skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard bordering on impossible to make a single test that measures most of the college-bound high school graduate population and can also make non-arbitrary distinctions among top-1% students.

Lopping off the top of the distribution looks to me like a recognition that pre-recentering scores in the top 100 points or so were essentially measuring the luck of top-performing students on which questions they drew and how well their educated guesses landed.
If the reasons for a "dumbphone" are smaller size, longer battery life, decreased media consumption, and increased privacy – then such a tiny smartphone as Xperia XZ1 Compact[1] with AOSP ROM without Google provided by Sony[2] would still cut the mark.

[1] https://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-...

[2] https://developer.sony.com/file/download/software-binaries-f...
Or the Persian(Iranian) border may have extended all the way to Europe had Persia defeated the greeks.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Salamis
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
As long as the air is relatively dry you don't die just yet.
NASA contest finalists show off their Mars habitat models
Tomorrow's World – The Information Superhighway (1994)
Government actions are important because of the identities involved. A statement that's non-repudiably signed with an official government key seems far more useful for holding a government to account than an anonymous consensus that "the government said this"
Say what you like, but even if you get back all the cost from the government for paying the maternaty leave, you are still missing a valued worker which is not easily replaced. You have some lead time to find a replacement but that is not easy in all professions and even harder for smaller companies.
I didn't read the article but, in case you don't know quantum mechanics, I should tell you that the vast majority of people who study such things think that Bohm's theory is plain wrong.

I should also say that it is not taught in schools, papers about it are not published in serious journals and the field is just not an active field of research. It's quite likely that all the people trying to develop this idea are crackpots.
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You are right, probably I should choose something less offensive, but I saw a different "Alzheimer" named project https://github.com/tpruzina/alzheimer and as this password "manager" does not need to store passwords at all, I have used this one.
you could make a nice story driven game with that shader
The tyranny of the minimum viable user

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...

Tabbed browsing: a lousy band-aid over poor browser document and state management

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_...

What if the Web was filesystem-accessible?

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if...
If you grew up in a conservative evangelical setting, as I did, you might have been taught that the peace sign is meant to evoke the claw of Satan and/or an upside cross and that it is therefore an anti-Christian sign.

I never really believed that, but I also never bothered to figure out it's actual signification. Thanks for posting this.
The rule of thumb is not disclosing any identifiable info on the internet. :P

The company is a big one, a named one, but with some age on it. As absurd as it sounds, the candidate is hired for a hotly sought after position, that supposedly requires production ready coding skills AND battle tested machine learning skills. Yet the candidate comes with no knowledge of Python or Linux.
or some 3d storyboarding, but then you don't need quake, it could be a shader for blender for example
May I ask where did you get that number? I realized that you only mentioned the US, and I guess the parent was talking about the globe, but still I'd like to know.
I remember well this hype back in the day, if not this actual piece (though a regular watcher of Tomorrow's World). Their analysis and predictions really hit the nail on the head.

The UK can claim to have been in on the Internet at the ground floor thanks to Tim Berners-Lee and their involvement in the pan-European CERN project.

Interesting reference to Net Neutrality at 2:50
I disagree. It doesn't matter a whit whether or not it's the "primary" graphics API, but rather that it's supported on a platform or not. Right now, if I use OpenGL, I can target Windows, MacOS, Linux, FreeBSD, mobile devices and others all with a single codebase. It is portable, and does work everywhere in practice.

On Windows, if you're using a GPU from e.g. AMD or nVidia, be it the gaming end or the workstation end, you will also be getting a decent OpenGL implementation. If you're using software like Alias, you're not going to skimp on the GPU. Angle only exists for poor GPUs which don't have decent OpenGL Windows drivers; for software at this level, they are an irrelevance.

WebGL is a red herring. This isn't anything to do with web browsers, and everything to do with killing support for decades of software development investment by third-party ISVs. WebGL is not competing with that, and won't anytime soon. Apple here is basically saying: we don't care about the serious, high-end side of things, and screw any developers who want to develop that type of software for Mac systems. If they did, they would reimplement the OpenGL API on top of Metal; it's not like they don't have the cash to pay for it.

As for proprietary gaming consoles, these are also irrelevant to the concerns here. This isn't really about games, or gaming engines. (Though when Apple finally drops OpenGL, most of the back catalogue of games will cease to function…) It's about the thousands of serious software packages out there which will no longer function on a Mac. The high-end CAD and design market. Engineering. Scientific and medical imaging. Etc.

That's Apple's choice. And it's my choice to drop Mac support in consequence. They are making it clear that the Mac is no longer the platform for professional software development through their woeful hardware and their poor MacOS maintenance strategy. The market will respond to that.
> cost of human life in India is quite low

What do you mean by this?
It's not necessarily placebo: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
sorry but raw mango juice will not save the world and prevent mass migration to North in the next 200 years. I'm from India and always get annoyed by the populace's over reliance on traditional methods and "science"
Here is an example that I've mentioned in a top-level comment here; ask the candidate to design a calculator. Budget doesn't matter and they can do it software or phyiscal.

All that matters is that at the end the calculator is the most ideal one for you as the candidate. All the features you wish for and none of the downsides.

So you get a bit of paper to draw on and maybe write some short text.

Compare the results to what your team has drawn when they were hired (or you asked them separately).

Of course the comparison is still subjectively but ideally you pick the candidate with the most different calculator from the others.

That's better than coding tests since you can look at the result and it's independent of coding skill.

Similar tests are possible where you don't test coding skill but instead test if and how much a person thinks outside the box and what it looks like. This would better help to assemble diverse teams than a simple coding tests.

Another one would be to look for people that are contra to the current team. If you develop COBOL look for a developer that can do COBOL but hates it and would love to switch elsewhere. These kinds of people will make your team diverse since they can find problems more efficiently.

I think the problem there is that your diversity tests still only test for coding skills, which aren't as important when you consider that someone with a fresh and contra perspective to your current team could be much more helpful.
> affirmative action is the best we have

I think the problem with affirmative action in the gender space is that there is some evidence to suggest that a purely unbiased world would not be one where every industry had a perfect 50/50 split.

So when you approach the problem from the 'outcome' end, it's hard to know what outcome you should be aiming for.
And how common is AC in Morocco?

I lived in SE Asia for many years, it is also very hot there, we were right on the equator. But the AC was very cold in every place, and the cities were often designed to allow moving about the town without ever going outside (lots of underground tunnels with AC, for example).
This should be an auto-reply to every comment whinging about how R is horrible.
> "Do you like discrimination?"

I'd argue "diversity quotas" are the very archetype of discrimination.
Rare Crab Species Found in Qanats of Iran’s Kerman
Do you have any hobby which you find rewarding in itself?

(Note that I am not saying "find something outside your job where you can excel" - I mean "try to find something you like doing for the pleasure of it an see if it helps you finding some satisfaction in doing it, without any competitive aspect".
Iranian Welder Bravely Struggles for Her Life
Yes I’m sure they’ll accept rubles
Do you want in on my Initial Cultivar Offering or not? It's gonna go to the moon!
Haven’t seen that before, my thought is that it’d be more like a close knit group and also have workflows.
Personally, I think we should reject this “freedom” to have more children or to have children at all. Of course, the individual should make the choice to not have children but the fact that community doesn’t want to pay people to have and raise children makes me think all children are unwanted children. People laugh at the idea of it takes a village to raise a child. I thought the idea was so painfully obvious that it doesn’t need to be said. Clearly not. I say this to everyone: in order to effect change, we must strike. Don’t have children.

Speaking of obvious things: my child is no more precious than anyone else’s child.

I think the compromise will be some kind of a one child policy here as well. I think this is more humane alternative to what we have now. My proposed new one child policy is to incentivize people to have a child or to adopt one child with additional taxpayer money. The compromise is to limit it only to the first child. You’re on your own if you want more. I think it is worth considering.
Good thought experiment. Assuming all nukes are destroyed and we achieve zero-state. From that point onward it would be hard for a rogue state/agency to develop a weapon. Because the supply-chain monitoring, which is already quite advanced, would be even more severe (since all advanced countries would be aligned). This means it would be harder to get raw materials (Eg fuel doesn’t occur naturally, and has to be manufactured), factory equipment etc.; above certain quantities drones/aircrafts/satellites are pretty decent at catching radiation signatures —- basically all the tech that used today to prevent new countries from adding nuclear capabilities, would work —- just better and more intensely, because all advanced countries would be aligned.

(I am just putting forth a hypothesis for why once we go to zero nukes, it might be possible to stay at zero nukes using existing tech)
The vast majority of the "decentralized" trend is nonsense.

I met a blockchain company co-founder at a conference in Silicon Valley that we can call "Alfie" for the purposes of this post. After a brief chat at the conference Alfie graciously took me out for a nice dinner. During the dinner Alfie asked if I wanted to be an advisor to their company. Another well respected friend of mine was already tying their name to the company so I had hope that it would be reasonably legit. They told me that they had raised $30M in foreign funding

The #1 thing I have learned about advising startup founders is that if they don't communicate well then they typically don't do business well. In this case after our dinner Alfie basically vanished on me and stopped responding to my emails/messages. When Alfie finally got back in touch and offered to send the advisory agreement I told them I wanted to take it slow. That I didn't feel comfortable linking my name with their company just yet but I would help them unofficially for now. I've learned to trust my gut and never do something until I feel comfortable with tying my name to it.

A month or so after Alfie got back in touch with me another friend we can call "Sally" reached out to grab dinner in SF. Sally was at that same Silicon Valley blockchain conference that I met Alfie. Sally was visiting SF for work again so we had dinner. Sally told me that they were recently in a foreign country at another blockchain conference when Alfie couldn't muster up the funds to pay for their hotel room. Sally ended up letting Alfie stay in their room for the night.

Sally learned that Alfie has not actually closed $30M in funding yet. They had instead been verbally committed a $30M investment. They had actually raised over $1M but it was spent with all the traveling. No tech built at all. No money to build tech.

I ran into Alfie and their partners again at a NYC blockchain event a few months after that. Alfie confirmed the story but said they had now closed on the $30M. Yet they were at the event fundraising for more money.

It just doesn't add up.

Anyway, Alfie aside there are even bigger scammers out there. Lots of pump and dump nonsense.

However, I believe in the team behind ShopIn (http://www.shopin.com). The founding tech team for PriceLine is being led by a serial entrepreneur I have known for years. I think they have a reasonably good chance of proving that you can do something disruptive with blockchain.

Time will tell.
I don't think that the French have fallen at all, but rather that attitude has been part of French culture for a long time.

As an example, it has been illegal since Napoleonic times for the French government to collect data on ancestry or ethnicity.
Russian aircraft in Antarctica shot down an unidentified flying object
Yeah: software turbo buttons have been a thing for a few years now. I find the Microsoft Teams client works quite well in this regard, also.
Why not go one step further to relevance logic and model human thinking with that? ;-)
> any somewhat-functional state can build a nuke if they really really want to.

We are already in such a world, what prevents proliferation are not technical reasons, but the strong international pressure - both by nuclear and non-nuclear states. It's not unfathomable to conceive a world where such pressure (and the threat of conventional attacks) could be strong enough to prevent any proliferation, where the international community would closely watch over any such activity and immediately stomp on any small scale dictator looking for an easy edge.

What's harder to imagine is a way to get from here to there. Before engaging in any multilateral talks and treaties, I believe the mere hint of renouncing nukes would be political suicide inside US.
Quotas are never good - regardless of whether it is for diversity or something else. Even when you are writing code and if you are doing quota for something, it's a signal that you have a crappy design and quotas is going to only make it more crappier. The solution to crappy design is to attack the root problem and make sure your algorithms are fair so there is no need to impose quota.
that is true for most of the world, but not the tropics as the temp gets closer to the max a human can handle. Not to nention there are so many manual labourers in these coountries
It's not unknown for women to come home from hospital with the wrong baby. Here's an example from earlier this year: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wrong-newbor...
C# does have XNA/FNA, plus bindings to qt and gtk.
No such thing as 68080, its fully compatible with 68040.
If your business model works with serverless when you have a single paying customer it should work when you have a thousand paying customers.
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PE guy here. This is correct. The only way you would get bought at your revenue level is for a strategic portfolio company add-on. Unfortunately not too many PE firms play in the field of "cloud / devops" technology solutions so your opportunities are going to be really limited.

That being said - Rackspace might be a good fit.
MH370 final report: Missing aircraft behaviour shows it was under manual control
PDF of the report at [1]

[1] http://mh370.mot.gov.my/MH370SafetyInvestigationReport.pdf
I was thinking that examples of Italy and Germany (versus e.g. France or Sweden) were showing that this mindset simply doesn't work. Women end up spending even more effort on infiltrating the workspace and have fewer children later.

When you demand mother to be perfect (e.g. by being stay at home), you get less children, and nobody becomes happier. As opposed to laid back approach with society safety net.
“Good design is adaptive, not predictive.”
Yes. I've been using a Blackberry Classic for over a year now ("upgraded" from an old Nokia Symbian phone). Does plain IMAP (TLS 1.2), with IMAP IDLE support just fine. Only annoying "feature" of the email client is that it insists on sending HTML mail by default, to send text/plain you have to set it per message/thread.
> "This is an obvious false correlation. You have no evidence that Apple would not be even more successful were the engineering team more diverse."

This argument goes both ways. We also don't have concrete evidence proving that "diversifying the engineering team" will necessarily result in success.
> the fact that community doesn’t want to pay people to have and raise children makes me think all children are unwanted children

In a globalized world with the ability to move for work, children might still be an economic net-positive for the parents (once you account for how much they’d be willing to pay to replicate their genes into the next generation) but they’re probably a net-negative for the community they’re raised in. What benefits does introducing a new human being, as a baby, into a community provide said community, these days?
Author here. Unfortunately, according to numerous accounts[1], the TB3 to TB2 adapter does not work when you're trying to use an Nvidia eGPU with a Macbook that has an Nvidia dGPU. (Mine has the 750M.) Additionally, the gaming box uses a custom card (so less resale value) and seems to have limited support for other GPUs (thus reducing its use as a general-purpose case).

But yes, for most people, it's almost certainly the better buy. (Though it's still not officially supported, apparently.)

[1]: https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/problem-setting-up-aorus-gt...
June in Delhi this year was incredibly hot and dry. The temperature at 8pm in the night was 44C.
Oh my god. As someone who left Australia a decade ago for better opportunities in tech, it doesn't surprise me that Telstra (the famously awful ex-government monopoly Telco) is where Elop ended up.

Cool TPG (which used to be Total Peripherals, a white box computer company) is now taking them on.
geoblocked here :( getting redirected to
https://geoscripts.meredith.services/public/html/no-access.h...
It would be nice if it also worked with things like bike sharing apps, but then it would need a camera.
> Or a kid who was unknowingly raised by their grandparents is an example where you’d see both parents misattributed.

I know a guy who this happened to. He got a Mormon girl pregnant and was basically paid to go away, and the child was raised by the grandparents.
So, this is essentially a continuation of the Natami project, but you still need original hardware?
I see a lot of comments concluding that the value of blockchains is trust, or truth, or decentralization. Very few seem to realize that the trust is just moved from the people running the systems, to the people programming them (either the chain developers, or the dapps, or the contracts). There's still a hefty amount of trust involved, and I still haven't seen any successful project, or one with huge goalposts which isn't trying for a moonshot of changing consumer behavior. Sure the technology is neat--SQL spawned Oracle and SAP--but it's not trillions of dollars neat.
Founders like Mark Zuckerberg care deeply about dilution because they want to remain in complete control of the company for as long as possible. If you're like that, the percentage matters more than the absolute dollar value of your shares.

Investors also often care about having the power to dictate the terms of future rounds and/or acquisitions. Dilution reduces this power, and humans are known to sacrifice a lot of good things in order to obtain and maintain power. Feeling powerless is very different from being penniless. This might explain why so many people are obsessed with percentages even at the cost of dollar values.
Virtual Father: Blocky Police Duty
> There is zero commitment from the major nuclear powers for an eventual complete denuclearization

The nuclear powers agreed as part of the 1970 treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, particularly article 6, that they would pursue a complete nuclear disarmament. Of course, they have not fulfilled their obligations over the past half century and non-nuclear powers have complained about this, and the International Court of Justice agreed with them in 1996. A UN resolution in 1999 condemned the US for restarting a nuclear race - only the US, Israel, Albania and Micronesia voted against it. Bush withdrew from the ABM treaty in 2002. The US has been in a nuclear arms race since then.
Asia’s 25 Most Innovative Robotics Startups
I think they are saying give the same rights to take vacation to the father. It doesn’t matter who pays for it.

I somewhat agree. If we want to level the playing field, we can’t have extra rights and priveleges for women because clearly they become a liability.

I think it is necessary but not sufficient though. I read here about github and the unlimited vacation policy which in practice is a no vacation policy. Just because men can take off doesn’t mean they will at least in the short term. We must keep this policy stable for decades to effect change.
>> Almost everyone talking about it is excited about getting rich from trading currencies

Maybe, but why is it a bad thing? This can create powerful network effects.
Facebook benefited from network effects derived from the fact that people want to be liked.
Cryptocurrencies benefit from network effects derived from the fact that people want to get rich.
The problem is that the network effects of cryptocurrency are so powerful that people didn't even need to offer an underlying product/service in order to benefit from it; I think that will change in the future though because the market is now saturated.
If you look into studies of lie detection training and efficiency, you will learn that it is mostly confirmation bias on the side of the lie detectors: humans cannot really be trained to be powerful lie detectors. There is some new research on using MRI's to detect the brain pattern of lies, but it is still nascent.
Is it possible to survive in India without technology even today?