skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I'll say what apparently everyone else is terrified of mentioning, for some reason.

Black people score lowest on IQ tests than any other population group in the world. It's been repeated the world over, dozens of times, over a minimum of 30 years, and psychometricians are dying to somehow disprove it, but have so far been unable to do so. You'll see a lot of assholes who've done absolutely zero reading on this subject post after this saying, "OMG THAT'S NOT TRUE", but if you actually go digging around in Google Scholar and sampling the research, you arrive at the same inescapable conclusion: the highest IQ individuals are Ashkenazi Jews, followed by Asians, followed by Whites, followed by Hispanics, followed by Blacks.

When people read this, they're bothered by it - and rightfully so, because it's troubling - but they don't know what to do about it. No one seems to know. No one seems to know because so far the research is pretty clear on intelligence, IQ, g factor, whatever you want to call it so you can sleep at night... but here's what we know so far:

1. You're born with it or you aren't. Some people have a high g factor, some don't.

2. There's nothing you can really do to "get smarter". Whatever you've got is what you've got. Research consistently shows you can move the needle a few points, and that's about it.

3. There's far, far more variance in population groups than between them, so while Black people collectively seem to score lowest, within that population, there's no shortage of genius-level Black people. Same for every other population group.

Don't ask me what to do about this; I don't know. That problem is beyond not only my capability, but my interest. I just know we have a problem and we need to look into it.
OT: I saw a similar thing (deleted messages returning) in Messages on MacOS a couple weeks ago, shortly after I upgraded to Monterey. A whole bunch of deleted messages from 2017 through 2019 returned. Nothing from earlier or later returned.

I mentioned this on Reddit and someone replied that they saw it too with hundreds of deleted messages going back to 2015 returning.
That. And the fact that one of the best ways to know what's considered of interest or sensitive is to see what's been censored or redacted.
May he rot, and be forgotten.
The complete disrespect for capitalization rules is even more ironic.
Yes, which is largely why I like the cybertruck. I live where people almost exclusively drive huge vehicles like the biggest SUVs or trucks. The cybertruck is the nearest to driving one of them that I’d want to go if only for the sake of my safety.
Snake_case is problematic for including filenames in TeX also. This is a big no for me, even if I find it more readable than the other.
Domestic abuse is a real problem, but false allegation of domestic abuse is a real problem

There are significantly fewer false allegations than real ones. I'd be amazed if more than 1% were proven to be false, and it's likely far less than that.

To assume that the alleged victim is lying would be incredibly harmful; many more people would refuse to make an accusation if they weren't going to be believed.

Your opinion on this is completely wrong.
That sounds already pre-selected to people interested in programming enough to enroll in a class in some [higher] learning institution.

So out of general population, that percentage would be even lower.
> A National ID, that is designed to more strongly prove ID and also designed to be used as a secure form of Authentication for Authorization services...

I can share that here in Denmark we have a system exactly like that, and have for more than a decade. It's called "NemID" (lit: EasyID), soon to be changed to "MitId" (lit: MyID). While there definitely are some problems with the current implementation, having a 2-factor auth solution in front of every government, banking, insurance, etc. web service is very helpful. [0]

Keep in mind that my only interaction with individuals from the government, on the phone or otherwise, is when picking up books at the library and renewing my passport. Everything from filing my taxes through registering a child for school to reporting a move is done with a NemID login and a simple, guided form. [1]

My taxes are pre-filled with the information they've already gathered from my employer and the bank through which I handle my stock portfolio. The only thing I manually have to put in is my union fees and how many times I drove to the office -- both giving me a sizable deduction.

Doing my taxes at the end of the year is simply a formality too. At the start of the year I do an advance statement with what I expect to earn, and my monthly taxes are automatically pulled based on that. The end-of-year tax calculation is to ensure I didn't pay too much or too little -- the difference being due either way in April.

All of this to say -- a sane, digitized interaction with public institutions is not only a possibility but a fact in certain countries.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID -- the entry is critical but not unfair. The MitID changes mitigate many of the big points.

[1]: https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/ -- It's both a "guide to Denmark" but also has the aforementioned forms. Try going through the "Health insurance card" order flow. You can't accidentally order one without a login.
There is also no comprehensive infrastructure for charging your e-car everyhwere, at least in Germany. Also if all cars would be replaced into e-cars we simply do not have enough juice. So there has to be a infrastructure development no matter what way you choose.

You also have charging losses which electric cars, they are just not that high as with e-fuels. E-fuels have the advantage of being easily transportable and refuel is done in 1-3 minutes. So why not create them in countries that have much sun (free and endless energy) and convert this into something useful.
From the article: “In other schools that would never happen. You’d never see a teacher ask a pupil to pick up a grape, because they’d go mad.”

If this sentence is true, i'd worry about education in your country. And if the bullying bit is also true, it's even worse. And i fail to see how "same punishment for everything, no matter how small" is a good thing to enforce. It's lazy for the teachers and a very poor habit and thought process to teach.

No, honestly. I've taught children, schooled, homeschooled, sometime at a youth camp, sometime on perischolar activities; i'm pretty sure i've taught better habits in hours than this school can do in years. I mean, if you want button-pushers, this school sounds great, i'd rather have the children i teach understand why they are learning, how they can learn more, and how safely do stupid experiments, like my some of my math, chemistry, physics and history teachers did.
Society never made an exception for sexual abuse at all. If I accused Justin Bieber of beating me with a crowbar, but somehow I was unable to provide any evidence at all that I was ever even injured, people wouldn’t take me seriously. If I successfully started a rumour that Biebs was a serial crowbar assaulter, it’s possible that it might get some media traction, but publishing rumours like that (at least used to be) the exclusive domain of tabloid media.

However, if somebody makes an accusation of sexual assault, it’s possible for that to become a national headline without even any evidence that the two people have ever met.

I mean, the slogan of metoo was “believe women”, which is the exact opposite of “presume innocence”. It applied pressure to police to arrest without evidence, for prosecutors to prosecute without evidence, for juries to convict without evidence, for employers to fire without evidence, and for society to exclude without evidence. The core objective of the movement was to fundamentally undermine the most important principle of our system of justice.

Now that’s a particularly indefensible proposition when you actually think about it, so most people don’t try to. They just attempt some variation of your comment, where you attempt to deny the plainly obvious fact that this is what it was about.
I dont understand the hatred for "then" even in Ruby [1]. I have seen a lot of students prefer to put the word "then" to make things easier for them.

[1] https://github.com/rubocop/ruby-style-guide#no-then
The main culprit for space issues is stuff relying on BAT or CMD files, where escaping variables seems to be a black art.

Sadly such set includes loads of Java programs. If only SUN had shipped a standard way to generate isolated exe files in 1998... but they worked under the presumption that you'd have a JVM already there, because distributing that monster was difficult in dialup times, so you could just hand people a jar; and the enterprise market did not care, since they had webapp servers. Sadly it's an "optimization" that became obsolete very quickly but wasn't rectified until it was too late (java 9+).
Android Markdown app with GPG encryption and webdav sync
The standard fix to this is to give each message a GUID, and then when you delete a message, instead of deleting it, your store a tombstone with the GUID, and that prevents a network re-send from causing the message to reappear.
I think most people are pretty content to drive cars that are not "enjoyable" to drive. There are a lot of ICE cars out there much more fun to drive than the average commuter car. I don't think people other than car and maybe tech enthusiasts rate this factor very highly - which goes back to what I'm saying, I don't think the major car manufacturers are really losing out because they don't have a popular EV out right now.

Even when I do hear about Teslas (I do not see very many here), people seem much more excited about the "it drives itself!" (invariably all have been majorly oversold on the capabilites of autopilot) and almost never mention the EV part. I do think automatic cruise control and lanekeeping are nice features particularly on very long drives, but those two in particular are widely available now.
AFT is definitely biased- one of the big things they did post Katrina is union busting.

It's interesting their article doesn't include the normal dispute of the post-Katrina improvements, the fact that the cohort of students is very different.
microdosing psilocybin is definitely not the silver bullet.

But it helps me realise what is it like to feel normal. Depression is insidious beast. It blinds you and you forget what its like to feel normal.

I really like your analogy of having multiple tools in order to fight depression.
> It’s absolutely unrealistic dream removing all petrol and diesel cars from the roads.

When I hear people say these sorts of things, I always imagine someone from the end of the 19th century complaining about removing horse carriages from the roads being totally unrealistic. You know, all this gas infrastructure has to be built and ...
> (...) perhaps a radar controlled light machine gun would have to be developed.

The Phalanx CIWS would fit the bill nicely (except for the 'light' part) [0].

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsf38NYzo5Q
Can electric cars help strengthen electrical grids?
The list in the parent comment seems to result from the first search hit on "us intelligence services" which is https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/members-of-the-ic

Found it - its those 17 and the ODNI ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intellige...
That's still peanuts compared to coal. Largest plant had 18 billion kgs of CO2 released last year. 2000 * 23,900 = 47.8 million kg of CO2 equivalent. Obviously the prior calculation also depends on plant size, etc.
> But that should be the role of public schools.

Negative Ghost Rider. The state should never try to replace parenting. If Western society no longer values parenting and sacrifice and suffering for it's children, maybe it is better for some other subgroup of humanity to overtake us.
I was just thinking the same thing tonight, that I want apple to make wired versions of its headphones again
That doesn't seem unusual. Only the first 5 are very common.
According to Google Translate the first two are "girl" and the rest are "face". =)
You can't replicate the success of other people
I seem to remember bash losing preferred escaping when TAB-completing, but can't reproduce it now with 5.0.17.

Eg. you'd type `ls -l "Spaced [TAB]` and it would turn it into `ls -l Spaced\ Name`. I remember similar annoyances with other special shell characters (eg. single quotes, dollars, slashes), but that all seems to behave sane now.
Shells are indeed the main culprits for the continued fear of spaces, but not the only ones. A lot of programs that deal with "metadata" which will then generate database tables and stuff like that, still struggle when working with any sort of special character. And the same for anything that, behind the scenes, just feeds text into regexes.
Why is it always GNOME?
I looked into it, and the US counts 3 years of qualified work experience as 1 year of academic studies, and requires the equivalent of 4 years of college studying for H1B visas. Someone with no degree needs 12 years of qualified work experience, someone with a 2 year degree needs 8 years of work experience, etc.

According to this Quora answer[1] regarding H1B:

> Out of 108,101 initial employment approvals in 2017, less than 200 were for individuals with less than a bachelors degree (this includes associate degrees).

> https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/reports-studies/Ch... (page 10)

[1] https://www.quora.com/Can-I-have-an-H1B-visa-without-a-unive...
I fail to see how the parent is insinuating that they believe making distasteful jokes implies guilt.
Besides syntax, the home lists quite a few other items: static type checking, meta programming, concurrency.

I don't think it's fair to ask makers of a general programming language to specify what it's for. It's general. I guess the eco system might drive adoption in specific areas, but the language designers don't control the eco system.
If people actually abuse git branches being CS, odds are good they're also abusing CS in the repository content.

The linux kernel is one of the offenders, if you check it out on Windows or macOS (which supports CS but remains CI by default) you'll immediately get garbage in netfilter, because it's an habitual user of having different files with names identical but for the casing e.g. xt_TCPMSS.h and xt_tcpmss.h.
OK, but they're talking about all the oxygen molecules that are in metals. And then digging 10 meters deep for the whole moon, assuming 100% can be extracted and get to the clickbaity number in the title.

Does anyone know how this compares to earth? And what amount of energy is needed to practically make some human usable oxygen?
> Even moreso towards nocase.

Nocase (did I break a rule by writing it that way?) seems great when you're enmeshed in the domain and you can see the implicit separators, but then someone looks at your naming from the outside and you're guaranteed to have an 'expertsexchange' in there somewhere.
https://www.selfpharma.com/en/brand/307-neutrogena
Sadly no, I should have written that down (a good habit I’ve only got later). But I have vague memories that some of the issues were very basic, like replying or images or chat handling, and that we mostly expressed the same concerns. It’s not unusable, but it just didn’t feel right as a whole.

It should also be noted that we are not privacy-critical, just like these “numb people” I believe, who choose over little details rather than a big picture. Our background at the time was whatsapp, telegram and viber.
> Also, I am sure that a significant portion of imageboard users feel satisfied by the chaos they have sown; they aren't disgusted by it, they really lust for it, and that is how they have always been.

/b/tard here. Can confirm.
Great article. "Artemis" by Andy Weir revolves around a moon base that makes its own oxygen this way. Fun read.
The death of woodgrain and solid metal electronics is an unmourned tragedy. It gives a serious but warm tone.

As are the loss of tactile buttons and illuminated displays, analogue and digital monitors.

It feels like the same trend in software, where more of the inner workings are concealed and the user is at yet more loss for what happens underneath.
No one likes your bullshit. Stop posting this crap. At least have the courage to use your primary login and not a throwaway account.
So, born today, eh?—says the guy who still regularly runs into build scripts that cheerily command that they be run from directories without spaces, since that's easier than proper quoting in the script.
> inserting quoting where it's needed

You have to remind yourself to do this manually in scripts if you don't want to see lines full of "No such file or directory."

One of the reasons the shell is broken is because the character they use as an argument array member separator is something that regular people use to distinguish between two words, such as in a file name.
Just moved to Norway and it's been very eye-opening seeing how easy BankID (their equivalent) makes most things in life. Only problem has been that I'm 5 months in and still don't have my ID number so I'm locked out of most aspects of life still (can't even open a bank account).
I assume "Xenophobe!" is a reference to this [1].

[1] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/23/donald-tru...
Well, I'm using makefiles old
It is an interesting thought. Note that sand - often silicon dioxide - contains a lot of oxygen.
I think the assumption that the gathering storm was not noticed by various intelligence agencies is a wrong one. You had to not want to notice some of chatter online and I am talking about publicly available stuff like FB, Imgur and so on; nothing fancy.

I think what I am saying is that it was allowed to happen, for one reason or another.
(The space shuttle was cheaper to operate per payload in orbit than falcon 9, and was human-rated from the start. Most of the cost of the program was R&D. But indeed, it was not safe enough, especially compared to newer rockets, and even older ones)
From the article: "But the Fed is now putting a great deal of faith in the idea the wages soon will be constrained by rebounding participation"

If you look at the St Loius Fed's FRED economic data web site at the graph for "Population - With a Disability, 16 years and older":

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00074597

you'll see that between 2019 and now about a million more people are disabled. This is likely an undercount. My guess is these people have long covid and can not work because they are too fatigued (we don't have firm data yet but it looks like about 30% of unvaccinated people that get infected get long covid, it is about half that for the vaccinated, though these percentages are currently just estimates). They may never come back to the work force. Which means higher wages may have no effect and we now have a permanent shortage of workers. I hope this theory is wrong but I fear it is not. The missing workers mystery may not just be due to retirement and burnout. Frontline workers are probably the most affected by long covid, but all types of employees are likely affected. So inflation may not be persistent, but worker shortages and wage gains may be.
The Wire nailed this with, "I'm not even Greek."
Remember when we put + instead of %20? Spaces in URL's are still a nightmare IMO. I still get strange access log entries where some encoding went lose, especially in heavy Javascript enviroments.

Same goes for capitalisation. All filenames should be lowercase.

Maybe it's not strictly necessary, it can avoid headaches.
Where? It works fine in bash and I think most shells ….
My claim was simpler. If Ford’s MSRP is $35K and you write up a window sticker representing that Ford MSRP is actually $37K, you’re committing fraud and of a type that will be easily discovered and proven.

So you instead write it as $35K and tack on “market adjustment” or “additional dealer profit” or whatever else of $2K.
> They’re not interested in anything but profit above all else

Not disagreeing with you, but why is it a surprise to anyone? Any company that seems to be “nice” is only doing that as a good PR increases their profits, which depending on domain may be very important.
The follow up tweets are relevant. It doesn't let sites block view source, it let's machine administrators disable the function in their installation of the browser just like they have an option to disable dev tools. Useful for locked down machines like kiosks or schools.

TLDR: nothing to see here
Literally the only expensive thing my father ever bought for himself was a gigantic stereo gear which combined a vinyl player / radio / cassette deck and hundreds of other features he never used. He bought it around 1982, long before he had kids: http://www.graetz-radio.de/images/radios/1981/HMC_400A.jpg

He is a carpenter and build the living room furniture (which my parents still have) around this contraption. When I was a child, it was the holy center of the living room, and we were not allowed to touch it. It is still working. In the 90ies, the family CD player was hooked to it, later various DVD players.
RestrictedPython
The pirate ship will be autonomous, too. The fight between the commercial ship's crew and pirate's ships too, will be a virtual death mach.
On a single instance. The more instances you use, the more you will be charged. This service handles automatic scalability and resilience with multiple instances for you, allowing it to charge less than $30.
You should read your sources before posting them.

> Some research suggests that there may be an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and German-speaking countries,[4] a development which appears to have started in the 1990s.
Dry socks win battles
Humans in general get angry, lie, are violent. Power corrupts humans. Corruption is more likely if you're angry. These things hold true for all humans: men, women, adults, children, young, old, rich, poor, black, white, etc.

Yet women, as a group, have been exempted from these truths by the state and society on any matter relating to domestic violence. This is an unearned and unjust exemption that must end.

This is not against women because I make the same objection to any other [group, subject] exemptions. The "hell hath no fury" quote is merely to remind people that women are people who feel people things, who rage, have ambition, can be cruel, and so on.

It is on the basis of this exemption that society has given every woman a gun aimed at the head of every man she's ever met, trigger pulled with a tweet.

(It occurs to me that this exemption is ironically dehumanizing to women. It puts them on a pedestal of purity, and in so doing separates them from humanity by ignoring the reality of their human foibles. Women are gross poopy stinky hateful angry greedy clever loving fearing homo-sapiens, just like everyone else.)
This is assuming the oxygen is used once then somehow eliminated. In practice that exhaled oxygen, as CO2, would probably be absorbed by plants, e.g. food crops, and recycled into O2.

Also, smelting aluminium takes a lot of power. The Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter [1] uses 13% of New Zealand's electricity to separate the aluminium and oxygen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelter
How Scientists Can Tell the World If They Find Alien Life
As you would assume: use ASCII and deduce from context. Many people still do that.

That has lead to phantom diacritics: reading letters in unfamiliar words/names based on what you assume they are. For example some pronounce Chirica as Chirică because they assume someone forgot to type the breve in ă.
That was a bit of hyperbole on my end, my bad. But you do have to escape the space, which I'm counting as a minor break.