skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your Lithium Ion batteries are at 1.3V they are way beyond their service life.

Normal voltage range for Li Ion is 2.5 to 4.2V, nominal voltage is 3.7V, some manufacturers recommend you never discharge them lower than 3V. So something is off or you have your battery chemistries mixed up.

See https://docs.rs-online.com/3f21/0900766b816d9301.pdf
The JS ecosystem also relies on npm, which is owned by Microsoft. Having a corporation control package management is pretty weird.
“Attacks” against “the genetic aspect of IQ” are often informed criticisms of common misunderstandings of IQ, heritability, and genetics.

Obviously genetics are an important part of determining intelligence. That does not mean smart people who are attracted to smart people will produce smart kids.

That seems to be a common belief that arises when people think about genetics and intelligence, despite the numerous counter examples in other heritable traits with a genetic component (e.g. kids are not always taller or even as tall as their parents).
Our gov is in the pocket of oil companies, they are perfectly happy for the rest of us to foot the bill for these record profits.
Bill Gates also had a connected family and a lot of luck. There are far more upperclassmen who, after meeting, you'll find yourself asking, "If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?", rather than saying to yourself "Wow, no wonder he's so successful - he's just so smart!"

This kind of deterministic attitude is a problem that's been fooling people for thousands of years, where they equate things like wealth with merit. I don't know what the solution is. Maybe Taleb should be required reading in schools. Maybe there is no solution and these people will continue to be exploited, as they always have been, for fun and profit.

I think I could use some fun. And some profit.
Bill Gates doesn’t have a particularly high IQ. But, his parents did do an extreme amount to set him up.

The most important thing was his mother served on “United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Opel” which played a major role in IBM choosing DOS from a tiny company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

On top of this he grew up in a high income ultra competitive family. This meant he went to exclusive private schools with early access to computers. He also learned the basics of business much like how a child of farmers, lawyers, etc tends to learn a lot about their professions. Family game nights were extremely cutthroat which fostered the idea to keep pushing for #1.
I recovered from 3 disk RAID 6 failure (which itself was organization failure driven...) in linux's mdadm... ddrescue to the rescue, I guess I got "lucky" the bad blocks didn't happen in same place on all drives (one died, other started returning bad blocks), but chance for that to happen are infinitesly small in the first place

So shrug
Lots of copilot generated code failing
I prefer it as is.
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Anything that is engaging for THEM, and captures their imagination - although a lot of that rests with the person reading to them to bring it to life...

Just observe what makes them glow with excitement or intrigue and give them more of that...

Then perhaps steer them in the direction of their strengths - not yours.

Remember, it's their life and future not yours. Nurture them for in the direction of their own development...

Regardless of whether they stick with it, support them even when they switch to something else, the objective is the same.
It's not an argument of "this is the absolute best possible choice".

It's an argument that raw language performance in this sort of context isn't going to be the problem for 99.9% of people developing code. If you have 500k orders a month, you can afford more than $6/month in hosting.

I sometimes see folks post on StackOverflow trying to micro-optimize things like string concatenation or single versus double quotes that make perhaps a second of CPU difference in a million executions. The point is directed at those folks; the ones who are thinking "language X is faster, and for that reason alone I should use that instead".
A SaaS social media influencers database
Hey guys,
I got one of my previous project that went viral on social media and found out after a while that someone posted it on a video with the « website that feels illegal to know ». I got few thousand visitors out of the blue and clearly understood how Tik tok can be a game changer for indie projects, it might have happened to some of you too already.

I built a database from social media creators that are already promoting website or Saas on Tik tok and Instagram. I currently scraped a few thousand that I need to keep cleaning up. Those kind of database are not currently available as most of the content marketing on Tik tok and Ig is more focus on ecommerce or large companies.
Smaller creators are already promoting Saas or website with affiliate links and actively looking for new product to make content about.
If you are looking to up your affiliate game or social media content strategy you should have a look at viralsaas.co
Comment your startup or side project website and will send some contacts I got your way.
Quite funny to see a major website adopt tech I was playing with almost 20 years ago.
Today seems worse than yesterday. I'm getting wildly inconsistent results when viewing repositories after a push. Hard to tell if my push actually went through, and it's not triggering actions.
Examples of Redundant Acronym Syndrome (RAS) [1] or PIN Number Syndrome (PNS), which linguists don't fret over since it apparently serves a modest disambiguation and/or emphasis function in human language. It would be fascinating to find out the comparative prevalence in between different languages, but my Google-fu failed me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
It looks like the mods took care of it extrajudicially lol.
>Even if climate change causes island nations to disappear, triggers mass migrations and kills millions of people, it probably isn’t going to compromise our longterm potential over the coming trillions of years

This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone admit this in print that wasn’t labeled a kook
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35901790
"One survey even found that more than half of the people asked about humanity’s future ‘rated the risk of our way of life ending within the next 100 years at 50 per cent or greater.’"

This is so vague it's not even applicable here. It doesn't even imply an apocalypse. No shit our way of life will be different in the next 100 years. Just look at what life was like 100 years ago - completely different.
Even if ethnicities correlate with IQ, clumping them together into "white" and "black" buckets would just average out any differences because both "white" and especially "black" people are so genetically diverse.
It comes in around 09:30 on US east coast.

I suspect that it's related to high load.
> Come on guys and girls - read beyond headlines

Once your perfect world comes, hour old account, we won't have to read beyond the headlines, will we? The government will decide what is true or not & will keep us safe from any potentially fake news.
Well, the storage bit we are a bit bad at, the Tories didn't renew one of the biggest facilities after it closed down which was inconvenient during the Russia thing.
Android forks.
Oof. This is a toy model, and it has a serious problem with one of its assumptions:

> we can calculate that approximately 10,000 alleles control IQ

> Assume that the genotypes of parents 1 and 2 are completely independent, and that at each allele, the child has a 50/50 chance of inheriting each parent’s copy of that allele.

I’m not an expert, but I’m fairly confident that genetics don’t work like that. (IIRC they do in middle school, but they stop almost immediately in college…) Humans (mostly) have 26 pairs of chromosomes, and those chromosomes are full of bases, genes, alleles, etc. And they are not even close to independently inherited: gametes inherit long stretches of consecutive bases from a single parental chromosome. It’s a fascinating process and you can read about it here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_recombination

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_crossover

This has a large effect on the statistics of what one inherits from whom. I imagine it explains much of why people are likely to retain complex traits from their grandparents than one might expect, especially in cases where one or both parents are first-generation mixes of genetically rather distinct parents.

In any event, there are nowhere near 10k SNPs that can be independently inherited from a given pair of parents.

I have no particular comment on the overall model or conclusions of the OP, but it should at least acknowledge that its toy model is really quite implausible. (But I will note that my college class on genetics backed up its discussion of intrachromosomal recombination with math that was, if anything, even worse!)
> Don't you want a RAM disk for this? It'll lose all your data (reliably!) when you reboot.

Uhh hello, pricing ?
Sorry if my criticism sounded harsh. I was not triggered by it, but simply going into depth why I do not think I should spend time making my site look like that.

My response was simply a reaction to the scope of criticism and the claim that this is the new best practices. Because the other site was held up as an example of what I should spend days emulating and making my site look like, the sheer time investment and “well, if you think it isn’t good, then you can’t be helped” made me believe that this is some canonical example of best practices and design. So I naturally critiqued it and said exactly why I thought the latest design standard was crap. That’s why it came out like that.

If I knew the author would be reading it, I would have been a lot more tactful in my criticism. But I do stand behind what I am saying. (For what it’s worth, the developer section of Qbix also needs a lot of work, but the OTHER sections + overall design of the site I think are good — but happy to take specific and constructive criticism in the same vein I gave it.)
Common disinfectant wipes expose people to dangerous chemicals, research reveals
Gitea's ability to create a local repository as mirror of a remote repository is great for this. You can stay on Github and have your code regularly mirrored locally.
exact same issue
this.

your superiors are either fighting to keep you or fighting to fire you.

your gut feeling may speak a lot on where your situation is heading.

also, it may not be your code that is the problem, but other things too like office politics.

there are just many nuances to consider to give a well informed advice over the internet, but being prepared on any outcomes helps a lot, and reflecting and seeking feedback from other people (like this thread) to explore your options is great too.

i wish you well in your journey.
Probably just using it for cache of some kind
Unlike Apple commercials that are filled with technical details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S8L7t2tu0U
While there is currently no complete understanding of the specific genes responsible for mental abilities, research suggests that genetics do play a role in cognitive development. However, it is also true that the environment in which a child grows up can have a significant impact on their mental abilities. It is important to note that while genetic factors may influence cognitive development, it is not solely determined by genetics, and other factors, such as education, socialization, and access to resources, also play a crucial role. Therefore, it is essential to consider both genetic and environmental factors when discussing mental abilities.
The representation of how genes mix in offspring is often oversimplified, and as such, any predictions made based on this method are likely to be limited to average outcomes. While this method may be useful for statistical analysis, it may not be suitable for predicting mental development or other complex traits of an offspring, where a range of factors will play a role.
It's the underlying state of the database that will change between these different checks. Not the end-user modifying the request object, which is in PHP memory
What do people use Pharo for? Is anyone here using it for a product?
Hugs to the GitHub Opps and SRE teams right now!

Also hugs to any Devs, Opps or SREs directly effected by this outside GitHub.

Looking forward to a post-mortem on the last few days, I'm sure it will be a really interesting read.
Ask HN: Resources for older developers?
I am early 50's and still code around half of my day. I do manage a small team but my primary love has always been development. I'm wondering what resources there are for us senior devs who keep coding? My older friends in the field chat when we are able about the cyclic nature of tech, coding, managing, mentoring and sometimes (unfortunately) strategies for dealing with ageism. But the pool of 40+ yr old devs is not huge in my area so I'd like access to a online community if anyone has pointers. Thanks!
How??? You do the merge, which either creates a new commit for the change, or appends the commits to your existing tree. Then you push that to the remote. If the push fails, you can just push again, it's not lost. And if the merge failed, you didn't have any merge commit to begin with.
Shout out to all devs that put the deps of their programs on GH...

Right now I can ignore that my PRs show 500 error, or old code best case scenario.

But... I cannot build and ship due to project's dependency depending on some stuff hosted on GH.
No, it's a very well-written explanation about how emergency plans fail; and why they fail.

> american culture

We are extremely safety obsessed. It's one of the reasons why I love being an American and love living here.
Can I totally disable ARC yet?
> [1] It's been in development for a number of years. It now being proposed for inclusion in the mainline kernel is a major milestone.

not a measure of quality in the slightest. btrfs had some serious bugs over the years despise being in mainline
What else was there? Plenty of stuff! It could have been a lisp, it could have been a flavor of pascal, python was around even if it wasn't popular yet. Thank heavens we didn't end up with a flavor of BASIC, although as you point out it could have happened.
git says my code pushed fine and everything is synced, but Github is not showing any of my changes.

Edit: 10 minutes later, the Github finally shows the push, but triggers still aren't working.

Edit #2: Things are working normally now.
> Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries. However, what Google didn’t mention is that Bard still isn’t available in the European Union.

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/11/google-bard-european-union...
He says that only because it blames the West and favors the "alternative world order" narrative backed by China/Russia. It's completely hypocritical as China, Russia and Lula and his political party loves censorship and only defend journalism and free speech when it is in its interests. Currently Lula party is trying to pass a "ministry of truth" bill (PL2630).
I believe this is the article that taught me the difference between firefighting and amateur response. 95 % of what my SRE team calls firefighting is amateur response.
"This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone admit this in print that wasn’t labeled a kook"

I think one of us misinterpreted the statement then. My understanding is that the author is labeling the people who believe this as 'dangerous' (close enough to 'kook').
They're having so many outages that they've moved from making statements after each event to aggregating them all and write about all of them on a month-by-month basis.

I'm not joking: https://github.blog/tag/github-availability-report/
The classical longtermist loves everyone in general, but no one in particular.
In the mid-1980s, I took the OSI course.

That's a bunch of time I'll never get back.

That was nothing, though, compared to the X.400 course...
Of course. This is obvious. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. Just look at animal IQ.

Clearly human intelligence is determined genetically.

However, although human intelligence is clearly genetic and superior to most other animal intelligences there could be enough variability within the boundaries of human level intelligence such that variation in intelligence between humans could be influenced more heavily by other factors.
No? Where did you even get this idea from?

Early backers who explicitly opted in to receive early batches from before mass production have smaller capacity batteries, and that's about it.
Kind of already a thing although you have to pass this:

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/tests-and-scan...
The difference is that having a computer attached to the TV provides significant value to the customer. When people came into BestBuy they’d ask “Does this TV have Netflix?”

I don’t see a built in camera driving that kind of consumer behavior. What feature would they come in and ask for that requires a camera?

The spying with a SmartTV is also hidden and and hard to imagine. A camera on the TV in their bedroom though? They’ll both notice that and understand that it sees them naked.

With Smart TVs if there are two TVs on a shelf, one with “Netflix installed” and one without, I can see people preferring the TV with Netflix.

With cameras if there are two TVs on a shelf, one with a camera and one without, I see people leaving the camera on the shelf almost every time.
Weird that you get down-voted but I lose more and more respect for HN these days so I can only say I am not surprised that a common-sense post was given the gray treatment.

I have the same experience as you, I've participated in migrating from PHP to JS, to Elixir, and to Golang. The transition to JS was mostly a performance disaster (not much performance was gained) but at least more devs could help so it was still a big win organization-wise, whereas the transitions to Elixir and Golang were a screaming success on every front: we immediately gained anywhere from 7x to 25x more req/s and the DB load was stable and the request timeout errors dropped by 97.9% on the first day (and were completely eliminated a week later), not to mention the cost of our hosting also dropped by at least 70%.

I am past my phase of "hating" languages but honestly, saying "PHP is not the right tool for jobs X and Y" is a "hate" in the eyes of many anyway. And yeah it's not good enough for big scale. I mean, if you make $1M a month then you likely don't care much if you pay $50K in hosting, sure, but why do you have to spend 5% of your revenue on hosting? There are a lot of modern technologies with which you'd be hard-pressed to justify having more than 2 application servers and 1 DB server (with read-only backups and replicas if sh_t hits the fan).
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Yeah world decided just replicating data somewhere is far preferable if you want to have resilience, instead of making the separate nodes more resilient.
Most of the time, the ideas are not critiqued, but instead it's an invective-filled ad hominem attack unleashed from all directions.
I can still remember https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/10/postmortem-of-datab... (though I can't rembember reading of any big problems since then)
I don’t think people argue that IQ - whatever it is - is not heritable. I think the mechanism of inheritance is in question.

You have your biological determinists - who believe that genetics (molecular mechanisms) are the mechanism of heritability; and you have blank slate people - who believe that the environment provided by the parents is that main mechanism of inheritance.

I personally find it to be kind of laughable because intelligence is not well defined. As I have gotten older and wiser I have realized that intelligence is multi dimensional, and the people who harp on IQ tend to be lacking along dimensions not related to analytic thinking - i.e. social, emotional, physical intelligence.
This video is way too self conscious.
Wow that website loads surprisingly fast
I think that you're significantly over-analyzing this. People read fiction because it's enjoyable, they like to have their imagination tickled, and it doesn't have to be tuned for maximum drama. This is like saying that you now understand why people would watch a movie which wasn't a documentary.

People, in general, implicitly learn how to read people and their emotions without coaching -- it's a natural part of being human for most. Autistic people, of course, are the exception here.
Part 1:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-causes-alzheimers-scient...
There have been 13 instrumentals to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 after Frankenstein by EWG.

The most recent was Harlem Shake in 2013. Before that, it was the Miami Vice theme in 1985. Chariots of Fire hit #1 in 1981. Rise by Herb Alpert in 1979. The Star Wars Theme / Cantina Band hit #1 in 1977.

Others can be found https://www.listchallenges.com/instrumental-1-songs. I only validated the ones listed in this post.
I think the way the article is written makes it clear that its kind of preaching to the choir with respect to that message. Most of the reactionary types who want gender to be as simple as black and white aren't interested in scientific accounts anyway.
This is a common misconception, the battery is NOT the fruit, it's the wires you stick into it.
> Bill Gates doesn’t have a particularly high IQ.

He scored a 1590 on the (pre-1995 recentering) SAT.
By that logic, you can transpile your Python to C and then compile to Wasm
How much one can project to use car battery as one of the major energy storage, given most car is actually sit rather than move.
Sales handing out Office365 discounts and trying to convince people that AWS and GCP is going to steal their data, judging by companies I worked for that used Azure.
This benchmark means nothing.
The model is mildly interesting but surely there’s actual data available out there that shows the variability?
"Why do I think this ideology is so dangerous? The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death. Consider that, as I noted elsewhere, the longtermist ideology inclines its adherents to take an insouciant attitude towards climate change. Why? Because even if climate change causes island nations to disappear, triggers mass migrations and kills millions of people, it probably isn’t going to compromise our longterm potential over the coming trillions of years."