skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only IQ-Tests I know of are the ones alike to the Mensa Online Tests

All online IQ tests are fake, no exception. Most "Mensa online tests" are unrelated to Mensa; they just say so, because it makes people more likely to click on them.

A serious IQ test would look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices

> I can't fathom it being anything other than an indicator on how well someone can solve these matrix association problems.

Well, this is one of the interesting findings about intelligence. Turns out that how well people can solve these tests, correlates strongly with many other things.

At some moment in history, there was a competing theory of "multiple intelligences", assuming that the kind of intelligence for doing math is independent from the kind of intelligence for solving verbal problems. But when people were given different tests, it turned out that the people who score high on one kind of test are also likely to score high on the other kind of test.

So the reason why the "matrices" tests are so popular is that it doesn't matter much what kind of test you use, and the matrices are less culturally sensitive (i.e. in English verbal test, it would matter a lot whether English is your first or second language).

> what would be a rigid definition of IQ?

Approximately: That thing that allows you to do better in a wide range of problems. (As opposed to a talent or learning disability, which is that thing that allows you to do better/worse in one specific thing.)
Let us ignore the huge cost saving brought on by truck-trailers.

We cannot imagine a fleet of electric bike pulling one truck-trailer, in the spirit of slaves pulling blocks toward an Egyptian pyramid.
"Company that failed to exploit genotype data to cure disease pivots to genetic entertainment."
If you layoff a bunch of people working on greenfield projects, people will catch on and try to avoid working on more research-like roles out of fear of it happening again.
I won't go so far as saying "you didn't read the article", but I think you missed something.
I bet it could be rewritten to feel instantaneous as well.

it's a common misconception that SSR implies no XHR at all. That's never been true except prior to IE5 adding the technique for outlook.
We have massive datasets on mutations, and looking at the mutational signatures, there is no evidence that this plays any detectable role in practice, here's some different articles studying such things:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12477
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1210309109
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7408

The known mutational processes entirely dominate the picture as one can see.
here we are:

https://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=80630&start...

in the post by DrCliche. I have no idea how accurate his stats are, but if they are accurate, it doesn't look good for Hansi
Slots can be played profitably. Not just any slot, not just anytime, but some slots become +EV when the jackpots get high enough. Some other games have been profitable to play in the past, after careful analysis by players. "Advantage players" seek these games out and monitor them for profitable situations.

In other cases, there are strategies to just lose less money.

Anyway, all that to say, there's definitely slot advice videos and all that out there.
oh wow let me find any of JPOW’s speeches on behalf of the The Fed

I’ll link when I do but basically for the past 8 months he’s been explicitly saying he wants to get unemployment up, that he doesn’t mind risking the labor market in his efforts of “demand destruction”, never seen an appointed official say this before so he’s going hard

Here is him being a little tame to Congress https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/economy/fed-jerome-powell-hou...

but he has some speeches where he’s basically like “we’re going to raise unemployment” not “could”, not a “maybe a soft landing is possible but here are the risks”, just pain
Thanks for that pointer, didn't see that.
Not for me. Just gives me more of the same.
What does this mean “trigger warning?” Seems to have some political backlash but I never understood the original reference.
If you have legally obtained copies of the relevant novels, according to the first sale doctrine you should be allowed to cut them up, staple first chapter of one novel to the second chapter of another and third chapter of the next, and then sell the result.

But the authors have the exclusive right to making more copies of their work, so if you'd want to make a thousand of these frankensteinbooks, you would need to get a thousand copies of the original books.
Thanks! I played with this in French and posted the results as replies to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32928643

It's sometimes close to perfect, and sometimes goes off the rail; I think that maybe the model tries to establish some sort of consistency for each sentence; if starts wrong for the first few words of a sentence, it can't build the rest properly.

But it's super fun.
In case of GA be aware that Google is merely a Data Processor. You, the website operator are the Data Controller in this relationship.

If you use GA for web analytics it is website operator problem, not Google's.
Sure, but you can't usefully observe Jupiter for that long, since it rotates.
Better than a glacier but worse than fresh snow. "More than 80 to 90 percent of the sunlight falling on fresh snow is reflected back into space, compared to 15 to 35 percent of the sunlight reflected by most ice."[1].

[1]https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/DirtySnow/page2.p...
> I wonder if we'd see speed limits increase if everyone followed them as-posted? Because right now there seems to be this assumption from both sides that everyone is speeding, so they post 70 because they want 80, or 25 because they want 30, etc.

If there were speed limiters, it would probably be reasonable to increase highway speeds in places where they are excessively low, but to also enforce the current speed limits on residential streets as hard limits or even lower them.

This would massively increase safety while eliminating any concern about speeding tickets at normal highway speeds that people actually drive at.
that was measured from API call return codes, not by looking at overall service status page

Amazon is pretty good about this, if their API says machine is ready, it usually is.
It's all zuckerberg's one meta-house remortgaged a million times...
It's an open ticket. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/94679
For who needs a summary of what is happening in the EU [1]

1. Since 2020, it's illegal to send personal data to the US because of the invalidation of the Privacy Shield [2]

2. Google said it was okay in the EU to use anonymized IP addresses

3. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) [3] ruled differently and waived most of the arguments raised by Google. The DSB ruled that even anonymized IP addresses are personal data.

4. The Data Protection Authority of The Netherlands followed by implying that the use of Google Analytics might be banned in the future [4]

5. In February 2022 The Data Protection Authority of France (CNIL) followed [5]

6. In June 2022 the Data Protection Authority of Italy (Garante) followed [6]

7. Now, September 2022, Denmark – after already banning Google Workspace for municipalities [7] – considers Google Analytics unlawful as well [8]

This is a sound decision, but not a new one. It's a confirmation of what has been ruled in July 2020, but now it seems to have more impact.

PS: I'm the founder of Simple Analytics [9] - the privacy-first analytics tool that, unlike other privacy tools, does not use any identifiers.

[1] https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/will-google-analytics-be-ba...

[2] https://iapp.org/news/a/the-schrems-ii-decision-eu-us-data-t...

[3] https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/

[4] https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/nl/onderwerpen/interne... (in Dutch)

[5] https://www.cnil.fr/en/use-google-analytics-and-data-transfe...

[6] https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

[7] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/blog/denmark-bans-google-wor... (includes translated version)

[8] https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english/google-analytics/use-of-... (this thread)

[9] https://www.simpleanalytics.com/
Blaming inflation on price gouging seems way too facile and subjective. What is price gouging anyway? In the years that energy companies lost money were they doing the reverse of gouging?
I've commented this here before and it's worth repeating again. Any time at all no matter what digital good you're buying (especially movies and ebooks), strip the DRM if at all possible, by any means possible (fuck the laws that prohibit this, they wholeheartedly deserve to be ignored for personal use) and find a way to truly own your work. If a seller claims they sold something to you, it should be yours for as long as you want to keep it with absolutely no bullshit like this making the idea of ownership into an insulting joke forced upon people as if they were idiots.

The sad thing is that many people seem to act like exactly what these companies consider them by actually trusting to never lose access to their archives of "owned" content. Apparently, it's "just convenient". Not so much when you suddenly lose it to corporate shittiness.
This is what I would like to believe… but needs to be proven before I stake my business on it.
Sure, ignoring OSI, the licenses themselves, the ones we use to ship OSS, have the very same sentiment in them: You can use this software for whatever you want, without restrictions.

For me personally, the "without restrictions" part is a huge part of why I use OSS. I want to use it for whatever I want, and is the same reason I publish OSS for others, I want them to be able to use it for whatever they want, even if I personally disagree with whatever that is.
Errors returned from APIs and the status page are completely separate topics in this context.
Biogen drug slows progress of motor neurone disease in landmark trial
If you can go offline for half a day then I would think that you could block out "focus time" on your schedule. Some of my coworkers do this, and I do too from time to time.
That's not what I asked, though. Those aren't examples of people being harmed.
Would be interested to see a comparison of lambda functions vs google 2nd gen functions. I think that gcp is more serverless focused
I wouldn't be surprised if GCP has GPUs scattered throughout the datacenter. If you happen to want to attach one, it has to find one for you to use - potentially live migrating your instance or someone else's so that it can connect them. It'd explain the massive variability between launch times.
> Taking on debt to pay your daily living expenses is a recipe for disaster

Taking on unsecured debt is a bad idea. But if you are going to spend $100,000 on living this year and have $100,000 in the bank, you have two choices. Spend the $100,000 and have nothing. Or use the $100,000 to buy bonds or another income producing asset, then take a loan using that as collateral. As long as the interest you earn from your collateral is more than the rate you pay, you come out ahead.

Instead of having a bank account with $0, you have an investment account with $100,000, debt of $100,000, and you're earning interest on the investment account each month that hopefully covers the interest on the debt plus provides some extra income.
Half measures that they are doing will have no positive impact on anything, but will instead make the economy worse.
Yes Ukraine is the biggest loser here. EU a distant second.

Washington's goal is to become the defacto supplier of gas and oil to Europe and cut Russia right out of the market thereby crippling them financially. And the War in Ukraine helps to deplete Russia's military strength.

This is a dangerous game as Washington is gambling that Putin won't go Nuclear even if he's losing. Moreover, so far it's just succeeded into driving Russia into the arms of China, making China stronger. In addition, the gas war threatens to cripple Germany's economy and hence the EU. How long will Europeans back this war?

Putin was a fool as he took Washington's bait. Instead of War he maybe could've threatened to cut off EUs supply of gas. IDK.
Ukrainian people are the biggest losers.
>What's the downside and carrying a doorstop with you

Like everything physical, it takes up space.
Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?
It's buggy, and it crashes more often than any other app I use. God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call. And then if you try to just call back on your phone, and they want to share their screen, and you go back to your PC and try to join the call from your PC so you can see the screenshare (it's not going to work).

Seriously, with all the money and resources thrown at this company and this app, you'd think it'd be a little more stable, faster, and reliable. I am literally forced to use this app at work...
> In total it scaled up about 3,000 T4 GPUs per platform

> why I burned $150 on GPUs

How do you rent 3000 GPUs over a period of weeks for $150? Were they literally requisitioning it and releasing it immediately? Seems like this is quite a unrealistic type of usage pattern and would depend a lot on whether the cloud provider optimises to hand you back the same warm instance you just relinquished.

> GCP allows you to attach a GPU to an arbitrary VM as a hardware accelerator

it's quite fascinating that GCP can do this. GPUs are physical things (!) do they provision every single instance type in the data center with GPUs? That would seem very expensive.
What would you expect? AWS is an org dedicated to giving customers what they want and charging them for it, while GCP is an org dedicated to telling customers what they want and using the revenue to get slightly better cost margins on Intel servers.
The criminal world is dangerous. When large sums of money are involved it becomes even more dangerous.

Seems like a kid who had no idea what he was getting into suddenly found out how dangerous things can become. It's hard to feel bad for the "victim". Not only were they a "plug" for a crime that gains complete control of someone's life, they're also a criminal.
Egregores and how social media can be weaponized in truly dark fashion
My memory isn't 100% but they essentially said that most players are actually unlikely to be toxic with any regularity. Typically players will have a bad game, and they will lash out. They said that for players that are habitually toxic, a short ban (I think 2 weeks is standard) significantly reduces the chance of reoffending. For players with repeat bans for harassment or aggression they get permanently banned or eventually quit because of frequent longer bans.

Most of their communication should still be online in some form whether on their website or reddit. All this is just from my memory so subject to misremembering.
> Given China's demographics, conscription seems entirely unnecessary for any of imperial ambitions.

What do you mean? Sure it has a large population, but it's also a nation of only children.
Ok, so I just did 4.1 miles on the treadmill at 8% uphill slope with 5-pound weights in each hand. I'm sure it works the shoulders as well, but there is definitely some bicep work going on there -- you have to keep your elbows bent, for one thing, which means your biceps must be doing some work.
I mean, a desktop with a full-featured OS like Ubuntu (or Windows or Mac or whatever) can do so much more, and that justifies a higher price of the equipment. If I'm paying to have only Chrome and nothing else, I should be getting some kind of huge discount ...

Would you pay more to have a dumb phone that only does calls, than a smart phone?
Isn't that one thing rising interest rates is meant to achieve? Stopping anyone from borrowing quite so enthusiastically, be they government, corporate or personal.
Amazon always comes as the less desirable among the big techs.

I mean it is cheap comparing to Google/Meta, but again, in a much changed environment that is still better than not being hired at all I guess.
The attestation reports tell you the actual numbers (not percentages) of holdings grouped by asset type. [1]

> The Group’s consolidated total assets amount to at least US$ 66,409,619,424.

> The Group’s consolidated total liabilities amount to US$ 66,218,725,778, of which US$ 66,204,234,509 relates to digital tokens issued.

> ... US Treasury Bills ... $28,856,434,491

> ... other holdings by asset type

[1] https://assets.ctfassets.net/vyse88cgwfbl/2xJyKdUKicdRUWpC9b...
How important can these rights be if compromising them harms nobody?

You could have the right to name an asteroid, but it's not an important right.
>Hannibal Burgess

FYI, I believe it's Hannibal Buress
The nice part of HIP is that it's essentially CUDA. So it's very easy to migrate (and presumably also migrate back; though I believe HIP for NVIDIA is just a simple header that maps HIP constructs to the same CUDA construct using #define anyway).

Also, my RX 580 is not officially supported, and doesn't work in Blender either (even when trying to compile it myself, as I got a compiler error related to LLVM limitations), but developing things myself seems to mostly just work so far. I also managed to port LeelaChessZero from the cuBLAS backend to hipBLAS without noteworthy problems (and gained a fair bit of speed over the OpenCL backend). (I still want to try and get it working with hipDNN, which I threw out at my first port attempt because hipify-clang got confused over various #IFDEFs but hipify-perl does not seem to have that issue).

Installing also hasn't been too bad for me on Arch Linux, I just installed an AUR package that pulls in most of AMD's binary packages (opencl-amd-dev) and now I have working hipcc and all that in /opt/rocm/.

I do agree that the situation could be far better, but if I can take a fairly simple CUDA app and port it in an afternoon to work on my consumer GPU, I don't think the situation is completely terrible either.

Also, as for various stacks, Close to Metal is very long ago. I've honestly never heard of Brook+ or Stream Computing. As for the others, I think AMD APP, HSA, ROCm, HIP and AOMP are all sort of part of the same stack. For example, my OpenCL driver which I believe is part of the ROCm stack identifies as AMD-APP. HIP and AOMP are then both like compiler frontends for the ROCm compute stack.

For the any-GPU any-OS SPIR-V wish, Vulkan or OpenCL are probably your best bet, although that won't meet "any framework".
Well, if your system elastically uses GPU compute and needs to be able to spin up, run compute on a GPU, and spin down in a predictable amount of time to provide reasonable UX, launch time would definitely be a factor in terms of customer-perceived reliability.
I rather be stupid and foolish than rigid and closed-minded. One is worthy of exploring life, the other is closer to death.

We all have our preferences for novelty I guess; I prefer not thinking in absolute terms as the only thing that is absolute is change itself. Let paradox be paradox.
Are you sure, because AWS consistently requires me to migrate to a different host. They go as far as shutting down instances, but don't do any kind of live migrations.
His thesis is based on Spheres of Influence. That's RealPolitik not D2P.
borg implements preemption but the delay to start VMs is not because they are waiting for a background task to clean up.
Pretty simple root cause: Bureaucracy combined with lack of shared vision.

I support your need to vent, it's undisputably a magnificently huge pile of stinky garbage. Given the amount of resources poured in, it'd be hard to do worse.
Unlikely. More likely they put your VM on a host with GPU attached, and use live migration to move workloads around for better resource utilization.

However, live-migration can cause impact to HPC workloads.
Eh, this is an especially terrible take on your part.

The 'asset' that the government is taking dept on to pay for its living expense is YOU. On the averaged timeline YOU are an income earning asset. The government takes some expenses (roads, education, water, safety) and out comes a taxpayer that has an average income earning lifespan.

You as an individual don't get to play the averages game quite as well. If you are borrowing money today to pay for your daily expenses it is highly likely that will be true tomorrow. You as an individual have risks like getting fired and not getting a new job, or getting smooshed in a car accident. These are risks your lenders take on when figuring out the rate your loans will have, if you even get a loan at all.
> taking on debt for an appreciating (or incoming earning) asset, is generally OK - taking on debt for a depreciating asset is never a good idea if you can avoid it.

this is a good rule of thumb, but there are exceptions. say I want to buy something that costs much less than my net worth, but more than I typically keep in my checking account. I have the choice between a) selling investments, b) taking out a loan, or c) deferring new investments until I've accumulated enough cash.

there are pros and cons to each. with a), I'm paying capital gains tax that I could otherwise defer. with b), I'm taking the risk that my cash flow dries up and I need to sell assets anyway on top of paying interest. and with c), I'm taking the risk that my cash inflates away while I'm saving up.

you can't know with certainty which is best, but b) is usually optimal with a sufficiently low rate.
First employee and chief architect for Kraken here (2011-2015). I'll be professional and state only that this news is "unsurprising".
gross margin is included in the reports
booting VMs != starting a borg job.
The olfactory system is in fact rather extensively studied.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory_receptor_neuron
Whisper performed a lot better than I would've expected it to!
Assuming that a CPU at today's speeds would require vastly less power, we would have very powerful, very efficient mobile devices such as smartwatches.

Probably using AI a lot more, on-device for every single camera.
Borg is not used for gcp vms, though.
It's really funny because I asked on stack exchange why websites are slower than apps, my question for removed for being opinion based, and I got an answer about hydration.

In my view, the dom should be made obsolete, and there should be tighter restrictions, by making things immutable, or just completely redesigning how the dom works.

I'm not an expert, but the dom smells very weird.
Thanks for the insightful comments.

I think Ukraine is certainly in a civil war based on regional lines and Russia is in a proxy civil war based on the idea of what the future Russia should look like. It's a mess and no side can claim the moral high ground. Land wars in Asia are best avoided!
This blog post is pretty old (2015) but gives a good introduction.

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/03/Google-Compute-...
...that data appears to be claiming that more 25-34yos in the United States use Facebook than actually exist.
Doesn't that just encourage writing code for max LoC rather than efficiency or maintainability? Instead of generalizing a procedure you use in multiple places to make it a single function, if you write it out (slightly differently) each time you do it, then you get a higher LoC count?