skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not effectively illegal. That's a mis-characterization of both current law and that lawsuit in particular.

The court ruled that "the company's employment requirements did not pertain to applicants' ability to perform the job". And it was more specific than that. If such tests disparately impact ethnic minority groups, businesses must demonstrate that such tests are "reasonably related" to the job for which the test is required.

That does not make IQ tests effectively illegal. Demonstrate that anyone with an IQ lower than X cannot perform the job in question, and you're good. The actual "problem" is that other tests are far better at determining if you will do well in a job role. So companies use the better tests. If there were a job for which IQ was highly related to being able to do the job, then companies would surely use IQ as the test for that job.

To give a concrete example, why would I give a programmer an IQ test when I can give them a programming test? I'll take it further: an extremely high IQ is a deficit for many developer roles. Most of the genius programmers I personally know write code no one else can maintain, and are often condescending - usually without even knowing it, which hurts team moral. I love those guys and they often inspire me, but many of them would make bad employees if the job required writing average business programs on a large team. A programming test would reveal that when you see their code is very clever, and also includes an internal compiler so they can write the solution in a high level language they invented... There is good reason my very smartest programming friends are often unemployed. When a genius programmer is called for though, boy do they shine.

So it's not a case of companies avoiding the use of a good test due the law and replacing that good test with less effective proxies, as you first suggested. The real effect of that ruling and the law is that companies use tests that can be proven to demonstrate whether or not you can perform the job. That's better for everyone.
Cathedral & Bizarre has never made sense to me.

What do people think of Social Architecture, Pieter Hintjens' ideas for building successful open source software?

Collective Code Construction Contract
https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/

https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/social-architecture...

http://hintjens.com/books

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens

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Hintjens' worldview appeals to me.

I've done a bit of activism, with (very) modest success. A Design Patterns book club I started 20 years ago continues today; we somehow stumbled on a sustainable format.

Not having any successful OSS projects of my own (yet), I can't say if Hintjens' ideas work. I hope to find out.
There is a therapy, which main focus is changing how you think about thinking.

Thinking about your thinking is called metacognition, and therapy I talk about is Metacognitive Therapy
I would definitely vote for you.
People raised in Australia are just used to things being easy and when they're not they get grumpy. Which is happening more as the population grows and the big cities become proper cities and not giant suburbs. It's even happening to me as a migrant after becoming too comfortable. Also read comments pages on press sites and blogs etc. They have no sense of perspective for their complaints as they've spent no time living anywhere else.

Another issue is cultural cringe.
Crypto-Jews were Jews that could not identify as such because they would be persecuted. I think there is a very interesting museum of Crypto-Jews in Córdoba, Spain.
>> Now if we ask S and R if they felt overwhelmed about an 11th scenario what are
they chances they say yes? Previous studies have said S is much more likely to
answer yes than R. This correlation is the thing they are measuring.

Thank you, that is a very clear explanation. And "construct validity", from
its name and from a quick look on wikipedia is exactly my concern.
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Regarding API versioning, FTA:

> There are mixed opinions around whether an API version should be included in the URL or in a header. Academically speaking, it should probably be in a header. However, the version needs to be in the URL to ensure browser explorability of the resources across versions (remember the API requirements specified at the top of this post?).

I don't see how this is relevant with a RESTful API. In REST, resources are transparent and found through HATEOS/autodiscovery. Thus it's really irrelevant if the URL found through HATEOS includes an API version or not.

However, URL versioning is a indeed a side effect of having multiple services dedicated to serve each version of an API.

In the end, it doesn't feel like path/media type versioning is a relevant issue because it's not an either/or type situation but actually complementary.
I'd say mouse-ing over a link is a different action than clicking it. Say you want to read the alt test, or see where the link goes.
Because the power density for fuel cells is pretty meager, so you use batteries as an energy buffer to smooth out the demand.
Sounds like standard bureaucracy.

They didn’t submit the required information in the required form.
SF wants startups to behave, that doesn’t mean that behaving startups get to ignore the standard procedures or get exceptions from requirements.
What more than a "side note" do you expect when someone claims backwards compatibility?

I deployed Victoria Metrics into my environment and knew _exactly_ which parts deviated from Prometheus' PromQL implementation because it's in the docs.

Some of the core Prometheus maintainers come across as arrogant and stubborn, which definitely hurts the ecosystem.
I hate that I laughed.
In an extremely complex modern society it's nearly impossible to tell the effects that certain actions and policies will have. Popular discourse around politics and economics support this theory, since almost nobody can seem to agree. This leads to one of the best heuristics for evaluating the merits of an action as the intention of the actor or the ethics of the actor.
The sad thing is that in safety critical embedded systems often the only choice you have is C and C++ because nobody would shell out for ADA developers. Rust would be a contender as well, however I'm not sure how many embedded targets that aren't major (like arm) even have a target.
Please, don't link to Amazon. I thought we all agreed to boycott them.
The Cybertruck looks like it's designed by Howard Roark from the Fountainhead. I still don't know what to think about it.
I use an adapted US-Intl layout that removes the deadkeys and Ctrl+Alt+o becomes ö (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O Ö) and the same for the other Umlauts. Took some getting used to not doing "o for ö anymore, but it’s great for programming.
Airlines will try block it at every step
The application form requires a paragraph labeled A3, and their application had the required information but didn’t label it as A3. That’s the sort of mistake that can land you in bureaucratic purgatory anywhere in the world, which is exactly what happened, and there’s an ongoing appeal right now.

The founder’s take-away from this should have been “double-check the details, especially when dealing with a bureaucracy” instead of “optimize for the short term”. This was an unfortunate but entirely preventable outcome.
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That's not "just an array".
Also, I believe that you can also access the object representation of the pointer and scramble it. If you fix it up later, I believe it will have to represent the original pointer, by C11 6.2.6.1 (4).
Another great article on the subject:

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-gar...
Spain has govt debt of 100% of GDP too.

Flying between Melbourne and Sydney is incredibly easy and will only get easier when the western Sydney airport opens. There's nothing and nobody between the two cities worth putting stops at.
> Which is a questionable behaviour...

It's a questionable statement. I haven't ever had this happen to me in Australia.
What about the mean? Or the nature of the distribution. Average crushes insights.
If you look at the most profitable technology companies, you could ask where the US went wrong...

https://fortune.com/global500/search/?non-us-cos-y-n=true&pr...

NB: Interesting that Accenture is counted as an Irish company...
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I took offence with @valyala posting about Victoria Metrics in the Cortex Slack channel in the past, but I'm so glad he did because we had _endless_ issues with Cortex and we found Victoria Metrics to be _incredibly_ fast and reliable after trying it when he suggested that it could do something Cortex couldn't.

This github response wasn't cross promotion though -- this was @vayala explaining how it could be implemented, as someone who has done it. The fact that no one complained when Thanos was mentioned, but complained when VM was mentioned shows how hypocritical some Prometheus contributors are.

Honestly, @valyala should just create a metrics collector and then I wouldn't have to deal with the "we know better" attitude from some Prometheus contributors.

The Victoria Metrics contributors are absolutely amazing. Every issue or suggestion has been implemented within days (sometimes hours) and every question answered in incredible detail, with warmth and friendliness.
Sorry, that was a bit vague.

What I mean about "methodology" is the current trend of quantifying human personality traits, like that damned "agreeableness". I understand the aspiration to quantify the human personality (although I also personally find it a little off-putting) but it seems to me that it is very difficult to do with the tools with which it is being attempted. In fact, I think it's impossible to do what psychologists are trying to do, i.e. to do statistics on the human personality. Because the things you are trying to measure are impossible to define clearly and observe objectively since they have no physical substance.

So why do it at all? Why does psychology _need_ to have statistics on personality traits, when they are not really personality traits but complicated proxies for things we think may be representative of personality traits? Wouldn't the same effort be better spent on a different project? Can't psychology be taken seriously as a science without trying to do maths with things that don't really exist?
It must be a typo.

Function calls have the highest priority here, followed by logic NOT and logic OR.

!didIMakeAMistake() || CIsWrongHere();

!didIMakeAMistake() is evaluated first (or you can say didIMakeAMistake() is executed and evaluated first, then its result is inverted and checked), if it's true, evaluation is finished. If it's false, CIsWrongHere(); is evaluated.

It is indeed equivalent to

if (didIMakeAMistake()) /* !didIMakeAMistake() == false? */
CIsWrongHere();

Without the invertion.
I wish that were our industry. Instead, we make things super complicated and make them slower at the same time.

Let's take the text editor example. Let's say we use it to edit a large document. Is Moby Dick large enough? It's around a megabyte of (pure) text. Let's figure out a persistence solution. How about "we save the entire text to disk"? So a megabyte to disk. My laptop's SSD does (large) writes at 2GB/s. So the ultra simple solution could save the entire text around 2000 times per second.

That's a lot faster than I can type.
The projection is strong in this one. No evidence has ever been introduced to support any of these assertions. Mueller not only didn't write, but he never read his own report, as evidenced by his pathetic Congressional testimony about it. This testimony was almost as bad as his previous Congressional testimony in support of the existence of WMDs in Iraq. At least in this case he wasn't lying so much as struggling to follow a script he didn't understand. We could almost see Andrew Weissmann's puppet hand run up his ass. Every time any assertion in any of these reports and indictments has been challenged in court, the DoJ has declined to support it.
I live in Sydney and my train is literally never late, always to the minute. I'm just slightly out of peak (just after 9am).
That was definitely part of it. There was an industry-wide push to work on a "hydrogen economy" as a stall to stave off the CARB regulation which was going to force a certain percentage of vehicle sales to be electric.

It did make more sense in the late 90s when the predominant battery tech was NiMH. Fuel cells were actually competitive on price and performance, but can't really hold a candle to modern LiPoly or LiIon batteries.

U.S. car manufacturers dropped fuel cells like a hot potato as soon as the CARB mandate was repealed, and crushed their BEVs to destroy any evidence.
Even more interesting is that the article claims this person managed to trace back her maternal lineage for 22 generations (!), and found out that it was an unbroken Jewish maternal lineage. What a curious combination for someone who previously "felt drawn to Judaism and converted to Modern Orthodox Judaism".

Of course, 22 generations means thousands of ancestors, who moreover, according to the article, have been living as Catholics for more than three hundred years. It's dumbfounding what kind of ethno-sectarian reasoning must be behind the claim that she's Crypto-Jewish.
I think you misunderstood what they are using the hash for - neither the hash nor the plaintext should ever be revealed to a third party anyway.

That said, I don't really see the point since it's no more secure than just using the long passphrase directly.
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I don't think they're one bit funny but very scary and likely better at future prediction than most think tanks.
Footnote: Marrano in spanish is a colloquial term for "pig", (one covered in mud from head to toes) and by extension means a "very dirty people". Is another example of a word that is fair to use to denote a temporal trait but awful to use as a permanent trait. For example: "You were playing in the mud and acting like a pig, so wash you before dinner" is acceptable. "You are a pig" (always, therefore: cattle, subhuman, etc...) it isn't.

Is a derogatory word from a long time ago, happily surpassed. Would be very rude to use it in a spanish speaking context to describe a jew nowadays (except maybe as an historical reference or cite).
They do it anyway. And it saves you the cost of the cat and mouse game. You cannot win this unless you create a dictature. There is Mickey porn and fascist Pepa pig anyway. So why not collect the benefit of having real fans making great content instead attacking them.

E.g: nintendo killed an incredible fan made metroid game. It seems so short sighted.
As a non-driver I’ve been following the adoption of e-scooters closely and SF has been full of corruption and anti-scooter behavior since the beginning. It’s been hard to watch.
That last quote is essentially asking them to make the assembly artificially complicated to make it look more honest.

> Zammit realized then that the truck’s DeLorean-mated-with-a-Pontiac-Aztek aesthetic might be an effort to streamline the manufacturing process. “By being philosophically so pure and so functional, Tesla has completely eliminated a very large part of what is the traditional automotive assembly."

https://www.wired.com/story/why-tesla-cybertruck-looks-weird...

> The plusses for a folded stainless steel, origami truck are compelling: no paint shop and no expensive tooling. No Godzilla-scale stamping machines stomping it with multiple strikes. Without all that, the capital and environmental costs of using stainless steel body panels are small. And big attractions for a company that's sensitive to both types of green—cash and environmentalism. Just groove the steel where it's supposed to fold (avoiding cracks) and bend it on simple, cheap machines (like I was actually doing last week with my garage vise!)

https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pi...
Do any people still use Tinn-R? CTRL-F found not a single mention. That's what I learned on and still go to on the occasions I need to script some R.
idk, I was quite expecting to see a book about actual thinking in the list. Like for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_Luck
Thank you, that's a great explanation.

To be honest though I don't find it surprising that factor analysis would find high correlations between some traits. Actually, this is really concerning if that's the basis of the whole thing. You can find correlations anytime you look for them. How were these correlations validated? I mean- how do we know that the big-5 don't just model noise in the analysed datasets?
Sometimes people struggle to understand that chess may very well be solved as a win for black. This is a great illustration of that.
Indeed, and what makes it interesting is that the information can (and should) travel in both directions: just as I want to know what my dollar has done when I buy an apple (e.g. I paid starvation wages to farmers and justified clear-cutting of a piece of rain-forest, gave political contributions to some dictator, etc) and the vendor gets to know how I earned that money (e.g. an office job where I make software content that tricks users into giving up more personal info, ultimately to get a higher ad price).

You run into a technical issue in that you can trace a dollar indefinitely in both directions. But perhaps there's a solution, like some sort of decay.
Right to the point. Quite similar to the ideas of Nickolas Nassim Taleb. And part of the reason VC invest in so many "foolish" ventures, but "foolish" only retrospectively.
> So your Ring app pops up and says "Hey, your local police department is looking for a suspect and your camera spotted them. Would you like to share the footage?".

Yes it would be absolutely super if apps asked permission before sending your private data to a third party.

But we all know that because presumably there exist sufficient software engineers that do not consider the ramifications of their work (like AT ALL), this just isn't the way commercial software is going currently.
The differences that I see between Reddit and, for example, traditional forums are:

- The ability to use one login and interface across multiple boards/subject areas.

- The ease of communicating between different boards either via links, cross posts, or some form of aggregation.

- Features that over time allow a post to become one that can be recognized as well regarded by the community. These could include good support for listing important posts in the subreddit information, the ability to tag posts, and the ability to archive posts.

- The natural support for media and links. Although to be fair, the media support is actually provided by sites that grew up around Reddit like Imgur.

Reddit may not be social in the sense that, as another poster points out, it is built around following topics rather than users. However, the degree to which it allows different topics and communities to interconnect allows relationships to form that function as a society. For example, a post on the Male Fashion Advice subreddit on how to be more presentable might link to a series of posts on the Male Hair Advice subreddit that have become well regarded in the community.

By way of comparison, on conventional forums there is often little interaction even between sub-forums in the same forum let alone between different forums. Support for media also tends to be more limited.
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So a brutalist truck has to have bad aerodynamics? My impression is that brutalism believes "form follows function." For a car, that means aerodynamics matter.

And brutalist buildings seem to be more about monolithic concrete than exposed girders.
The scary thing is that the Post Office kept denying there was a problem and stating words the effect of "it is impossible for the system to be broken" and the courts took this as gospel.

Amy developer knows that any piece software can and does have bugs that only cause problems in rare and unusual circumstances. This is something that the Post Office and the courts should have understood and considered, rather than just assume the system was infallible.

Its concerning for the future as we rely more and more on computers. If the courts, police etc just assume the computer is correct then we have a problem. If the computer says something is amiss, how to do prove or disprove it? Especially when AI is thrown in to the mix and the decision process isn't totally clear.
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What are we going to do with all these "AI coprocessors" once the AI bubble bursts? Are they at least well documented or flexible enough to be used for more general float crunching?
The insistence that a machine is perfect when that's impossible is also key in some of the cases Ross Anderson has looked into where banks insist that their customer is a crook rather than a victim so as to avoid compensating the customer.

Here's one about a government "watchdog" blithely accepting that something doesn't happen because the banks say it doesn't, even though victims say it does:
https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2015/07/29/fca-view-on-u...

Ross and his team did lots of work on flaws in EMV (Chip and PIN) either in implementation or design oversights - and there are a bunch of cases where a court is told the only explanation for the evidence is that the accused is committing fraud, only for Ross called as expert witness for the defence to say something like er, well, that's true if say your Random Number Generator actually generates random numbers, but here's a sample from a real EMV terminal like the one in this case: 49051, 49052, 49053... those don't seem very random to me.
I think that's a pretty bad underestimate of the difficulty required. The problem is that you're assuming you'd use an ordinary English sentence for a passphrase, like something you read on Twitter, not (at the very least) random words or letters.

Assume you had a word list of the 10000 most common English words, and picked six of them at random. That's probably less than the 50 characters you're assuming.

There are 10000^6 combinations, so 10000^6/2 guesses required. Assume you can hash 1000/s per core (IMO if your attacker can get that your hash setting are too weak)...

So it's going to take 10000^6/2/1000/(3*10^7) core years to crack. If you can devote 1200 CPU cores to this project, you have a 50/50 shot at cracking the password by the time the universe is twice as old as it is now.

And that's just by taking the most obvious of steps to generate a better password, which (again) is probably still less than 50 characters.
> Who in 12th-century England would have seen an elephant or a crocodile? Tales filtered back from Crusaders and distant travellers of a giant herbivore with a nose so long and pliable that it could pick up men and seat them on its back, and of an armour-plated carnivore that lurked in water and could be mistaken by the unwary for a log of wood. These were as improbable – and therefore as possible – as a white horse with a long horn in the middle of its forehead

I wonder if there's anything similar today? Subatomic particles or astronomical objects? Mental health seems to be an area where we currently have no idea how things really work in the brain.
Great tip, thanks. Have to remember this magic ISO standard number.
If "the degree to which a test measures what it claims, or purports, to be measuring" is your concern, does the notion these researchers are thinking about it all the time leave you with less skepticism, or are you sure your skepticism is warranted because you’re worrying in a way they haven’t thought of while studying this caveat?