skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are reviewers I stopped following, because it became obvious they were just reading whatever a company’s PR team sent them. They never had anything critical to say, it was a paid spokesmodel position. There is no value in that.

The one thing any reviewer has is their credibility. Without that, they have nothing. MKBHD retained his credibility here, and no one should fault him for that. If he compromised on that, why would anyone follow him? His alliance should be to his viewers, doing right by them, not the companies. It’s up to the companies to make a good product that someone like Marques can confidently recommend and say good things about.

So many people think people should change once they have a large platform, but they got that platform because of who they are, why would they change?
No, I don't want "dollar store Docker" either.
You deliberately threw your son into the water to see what happens because a random woman told you so? Schocking. Did you ever consider how that experiment would feel to your kid?
what I find the most humorous from people that base their whole identity around a problem with mRNA vaccines is that everything they identify as a problem is caused by a natural covid infection too and in vast greater quantities and severity, and they amusingly don’t seem to know that
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I think it would be better if you gave your views on what the downstream effects are, instead of just saying that other people can't think of them.
Yet another observational study with no real comparison. The REACT dataset used by the study relies mostly on self reported surveys and data from people sick enough to go to the doctor. This has obvious problems.

The idea that there is a control arm of people who haven’t gotten Covid large enough to power a real control here is farcical. Again, a problem of self selection for people committed enough to maintain a large level of isolation for multiple years.

Any causal study here should be looking at a differential in pre and post covid cognitive scores with a control of known uninfected participants in the same time window.
I can relate.

This also made me think of this article Are you playing to win or playing to play (https://commoncog.com/playing-to-play-playing-to-win/) which is about doing things that aren't necessary to achieve the goal, but which you do to feel like you've done it right (as opposed to objectively doing it right).

An example from the article is someone who doesn't want to win at Street Fighter using throws, because they are seen as cheap: "Throwing violates the rules in their heads even though it doesn't violate any actual game rule"

Saving you potions feels like a rule derived from efficiency or frugality, trading off leveraging the resources you have.

Lots of mind traps here.
Well I read Animats’ comment in the context of activism producing change - not in the context of activism being a symptom of change…
> is there some way to specify dependencies in C? Like requirements.txt in Python, where you put libraries names and versions and the user has to run a single command to install them (and without requiring root privileges)?

I'd describe this as "(language-specific) package management".

"Requiring root privileges" is more/less equivalent to "packages get installed in a system-wide location".

There are some C or C++ specific package managers.. but, essentially what's missing is the ecosystem/culture for providing a packages for those. -- e.g. With the Rust, packages use Cargo.

> Is this nix/tvix/guix an equivalent of pip?

Nix and guix are system package managers.

Since they're powerful tools, one popular use case is for providing dependencies for C projects.

Nix practically requires root for its installation. (i.e. installing it without root may be possible, but I'd think it's impractical). Although once installed, it can provide packages without needing root.
I thought tiktok caused that.
Who? There's your problem. I have never heard of Temu, and neither have many who know (and use) Amazon.
> One kid should not be allowed to ruin a class.

The only thing I ruined for other students when I was in class was forcing them to look at my stupid haircut. My punishments were for truancy. I went to school, but spent all of my time in the computer lab because with severe ADHD without any academic support rendered class pointless. One crusty old Korean War vet teacher flat-out told me he "didn't believe in IEPs," and the administrators refused to even address the problem. I never once started a fight, brought drugs to school, or had a gun. While people found me pretty intimidating looking at first, I had a genuinely warm, mature, and mutually respectful relationship with damn near anybody I interacted with. No students really had a problem with me, but the adults actually enjoyed interacting with me more. Most teachers, administrators, librarians, etc would stop me for a quick chat to catch up, talk about current events, or whatever if we passed each other. I didn't ruin shit, and neither did a hell of a lot of other kids that were punished because the school didn't hold up their end of the bargain for academic accessibility.

> When I was kid we had people that brought guns to school and were kicked out it seemed reasonable to me.

Whoa there straw man. It's completely ridiculous to lump academically struggling kids or kids with run-of-the-mill behavioral problems in with kids that bring deadly weapons to school. Nobody is arguing that kids who bring guns into school should be sent on their way after a stern talking to.

Also, nobody said that alternative schools weren't on the table. I, myself, graduated in a night school program designed for failing high school students who'd been successful at work, and it was a phenomenal experience. They gave us a lot more leeway and expected us to do schoolwork mostly independently while working at least 20 hours per week, and we'd fail the entire term for all classes if we missed a single assignment. It was precisely the lack of patronizing meddling you're advocating for that allowed hundreds of kids to graduate through that program.

> In both cases

Kids are generally held back because they're struggling with the material, not because they're being disruptive. How exactly does holding a kid back help the system if there's any expense to the child?

> I was suspended for fighting and it seemed like an appropriate punishment.

I'm glad you think so, but that doesn't actually counter any of the data presented.
I wonder if covid infections, perhaps in rare cases the vaccines themselves, is to blame for the post-pandemic phenomena of ADHD medication shortages, the crime wave, school discipline (lack of), the so-called college enrollment crises (precipitous decline), and record low OECD test scores.All of these can be explained by dopamine dysregulation.
Unfortunately, for some people an illusion of themselves is all they have left:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)

Postulating intellectual artifacts somehow bring contentment also can become unhealthy. As some folks spend their entire lives solving a civilizations perceived problems, and only later conclude most of the planet just isn't worth saving... if one becomes hapless as a consequence.

One may disagree, but that is an indulgence youthful idealism often prescribes. In conclusion, goldfish crackers are awesome... =3
My summary:

The mesh for rendering and the mesh for collision detection are separate, so the first cause of "invisible walls" is just that a wall exists in the collision mesh but not in the render mesh.

The other causes are mostly all because of tiny gaps in the level geometry. The game doesn't want to let you go somewhere where there is no floor below you, or there is a ceiling below you with no floor between you and the ceiling. (A floor is just a collision tri with normal pointing up, a ceiling is one with normal pointing down.) If you try to move into one of these places, you hit an "invisible wall". Tiny gaps in the level geometry (eg. tiny misalignments of vertices) can create these places with no floor below them.

The fact that collision detection is done with integer math, combined with certain geometric situations, make the game particularly prone to small gaps around the edges of platforms. The bulk of the video classifies these geometric situations in detail.

The game does not do continuous/swept collision detection, but moves Mario in discrete steps. You only hit the "invisible wall" if you are unlucky enough to land exactly on the gap at the end of a step, which is why you only seem to hit them sometimes. This is the same reason you can pass through regular walls when you move fast enough.

An exacerbating factor is a bug in the "check for floor under Mario" routine that the video calls "floor overshadowing" (the decomp calls it "surface cucking"). The game searches for the floor under you from highest to lowest, returning the first one below you... except there's no actual way to order tris in 3D space from "highest to lowest" (it uses the height of the first vertex in the tri). So a tri earlier in the list can "cuck" the correct tri later in the list, which can result in a floor between Mario and a ceiling not being found even when it exists.
In my experience, they do not, they just become someone else's problem.

(Or everyone's, if they end up in top management.)
TikTok is actually the only one from your list which gives a real chance to newcomers through the algorithm. That's also one of the reasons why the app is popular, the algorithm is just very different from anything else.
Do you have more info on the GIS improvements in PG15?
If one feels unhappy about the causality link between a good childhood and a better life as an adult please remember that we are talking about statistical effects here. If more people who were bullied end up in unfortunate positions that doesn't imply direct causality, it implies that people whose live paths lead to bad places often had being bullied as a station on it.

There will always be the tail ends of the statistical function, so people who became phenomenal adults despite all hardships, but also people who had a good childhood and became utterly disfunctional adults. But if we think about devising utilitarian political measures knowing what "broadly" has an effect on people is useful. Ideally you discover small things that if changed would have huge positive downstream effects. E.g. if bullying would be shown to have a big impact on later lives, it could be justified to pick up more funds to prevent it, to help victims and/or to change the way schools work in order to minimize chances someone is being bullied. Bullying is just an example, one could also pick other triggers.
I definitely feel 'less sharp' at times, however in my case I may have other factors going on. I did have Omicron and possibly something very weird about the time Covid started to show up in the USA
I didn't pick any side. Israel has killed tens of thousands of people including a large percentage of children in 6 months. It doesn't matter to me at all what one side "wants" to do. This is what's happening right now.
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Consider caching to reduce hosting costs. If you are patient, consider static site generators. The latter made running a website so much simpler. There is virtually no maintenance left to do.
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In part because Go isn't true CSP, it's just inspired by it. It's very easy to accidentally share data between threads even when exclusively using channels to communicate. Couple this with the cases where it is better to use shared state with mutexes and you get can bit by them being easy to screw up or forget.
Instincts are not limited to natural instincts.

> 1. A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.

> 2. An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
Is there any real world test where higher IQ people do better than anyone else deterministically?

I am not talking about correlations.

I am talking about people with higher IQ can solve X problem that people with lower IQs can't.

Not the ability to spot back & white patterns on a screen.

The riches people are not the highest IQ people

The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people

The best sports players are not the highest IQ people

The best mathematicians are not the highest IQ people

The best musicians are not the highest IQ people.

None of the these have excellence that can be deterministically determined by IQ. So what exactly is it good for?
I had a goal of programming every morning for an hour, and it wouldn’t stick… Once I dropped any pretense of making money, or getting anything out of it other than enjoying the craft, it has finally stuck.
Just adding this here: I created a multi-window management addon Winger[0] which lets you treat windows as 'tab groups', and it has a stashing feature (windows <-> bookmark folders / tabs <-> bookmarks) similar to Tab Stash. Despite the ostensible scope overlap, I know there's at least one person (not me) who uses both, setting Winger's stash home folder to be the same as Tab Stash's to achieve a manner of integration.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/winger/
Ideally you'd have customers very early on for the very validation of your idea. Have a look entitled "Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth" by Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo's founder) and Justin Mares.

Unordered, indexed, playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpNwgXYhL09_afXgVjigb...
It might be better to interpret in the context of the subtitle: “Advice for myself around leisure activities.”

If my advice is to myself, I don’t see how it is condescending. It seems by definition that it can’t be. I cannot pretend to be above me.

My summary of the sentiment would be “don’t allow the weight of imagined judgmental eyeballs to steal your joy in trying or pursuing your personal creative endeavour”

There is an irony in the blog now being seen at HN scale and judged.
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Maintaining a high level of civilization
OpenSSF/OpenJSF: Alert for Social Engineering Takeovers of Open Source Projects
Even those with no fear get scared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vmwsg8Eabo
I also suspect that almost everything to do with actual military operations - intelligence, logistics, targeting, whatever - would be classified, and therefore could not run on civilian infrastructure.
Biscuit maintainer here o/

There's definitelt some cool use cases we could collaborate on. One thing I'm looking at more deeply right now is tokens carrying the necessary data as they go through the system,to make sure one call does not see some of it rights change dynamically when going from service to service
My wife has postcovid and this is a profound effect. Yesterday she tried to add up a series of numbers by heart, and she simply couldn’t. For context, she’s pretty mathy and used to mock me for taking out a calculator or a spreadsheet for stuff like that. She also forgets everything, which is another thing she used to be great at. It’s pretty confronting, especially now that the idea that maybe this isn’t temporary is taking shape.
> The existence of a CSAM implies a crime was committed though, since there is no way to legally produce such an image

Well if those images are illegal, you're right that there's no way to produce them legally, but that's because they are on their face illegal.

If you mean there is no way to produce CSAM that doesn't break other laws, I think you're wrong - e.g. see the case of teenagers taking nude pictures of themselves. That is an otherwise legal thing to do, but having those images is illegal, as I understand it, and you can search Google for many examples of teens prosecuted for sexting images of themselves. I don't know if anyone has been prosecuted for merely having nude images of themselves, but that might just be because no one would even know about it, necessarily.
This was a huge worry for us too especially because we live near the ocean and many swimming pools.

We did Infant Swimming Resource [1] program for our son and I can tell you it’s tremendous! He was able to swim as a 2.5yo. He can float fully clothed.

This is the main thing they teach infants by the way. Just to stay afloat until they get help. It’s a special technique and they drill that until the infant learns. Swimming comes next if there’s a good grasp of the float technique.

Highly recommended!

Watch this demo [2].

[1] https://www.infantswim.com/

[2] https://youtu.be/rKvpPeha2sw?si=Oup3tYz83VNfq_Uc
Here in western europe IQ tests are unheard of. I never met anyone (people at work, family members, close friends, acquaintances, etc.) who has taken such a test.
The economic system in China is capitalism.
Dont you think problem with spam books is that someone actually buys them?

Without enough demand no one would do it.
I doubt such a test is possible because IQ is trying to be a single number. Intelligence isn’t really generalized like that.
I guess the title wouldn't have been as interesting if it was "Stupid people more likely to get covid"
I’m curious why you don’t think you’d find that. I very much believe you would.
Maybe Vassalo is selling the worst "I will teach you how to be a successful entrepreneur" online course ever?

Talk about glass roofs…
I always wanted to do an art installation where you would act out the part of Moses speaking to God on mount sinai. You would go through a curtain into a type of waiting room, where you would be outfitted with sandals, and a staff. Then you go through a second set of curtains out of the dark into a seeming mountain set, similar to the one from the burning bush scene in the ten commandments. And the art installation, playing the part of God, commands you to go and free his people. Then you exit via a long twisting slide into a ballpit.
>The riches people are not the highest IQ people
The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people
The best sports players are not the highest IQ people
The best mathematicians are not the highest IQ people
The best musicians are not the highest IQ people.

These may not be the highest IQ people, but very few are low IQ (below 90).
You have to take an IQ test as part of an ADHD diagnosis.

I genuinely don't know why, but you do have to.
Richard Hanania's substack is intellectual, non-partisan and conservative.
MKBHD, as far as I've seen, doesn't receive sponsorships from the companies he reviews but rather from purveyors of accessories like Dbrand.

And merch. He seems to have a thriving merch offering.
I felt much sharper before I had COVID last December and I still don't feel like I've fully recovered from the fog.
Turbulence is the #1 cause of accidents on flights, what makes airbus planes better in turbulence?

As I said before people are extremely bad at modeling risk. How much longer of a life span would a person have if they flew only airbus vs only Boeing?

My guess. The exact same.
I feel, the current generation of AAA Games are a great example for why you should make something you enjoy rather than something designed to make money. Look at Baldurs Gate 3 vs Skull and Bones. Make something you love and are passionate about. Get good at it. Use the Internet to show it to others that are passionate about the same thing - and there's a decent likelihood of success.
So when civilizations collapse like a Ancient Egyptian, Rome, Ancient China & Ancient Greece.

What it the IQ that also dropped to cause the civilization collapse?
> The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it. Most likely you will stop doing the activity almost immediately, so save the money-making schemes for work.

I disagree wholeheartedly with this statement. It implies several things that aren't true:

* That a hobby done for profit that can't also be done for fun.

* That a hobby for profit can't start as a profit-making venture, but turn into a passion.

* That work should be the only route to wealth.

* That optimizing for wealth can't go hand-in-hand with fun.

I despise the adage that a hobby is only a hobby if you aren't making money from it. I'm passionate about fantasy/sci-fi miniature building/painting, terrain modelling, and prop making. I love the expression of taking a universe that exists within the realms of novels and movies, and bringing it to the real world - to scale or in miniature. I design STLs/CAD models for 3D printing, scratch together terrain boards for people to play games on, paint miniatures any hour I get free, machine parts for various outfits and armaments, and spend hours fantasising about what universe I'm going to delve into next.

None of that would be possible if I didn't monetise the process. Most of what I build, I sell. If I didn't, I would neither be able to afford the hobby nor store the stuff I make. It would end up in a landfill. Parts of the hobby I took up explicitly because they demand higher prices when I sell it, but now they're some of the things I'm most passionate about.

Realistically, I'd love to do it as a full-time venture, but the semiconductor industry pays well and I'm not a famous maker so couldn't make it work - as the article states well enough. To suggest that hobbies can't both be fun and profitable though is a philosophy I think should be quashed.
It's almost impossible to compare IQ tests across countries, because cognition test results are really only valid for people from the cultural context the test was written for.
The classic answer to that question would be to move to a more Scandinavian model.
I’m going to hard disagree with this. A lot of the enjoyment I get from creation is the process of others enjoying what I’ve built.

Further more, building for others is great for building out areas you’re weak or inexperienced in. Like, I was poor on the accessibility front until I found the thing I created resonated with the visually impaired folk.
It's been pretty well-known and much commented on that "the left" is full of anti-semites. E.g. the Black Lives Matter movement was often accused of being at best indifferent to anti-semitism.

(No comment from me on the truth or otherwise of that sentiment, I'm just pointing out this isn't exactly a new thing.)
A little ironic that the author is submitting their own blog posts to HN about the topic :)
Could it be that she's simply out of practice?
So, if I’m hearing the zeitgeist correctly. Currently, the best competing advice I hear along venn intersections is:

0. Do less things

1. Do things at a natural pace

2. Obsess over quality

3. Don’t obsess over quality, eff the haters!

4. Do more things

;)
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That makes intuitive sense, but that's not enough. Many untrue things make intuitive sense, especially when it comes to poverty.

Is there any research that shows that having witnessed someone get shot affects future prospects INDEPENDENT of the factors that lead to the kid witnessing someone get shot?
Relax, this was commonly done in baby swimming lessons in Switzerland. Not that big of a deal
It seems I was mixing up instinctive and intuitive.
I suppose you can’t compare the absolute results but you can see if there is a similar trend.
Milllions of people worldwide suddenly have Zinc deficiency in the same year and now it's gone?