skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The clerks read their script, "Did you find everything you need?" and I respond, "Well, I didn't find X and Y." Their response: "Oh."

As someone who worked retail for several years...

The cash register is literally the worst time and place to get help finding something. I often end up having to wait and hold up the line while waiting for someone on the floor to bring a product up, and god help us all if they grabbed the wrong thing and need to go back, holding up my line even more.

The cash register had the ability to suspend a transaction so I could start ringing up someone else while we waited, but doing so required a manager override, which involved a manager putting their key into the register and typing in their PIN code.

If you need help finding something, find someone on the floor. If you can't find someone on the floor, ask a cashier to find someone. But starting to check out and then asking for help finding something makes your cashier want to cry.
Give it ~ nine months before it 's refuted.
It’s kind of sad to see the meal culture eroding in other parts of the world. The “quickly ingest some food at your desk so you can keep working” mentality has taken hold. I’m French, and at my first office job - almost 15 years ago - the entire office was empty from noon till 2p.

People would go get their kids at school, have lunch with them at home, and bring them back before returning to work. Or child free people would go have a nice lunch out together. I personally would go back to my apartment and cook with my girlfriend. It was really nice. Adding to that, French companies have to give you a “ticket restaurant” if they don’t provide you lunches, which is essentially a 10 euro or so coupon that you can use at any restaurant, or even to buy food in grocery stores, so you get a lot of flexibility.

It was all very pleasant. I haven’t worked in France in many years, and I hear from friends that this culture is eroding, and places that still follow this kind of pace are getting rarer and rarer.

In my current team (US), we all take an hour long lunch break all together every day. That is a surprising thing to most other people at the company, and I suspect we started doing that because many of us in the team are European.
Maybe you could explain it to us, then, since neither you nor Nostromo have offered anything but snark so far.
This is a common argument, but it seems like learning one computer language or library will make it easier to learn another one? Also, being familiar with some concrete examples should make it easier to learn general principles?

You're not going to get four years of work in six months, but I don't really see bootcamps as a hindrance to learning more later, either going back to school or on your own.
College education doesn’t cost $100k. In-state tuition at a public university in California is $15k. You can save money by going to a community college and transferring. With $30k you could do two years at community college and transfer UCLA to get your final degree and that doesn’t include financial aid.
IQ is not bullshit, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to make your life better or save it.

The article exactly mentions that anxiety and depression are amplified in folks like yourself. You have to overcome them to use your pseudo-superpower to save the world... or not, who knows is it even worth saving? idk

Compound the extra psychological difficulty you face with the improbability of finding someone who understands you, with the counter-intuitive understanding of your situation as desirable by everyone less smart than you are, you're so lucky, I wish I was as smart as you, "no you don't, but you wouldn't understand" ...

It sets you up for a very lonely life. Isolation can lead to insanity.

What I'm trying to say is: What you are experiencing is normal for someone like you.

BTW, what's a SWE?
One system is grounded in physical laws (you can’t “git clone” land), and the other is a manmade restriction on the mind’s natural ability to grow.

Depriving you of a future sale is just saying you are not entitled to some unnatural profit that you feel entitled to, even though your book is worthless in value compared to all of the intellectual products that you so freely use from prior generations.

Anyone who thinks their ideas are so precious and important that they should be able to control how people use those is oblivious to their true negligible contribution.
I learned security from t-files, 8lgm, phrack, and bugtraq. The people who taught me learned it from mentorship. The only meaningful progress in security is by people who work against it. It's a craft subculture, and the real value of it is in securing the freedom of people to not be subjects of platforms.

YouTube is lame for doing this, but it's a net positive for innovation.

Let them have their walled suburb. Innovation happens at the edges, and the social-sphere had made people lazy. The bar for entry to being a hacker is so low, it's the equivalent to governments setting up programs to train people to play punk music.

Tech giants have become like baby boomers who still think they are rebels.

I look forward to a new generation of kids who will spit upon their hands, hoist the black flag and make hacking dangerous again.
This may surprise you, but relationship types run the gamut, and just because something has worked well for you, it doesn't mean it's ideal (or even functional) for everyone else.
ah yes the lazy way to find smart people: go to mensa. Everyone in there is guaranteed to be well balanced, and surely will not exhibit any narcissism (did they check for narcissism btw?)
Yeah, if you look at the calories in the ingredients (3 slices of buttered bread each with a slice of cheese, liver paste, or peanut butter) you're looking at something that at best has the same amount of calories as a quarter pounder with cheese, and likely significantly more than that.

A lot of people seem to be under the wrong impression that simple foods are low in calories. Compared to other sandwiches the Norwegian sandwich seems to substitute protein (less meat and cheese) for more saturated fat and carbs (an extra slice of bread, butter on the bread).
Internment like in WW2? Probably not. Pretty sure the only viable way would be to enact laws to enforce extremely stringent eligibility requirements on foreign students/workers.
If the list of hashed URLs is relatively static, what’s to prevent Apple from caching this information on their own CDN?

If this not possible in China due to the Great Firewall, at least it could be done in other areas. Unless it’s against Google/Tencent’s TOS’es?
If you take a look at the definition and you'll see it's possible to have an unbiased sample.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_(statistics)
The Blazers have to travel more than any other team by virtue of their isolated PNW home base:

https://twitter.com/EdKupfer/status/1028025414671843328/phot...
Literally, using Mensa membership as a proxy for IQ was an example of selection bias in one of my undergrad research methods classes.
> But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan.
I had an amazing memory when I was a kid (now I have good memory, but less than exceptional). As an example, I knew by memory ~300 phone numbers. To this day, 30 years later, I still remember 60-70 of these.
High IQ is also associated with higher executive function. This means higher IQ people should be better able to control those worries.
we should do to spies what we have always done
when i was in grade school, i was tested and put into the "gifted and talented" program which was mostly just a one hour session once a week with about eight kids. it was mostly just brain teasers but then they literally spent an entire year explaining and stressing the importance of charisma. they also told us that "this is easy for you now, and you may not have to work hard, but you need to learn how to work hard because one day you'll be taking classes that you can't just breeze through and if you don't know how to study you will fail."

they were right on both counts. many times later in college and in working life i've thought back to these moments.

also, "overexcitability", yup.
Exactly the road C++ tries to go down. How's that for a ringing endorsement?
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/the...

For example.
where I am, it means “so-and-so took such-and-such an action with these permissions at this time” which can be correlated with things like “this was the exact configuration of the entire system at the time” with reliability and immutability, across multiple versions.
Lots of ways. Simple ones:

1. Time. Each test question have 1 minute to answer. The test author took 4 hours to write the question (before having an organization put it through a battery of tests and analyses to validate it).

2. Group effort. Test authors work in big teams; many brains makes for easier insight.

3. Children's IQ is normalized to their age scale; a 7-year-old with IQ 140 isn't cognitively equivalent to a 35-year-ld with such IQ.
We have a lot of issues near here (Olympia Washington) because it's really popular to tube/float/swim in one of the rivers here as spring and summer approach - but the river is snow melt from Mt Rainier and stays very cold until very late in the year, resulting in many water rescues.
See, I never got how religion solves the problem of 'life not having a meaning'... let's suppose that there is a god, he created everything, and he tells me my purpose is x... well, so what? Just because God created everything, does that mean his choice for meaning is the same as mine? I mean, my parents created me, and if they told me their idea for my purpose, it wouldn't make it mine.

Same with eternal life... how does something without meaning extended forever suddenly have meaning?

I guess I never got the connection with an omniscient creator and a feeing of having purpose.

I have plenty of purpose; experiencing the universe, taking it all in, seeing what happens next, loving deeply, sharing joy, experiencing pain. So much to life.
Knowledge of MCAS was not required for (1) and (2) to work and be effective. Note that the pilots were already doing (1). And the Stab Trim Cutoff switches are there to cut off the stab trim.

Besides, at the time of the Ethiopian crash, the existence of MCAS was well known:

https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/boeing-nearing-737...

Note that the bulletin, sent to all operators of MAX aircraft, is a longer version of (1) and (2) that I mentioned, giving more detail.
SWE = Software Engineer
Unless you are an outlier on either side of the spectrum (e.g. 80 or 150), IQ isn't very indicative of anything.

And why would anyone believe it should be? Do you really think a test with a relatively small set of questions, written by a biased group of individuals is going to be representative of human intelligence?

It baffles me that IQ is used as any kind of meaningful measurement beyond showing whether someone is mentally retarded or a prodigy.
I've ordered quite a bit from Uber Eats, DoorDash, GrubHub, and even good ol' fashioned "call the restaurant's landline" over the last few months in SF. I think my food's been delivered by bicycle exactly once, which would by my back-of-the-brain calculations put bike deliveries at, like, a single-digit percentage of total deliveries at most. This seems to be regardless of distance.

Maybe I'm just some weird statistical anomaly?
I believe SWE is Software Engineer in this context.

> neither necessary nor sufficient

So, bullshit.
Android, Inc.
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Indeed. This study is complete bullshit: https://www.gwern.net/SMPY#fn1 It contradicts every (non-self-selected) longitudinal or cross-sectional study, including far more elite samples (which if their theory was correct would show vastly more dysfunctionality, except of course it isn't and those samples don't), and every genetic study as well, and the reported (self-diagnosis) rates are often orders of magnitude larger than any risk factor ever confirmed and literally unbelievable.

Incidentally, Hambrick's writeup here is also quite bad. Aside from failing to mention all of those reasons why it's BS, he doesn't describe accurately the research he does mention. Consider this paragraph from the end:

> All the same, Karpinski and her colleagues’ findings set the stage for research that promises to shed new light on the link between intelligence and health. One possibility is that associations between intelligence and health outcomes reflect pleiotropy, which occurs when a gene influences seemingly unrelated traits. There is already some evidence to suggest that this is the case. In a 2015 study, Rosalind Arden and her colleagues concluded that the association between IQ and longevity is mostly explained by genetic factors.

How did he miss the fact that the Arden study in question shows, as all such studies show, that intelligence correlates with greater lifespan/longevity when he's written an entire credulous column about how intelligence is bad for you and makes people crazy and increases the rate of mental disorders (some of which, like schizophrenia, reduce your life expectancy by decades)? It's right there in the abstract, it's not hidden away. One would think that would at least merit a brief pause to puzzle over the discrepancy...
Help didn't help me, but I am glad it did for you. I spent lots of money but eventually what saved me is reading this article and then the whole book about intelligent people suffering from depression and failures in life:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/dabrowskis_theory_existential_d...

it related to me more than anything else but everyone is different
Hold Off on Instagram Until You’re Already Making Sales
big pharma charged ridiculous amounts of money for new drugs, made off-patent drugs dirt cheap

That’s what happens now, for the most part. Drugs that were cutting edge 7-10 years ago are now public domain and damn cheap, like 95-97% discount to the brand name.

Of course there are exceptions, but it’s generally how it pans out.
It's not discrimination on multiple levels. Firstly IQ in general is not a protected category; and high-IQ certainly isn't. There might be good reason to assume that an intelligent person might be a poor fit for many jobs (insert joke here).

Furthermore, what you were turned away was how that person presented themselves, and not their actual IQ. Including Mensa membership and framing it in those terms shows poor judgement.
Note for Americans (and some island nations) - that's 26.6° F.
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While this is a neat surface level study, there's a few issues I see with it.

>No separation of Full Intellectual Assessment or another re-test, simply self reporting the averaged figure. We lack resolution in results.(ex: were people with high verbal IQ more prone to schizophrenia?)

>Subjects were those concerned with their own mental status. All respondents were MENSA members. While I could test into MENSA, I simply don't care. I have a friend who is in MENSA, they are quite proud of this over dinner conversation, but they are also quite neurotic. This observation is anecdotal, but I'd think you're going to get more people who live a lot of time "in their heads" in MENSA. I would love to have another control group to compare results over.

>They understand that self reporting is ripe for error. An online survey is difficult to accurately administer, people will misrepresent things about them, especially if they think it is a reflection of their own personal value.

It's neat, but I don't think it's reliable enough to make any declarative statements about a linear progression of IQ and health disorders.
Hitting on others isn’t wrong unless you’re successful, then it’s power imbalance.
Does the python community care about concurrency at all? I havent seen anything new in terms of concurrency in a while.
I might be wrong about this, but walrus operator seems like a gateway to writing obfuscated perlesque code.
I've sometimes wondered: what about "postnups" (post nuptial agreements)? Are there a thing? Do they exist? Can they fully substitute the lack of a prenup?
The Nocebo Effect
As expected. But from reading the article I think the current plane probably had very little IP theft in the final design. Just your usual clusterfuck of inexperience and poor management.

What they’re after ultimately is the ability to replace foreign components in future planes. Software, Hardware, the whole lot. Along with stealing all the management processes for systems integration.

So in this sense, the hacking might have shaved a few years off their efforts.
I far prefer redux-sagas personally. I find the generator/yield style to really reduce the mental overhead of a saga's flow as compared to a thunk.
> I'm not just making this up

You still might be, unintentionally. This "praising kids for effort" is based on "mindset" research by Carol Dweck. Her Wikipedia page highlights a few criticisms of her work, in particular that the research isn't replicable and the interventions (in schools) don't produce results.
The problem is it does in practice. Almost all of the profitable drugs turn out to be useless (often harmful actually). I agree there is another problem here: medical science is laughable bad (and that’s a problem of tooling and poor data science tools, which I work on), as the combinatorics are much larger than our tools are currently capable of handling. But in the meantime, while people are still allowed to pitch junk science as fact, and medical decisions are based on junk science, the least we can do is stop rewarding monopoly profits to drugs with scant real evidence of support.
The meal culture is probably eroding because of economical reasons.

We're now under the constant reminder from our employers that there's always a bunch of people outside ready to do your work without lunch break for less money.
I don’t think they’re a spouse then? Just a girlfriend.
If their preferred pronoun is non-gendered, how can using singular "they" misgender them?
> some of which have been proven to have impact on cognition.

No, they haven't been. There are (still) no confirmed links between Tay-Sachs etc and intelligence. (The most recent study on the genetics of Jewish intelligence, in fact, suggests that any genetic advantage is purely on common variants present in non-Jewish Caucasians as well.) For that matter, there are zero confirmed genetic mutations, common or rare, which increase intelligence by even a few points, and this is despite sample sizes now approaching millions and use of exome sequencing to hunt for rare variants in extremely intelligent cohorts.
> Internment like in WW2? Probably not.

I wasn't thinking in such drastically illegal terms to be candid... so: no.

> Pretty sure the only viable way would be to enact laws to enforce extremely stringent eligibility requirements on foreign students/workers.

I agree in principle. My thoughts are more along the lines of mass denials of any type of visa from [mainland] China for the purposes of study and/or work. If it gets bad enough, total denial of all visas. (I don't feel a kinship with China that I do with Mexico/Latin-America and Canada.)

This is a long term threat. I don't want any short term reactionary type policy. I want a strategic policy that addresses the threat, not just our emotions in the current times.

Edit: Lol the Chinese are out in force tonight.
OK, but NewPipe + no account = no account to lose, right?
Not the OP, but I presume Software Engineer.
Request smuggling vulnerability discovered between Amazon ALBs and Go net/HTTP
There was a project I started a few years ago but abandoned. Is it fair to do that project again if I’m starting with a new codebase?
Generalized Planning with Procedural Domain Control Knowledge
Mutation-selection balance predicts the opposite, that more intelligent people would be healthier and saner due to a lower mutation load. (Which, as it happens, is the correct prediction, and why most researchers now think intelligence is under mutation-selection balance.)
These sorts of comments are what make most online discussions about China seem so out of touch.

If I told you that most people in China generally support the government and don't feel oppressed by it, how would that affect your worldview? Most people in China are primarily concerned with improving their standard of living. For hundreds of millions of people, that standard has improved more than you can probably imagine in the last 30 or so years. That's what they care about.

Sure, they get upset when they hear about governmental corruption, or when wages aren't paid, and young people even care about internet censorship (though they all have VPNs). But if you were to go to them and propose overthrowing the government, most people would be horrified. They don't want chaos. They think that would put the enormous gains in social welfare they've achieved at risk. They want a competent government that delivers economic growth, and maybe some day in the future slowly - gradually - opens up political life.
Amortized cost algorithms are everywhere, including (or perhaps especially) in concurrency management code. Is there a memory allocator in any threaded programming language today that doesn't use a variant of thread local allocators? Getting two or three orders of magnitude out of a solution is not something to sniff at.

These queues each execute tasks sequentially. The library provides for multiple queues to run in parallel. All of these scheduling problems and patterns begin to look fundamentally similar if you stop getting hung up on the implementation details. Separate queues have worse 'behavior' than shared queues, which have worse behavior than sequential operation. Except for the extremely real and very huge problem of utilization. Avoiding utilization problems by forcing that mental work onto the callers is exactly the argument of cooperative multitasking; you could make it work, if you were as smart as we are.

Transferring a block of tasks at one go reduces the use of concurrency primitives. But now your worst-case behavior is worse. Solution? Provide way to avoid worst-case behavior. Even if it's more expensive, it only runs infrequently, so the cost is still amortized.

Usually these libraries strongly recommend that your jobs be working with independent data. So I don't buy the shared memory argument. There are in fact tasking libraries in other languages, like Node, that push the tasks off into a separate process, and yet still have the same class of concerns.

You are arguing that if they put more thought into the usage that the library wouldn't need to do the work.

That's not how software works. Blaming others for not thinking hard enough is what fragile smart people do to prop up their egos, instead of getting to the hard work providing real solutions. Essentially, all of these problems were identified in the 70's, and yet there's still plenty of R&D dollars in this space because this shit is hard. Being flip about it is not helpful.
AWS Lambda Service Outage – Ireland
Naturally the AWS Service dashboard isn't showing anything yet.

https://status.aws.amazon.com/
There have been a lot of fishy dealings with the drugs that came from Valeant.

They would charge outrageous prices for drugs that were just a combination of generics.

They funneled the scripts to a pharmacy they partnered with. Most insurers would not cover the drug, but the pharmacy knew all the tricks. 80% of claims might get rejected, but they made a ton of money off the 20%.