skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Let's put this in the proper context. Many modern studies and analysis show similar disparities in intellectual abilities between ethnicities and races, based on a number of tests designed in the modern day by many different institutions globally. The suggestion that IQ tests are on the whole are a racist ploy is very conspiratorial.

The parent comment that original suggested this claim linked to an article tracing the academic influences of the I.Q. test and other similar standardized testing frameworks, and it doesn't seem "very conspiratorial" to me in the absence of any specific critiques.

> Furthermore, it's pretty hard to imagine how one would design visuospatial and pattern matching problems so that they are discriminatory.

Maybe my imagination is more active than yours, but it doesn't seem that hard to imagine for me. Broadly speaking, I'd imagine that the process of coming up with any sort of test like this would consist of the following steps:

1. Come up with potential questions for the test
2. Assess people with the test in a controlled environment
3. Revise the set of questions based on the results of step 2, then repeat steps 2 and 3 until you're satisfied

To tailor the results to a certain group, give the test to both people in and outside of that group in step 2, then in step 3 revise the questions towards the type that the favored group scored better on (e.g. throw out questions that the disfavored group scored better on, come up with more questions similar to the type that the favored group scored better on, etc.).

You wouldn't be guaranteed to find a set of questions that ended up statistically favorable to the favored group, but it certainly doesn't seem very hard to imagine it might work sometimes, and for it to have happened, it only would need to have worked once.
Until they get enlightened.

Related: https://willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
It's funny how you wouldn't blink at a $20,000 car, but $2,000 for a mattress that you'll use for eight hours every day for the next several years is "No thank you."

A good mattress can make your life better in ways that few other things will, on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Sleep is important.
After my phone was stolen last month, I switched to https://2fas.com and couldn't be any happier.

It's free, open source and has tons of great features.
If you are talking about device backup, apple had it encrypted before Advanced data protection.

If you are talking about other data, Google don't have it encrypted even today.
> Sms should never be used or offered

It's better than nothing.
The Win32 mutex is slow because it's also usable across processes.

If you don't need cross-process sync, you should really be using a Critical Section instead. The kernel-level interface, which is largely undocumented, is I believe either an Event object or a Keyed Event on later versions.

There's some interesting related discussion on that here: https://microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel.narkive.com...

Anyone know of a reference implementation of mutexes on Windows?

Look in the WINE source.
I guess that would be a fair comparison if shoes were unbelievably complicated to build?
> Do you have real examples of western governments taking down independent journalists using free speech to speak truth to power? Because that would do a lot to win me over.

Belarus:

"Freedom of the press in Belarus remains extremely restricted. State-owned media are subordinated to the president and harassment and censorship of independent media are routine. The government subjects both independent and foreign media to systematic political intimidation, especially for reporting on the deteriorating economy and human rights abuses. Journalists are harassed and detained"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Belarus

Turkey(which is mix of eastern and western but is part of the EU so I think counts):

"Turkey has earned an accolade which holds no glory: according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it is the biggest jailer of journalists in the world"
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/02/free-tur...
Seamless, type-safe JSON, GraphQL, etc. from Java
> doomsday scenario where Google itself leaks all of this data, which would be unprecedented and is unlikely ... (emphasis added)

From the linked article [1]:

> December 2018: Google+ Bug Exposes 52.5 Million Users’ Data
Google+ faced its second big breach of 2018 when a November update created an API bug that exposed data from 52.5 million Google+ accounts. Google fixed the bug within six days, and moved up Google+’s burial date from August to April 2019.

> Google originally decided to terminate Google+ after another breach became public earlier in 2018

and an earlier Google+ bug that was reported in WSJ [2]

> Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public

> Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data. It found no evidence of misuse.

[1]: https://firewalltimes.com/google-data-breach-timeline

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared... (Oct, 2018)
In TX you can shoot them. If someone is kicking my door thought they are getting shot in every city in every nation.
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While what you say logically makes sense, it's very difficult to handle the thought for most people. Most people are either racist and disagree with the latter part of what you say, or are anti-racist and reject even the possibility of any intelligence disparity.

I find it uncomfortable, and I personally don't accept it as a fact (there is pretty significant evidence that points at many possible conclusions, as well as many many confounding factors), but I can't, as a reasonable person, reject the possibility.

I would never even voice that opinion in public, though. Even a position like this could make me a social pariah.
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Fair question. She's very curious about all sorts of things and always wants to know how they work. I also assume she'll find out about ChatGPT in the next year or two, at school. I figure she will probably ask me about how chatbots work, whether they are actually smart, etc. So for now I've been keeping an eye out for explainers that would help her understand things as I've been learning myself.

Sorry if this is a personal question, but how did you choose your username?
Tennis is definitely not more popular.

It's odd that you seem to think popularity = it would be easier.

Soccer's popularity is what causes this issue because there is so much money to be made by splitting it up and selling to multiple companies rather than just one cheap, easy solution.

If Tennis attempted the same it would be so detrimental to its viewership it wouldn't be able to survive.

Unlike soccer which is so popular it can get away with it.
The convention exists because for most articles, publication year is an important piece of context. I'm not sure we have to blindly follow the convention when it isn't.
I’m well aware of that and that’s my employer (AWS). But I’m not tsk tsking on a moral high ground and clutching my pearls about what the web developers are doing
TLDs controlled by local courts can be taken down by local laws. Icelandic domains are forced to be removed for violating its (much larger than most other countries) broad hate speech laws, .de's can be taken down for Germany's insanely broad slander laws, and .ru, is well, Russia, and Rozkomnadzor has the power to demand a site shut down arbitrarily.

I'd be cautious of following the linked post.
Gradle is totally undiscoverable. Some autocomplete and goto def would be nice for gradle kts files.
“Google Analytics is not used in search quality in any way for our rankings.” -Matt Cutts (ex-Google) (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgBw9tbAQhU
Argo Navis
What do you all like to do for security key backups?

I use yubikeys wherever I can, but I've got to admit that fetching all 5+ keys from their various locations and then replacing them every time I need to enroll in something gets old fast, especially when you get into locations like "buried in the mountains".

The phishability of TOTP is indeed a big problem but being able to just save the seed (theoretically, somewhere not next to the other credential) is really nice.
A general purpose language as the basis for a build tool always felt like a sledgehammer/nail situation to me. Personally, I prefer less concise, less flexible build config tooling.
> During my period of intense frustration with Gradle I found this condescending blog post claiming that anyone who dislikes it is simply using it wrong.

Replace Gradle with literally any tech tool and you'll find the same articles. A hill that I'll gladly die on is that Git sucks, maybe more than any other tool so widely adopted, and yet bringing up how badly it sucks usually results in a deluge of downvotes and "No! You don't understand! Just learn the internals of the tool!" and "Oh yeah well if it's so bad, what do you suggest?!"

I reject this sentiment. I don't have to have all the answers to point out that something sucks. I also shouldn't be expected to learn the inner workings of a tool that we expect code school students to use.

> But that’s stupid. When I took a step back I realized that all of the problems I had with Gradle before still existed, I just understood how to use them to get work done. But the fundamental problem with Gradle is that it simply does not justify these complexities.

Yep. Spot on.

> But goddam it feels like there must be an easier way to accomplish this stuff.

I've done multiple forays into Java and always fall into the trap of "Certainly in <insert year> java tooling must not suck as bad?" but I come up empty. It still sucks. A real mess.

I really enjoyed this blog post.
Can you name a single for profit technology or tech company that doesn’t seem dystopian anymore ?

The whole world seems to have an “inevitable dystopia” vibe about it to me.

Open AI + Governments + World coin is the absolute epitome of it for me personally.
That should work out of the box with IDEA, just make sure you hit the script sync thing that pops up in the corner.
I agree that M libraries x N languages is an absurd reality (and why I still write C), but "lock-in" to me suggests intent, and the situation you describe is more accidental, at least if you exclude corporate languages like .NET and such.
What is the 3pm saturday blackout?
In that case, isn't this a similar situation platforms like Twitter or Youtube find themselves in, where they don't want to take full responsibility for moderation or suddenly they're liable for all the harmful content on their platforms, but on the other hand they're forced to moderate just enough to avoid governments forcing them to be on the hook?

It seems like such a weird place to be in.
Maybe around there. Where we are you can't find a store that charges under $2500 for a Mattress. Was such a racket I rolled the dice on a $300 shipped mattress from Amazon. No issues insanely comfortable. I'd absolutely buy another
A man with 106 clocks can calculate the mean value, and give an estimate with a high confidence within two standard deviations of that.
There was also short BASIC programs that could be readily keyed in that supported the basic lowest common denominator of the Kermit protocol. The goal being to key that in, and use it to transfer and bootstrap a better version of Kermit.
The flow of entropy is a marvelous, strange, bizarre, and beautiful thing.
> Building everything from source can take a while for some projects, for example, Scala/Rust.

Gotcha, true. I think you're doing yourself a disservice by including compile times (mostly out of your control) in your answer to "How long does each preview environment take to deploy?"

> Is there anything more specific you can share?

I would like to hear some technical details about the environment that each temporal app version gets deployed to. Like, is it a normal VM I can remote into? Docker containers? Something fancy like Firecracker micro-VMs?

You might not want to make all of those details public, but I need a bit more of an understanding of how a product works to consider using it.
Yeah, it's definitely tricky to communicate. The chances of _either_ candidate getting 70% of the vote in any recent presidential election would be incredibly small; even 55% would be a huge anomaly. Most people wouldn't feel very enlightened looking at a probability distribution of potential vote percentages for each candidate on a CNN graphic though, especially when they'd basically just look like giant spikes around 48-52%.
I wish every sport had an f1.com style offering. I’d gladly pay several sports some money, but no. They insist on the old way
Hey! Glad you're enjoying the Superus-101 playground ! The waiting time (ragard a single thread) is actually dependent on OpenAI, with avg wait around 8-15 sec , not much I can do there. But, concurrent threads? Cool idea, definitely worth exploring! Thanks!
People should have stopped using SMS codes when NIST told them to stop six years ago. The fact that there are websites that still support it is an abomination and should come with hefty legal penalties.
> What should a Roomba owner have to pay?

The same amount that someone with a stay-at-home spouse who cleans the house pays.
The uncharitable takes are obvious.

However, if this system allows "unlocking" of features that your current government has banned in your country when you go abroad without having to buy a new phone (for example now being able to use Facetime on your UAE bought phone automatically outside the UAE) then there is a small silver lining.
terrific idea! will do that if this makes money, lol
there are no developers sitting on a beach drinking pina coladas
Hello there! I created a travel app (Viby) that helps explore new places, accommodations, transport, and activities such as coffee shops, temples, coworking spaces, beaches, waterfalls, and restaurants. I would greatly appreciate your honest feedback on the app. Thank you so much!
Ethics are subjective, and debatable.

I'm happy to discuss further, but "citation needed" makes it sound like you think I must prove to you with some facts of the validity of the position. That's not the conversation we need to have.

I don't think you can take a general summary of this situation, round off edges and nuance, and then say that I made the argument that this DIFFERENT scenario is "inherently unethical".

Ethics are nuanced and highly specific to the context, and the framing. A single word, phrasing, emphasis (or lack thereof) can change the scenario from an ethical to an unethical one, and vice versa.

For example, here is how I would phrase the exact same content in a way that i believe WOULD be ethical:

```
//First sentence unchanged

Websites can pass the http headers `X-Robots-Tag: noai`, `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` , `X-Robots-Tag: noimageai` and `X-Robots-Tag: noimageindex` By default img2dataset will ignore images with such headers.

//Then pull up the policy link first

To understand why image creators and artists may choose to specify such headers for their images, and choose to actively not consent to their images being collected, see [AI use impact](https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset#ai-use-impact).

AI training would not be possible without the contribution of artists, and it is the recommendation of this tool's authors that you should respect their communicated wishes. However, if you have a legitimate reason to bypass these headers, to disable this behavior and download all images, you may pass --disallowed_header_directives '[]'

```
Agent, shmagent.

CREATE EXTENSION pggpt;

and you're done. The AI watches your db and adjusts the params on the fly as needed.
We're joking, but I give it less than 12 months before there'll be something like this.
XOR a bit-flip of a few hexadecimal strings hidden in base64 after overflowing them through a buffer with a variable size that changes every hundredth of a second.
This doesn't seem to be about HOAs, so your comment seems inappropriate.

I know, I know, HOAs are the devil.

But this appears to be a specific situation that is different, and if it is in fact bad and needs reform, then going off on HOAs is counter-productive.

The article appears to mention violations of city codes and I don't see where it says an HOA is involved.

"the city filed suit against her last August to foreclose on the house over unpaid code enforcement fines."

"[the lawsuit] was filed by a private attorney named Matt Weidner, who signed a contract with the city in 2020 to file foreclosure lawsuits against properties with unpaid code fines. Under the terms of the agreement, Weidner gets a portion of whatever the city recovers by foreclosing on homes"

This is suggesting a pattern to me, since there have been other similar arrangements in the news recently.

Wasn't there some law that allowed private individuals to sue over abortion? And isn't there some kind of SEC or other federal whistleblower law that allows people to be awarded millions?
https://archive.md/mpnoO
I think it comes down to business mechanics. I think it’s often the case that Apple-ecosystem customers are more willing to pay for a product, allowing the company to have a direct relationship with stakeholders. It’s quite nice to charge a customer money, respond to their questions and feedback, grow together, succeed together. Advertising and other non-paying solutions do not have such powerful interest alignment, particularly for smaller and more artisanal brands. So business are choosing customers that support this more harmonious alignment by going platform-specific.

(In my case, I simply don’t have enough resources to support Windows, Android, and web versions. For Minimal, Windows is the most requested second platform.)
Yep! I've only watched the first two in the series so far.
one better approach might be to consistently introduce useless variables with very telling names.
I understand, I just objected to it because I see in my environment that there are seriously people thinking now that climate change can be a human extinction event (though it will be for many other species of course)

There seems to be a 'project fear' movement that thinks it's ok to overblow scientific conclusions in order to sway people to act. I personally think this is a very bad idea as deliberate lies will only lead to deep disillusionment with government and the scientific community. It can also lead to fatalism where people won't act because they believe the worst outcome is already locked in.

And really, the truth about climate change is scary enough as it is. But we do still have the opportunity to mitigate some of the worst of it.
That's not end-to-end, that's just regular old symmetric encryption.
In what way, and could you point to a reference on that?
Some Android phones can be set to 5G/4G (NR/LTE) only in hidden menu like this https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/set-preferred-network-mod...
95% of the internet runs https.

Criminals today phish people, use HTTPS, and people have a false sense of security because of those who told them “padlock = good”. The padlock served a purpose to drive http adoption. It does more harm than good today.

Browsers should instead upgrade to https automatically on all connections.
Currently leaning on my scuffed up Galant desk, this thing is like 20 years old at this point
Curious question: why do you think git sucks? From my perspective is one of the fundamental tools behind modern software engineering. brilliantly designed and yet so simple to use. I’ll even go ahead of myself to believe you’d be able to make a successful tech company just providing a “git for X” where X is another industry
They have to be colluding to drip-feed features. It can't be a coincidence that they are this bad.
The other proble is that sometimes the cheaply built chair is more comfortable and looks better than the solidly built chair… then the right option is to buy neither.
It’s been great in many ways, but the user interface is horrible. Why they show the scores on the thumbnail for replays is beyond me. Time shifting is all about not knowing the outcome beforehand. It’s as if this was created by people who don’t understand sport ball at all. But I don’t know what excuse they can use for burying the replays in the first place such that I found others on the web thinking the same as me—that only recaps are available for past matches.
Wait, Steam offers you a "share library" feature but then locks your account when you use it?!
The author is basically a crank, it looks like they held some teaching positions in an unrelated subject at various universities yielding the “professor” title, and originally studied/published actual research in cosmology decades back.

Might as well be skeptical of the math community because of circle squarers
A small trick I learned from his power supply: using a P-channel MOSFET with the gate tied to ground for reverse-polarity protection. Presumably much less voltage drop than a diode.
> https://writ.cmcenroe.me/

yes! PR welcome!
I work with gradle for the better part of 5 years and use it to build Unity projects. I wrote multiple custom plugins and maintain them still. Learning how gradle works was hard. The official docs didn’t help in the beginning. I only know how to author build scripts because I spend a lot of time in the internals. I don’t use many third party plugins because they never 100% work as intended and become a liability later on when a gradle update is needed.

But do I think it is too complicated and abstract? Yes and No. The main problem is that gradle contains a load of old Bagage. Most concepts which are still in the product center around lazy evaluation and to decouple the what from how. The introduction of Providers a couple of years ago was a pivotal point. Writing lazy evaluated scripts was only possible through private methods which used groovy magic to implement this. I never saw a build system or build tool be just simple when the desired outcome is decoupled and fast builds. Would I pick gradle today? I guess not. But I still think it is a great tool. I looked at nix and hazel and these tools are also not simple.
I just checked out noa - I'm shocked that Minecraft Classic just went and used it without much contact? That's a really huge feather in your hat. Would you have done anything differently about that? (I just switched from MIT to AGPL, so this has been on my mind.)

Babylon.js, cool. How did it do with voxels, or how did you work with it? If you feel like answering. I used it previously on my project.

I have to check out all the other games on that list [0].

0: https://github.com/fenomas/noa
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Six ways marketplaces make money
I am just smirking that within seven minutes, the git supporters are appearing.
Indeed, this inertia has been missing in the media coverage recently where it was mentioned very often a few years ago. I wonder why.
The code and weights can be made available. He can even single step through the code. His ability to understand it though might be limited by his own intelligence.
>“Microsoft Edge now has a creator follow feature that is enabled by default,” says Rivera in a conversation with The Verge. “It appears the intent was to notify Bing when you’re on certain pages, such as YouTube, The Verge, and Reddit. But it doesn’t appear to be working correctly, instead sending nearly every domain you visit to Bing.”

I don't believe for a second that this is a bug.