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I don't think anyone is really fabbing them at a cost that a consumer could even consider.

What are the Chinese getting up to?
I don't think that matters a lot, since outcome is mostly nature not nurture. Good nurture improves your relationship with children and that's about it.
Yes. Funny how you never hear the "IQ is BS" argument when the news is about some pollutant that lowers IQ's.
Right, but "carrying on" is pretty much apt, to anyone who's driven a car with a frunk. I mean, no, it's not like it's going to solve world hunger or create billions in value for a new startup ecosystem. But a frunk really is a pretty great idea.
So now I need to create accounts and lists, where I really just wanted one particular add-on. Its a workaround at best.
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Because some people on HN will use any excuse to post right-wing propaganda.
> Why on earth would this have a global impact?

The United States has been (and will be for another two or three years) the cultural center of the world. We export to everyone. That includes our mode of thinking and the mode of thought we teach our children.

> Also, according to the abstract, the US actually sustained positive gains longer than other OECD nations, except South Korea.

The oldest data presented was from the mid 70s. We'd need data going back to the turn of the last century to get a good feel for how IQ has relative to education policy changes. The time-scale they claim is ~110 years since education policy in the US started changing.
Wow, ten lines of pseudocode.

Does anyone have any good site for ACTUAL state of the art in concurrency that discusses how go, rust, jvm, elixir, etc do things and the advantages?

Node.JS is basically a single CPU using nonblocking I/O, great from the age of two to four core CPUs.

But the future is dozens of CPUs working simultaneously to rapidly process the I/O that comes in from near-terabit networks and super SSDs using main memory bandwidth.
Maybe you’re right! I could be wrong, I was only repeating what I’ve heard second hand and read in blog posts. Looking at the code right now, there is a ray casting function called P_CheckSight() that is used for collision and enemy tests, but isn’t part of the core rendering algorithm. Carmack did say “I used the BSP tree for rendering things” but also that the basic rendering concept is “horizontal and vertical lines of constant Z”. It seems entirely possible that this engine is a sort of hybrid of the category we think of “ray casting”, that it’s not exactly what someone assumes when hearing that phrase, but also not entirely different either.
Seems to me that people have become allergic to anything that seems elitist or undemocratic. The only acceptable opinion is that anyone with a minimum of privilege and hard work can do anything. I was just talking about this with my therapist, and she noted that people don't seem to have the same problem with admitting top athletes have a genetic advantage.
Was there really no science at all? I've not followed the details, but I assumed she had something, but that it was just unworkable now or anytime soon
Holy shit I just googled EUC's, those things look insane
The physicality that Compiz and wobbly windows brought to the desktop was a huge boon to my productivity. Everything was low latency, high framerate, and just felt real. I could rotate my virtual desktops around and they felt like actual spatial locations for organization. I could drag windows and they felt like quasi-tangible objects, not just abstract rigid platonic rectangles.

It was far more than just a gimmick, and I really miss the effects today.
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Seems like an odd charge to level at Huxley, seeing as how Brave New World's whole dystopia describes a dumbed-down civilization helmed by a totalitarian state.
As stupid as it might sound, but my recommendation is a simple paper notebook. Certainly, it is less convenient; but in terms of security, one pretty much needs physical access to obtain it.

Otherwise, I think KeePass will do you just fine. I'd advice against any form of browser integration. Stick with the auto-type type feature instead. Connecting a full, decrypted password database directly to a _browser_ sounds scary.

Consider installing an add-on in your browser that changes the window title to include the page's URL. This way KeePass' window matching works a lot better.
Holding into a piece of land is not a given. The fact that one could hold into that could mean that individual was smarter than the individuals that did not.
Yet another reason the search monopoly we find ourselves in is so harmful. If there were even 2 or 3 search engines with substantial (20%+) market share SEO would have to try to triangulate for multiple competing measures of page quality - hopefully landing on something that resembles a passable user experience. Instead everyone in SEO is laser-focused on the singular quirks of Google's Page Rank.
No, it absolutely does not imply committing genocide. It implies that following orders of a superior does not absolve you of guilt when committing any crime.

Even if this was not currently criminal, this behavior appears inexcusable. The software engineers building this software lacked the ethical stamina to stand up and say "no" to their masters. They deserve an equal share of the condemnation and consequences for their participation.
The difference is in the first code example, you're launching both cat and nc.

In the second block, you're just launching one program that reads input, not two. It's slightly more efficient.

I also tend to build large *NIX pipelines using `cat $foo | [...]`, but it's some times regarded as bad form. See: "useless use of cat" for more examples.
I once saw a TV clip where they challenged viewers to tell the difference between per-province election results and the response to Sejong's tax system at the beginnings of the Joseon dynasty -- they both had the same GSD/JLD split.

Unfortunately I can't find it now though; it was very insightful.
if handled correctly, sure. but it also means that implicit cookie authentication ('ambient authority') is possible and can easily happen by accident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Grs_jJ5U6w

Here's a monologue from someone with an IQ of 75. Do you expect the problems he describes in his life to be more or less common among people with his IQ than in the general population?
I knew this would be the Ahoy video before clicking. He makes some really excellent videos and nearly all of them would be at home on HN.
Damn I like Taleb, don't always agree with his results or means.

> Note the online magazine Quillette seems to be a cover for a sinister eugenics program (with tendencies I’ve called “neo-Nazi” under the cover of “free thought”.)

I'd love to see Taleb and Zizek spar, or riff, either one.
I'm curious as to how quoting people is propaganda? In essence my goal was to say "this is what a sector of the population thinks, here's some quotes showing why they think that".

Surely there is merit in sharing conclusions and reasoning for those conclusions?
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> and/or isolate/insulate those components to not make opening the hood deathly dangerous.

But... why?

From the article, there is literally nothing under there that is "user servicable"--everything requires the HV system be placed in servicing mode first: HVDC inverters/converters and the motors. All user-serviceable components (e.g., fluid fill) are located elsewhere.

Basically every vehicle design process is about value engineering. Who wants to pay extra for a car with extra safety features in a compartment that they will never open, have no reason to open, and can't do anything with once they open it?
In a normally functioning system, intelligent individuals should naturally have more bargaining power, because their skills are more in-demand. However, medical residency is set up in such a way that your bargaining power is delayed until after you finish, because if you leave you are basically blacklisted from the whole field. This benefits the people who have made it out the other side, who are also the people in a position to effect change
That was certainly the position of the eugenicist monsters of the 20th century, who saw themselves as supremely rational, yet they believed that only by sterilization could they prevent the "marching morons" of the lower classes from overwhelming the elite with their sheer fecundity.

On a less controversial note, I'm thinking of lions, believed by some to be the smartest of all cats [0], yet in terms of population and habitat spread much less successful than the lowly housecat.

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-cats-a-nature-miniseri...
No, I'll forever need to register my Firefoxes on mobile, and fight any 'inadvertent' changes that store personal data in the future.

I prefer my software stateless, having me register accounts adds work and seems to me to be at best a silly workaround.
Wow, I never knew folks had died on these
It could be phrased "bad insurance company wants to surveil you immediately before a crash"
Does "more add-ons" mean it's still a whitelist? I'm trying to find a mobile browser I can use floccus with. So far I've only been able to find Kiwi which is not privacy oriented.
Great post!

This definitely has me thinking more about the extent to which the strength of a particular identity representation is determined by our willingness to bind artifacts of value to it.
Even a suite of numbers for human brains sounds more social scientific than scientific, but it makes more sense than one number.

Let's take visuo-spatial ability. Men do better in testing than women generally. So for arguments sake let's say they are correctly measuring a deficiency.

So now the question is, is this for cultural reasons or genetic reasons? Laszlo Polgar was a psychologist who raised his daughter to train on visuo-spatial thinking, mostly with chess. She became the youngest grandmaster ever, the youngest person to break into the FIDE 100. She became the 8th best chess player in the world. It's anecdotal, but if she is capable of this, presumably other women are genetically capable of this level of visuo-spatial thinking, so the tested deficiencies might point to culture over genetics.

As Gould said, it's not just IQ but the blanket if assumptions around it - it is genetic not cultural, it is not remedial etc. As I said, people don't get this worked up over light year measurements.
This is just ridiculous and outrageous. A few related links:

EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document (reuters.com)

482 points by accountinhn 9 months ago | 552 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464

Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says (arstechnica.com)

425 points by nixass 9 months ago | 356 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987

See also: https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/the-true-face-of-the-anti-n...
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There's no parallel, self driving cars is technically feasible.

Meanwhile Theranos bloodtests suffer from scientific impossibility: you can't get information from where there is none. And when the information is sparse, you'll have to spend greater entropy to get it (versus the tiny machine that theranos built).
Right now in America there is a strong correlation between IQ and income and strong inverse correlation between income and fertility.
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The U.S. exports norms in many sectors but not all. How many other nations are using the imperial system instead of metric? How many other nations are following our approaches to education, judging by how they're trouncing us in the PISA scores?

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-student...
We had some power outages last year so I bought a generator. I had to buy three different jerry cans before I found one that was compatible with the fuel vapor reclamation systems that are on modern gas pumps (or at least all the pumps near me).
Basically, if the fuel pump nozzle can't create a (near) air tight seal on the jerry can, it won't dispense fuel because it needs vacuum pressure to reclaim the vapor. Most jerry cans now have a mesh filter or some other kind of impediment inside the nozzle that is usually there for a good reason, but often prevents a seal of the fuel pump nozzle.

If you're thinking about getting a generator, get a compatible jerry can before the emergency.
Idea that you can select against intelligence would lead to an idea that eugenics == good and that is a taboo. It is a can of worms in the High Status Discussion to bring up the idea that intelligence can be measured and inherited by offspring.

According to many even ITT, intelligence is some transcendental category which can only be divined by Nurture and Education.
The EQS has a much larger and higher-performance HEPA air filter than most other cars available on the market, which is a standout feature in important target markets for the car (much more so than a frunk is standout, or lacking one for that matter). It's located under the front cover. It's also a hatch with a very sizable trunk (larger than the equivalent S-class). I'd say we're talking design trade-offs. :-)

(Disclaimer: I work for Mercedes-Benz.)
Have been following the Webb blog ever since the 25th, but come to think of it, this would have been a better link:

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/sunshield-successfully-de...

TL;DR 139/178 release mechanisms have worked flawlessly!
Skip those user hostile sites.
The GP stated that hls makes it harder to download and store videos which is mostly a dubious claim, but even if it were true, in most cases where it’s used this is (if only hypothetically) a benefit since major stream providers generally don’t want their streams stored. The reply sounds appropriate.
It doesn't seem to have worked for Elizabeth Holmes or Bernie Madoff.

According to this fact sheet, "the certainty of being caught is a vastly more powerful deterrent than punishment". Elizabeth Holmes and Bernie Madoff probably didn't think they would be caught.

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf

NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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> How do I add GLib as a dependency to my C project?

Use symbol versioning.

Anyway, I feel the author is a bit unfair. He traded supporting multiple compilers for Rust's only and it is not really surprising that he felt that the maintainer burden decreased.

As soon as Rust gets broad adaption I guess there will be subtly incompatible compiler vendors in Rust too.
Ask HN: How do you manage your online footprint?
I want to manage/delete parts of my online footprint. I would like to have full visibility so that I can remove any content/previous usage to have a comprehensive view of my internet presence. I am not really sure how to start, how do you guys manage your online footprint?
I've noticed cyberciti.biz showing up in my DDG search results but I've always ignored it because of the initial captcha. I will try it now that I've seen your post here!

The .biz definitely does not help, since it hints to me that it's just another one of those worthless reposting sites, as someone else commented below.
In other news, nobody bought a computer just so they could run MS-DOS.
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The analysis of all the sources of data and the test methodologies is kinda what the paper is about. Thanks for staying skeptical!
My neighbor still pays for AOL, and has an aol.com email address. I've tried to get her off of it, but she stays because I quit working on her Windows computer a few years ago (got rid of all mine, yay!), and for $5-10/mo, she has a person to call who will walk her through problems with her computer. Not just AOL problems, like with their browser (which she also still uses), but with any problems.
Interesting. I've never been able to make Anbox run in a cloud environment though, don't recall the exact details. But indeed I guess it should be able to work as there's also a commercial offering targeted specifically at cloud setups. https://anbox-cloud.io/
Taleb is just coping for his audience in this post, it is sad that he lowers himself to such status games. OTOH, winning at status games is lindy so.
Using IQ as a concept to enshrine intelligence is a terrible mistake IMHO because it encourages this toxic RPG-enshrined idea that intelligence is a number that goes up. That makes it only slightly better than it being just a bool. We don't even begin to know how to measure intelligence or what is in or out of scope when we use the term "intelligence". So to use such a study as a short hand to suggest a country is getting "stupider" or "smarter" just feels like shamanic rune throwing.

We could suggest that IQ is a measure of intelligence but I would argue that IQ only matters if you're applying to university which also gives it this correlative value of "wealthy" and "parents that care" if you're cherry picking economic outcomes which makes it hard to pick apart as a vacuumed characteristic. It also is a very narrow measure given that the breadth of human endeavour requires a lot more types of intelligence than just shit-hot pattern matching.
What features were missing?
There's ample conversation in the linked paper about how the many demands of society and changing culture influence IQ.

The reality is that its one of the few psychometrics with strong correlations to a number of long term outcomes like income, wellbeing, crime, fertility, etc., and which is responsive to changes in the environment and demographics of a nation.

That said there is a point to be made that IQ is clearly not 1:1 with everything we think of as 'intelligence'. Trivially, most significant accomplishments take place over months or years as opposed to the minutes or hours of an IQ test. However, using it as a useful tool isn't as reductive as dismissing it entirely simply because it isn't a completely perfect or comprehensive metric.
I was in Seoul for a conference a few years ago, and it was pretty obvious that there was a "tourist halo" around the Conrad and other big western hotels. Once you got outside that, you very quickly started to find eateries where they don't accept western credit cards, there's no English on the menu, and there might not even be a person on staff capable of speaking competent English.

But like, the small group I was with ended up at a place like this that did Korean BBQ: we showed the proprietor the cash we had, and basically they brought out a selection of delicious things, took our money, and that was that. I guess it's possible we might have been disappointed, but it ended up being a great experience, and certainly far more true to the experience of a local than eating in one of the hotel restaurants.
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Is it really dead?

I know they've instituted a paywall and haven't looked beyond it (can't travel right now due to family issues + COVID) but I always thought that there should be a place for the sites/apps that straight up charge you for their service, instead of milking you with ads or selling your data. Has the good old paid model invalidated the site so much in the eyes of its users?
I know what you mean. It feels like we're missing an idea of scope for resources. If there was some kind of transaction scope or session scope or something, then a QUERY could create resources within that scope, so we could know that in the long run, it has no side effects. But that would be antithetical to the idea of statelessness perhaps.

Or maybe we just need distributed garbage collection for URLs.
There is actually a specific exemption for this system written into anti trust law, so you can be sure it's terrible.
> There is even a dictionary that supposedly tracks of all the "pro-japanese" families/ people.

This needs some quantification. The world chinil (친일), while literally "pro-Japanese", has a very specific meaning: it means Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese government during Japan's colonial rule over Korea.

That is, the dictionary in question doesn't enumerate those who liked Japan: it's a dictionary of Koreans who served or otherwise helped Japan's rule over Korea. Perhaps "dictionary of national traitors" would be a better translation. Also it's a civilian project and your name (or your grandparent's name) being in the dictionary won't block you from anything, including getting elected/hired in government positions. The only thing it does is to record history and remind some people of the crimes of their ancestors.
What would proof be? Over a period of time, they have clearly de-prioritized organic search results by pushing them down the page with ads, widgets, and so on. They used to engage more directly with content producers. Matt Cutts was often called the "Head of Web Spam". When he left, they dissolved his role and spread it around to several other people.
I had a similar issue and worked completely around it by using ffmpeg to generate a video file around the point of interest. Instead of serving up the JPEG as in your case, I would serve a small 10s mp4. It was something like (-5s to +5s). Trying to directly stream the file and seek was unreliable for me and I didn't want to get into setting up a full streaming server.
If you want to do left-to-right, you can do that:

while :; do <page.html nc -l 80 ; done