skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "it just measures your ability to take tests"

This is largely wrong. One could be a master at test-taking and not come close to a high score.

That said, familiarly with the test/item structure almost certainly helps, especially for folks with the potential to score high (see below).

> or "it just tells you how rich your parents are")

Hmm… family wealth and IQ may be correlated, but not perfectly so. There are plenty of low-IQ rich people and also plenty of high-IQ poor people.

> what's your response to studies like this?

Probably too many confounding variables. That said, this study is a publishable unit that can push one or more funded agendas, so here we are.

> Is there anything that can be said about the effect of lead on cognitive function?

While I know a bit about IQ, I don’t know much about the details of the relationship of IQ and lead.

> Why might IQ be a good measure of lead-induced stupidification

Maybe it’s not. See “funded agendas” comment above.

> but unreliable for literally anything else?

(the main reason I replied is below)

People really need to let go of this idea in a reasonably reliable way.

1. IQ measures reasoning ability. It is quite good at measuring this.

2. People put a lot of weight onto how IQ correlates with a bunch of other things, but these are not things that IQ tests are designed to measure. As such, these correlations may not be meaningful in some cases. So the “literally anything else” that IQ is allegedly not good for is almost entirely things that IQ tests are not designed to measure. I don’t think it’s prudent to disregard the test/measure because of misuse by some folks (typically within agendas).

3. People get very self-conscious about IQ scores. Let me help with that. IQ scores are a measure on a particular day that can vary from day to day for any one person. For any given test taker, they are trying to optimize what they score out of a theoretical max (i.e., their “true IQ”). Many, many things cause people to score lower than their potential max — lack of sleep, lack of food, external distractions, distress (physical, mental, emotional), anxiety, ambivalence, lack of test familiarity, etc. Very few things cause them to score higher than their max (it will almost certainly be within the confidence interval). It’s ok. Retake the test if it matters (it usually doesn’t).

4. IQ matters most in three areas, imho. The first is at the extremes. Gifted/genius folks and learning disabled folks need additional resources. How and whether this is implemented is highly debated. The second is in leadership positions. You want your leaders (e.g., in the military) to be within about 20 IQ points of those they lead. The idea is that > 20 IQ delta folks see the world in fundamentally different ways, so leading someone who views the world so differently is difficult and largely inefficient. The third is with one’s significant other. Same as above, it will be hard to be understood (if that’s your goal) by someone who is +/-20 IQ points away from you.

I hope this helps.
Somehow I missed the ‘streaming’ part… my bad
If anything, Boeing 737MAX demonstrates how effective regulations have been. I bet you'd have to look up another similar event, because they are so rare.

People lost their shit over the 737MAX. Boeing lost a ton of money and credibility. It made everyone realize that strong regulations need to be maintained and how it's a bad idea to allow manufactures to review their own product. It's also likely to result in even more regulations and a executives at Boeing being criminally tried.

Regulations are incredibly effective, but you can't go soft because they are working. Regulators have to be ever vigilant and politicians who push for softening of regulations need to be voted out of office. We are finally starting to see that conspiracies to skirt regulations constitute criminal behavior by senior company leadership, this is a good thing for the public.
Someone has not told Microsoft | It is not as simple as that.

On some Windows machines with network-mounted drives, the File-Print-to-pdf dialog takes *minutes* to become responsive, even when all currently open files are on a local drive.

This is the kind of thing the author is talking about. The programmers of that dialog box probably just called a generic "open file dialog" library function, without researching its worst-case performance.

In turn the library writers probably blithely coded something like "check if all mounted drives are accessible", without stopping to consider the worst-case performance.
I was once in Iceland in mid-December (around equinox). They are heavily shifted in their time zone, so sun was up at 9 am and down at 9 pm.

I loved it! For me personally sunlight in the morning is a waste, I barely notice it before 3rd coffee. But afternoon/evening... lovely!
Whats my risk of exposure to lead from improperly made glass or stainless steel?
If you ever drive at night then you’re discarding your own advice here.
If you want to search Reddit, there's a much more comprehensive alternative in the third-party archive site PullPush. It has full-text search and will even search through deleted and removed content.

Main site:

https://pullpush.io

Frontends:

https://search.pullpush.io

https://ihsoyct.github.io
I worked at Scientific Atlanta in the 90s, designing stealth radar systems. Some very cool tech they developed. They also did a lot of satellite comms. And a lot of telecom tech.
Don't forget highly locked down garage doors that are readily accessible by major merchants. And also pair easily with similarly locked down in garage cameras.
The “naked” doesn’t apply here, the guy just bought some options. Naked/covered refers to selling options.
As far as I understand, most of the Midwest is actually pretty conducive to solar generation.

As a cherry picked example, Minneapolis has roughly 200 more annual sunshine hours than Houston.

Obviously somewhere like Phoenix blows those numbers out of the water, but solar is still very economical in the Midwest. I see new utility scale solar farms popping up here all the time.
I'm currently using Kak for system configuration, limited shell scripting, and soon, learning Zig. (I use evil emacs for all of my heavy duty coding (lisp mostly))

Kak is such an elegant form of modal editing compared to Vim & Emacs. Selection first paired with feedback & suggestions gives Kak a discoverability emacs & vim simply do not approach. This also means you can pick up and learn Kak in a fraction of the time you'll learn the others. I recommend finding or creating a purpose for Kak if you're interested in the tools you use and how they can be made better.
As a Brit in the USA, I find drivers here much less agreeable to cyclists. They will often drive aggressively towards me and there is an awful lot of honking.

One driver caused me to come off badly the other day and mash my face into the road pretty badly.
> Minecraft

Is so much worse under Microsoft. As a parent, it’s funny how much Microsoft hate is in the house because the Minecraft fuckery. They made new versions, migrated accounts, added micro purchases, made mods harder.

My 5-year-old had a Mojang account and could download and install Minecraft. Migrating to a Microsoft account was very hard and took multiple attempts and my direct help. And for some reasons “sucks.”
The hackers have taken down slots, cash registers and EPOS handhelds, controllers for doors and elevators, ATMs, kitchen ordering systems, display screens, etc.

Even if all their business data was 100% retrievable, they are losing money every day that customers are wandering around a casino full of darkened screens, and playing a working slot or getting a drink involves waiting 20 minutes for an employee with a pencil, notebook and a handful of cash.
Martin, Grisham and Picoult among 17 authors to file AI lawsuit against OpenAI
Don't lick your boards, wash your hands before you eat, and if you're really concerned, wear gloves while handling solder wire.

The smoke from soldering isn't lead - a soldering tip is (if it's not literally glowing into the yellows) far, far too cold to vaporize any lead from solder - you need to be 1500+C for it to start being a problem, and you're not soldering that high. It's rosin smoke, and if you're in doubt, leave your iron in a puddle of solder - it shouldn't smoke, it should just sit there liquid after the initial rosin has burned off.

The rosin smoke isn't great, but it's not a lead toxicity issue.

Your concern is lead on your hands from the wire, and then eating afterwards without a good scrubbing. I don't think it will penetrate your skin, but you could always wear a pair of gloves if you wanted. There are some shooting sports soaps that are designed to help really rip any lead off your hands, so you might use one of those if you're concerned.
Restaurants are sometimes equipped with hot water lines from the water district and a filler tap right above or near the stove so that boiling water doesn't take so long.
Yes, I know more about him. As does everyone who reads newspapers. There is an endless stream of clear fascist quotes from him:

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/hintergrund/25-hoecke-zitate/

In fact, his own party members are unable to tell apart his writings from "Mein Kampf": https://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/bjoern-hoecke-oder-...
Google Dirty Tricks Tracker
You don't even have to write a custom script around the library:

python -m zipfile -e monty.zip target-dir/

https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html#command-line-...
> A long-term problem is that no matter what, the length of the day on Earth will drift from scientifically accurate atomic time. Sometime in the near future, a day will be 86401 seconds. Then 86402, and so on. So the old second or the new second will not solve this problem.

How long term is this problem? For instance, we habitually insert "leap seconds" in order to keep things lined up, but if we didn't insert leap seconds, we might accumulate an error of maybe half an hour between the solar meridian and "noon" in the next 500 years, which is less error than we introduce by putting Madrid and Belgrade in the same time zone. And in 500 years, most of humanity will not even be living on the Earth anyway.
Go has a thing for that now- everything goes through a proxy (https://proxy.golang.org), and if you set GO_PROXY, you can send it through your proxy (Nexus et al).
Same. I thought it was a comment about ease of installing Linux for the non-technical user.
People who want to work closely with authorities probably shouldn't be trusted to provide your secure communication software.
Because that's not the best theory anyone has.
The issue is not "up to the minute accuracy" the issue is Google's response to being put on notice that it is creating a hazard by sending people over a collapsed bridge. This is how negligence law works. It is understandable that you do not realize this, but nevertheless you are incorrect because of this lack of understanding.

This isn't a lawsuit where the road collapsed 10 minutes ago. It's a lawsuit where the road collapsed 9 years ago, and Google had at least 2 years of notice that it was sending people over the collapsed bridge. In your scenario, neither the gov't nor google would be at fault for their lack of warning. But that has no bearing on this situation, because it's not a lawsuit where the bridge collapsed 10 minutes ago.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff is going to establish that Google had notice. A defense of this, that Google doesn't update the map every 10 minutes is frivolous, and no judge will allow an expert to testify on that point because the issue isn't how often Google updates its maps, but what Google does to update its maps after its been informed that the map is hazardous.

>They should keep the map up to dated, Google is clearly not up the task. Liability is another matter. No way they should be liable. The lawsuit is frivolous.

It's not at all and you seem to have an uninformed view of the the relevant legal principles.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591759
This is likely also the sole reason[1] that Meta is considering connecting Threads to the fediverse.

[1] https://yiffit.net/comment/498225
It's almost as if circumstances matter and we should be looking for ways to improve :thinking:... I don't think anyone would classify white people from the US from the 1900s as mentally handicapped but, well, at least someone else said that and it wasn't me.

> Over the past 100 years, Americans' mean IQ has been on a slow but steady climb. Between 1900 and 2012, it rose nearly 30 points, which means that the average person of 2012 had a higher IQ than 95 percent of the population had in 1900.
Ancient tools thought to be made by humans were made by monkeys: archaeologists
So they found the (Xel) Naga temple?

/s
I'm not sure that's accurate across the board. I live in a very violent, very poor area of the city and the drivers here are very aggressive and rude towards cyclists.
you’d be surprised. I was just talking with a former coworker said that their team has essentially shipped nothing for 9 months due to changing priorities. Code was written, and merge requests were merged, but feature flags meant that no one ever saw the effects of the changes.
During the experiment we used Google's PageInsight which will give you a literal "Speed Index". Without RSC Google gave us a Speedindex of only 1.6 vs 0.6 with RSC, which seems to factor directly into the PageRank algorithm: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2018/01/using-page...
This happens already.
If I'm making tea I do. I can't imagine that lead is boiling off...
The author's premise is that the strict typing and validation of a configuration file belong with the application, not some library doing initial validation of a document which may or may not conform to the application's logic.
I don't recall any of this short-sighted, anti-consumer nonsense when I earned my MBA. I do remember a focus on ethics and doing right by the consumer. There was a lot of corporate social responsibility stuff that I thought was going to be a drag and then it ended up being pretty informative. I suspect MBA-types often get a bad rap because pretty much everyone has had a shitty boss before and that person may have had an MBA. Maybe my program was an outlier, but there was nothing inherent to the curriculum that would encourage this kind of behavior. In other words, I don't think it's the MBA that makes them bad. They were already bad and then went and got an education.
I figure in 20 or so years the C and C++ cohort will age out, and the problem will get sorted.
The cloud is always someone else's computer.

The cloud, and the internet always costs someone, somewhere, money that they ultimately wont' want to keep paying for free.

Since this means you will have to pay, it doesn't hurt to look at self hosting if you make it as far as using smart home tech that has a temporarily free cloud.
You do not want real time systems design for a GUI, its a lot more work and it wastes the vast majority of processing power to guarantee performance. You just need to be a careful about the amount of work you do in event handlers and split off heavy or IO work and split big updates. The problem is all concurrency is a lot harder than serial and so it tends to be something that is delayed until its really necessary so a lot of "not really good enough" handlers end up causing minor annoying delays.
> I'll see the punchline before the delivery and I feel like it spoils the scene/joke.

This I'll agree is a major problem with subtitles. It's not even just the jokes. I've seen the names of characters shown in subtitles (because they were speaking off screen) long before that character's name was revealed to the audience by the script.

Another major distraction is the trend companies have these days to refuse to provide subtitles and give only closed captioning with all of its extraneous information about sound effects or the highly subjective descriptions of whatever music is playing. It's so obnoxious.
In general, if you are using any test in your hiring that does not relate to the job responsibilities, you are not allowed to use a test that doesn't have equal outcomes for any protected class.
Do you actually call yourself the produck team?
Airlines had the advantage of not having to compete with a shiny new industry the way rail did with airlines. I'm sure airlines would have suffered greatly had we developed cheap rocket power transport or high speed pneumatic tubes or some other zany sci-fi transport that left the airlines looking slow and overpriced.

Rail in the US died because US cities are far enough apart that flying made a noticeable difference in travel times, unlike more compact countries. There's a reason Amtrak only works well in the relatively dense northeastern seaboard of the US.

That said, the airline industry is one where competition seems to be working pretty well. It's a market success story. The most efficient market is one where everybody is making close to 0 profit, and that's a good description of the airline industry in the past few decades, especially when you focus on the relatively small part of the airline industry that deals with flying planes and their passengers.
My point is that I do not think that google uses the street view car data for creating their road networks at all, because the data is effectively useless at that for a wide variety of reasons.

The first reason is that while GPS data has sufficient accuracy to, with markov models, correctly identify which road of an established road network you are on, it doesn't have sufficient accuracy to retrospectively create an accurate road network from raw GPS tracks. The second reason is that the route that the street view cars take would cover the road network for photographic purposes is not sufficient to enumerate the annotations that must be captured in a road network to facilitate navigation, especially once you consider that street view has not just driving navigation but also cycle and pedestrian navigation. The third reason is that the street view car will not drive most roads frequently enough to be sufficient for map maintenance and will not drive many roads at all ever, purely on a cost basis.

Google maps gets their road data from a series of partnerships with private companies and public entities. Those partners provide highly detailed, human maintained road network data which are integrated into an annotated directed graph which is then used for navigation. Street view cars fundamentally do not have enough information or accuracy to be an authoritative source for this, and it's far more likely that the street view cars get their driving routes from google maps' road data.

It's possible they consider some street view data in generating their map features. But again, there's a wide variety of reasons that street view might then not go down a road, so having google maps automatically remove a road from their dataset when the street view car doesn't go down it would result in far, far more numerous and problematic edge cases than this one (think roads disappearing because they had construction on the day google street view was in the area or the driver missing an area of town and having it disappear from the map). I have no insider knowledge and google is fairly quiet about their process but I would expect street view to be essentially a feature only built on top of the road network, and I would be extremely surprised if it functioned as the authoritative source for it.

If we look for a process improvement, I think what could have been a feasible organizational solution is -- since the google street view car has been down this path since the accident -- to encourage street view car drivers to submit corrections for the road network when it's incorrect and prioritize those. But it sounds like humans were already submitting this and nobody was doing anything and others have commented on how opaque the process can be so I've no idea what happened on that end.
I think if you read my comment again, you'll find that I'm not arguing against changing anything.
Understanding the relationship between the different data members is very important for better working of data and the applications. From the very beginning data has been an important part of computer applications. Relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL can store the data very efficiently. But as the data grows and they have some complex relations between the data elements. It’s very important to understand the relations between data. Here comes the graph database. Unlike a relational database which uses tables or documents to store data, a graph database uses graph concepts to store and represent data effectively.
Its not gone... pretty much every single person that shoots guns need to be aware of this. Of course gun people don't care about their health and they think with their 45 ug/dL lead level that youre "overreacting"...

D-Lead is a very good company for deleading that i use obsessively, when shooting

I once called them and talked to an engineer about lead for like 1.5 hours. I think it really surprised him someone was so interested and he was happy to share.
We have already seen the privacy implications of this at the private and government level at the same time. There is data that the government isn't allowed to collect, but it is allowed to purchases that data from 3rd parties. If the government having access to your data isn't a concern, what should be is that if the government can purchase it, anyone can.

Yes, people generally don't care if others know they shop at Target and the mundane details of their kid's softball practice, but they don't know what else is available:
- When nobody is home and their house is empty. Not only can they do this in real-time especially if they can track car data, but they use see time data to determine when you're least likely to be home in the future.
- Your medical history. You car was parked outside of a cardiologist and a pharmacy. You probably have high blood pressure. Did you go to an obstetrician's office for the 3rd time? Maybe you're pregnant.
- How about existing and future interstate crimes? You go to a shooting range every week and since the recent passage of a law banning ammunition purchases without a background check in your state, you've started making regular runs to a neighboring state. Is this probable cause to show you're breaking the law? What about a woman going to the doctor in a state that bans abortions who makes similar trips out of state? Have you been posting about your recent bourbon tastings and making trips to the nearby state known for having better alcohol availability?
- People don't care about strangers having access to boring personal details, but what about people you know? There's nothing stopping your mother-in-law from snooping on your life and asking personal questions they have no business looking at. Maybe this is cumbersome and expensive today, but considering how tech makes things easier and cheaper over time, will it always be this way? Once data is out there, it's out there forever.

Maybe people aren't concerned because these laws aren't being enforced, but how much of that is a chicken and the egg? Are they not enforced because they don't want to enforce them or because or because it's difficult to ID the people breaking the law. Data like this makes it easier.
> In strongly typed languages, type systems are used to ensure that programs are bug free, following the adage : "if it compiles, it works".

(chokes on his latte) - could you elaborate on this, cos, much as I love strong typing, it surely don't mean 'bug free' at the end, not in any way useful sense.
Seconded, my caseta stuff is the most reliable of all the smart home stuff I’ve used. It consistently just works 100% of the time after years
Just because someone doesn't like something doesn't mean that something sucks. I've tried pumpkin beer and it's not my thing. But I know some people who go gaga over it. To each their own ...