skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has been a raft of "research" over the last ~decade that purports to show that poverty causes stupidity. My impression (as a scientist, kinda related area) is that it's been discredited.

You must draw the distinction between correlational evidence (what this submission is doing) and causal claims, which is what most of the research you're pointing to makes.

TL;DR: Poverty doesn't cause lower intelligence. Catastrophically bad diet (to the point of stunting) will, though, in ref to your 2008 link. 2008 study is very weak and doesn't look at starvation, only correlational, they find a very small effect and it's very likely some unmeasured confounds.
The original headline makes it clear with its all-caps SCALE, that we aren't talking about the usual meaning of the word.
BTW is Excel better in reading UTF8 files?

Last time I checked it can't read it without errors if you just open the file with it without using the import function an explicitly select UTF8.
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You mean the book where the nations of the world put everything aside to preserve the human species from distruction by space based natural disaster by throwing almost all their resources at various space programs?
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I didn't attend the talk, but Nix's dockerTools doesn't need to worry about layer ordering because there is no chance of a layer overwriting another (most layers just write to their respective /nix/store/hash-pkgname directories, which is guaranteed to be unique by Nix).
Surprised this is not mentioned already, but it’s a decades-old Apple play to allow some 3rd party innovation, then take it’s core feature and “reimagine it” as an 1st party feature.

Further: when it’s been difficult to compete directly, Apple has tools that allow it to control the 3rd party directly: Developer agreements and white-listed internal APIs (and restricting what can be done with them) to name two.

And, since they have seen the financial benefits of that control, they have spend years not only building more tools but also refining their legal position.
Look for an old Dick Smith kit?
Hey hey careful with the V word.
About half of US states have reformed their laws and are no longer doing this. But the biggest difference is that, well, it isn't actually prison.

There are other situations which might be better compared to debtors prisons, like being sentenced to jail for contempt of court for nonpayment of judgements, etc.
I've been using inkjets for decades and never had this "dried up nozzles" problem, shrug.
This is what I was getting at. You don't need anywhere even remotely near the cost of a PS5 video card to play AAA at high settings now a days. A quick search for 'ps5 equivalent video card' turns up a Radeon RX 5700 XT, with some people suggesting even less. An RX 5700 XT shows up for $230 on Amazon, so you can probably get it for much less. You can build an entire 'gaming PC' (which is IMO mostly an obsolete term, given what we're talking about here) for less than the cost of a PS5, because all consoles are now a days is midrange PCs at the time they launch.

I also think the era of terribad ports is largely over. PC used to be a relatively small market, and consoles used to run on relatively esoteric hardware which really reached peak weird at the PS3, which greatly complicated ports, even for skilled teams. But since the PS4 era PCs now have more marketshare, and consoles are running lightly customized generic PC hardware, and so porting is much less of an issue. There can definitely be lazy ports, where the devs do things like keep the frame-rate rocked at 30 or whatever, or fail to support ultra-wide resolutions. But in the worst case scenario, you're generally just getting the 'console experience' there.
Forest Mims’ like doodles of smiling electrons were classic.
Supporting JavaScript makes a browser "fancy?"

People who can't see use the same browsers as everyone else and they run JavaScript.

https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/#javascript
Can anyone now imagine an iOS app surviving if it had killer features that made Apple look bad by comparison? Or one that is defiant of Apple’s brand image?

I can’t.
Nix puts images together in a way that there shouldn't be any overwriting, only additions. If your layers are all additions without any overwriting then the order would be unimportant.

There could be some edge cases I'm not aware of, but from what I know, it should be all additions.
Whoever takes that job and succeeds at it will show themselves to be truly exceptional.
Arbitrary can still be deterministic
how is Cups support?
> Service Unavailable

> HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

It is not well at present.
Redis will remain BSD licensed (antirez 2042 days ago)
The average person commutes by car 10 hours per week. The average person doesn't live a bike commute from their job. What you are describing as extreme distance is extremely average.

Then there is places that get extremely cold or hot.

Places where biking is very unsafe.

The fact that most people are physically unable to bike 30 miles.

The lack of an extra 10 hours per week to commute without giving up sleeping or becoming unable to pick their kids up or be there after school.

Most people cant bike to work or replace their car with a bike.
> I’ve never had that experience with any inkjet, however expensive. If I don’t use one for several months, it’s always a flip of the coin whether it’ll work without draining half the tank in self-cleaning cycles.

Shrug. I've used boring consumer HP/Canon/Epsom inkjets and never had a problem. I think the first printer my parents ever had 20 years ago occasionally needed to print a test page, but I haven't had that happen since then.
When did it become that the OS software managed the filesystem

I think among early computers the C64 drive was somewhat of an exception; in some ways it's more like a NAS than a block device.
Please correct me if I misunderstand your point. I don't think I am however. Your point seems to be that this title is mixing up cause and effect, the implication being that brain function determines socioeconomic status.

If so, this is (unfortunately) an idea deeply entrenched in American society. I'm not sure of the exact origins but it may harken back to the Protestant work ethic and asceticism [1]. It's the other side of the coin of "I succeded because of my own hard work" nonsense ie the myth of meritocracy [2].

Such arguments quickly can be reduced to racism and are eerily similar to historical arguments in support of slavery, the Holocaust and any number of other atrocities.

Consider those with lower socioeconomic status tend to skew more to minorities than the general population. This is empirically true. So, if you start with the prmise that lower socioeconomic status is a result of brain function then what you're saying is such brain function is a property of racial or ethnic group ie something intrinsic to the affected people.

That's racism.

The alternative is that socioeconomic status and poor outcomes aren't a function of race but are due to external (ie material) conditions, not inherent characteristics.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/51eog3/whe...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy#:~:text=Ra....
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_Recordings,_Inc._v._MP3.co....

This is a district court case (i.e. one that doesn't set precedent) where the record companies liked the result, which also effectively bankrupted the defendant. One of the media companies then bought the defendant, causing the case to not be appealed.

It's not obvious they would have lost on appeal. The district court largely ignored the Sony Betamax case and what MP3.com was doing was effectively operating tape recorder with a longer wire on it.
Seems more like a problem of the exporting and importing software and not the format.

CSV gives you the freedom of choice how to write the data.

You need the french data format? You can write the french date format. You need # as separator? You can use # as separator.

Sure you can't read any file without knowing it's specification but that's not the usecase of CSV.

CSV is for data transfer between systems which know each other.
Hi, I’m the author of the talk on module contracts. Thank you so much Daroc Alden for the great write-up! Happy to answer any questions.
I interned at a stodgy 80s-style company in the 90s (I'm sure the office was exactly the same as the decade before). It was nice actually, compared to my "modern" office. The printers and copiers were in different places so they generally weren't bothersome if you were at your desk. The main noise annoyances were 1) telephones ringing sometimes--those old phones were loud, and 2) neighboring workers talking. They didn't have separate cubicles, but rather cubicle walls were used to separate workgroups from each other. I guess 3) computer keyboards were noisy back then, but at this place most workers didn't have computers at their desks yet.

Peak quietness for offices was, in my experience, in the late 90s or early 2000s. Everyone had separate cubicles with sound-absorbing walls. I really miss those days.

Of course, everyone's experiences will be different. Different companies had different office layouts, though there definitely have been clear trends.
It's not "dead", it's "mature", "stable", or "known". You can build on it and focus on what you want to do without worrying that the foundation will be pulled out from under you.
Not really. In studies, OpenDyslexic and other "dyslexia fonts" with exaggerated shapes didn't perform better than commonly used conventional fonts.
The best ink jets are the kind that take solid ink. Solid ink doesn't go bad in 2 months, and isn't going to leak all over your floor. More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_ink#Advantages
that ring is already someone elses property, i presume this law affects only "unclaimed" falling rocks i would assume
OP is winning at life. probably top 1% - almost an apex predator.

OP should enjoy it - instead of worrying 'bout what the irrelevant people think - while they grind their boring lives away , with mediocre results (the 'sheep' -especially if they don't have so many quills on their own bows as the talented OP)
Researchers have different priorities to what corporate does.
Isn’t it against this site’s guidelines to accuse people of astroturfing?
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Existing tools are for technical teams and even Retool, which is a great product, requires setting up connection to databases, write queries, and call REST APIs.

We understand it is impossible to create a fully-functional app just by describing it in one go. Our approach is to model the conversation between a client and a product manager. In this case, the AI is the PM. The user chats back and forth with the AI to refine the app.

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macOS has shifted and it’s harder than ever to distribute indieware. Devs must compile with and up-to-date version of Xcode which means they must legally abide by Apple’s TOS even if they don’t pay for the yearly license (and agree to the further agreements), and if they choose to circumvent the App Store the user must know how to unlock the restrictions needed to run unsigned apps and also push through the fear-inducing security warnings.

As an HN user that’s “easy” but how many first-timers will be comfortable enough to get to the point where they can actually run that 3rd party app?
You dont hit the interstate on your bike you cant just take the existing commute and do it on a bike most places. Also Southern CA isnt the country or even very representative.

Why did you think virtually nobody commutes via bike?
Depends what we call 'intelligence'. As far as I know intelligence is remarkably difficult to adjust upwards in the technical sense. But, practically, we can train young people not to do stupid things so they will act more intelligently in the common sense of the word.

One fun example might be the anti-usury stance of the Catholics back in the (I'm told) the 12th century. A society that can't charge interest on its debts is a society where people will behave stupidly compared to a society where people can lend money profitably - people will just walk by situations that they can identify as big win-win scenarios and rationally not pursue them. But it isn't linked to individual intelligence as much as how what people are raised to believe.
What Does "Unbiased" Mean in the Digital World?
>urban cityscapes that feel increasingly dystopic,

This sounds US-specific. Lots of cities are quite nice to live in, and quite far from "dystopic" (dystopian?).
Yeah, that one. Where those people then go on with their stupid, petty, political infighting and senseless scheming thereby nearly bringing about the end of human species anyway.

You’ve clearly read the book, I am curious what would drive you to make such an obviously incomplete representation of the story. Being edgy? Contrarian for contrarian’s sake? Since you offer no additional context besides a vague (and uninteresting) insinuation that im somehow wrong, I suspect you are just trolling, smegger001
2020 article with this update:

Update October 24th, 2023, 11:25AM ET: Microsoft has updated Excel on Windows and macOS, adding a toggle to turn off automatic data conversion. The original version of this article continues below.
That is quit frankly silly penaltes should just be scaled based on income
If you just assume f64 then you have 53 bits of integer precision which is more than enough for the fast majority of applications. If JS hasn't proven this thoroughly, I don't know what has.

Obviously there are edges, but they're edges by nature. And like you say, you usually know the source pretty well.
You're right! All layers except the topmost layer consist of non-overlapping store paths. It's not one-path-per-layer as there's a hard limit on number of layers, so we smush the packages "deeper" in the dependency tree together within a single layer. There was some work recently where you could specify which paths should correspond to which layers but I can't recall the exact function.

You do have the ability to add a "customisation" layer on top of your image in case you want to create some directories or run arbitrary modifications which does end up as an extra layer which _can_ override the previous layers hence it's always the topmost. But you usually don't need it.

Source: I did a large-ish refactor to the `buildLayeredImage` functions a couple of years ago. My contribution was adding a `streamLayeredImage` function where you can "stream" a derivation to a Docker image on-the-fly without copying any files/layers in the disk.
The OS simply doesn't mean much anymore, and hasn't for more than a decade. However, it makes sense why they organized WinDev with Surface, since the device does matter, and your device needs to operate well enough that it isn't a pain point (why Apple has such an advantage here).
They will lead with a spoofed email from utilities commissioner to comptroller: “We’re bringing Acme Co. on as contractor for the sewers project, their W9 and banking details are attached.”

Business email compromise scammers have improved and are no longer just spamming with obvious gift-card schemes in broken English.
>There are many ways to monetize a chatbot, OpenAI for example is raking billions in subscription fees.

Compared to Google, OpenAI's billions is peanuts, while costing a fortune to generate. GPT-4 doesn't seem profitable (if it was, would they need to throttle it?)
I got one for Christmas in 1975. It was a "toy" that I got enjoyment from for at least 8 years.
It has changed such that the "traditional" CHS order hasn't been the physical layout of HDDs for probably at least two decades now. Not long ago I posted an article with more details of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39428728
That example seems contrived. Why would I want to know something was called n-times? Even for benchmarking I would just capture an integer and increment it.

To be mildly pedantic, printing in a destructor is horrible practice because stdout/stderr might be pipes or sockets and writing might fail. It's a really bad idea to do anything in a destructor that effects anything but the class being destroyed for those reasons, and when you get an error, it shows up as an opaque exception or trace or hang at the end of a scope instead of where it actually mattered.
Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe
What kind of jobs don't have at least that much time commitment? It is by far the norm.
UML is good.
Every tensor is just a stack of vectors wearing a trench coat.
In what way? Gaming on Steam is now: 'search for game', click buy, click play. In 'big picture mode' the entire system becomes console style and all of this can be completely controlled with a controller which is quite handy for couch play! Of course you still have the option of going and fidgeting with config files, installing mods, and tweaking things to your heart's content, but none of this is mandatory.
>i'm curious if you still have this opinion

Largely. I'm not surprised that another model could be trained on a larger chess corpus or otherwise tuned for improvement. I actually alluded to that in my original comment above.

In fact, I was really surprised that gpt4 was so bad, given the total volume of training data it had obviously ingested. So, my initial point was around how that revealed the disparity between LLMs appearing to understand versus actually understanding (i.e. engaging in reasoning).
Would it be possible to just type the file using commas, semicolons, or pipes or something (whatever you happen to know you don’t have in your file) and then convert them using sed?
I can confirm; in 11 years I haven't had a single issue with ink drying out, with very sporadic use of our printer.

I have also noticed lots of government offices that print a bunch of stuff all put an inkjet on almost every (rather than shared laser printers I'd been expecting to see), and I wondered why. Your explanation may be the key to that too.
It’s a map specifically for real estate investing that aims to quantify how wealthy, developed and/or gentrified each neighborhood is. An “A” neighborhood is not necessarily best for investing as the properties there are likely very expensive, but it does mean it’s a very wealthy and desirable neighborhood with low crime rates. Best for investing is likely B/C areas.

We used a huge amount of data to build the map including census data (median income, vacancy rates, employment stats, population growth etc.), also combined with MLS data (average rents, appreciation, days on market, price changes etc.)
I appreciate you put a lot of work into this, but I don't see what benefit there is to adding an internet connection.
Can someone make this into a Wordpress plugin?
I had one of these, I think it was a 200 in one.

These would be really useful in my day to day engineering life, I should find mine!
This was unique to Commodore. They owned MOS which made the chips so it was not as costly for them to do this. Honestly it sucked longer term because there was no way to really upgrade how the filesystem DOS worked unlike on the Apple or the Atari.

It was cool however because there were tools that offloaded things to the drive CPU. You could also write programs for copying disk that you loaded into the RAM on the drive and then disconnected them from the computer. You used the drive lights to tell you when to swap the disk.
Definitely need to distinguish between "met through a dating app/site" and "met online otherwise".
The story I like to tell for the Newton is that it was launched before the technology was ready yet. Like the Sega Game Gear. Old video phones. All those tablets that launched before the iPad.

They’re good ideas, but they shipped a few years too early, and the technology to make them work well at a good price point wasn’t available until later. Like, the Sega Game Gear had a cool active matrix LCD screen, but it took six AA batteries and the batteries only lasted like four hours.
It would stay regular if there was a strict governing body for it that wasn't a Webster-style "whatever people are speaking is the new definition of correct".

English really is a disaster of a language. There was a(nother) great XKCD about it just a few days ago. https://xkcd.com/2907/
I don't know if that's true. In order to be sure, we'd need to have a billionaire surrounded by just sycophants, and then just ketamine, and finally one surrounded by neither, and see how they fare. Really, to be sure, we'd want to have a large dataset, so we need a whole bunch of billionaires to take part in this experiment. Of course, finding willing billionaires will be hard, so instead we'll need to create some willing billionaires for this to happen. I volunteer to be one of them, so I'll just need a $1,000,000,000 dollars for my part in this experiment. (And maybe syncophants and ketamine, depending on which group we want me to be a part of.)

Will you help fund it? It's for science.
I disagree it's clearer, because it's a spooky action at a distance. An analog are thread locals, which have the same characteristics of a dynamically scoped variable.

I've found dynamic scoping useful so few times I can count them on one hand, and while it's an intriguing feature, I think it makes a lot of sense to use a more explicit abstraction. For example, you shouldn't need dynamic scoping for overloading binary operators - you should have a more clear method that takes a context as an argument instead.

Context is external state, and it's extremely surprising when a fundamental operator like "+" modifies it.
I would be willing to pay triple for a phone I could customize to my liking. Something that was rugged and dependable like the simple phones of y2k, yet capable with a microprocessor of today. Eliminating threats like ai capabilities. Having a removable battery and multiple sim ports with a switch.
Hell, I’d go in at $5k without a thought. For me, being able to truly disconnect from the grid is essential. Not have to worry about having a tiny capacitor that is giving signal after the battery is disabled. The peace of mind is worth a lot.
Or LeBron, MJ, MacKenzie Scott...
They state, but do not link to nor give authors names of the "science" https://www.luminaprobiotic.com/science

$5000 and not approved in other regions? I would be a little wary, but maybe using regions with little regulation could be a great way to test the product?
TikTok can’t really be researched as a generic site: Everything about the user interactions (scroll/not scroll, how long before scroll, whether a comment was left, whether comments were open, etc, etc, etc) informs the content that is pushed to that user.

Simply investigating a sexualized video will make it much more likely to get sexualized videos throughout the use of the app.