skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The importance of privacy is not theoretical.

First, the data is accessible by credit card provider, but also by several financial and technical intermediaries. Second, there is no way for any of those companies to guarantee that the data will never be leaked.

Then, in terms of consequences, it includes reputional risks, security risks people know your behavior patterns, and to be arrested for being at the wrong place and wrong time. Then is all the track record of governmental overreach that used this type of data, from arresting environmental activists to killings based on sexuality (for example). It happened in everywhere, and it still happens today.
The hallmark of the internet.
> Kofman describes the Moskva as an antiquated rust bucket, with its defensive systems likely not even functional.

Fire sinks ships. In WWII most ships that went to the bottom didn't blow up. They caught on fire, and eventually, sank or were scuttled. If Moskva wasn't ready to fight, was defenseless, or even sea-worthy, what does it say about leadership to put it in range of anti-ship missiles? Finally, the story on Moskva is that it was sunk by a country that barely has a Navy.
Try https://tumult.com/hype/
> While running an exam I asked students to switch off their phones and put them in a box at the front of the hall. Half were resistant. I had to expel two for refusing and another who sneaked-in a second phone that rang during the examination. Many of the remaining students were distracted, looking nervously at the box every minute.

Seems like you are looking for conflict trying to be abrasive and prove your prejudice. This is especially the case now since many people use cases which are also wallets for your credit cards. Would you be comfortable leaving your wallet in a pile of other wallets in a box you can't control?

The easy way of doing it, which I personally experienced during countless exams, is that all phones needs to be turned off and put in your bag. The bag is then stashed out along the walls or hung on hooks. Then you can both keep an eye on your bag, knowing that no one will ruffle around in it and the exam watchers can easily make sure that only allowed materials are on the desks. Magically there's no opportunity for conflict.

Sure, someone inevitably forgot to turn off their second morning alarm and then an exam watcher and the person would together walk to the bag and under supervision turn it off. No need to escalate it into something more than it is.
They are not sharing a "no trusted third-party" part of Nakamoto's Consensus.
My best startups were started in 2001 and 2008. I am doing a new one this year again. It is a good time for sure; enough choice of colleagues and employees and competitors (especially the growth oriented VC funded) dropping like flies.
We're Catching Bad Guys
Verifiet helps individuals and businesses protect themselves against scams, frauds and cyber threats.

How many of you or people around you has been scammed and lost their money?
They're a great measure of intelligence -- if you believe in them, you're an idiot.
You can say the same thing about stocks, gold, bonds, commodities depending on what year you are in. Everything goes up and eventually down again. Oil futures even went below zero not that long ago, now the cash price is over $100 a barrel. I saw the crash in 1987 and yet here we are, at all time highs recently. Crypto of course has less economic meaning as it's just bits, but anything that is traded goes up and down in value, even pointless things like baseball cards. Value is whatever people will pay today for something hoping it either goes up in value or provides them with some benefit (like a house).

Complaining that crypto is stupid is fine, but lots of things in history were stupidly valued (tulips, beanie babies, bored apes) and eventually the market did or will change. Crypto is worth whatever people will pay for it. It's not inherently evil.
>I thought IQ tests were pseudoscientific anyway?

This is false. Look a this reddit post[1] for a summary of the scientific consensus.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/oh6115/perf...
> It's hard to read a book and also watch tv and also talk to friends etc

My hypothesis is the availability of low quality passive entertainment 24/7 - namely tv - is what leads to iq scores declining.

When did tvs become affordable for everyone, 1970s perhaps?
Just because they're post-Soviet country means they can't change?

Since Zelesnky became president, they've started improving. For example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diia.
Let me add that such "gasoline powered dangerous cheap products" aren't hypothetical. I remember the era when it was legal to hook a 2 stroke up to a bike or a scooter platform, those things were hideously loud and had plastic exposed bottles full of gas attached to them.

We banned those, we can demand adequate quality control on electric vehicles as well.
The DOIs are for the chapters as printed within this book.

The original papers themselves, as originally published, should generally be available.
The quality of these discussions could improve dramatically. At this point almost all of the possible arguments have been made. We are at the dead horse flogging point.
Thanks, missed the link, reading study.

So many variables here including way the math portion was measured moving to multiple choice in the 1990s when the scores start dropping, hopping on a flight, still skeptical.

Other quick one, all 95% confidence interval on data that moves less than +/- 2.5% either way. I understand confidence interval isn't a straight linear margin of error, it one I'd want to also look at further.
I have studied the primer on irony instead.
Being there, price move me out.

The selling point was easy and reproducible deployment. But there are must cheaper alternatives, and dynos productivity didn't have enough benefits for the cost.
>also tends to score higher on IQ tests

And is smarter. Why are people allergic to the idea that some people are smarter than others?
It is possible both for a technology to be incredibly safe and yet occasionally have huge risks. I'm typing this on a device with li-ion batteries. Most of us accept the slight risk involved. Yes the parent comment is a bit weirdly skeptical, but calling it FUD isn't accurate either.
Here[1] there's a summary of the evidence for and against IQ.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/oh6115/perf...
Hi @deivid, I've been following your project for a while, and would like to collaborate. I am working on a similar Game console project and working on adding support for fantasy console support Pico8 or Tic80. https://github.com/codetiger/GameTiger-Console
There is no goal-post moving from me as it is straightforward to understand what the whole point of Bitcoin is about as explained by Satoshi Nakamoto himself in the white-paper.

Assuming that you have read it, so is Satoshi moving the goal posts for Bitcoin? or is it the maximalists?

> people use it for payments.

Like in El Salvador who has adopted it as its 'legal tender'? It is going great isn't it and especially better and envisioned by Satoshi as a form of on-chain payment system?

> as it literally cannot be censored (as shown by its banning - multiple times - in China).

That is because its due to it being on-chain which that is decentralised despite the bans, which that is the whole point of Bitcoin. Is that what El Salvador and others are using it for?
Those modest yearly increases in battery capacity and drops in production costs add up. After a while, a use case that needed the batteries with all the downsides can get by with a safer, more affordable battery that wouldn't have enough juice 20 years before. It's a much slower version of the phenomenon we see in computing power. Eventually, even a slow CPU can do what only a top end desktop CPU could do 20 years ago.

The phrase "range anxiety" has been with us for almost 25 years, so it's about time.
You don’t need to ditch the phone. Just disable all notifications and maybe uninstall some content consumption feeds like FB or twitter.

A phone is what you make of it.
This doesn’t seem like very good advice to me.

Did you know that cholesterol ”serves as a precursor for the biosynthesis of steroid hormones, bile acid and vitamin D.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the precursor for nearly all the hormones in our body.

I didn’t learn about this until very recenty.

”Steroid hormones can be grouped into two classes: corticosteroids (typically made in the adrenal cortex, hence cortico-) and sex steroids (typically made in the gonads or placenta). Within those two classes are five types according to the receptors to which they bind: glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids (both corticosteroids) and androgens, estrogens, and progestogens (sex steroids).”

Cholesterol is the precursor for ALL OF THESE. Including cortisol.

”Steroid hormones help control metabolism, inflammation, immune functions, salt and water balance, development of sexual characteristics, and the ability to withstand injury and illness.” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid_hormone

I do not see the proposal to avoid cholesterol as a default way of living to be grounded in any kind of solid scientific basis. Having read the studies as well as I can.

It was also very interesting and important to learn what *low* cortisol does. And afaik there is “competition” for cholesterol resources when there isn’t enough cholesterol. Sex hormones are usually the first to be turned off when there’s a problem in steroid hormone synthesis. And sex hormones do a lot for well-being.
Labor movement could benefit as well from such a change. Union leaders now push woke agendas which scare away potential members.
It creates division and distracts from the real rich vs. poor battle to reduce income inequality
I am aware of these guys and they have been around for years. The only similarity is that they have an asynchronous chip but it is implemented in the old classic asynchronous design approach with specialty circuits for their language. The language they use is Forth a ‘stack based’ language.
On YouTube, the ads block the entire experience until they're done. Search ads are relatively unintrusive, even if some users take offence.
Too expensive. Google makes, on average, smtg like $50/user/year or something (not an accurate number). Now obviously this varies, so some people are much more valuable, and some are less valuable. The value depends on many things, but one of the biggest factor is purchasing power.

Now -- if you're willing and able to pay eg. $10/month for Google Premium, then you likely worth much more than the average user. So the more you're willing to pay the more you worth as an advertisement target. I am not sure where those curves meet, but I presume it'd be a lot.
> This whole “what matters is the founder” idea really discourages me.

Yep that is one of those pesky traits...not getting discouraged from rejection.

I think everyone should at the least start their own business, even if just to become a better employee in the future through their failure and gaining perspective of how difficult starting and running one successfully is.

Before this turns into a rant about how soft the world has become and I share my unacceptable opinions, I will just say that if you allow fear of failure to keep you from making the attempt you fail by default.
> don't know what variables were the key drivers of the first groups results so we therefore cannot possibly create a consistent second group to measure against the baseline.

This is why there are practices around statistics sampling and confidence intervals and whatnot. Of course we can’t exactly recreate, that’s impossible, but we can create samples in a way that the results are generalizable in both the baseline and the comparison. And the results are useful.

I have a friend who says that it’s impossible to know if we can’t sample 100% (“how can we know how it will work in 100 million if we only test in 1000?”) and it’s frustrating how just basic concepts of math and statistics make it hard for them to accept any research.
There's no way in hell you would fail a FizzBuzz test if you have done the things you say you have done.
"There's nothing wrong with creeping authoritarianism because I currently agree with the authorities."

"There's no need for privacy because I have nothing to hide."
Or... some people are smarter than others.
Here[1] some research.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/oh6115/perf...
Migrated a small production Node app from Heroku to Render recently due to costs and that security debacle. Render is pretty much on the same level when it comes to convenience (push-to-deploy, etc.), but they're a bit more limited in what they support. They do have some features that Heroku doesn't have. The migration took me ~1 hour altogether.

- For languages, they support less stuff than Heroku (unless you're willing to do Docker yourself).

- For DBs, they can do Postgres or Redis on their end, other stuff is on you if you need it.

- Out-of-the-box metrics don't include basic stuff such as requests-per-sec or http status codes, so you do have to plug something external in for that.

+ HTTPS on custom domain using LetsEncrypt was a breeze and free.

+ They have "disks", which is a persistent filesystem for your app. Very useful if a normal FS is better than a DB for any of your things (image processing in my case).
Silovik
From what I've read is that IQ is largely genetically determined, With all the complexities that genes bring with them. And its very hard to increase intelligence in a meaningfull way. But whats important is that its very easy to make someone really really dumb. Like the disaster that was leaded gasoline causing an estimated loss of 2 to 8 iq points on a test.

Education absolutely increases IQ test scores but wether its an increase in intelligence itself whatever that may be is questionable.
Soy (tofu is made of soybeans) is also linked to hormonal weirdness.

My girlfriend used to drink vegan protein powder every day and would get extremely sore breasts and much more severe cramps than she otherwise would during her time of the month.

After reading about soy and hormones she began cutting it out (using milk based protein powder instead) and she went back to normal, relatively quickly mind you.

Playing with the hormones of people in development is a bad idea, until we know more I wouldn’t recommend making soy a staple of a young adult diet.
I've never been more happy to be wrong.

It's just most of the instruments I'm seeing, are essentially a bunch of knobs which can figure an internal computer.

I absolutely love synths, so I'll probably buy one of these.
They there! The beta is public so you’re welcome to install from NPM and use. If you have issues we’d be happy to help out in Discord.

The schema parser is custom-written and does not make use of `eval`.
Seems like the most likely idea to me. It seems hard to imagine that health doesn’t gradually accrue changes in iq.
Because they are smarter and make better choices…
Like you said in another thread, there are two choices here. I took the other choice because I wanted to: 1. not build a new templating language 2. not maintain a custom server side renderer(v8). 3. Keep javascript to the minimum 4. Build for developers who know Go and maybe a little html/css. 5. No special html attributes. It should be just standard html/template i.e easy to delete the websocket stuff if it doesn’t work for you 6. Offer a view library instead of a framework. Go users are likely to be more open to adopting a library.

The approach is similar to hotwire except I only use stimulusjs and not use turbojs. turbojs doesn’t integrate well with html/template. In my approach, you can simply reuse the html templates you have already written with standard html/template package.

Sorry for the rambling, I haven’t gotten around to writing down all of it in a more structured way.
Two reasons:

* expensive to scale

* developer limitations

This limited it to smaller scale projects, MVPs, proof of concepts where paying a little more for a certain range of developer productivity makes sense. Such is the case with rapid development platforms in general. When you grow you shift to wholesale-priced primitives that give you more control.
"The Inmates are Running the Asylum" by Alan Cooper.
> An armed horde of soldiers is a formidable force, even if the individual soldiers appear to be rather vodka’d

Not against modern weapons.
agreed, fielding specifically mentions scripting as an optional constraint in section 5.1.5 of his dissertation, "Code on Demand":

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...

and it has proven to be an incredibly flexible aspect of the web

however, I would note, currently that scripting ability is being used mainly to replace the original hypermedia model of the web (with RPC-style JSON-based applications) rather than enhance it as a hypermedia

we'll see if we can change that
I wonder whether we need to take another look at our modern school education system. Maybe some of the things we (rashly?) ditched had some importance that we didn’t realise at the time. Like learning poetry by heart, learning multiplication tables, “old-school” teaching methods that have now fallen out of favour.
Is higher education the issue here? I know people with higher education that are willing to mute people with different opinions, I know people with higher education who fail to understand basic things, I think higher education gives you the expertise in a certain field, as you said, higher education creates machines that can help shareholders get rich, as italian I've read a lot about italian universities being ranked 1/1000th lower than US universities, but then I've lived with US people from Harvard in Berlin, it's of course just two example, but I was even questioning how the hell they survived that much, in sense that I had a flatmate asking how the trash bin worked, how the microwave worked or how the oven worked, with little to no awareness of the world, it's weird but yeah I think education from top universities is good for money but it has little to do with daily needed intelligence
I think, and this article is definitely an example, that people realize it is largely illegal under current law, but is simply not being enforced by regulatory agencies. So when people get upset, I don’t think it’s just old man nagging about the new generation, it is more them trying to warn people about traps they have seen time and time again but have been reigned in by regulation but for some reason are allowed to be setup in this new crypto space without oversight.
>only to find out that this is a loser's strategy

I'm still processing this truth. I basically put my life, university and career on stop to help my sister. I oscillate between thinking "I'm a good person" to "I just wish I were a selfish bastard".

Definitely a loser's strategy.
Exactly where do you use Monero?
Lead poisoning disproportionately affected those born between 1950 to 1980 and have significantly dropped in the last 20-30 years. So I don't think so.
No one would pay for it. Why pay for somthing that uBlock Origin can give you for free?
I disagree with your statement about cryptos biggest use case. However I also want to point out that legal can vary a lot between countries. There is at least one third world country where a woman can't even get an abortion without risking life in prison. If cryptocurrencies can help people who don't have equal rights with more privacy in such situations then I am all for it.
This is an interesting viewpoint and as an advocate of wfh, a good one for me to read.

However I would say that a lot of your argument seems to be based on the fact that senior leaders / top performers like to meet in person, so therefore there must be benefits. Have you considered the possibility that the causality is reversed here? The current generation of senior leaders came up before working from home was really possible, therefore are by definition going to be the people who thrive in face to face environment. Conversely people who work more effectively from home (including all the intangibles) are much less likely to currently have reached senior positions. But now working from home is so much more convenient, is there a reason to think that there couldn't be a rebalancing here?
They're not trustless which makes them closer to a privately run fiat currency than a crypto currency.
Loved Songza. Best music discovery I’ve encountered.
> That's why instead of complaining that companies don't interview the way you prefer them to ("interviewers refuse to listen")

This is a misconstrual. The point was that interviewers refuse to listen to scientific studies that show interviews test for anxiety rather than skills.

> Then everyone is happy!

Not when the whole industry cargo cults on audition-style interview tests.
the original web architecture has sophisticated client-side caching built into it, all modern browsers support it:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Caching

the difference between constructing a string of JSON and a string of HTML is a round off error when compared with network connection costs and data store accesses, etc.
I think grit is obtained through adversity.

Hard times create strong people,
Strong people create good times,
Good times create weak people,
Weak people create hard times.

What time is it?
Sure there is always some on both sides; but the Russians were considered a superpower and Ukraine's military was considered much weaker on paper: the Russians are the ones moving backwards and losing all the time. Winners go forwards. Propaganda is mostly useful to the loser trying to convince their population that all is well. Goebbels kept saying Germany was winning even as the Russians and Western allies were already in Germany.
Graph Minds
I know I'd pay just to never see an ad again because I don't care about them at all. If one slips through the cracks I do whatever I can to suppress it as soon as possible while actively denying any form of sensorial engagement with it. I suppose this is true for many people and paying might be more convenient than using adblockers, installing alternative apps, using PiHoles...
i'm old enough to remember when everyone here hated it ;)
Great article! But what's the aversion towards grad schools?
> Access to education is currently the most conclusive factor explaining disparities in intelligence, according to Ritchie. In a separate study that has not been released, he and his colleagues looked at existing research in an effort to demonstrate that staying in school longer directly equates to higher IQ scores.
They are comparable.

The most efficient shipping method is by sea, the fastest one is by air. The importance of that chokepoint is debatable.
Flying distance to Moscow is different but not substantially so, 450 versus 600 km.
There's nothing too important in Belgorod or Rostov, while Saint Petersburg is 2-nd most populated city, and has industries related to the military.

Historically, Russian governments also viewed these places as strategically important. They annexed these lands by force, twice: after the Great Northern War of 1700–1721, then once again after WW2.
Well, dinosaurs, being a clade, are pretty common if you think of birds.
This is completely false propaganda. The scientific consensus is completely different. Here[1] some research.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/oh6115/perf...
Over what time period? And you’re ignoring interest rate and equity return risk.

It’s pointless to do unless you can do it until you’re dead so capital gain tax is actually reduced.

Otherwise you’re just deferring the tax. Which has value, but isn’t avoid tax.
It sounds like she might be sensitive to the plant estrogens in soy, but hopefully nobody thinks that milk from a pregnant cow is free of animal estrogens and other hormones. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524299/