So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?

The OP made a statement about the contents of their feed, not about content they don't see. If they don't follow neo-nazis or people who would retweet a neo-nazi, it's very easy to believe that one being unbanned makes no difference on the content they see.

I have never organically seen an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump tweet. Or frankly any neo-Nazi tweets. Like I said maybe I’m doing it differently than everyone else.

Take humanities courses there; you come from the land of some of the heaviest continental philosophy thinkers.

Roll with the chances of life.

It’s linear output; the PQ is just the “down the wire” encoding, and the display undoes it back to linear photon light.

I don’t understand what you mean here. On the last engine I worked on, PQ encoding was done in a shader in the last rendering pass, which then ended up copied into the back buffer. That’s what I call output.

Did we miss a magical hardware feature somewhere so that we could have kept output linear and just let the hardware do its thing ?

That is an article about eugenics. No one is arguing for eugenics. Eugenics was awful, but just because something was used as a tool for evil does not make it untrue.

If I light someone on fire with gasoline this makes it no less useful for fueling a car.

IQ is more like lead additive in gasoline. Unnecessary to the main purpose, created with very dubious motivations, yet for decades people took it for granted that you can’t do without.

The first real IQ test (the Binet iq test) was created to help identify special ed kids so they could receive special tutoring.

The question about IQ is does it measure anything? Is it predictive? And can that be useful? And the answer all three of those questions is obviously yes.

And if you actually read Binet, you’d know that he explicitly warned against its usage beyond what he designed it for.

That's in the spirit of the analogy. Lead additive has a special niche purpose. Similarly IQ could be useful for measuring a specific narrow combination of skills and cultural background. (The first step towards rehabilitating "IQ" should be to rename it, though.)

Lead everywhere is as toxic as assuming IQ measures some kind of general intelligence.

Read it. Learn history. Learn how sociology works.

Nah don’t bother. It’s HN.

I would say that this was not the purpose of the link. A comment said "X is something studied scientifically" with X = IQ, and the reply was the same as proposing also X = eugenics. It did not look particularly constuctive.

I read it, and besides one paragraph (which presents a straw man) it has nothing to do with whether IQ is a psuedoscientific swindle and everything to do with whether eugenicists used IQ.

Sure you did buddy. Sure you did. The whole idea of the SAT was an expansive control of capital when the USA grew too large for word-of-mouth recommendation systems.

But you knew that too right? You also knew that it was basically designed to keep undesirables out of the capital class too, right? Guess who those people were.

Clearly this argument is spiraling away from the original premise of whether IQ pseudoscientific into what feels like a flamewar. There are a couple of HN guidelines that try to keep that from happening that I think would have helped prevent this.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article

Does the same apply to actual engineers who stamp structural engineering projects, as opposed to self labelled “engineers”? Asking for a friend.

Terrible analogy. You don't die if your OS crashes. If a bridge or a building collapses, it's very likely to kill people.

Well, as it turns out - if software is controlling your airplane - you do infact die if it crashes.

Airplanes' don't typically use Windows for flight control though, do they?

Windows CE has seen some very unexpected use cases. I couldn't confirm. And bugs are not a windows only feature.

Yes, it does. Otherwise professional liability insurance wouldn't be a thing.

Little mention of alpha encoding, something PNG absolutely botched. Unsurprising.

I've never noticed a problem with alpha in PNG, how did they botch it?

The word "default" is used a bit weirdly in Chrome. The "default search engines" are ones intended to provide search to the omni bar; as opposed to other search engines which Chrome just picks up passively when you browse the web (often these are suggested when you start typing).

You are not a billionaire and will never be one. Calm down.

Because the right to your private medical issues is at stake. And that ignores the predatory insurance industry and other discriminatory practices as an aside.