skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have long joked that Mensa membership indicates that you passed the IQ test and failed the intelligence test.

More seriously, Mensa membership selects for people whose main accomplishment in life is doing well on an IQ test. So they are at least somewhat smart. But if you look for people who have actual accomplishments, you'll find people who tend to also be smart but are more interesting to be around.

Note, this is not sour grapes. My test scores mean that I'm qualified for Mensa, but I've never been impressed enough by any Mensa member that I met to be interested.
Mutation-selection balance.
IQ is bullshit, and discipline, social skills, and connections are priceless.

100x this.

I hope you get on top of your personal issues. Seek help: I did, it was useful, if expensive; money only exists to be spent
I find it entirely appropriate that recruiting managers wear their biases on their sleeves, in this manner.
As representatives of the organization, you put its core values and culture at the forefront. You represent what the owners are really all about.
It is important for those with the ability and inclination to be part of "an association for superior IQ people" to not be placed in an unsuitable role, at an unsuitable company, given their rarity. Better for all involved, I would say.
ABC News is using footage from US gun range claiming from Syria
No, it is not very good. I remember this one particular example that I was surprised to see years ago, and I actually encountered the bug at work. There is a constant named MAX_UID_T_LEN to denote the maximum number of characters that a UID can have. For whatever reason, LDAP-synced UIDs at work had many digits and sudo would fail to work because the code only worked UIDs that have MAX_UID_T_LEN - 1 characters.

The bug was fixed in 2012 - https://www.sudo.ws/changes.html: Use MAX_UID_T_LEN + 1 for uid/gid buffers, not MAX_UID_T_LEN to prevent potential truncation. Bug #562.
Yes. Actually. In a way.

Every organism since the first one has been focused on its individual survival. Interested only in the propagation of its own DNA.

And yeah, humans are still doing that. Everyone who took that path. Everyone who keeps taking that path of survival of the fittest.

We need to start thinking of the survival of the all of us.
Was really thinking a pod would be something 3D, not another mattress. Not knocking the technology, but was envisioning a soundproof mini-room.
I don't get when somebody would use this in the real world. Could you help fill in the gaps of my ignorance?
You need perspective.

This is one of the biggest casualties of our industry's hyperfocus on software all day, every day, and nothing else. Everything in the world is two dimensional to us.

How many hobbies do you have?

Three years is only a long time if you are young or have never studied anything longer than the time it took to get your CS degree.

In virtually any other hobby or pursuit, you have only just become interesting to other people around the 3 year mark, and software developers are already daydreaming about the Next Thing. If in fact they aren't already looking at the Old Thing shrinking in the rear view mirror.

Pick something to try to get good at. It'll help reset your concept of 'a long time' and your pain thresholds to something more compatible with the rest of the world. An instrument. Crafting (wood, cloth, leather, beer). A sport. Mushroom hunting. Learn to play Go (particularly good one for developers who are uncomfortable picking up something too out of character). Stick around to get properly good at it instead of simply conversation at parties good.

Slow down, and take a breath for fuck's sake.
But will China be able to make the next leap on their own? It's one thing to copy but another to come up with the design on the first place.
"With the exception of employees at some large companies that offer hot lunches, he adds, traditionally everyone from the lowest-level worker to upper management would eat their own individually wrapped, brought-from-home matpakke."

Virtually no one eating lunch at cafes has a big impact on the economy. Imagine how many cafes, food carts, etc in the US would close down if everyone stopped eating lunch out.
Thank you for this. I've added each of these to the Retrospective post here:

https://www.karma.fm/p/67VCB/karma-retrospective-1014

RE the first bullet: did the introduction modal not pop up for you? If not, there's a bug. Anyone who hasn't visited should see the following:

https://i.imgur.com/p4J4oib.png

Thanks for taking time out of your day for this.
The idea that everyone has a “The One” is a Hollywood trope. What if you meet someone perfect and they become a bitter alcoholic in ten years? Or what if they end up cheating on you? Were they not “The One”? Why didn’t you notice? Humans are imperfect and they change over time. Hollywood has been selling a specific idea of love for decades, and it’s not anywhere close to reality. That’s not to say you should marry the first stranger you meet, but it’s unrealistic to think there’s only ever one person “for you”.
https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/4221b90c3febbe03a4b47e...
And yet millennia of philosophy have also attempted to address it. Epicurus comes first to mind from the materialist camp. Religion is not the only source of solace for existential dread, there are more rationalist approaches that can be viable. I think these have been sufficiently overshadowed by religion that they are only recently re-entering the public discourse.
> will send a mobile roadside assistance truck

Roadside assistance is hardly a novel feature of electric vehicles.

The problems you're describing are all the problems of operating proprietary chargers with a proprietary plug. The advantage of CCS is that everyone can run their own chargers.

McDonald's does: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/06/mcdonalds-in-sweden-ser...

BP does: https://insideevs.com/news/365416/bp-chargemaster-first-150-...

Shell does: https://electrek.co/2017/09/27/shell-new-electric-car-chargi...

Small operators do: https://electrek.co/2019/09/27/gas-station-removes-gas-pumps...

Large operators do: https://ionity.eu/en/about.html

Some operators are offering CCS charging for free: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/299467-volta-offers-free...

A single company trying to run a proprietary standard can't keep up with the investment being put into a common charging standard in the long run. Tesla would be better off switching to CCS everywhere and opening their chargers to all EVs.
Another way to deal with nihilism is to embrace it. Once you accept that nothing matters, you can stop beating yourself up for mistakes and failures. You can strip the urgency from your goals. It allows you to proceed with outcome independence. This needs to be paired with some form of motivation too, but I think that's more up to the individual.
Looks nicer, but I'd like to see a more technical report of the model. In particular, I really doubt that Central America will be so desert-like. Some from Panama told me as a joke that they only had two seasons "rainy-summer" and "very-rainy-summer". I doubt it will change.
Facebook groups + events. Plenty of video game communities to organize weekly tournaments and meetups.
And? If there's no point then there's also no point in not enjoying yourself. Sorry, I'm not trying to be flippant. Just pointing out the fact that there is no point to anything is arguably not a very good reason for not making your life the best it can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M
... because funding more war is something to be celebrated?

Just because you're personally caught under a boot doesn't mean you should cheer when the net ensnares someone else. That's called the crab bucket mentality.
A depressed person would say, "Doing X will not improve my situation or make me happy." And he might be right. With treatment-resistant depression, it's like your "happiness muscles" respond minimally or not at all to training. You're trying to light a pile of ashes.

This is similar with many persistent mental conditions. Why not just tell an obese person to eat less food? Why doesn't someone with a phobia just stop being scared? And so on.
I imagine that there's a lot of information in the specific cadence of typing, in addition to the final text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
The bread in America is garbage compared to Europe.
Mux (YC W16) is hiring developers – build mobile video SDKs that developers love
> discipline, social skills, and connections are priceless.

Entirely correct. Therapy is effective. Meditation will help. There is a Chinese old saw about "treasures that you carry within you and which none can rob nor destroy but you".

And get yourself a girl friend.

[p.s. when you get your act together, you know discipline, social skills, and making connections, your 139 will put you way ahead of those who merely have those skills, so cheer up.]
With all due respect, discriminating against gay people was also unconstitutional, that didn't stop it from being introduced. And nullification was a part of what prop 8 proponents asked for from the very beginning. (And filed a lawsuit to achieve right after prop 8 passed)

You chose your bed to lie in, part and parcel - because that's how voting on & supporting propositions works. You don't get to claim post-hoc you were only supporting parts of it.
Warning, Kalles Kaviar actually contains sugar and lots of it. It's horrible, and I'm swedish. They actually make ads on the TV with people from other cultures trying to eat it. It's not as bad as surströmming but ew...
i3 is the best thing to happen my computing in years.

You'll need to copy some config if you want your volume buttons, brightness buttons, etc to work. But as far as I am concerned it is the only good Linux display manager.
Do you have evidence of ongoing mass surveillance practices in the U.S that is

> presumably is already collecting the same information

Do you have any evidence at all?
I recently set up SES for my own projects so some this info is fresh in my mind. I’m not an SES power user so ymmv.

My only real, big issue with SES is with email templates as in I don’t know of any way to view templates in SES.

So, if you create an email template and want to preview it, you’ll have to do it locally/off-SES. If you need to handle hundreds of templates, this can get tedious.

The other minor tech issue is that SES needs you to work out of one of three regions - US east, west, and EU (if I recall correctly).

If, for legal or hygiene purposes you need your data anywhere else in the world, you’re SOL.

Other than these two, SES has been amazing. It costs pennies and I host all my email, both transactional and personal, with them. Worth noting that my transactional email is in the order of a few hundred per month, if that.
Bloated and slow are not terms I typically associate with React and Redux... What else is being used in the application(s)?

An app I've been working on even does some simple SVG overlays via React/Redux and responds to mouse events with very little issue. It's probably the biggest example of pain I've felt with it.

Of course, an app can be written very badly depending on how "clever" a developer tries to get, or how it may be using remote resources and how that interacts. Without more detail, hard to tell.... of course there's the matter of publishing without "production" mode being set too.

The app in question does have about a 500kb payload, which is larger than I'd like... but using material-ui and a few complex features it's not nearly as bad as many other apps I've used.
My “Perfect” Productivity Setup
Actually it's very good to speak ill of the dead when they have done bad things.

When we are all thinking about them and their legacy is an opportune time to discuss the underlying issues. How else can we accurately remember the dead, and learn from their actions?
Like a stronger military?
Publish or impoverish: An investigation of monetary rewards of science in China
A bit off-topic but has anyone else noticed a trend in the webpage title not matching the article title? Eg in this case, the page title is "Broke and in Love, More Tech Entrepreneurs Demanding Prenups" vs the article heading of "A Prenup Is the Latest Must-Have for Tech Startup Founders in Love".

Is this just some old version of the title cached?

The weird thing is that the URL matches article heading.
a lot of programming fonts have ligatures for this
How is it possible for anyone to have a valid very high IQ, since IQ is a percentile test and there's no way to know how many very high IQ people were never properly tested?

Very high IQ is fundamentally flawed because IQ is resistant to precise measurement.
This really hit me. Never going to sign in to Facebook to join any kind of meetup. Simply never. Forget about it.
>>How could these giants of arts and letters abuse so many?

We tend to give people that are accomplished in a field an aura of saintliness that they don't deserve. The reality is that once people attain a bit of power many find it hard not to abuse it. And also, people around them tend to ignore the abuses. The only way to fix it is to call the abusers out on their behavior but it's hard for most people to do it because of all the trouble it brings even if it's 100% true. It's easier to give it a pass and hope someone else will do something about it.
I have an idea that I want to work on, email in profile if you want to chat more
> Texas "seceeded" from Mexico in the 1840s.

By winning a war... any state can secede from any country if it's able to win a war against it.
What would you say are some of the things that helped the most? What did you practice? What did you study? How did you study? Reading? Watching?
reposted later, currently in the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21252784 ,
Tinker tailors: the grassroots movement reclaiming the right to repair
Buried in the notes for the `typing` module:

> “Final” variables, functions, methods and classes. See PEP 591, typing.Final and typing.final(). The final qualifier instructs a static type checker to restrict subclassing, overriding, or reassignment:

> pi: Final[float] = 3.1415926536

As I understand it, this means Python now has a way of marking variables as constant (though it doesn't propagate into the underlying values as in the case of C++'s `const`).

The equivalent Java:

final float pi = 3.1415926536;
It is better when you can decide, yourself, to exit to another company, rather than being pushed out and then having to find a new job. Certainly, a competent engineer SV will land on their feet, but you lose significant negotiating power when you're not actively employed.
That's pretty subjective. I think there's no point to anything but I'm not upset about it. If anything - it gives me more of a purpose. What can I do before I'm dead and basically don't exist? It's not like any fucking videos games I play have any point. What's the point? Oh - I win and finish the game. Greaaat. Oh I beat someone online - woooow. What's the real point of that in the end? Nothing - it's all hedonism.

I don't think you get depressed by thinking too much - you probably get depressed because you don't have what you want to begin with. You then just think about why you're in your unpleasant position, realize you're too crap to fix it, won't admit fault and change, and so then rationalize that inherently the universe is unfair and there's no point to anything anyway (just to make yourself feel better about how you're doing poorly). It's not that you're a piece of shit - it's the universes fault! I was made this way and there's no point to anything so I can still be a piece of crap human being! I'm too smart to be with the common man! They don't understand my deep intellect!
How expensive are you seeing? Paying someone on the order of $10 in total (fee + service charge + tip) for them to bring you your food can make a lot of sense if you consider the amount of time saved.
Personally, I think we'd have all been better served by the IPR being available on some RAND basis. There is a reason Buran looked like the Shuttle, which goes beyond spying.
I suspect that something very fishy is going on between when the money is “paid” by the insurance company to the money that actually makes it to the pharmaceutical company. I suspect most of this money gets rebated back to the insurer in some form or another.

Reading your link it’s actually an interesting story of an absolute fraud designed to thread a perfect path through all the existing regulations and checks & balances.
Rock and a hard place, no? Either you keep adding to a language and people keep using it, or you stop adding to a language and people call it a dead language and stop using it.

Most devs don't understand that software can be done and still be useful.
Name this unicorn?
Why did we piss him off? I don't think I ever heard that story.
Haven't used Weyland, but X is far more than "a compositor."

Keyboard, mouse, touchscreen, etc.
If it's made for fun, why is sign-up mandatory at all? Why can't I play the game without creating an account?
If you were immortal, would that confer some kind of meaning on your actions? How do you define meaning, and does it make any sense? Philosophical issues like these can have, I believe, substantial effects on a persons mental health. It's an area of thinking that we view in a very dysfunctional way in our society, generally discouraging even exploration of the topics as 'meaningless' (which is a bit ironic since those ideas are how one determines meaning). And if you do wish to investigate the ideas, you're mostly on your own. I personally credit my study of philosophy with a great deal of my general contentment with life, and feel it gave me the tools I needed to address most of the concerns I always wrestled with. Not even any specific philosopher or school of philosophy. Just the process of being introduced to so many radically different viewpoints on life, along with the strong foundation in argumentation and reason, itself seems to have aided my greatly.

If the universe will die, and that establishes that anything which occurs within it has no meaning, perhaps meaning becomes entirely worthless as a concept. It distinguishes nothing. It becomes identical with mere existence.
>> This theory holds that, for all of its advantages, being highly intelligent is associated with psychological and physiological “overexcitabilities,” or OEs.

On a speculative note, maybe those OEs are a result of maltreatment of some sort (there are many).
:= is basically the "yes, I really mean it" version, whereas bare = might just be a simple typo.
It is, but many intro programmers (and non-intro programmers!) often forget to use == instead of = for comparison, because in the real world, = more often implies equality, rather than assignment. So a novice might mistakenly type `if x=1:` but they would be unlikely to accidentally type `if x:=1:`.
Actually the insurers wisened up and largely stopped approving claims for this one.
I agree, but I think that it's important to add that low pressure turbines are not cost effective. Moreover, you need overheated vapor so in case it condense it doesn't form small drops that hit the turbine at high velocity.

Also, another relevant link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_desalination
I wonder what the age range of those Jews is. Genocide has a way of efficiently selecting for intelligence.
Pilotless Black Hawk Will Soon Take Flight
TV Manufacturers need to start including this feature.
>no one cares about me having depression

This :(

It is a hard truth but chances are that you are the only one that can improve your life.
Can this also be exploited using CSS `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` if the device's configured to use dark mode in low-light conditions (as opposed to time-based switching)?
If fresh water were -9 degrees F, I suspect it would be solid ice (it could be super-cooled if it were absolutely still, but lakes and rivers are not that, and splashing in super-cooled water would turn you into a popsicle). The air temperature isn't even that cold in any of these pictures.
That's interesting I will have to read more, when I did classical studies in the 6th form. Our teacher ( head of the sixth form) commented that some of the later Greek plays could be read in that sort of way, The Bacchae for example.
And yet here we are, on HN, keep coming back to talk about IQ.
Agreed--if you're going to go through the trouble of adding detailed type hints to describe a dict, you're like 90% of the way to a dataclass with better usability.
*** | Company | Employees
----|----------|---------------
[F] | Facebook | 39,651 (2019)
[A] | Amazon | 647,500 (2018)
[A] | Apple | 132,000 (2018)
[N] | Netflix | 5,400 (2017)
[G] | Google | 103,459 (2019)
---------------|---------------
Total | ±928,010 (2019)

With all due respect, you are only one in ±1M people working in this group of companies, not very representative.

I also work at a FAANG and many of my colleagues have excellent interpersonal skills, you cannot disregard that.
I get your point, but to be fair, none of these guys have, "1 year of experience". They've focused on playing ball most of their lives and did it very well for several years before anyone decided to pay them. Many athletes work extremely hard at their craft.
This article isn't really a comparison. It's almost completely dedicated to explaining Redux. In fact the complexity of explaining even this simple app with just a couple of components, should serve as a reminder of how complex Redux is. The only real mention of the plain ReactJS version is near the end, where it actually links to another article which compares ReactJS and Vue.
Highly intelligent people should be pushed to physical exercise and forced to avoid sugary/processed food. I knew one girl with BPD and PhD and those two things helped her tremendously; every time she slipped her state rapidly deteriorated and it was hell for everyone around.
> You realize that there's no point to anything you do. You will die. Humanity will die. The universe will die

Sorry for the bad news, but even pretty stupid people can figure this outcome out.
In Denmark you can get milk at the grocery store that was inside the cow less than 24 hours ago. Ultra High Temperature pasteurization is not really normal in Denmark, but I think it is in Germany.
I was able to get better at rock climbing, but some people never get over a fear of heights. I've got borderline personality disorder. Consider a bad social encounter: for you, there might be some shame but your brush yourself off and figure out what to do differently next time. Now imagine instead, when you get home from the party or whatever, someone there follows you and screams at you for hours that you're a pathetic failure, how being social is hopeless, how you'll never make it, dissecting everything you did, until you're on the floor crying. Except that person is inside your own head. You'd probably just try to never go out and socialize again, it's just too painful. If you did, you'd then have double the painful memories, and what good would that do?
Love this. Thank you.

My "cobbled together" implementation is as follows: every user begins with a fixed number of "bolts"; they can unlock more bolts through various "virtuous deeds" (TBD), or they can earn bolts through their comments/posts; their general "bolt throughput" is a proxy to how much "karma" they've earned and given to others.

Though this was cobbled together without any real understanding of behavioral economics and with a whole bunch of untested assumptions, so as it evolves, I'll have to study the tried-and-tested models of Medium, Reddit, HN, and think about what works, what doesn't, what Karma users need/want, and then innovate upon that assessment if needed. I have some thoughts on that but I'm still battling some stability dragons over here...

Thanks again for poking around and helping out.
It's not that different from thousands of human drivers coordinating using waze during rush hour.