software developers (who are by definition not going to be as good TWs as the "real" TWs) also do it

As mentioned in the last paragraph, a difference between our viewpoints is that I do expect TWs to dabble in the codebase, so perhaps it's not a stretch to imagine how your business might improve if you also work in reverse (engineers dabbling in docs). In practice, the real "synergy" happens when engineers get into the doc creation process early and often. For example, a writer might create a very rough draft of a guide and ask the engineer to review for technical accuracy only. (Edit: as dragonwriter mentioned, it's often much more efficient for TWs to go to engineers for technical information, rather than deciphering it out of code, PRDs, etc.)). Or, have engineers write the very rough draft themselves and have the TW turn it into a polished document. Another approach is when the engineer is very motivated to improve their writing, and they take on writing a doc, and the TW works with them step-by-step to polish it into a usable doc. My hunch is that for any given org, you'll only have a minority of engineers who want to improve their writing like this, but when it happens it should be prioritized/rewarded/encouraged. One area where it might make sense for engineers to mostly own the docs is API references. There should be an expectation that any changes to the API should also require a doc update. Another useful expectation would be to have engineers review docs after making a change to the product and make sure the required documentation update is at least logged as an issue somewhere. Over time you tend to see engineers engaging with TWs more substantially ("I was reviewing the doc for change X and noticed that the overall organization of the guide seems a bit off...").

I'm not arguing that engineers should take on all the docs work themselves, just as I'm not arguing that TWs should take on all major software development. But from my experience there's a lot of benefit to having each role systematically take on a bit of ownership of each other's domain.
Modular nukes can mean lower need for electrical infrastructure, because they can power mines/military bases/towns directly without huge reliance on a national grid.

We can start by mandating EVs-only for vehicles priced $100,000 and higher, and lowering that threshold by $10,000 yearly. We entirely overhauled our manufacturing in WW2 with much less technical capability than today - we just need the political and social willpower (which I guess war provided).

Electric busses are already here. Those other uses require minimal levels of fossil fuels in the scheme of things.

Public transit is not attractive because its not point-to-point, and you have no control over the other passengers on your ride. Autonomous minibusses with demand-driven routes, private subscriptions, and passenger reviews are the solution. Or, just plain old electric scooters if we can get rid of enough street parking/car lanes and install bike paths.
Interestingly, I saw a TV ad from Facebook today saying they're asking Congress to establish "rules of the road" for social media companies. More about their ads and possible motivations discussed at https://themarkup.org/ask-the-markup/2021/09/16/what-does-fa...
This can be easily resolved by forcing developers who provide their own method of payment to also include the App Store's default in-app purchases. That's how it currently works with Sign in with Apple.
The part the parent refers to IS about passing on a trait to children. It's not in the part of the article talking about mimetics yet.
>"Outrage is not conducive to well thought out action."

Tell it to politicians. They're outraged every other minute.

>"But in many cases it is not the change we (should) want."

Did I say we should be outraged in "every case"?

Oh and thank you for telling me what (should) I want.
>someone with a bit of a spectrum disorder.

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far to see someone suggesting this, since it seems extremely obvious to me that this is part of the case. It's becoming fairly well-documented that one of the primary differences in people on the spectrum is a difference in communication style, which anecdotally seems to be more direct and less apologetic or prone to "superfluous" verbal (/nonverbal) contextualizing.

With the prevalence of people on the spectrum in STEM, it's no surprise that you'd see it here, and indeed looking at the comments you can see quite a few people talking past each other about what OP "should" say with what is clearly a mismatch in communication style.
I'm not sure if you're saying this is your opinion, but just to be clear: Vaccine mandates are not coercive, the vaccine is not experimental, and vaccines in general are not gene therapy.

To elaborate: You can consider work vaccine mandates to be similar to any other job requirement. The COVID vaccines have received a huge amount of studies and trials. And "gene therapy" usually refers to use of things like CRISPR-Cas9 or other methods of delivering DNA into the cell which are able to modify genes. mRNA vaccines do not modify genes. (I'm not a biologist so you should ask one if you want more information on this)
Is this allowed under iOS?
The conspiracy subreddit gets discredited for the random stuff that gets posted on there, which ought to be expected since they do little moderation.

On several key points, the conspiracy subreddit has been correct. For example, in March 2020, they accurately predicted the course of covid, namely that vaccines would be developed, that there would be large-scale hesitancy, and that this would be used to justify the keeping of covid lockdowns / masking requirements / eviction moratoria far beyond the stated 15 days. Regardless of your belief in whether this was justified or not, this happened.

Similarly, the subreddit was correct about things later revealed by edward snowden.

Of course the next post will be about lizard people, but frankly, that doesn't mean we ought to discount the well thought out, presented, and reasonable 'conspiracies' that get trotted out there. Some of them actually happen.

It's just a bad place to trust, because they do no moderation. On the other hand, the places that do moderate are always behind on the things that end up being true.
But the complexity of the network can result in emergent properties that are at a different layer of abstraction than fitting pipes together.
Andrew Wakefield?
https://search.yahoo.com/ for

There is no 'printf'

and look through the cache
If that is intelligent behavior then literally any physical process is "intelligence" embodied, though the magnitude or intensity of this intelligence obviously varies based on what strictly is happening.

This is because anything that happens in reality is computable, and you have described a straightforward computation as "intelligence".

I actually happen to sincerely adhere to this perspective, as a particular flavor of panpsychism.
There is a self-aware viewpoint among the libertarian right that if the government makes it a pain to pay taxes, then people will hate doing taxes, which will in turn direct them to push for a smaller government. It's called "starve the beast."
> more efficient code that does the same thing

In this case, it produces a different result.
I don’t understand?

Settings -> AppleID -> Subscriptions?

It’s on your phone? You don’t have to use iTunes at all? I wouldn’t have even thought to use iTunes? Unsubscribing is the easiest thing in the world - much easier than PayPal. It’s right there in the Settings app.
Since "table knife" means the typical dull cutlery knives (as opposed to e.g. steak or kitchen knives), I have no doubt that wood (hardened or not) can be sharpened like that.
really liked circular cross referencing this article took me through
So much this...

I'm one of eleven kids- I was the 'smart one' and what an absolute drag that title was and is. The title still sticks despite having a brother with multiple award winning plays, another brother being a successful serial entrepreneur, and sisters with published books.

I've watched them succeed while I didn't finish college due to ADHD driving me to distraction. Luckily I have the computer skills requisite to be a successful network architect- but I'm quite aware I could have been a surgeon, a constitutional lawyer, a good to great political commentator or a quant if I had that next bit of mental concentration and memory.

I'm very aware of that gap and it grinds in the gears pretty continually now that I'm older and firmly entrenched in a career- what a bit of ADHD meds at the right time in my life would have meant to allow that potential to be unlocked. To see those I was on the debate team with or in the same book clubs or Latin class being able to step up to the next level and build fairly continually rather than fighting against their mental shortcomings.

But really, in the end, I still have that bit more access to curiosity and the deeper things that come with that curiosity- I was commenting to my daughters in the car the other day that the acceleration they felt in the car pushing them back in their seats was functionally equivalent to gravity. That they are constantly accelerating towards the earth, which is what keeps them connected to the ground. That kind of thinking, though in many ways generic and obvious, is probably not a thing any of my siblings would say and an important part of how I think and approach the world- and not something I would trade to step down into for a bit more oblivious contentment.
What I'm getting at is, if you want to expand humanities understanding of physics, you first need to spend six or so years learning everything that humanity already knows about physics. After that, you can spend a few years doing research or designing experiments -- usually alongside someone whose dedicated their life to the field -- which will then, hopefully, culminate in your tiny little contribution to the knowledge of humanity.

But, even just 150 years ago, you could have made multiple ground-breaking contributions to the world of science, or even developed entire fields of study.
There is a disagreement, though, because it's about which aspect takes precedence -- which has the most value.

Imagine a test called Artistic Quotient which gives you a numeric value for how correctly you draw lines, circles, etc. An average artist might have an AQ of 100 and a very good artist an AQ of 120.

Now, imagine looking at a Van Gogh and saying, that the artistic expression he achieved is worth 80 AQ points, putting him on the level of someone who can free hand a perfect circle! It would sound ridiculous, right? Who cares if you can free hand a perfect circle? What does that give you? What's the value of that?

Instead you would tell an aspiring artist, get to an AQ 120 or so as your foundation and then it's all about making something out of it.
This is amazing. Raising a Series B with an enterprise sales model, then releasing a self service, bottoms up product is like the hardest possible shift. Hopefully it's exhilarating.
> We have this, they just go in ships and submarines.

US shipboard reactors use highly enriched (93%, literally weapons-grade because it was originally produced for warheads) uranium, that's not really desirable to distribute throughout the territory.

Even "low-enriched uranium" in a naval context just below 20% (which is the official boundary between LEU and HEU). By comparison regular "civil" nukes use 3-5% uranium.
I can assure you, its real
Insider trading is already a crime and with all the ways to work around that law it’s still seen as a risky enterprise, so it seems to work.

But more importantly: lawmakers are judged by voters. If media reports that a lawmaker tried to dodge laws or even ethics frameworks then voters should deliver the punishment even if a court can’t.
The healthy 35yo might not have a bed for something unrelated thanks to freedom fighters with poor understanding of statistics.
Imagination and diversity of experience are some other factors. I.e., the ability to imagine
new combinations of disparate ideas, gained through a variety of unique experiences.

You could argue Einstein's imagination, coupled with his scientific intelligence, is what made him brilliant.

But like others have said, the essay reads like there is a linear and narrow definition of "smart." But having followed pg on twitter, he seems to tend towards an Ayn Rand style worldview, so I guess I'm not surprised.
How is P/E not normalized? IT is literally the ratio of a company's share (stock) price to the company's earnings per share
A few billion isn't going to have any impact on inflation that is worth worrying about if there is real headway made on COVID. It's the trillions that are probably worth worrying about.
It's impossible for us to understand the beliefs/priorities/values of others from any perspective other than our own. Actually, my conjecture is that the only way to see things from another perspective is to internalize some aspects that perspective.

Let's say Alice holds some internalized ideal of traditional family values, and Bob holds some internalized ideal of tolerance and inclusion of LGBT people. When Alice looks at Bob's views, all she sees is that it's an affront to an ideal that she cares about, and when Bob looks at Alice's views, all he sees is that it's an affront to an ideal that he cares about.

But how can Alice possibly understand Bob's point of view, unless she's able to tentatively drop her concern for traditional family values? I expect that even with effort to understand the other's perspective, unless that other perspective is internalized, Alice's thoughts on Bob's views will be centered around what she cares about: "I guess I understand what motivates Bob to hate family values", "I guess I understand what motivates Alice's bigoted views on LGBT issues", etc.
Have you been in interview loops or worked with bread and butter data scientists performing common tasks? I am curious what your view of what most data scientists do day in and day out?
The article linked in the comment they’re replying to.

According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, the tech guru was opposed to allowing third-party to run natively on iPhone…

…Others in the know disagree with Isaacson's story and contend third-party apps were always on the iPhone roadmap; Jobs and company were simply not comfortable with releasing an SDK at launch.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-st...
It seems to me that there's been an uptick in cutting off family members because it sends a social signal to those you're speaking with that you're the kind of person that only cavorts with rational people. Given how individualistic america is today, cutting off your family for 'rationality's sake is seen as a good thing, whereas to most cultures, this is seen as utterly horrific.

Well that and the preponderance of cutting off hypothetical family members.
Photos: The Ongoing Volcanic Eruption in the Canary Islands
It would just incentivise short-term policymaking.
Looks good! The only downside I found after a short research seems to be battery life (about 5h)...
ONG is not just straight energy play, it certainly is the most important. Petrochemicals are pervasive and feeding 7 billion involves production of fertilizers etc.

Organic keyboards and Zero plastic displays may be a thing in 2040 but petroleum has touched every aspect of modern life.
> If somebody is doing something destructive and the stakes are high, wasting time being nice about their feelings seems thoroughly counterproductive

Playing devil's advocate here let's imagine that someone from a political party that is probably not yours (just guessing!) might use your same logic and apply it.

Abortions. They're killing people. High stakes? Check.

Abortions. They're killing defenseless humans. Destructive? Check?

You don't have to agree with these definitions for people on the political right to define things this way. And were they to take their definitions and use your logical template and then react in the way you're suggesting might be OK with your definitions, what you're left with is something that looks an awful lot like the Texas abortion ban right now.

The point I'm trying to make isn't that you're wrong and bad and should feel bad. The point I'm trying to make is that a person needs to think very long and very hard about situations in which polite deference isn't warranted.

Because with the team sports politics we've got going on right now it's super easy for one side to look at the template the other side is using and reappropriate it for their pet issues and then things which are "settled" suddenly get very exciting indeed.
Why can they not be hardened? Or otherwise used?
I have a tiny bit of advice I might be able to lend here, for experimentation purposes mainly.
Regular hardwood can be heat-treated to increase its density and compression strength considerably, in the most basic form this can be done at home by heating it... slowly... up to ~400F (typically just holding it over a hot-plate until it's light-medium brown. You'll want a temperature-stable oven for wood more than a cm or so thick)

This won't provide the same density this study has achieved, but it'll give you a quick proof-of concept for next to no cost.

In the article I believe they also chemically alter the wood by removing lignin with a boiling sodium hydroxide solution. Basically dissolving out the 'dead weight' and leaving more cellulose, which is what's giving wood most of its strength.

They do also use physical compression under heat, which wouldn't be too hard to achieve with mere run to home-depot, but I'm not sure how much effort you want to put into this as of now.
The examples he lists are not even interesting. The fact that other people make obvious mistakes does not make you a genius.
it's because you're using "geekbench" for your numbers. which is a combined number of misleading stats. it includes things like "encoding video" and "rendering html" - things that the m1 has specific optimizations for, which in the real world are done by the NVIDIA RTX on my Dell, with the CPU sitting at under 1% utilization. Yes, if you offload these tasks, which in the real world don't use the CPU at all, and run it on a CPU with special accelerators for these useless tasks, the CPU designed specifically to game "geekbench" metrics will win. In the real world, I got a multi-gig dataset I need to process and do calculations on. Go put a database on the M1 and see if it beats a xeon. Or for an easier test, just load up excel with lots of functions and lots of calculated rows and columns. Run that while running a couple of VMs for virtual appliances on your laptop too (128GB ECC RAM helps with that).

You're literally here saying the M1 is going to replace a server chip. Newsflash - the M1 doesn't even run any of the needed code, because it's arm code - a small niche.
Liberalism is only left wing if it’s being compared against actual monarchists. Nowadays it’s soft right, since we’ve pretty much run out of monarchists (thank god).
So, why does puts do "return r ? EOF : '\n';"? Some backwards compatibility? Or is there a logical reason for that?
Duplicates could also be handled by using (L+1)^n, rather than 2^n, where L is the length of the input: even if all elements are identical one will end up with a unique value p = L * (L+1)^n.

For an efficient implementation, one might want to round L+1 up to the nearest power of 2 to get crucial micro-optimisations based on instructions for bit scanning.

(I think this ends up being a very complicated phrasing of a counting sort.)
I have a Roku. YouTube's app, along with all others I have used, only search content within that app.
Who gives a @#$%^&* about the RIAA? They only exist to prop up a bloated, corrupt music industry that screws artists and consumers alike.
Come to think of it, ICANN has a similar moral standing. I guess whoever loses the fight, it's OK with me. Maybe they'll both lose...?
I'm a right winger. I don't know any Q people. It seems to me that mostly left wingers know Q people and know all the details. My leftist father in law will explain in detail to me everything Q said, and I just nod along going like... why would you even bother reading this stuff?
Do you mean that you'd create some network setup and it'd visualize it for you? in that case the current tool supports defining the setup as a yaml file and uploading it. maybe some tool can be written to build this yaml automatically for some scenarios.

Or are you referring to something like a network observability tool like https://github.com/netenglabs/suzieq
Show HN: SavvyCut, automatically cut silence from videos with WebAssembly and ML
Nobody can know what Jobs actually wanted and what is narrative-building because he was the best storyteller this industry has ever seen.
oh okay I thought HEV was hybrid EV, meaning an ordinary hybrid. my bad on misunderstanding
> Over the next decades, then, oil and gas investments will become ‘stranded’ due to three converging pressures: climate policies demanding that fossil fuels stay in the ground; plummeting demand as fossil fuels and combustion engines are increasingly disrupted by solar, wind, batteries and EVs; and accelerating “energy cannibalism” as the oil and gas industries, ironically, consume themselves into oblivion in the process of trying to keep going.

I don't buy it, because as demand for oil drops, the supplies that will be taken off line are the low EROI ones. So a drop in demand should actually reverse the trend of declining EROI.
USA probably has the least worst currency today, due to gold being centralized in USA during WW2, along with current military spending. Euro will tank before USD.

If China plays it right, they can be the financial leader within ten years. 2031.
That probably has more to do with the general flood of people away from cities due to covid
No - Snap missed earnings because Snap underestimated the effects of Apple's privacy changes - in other words they figured people would be happy to opt-in to reduced privacy.
Yes, that's true. If you project down to a linear relationship, more IQ is associated with more income.

Most of the data you see on that stop around an IQ of 125, which is about the average IQ of a PhD in the US.

But there's also a lot of research on people with very high iq and the links with depression, anxiety, loneliness etc.

If you want the easiest life possible, I don't think you want to maximize IQ. I think you want to go high enough that you're eligible for the high paying jobs, but not so smart that you feel like the other people in those jobs are idiots.
> Does $500 reflect the value and developer time savings you've received from the project over the years?

Nice try, people are not paid by the amount of "value" they add. This is a common sales tactic to find and establish an arguable ceiling.