skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your parents have never set foot in an university and worked manual labor all their live, you are less likely to even consider higher education.

That’s not what I have perceived in developing countries. Usually those kind of parents work very hard precisely to allow their children to go to university and have the life they didn’t have. They don’t want their children to work like their parents.
The code worked differently when the moon was full (2021)
I would not really count using a paid, relatively expensive service as "you are the product" which is usually used if a free service is subsidized by selling access to the users to a third party.
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Not mentioned is the fact that the BT Tower was designed to be a node in the microwave backbone network. There are landmark towers across the country, though no others are also restaurants:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Telecom_microwave_netw...
All of this information and then they missed updating the favicon of the very page the article is published on :)
Yes, i have the same problem this couple of days... I just report them
This is why I download the Exodus installer directly from their website and check release hashes as described here: https://www.exodus.com/support/en/articles/8598686-how-can-i...
I think he has been changing reality through literature since forever!

"I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8218991-there-is-some-confu...
"For example, the Tower’s microwave aerials were removed more than a decade ago, as they were no longer needed to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the country."

It might not go into details, but it does mention it.
IP reputation matters, but users only care when it stops them from doing what they want. Residential connections often have certain ports blocked and some uses restricted by the ISP which makes resi connections less ideal for some types of abuse, but great for things like using streaming services. An IP that doesn't work for some services may still work great for others. It seems like a lot of people using VPNs know to try a few different servers/connections until they get the kind of access they want.

> how is this not a massive industry-wide DMCA 1201 lawsuit?

Is it illegal to bypass geoblocking in the US? I'd think that in the US using a VPN to get around geoblocking could count as 'circumventing a technological measure that controls access to a work' or whatever and could be considered illegal under the DMCA, but perhaps there's also a difference between using a VPN to access content offered outside of your own country you were never authorized to view vs using it to access the same content you'd normally have access to if you weren't just on vacation? I don't think I've heard about any lawsuits against VPNs for that.

Either way, I'd agree that advertising a service as a means to bypass geoblocking is probably a bad idea. As long as they don't outright tell people they should use the service to do that though I think an argument could be made that a VPN just provides internet access, and the VPN's ToS/AUP requires users to not to do anything illegal with the connection, and so the user is responsible for what they do with it.
None of what you said discounts the fact that this is not an issue with the tool. Management not setting the right incentives has always been a problem. LOC metrics were the bane of every programmer's existence, now it has been replaced with JIRA tickets. Setting the right incentives has always been hard and has almost always gone wrong.
I feel for the monarchs themselves. Being in this position is an oppression of the worst kind.
Reading Chris Miller's Chip War allowed me to realise how mind-bogglingly complicated the chip making process is.
Jargon File: A Story About 'Magic'
Just buy an Apple TV or similar and never connect the display to the internet.
Looks like a decent solution for text geeks! A bit bummed there's no monthly plan but it seems I can try it out for free!
APL at Volvo
I just never could be happy with a TV without an OLED panel after i got my first one last year. Since then all other screen types look like garbage to my eyes, the better cinema projectors too.

Shouldn't have bought an expensive big monitor for work without OLED the year before, but i hear that OLED is not that great for close up text rendering.
It's a common designation for central north americans as inhabitants of the USofA.

If you think it's a slur to call someone an inhabitant of the USofA then that's your call.
Find it amazing that he assumed 8 times too much density, but still the design in regard to lift missed only 50%? Not too bad, likely had quite a margin planned as good engineer? ;)
React Strict DOM: a subset of DOM and CSS for web and native targets
Consider an economy of time, where you have a finite amount of time to spend, so that time spent on one thing is time not spent on another thing. If you can spend money (or maybe earn less money) to avoid spending time doing things that are uninteresting, boring or unproductive, you are allowing yourself to spend more time on things that are interesting, fun or productive.
MSN?
Lots of odd changes going on in cities right now. Offices being converted to hotels and flats in an attempt to return to profitability.

Retail spaces are being turned into "experiences" with climbing walls, gyms and golf ranges taking over.

Upside is our office rent is now super cheap but I don't know who's footing the bill for all that property.

I also doubt the climbing walls are as profitable per-square-foot.
To add, if I saw something like this, I think this would be time to include the manager in these conversations, especially with how quick the response was.
It sometimes feels like London is a theme-park designed to separate people from their money and entertain the Plebs workforce.

This (and the giant Ferris wheel) certainly don't help.
Not very, points at me.
Glad to see them using a name + some numbers scheme here. I immediately rushed to reserve my username but found out I didn't need to. Oh well now have the .01 suffix
Yeah, not sure how that happened, but that link wasn't exactly what I was going for. If you scroll down far enough from there you'd find the parts I tried to point you to, but try this link instead:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

Just to be safe here's a copy/paste with the details:

This has been true for many years now. At the time it caused a major uproar among the userbase (myself included) whose concerns were almost entirely ignored. Their misleading communication at the time caused a lot of confusion, but if you didn't know that Signal was collecting this data that should tell you everything you need to know about how trustworthy they are.

Here's some reading from the time of the change:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...

https://community.signalusers.org/t/dont-want-pin-dont-want-...

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...

Note that the "solution" of disabling pins mentioned at the end of that last article was later shown to not prevent the collection and storage of user data. It was just giving users a false sense of security. To this day there is no way to opt out of the data collection.

My personal feeling is that Signal is compromised and the fact that the very first sentence of their privacy policy is a lie and they refuse to update it to detail their new data collection is a big fat dead canary warning people to find a new solution for secured communication. Other very questionable Signal moves that make me wonder if it wasn't an effort to drive people away from the platform as loudly as they were allowed to include the killing off of one of the most popular features (the ability to get both secured messages and insecure SMS/MMS in the same app) and the introduction of weird crypto shit nobody was asking for.
With some cherries on top like msix supporting setting up services on desktop but not server editions of windows. Chef's kiss...
These results are to be expected, if IQ is normally distributed, but we push more people into obtaining university degrees.

The value of a university degree has severely deteriorated since every white collar job essentially requires having one and it will continue getting worse.

I would assume that it's worse in the US than in Europe, because in EU it seems that education is less commercialized and you can get a degree for free if you are above average.
Ask HN: How to optimize SEO for my E-commerce website?
I've recently launched an E-commerce website and I'm struggling to improve its visibility on search engines. Can anyone share some effective SEO strategies or resources that could help?
One idea, if the customers tend to be NixOS enjoyers, would be to put the tool in Nix Packages and then use nix-shell for them to access it.

Perhaps the nix packages configuration could reference a script with everything properly debugged and then the snake can eat its own tail.

It seems like a provisioner to install and configure stuff, in which case one obvious method to install is copy pasting bash code. Have we really reached an era where folks expect to use CLI tools without using a CLI?

Can nixpkgs install from brew? Maybe that’s the answer, use the annoying stuff and wrap it with something to make it less annoying. Or, you could wrap your CLI with Tauri and install with Cargo. Might be more robust but not in the comfort zone of a nix shop.
I love to buy Cds.

I am not eustatic about returning to vinyl.
I remember how grateful I was with Cds came out since they were
far easier to care for and durable¹.

I like collecting them, I love listening to them, and I like owning them.
Letting friends borrow them, and the rest of the freedom that comes from
owning a physical object.

I liked going to the store, browse through shelves of cds to find something
I wanted to listen to. Buying it. Going home, getting chores done, and
then sit down and play from start to finish.

Spotify with increasing regularity remove some of my favorite songs and artists
from their collection. Due to licensing, I presume.

Plus, the artwork is nice

Now it is nearly impossible to buy cds.
The selection in the few stores that still carry them in Norway
is atrocious, even when you try to order them from records stores in Norway.
I dont listen to anything near the Top 10, and that is usually most of what they have. -

Amazon carrier a lot more but even their selection leaves out most of the cds
I want to buy. (Plus the shipping is a killer)

For a while ordering them directly from the "merch" store the bands had (some)
to buy cds, but even that is fading away as bands dont event produce/print cds.

It seems the best way to buy them now is to see the band live.
But bands like selling vinyl at inflated prices.
I presume because the demand is higher for those.

I can buy the digital tracks, with all the problems that entails.
I have started to use them to burn cds with the artists' album.
It is not the same with the lack of artwork and connection.

¹ Vinyl records can last a long time.
If you are careful in how you treat it,
do the maintenance, clean it, and have a deck that makes it easy
to lower and raise the head.
I was not good enough to ensure the longevity of my records,
so they would eventually get scratched .
You come out guns blazing about how IQ isn't the only thing, but then get twisted about "working with Linux" somehow being any way related to degrees and then claim to have found many degree havers to be very low IQ.

Kind a think you should take stock again and reconsider what you think IQ is and what it means. Hint: it has nothing to do with using Linux.
Sundar Pichai Is the Steve Ballmer of Google
No it's more fundamental than that. Sex is based around reproductive role - in particular, which type of gametes are produced.

If we look at other species this is perhaps more obvious, rather than focusing on sex-specific differences just in humans and other mammals.
To me it's surprising they didn't keep them for backup / resiliency. There's a lot of rats and mice in London, and they can and do chew through fibre.
Didn't someone mention that gpt4 was brought up to December 2023?

Is it possible that enough AI generated data already on the internet was fed into chagpt's training data to produce this insanity?
You just keep sending more people to the colony. This is how humans do.

We will do whatever we did the last time we explored a new frontier. How many European colonies failed in the new world? What did they do?

Nothing new under the sun.
looks like it was updated 2 days ago ...

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By 50 %
Sounds better than a city full of shops designed to separate people from their money buying stuff they don’t need.

Life is about building memories, connecting with people and sharing experiences. Having a variety of places to do that (update: including shops) is nice in my opinion.
I purchased this book. Might have been about 10 years ago, now.

It is a nice book and, from memory, is well written. I do think that there are better books with regards to game programming.

I would say this book is good is you are a web developer (or something) and want to brush over ideas on how to build games. What you learn from this book can translate to your day job to solving problems. The reality is many languages, libraries, etc, used in other domains are OOP focused.. so if thats your mindset, this is a good book.

However, if you are serious about (wanting) to be a game developer/programmer, would recommend Game Engine Architecture. Real-tim collision detection is another book from memory.

(I am out of touch if there are any modern books for game developers. Open to hear about them if any)

Another recommendation is to watch Mike Actons 'Data Oriented Design' video on youtube. It is likely 10 years old, now. I still believe it is relevant for modern game dev.

Disclaimer: I am not a game developer. I am an app developer. I builds gui apps, web sites, daemons, etc. However.. if I was to build a game, I would be using the C programming language (or maybe Odin)
The article seems to consider a "degree" to be fungible across providers. At least in the UK, there's a definite hierarchy of universities and the value of their courses, even if a pretence of equivalence is sometimes maintained.
SMS fraud is almost nonexistent from German mobile numbers

Even if this is true, how does that benefit Germans?

Nobody's seriously talking about blocking all SMSes at the national border.
U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports
$800 per platform https://www.winteracter.com/price.htm

Well it’s not for hobbyist that’s sure
It's personal preference. I can write it however I want and you can decide to use it or not.
I do wonder, with this and lot of other stuff related to the Royals, if this is all just a colossal waste of everyone's time and energy to update all this crap?

Can we not just leave it as is and let people just carry on with stuff that actually - you know - matters? Seriously who cares if the favicon and other trivial little details for the gov.uk website has the wrong diagrammatic interpretation of the currently sitting monarch's crown?! What makes it worse is we will repeat this folly in a couple of years when the current king dies from his illnesses and the new king picks a oh-so-slightly-differntly-shaped-crown.

I would strongly prefer that my (really rather high) tax contributions are spent on meaningful things. Or maybe I am wrong - is his royal highness personally paying for all this? (I doubt it!)
> your King was also having protesters jailed for holding blank signs

He was not personally doing this. The decision to arrest protesters comes down to the police present at the time, and I believe there was no arrest in the case to which you are referring. Specifically a single person holding a blank sign outside of parliament who was approached and questioned by a police officer but not arrested. I believe there where also subsequent protests involving blank signs, but no arrests for those either.

It always shocks me how readily people from other countries take a republican position in matters which really do not concern them. The right to protest in the UK has been degraded as a direct result of our elected government, rather than because of some nebulous power held by the king.
If you increase the number of people going to higher education isn't it obvious that average IQ will fall. Since 1940 the percentage of population that completed college went up from 5% to 30% whilst average IQ dropped 7-10%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

Would be interesting to plot average IQ against the percentage of population that go to college.
> Among major European nations, who’s the most trustworthy? [...] The answer depends on who you ask.

In Poland, the Germans seem to have been selected as both "Most Trustworthy" and "Least Trustworthy".
You can set meta tags on your website, like title, description...
They are actually fairly repairable once you manage to open the watertight enclosure, which requires patience and a fair bit of violence. Switching out the cell is really easy once the battery starts dying.

The different Sonicares also share many of their parts, makes replacing broken pieces possible if you ever do drop one.
https://news.itsfoss.com/matrix-sixty-million-users/
In the UK there's a law covering this specific case.
Theft is deigned "taking with the intent to permanently deprive", so joyriders were defending their actions by returning the vehicle after just this.

Therefore, there's now an offence for this: Taking Without Consent: https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/theft-act-offences
In fairness, a lack of sanctions an also accelerate the industrial progress of rivals.

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had close partnerships with Detroit auto makers that helped their industry.
Always reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
That was before they started collecting and storing sensitive data in the cloud.

See https://sgaxe.com/files/SGAxe.pdf for an attack that leaked Signal contacts.
Ofcourse you need some basic cognitive functions in order to be able to read, write and present yourself. Remember you don't have to be best to get a degree, you only need to pass and when you don't succeed you can in most cases try again.

That said, get a degree if you can. It will help you in the job market, and if you for some reasons don't pursuit a degree for any random reasons - you will still have the background leading up to this point in time which can count as experience.
This was my anecdotal evidence as a person from a developing nation as well. Parents around these parts give utmost priority to children's education because its the only way they can get out of the vicious cycle of poverty. Add free education to the mix and, you have a lot of people with a less privileged background getting university degrees. A Lot of people moved out of poverty within past couple decades.
Below average at worst.

Conscientious matters most, and I would wager is overly represented in those of average to below average intelligence — compared to above and beyond.

A provocative corollary: “but what about genius PhDs/professors/researchers”
I would say being born in the upper middle class, but of middling intelligence, will make the path straight forward, requiring no great intellect.
"Induced demand" does exist, but not in a normal market. It exists in markets where positive externalities are not fully priced in. When you have a road without congestion charges, then building a second lane to expand capacity just adds more "free shit" to the local infrastructure. The demand for "free shit" is infinite, giving rise to the appearance that supply is driving demand, when it is actually the price that is biased towards demand structurally exceeding supply.

This doesn't apply to housing at all, because the landlord would simply price in all positive externalities, such as the free road infrastructure mentioned above. The "free shit" would go straight into the pocket of the landlord, which would stimulate supply and discourage demand. The problem is that these places are constrained by geographics, local politics and the willingness of previous land owners to move out so you can't just build more.
It's a measurement of cognitive performance, nothing more. It does not tell if you can do a good job or not.

I think it's a good tool when looking a two groups or looking at performances over time.

But it could be biased, for example when he say PhD IQ fall when enrollment is higher, measuring the quality of the work would've been better.

Also IQ don't give you any hint of causation. Maybe IQ drop because of school quality? Screen time? Physical activity drop? Some widespread chemical? Lack of oportunity given the world environmental crisis?

There are many factors that could play a role.
This could be a cultural loss. Aren’t some floors essentially museums, with much older equipment intact?
I guess it’s because it would be hard to keep it updated. A review about the movie Inception is relevant today and will be relevant in 10 years. A review about the iPhone N will only be relevant for a short period of time.
> they have to explain at length

My reaction to the article was that they're using a lot of words to explain this change. That suggested to me that maybe they aren't being completely candid.

I've never used Signal, because (a) I don't want to rely on a smartphone, and (b) I don't want to use my phone-number as my ID, because it's traceable. I can't work out from the TFA verbiage whether this change addresses my concerns or not. That in itself is concerning, to me.
Well people want IQ to be a test of intelligence, which it isn't particularly but supposing it were, if it increased with education then people who were well-educated would have a higher IQ than those who were not. Wealthy parents would be able to afford to give their children a higher IQ.

All sorts of side effects would come into play (or as they are already in play be increased) because it would be obvious that the people at the top of the socioeconomic ladder are there just because they are smarter than everybody else and the serfs should stop their whining.

What is actually wanted are

1. a potential score that remains pretty much even as you start to realize the potential, with decrease with age as it is supposed that potential decreases. This is actually pretty much the way IQ works. It would also be nice if potential could identify areas in which you had more potential.

2. an educational score across various areas.

3. an ability to apply 1 and 2 score.

functions that could calculate what education you should have further, cost / benefit analysis etc.

Has your ability to apply what you have learned increased by the amount expected given your potential, would, for example, be an interesting thing to track.
Does this mean he agrees all comments you mentioned? I can't understand what did he wanted.
John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990