skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't mean sorting by IQ is ignorant. It means that you shouldn't rely on it entirely. Hypothetically speaking, unless there is literature indicating that a population of high IQ individuals is more highly correlated with lack of stamina or motivation than the general population, sorting by IQ alone as a first pass would still provide you with plenty of candidates who have the motivation and stamina you're looking for.

I think there are credible arguments against using IQ for various sorts of job filters. But I don't think your argument is among them. If we're at the point where we're implicitly taking that an IQ can sort people by "how fast they learn something", the only reason not to sort for that (if that's what you're looking for), is if that quality is more correlated with something else you don't want. I'm not familiar with any research suggesting that high IQ individuals are more prone to stamina or motivation problems in a large population.
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This whole post makes sense on the face of it, but there's a little too much "the world as it ought to be" rather than the world as it is. I got to a certain point, many years ago, when I started to feel like I was just getting a bit old to be what they're now calling an "individual contributor". My hair was starting to get greyer and things like iphones and Javascript didn't even exist when I graduated college. So I started trying to take on non-coding responsibilities. I thought, in my no-longer-youthful naievete, that this would be welcomed and the upper echelons would welcome and appreciate the initiative and the help. Holy shit, was I ever wrong. The people who climb up into the non-individual-contributor ranks are... a different breed of people than we who can actually produce working code are. They didn't get there by solving complex problems. They got there by hurting other people, sometimes permanently. And they're very good at it. They've been practicing it for decades, if not their entire lives. You can't just become one and believe me, they don't want you to.
I was formerly on mastodon.cloud, and I was tipping the admin on Patreon. I didn't use Mastodon too much, but recently found that my instance was almost always down, and running a very old version of Mastodon compared to everyone else. So I decided to move.

After looking through the list of popular instances for a bit, perusing some of their rules, worrying about whether I ended up on one of the servers with an aggressive server block list (where I might not be able to talk to everyone, because those servers are viewed as bad), or one of the servers who is on everyone else's block lists (because "free speech zones" are considered bad by the former group), I went ahead and signed up on mastodon.social.

As important as the federated aspect is to me, with the lack of a full profile migration option, moving is painful, and I don't want to risk getting another instance that goes dead. If the developer of the software stops maintaining his, then the whole system is pretty much dead, so it's a safe bet.
I don't even think the article is asking the right question. Diapers may be "expensive" but so is everything else.

I have two kids that both went through diapers (and yeah, formula) so I kind of take exception to all these people with their hands out because I know from my own experience and from living next door to a public health nurse on one side and a social worker across the street that people always have money for booze, cigarettes, and drugs while their kids are sitting in dirty diapers and not getting enough to eat.

So while there is a social problem out there, it has more to do with people being complete fucking idiots than any other leading factor.
If you want to go super-minimal at the cost of being more dependent on Amazon, you can deploy the static website on S3 and use Route53 as an HTTP frontend.
Not enough people reach for a debugger anymore and are actually willing to jump through code, set breakpoints, examine variables in memory. Not enough people dig down instruction by instruction and look at the registers. Debuggers and code monitors used to be your primary development tool. I’ve seen younger developers look at me as if I were some kind of sorceror when I merely step through a C function or dump the contents of RAM. This critical skill seems like a dying art. Isn’t debugging taught in school anymore?
Paucity of phosphorus hints at precarious path for extraterrestrial life
I agree with you with one exception "Big pharma continues shitty but legal business tactics" I doubt the legal part they get constantly fined for various illegal activities.
I carry a portable electric hair dryer. It's rechargable and lasts about a day.
I'm sure a hitting series of traffic cones taking up the space where the safety barrier was could have alerted even a modestly distracted driver to brake.
That is one weird conclusion. The fact that there are still traces left from past migration waves is hardly evidence of failed integration.

How many generations does the ancestoral language usually survive? Two? Three? Integration succeeds en masse all the time, especially where religion doesn't interfere.

It's just that nationalist wars make more headlines than all the kids I went to school with who didn't even properly speak the language of their own mothers (something I find rather regrettable).
If you want the same thing only with C# instead of Rust you can use https://github.com/ElectronNET/Electron.NET
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 promises to make DNS more secure
It's harder than you think (2 kids, another on the way). My eldest is now 6 so she's getting a handle on logic thinking and pattern matching — but it takes a while for them to get there. Also, while they can't read, that's a large barrier to entry.

She (and my 3yo) absolutely loved Google's 50 years of Kids Coding doodle [1].

As you've pointed out, finding excitement in the world to share together is the most important thing. The HN crowd tend to be a pretty inquisitive bunch, so there's no shortage of things to look into :-)

[1] https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-50-years-of-kids-...
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Meditate each morning and afternoon. That will help an immeasurable amount. Headspace is a good app for that but I prefer TM. Also, take a hit or two of weed then netflix and chill. The weed won't give you a hangover like booze does and you'll be super productive with energy the next morning after you meditate.
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HN is a liberal echo chamber identical to all other social media where all dissenting viewpoints get suppressed.

The truth is HN is Reddit, but with a better interface and a smarter crowd.
And you can scale this so good, we do something like this with every branch/user story to test it on live environments. Supereasy, once set up.
Yes. Here is a guide to deploy a React app on S3 and CloudFront (with a backend on EC2): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41250087/how-to-deploy-a...
Converting Fragile development into working Agile
You could use C# dynamic objects to achieve late binding.
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Sounds interesting, but I don't think PHP & MySQL are a good stack. While it's possible to write secure software in PHP (I'd probably trust the Paragon IE) guys to do it), it's not very likely. As for MySQL — as far as I'm concerned there is essentially no reason to choose it over PostgreSQL, and a project which does so is thus instantly suspect. If they've made an error that grave, what other errors have they made?

It'd be like someone choosing Windows as a server OS: there's a small chance it was a good decision, and a far, far greater probability that it was the result of a toxic engineering & management culture.
I guess they're taking about American Personna Super blades, which are commonly referred to as "Lab Blues". They're about 12 cents a blade when you buy them in packs of 100, which makes them one of the cheapest blades around.

There's lots of discussion on shaving forums about exactly why they're called "labs", but as far as I know they're just regular double-edge blades.

I also prefer Feather. They cost about twice as much, but work much better on my tough stubble.
Right-click on Mac laptop has the same non-discoverability.

I'd argue force touch is more discoverable because it's very common for new users to press hard enough to accidentally activate it. Then you kind of play around for a few second until you realize how to do it intentionally.

A couple Macbook users I know have never once right-clicked and are amazed at how handy it is once demonstrated to them.
Last week I learned that if you configure your bucket name the same as your domain, then a simple CNAME record will work without Route53.
The key here is that in the larger system, we can do more to ensure humans perform better. If we encouraged and enforced behaviors that improve driving statistics, perhaps with other technologies, we would yield a more difficult metric to beat than our current driving stats. I agree we should spend our time doing that, rather than accepting in an inferior level of performance.
> I think many people that are moving away from Facebook move away from social networks in general [...] If I need to communicate with friends I do this "directly" via WhatsApp or email.

I'd like to see the line disappear and I'd like to see WhatsApp or email be considered social networking. I think a well built app can have both of those features in addition to the feed+post+comment style of Facebook. From the user perspective, what are all these communication mediums but just "place" configuration?

Edit: here're some early scratch grpc services I have been toying with to abstract different communication forms: https://github.com/cretz/yukup/tree/6793fb2b281e4ea7cda1fe5b...
They are not setting a very good precedent with this that's for sure. Not everyone will be as white hat as this guy and opt for a little more value. Would this have been even an illegal thing to do per se? Could companies have sued him for lost profit? Anyway even 100k would have been nothing to google. You shouldnt try to be cheapskate with this.
Tesla, a story in pictures
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That seems to be a wrapper around Electron, the article talks about building a web server with all of the assets bundled inside the binary as strings.
Were all those people democrats?
A friend of mine recommended A Peace to End All Peace, but I haven't read it yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Peace-End-All-Ottoman-Creation/dp/080...

Your idle curiosity has already yielded an important insight: the situation is complex. I think if everyone only knew one thing about the middle east, it should be that.
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90% of all goods are transported in containers. The largest container vessels can take on 20,000 containers at a time. The industry is struggling like never before, and is fundamentally inefficient: 50% of all container vessels globally are delayed coming into port, most communication is conducted through phone and even fax, paper is still used in abundance, there can be over 15 process handovers moving a container, and there are large regional differences in performance among players.

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Our kids were on formula as well. Between kid 1 and 2 we did buy a Baby Brezza (aka the Formula Keurig) which I'm mentioning here solely because it was such an unexpectedly positive help. It cut the process of mixing+warming+testing the formula down to just hitting a button (and likely saved my sanity).
The rationalization of publishing: A new business model for the printed word
I clicked the link thinking/hoping it'd be a funny joke project of some kind... turns out it was way cooler.
3 Insights from Reddit’s First Major Redesign
I'll add that I love the 'with' keyword when piping doesn't cut it. Other than that I've also found that until about a year ago I would've recommended Rails or Django, and now I'm all for Phoenix/Elixir to a fault (as in, I'd even consider using Python packages from Elixir over going for Python because of those packages. Or cut out the middle-man and get a C guy to join the team).
Yes. And lockdown helps with (right?):

a) locking root out of kernel

b) locking users from becoming root

I interpret the reasoning as: if we can't do a AND b we won't bother with b. Which is confusing because b is many orders of magnitudes more important than a.
According to Alexa stats, Reddit is 6th in the world and 4th in the US [0], while Facebook is 3rd and 3rd [1].

[0] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

[1] https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/facebook.com
More or less it's how you described it. The current implementations broadcast messages to all connected peers supporting the protocol every a few hundreds of milliseconds.

It's also true that there is no confirmation that the message reached the recipient (in order to provide dark routing). This can be built on top of Whisper in a separate communication protocol.
The tutorial stops where it starts to get interesting, actually implementing any logic with the backend other than serving static files. It would have been interesting to follow through a database transaction or see some data / image manipulation.
Hi DrNuke! A few thoughts:

> surrendering their AI ideas

Nobody is surrendering anything. The money is literally a gift. We have no rights in whatever they produce.

> private psychometric data

We have a personality test we’re experimenting with for future batches. We’re still making funding decisions based on the application for this batch. If you’d prefer to avoid filling it out, by all means!

> unnecessary services

I disagree! Money and $20,000 in GPU training time is worth a lot. Most of our prior Fellows put it to good use.

> Come on YC

This non-profit is unrelated to my role at YC. Please direct any frustration at me, not YC!
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For me, the Rust syntax is hard to look at and read. I much prefer Go which reads like C, Perl, PHP, JS or many other common languages.

I'm wondering if people who prefer Phython prefer Rust? I've been developing for 20+ years and the syntax alone makes Rust feel prohibitive to me.
People who have committed crimes make mistakes all of the time.
Learning from Twitter’s mistakes
Nothing really prevents this; a company I work with does something similar, and as long as you engineer your use of the platforms to be flexible and not rely on platform-specific features (for example MailChimp and SendGrid use slightly different templating approaches, and support different amounts of logic in the templates), it's doable.

This is the same idea as making your system work across availability zones/datacenters/cloud providers. At a certain scale it becomes a good idea.
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We also allow you to attach any custom data to the error report. But this doesn't necessarily help you put the web application into the state where it crashes. Demo of custom data:

https://app.therootcause.io/sandbox/addingcustomdata/
Generating Naming Languages
It was rewritten in Flash and now is being rewritten in Javascript. An independent project created an extended Scratch clone in Javascript called Snap!.
Thank you Friendica team! We need more work in this space!

> Friendica runs on PHP with MySQL as a database. If you can run WordPress, you can run Friendica.

This is a problem. I picture the future decentralized systems being a self-contained system that runs on your device (desktop or mobile) as well as servers for more technical people.

To this end the only scripting language that can pull this off is Javascript. Ruby and PHP are not needed or useful in this space.

To anyone that reads this, please take a couple weeks to learn Node (+electron or react-native), Go, or (hardest) Rust.
That's why I refer to it as Twatter.

I am pleased certain twats found what I wrote offensive. Please, mash that flag button, that's your life's purpose ;)
boycott it, don't pay attention to it. Don't watch it, read it, delete facebook and even twitter. There is zero need for it. The important stuff will bubble up and be more prominent. I haven't looked at a news site in over two years and I've never been more informed about real issues.
Yup, I'd rather see an abstraction extracted from a solid system than created eagerly. There may be a first mover advantage to the "winner", but it's better than attempting to conform to a mostly unused protocol only to find each app adds on to it in their own ways because their feature set is larger than the protocol.
Is std::for_each obsolete?
Others would classify it as "conservative" or "libertarian" rather than "liberal". Which really means it's not a very effective "echo chamber". You will read opinions different than your own on HN. If that's upsetting to you, HN may not be your cup of tea.
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Perhaps we need a license that excludes use of a technology for certain purposes (?)
well they did right? Isn't that what they paid cellebrite $900K to do. (http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-fbi-pays-israeli-co-90000...)
What's This and Can I Delete It? Examining a Default ASP.NET MVC Project
Yep, we had a similar experience trying to do it ourselves with our first two (also under two at the time!) - see my other comment for some of the reasons why this is a thing - but got back on the cloth diaper train when a relative exposed us to the magic that is cloth diaper service. Best of luck with two under two!
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I find it has a lot of similarities with the C-family of languages. I'd say more with C++ though (generics, namespaces etc).
Wow that is really interesting source, thank you!

I wonder how it's fed. I have BBC app on the phone but its quality is going down a lot (having random tweets about the topic inserted into articles, WTF? I care about proper journalism, not some random crowd bitchin'), for example there was nothing about Palestinian protests having > thousands injured and 19 dead etc
I love this comment. Great perspective. It's hard to articulate all sides of the story with a timeline-esque narrative, but I think your comment is a great follow up.

> he found out that you created a serious hairy mudball

No question about it, we're talking about early 00s web development. osCommerce required register_globals to be on. By today's standards, it's an aberration. But, really, quite a few best practice-y things from early 00s look quite antiquated today.

For all it's warts, almost the entire stack remained untouched (just looked at our initial git import from when I returned), as the company revenue hovered around $4m/yr for a few years.

The company's location is not well suited to hire tech talent, and my father tends towards a 'butts-in-the-seats' management style, which really prevented us from hiring someone who could do more than day-to-day bug fixes.

> you would kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

As of a few years ago, my father had basically no retirement savings, and he picked some up a pretty expensive hobbies. I think he's realized he's at retirement age without money to finance his current lifestyle. (A lifestyle that I benefit from, no doubt -- family vacations, family houses, etc).

Thanks again for the comment, it's a great perspective to keep in mind.
Autonomous Technology, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, and Peace Time Threats [pdf]
You're probably buying fakes, IIRC a study found the majority of name brand razor blades on eBay are counterfeit. Amazon has a counterfeit razor blade problem too, but I don't know the prevalence.
If that was the case, I wouldn't expect to see so much objectively false information treated as fact and massively upvoted in subs such as /r/technology. Reddit's user base might enjoy the belief that it is technically skilled and knowledgeable, but that isn't at all the reality of the situation in my experiences.
Motivation is a myth
As long as your car doesn't look like an broken road barrier you should be good.
> I think it used to be like this for a lot of people in the developed world as well when computers were new and most people did not have computers and those that did had only one in the whole household.

I remember playing games with family members using only a single keyboard. I have vague memories of even somehow managing four player games somehow, right up until keyboards stopped responding to that many simultaneous inputs.

This makes me wonder if part of the appeal the Nintendo Switch seems to have with, in particular, the 30-something crowd, is to do with how easy it is to play two-player games (or more) by just propping up the device and detaching the joycons. Nostalgia seems to really play a role in the popularity of that thing.
Essentially, he asked if the above poster had read Elements of Statistical Learning, Murphy's ML textbook, Bishop's PRML, Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, and Ian Goodfellow's Deep Learning textbook.

I simply clarified that the question was about computational learning theory, a subfield largely started by Leslie Valiant in the form of PAC (Probably Approximately Correct) learning. The difference in emphasis between the machine learning conferences I mentioned helps point out how practical machine learning (like ICML, matching PRML/ML/ESL) and feature extraction/representation learning (like ICLR, perhaps matching portions of both ICML and ICLR), while important, are not what the previous poster was asking about.
Was waiting for this update! Running Puppeteer related projects will now be a ton easier for ad hoc project.

I'm pretty deep into this with https://checklyhq.com so not really an "ad hoc" user. Some open concerns for "real" production use are still:

- cost: memory heavy (1,5Gb) lambda get costly quickly

- stability: No reason to assume this is bad, but running a Chromium browser in Docker is/was pretty tricky

- startuptime: Booting Chrome might be a time suck

Coupling this with SQS triggers for Lambda might make spinning up VM's obsolete for my business.
I don't see how that follows. By "knowledge is a good unto itself" I mean that it is always better to know something than to be ignorant of something. Sure, some pieces of knowledge are more valuable than others, and we have a limited capacity for how much knowledge we can absorb and hold, but that doesn't contradict the premise, that having knowledge is a good thing. It just means we have to prioritize what knowledge to gain. Which is why, in that same sentence, I go on to explain why knowledge of current events is important.
It's hard to get rid of it though. I suffer from this, when I get up the first thing I do is open reddit. I am actually thinking about blocking the entire site in the host file, on pc as well as android...
If you continue to break the guidelines like this we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have to believe that, at this point, given the markings on the road, that California Dept of Highways (or whoever is responsible for lane markings) is just trying to kill people.
Anecdata: Not a fan of Python's syntax, but Rust looks readable to me.