skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it. It’s not like you ever stop practicing remembering things or doing everyday math tasks.

Look, this is anecdata. I’m not making a claim about this article. I just know that my wife got substantially stupider overnight 2 years ago (plus lots of other symptoms). Via a postcovid support group organized by a semi government club here in NL she knows a bunch more people with long-term postcovid and this is the one symptom they all share. Might well still be some weird sort of selection bias etc; again, I’m not saying this is generalizable science, I’m saying that my wife got noticeably less smart and it started at the same time as all her other postcovid symptoms.
I don't want them to go away, I want their talents put to use towards creating broader value.
My question is. What is this Number measuring?
> This access is considered a taxable income.

Sounds like this meets the definition of racketeering
Journalists (and I'd argue that MKBHD falls under that even) definitely have responsibility in their reporting.

Apart from the hypocratic oath, there are also the 4 pillars of journalism, one of which is "minimize harm". Bringing that one up feels like a recent trend whenever people see legitimate criticism that they can't really argue with, and it's an easy one to bring up as in every truthful reporting about people that have being lying there is at least the lier being "harmed".
IQ as measured seems to be intended to be a "mental maturity index".

It's best administered to children to understand where they are relative to other children and makes little sense in adults.

That's why IQ is age dependent. A 12 year old with a 140 IQ should have the mental pattern matching recognition as a normal 14 year old with 100 IQ.

The standard deviation is based on the next year ups mean IQ and so on.

It doesn't necessarily measure intelligence, but in children it can be used as a proxy for intelligence since usually brain maturity is directly linked to intelligence.
Nvidia introduces low-end RTX A400 and A1000 GPUs for workstations
For the databases I've used, which excludes PostgreSQL, most optimization happens on algorithmic level, that is, selecting the best algorithms to use for a given query and in what order to execute them.

From what I gather this is mostly because various different SQL queries might get transformed into the same "instructions", or execution plan, but also because SQL semantics doesn't leave much room for language-level optimizations.

As a sibling comment noted, an important decision is if you can replace a full table scan with an index lookup or index scan instead.

For example, if you need to do a full table scan, and do significant computation per row to determine if a row should be included in the result set, the optimizer might change the full table scan with a parallel table scan then merge the results from each parallel task.

When writing performant code for a compiler, you'll want to know how your compilers optimizer transforms the source code to machine instructions, so you prefer writing code the optimizer handles well and avoid writing code the optimizer outputs slower machine instructions for. After all the optimizer is programmed to detect certain patterns and transform them.

Same thing with a query optimizer and its execution plan. You'll have to learn which patterns the query optimizer in the database you're using can handle and generate efficient execution plans for.
> daydream about how you can make money off of it.

I do this but mostly from trauma of having to kill things due to hosting costs (happened before), as long as its cheap/self sufficient enough the fun part dominates.
The title is misleading, at least on the IQ claim. The underlying study was observational and did not claim causation.

Medical journals and their associated media summaries are awash with low-certainty studies that get de-nuanced and overhyped. These studies are relatively easy to do - not to denigrate the work put in by the original study authors (it’s not their fault the press sensationalize their work). But for strong causative claims you ideally would have blinded controlled randomized trials. Sometimes such trials are not feasible, but that doesn’t mean you get to claim causation anyway just because the work to prove it is too hard.
In about 5 minutes I found papers on cognitive impairment for post-covid groups vs healthy controls in multiple non-North American countries, including one from Spain [1] where there was a measurably lower correlating IQ estimation for the PCC group than the HC group.

1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9631485/

Do you have a more specific hypothesis of what wouldn't be found elsewhere? Because it looks like you'd be out of $5 from any takers currently.
Ask HN: How many of you have noticed a surge in static electricity lately?
Have you observed that suddenly static electricity has increased, and those tiny shocks, which were once a fun game in our childhood, have become a frequent part of our daily life? Am I the only one experiencing this, or are you guys experiencing it too?
> In conclusion, goldfish crackers are awesome...

Until the cheese mafia got to them. It's hard to get them without cheese now.
He carries both, because he needs to stay familiar with both, and there are some things that the iPhone does better (in his opinion), like video, and of course there is iMessage.

He has said countless times that his main phone, and primary number, is on whatever Android phone he is currently carrying.

I’m an iPhone user, so I’m not projecting, trying say he prefers my preferred platform.

Here he is talking about using 2 phones, with his main number and 75% of usage being on the Android. That seems like a preference to me. That doesn’t mean he thinks the iPhone is bad, but it’s his special purpose phone, not the ‘default for everything else’ phone.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=QGbfOd_pVvc
That's why Raven's progressive matrices were invented. And in spite of it being developed by westerners, East Asian countries tend to score highest on it.
I post this from time to time. You may find it useful...

Understanding codebases:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19924100

Testing pipelines, scaffolding, issue templates:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591067

Making the most out of meetings and leveraging your presence:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873103

Product development:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841

Giving a damn:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356222

If I disappear, what will happen:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008223

Consulting, understanding the problem your "client", who can be your manager, has:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24972611

On taking notes. When you're told something, or receive a remark, make sure to make a note and learn from it whether it's a mistake, or a colleague showing you something useful, or a task you must accomplish.. don't be told things twice or worse. Be on the ball and reliable:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24209518

Product, architecture, and impact on the team:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503365

Onboarding new hires to a codebase, what if it were you, improve code:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22860716

Tips to learn from videos:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22710623

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22723586

Communication with the team:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598632

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614372

Reduce information asymmetry, template for taking minutes of meetings to dispatch to the team. Notes are in GitHub/GitLab so the team can access them, especially if they haven't attended:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21427886

More meeting notes. Reply to a person who had trouble talking in corporate meetings:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20323660

Communication, alignment:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24177646

Useful things for the team and product that add leverage:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808439

Management involvement as a spectrum:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22715971

Researching topics:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922120

Keeping up with a firehose of information:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26147502

Fractal Communication: communication that can penetrate several layers of management and be relevant to people with different profiles and skillsets:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123017

Remote work, use existing tooling and build our own. Jitsi videos, record everything, give access to everyone so they can reference them and go back to them, meetings once a week or two weeks to align:

-https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26179539

Write better. Always.
Ever since that video 8 years ago of a college kid yelling at a professor at Yale [1], it seemed to me that a non-negligible part of American youth, much of it in highly regarded universities (such as Yale, Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford) does not understand, nor want to understand, nuance and proportionality. You don't protest violence by being violent yourself.

Rank-and-file Googlers in the US tend to be young (<30) and from those universities or their like. Certainly seems to be the case in this article.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3rucs2/yale_sjws_sc...
They collect a lot of donation money during their funding drives, it’s obvious they have a fan base. College radio stations also get a funding source via NPR, and they provide a venue for local programming, but yes, colleges are going to be way to the left of…anything really. If people didn’t want NPR, it would be gone already, but the fact that those people aren’t everyone…well, the only kind of news that wouldn’t offend anyone would be as dry as C-Span.

I don’t really have a radio in my car anymore so it’s a moot point, I just stream whatever short newscast they have while driving just to catch up. I get the feeling that a lot of drivers are like this now, and they might be scrambling for a new model to match, and that’s going to cause some content upheaval (and if they didn’t adapt, they wouldn’t exist now, we wouldn’t be talking about them at all).
Really? He has a course like that? Sounds like Vassallo is selling way more Snake oil than he claims ill intentions with MKBHD.
Uhmm, the correct way would be: 0. focus on less thing; 1. have fun doing them; don't stress about it, you're not competing; 2. do it, more and more.
The important point is to DO. Everything else will come, eventually.
Where can I see the overture maps "final product" in action? Is anyone providing a hosted solution?
The basic rule of online safety is not to meet people from the internet IRL and even if, never to get into their cars. And yet, the business of calling strangers over the internet specifically to get into their cars somehow grew into a 200 billion dollar industry. Strange world, isn't it.
Idk if I was exposed to it like that, but I hate waters and don’t understand how the risk of death by drowning can be seen as “something fun”. I can swim to the shore if thrown out of boat, but see your deep bath “fun” as a group suicide tickling event. One choke, leg cramp, kick in the head and you’re in grave danger. I’d better walk the border on the roof rather than swimming through somewhere I can’t stand up.
Also, the visualization let you think that all the leftmost teenagers are the same ones stacking the bad things. That might be true, but I doubt it is. The part around Highschool was especially unclear.
Are they the same teenagers getting all the bad stuff. That would be plausible but not to the extend the visual displays I guess.

In other news, I hate that trend of scrolling to animate to get content.
You should not assume that the effects of a disease are the same for all populations on the planet.
If true, this seems quite damning for IQ as a metric. If the kilogram varied across countries, we would be in big trouble.
> By every available poll, the Palestinians want to kill them all.

I think that's a big stretch. Many/most Palestinians want "their" land back, and many/most might want Israel gone. But that is not at all the same as saying they want all Israelis killed. Some might want a one-state solution that gives them rights without necessarily infringing on Jews's rights, some might think that most Jews will have a place to go if they get their land back (with the settler-colonialism framing), etc. There are many valid things people can think that aren't "we want to kill all Jews".

(I'm purposefully writing Jews and not Israelis, because I assume we both agree that most would explicitly not want to kill the 2 million or so Israeli-Palestinians!)
Or maybe they would have just nuked a random enemy of theirs that was in that local area of the world. Of which, I am sure there are many.

The game theory of nukes doesn't work if irrational actor have control of them.

There are also lot of examples of authoritarian dictators committing warcrimes in that part of the world. And all it takes it one to cause large amounts of damage, if they have a nuke.
Great website I love the simple UI ! I subbed for the notifications, I hope more words and a support will come for Russian ! :)
F/OSS Comics: 8. The Origins of Unix and the C Language
I think I'd attribute my newfound slowness to lockdowns, rather than COVID?

Lack of practicing talking and remembering stuff is bad for talking and remembering stuff, and it definitely happened long before I caught COVID, because I caught COVID super late
(Czech Republic) I took one in high school, it was optional and paid, but sort of organized by the school. I think we took it instead of some morning classes. I got an official-looking Mensa application form attached to the results, so I think it was pretty legit. (never applied though)
A friend of mine was also targeted though they didn't have a real photo of him. They claimed to have hacked his webcam and had some blurry thing printed out, but he doesn't have a webcam.

He called in a panic and I told him to ignore it. Nothing ever came of it (because in this case, how could it - and we're both adults, I convinced him even if it were true why would it matter - again, highly case specific but he agreed it wouldnt).

I doubt the same would be true in all cases, just wanted to share.
It's true, fwiw.
Most of those can be explained by the lockdowns and school closures, which made millions of lower class people even poorer and worsened their children's educational outcomes. More poverty + missed schooling = more crime, less college enrollment and worse test scores.
I wonder what the author thinks about using flexbox for centering icons next to text instead of vertical-align
"a living Red Mage minus one Cure spell is more versatile than a dead Red Mage":
https://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/12/12/episode-100-white-ma...
Baldurs Gate 3 is not really an indie passion project labor of love, its "just" a really good game. to me that's the big problem with AAA is that a lot of the time they're not even good
What's interesting is that that's basically the opposite of Vassallo's argument. He argues on X that it's not the video that's the problem; it's the meanness of the title that might effectively kill the product. He even says that the same video posted on X has a different title, and he has no problem with that.

So he's claiming that the title is in effect anti-clickbait. That by itself, regardless of the video content or whether or not people watch the video even, it could potentially cause harm to the product. I mean, he's not entirely wrong. It wouldn't be unsurprising if more people saw the title, and said to themselves, "Well, that sounds like a shit product, no need to even waste time watching the video," than actually watched the video.
Unfortunately, I've noticed that the so-called "public opinion" is only getting more prude, and the denial about teenagers having sex drive is only getting worse. Basically nobody wants to be labelled a pedophile, so nobody wants to touch that problem with a three-meter stick.
People that want to stay more anonymous are exemt from Discord. I get the draw of the platform, but the negatives are undeniable.
No. They can see that there are other ways of living by watching their peers or random people on the street.

But they need somebody to make them understand that it’s not them who are destroying the relationship with their surroundings and their chance for being happy but the other way around.

Some children in bad situations understand that without guidance but they are rare.
Why don't you crack open Wikipedia and start from there?
“Well, some of them are built so the front doesn’t fall off at all.”

How good are people at evaluating risk of e.g. “conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration”?

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/case/united-...
Those are the French. Airbus is manufacturing in Germany and Spain as well.
lol, many wrongly assume the convenient services haven't made billions off those that assume any anonymity exists in their metadata.

Prior to ML, it was computationally unfeasible to develop speculative dossiers on the majority of populations.

Best not think too deeply on the matter... Have a wonderful day =)
IQ metrics are continually damned. There is still no real consensus that they are useful at all. But the social sciences is filled with a lot of soft metrics like IQ because studying complex human behavior with hard science is very hard, and probably impossible.
I recommend against Grammarly because I like when I see peoples' idiosyncrasies and it's little fuckups that move language forward.
I have a very math-heavy competitive hobby which I found myself suddenly very bad at (relative to my previous performance) for 6-8 weeks after all my other covid symptoms were gone.

I appear to have recovered within 90 days, but I don’t know if I was left with permanent damage or not. I had no way to objectively test.
Iraq invasion happened because the US (and UK) governments convinced themselves that Saddam Hussein had "weapons of mass destruction" that could launch in "45 minutes".

Afganistan invasion happened when everyone was so enraged by 9/11 they weren't thinking straight. "Never forget" was a thing for around a decade.
These "facts" pulled out of your ass are demonstrably false.

A typical IQ score for a mathematics PhD graduate is a couple of standard deviations above the mean.

IQ is correlated with intelligence, and higher intelligence enables greater achievements.
How long ago was she sick?

For me it's gotten better. I got sick in August 2021, the major effects (fatigue and brain fog) were most pronounced between September and February, and I've been steadily improving since. I think I'm somewhere around 80% pre-Covid capacity most days.
>> pricing a lot of people out, that ire should be directed at the artists

https://harrystylestour.us/vip/

Chris Brown is 1000 bucks too... (you can find that link with ease, and the funny blow back)

I know you're looking at that and thinking "these must not be that popular".

The concert industry has been harpooning whales since the 90's and the internet only made it more lucrative.

>> But I don't believe that all artists who play ball with LN/TM are greedy like that.

Touring, merch, licensing... These are the ways artists make money. Music is basically free. Price is a function of popularity, no one is going to leave money on the table, ever.

>> charge an arm and a leg to see them perform live, pricing a lot of people out ... be able to play in huge venues across the country and charge less for admission if they want to

This is from 89, from a mid level artist at a small venue: https://archive.is/moWdH

Sometimes the prices are so dam high that you only even care about half the venue and then you paper over the rest... It's kind of common for a large venue to just get asses in seats and sell beer and tshrits if they can.
It would be a comment on the state of YouTube. Also Clickbait is a spectrum. On one end there are disingenuous titles (1) on the other are academic titles (0). A typical book of fiction title would be somewhere in the middle of the scale. But we do judge fiction and other artistic efforts differently.

There are Channels I subscribe to, that do not use titles like those too much. You can find examples from those channels that are clickbait from my perspective, but that is a general feeling I have.

I would also say that for complex stuff covered by a video you can't give a simple purely descriptive title and then my Clickbait detector allows some leeway. Just don't rely on terms, that almost automatically put a question in minds. Like: weird (weird, how?), the worst/best product (which product? - is it something I know of?).
Western Europe is a big place. I guess it also depends on whether you only count tests conducted in a professional setting. Here in Germany, i guess at least 20% of people between 20 and 40 have taken some kind of IQ test, e.g. online. Not everyone might admit it because it could come of as a little "vain", but there are even IQ test shows on popular TV channels (Sat 1, RTL 2) where the viewers do the test. They run them at primetime every few years.
In Australia, we have "Fringe Benefits Tax" which applies to that sort of thing.

Basically anything that is considered a non-cash benefit is FBT tax owed by the employer. The tax is at the current maximum marginal income tax rate (47%) on a "grossed up" value of the benefit (currently 2.08).

So $1000 of benefit is grossed up to $2080, then taxed at 47% so FBT of $977.60.

Employer can deduct cost of the benefit ($1000) and the FBT ($977.60) from the company's income as an expense. I've left out the complications of GST (VAT) in the example.

There are a bunch of exemptions and stuff (eg for Xmas/end-of-year parties etc) as well as allowable travel expenditure for work etc.

Basically designed to make the fringe benefit not worth giving to employees by employers so that they pay them the cash instead as income.
This is another nice reminder to people who build systems where there is only one language implementation. Implementations always change.
It's supposed to measure general intelligence (supposing there is such a thing, which I doubt). Correlation is the only thing it's trying to do.

If you had a specific test like you're after... that would be by definition not general intelligence, but rather some specific intelligence.
Neuroinflammation is a poorly studied area and one likely cause of brain fog and mecfs/long covid symptoms. Jarred Younger [1] is a researcher studying this and has a youtube channel [2] where he discusses his latest work. If you're interested in this it's worth watching!

Also please ignore anyone that posts 'oh its just X' or 'just do X', whatever X may be. This is a complicated medical mystery that millions of patients have suffered from for decades if you include mecfs and postviral conditions. There is no X, patients have tried every possible X. Anyone who tells you its just X is revealing their lack of understanding of the issue (this happens every time this subject shows up on HN and elsewhere).

[1] https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Jarred_Younger

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoVoOvIX90IMEZCbBf_ycEA
Fair enough - let's take Stardew Valley as an example then.
In my opinion, those two (or three) deserve way longer than 15 years. This wasn't some act of desperation. This was just pure, unfiltered evil that IMO cannot be "corrected".
My knee-jerk reaction is that probably some people know what you look like naked. So one means to check: If it's recent, compare it to your actual body.

On the other hand, bodies change over time, so it gets easier to say "That 10 year old pic? No, not real."

(Unless it's extremely attractive. Then enthuse about how gorgeous you once were, I guess, and see if people buy that.)