skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My test scores meant I was qualified for Mensa too, I could've taken up the membership when offered as a kid but declined at the time.

Eventually I took the quick test which suggested I should take the longer test as a young adult looking to bolster my CV (résumé). Narrowly missed out and before I was able to submit again I had enough on there not to give it much thought again for me. An IQ test was part of the qualification process for the first job I took out of university, something I've not seen since.

I think my eldest son's probably at least as bright as I am, so this sort of thing has been on my mind again. We try and give him a breadth of experience - he does a lot of rugby (completely non-contact at his age), running and other sports, some child adventure centres, music lessons, scouts soon, etc. But I don't see too much wrong with adding Mensa as a small part in the context of a larger picture.
The role of the US in WWII is always grossly exaggerated.

WWII was a slugfest between two totalitarian regimes, Germany and USSR, conducted using troops that were, in the majority, neither Russian nor German, but slaves of one and then the other, and then, typically, executed.

The Western front was a sideshow. Stalin could easily have rolled over all of Europe, but stopped short for reasons known only to him.
In my experience, it’s the opposite. If you’re not migrating your apps to core your hiring pool is going to be getting significantly smaller and smaller over the next couple of years. Think Swift vs Objective C or old jquery heavy websites vs transpiled ES6.
It might be again now that the novelty of it being more widely available again has worn off, it's been a while since I looked.
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it's a ridiculous law . You want to take a picture of your sleeping baby without waking her. Sucks to be you. Want to take a picture of your cat or dog without them changing their pose in response to the sound. You can't. Want to take a picture at a wedding without distrubing the mood? Or bad for you. Want to take a picture at a fancy quiet romantic dinner without annoying all the other guests? Can't do it.

In the meantime any pervert (the claimed reason for the law) can use any non-phone camera or for that matter any other camera app than the built in one
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You need “downwards” acceleration for a swing. The vacuum bit isn’t important, it’s the gravity. They probably meant 0g rather than vacuum.
Nothing wrong with going until 200x. Cost != affordability. It's a misdirection of the real issues with the medical industry.
it is actually people and/or governments that have decided they want to fully control the web.
Long story short, that you kind have to assemble from blog posts, forum comments, between the lines articles and so on.

Longhorn was to be built on top of .NET and there were lots of issues, regarding performance, stability and what not.

Apparently it was more a thing of WinDev (owner of Windows and C++) and DevTools (owner of VS and .NET) each pulling to their side instead of collaborating.

As proven later by Singularity and Midori it was an achievable goal, when everyone on the team believes on the end goal.

Instead Sinofsky team took over, several ideas were dropped, others were reborn in .NET 3.x like WPF, and Vista came to be.

Many of the .NET (Longhorn) libraries reappeared in Vista and Windows 7 as COM libraries.

See Project Hilo sample, https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jasonz/2010/06/06/project-h...

Later WinRT was born, which is an improvement over COM, using IInspectable alongside IUnknown, and .NET Metadata instead of the old COM type libraries.

Curiously similar in concept to Ext-VOS, which was in the genesis of .NET, before CLR came to be.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dsyme/2012/07/05/more-c-net...

So WinRT (Win 8.0), eventually became UAP (Win 8.1) and now it is UWP (Win 10).

Contrary to many Windows 10 haters belive, UWP isn't tied to the store and each Windows 10 release brings more Win32 "legacy" APIs into UWP.

The next generation COM based runtime with interoperability across C++, .NET, JavaScript, Delphi and every other language capable of understanding COM projections.

Ah, and thanks to the contributions initially started by Kenny Kerr, which ended up joining the Windows team, the C++/CX language extensions got replaced by C++/WinRT a C++17 framework for UWP.
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At least the alternative (PolicyKit) reined in on the complexity and is just executing Javascript...
It's a result of things getting worse. In an effort to stop abuse and increase drive to sponsored creators, YouTube committed a cardinal sin with respect to their discovery algorithm. They made things worse.

Discovery on YouTube is now comically difficult, getting out of your filter bubble means making bizarre searches and filter edge cases, otherwise you see the same 15 videos weekly.

They've failed to filter the hate content they intended to eliminate, they've failed to improve their curated content volume, and discovery remains bound and gagged in the back of Ad monetization's sedan.

If you were here in 2010 it's worse now. Privacy / safety / predictability, I guess, but the magic is all gone.

YouTube could use an [adult swim] concept. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. YouTube.
a)I'm sure that's not true
b)I'm sure that's not a helpful comment in this context
Looking at your wish for exploratory evaluations in for-comprehensions, I was reminded of how Clojure does this. I found it quite elegant.

The inside of the for-braces allow for keyword-based sub-clauses: There's

- ":when" which will suppress output for elements not matching a filter expression,

- ":while" which will stop when elements stop matching a filter, and

- ":let" which will let you bind some new values in mid-loop.

I rarely need these features, but when I do I find them really really helpful. Maybe someday someone will consider doing something similar in Python.
My favorite commentary from him is on 'Frankenstein' which is not a difficult read. In fact he wrote about several 20th century books like 'Catch-22' and 'Death of a Salesman'. But yes I don't think he analyzed John Grisham etc if that's what you mean.
Yes, but the change was very rapid and very noticeable. My parents grew up with very noticeable, very visible poverty around them. A lot of the habits the post war generations grew up with, and that still affected society throughout the 70's still permeates the culture.
Most of the 80 billion euros mentioned in that article is future spending, they havent spent it yet.

VW certainly do _seem_ to be going for it but we're still yet to have any ID3s on the road and they _still_ havent been clear on what range you get for what price with the ID3.

I agree that VW _seem_ serious but there have been so many announcements over the last decade from various manufacturers saying 'we take evs seriously and we're going to do X,Y and Z' and the vast majority of those statements have been bullshit.

e.g. here's a statement from VW in 2013

September 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Volkswagen Group has set its sights on global market leadership in electric mobility. "We are starting at exactly the right time. We are electrifying all vehicle classes, and therefore have everything we need to make the Volkswagen Group the top automaker in all respects, including electric mobility, by 2018", Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, said on the eve of the 65th International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main.

https://tass.com/press-releases/700457

Six years ago VW said they were going to be the top EV maker by 2018. That was bullshit. OK maybe they just got a bit delayed or whatever. It looks like they're doing something. But I'm going to wait until they've actually got some of this new-generation stuff they're talking about on the road before I make a judgement about how serious they are.
Alternatively, disable JavaScript, works and looks great.
10:33pm Monday local time (PDT), 05:33:42 Tuesday UTC.

It was preceded by a foreshock of magnitude 2.5 by 9+ minutes.

Pleasant Hill is 23 miles (37km) NE of San Francisco, CA.

The earthquakes are not hypocentered in either the San Andreas fault or the Hayward fault.
My country is currently attempting trickle up economy. It gave monthly payments to mothers of two or more children (sometimes even one). It's a fixed amount per child. They hoped to boost fertility rates. Of course they didn't because people don't work like that. What it did is allow a lot of poor women to stop working some minimum wage jobs and spend more time with their children. Prices of basic goods predictably started to rise.

Now a new idea is under way. They are going to raise minimal wage to be around 60% of national average wage. There might be regions where this will be such a high boost up that 80% of people there will earn new high minimum wage. This will be of course financed directly by employers. Also they will bear some additional cost of increased monthly social security payments due to higher salaries.

What I think will happen is that this forcibly spread money will trickle up to the owners of companies that sell and manufacture goods that will be bought more by poor people. You definitely want to sell your stuff in Poland in the next couple of years. You probably would want to avoid hiring anyone for simple jobs there.
Smugness aside, there are big cultural issues regarding meal pleasure importance.

One of my biggest shocks from moving from a Latin American country to Britain was when I realised that taking 1 hour lunches, which I consider the bare minimum, was seen as a terrible time splurge only reserved for the most important events.
For example Facetime banned in UAE

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204170
How the controversy is basically labeling and fraud, not the oil itself, got it.
I think you mean .group(0) as .group(1) can already return None:

>>> import re
>>> pat = re.compile("(A+)|(B+)")
>>> m = pat.search("HUBBLE")
>>> m.group(1) is None
True
>>> m.group(2)
'BB'
>>> m.group(0)
'BB'

I don't see how using your proposed change would help.
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Where "everything" is a small subset of KDE's capabilities.
If an arrow shaft was found from about 1500 years ago, does that imply there probably wasn't ice there at the time? Or were people hunting on the ice then?
Thats completely fine, since there are a endless number of critics who fill in the gaps in Bloom's preferences. Few take seriously his canonical approach to literature anymore, but that doesn't make his critical approach to given works, or the appreciation he communicates for literature any less valuable.
I have a fortunate circumstance where supplying informations to direct reportee is acceptable.

We value effective problem identifications, especially those that come with solutions.
Autocasting. Autocasting was a cool and newbie friendly idea in principle. It just turned out to cause such horrible bugs in real code that no sane person would still argue its merits.

It also leads to stupid notions of thruthiness (google Gary Bernhard's WAT talk) and bad junior dev behavior. I've seen a popularish PHP framework document the return value of a function al boolean, but the actual return value was the string "0". It wasn't even a by prduct of the implementation. They just explicitly used return "0" for no good reason.
Like, if graalpython gets ever released.
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The article does mention that point about MENSA:

"It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ."
I just tried it. I felt like a mouse bumping on walls to understand what it does and how. Not to sound mean, but just to signal that a lot more work and rethinking needs to be done, to make this intuitive to the user.

> "Create your own schemas for whatever topic you can imagine and start a continuous learning repository. In here you can add any number of entries and store your private notes to stay up-to-date with your learning moments."

I think this sounds too complicated. The average user might not know the terms "schemas" or "repository". Also, this should be your bold text: Organized Note taking app, not "Continuous learning" that's too broad.

Good luck with it.
I myself not being blessed with any intelligence whatsover can confirm that not thinking so damn much will prove beneficial for you.

That's literally what you need to do. More doing, less bla-bla. Way, way more doing. The Voice is wrong, ignore it. Look at dumb people like me and imitate them. Your depression and anxiety will fade.

When you are healed, dial up the thinking, slowly, until your performance is adequate. No more.
That would break any existing strings that use curly braces, including most legacy use of str.format and docstrings that include code examples with dictionaries. It would be a big backward compatibility issue.
The biggest advance in the field was the recognition of the role of bullshit.

Bullshit is talk that fills a role other than truth or falsehood. The speaker doesn't actually care whether it is true, false, or meaningless, but only what effect it has on listeners. Most political harm, from Hitler and Stalin to Trump and Bojo, arises from deployment of BS.
> Another negative aspect of compensation I’ve thought about is that it could cause content creators, particularly political and religious/non-religious ones, from seriously exploring opposing views.

Almost worse, it puts up a barrier to resistance to me even reading opposing views. When I see an anti-Christian comment on HN or Slashdot, I have no problem reading it and potentially responding to it. But if I see an anti-Christian article on Medium, I'm a bit reluctant to click on it, because 1) that person may get money as a result, and 2) it may promote that article to more people, potentially leading to even more articles on a similar vein being written. I assume the situation is the same for lots of ideological positions -- Conservatives avoiding reading Liberal think-pieces, etc.
That still makes it impossible to switch from a particular window of an app to a particular window of another.

My biggest issue with Cmd+Tab is the surprise factor. Pressing that shortcut may do nothing, raise a window, raise a lot of windows, restore a minimised window, or move to another workspace; there's no way to know what will happen until you press it.
let's say that the only advantage of python over php are ML libraries but porting a library is far different job than creating an ecosystem
CMOS are about twice the price of CCD
"Emeritus professor over 70" is a dangerous thing. Lots of free time, not responsible for anyone and extremely confident and argues very convincingly.

Postel was right about Patriot missile success rate and accuracy in the Gulf War, but that was then.
my thought process is that I enjoy work and my co-workers and that spending an hour a day eating and socializing together makes work and my life more enjoyable.

If feel that tech companies' free lunchs work against this since lunch ends up only taking 20-30 mins instead of an hour. And no they don't get more work out of me, I just leave 30 mins earlier. That great if you want to get home as quick as possible. I'd prefer a balance of making work more enjoyable and feel the lunch socializing contributes to that.
Not coming from a big company.

However, to mitigate these kind of problem, pick a junior having a more or less same vision as you, plant the person into the team you wish to spy, and have them report to you.
Have you checked out NixOS? Everything is read-only and derived from static configuration.
sounds like a scene from “Tous les matins du monde”
Thanks for the link. Aside from the OP article's basic regurgitation of prior (perhaps stale - I couldn't read it either being behind a "sign-in wall"), the Smithsonian author clearly didn't view it as a race against time and human-induced climate change, but merely an unexpected windfall for researchers:

"There are countless negative impacts of the changing climate, but the recovery of these artifacts could be an unexpected positive. Our uncertain climate future may inadvertently help researchers learn more about our past."
Don't forget always-on-top.

I shouldn't have to install a new browser that does hacky things with OSX just to keep a YouTube video on top of my workspace.
Emotional factors can physically change the shape of your heart
I used zfs on Linux with encrypted / for a while on Debian. It works really well, but unfortunately when I upgraded from Jessie to Buster, it did not recognize how I set it up and broke the system. I ended up having to reinstall.
I'm not getting paid for those 6 hours so why should I work?
At least they don't have to pay for it if they can't find a job.
Still using space for indentation?
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Isn't it a likely explanation that society is generally structured (consciously and unconsciously) for the average person and therefore the further you get away from the average, the less ability to have to connect with the broad group/culture identity, ergo leading to isolation and thus more social and psychological issues?

For example - imagine that you have an IQ of 150 in a society where the average is 100. If suddenly everyone else's IQ jumped 50 points, the society would then change to reflect this new increase in intelligence - jobs, social roles, and other aspects of culture would be different than those from the 100 IQ culture.
The ZFS-equivalent on Windows is meant to be ReFS, which is roughly equivalent to ZFS when layered on top of Storage Spaces.

I'm really keen to give ReFS+SS a go, but I keep hearing horror stories of abysmal parity-spaces performance, which can only be explained by poor coding and testing.

Even if ZFS has better performance, it's never going to have full support, and it wasn't written for the NT kernel IO model, so I'm dubious about it ever working well...
even better: find that one forgotten single stall bathroom on the third floor where you can poop in peace
If you can move levers, it's possible to rate your body. Maybe the inertia can be used as an anchor? Or you could use a sail.
>If recruiting Chinese nationals stops working the Chinese state will just start recruiting other nationalities.

Presumably this will be harder for them to do.
The taste is different (better imo), goes bad really fast.
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It's not as crazy an idea as it may sound and there's supposedly a lot of gun related stuff there right now.

I'm surprised as to why PornHub haven't already launched a re-skin for regular content. They've clearly got the infrastructure and knowhow to make it work.
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Giant BUG causing /usr to be deleted.. so sorry
Genetic diversity direcrly correlated with better odds that a subset of the population will be resistant to the disease. The subset of people with increased HIV resistance for example did not develop the trait in response to HIV, they where lucky enough to have it before the disease showed up.
Should hospitals make their own medicine?
The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.
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A quick look at the Python stdlib gives shows some of the breakage that would occur:

1) existing uses of .format() would break:

aifc.py: raise Error('marker {0!r} does not exist'.format(id))

2) existing uses of "%" formatting would break:

argparse.py: result = '{%s}' % ','.join(choice_strs)

3) many regular expressions would break:

uuid.py: if re.fullmatch('(?:[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]-){5}[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]', value):

4) existing strings which contain uuids would break:

uuid.py: >>> x = uuid.UUID('{00010203-0405-0607-0809-0a0b0c0d0e0f}')
Which makes the prospect of engines failing halfway through a lot more scary.
The built in bakeries in Lidl and other stores have great bread imo.
That always pops up for me, but I can just close it by clicking outside the box or clicking the x in the top right. Do those not work for you?
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The automation seems unlikely (I wasn't fixing the whole task, more like removing pain points) but the potential workload increase is very probable
>it's a ridiculous law

It's par for the course. Laws in response to moral panics tend to suck and inconvenience reasonable people while having simple workarounds.
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> an extra slice of bread

A Norwegian "sandwich" has one slice of bread. The picture at the top of the article shows 3 stacked open-face sandwiches.

Sometimes people will do "British-style" sandwiches when putting on things like jam to avoid making a mess, but open-face sandwiches is most traditional.
Q: what techniques have you incorporated to mitigate the negative response to your helpfulness?
TL;DR: it’s way way too fast for anything but maybe solar (and nuclear explosion) photography. (I presume the tech doesn’t scale to more down-to-earth shutter speeds.)
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I have never enjoyed the distinction between apps, app windows, and in app windows. 25 years of alt+tab/Ctrl+tab/cmd+tab and I still can never switch to the thing I want. My mind is stuck on one hotkey that I want to mean "switch back to the last thing I was looking at" but that doesn't work because if the last thing was another app or another tab or window in the same program then I would need a different key. My brain doesn't want to have to remember that. it just wants "back to the last active thing" whatever that thing was.

this bite me every day for 25 years . example on desktop. I switch tabs by clicking a tab. want to back to the last tab. I do the "one" action (cmd-tab) and get a different app instead of the last tab. so it's cmd-tab again and then click the tab. Sometimes I press cmd-tab multiple times before my brain realizes I need to click a tab.

I'm often switching between editor (or 2), terminal, browser, and apps so this idea that I have to always no the exact state I'm and deliberately consciously pick one of 3 different key combos to switch seems crazy to me.

The same thing happens on mobile. swipe up and pick previous window is my action to get back to the previous thing so when I want to switch back to the previous tab I always without fail by swiping up and then curse that the device didn't do what I want and instead I need to click the "display tabs icon". Again I'll be juggling multiple apps so the fact that the thing I want "go back to last thing" is inconsistent always mean the ux is failing me
But the Julia syntax can not represent arguments that can be passed either positional or named, right?
> Will anyone, and if so for what purpose?

Boot environments are very handy for updates:

* https://ramsdenj.com/2018/05/29/zedenv-zfs-boot-environment-...

* https://mwl.io/archives/2363

Also, being able to snapshot the entire system at regular intervals, show diffs between snapshots, and then perhaps do security analysis on the results might be handy.