skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought when I see those statistics is where do jobs such as writing software or approving engineering plans fall into. I suspect that they are both considered "service class" jobs (since neither is attached to manufacturing, nor are they anything that would conventionally be considered creative)--yet they are very much not "low-skill jobs".
Anyone happen to know what gnome shell version added the ability for extensions to run arbitrary glsl shaders like this?
Maybe it's the fact that I don't use one of the three major US ISPs. Hopefully CDNs get used to the idea that there can be more than one fiber provider.
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I agree. No evidence was presented to support the sequels were "mostly the result of retroactive revision and was never planned when the first film came out." Revision already take place in all creative storytelling. Also where does he come up with the idea that the perception is the films were "mapped out in advance and executed in accordance with a foolproof master plan?" Seems a bit extreme.

All stories are a creative process and small and large details can change as a story continues.

For instance, originally machines used human brains as part of a greater neural net within the matrix. But then executives forced the Wachowskis to change that idea into humans-as-batteries to make it more palatable. So they re-write portions of the arc to fit that new narrative.

So all I see here is the "5 predecessors" plot removed from the first movie becoming 5 predecessors in the "matrix is a lie" plot, which may not have changed much. It's silly to speculate without just asking The Wachowskis directly.
> There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders." There's the easy story: "Young, ambitious wunderkind founder falls from grace." And the hard story: "Here's what might be relevant for future founders."

I don't think thats quite correct.

Holmes committed fraud, the part that seemed to sink her was attaching other company's names to literature.

However most of us would have assumed the bit that _should_ have nailed her and a lot of the executive committee is the industrial fraud of individual, vulnerable patients.

THeranos was only able to commit this fraud because of the breathless, non critical PR pumped out by tech "journalism"
The repeated "accept cookies" pop ups are what make me switch back every time I use FF though. Is there any fix for it?
I've read the story and honestly don't see why it became so famous - guess I'm not an "artsy" type. It's a story of batshit crazy people doing crazy things. You may like the story, but if your goal is to understand gender issues in Korea, you will be disappointed.
I won't say that IQ is a perfect measure of intelligence. But there is something there that people can spot. I don't know if you're familiar with American (public school) gifted programs, but they are typically done by referral- someone identifies a student that they consider "gifted" and the school does an IQ test. If their IQ is above some threshold the student is admitted into the program and they get a different curriculum. While the benefit of gifted programs is sometimes called into doubt, teachers have an incredible hit rate in terms of IQ scores. Teacher referrals have a success rate (the student IQ beats the threshold) far higher than the ~5% that you would expect if there was no link between classroom performance and IQ scores. Source: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ746049.pdf

There's more to intelligence than just classroom performance, but there is definitely something being measured by IQ tests and it's related to intelligence. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean we need to discount it completely.
I'm not fully convinced of this, and even if I were, it might just say as much about my biases as the test's.
LOL, um, you are on a silicon valley startup site?

The valuations of practically every company that comes out of here until it "goes public" is almost entirely based on this hype media infrastructure, or at least are dependent on somewhere between four and eight 0s in those company's valuations.

This is a parable about sociopaths in society. They are tolerable as long as they are usable fools: useful for war, useful for flogging troops, play within certain rules. But there's a line, and you cross it, you risk revealing all the other vampire sociopaths that are controlling society.

I have no sympathy for this postmodern uncanny valley AI-generated faildaughter CEO person-like matrix construct with empty, flaccid eyes. But she's a fascinating mirror into the CEO sausage factory.
A hypothesis is that the impossibility of having open intelligent discussions without walking on eggshells in the past 30 years may be due to this dysgenia
Oh yes, I read and have a copy of Norman's book. Every engineer should read it.
Review:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/cryptocurrency/hands-o...

+ It's opt-in

+ It's easy to use

- 36 hours of running it did not result in a "single penny" (see review for details, may have changed now)

- Uses 100% of the GPU capacity when the GPU is ~idle, with no way of adjusting the mining rate

- 15% mining fee
Well no, the facilities are lower, they often don't have access to the gym, sometime parking, etc...

I'm sure that politicians are incompetent and corrupt. That being said, we can agree that there is a market failure here.
About a year ago, I used to use Iceraven but I switched back to FF nightly when support for custom addons list was added back.

Even though I like the project, I consider that it's what FF for Android should have been, I returned to FF because nowadays a browser needs frequent security updates and Iceraven is not staffed to have frequent releases.
It's not that complicated. Copyright was simply never intended to apply to recipes. The fact that there is nothing copyrightable about a mere list of ingredients and basic preparation instructions without any creative elements is not in any sense a "loophole".
I don't care what language is used, my problem with Gnome extensions is that after I install them, one of these things will happen:

a) after a minor apt-get update the extension will stop working

b) the extension will leak memory and after a few days of uptime my desktop will be unusable

That's why I'm still running Cinnamon. Gnome extensions are a thing created to deflect the biggest criticisms towards Gnome's questionable direction, yet they are a second-class citizen and never really work well enough to be acceptable.
That's super clever, thanks for pointing this out!
> what kind of sociopath has a baby in the middle of a trial where she could go to jail and not see the kid for years

The same sort who would lie to cancer patients about their blood test results, and very probably lead a few to their deaths along the way? Sounds exactly like the Holmes we've all come to know.
I think most will agree that there is an evolutionary selection against intelligence (I think the term is "dysgenic mating"). For example, highly educated people (reasonable proxy for intelligence, at least it used to be) have fewer children.

Agree, from a society's point of view (if you believe that intelligence is positive and at least partly hereditary, which I guess is pretty indisputable), one would want to provide incentives to correct this.

Tax reductions per child (scales with income) would be one approach.
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You made me think more about this subject with this comment. In a way - due to different incentives - I think you are right about the outcome.

As the coach is mostly hired and the mentor internal it might be that the coach has more incentive to push someone to bring their best while the mentor - having as main focus another job and doing mentorship as a side task - will offer advice/guidance but will not have the same incentive to follow through.

Anyhow I agree there is not a standard definition of what a coach or mentor is and what they should do.
I guess if you think about it like that then you really don't need to think about any problem in the future because the singularity will solve it for us. People also think the rapture is around the corner. I can't predict or discount either but I do notice a similarity.
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The fact that there were five predecessors in the shooting script, and five predecessors in Reloaded / Revolutions, very strongly suggests that they lifted and reworked that plot from the first movie, for reuse in the sequels.

From a narrative point of view, it would be confusing as hell to have five predecessors in this iteration of the matrix, as well as five predecessors across five previous iterations of the matrix.

Could both have been part of the same overarching, pre-planned plot? Sure. But is that likely? Not at all.
> An OS is much more than cool looking visualizations [...]

At the time it was easy to hear people complaining about how ugly linux was. Compiz helped a lot in that front. We were used to people saying "you can't do that on linux" and then things quickly changed to us saying "you can't do that on your OS".

Let's not fake it: linux is still far from being a diamond of UI design or consistency, but well, competition has its own problems too. The point is: things improved a lot and that event at that time in history made things improve a bit faster. To the point that almost two decades later something like this gets to the front page of hacker news and is filled by comments of people with fond memories of the time.

> This whole journey began during the Compiz era.

Another evidence of the impact it had.
might as well stop at the first sentence. no-one thought that.
We know selection is against intelligence. We see it in data, for example from Iceland.

Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/5/E727
>separate antibody responses

Of course not, they use the same mRNA. There's no reason to suspect they would in the first place.

The difference in response in the degree/intensity of response to the detected antigen. This is due to the concentration of mRNA in the vaccine (and therefore the concentration of antigen produced by the vaccine)

Moderna creates a greater response than Pfizer due to concentration (100mcg vs 30mcg). I don't think there's a reason to believe that a moderna booster on top of a Pfizer initial vaccination would not increase the degree of response when an actual infection is detected. Immunology is not my field however so my knowledge is a bit limited.
I don't see the relevancy. Hassim Talim (author of black swan, statistician, finance) argues all of psychology is unscientific.

In your link he even states IQ is a weak measure for some tasks. That the trend is reversing - people are now getting worse at "test taking" - is notable and interesting.

Whether IQ should be used as a proxy for expected real world success doesn't seem relevant to this study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Not to mention that those who have children in competitive fields are not able to nurture their children due to time commitments. The same effect appears to be true for adults in most of the service industries as well albeit for different reasons.

I'm not sure how the government could intervene in these situations except to make these fields less competitive such that employees have more bargaining power.
Ultimately it's not the maintainer's role to waste hours untangling the this mess. I do want ripgrep, but I see no value in forcing any particular version of ripgrep's dependencies on other rust programs that happen to use the same crate.
I struggle to take seriously sociology papers that mention g. Getting through this one is particularly painful because of careless writing. The second paragraph of the introduction is a grammatical mess, and there are many awkward sentences throughout the paper.

How much confidence should I have in the correctness of the author's analyses, given that the authors can't even make it through the first column of the introduction of a camera-ready version without glaring grammatical mistakes?

I admit, "messy writing portends poor execution" a very general heuristic that definitely isn't causal and might be wrong more often than it's correct. But the authors want me to take "g" seriously, so shrugs.
Quartz looked nothing like Compiz. Comparing the two and saying Quartz was better massively misses the point of what Compiz was and what the OP discussed.

If you want to argue that most of Compiz effects were overused and tacky then that’s a different issue; also an entirely subjective one.
I've been looking for something educational and introductory about like this for a while. Appreciate you folks at Mux putting this together.
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So the smaller cores could be more like throughput-tuned efficiency cores, rather than 100% power saving cores -- kind of like Alder Lake? Seems like a neat idea. Almost like a Xeon + Xeon Phi, but on a chip. Seem like that'd get around the communication issue of the Phi and probably the compatibility issues as well.
Watching Don’t Look Up made me see my whole life of campaigning flash before me
I use Fennec but have no idea what a 'custom addon collection' is. I'd like to install one particular addon thats currently not available.
I agree, but also disagree. Look at the entire Epstein (and co.) trials - the rich and well connected are thoroughly protected across the world. Yes, it's more likely that you can hold people accountable but only to an extent.
(Fwiw I'm from India so I'm familiar with the system, and I fully agree it's far from perfect)
You might be interested in the concept of 'satisficing'. A product needs to be significantly better to replace an existing product that is satisfactory.

Your point is slightly different though and can be seen with M16 still being the assault rifle of choice in the US military even though it's not as good as other products by most measures. That's more the IBM effect where the agent deciding which option to buy has nothing to gain by challenging the status quo. If IBM fails, it's not your fault. If you choose something else and it fails, it's your fault. Success won't be recognized either way so the obvious choice for a purchase is IBM.
You should buy one of the original design cans on eBay. I just checked and they are around $35 (but another $20+ for shipping!).
That's not right, the frunk is a very natural feature given the design constraints.

You need at least some space in front of the console, because the wheel wells need to be forward of the cockpit so the front seat occupants have a place to put their feet. Traditionally you put the engine there, because it was an obvious empty spot. Cars that didn't generally made significant tradeoffs (like two seats) to accomodate a different engine placement.

But if you've got no engine, what can go there? Not the battery, that works much (much) better as a flat planar thing at the very bottom of the frame. You can put the motor there, sure, but an electric motor is tiny. Add in the random electronics and wiper fluid and whatnot and you still have a ton of space.

So you make it cargo. It works great. EVs that don't have a frunk (the ID.4, ahem) end up feeling like they're missing a feature.
That is heartbreaking, though I'm not sure the bank teller would feel that way after having a "gun" pointed at them while the man yelled "this is a stickup". Also, the perpetrator may have had prior convictions.

In general we prosecute violet offenses (including the threat of violence, even if the gun wasn't real) more seriously than nonviolent offenses. While 15 years seems excessive (as do most prison sentences in the US, IMO), there's a lot of important context missing in your statement. Hyperbole might not be the right word, but I'd call it "substantially misleading".
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Wait what? I don't follow entertainment media, so this "Master Plan" idea is news to me.

I thought it was straightforward that the first movie is what they set out to make, complete in its own right. It's basically anti-authoritarian hacking/phreaking (abstraction fucking) plus kung fu. Neo achieves the win condition, and the story ends to avoid having to grapple with any implications of achieving godmode.

Then the 2nd/3rd are basically add ons to the original story/universe. They include many more characters with large scale social dynamics, drawn out battle scenes, and the writing is less focused and more broad-appeal tropey. In the first movie society is something to exist outside of; in the sequels it's something the characters are a part of. In the first they literally blow up a federal building; in the sequels there are respected politicians. The end of the first is one of overcoming and creative destruction; the end of the third is that of reconciliation and hope for incremental change. I thought these stark differences where why the sequels were widely criticized?

I can see how that progression could be that of a single planned story, but rather it feels an awful lot like the first movie was successful and Hollywood wanted More. The themes of the sequels have seemingly more to do with the Wachowskis' own personal development struggles rather than abstractly following from the first. A hard truth of any critical art is that society looks a lot more comfortable after you've become successful. And well getting longer in the tooth myself, I guess that's just the cycle? shrug
12th-gen Intel Core laptop CPUs bring up to 14 cores to high-end portables
On top of it all they had the audacity to set the mining pool fee to 15% with no option for alternative pools. (for ref mining pool fees are generally 1-3%)
This isn't actually all that new: Quite a few of luxury automobiles have had non-serviceable engine compartments for many years. It's not uncommon particularly with high-end sports cars, where engine covers may only be removed by licensed technicians. Those tend to be held by special screws requiring non-standard tools or similar. Ironically it's often the engines one might want to marvel at the most.
Nice, thank you for the write up I think I’ll make some this weekend
Even if you agree with Taleb's arguments in that article, he still admits that low IQ is correlated with low wealth, low income and other such social measures of low success. So the hypothesis that IQ may be declining should still be concerning, since more and more people will be in that low IQ range predictive of low success.
I doubt it. If their results become noticeably worse than Bing (and therefore DDG) results, people will start to switch. But Bing is having the same problems with the crap sites.

So they at least have to keep their quality even with the competition for the average person (HN readers are not the average person).
I should've said that my dad still manually runs dfrg.msc weekly and has a shortcut to it on his desktop lol
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I'll take having to write verbose and specific searches over google guessing what I really want any day.
Ask HN: Would we be better off if Netflix maintained a monopoly?
The state of streaming today is bad because you have to pay so many different services. If Netflix could have somehow prevented competition would we be better off? The consumer could pay only one sub and watch everything there.

Do you think in some cases a monopoly is justifiable and even good for society?
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> you're argument is basically that any speculation on an issue is unreasonable. I'm sure you never speculate on anything

I try not to make nonsensical conjectures in public forums, if that is the question you're asking.
> You need to distinguish between what _can_ be done and what _needs_ to be done.

I think part of making this distinction comes down to whether the creator thinks the product will ever be 'done'. A lot of products are run with the assumption (implicit or explicit) that they'll keep getting updated as long as they remain viable as a business. Either approach is a valid but they're both choices. Though you may have to choose right from the start, as for some products only one of the two is viable.
Grab the laptop's license key, download a bootable windows installer and throw out whatever comes pre-installed. Very fast and almost the only way to get rid of the bloat.
The English-speaking world still hasn't really agreed upon a term for that decade, especially in America, where "aught" and "nought" are rarely used words. (We tend to use "zero" instead, and "the zeroes" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts
I don't think Jerry is a slur as much as a slang demonym like "Tommy" was for British soldiers. I think "kraut" would be closer to a slur but I don't know how that's received - it seems too quaint to be offensive in my eyes.
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