skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> IQ can be measured quite well at the age of 10-11, before the children have had much education.

That's utter nonsense that children have not had much education at the age of 10-11. I've personally seen kids reading books independently at the age of two (because their parents taught them, not because their genes made them know how to read). Yes, black two year olds can do this too: https://abc7ny.com/2-year-old-mensa-american-kashe-quest-iq-.... By the time they're 11, they're doing college level mathematics. The intelligence gap is vast versus cousins who were not brought up the same way.

Even today, black children have higher childhood exposure to lead and higher incidence of iodine deficiency, both of which have large impacts on IQ. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33394180/

Despite the strong evidence against it, white men (like you and Watson) are much more likely to believe in large genetic differences in intelligence by race, and that is either due to genetic mental deficiency among white men (highly unlikely) or racism in developmental environment (most likely).
It's everything you want in a threaded chat server except federation.

Web client is responsive and has good shortcuts.

Easy-ish to self-host, cheap to buy hosted.

Configurable privacy.

Integration with all sorts of stuff, including email.

A little lacking in community moderation tools.

Text-mode client works acceptably well over a low-ish bandwidth connection.

IOS and Android clients.

Open source.
Right, but they're never going to sell the "you will own everything and we will be pissed" version of the tractor. Because the value to the consumer for being able to repair what they own is less than the control premium that companies are willing to pay in order to lock people into branded repair. Furthermore, providing you the actual repairability often requires re-engineering the product to support it. Like, I don't think most people would pay just to have, say, Apple get rid of the iPhone's Face ID lock and nothing else. They want an actually repairable phone.

A similar problem happens with advertising. Theoretically I should be able to pay for first-party ad block from every site and social platform I visit. In practice the value that a larger ad inventory commands is always greater than the small fractions of people who would pay X/mo for an ad-free version of that service, minus however much it costs to maintain the ad-free option. Why serve a niche that cuts into your bottom line?

The few exceptions to the above that I can think of largely prove the rule:

* Framework and Fairphone are able to market repairable phones and laptops. In this case, they aren't actually charging a repairability premium over an existing product, they're just selling into higher-end markets. Repairability is built into both the product and the pricing in ways that aren't separable - you wouldn't be able to sell a cheaper Framework that isn't repairable.

* YouTube sells ad-free access, but this is mainly because online video ad revenue has cratered badly. Advertising is a moat that keeps YouTube out of profitability, not in it.

* Twitter tries to sell ad-free, except it's "less ads", and mostly exists because Elon desperately needs to justify how much money he spent on buying the crack factory he was addicted to.

Whether or not repairability commands a premium or having everything locked down comes with a discount is immaterial. Consumers are not in a position to actually realize said discount or pay said premium. Because it's not a matter of consumer choice. It's a matter of control. We (the MBAs) put shit in the product you were going to buy anyway, and it isn't immediately causing you to run to the hills, so we win.
It cuts deeper. Morris Chang is a hero of Jen-Hsun Huang and relationship goes way deeper than customer-vendor relationship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-x7PdnvCyI
You added that after I'd already posted my reply to that comment. I understand about editing comments - I do it all the time as well - but I don't think 'ignoring' is the right word for someone missing an after-the-fact addition.

Conflict is essential to human life, yes, but that doesn't mean everything that people do in conflicts is ok. Quite the contrary. Milner's point is that we need to figure out how to stay with and endure conflictual differences without resorting to the things that make conflict worse. In internet forum terms, that means not resorting to snark, flamebait, swipes, and the other things that the HN guidelines ask commenters not to do. Allowing the tension of differences without lashing out is, I think, the heart of tolerance, and is what gives a chance of finding solutions other than endless battle. Milner's point about that seems to me profound, original, and directly relevant to HN—that's why I put it in my About box.

I don't think that the people who flagged your GP comment did so because they have a problem with freedom of expression. I know the users who flagged it. I think they were simply, and rightly, reacting to the flamebait in the comment. It shouldn't be hard to understand why posts like "Y'all have no idea how fucked the US is and you're all cheering like it's not happening" get flagged here.

Btw, I did respond to this part of your argument already, when I said "If you want to make a case for yourself as a principled poster of dissident views, you need a better foundation to stand on than the GP comment and the other ones I linked to, which are just typical flamebait of the sort we're trying to avoid."

Have I answered your critique now? I'm not asking if you agree with my answer—I'm sure that is too much to hope for—but I'm curious to know if you at least feel like you got a response.
Elon Musk Apparently Has Another Alt Account, and It's Even Weirder
Not a very informative article. Most of these SpaceX deals are years in the future.

I posted a link to AST's recent first ever demonstration of an actual satellite to cell phone voice call, and it didnt even make it onto the IRC feed. I link here again:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230425005532/en/AST...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ast-spacemobile-first...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/someone-just-made-the-first-ev...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/first-ever-space-based-voice-...

This was an actual voice call between an unmodified cell phone and a satellite, not an announcement...
There's also Mattermost which seems a reasonable Slack alternative (and self-hostable.)
Same got the weights on gdrive.
Quest 2 is actually up in price from 299 to 399. It’s not currently on sale. By all indications, it wildly exceeded initial sales expectations. Quest 1 is estimated to have sold 1 million units and Quest 2 did an estimated 20 million units, putting it up there with next gen console sales.

The Quest Pro dropped from 1499 to 999, but that headset was a boondoggle without a clear target consumer. I believe it was always intended to be a low-volume headset to get user feedback on early AR features, not a legitimate attempt to profit on hardware sales. Some of the Quest Pro AR features are expected to be included in the Quest 3.
Nope, there are recent studies that dispute this. Of course, there are older studies that dispute those newer studies.

However, it is clear that dietary fat does not just directly go into your circulatory system.
This includes Oculus hardware. Even without any metaverse nonsense, VR sales are presumably still somewhat strong. That would be only 339k sales of the Quest Pro, or 848k sales of the Quest 2. Not an insane amount.
Oh wow, didn’t see the price cut

> The price of the 256GB Meta Quest 2 will drop from $499.99 to $429.99, while the price of the higher-end Meta Quest Pro will be slashed to $999.99 from $1,499.99.

My guess is that the Quest 3 is coming and they think the Quest Pro original pricing was a mistake that prevented it to find its market?
What if I line the faceplate with Corinthian leather and charge you $3,000 for it? The battery pack goes in your pocket btw.
That's already prohibited by, you know, those very same copyright and privacy laws. Adding those same prohibitions to the license not only makes the software nonfree, but pointlessly does so.
Not just TikTok. Instagram is starting to eat into Twitter now too. Twitter generates a substantial amount of low quality traffic but we're getting way more value from Instagram right now. And this is for high quality news which is theoretically Twitter's strength.
> "Well, Google could have easily not have shared its technology."

Sure, but the idea is that if they didn't share their technology, they'd still be in the same spot: they would have invented transformers and still not shipped major products around it.

Sure maybe OpenAI won't exist, but competitors will find other ways to compete. They always do.

So at best they are very very slightly better off than the alternative, but being secretive IMO wouldn't have been a major change to their market position.

Meanwhile, if Google was better at productizing its research, it matters relatively little what they give away. They would be first to market with best-in-class products, the fact that there would be a litany of clones would be a minor annoyance at best.
[OP] Oops, error in copy paste, sorry for that.
Can acquirers be non bank entities as?
“Black Earth Wisdom” and the Four Winglets of the Butterfly
Right? We should consider the added worth of each life saved by slowing down the virus's spread, which allowed time to develop vaccines. Although the worldwide response was far from perfect, I'm truly thankful for the technology and measures that protected numerous people. While I value freedom and individual rights, it's challenging to compare those principles to the importance of preserving a life.
> Video games are not a utility and have no control over utilities

This is true, but the laws around this don't only apply to utilities. In fact, they don't fully apply there at all (but I'll circle back to that).

As a big example, look at movie production companies and theater chains. Way back when, lots of the most popular chains were owned by production companies. So if you wanted to see certain movies, they were only available at the theaters owned by the companies that produced the film.

Sounds a lot like what we've seen in video games for years now, where lots of AAA games are exclusive on Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo (biggest example), or PC. And let's not forget MacOS and even Linux. Pretty much only the roughly equivalent spread of so many platforms has forced the big publishers to largely do multi-platform releases of popular titles. Let Microsoft own Activision-Blizzard and we could be seeing lots of existing titles and new ones be PC and Xbox only.

In regards to the big utilities, the last major one of those to be broken up was AT&T in the 80's. But beyond that, most of the major utilities can't really be "broken up" because of what they do. Power generation, water, and sewage. Those all require shared public infrastructure for the most part. Because of that, small pure commercial enterprises aren't possible. But for the most part the companies that provide those services are still commercial entities, but they have a few extra layers of government oversight that notionally should be monitoring them for good governance and civic oversight. Sadly we see where that falls apart like in Flint, MI.

Only didn't mention trash/recycling pickup because that's a lot more flexible. Much easier to have competing services, although in places like SF we only have Recology.
Looks like P6000 24Gb goes for $800-$1200 while you can get superior 3090 24Gb for $800-$1000 .
The introduction seems to be contradicting itself

> We found strong correlations between greater consumption of fat and protein to lower anxiety and depression

> greater fat and carbohydrate intake is directly associated with anxiety and depression

So? Is fat good or bad? (apparently, from the rest of the article, it is good)
haha flattering :) ! it is not an ad, I am just think that this is a great underrated product.
Didn't they keep the Oculus brand on most VR equipment till last year?
No live games :/
While the application to video game development may be a motivation for some there is a large segment of those taking math education, possibly the majority, for which video games and video game development holds little to no interest. Orienting math education around video games may actually be demotivating to many of them.
My main takeaway from this article: as popular as Postgres and MySQL are, and understanding the legacy systems built for them, it will always require deep expertise and "black magic" to achieve enough performance and scale for hyper scale use cases. It justifies the (current) trend to have DB's built for distributed tx/writes/reads that you don't have to become a surgeon to scale. There are other DBs and DBaaS that, although not OSS, have solved this problem in a more cost-efficient way than having a team of surgeons.
On AM4 many boards set too high IOD voltages when enabling XMP. Afaik no detrimental impact except about 10 W superfluous power draw.

It doesn’t seem particularly far-fetched that EXPO might suffer from the same issue except it accidentally sets batshit voltages instead of just too high. Afaik the SoC and IMC supplies are unsophisticated, there is no DVS going on, just BIOS setting a particular voltage in the VRM.
If you look at what the "API" is, it's basically "write one and ChatGPT will figure it out". None of it is really ChatGPT-specific, so any plugin is compatible with other LLMs pretty much by definition.
I agree. If the RAM module is on the QVL, the RAM module has an EXPO profile, the EXPO profile should be considered as in spec IMO.
Segmentle: An AI created daily numbers game
I had acquired $300 on a rewards on a card from Bright Health Care. But when I switched health insurance companies, my $300 was gone without warning.
I don't want to host a server and I want my messages to be synced between multiple devices including mobile ones.

I want rich messages, images, links.

I want threads.
We've got the same CPU (a nice little workhorse for a very gentle price I'd say)! I assembled the PC myself (hadn't done that in like 15 years for I had a shop do it for me but decided that this time, to not get too rusty, I'd do it myself) and put a Noctua NH-U12S cooler/fan on it, in a "Be Quiet!" tower (with a Be Quiet! PSU). So I like quiet fans.

Anyway I'm running Linux and put on all (but one) workspaces (or "virtual desktops"), the CPU governor in "powersave" mode, where apparently the CPU doesn't got above 3 Ghz and doesn't go above 45 C. Then on my "dev" workspace, the one where I need the performances, I set the CPU governor to "ondemand" and a single core can boost up to 5.51 Ghz (as reported by Linux) or all cores at once up to 4.9 to 5.1 Ghz with the temp reaching 95 C (which I think is how these 7000 series are meant to operate: they'll boost but then shall lower a clock a bit to not go above 95 C).

I configured my WM to automatically change the CPU governor depending on which workspace I'm on.

I'll never here the CPU cooler's fan when in "powersave" / "max 3.0 Ghz / max 45 C" mode. When the governor is in "ondemand" mode, I'll hear the fan indeed once I start compiling stuff.

I may, sadly, remove the RAM EXPO setting (seen that I bough DDR5-6000) while waiting for an ASUS BIOS / firmware upgrade for my Prime B650-Plus mobo.

It's not cool to run DDR5-6000 at 4800 but I'd rather not fry the CPU/mobo.
Show HN: Damka – Checkers (Draughts) AI
why are TSMC's days numbered?
I care because I value these Confidentiality commitments, and I believe that if someone doesn't like them, they should not sign them to begin with, rather than breaking them. A company (like any group of people) is allowed to define the culture and standards required for membership.

I've worked in extremely secretive companies, and very open ones. I prefer the open ones. But I still don't say anything about internals at the secretive ones -- because that was part of the commitment I made in exchange for employment.
What about a Google-searchable alternative to any of these? I think this would be one of the main selling points of Linen.
To be blunt: I don't take your words here to be a dispassionate "questioning of methodology". If that was your goal, you would at least nod to the numbers and the clear fact that even if the measurements were confounded they probably point to a safe system.

I'm not saying take it at face value at all. I'm happy to discuss methodology and to admit that the numbers on Tesla's site amount to something closer to marketing than science. But nonetheless, the cars remain safe. This methodology would have to be outrageously confounded to produce a result like this for an unsafe car, and you know it.
Well in that case, after rereading your comment I guess I agree with you. I don't think the government would deputize Google to effectively hack into other companies on their behalf. I wouldn't put it past them to ask for a backdoor into a user's device, but I doubt Google would comply with that (although there is precedent for Google remotely installing Covid tracking apps on devices in Massachusetts).
> Whether the previous societies were barbaric according to our standards is utterly meaningless

Why is that so? I find this completely inconsistent.

It's somehow OK to celebrate a culture that practiced genocidal wars, slavery, and human sacrifices. But it's not OK to celebrate a culture that practiced genocidal wars and slavery.

Moreover, you seem to claim the innate superiority by basically saying: "but they didn't know better, they were savages at the time".

> States are not judged based on whether or not they are net receivers of federal funds. Quite the opposite: several states that are net receivers today tried to secede in the past.

Colonialism assumed that the colonies send resources back to the metropolis country. As you can see, this is not happening at all with Hawaii.
This is incorrect. Multiple instances (more than 6) have thus far been reported and pictured. All four major motherboard OEMs have now come forward with patches that are designed to limit the voltage. You can see their press releases in the link below.

These companies aren't making public statements about changes to their firmware to prevent failures for no reason.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/preventing-ryzen-burnout-m...
The ability to see your code and edit it, also build backend functionality
Laser cut Mylar stencils are an acceptable method of applying solder to pads if you have the means. And solder paste syringes are pricy but very, very handy if you need a little extra paste somewhere specific. Great little project! It’s been an age since I hand assembled anything like this. Makes me wish I was tooled up for more than just soldering headers.
> system-ui is not suitable for general web content. Apps might have an argument for using it, but general web content should not use it.

I emphatically disagree.

On most platforms, font-family: sans-serif results in Helvética or even worse, Arial, which weren’t created with with the web or screens in mind.

One could argue that a website that has any interactive elements is an app; in 2023, that’s a distinction without a difference. system-ui would work fine for an app or a website.

system-ui also gets a developer great typographical features—optical sizing, extensive internationalization support, small caps, ordinals, etc.—“for free” on current platforms without breaking anything and without downloading a font.
Very exciting project, from a fellow ex-woodmacker. Will get in touch
> The elephant in the room here is the obsession western TV now has with being woke.

The biggest Korean series on Netflix is absurdly "woke": I don't know how one could watch Squid Game and miss how critical it is of capitalism. I also find most movies by Bong Joon-ho to be similarly "woke" - not at the periphery, but as a central theme of the work - for instance Snowpiercer, Parasite and Okja, and they are hits in Korea and abroad.

Meta commentary: your appreciation for diverse types of movies (and not just the same-old bland Hollywood ones) is pretty woke too!
>Which is why it's doomed.

Welp, time to get the T-shirts made.
"Mastodon : Doomed Since 2016. No seriously, it's doomed."
Yes yes and maybe
Every time I've asked this question the answer has been that injecting relevant content into the prompt provides much better results than attempting to fine-tune a model on your own content.

Here's a relevant quote: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/15/ted-sanders-openai/
That is a big IF.

It is much harder to find someone to buy 25% of a house to live in or 25% of an auto shop to work in.

Joint ownership is hard and you need a high level of trust in your cooperative partners.

Imagine what it would take to convince you to buy 1/4 of 4 unit apartment with strangers. You might be putting your financial life's work in their hands.
First NFT Insider-Trading Trial Turns on Art Instead of Stock
nit: Cockroach was founded by a Xoogler but there's no public evidence that they were on the Spanner team at any point.
Temporal-topological properties of higher-order evolving networks
The base interest rate has gone up.

Businesses don't pay for costs solely with revenue, they also use cash from loans. Revenue is used to pay off loans, so higher interest rates mean loans become more expensive. To maintain constant loan repayment costs through a projected year, the total amount of those loans has to go down. With lower cash from loans, costs have to be cut and payroll is one of them.

I think this partially explains why everyone is doing layoffs regardless of revenue performance: they all have to adapt to the same conditions of higher interest rates.
https://reorg.github.io/pg_repack/

Dead easy to run and no long-held locks
NeRFs aren't limited to small camera orbits around one perspective of a scene either.

https://jonbarron.info/zipnerf/
The arrs are sweet. Plex serves media. Prowlarr maintains a list of torrent sites to use. Radarr for movies, sonarr for tv, and lidarr for music monitor things and auto download, move, rename, etc., and are tied into prowlarr for where to get them. Some examples, every new Minions movie or every new episode of The Witcher or every new album from IVE you can have auto download once available and get moved to the correct Plex library folder with the correct filename, and you can set up metadata requirements like size, bitrate, etc. for those the downloads. Overseerr has a slick ui for discovering media and requesting downloads; you can have it set up to use plex accounts where you or other users logged in with their plex account can request something, and it reaches out to the correct arr for that to do its thing according to the *arr settings for that media.

What's everything is set up, imagine a Netflix where you can also request something not available and get that added in the time it takes to download in the exact resolution, language, subs, etc., that you want with no more than a search and a click.
OAuth client credential flow is this easy mode you ask for. It’s one call with a secret in it and back comes a token.