skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It sounds like you're just saying that IQ is overhyped

Yes. That pretty much summarizes it. If IQ doesn’t further our knowledge of human behavior nor the human mind it is at best a useless construct. We have other more targeted measures (such as SAT) which are easier and cheaper to administer, and are far more useful in both models and evaluations/diagnostics. GDP has the benefit here of being extremely easy to measure and is therefor useful in more general models. IQ doesn’t have this quality, so that is not why most people use it.

Now if that was the only problem with IQ I wouldn’t be so bothered by it. Scientist are allowed to use an inefficient means of measuring their constructs. However IQ advocates often have a vested interest in an IQ that is immutable and (to some degree) heritable. This is often assumed to be true and IQ tests are later fixed in order to make them more robust in score against subsequent trails. This—off course—is circular reasoning (or a self fulfilling prophecy) and is not good science. But it is still used to explain group differences. This is where using IQ becomes scientifically invalid.

Now without the claim of immutability and heritability this wouldn’t matter. We would see a group difference and then we could then go on and try to explain it (e.g. within the context of sociology). However with immutability and heritability, you don’t have to explain it further. The answer is in psychology and genetics. (This is by the way the basis for scientific racism mentioned before).
I recall having a twitter discussion with him a few years ago where the thread was about NL being a single PHP file and he was anti-framework with the stance that their added complexity didn't outweigh the benefits they provided. No idea if things have changed since then, but I don't think CS is his background.
And 11 generations of ancestors
What kind of stove do you now have? I’ve had coil (trash), ceramic (still trash) and induction (amazing, and way better than gas, at the cost of needing compatible cookware) - I’d never voluntarily to back to gas.
For some reason, this worked brilliantly and organically on Google plus. I easily built circles of photographers, astronomers, computer geeks, artists, etc. Got interests based suggestions that made sense. I felt I had curated, high quality content lists. Compared to my google plus experience, Facebook and Twitter are just so much crap crap crap.

Therefore It only makes sense Google plus is the one that died - I'm pretty much the universal negative focus group :)
It is one thing to idea how the idea world should be, and quite another to develop a feasible strategy how to get there from the current state of affairs; a startup needs both.

What I would do if I was you is go back to your first step: your unhappiness with Google's search for medical drugs. Have you talked to GOOG about integrating your data into their search? You might be able to sell a subset of your data and code to them for a small sum, and assist them with the integration of your idea into their universal search.
Anecdote++

I bought a nice belt-drive commuter bike to avoid the risk of getting grease on my pants when going to work. I knew it was probably a mistake, but I did it anyway.

I kid you not the very first time I lock it up and head into a store to buy a single shirt, 20 minutes tops, and I come outside to see deep gashes in the lock where someone tried to cut it open with bolt cutters.

Solidified in my mind that the place is a shit hole.
Good observation. People are selling adhoc explanations: that Indian education system is the cause of the incompetence of colleagues. No one denies incompetence, but the explanation is adhoc. Even a product of a bad education system can learn later and shine.
That problem appears mostly solved these days. Household refrigerators and freezers now use propane. Many (most?) new vehicles now use 2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerant#Refrigerants_with_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene
I use a mobile phone and sometimes find that I have inadvertently Liked a tweet. But I guess such errors are moot, since anyone who is that blocky would likely end up blocking me anyway.
With proliferation of AC in every house, that ship is already sailing, and heat pumps replace AC.
I think it's an appropriate reply to someone specifically holding up China's COVID response as an example of the right answer.
Hi! Creator of Killed by Google. The code that runs Killed by Google has always been licensed under MIT, and it's changed significantly since the Microsoft version was cloned. There are multiple 'clones' that have popped up over the years using my repo as the base, and Fabiano is one of the few who kept my license in tact. The Microsoft version has been around for over a year, I think.

I agree that it is cool to see how it's been reused. :)
The binary that varies when built on the full moon
Exploitable uninitialized stack variables in 2022! Remarkable.
Unlike, say, dimethylhydrazine (brr, nasty stuff) mercury does not burn or decompose into harmless substances. It gets highly concentrated in marine life, because trophic chains go in one direction, and one predator eats large amounts of prey.

The fish humans eat are often many levels of predation up the chain, so concentration of mercury in, say, tuna can be troubling. Even if you inject relatively small amounts of mercury in the ocean, much of this amount is not dispersed but returned in seafood.

The amount of mercury used by spacecraft engines is likely (not necessarily) too small to matter right now. With cheap reusable boosters to orbit, it may grow quite a bit soon enough to matter.
So first off I never said I agreed with those doctors' reasoning and love that I'm getting downvoted despite it being a reply to a comment literally exemplifying what I'm talking about, and several other people are commenting things among similar lines.

It happens and I don't agree with it, but I totally understand why they do it. General practitioners and family practice doctors see dozens to hundreds of patients every week, and they get maybe half an hour with each patient and they know that out of the 300 people they see, maybe two or three of them will actually commit to the lifestyle changes they need to control their condition. So instead they optimize for what's going to work for the majority of their patients and skip straight to medication.
Most Linux distributions these days are allowing all/most users (not just root) to create these namespaces by default, which allows normal unprivileged users to access security bugs in nftables (like this one) (amongst other things).
We /can/ do better than those refrigerants, though. R-1234yf has a tiny global warming potential compared to even some of the green choices out there like propane or isobutane. There's also the old solutions like CO2, or even ammonia (though that I wouldn't expect anywhere but industrial environments).
I don't know the answer to this and hence, don't know what this is trying to imply.
I know but that is loss of business. Who will absorb that loss? Subsidize it and tax payers absorb it like much is done in farming? Or just let the farmers lose?
very odd that you called my post racist
One question: does it monitors the Tweet and keeps banning new likers?

I found that most people in my block list were fans of few propaganda accounts. It could be a nice addition if the service can monitor those accounts, and keep banning people who liked any Tweet posted by those accounts.

I know there are side effects for doing that, but I have other ways to gather valid information and opinions so I don't really care. I rather save my time from useless and baseless online arguments (a lot of those were sent by bots), and focus on things that are really important.
I notice downvotes on my comment. I wonder if the downvoters would explain why they feel my comment is somehow bad?
Public discourse is d-e-a-d. Whatever happened to just ignoring the things you disagreed with, or debating them?

I fear we live in the stupidest timeline of The Simulation.
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> Louis rossman

Disappeared off my feed. No idea what he’s doing anymore, probably still using too much flux.
Filter bubble in 8 clicks or less.
Yeah the SAT and the GRE suffer from the same problem - they’re meant to be taken by everyone, so the math is made basic and the non-STEM folks aren’t penalized when looking at total score.

Completely agree regarding the Gaokao sample. This all looks like it should be well within the means of a high school senior.
If you cannot solve the same problems given an open ended question, is it real ability? There is definitely something there, but I’m not sure I could be proud of it.
Yes, the Elephant in the Room was how crowded this space ought to be.

That said, Healthcare is 17% of the Economy and it's growing. There are lots of different spaces for lots of different things.

Insurers want risk mitigation, researchers want data, MDs desperately want help, Pharmacies want automation and a bit of oversight, drug companies want ad/sales potential etc..
Quitting Twitter is very easy and one of the best things I ever did. And I thought it would be hard! It really isn't.
Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]
I meant VM guests not host apps.
Seems pretty obvious that it's expensive compared to the alternatives. Which in this case are regular LCD panels. Yes I know, the use cases are slightly different, power consumption is much lower, etc. etc. Doesn't matter - most people want to use an e-ink display to... display stuff on a screen, which they can get in the LCD variety for a fraction of the price.
Do you think your age and life (work) experience did that for you? I have noticed myself feeling considerably differently towards different games too. Games I used to enjoy (like Starcraft) back in the days, I enjoy a lot less as an older guy now and having worked for almost 2 decades. It takes a lot of mental effort to keep up and do well (macro-ing and managing my econ, also micro-ing my army, etc.). Whereas if I play some Fortnite with friends (as a 40 year-old...) it's just pretty relaxing overall and I still enjoy gaming that way.
Nuclear reactors are arguably a lot safer (in terms of meltdown risk) on the ocean than they already are on land, seeing as how they're in ships that float on a giant planet-wide heatsink that also happens to be exceptionally good at confining radiation.

The more pertinent risk would be piracy and the like; if thorium ever catches on, it'd probably help make that less of an issue.
To play devil's advocate, I would note that many bats are made of wood; and that "batting" is also a material that's very useful as kindling.

Also, the question is phrased like a classical trick question. It sounds like the kind of false dilemma where, whichever option you choose, an interpretation of the sentence can be made where you chose wrong. So, IMHO, hedging on an answer to that question is likely sensible.

(And that line of argument can be taken further than you'd think; you might think replacing "a bat" with e.g. "water" would suffice... but what if it's a sodium fire?)
It’s a good point. That anyone intentionally moving to block all dissenting voices always considers the other people to be the radical ones.
Why go after congress members making millions when you can go after software engineers making thousands?
From a 1922 translation:

A father advised a pedant who had a child born to him of a slave woman to do away with the child. He replied "First bury your own children before you advise me to do away with mine."

You could probabaly make it a little more sarcastic: "Why don't you bury..." I assume the pedant is an adult, and cannot be killed lawfully, so burial is way off in the future. And once the pedant is buried, he cannot kill his own child.

It rings a little like a more vulgar versions of the saying of Jesus, "remove the plank from your own eye..."
There is no definitive answer to this question, as it depends on the situation.
High level public institutions get tens of thousands of applicants. I can almost assure you that what you’re describing is a wonderland that doesn’t exist in all but the smallest schools that can take time to review applicants on the whole. Most schools can barely weed through the applicants based on standardized measures (GPA, SAT/ACT, coursework). The feel good stuff likely only shines in essays, but very little prestige is going to be given to someone that wrote about working a summer job to pay for school, even if that’s unfortunate for the student.
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You claim that "making the world better and making money are inherently in conflict." My understanding of this sentence is that one cannot make money while making the world better. It follows then that it is bad to be making money, since it makes the world worse. If it is bad to be making money, it would be better to not be doing so. If money is not being made, this is the same as money being eliminated, as it ceases to serve its purpose.

Please tell me where you disagree.
No.

Pumping water is one of the most ecologically horrific things to do. It’s running a power plant backwards.

Rather than having a farm in New York State, let’s have a farm in New Mexico that requires pumping water up a mile and 1000 horizontal miles. Totally makes sense, right?

Places like California completely eradicated farming in the East but it’s based on an ecological lie. When the water runs out we’ll see why it was a mistake.
Not very good, even in Docker.

Just noticed today that I have a python script that takes 4.5 minutes to process on m1 but only 2.5-3 minutes on an intel Mac.
> That is, they weren't looking at whatever RGB output they had as the definitive version, but just as a rough guideline for how the image would appear on TVs. Given that, whatever RGB the devkit might've been spitting out isn't "definitive" in the sense of how the artist intended anyone to see it.

I don't think it's necessarily even very likely that they were looking at rgb from a devkit. These days people associate PVMs and other pro monitors with RGB but they aren't synonymous. Take a look through ebay listing for PVMs and you'll find plenty of composite or s-video-ish pro monitors from the 80s kicking around.

And even some microcomputer monitors were composite. If the dev tooling they used was based on a C64 or Apple IIe (which also used 6502 cpus), that'd be composite out for eg., even with a designed-for-c64/appleIIe monitor. And I'm pretty sure I've seen photos of people using Apple IIe or similar for NES dev.
They can be quite accurate if well-designed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_Navigation_System
I built one of these with a £40 nook off eBay, a cheap custom sized frame, and some open source software.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/09/turning-an-eink-screen-into...

It has been a great way to subtly discover new art.

As everyone has said, eink is amazing - but the price is ridiculous.
Isn't that what this is...? Ignoring the person who said it
It feels like it is turning into like early to mid Facebook with all of the posts that are like "what is your favorite programming language. Like for C++, heart for Java...".

Such low effort, low value engagement posts. Pretty sad tbh...
Completely agree. California should either a) stop using so much water or b) buy water from wet places. I don’t feel any obligation whatsoever to irrigate the desert across the country. Plenty of farmland in the Midwest and East.
I can see this argument. You’d also hope that graduation from one of our high schools and the motivation to apply was enough to demonstrate preparedness for college. While private run tests have their drawbacks, a publicly run exam has its own, and we have examples of that too. It isn’t easy to fix unfortunately.
Why don't they, or are they using Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
your attitude indicates everything that is wrong with interviewing.
Instant classic. The ancients would’ve loved it.
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Even for those refrigerants, the GWP should be considered in context - an AC unit only holds a few pounds of refrigerant, which has a similar GWP to the tailpipe emissions of a typical gas-powered car over three months or so.
Different kinds of advantage. Yes wealth can bring you all sorts of luxury. But it is a bad idea to close the doors to the poor, especially essentials like education.
I don’t think we quite have too many people in America. The USA could easily sustain a population the size of China. We’re not even close.
But what creates good institutions?

I’m not personally familiar with Bangladesh, but one phrase rings in my mind: the consent of the governed

Secular social democracy only really works if people mostly believe in the institutions.
Hmm, I consider myself a “rational green” in favor of nuclear power, but I’m not sure I think nuclear reactors operated by foreign companies in a highly competitive industry that booms and busts with tight margins is a good idea.
That is lower than average, looking at Levels FYI [0]. People who have half your experience are making that much and more, to my knowledge.

[0] https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Apple,Google,Facebook,Micros...
I can’t speak for everyone who uses this or tools like it (in fact I don’t even use twitter, Facebook, mastodon, or any of the big social networks). However, I can understand the mentality. When the “public discourse” is crushing your mental health because it is just thinly veiled bigotry given only the slightest edge of legitimacy, I think you’re well within your rights to step away from the trolls. We shouldn’t criticize people for choosing to opt out of the hate that is thrown their way. Now, sure, some people might be overreacting in a way that undermines legitimate discourse, but it’s not fair to point at the existence of these tools as a sign of The Death Of Discourse.
Good news, you now have to read every tweet made on Twitter or you're against free speech!
If I understand correctly, your comment addresses PDFs created from scanning paper. PDFs at arXiv are converted from LaTeX inputs, per the OP, and not via scanning and OCR; therefore they contain perfect renditions of the text.

>> Searchable, copy-able, transmittable, and data is extractable. They are also an open format, don't rely on a central service to be available, and they preserve presentation across platforms. They have metadata, and are annotatable and reviewable. And the PDF format is the best for long-term preservation, carefully designed to be readable in 50 years - partly because they preserve presentation across platforms - and that includes the metadata, annotations, and reviews.

> None of those virtues hold in practice.

> You always OCR the PDF visuals to get the text, because that's the only thing reliable about PDF. Everything else is often wrong, broken, or non-existent.

Which don't hold in practice? Are they not searchable? Is presentation not preserved? I use a lot of PDFs and they hold for me. PDFs are very popular, so they must work pretty well.

> SVG

Is there a standard way to do review and annotation, and is presentation preserved, for example when printing? Also, PDFs contain various image formats; do they contain SVG?
> Some of the least interesting students are "box checkers" who have a bunch of disconnected extra-curriculars that don't show passion, direction, or a proclivity towards success. If a student defines "success" as "getting into college," then what will they do once they get there? Probably flounder.

Yet if a student defines "success" as "playing a musical instrument really well" you'll think that he is well-rounded and deserves to get admitted.
As a kid who grew up in New York, I'll never forget those commercials.

The prices are insane!

They actually had decent prices and merchandise. There definitely wasn't any apparent fraud or malfeasance on the consumer level.
DaisyNFS is a formally verified NFS server
A container ship can carry up to 24,000 containers. Even if they don't build to the max size, it still takes 1-3 days to unload an average container ship on the shore using the giant container cranes. I can't imagine how long it would take to unload at sea onto smaller vessels but there's pretty much no way it's going to be economical with technology available in the next 20 years.
I think it’s funny to blame Biden for ETh gas prices.
I'm not sure how true the bunker fuel thing is these days either. Many countries have been working to address this.
It shouldn't be too hard for a journalist to get hired as a "labeller" on Upwork, and then report on what they were asked to do?
I think "sometimes" is a bit weak here. My second-hand understanding (from multiple women who have gone through this) is that it's routinely the very first treatment tried for women with PCOS who are having trouble conceiving.
Which type of reactor are you talking about here? I’m not a nuclear expert, but the wonderful Chernobyl TV series doesn’t align with this. That reactor put out 3mw usually, peaked at 33kmw, and was idled down to 700kw using control rod insertion rather than more aggressive cooling.
Good, but I wonder if there isn't still a moment/torque reaction to cause some tilting, and those towers also preclude packing the deck with containers.
I speculate about exactly this comparing infrastructure across the US. It seems like the worse the weather, the better the roads & buildings.
The Censored: Chris Hedges
> As somebody who's interested in postmodern philosophy, I'm not sure I'd characterise it as being against reason or intellectual empowerment.

I agree completely! The "new era" to which I referred is not post-modernism, but what I describe as the current 'reactionary' era in my earlier post (the GGGP, beginning "An hypothesis ..."). Sorry if that was confusing.
Agree to disagree then. Your experience raising these animals do not match mine.
It’s resistive. Not sure the exact tech. All I know is, I’ve had electric stoves that suck ass, and this one does not. It heats up fast, and I’m not noticing a huge performance difference over my old gas range.

The biggest difference is that you can nor just cut the power like gas. You need to (horror of horrors!) move the pan off the heating element to dramatically cut the heat.
> I can’t comprehend how people would write these issues. But they do. And it sucks.

Because writing good bug reports takes work, and people don't like doing work.

Unfortunately, the practices described in the GP frequently just create even more work...
That's sad, given at least three former colleagues can vouch for you. Even if you had finished that question in an hour, they should have considered you for the job.
Well, in Canada we don’t have standardized exam like ACT and SAT but we do have provincial exams that account for 20% of your grade in major courses from Gr 10 to 12.

I didn’t do fancy extra curriculars. I merely joined student council to organize events, started an announcement club (just me reading a school events over the PA), and didn’t do any sports (but did music and band). None of these are costly.

I think the truth is you need to look at a diverse rage of factors. If someone is not into sports, let’s look at what else they did. If grades are high, why do they need to engage in other extracurricular?

Obviously, the motive is different. Students want education to find what they want to do or gain skills, reps and network to find a job that pays descent.

Universities however look at other criteria - % alumni finding a job, average alumni pay, etc.

What we do should ultimately help the students achieve what they want while balancing the motives for universities.
This is an insightful, humorous and well-written post. It was a treat to read. Thanks to the author for spending time to create it.
It's turned into Facebook 2.