skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in China often don't speak fluent English because they grow up in a country where it's not a spoken language.

People who don't contribute to OSS typically don't do it because they don't have the ability (some OSS code is held together by duct tape) but because they don't have time, interest or think it's harder than it is.

If you have better tools to determine if someone is good at writing code for your company, why use a proxy measure that's different in many ways?
Also an issue for me, it does nothing for the already abysmal photography/image editing workflow. I try to use Qt programs where I can or xdg-desktop-portal where it's supported but some programs like Gimp still don't support it.
WebRTC 1.0 telephony app using “hifi” Opus codec with up to 500kbs bitrate
Livestock guardians as a general rule don't protect by fighting, but by convincing the predator that the risk is too high to bother. The guardian alerts and the flock reacts to the danger, seeking shelter, making noise, looking up, etc. Without an easy meal the predator moves on. Arial predators are especially risk-averse because it doesn't take much to cause a mortal injury.

I've even heard of people using guardian geese instead of dogs. They're supposed to be very effective at preventing arial predation and orders of magnitude cheaper than dogs, though I've never heard anyone talk about them in the context of something the size of a bald eagle.
Meanwhile, we see significantly less depression in higher levels of educational attainment: https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Weighted_prevalence_of_...
>I'm not sure exactly what Mensa does

Gives a mermbership certificate and a number that they think they brag about to socially naive, gullible and arrogant (but otherwise smart), people (I say "think they can brag about" because nobody will actually be impressed by it, and it just makes them appear as crude idiots - IQ is not an accomplishment by itself, and the proof of genius is in genius work).
There's a lot of “smart” people who were forced to be so by their parents, and suffer as a result of it. (Bad childhood experiences can cause all sorts of lasting damage.) I can see that being a possible factor for high IQ being associated with e.g. anxiety.
I'm no expert, but what do you want to write drivers for ? At the simplest level you can create a Linux device driver that has no corresponding hardware, in which case C will be perfectly adequate and no bus knowledge needed.

If you're just intellectually interested, I'd suggest starting with that and then create some toy hardware project on an Arduino and create a USB driver for it.
I can see an argument being made about the payment processing services being directly beneficial to facilitating the trafficking that was taking place. But I don't think it's a good one.

I think it's unreasonable for Salesforce to be expected to keep up with all of the news or accusations, legal or otherwise, about their clients.
I've never joined Mensa but I very clearly see the thing about neglecting physical and social pursuits because they are harder than intellectual ones :) Makes sense to choose things you're naturally good in, it's not really a 'preoccupation' as such.

Someone who is great at sports will tend to focus on that. It's just natural to direct yourself towards pursuits that come easily.

The problem with this thing of course is that it's self-enforcing. Less experience with social interaction causes even less ability. In the end that can lead to psychological issues. It did for me too, but I was really helped by my therapists and put back on track <3
People who have done IQ tests out of curiosity: Was it worth it?

I want to do the test but I know I'll be disillusioned with the result.
Thank you for this fantastic resource. I've been meaning to learn Go for a while, but have a lot of difficulty staying focused on tutorials with big blocks of text. Your concise bullet format is really easy to follow, and would be especially useful for anyone who doesn't speak English as their first language.

Also really respect that you clearly did this out of passion, so I'll say this to everyone on your behalf: support the author by purchasing a digital copy!

https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/buy-digital-or-hard-cop...
Absolutely this. If a company wants people to come into the office but does not have enough space for them they should be forced to allow those employees to work remotely or pay for adequate space. They can't have both.
So why did Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump all fail to keep themselves in check as leaders of the party that claims to value fiscal responsibility?
Compared to n=0 of the grandparent
Remembering West Germany is indeed a symptom of the oldness.
I work for another company also putting its eggs in the D basket (SARC). We do not consider this risky because of two main reasons:

1) D is not dependent on the funding of one big corporation, so our future is not at the mercy of such corporation.

2) Three highly compatible compilers exist, all of them libre. Inclusion into gcc is probably the best insurance for any language.

The D community may be comparatively small, but for us it is big enough. Changes in and around the language may happen comparatively slowly, but for us they happen fast enough. Tooling may be comparatively limited, but we are actually rather impressed by what is available.

The language itself is of course awesome.
Yes, but the tests don't account for a similar amount of training, and so do not provide an adequate comparison. The whole point of IQ tests are to present problems which the test taker sould not have previously encountered, thus measuring their ability to quickly devise a solution, and indicating their intelligence on a standard distribution vs the population in general.
Sibling posters have pointed out technical issues but I'd like to point out that while chasing after each successive exploit might let them stay on top of the Starcraft rankings, it changes the accomplishment from "we made a model that understands Starcraft better than almost any human" to "we made a model that memorized a selection of very good strategies and tactics."

When it was first demonstrated, it really looked like it was doing very smart things (while also taking advantage of the fact that it doesn't have attention lapses and hand fatigue) and reacting well to different strategies on a level that was freaky to me.
Best answer to the clickbaity title question that the article could provide:

” "Apparently he just kept a very low profile, which was really the best thing he could do," says Ms Boutrup.”
OPP = other people's posts
And the AAA towing!
Yep. It attracts the insecure/not much to show for so I'll just show the number share of high IQ people.
High IQs also associated with being irritated by editors who write headlines like this. (n=1)

They buried the lede: "It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ. For example, people preoccupied with intellectual pursuits may spend less time than the average person on physical exercise and social interaction, both of which have been shown to have broad benefits for psychological and physical health."
I tried to define every notions used.
Thank you very much for liking my style. I hope that this book will help others to start programming with Go !
DARPA's Subterranean Challenge Update
This was not that situation and I have no issue with someone young and bright using it (Mensa) to get their foot in the door. My guy was middle-aged, from privilege and used Mensa and other BS accomplishments to swindle people into thinking he was some sort of tech luminary.
This. I'm sure more than one of these companies saw a productivity increase when they went to 100% remote. Why? More hours worked.

I'm curious how it'll play out in the long run.
> I'm a little ignorant about Raku, so take my comments with a grain of salt, but...

That makes two of us. Albeit, I began working with Raku in 2015, when it was still called Perl 6. What follows is just my opinion, so take my comments with a grain of salt.

> Saying Raku is the future of Perl is like saying Objective-C is the future of C.

This isn’t true. From the beginning, Perl 6 was always envisioned as the successor language to Perl 5. The reasons given for this were myriad: Perl 5 would benefit from having a more regular syntax (e.g. `$this{}` would become `%this{}`), a decideably parseable implementation [1], first-class OOP support in the standard library, as well as gradual typing and a concurrency/parallelism story, amongst many other things.

Objective-C is more of a bolt-on addition to C. It’s less a separate programming language from C than it is a potentially useful paradigm for programming in C. Objective-C was never designed to “replace C” the way Perl 6 was designed to replace Perl 5.

> and Raku didn't replace Perl.

Well, it should’ve. Other than nostalgia attached to graybearded Perl developers of yore, you can see ITT the writing is on the wall for Perl 5. IMO Perl 5 looks clearly destined to the same fate as Sed and Awk: a CLI “power tool” — critical to infrastructure in unappreciated ways — but ultimately disposable and not a serious solution.

Raku is to Perl 5 what Perl 5 is to Awk, IMO.

In my view, it was deeply unfortunate certain loud minorities from Perl 5 were able to derail Perl 6, as if that would be the thing that could save Perl 5 from its destiny of utter irrelevancy.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770531
That's interesting. I joined and was immediately turned off by the group.

The difference with joining a chess club is you get to play chess.

So let's turn your proposal around: What do you get to do in a High IQ club that is different from any random collection of people?

Besides talk about how you are in MENSA?
> As a business owner, I am not sure you would hire on the same axis. I would personally not hire someone that can only work for 20 hours a week, there is too much to do.

When you're hiring make this known so people can do their own filtering on their end, as well.
Thanks for the kind words.

Apple Calendar is something we are obviously considering.

As for console which is hard to exit, we get that feedback all the time. Unfortunately, even though it looks trivial, it is actually not super simple to do. I suggest you re-hit CTRL+SPACE to hide it, it is the easiest way. Otherwise, you need to reput focus in the console and hit CTRL+ESC.

As for the dependence on the Google ecosystem, we understand but, as discussed through other comments on this post, we had to start somewhere. We will expand later but it just made sense to start on Google given that we are going after professionals and that there are 400M Google Workspace accounts.
It's more the fact that these are not all IQ tests.
I spent years thinking this was hell and people were actively trying to fuck with me because I could not understand peoples ability to be ignorant... it literally was not possible in mind to be so oblivious.

I've since realized that "herd mentality" is a totally functional survival mechanism, and as long as you don't think logically the other parts of the brain have no problem accepting that culture isn't just some made up game of pretend, or that popularity is a reasonable judgement of correctness.

I've met many another unique thinker who couldn't understand how so many people could be so blind to things right in front of their face. And it drives them a little bit crazy too.
I am not getting vaccinated, because I've analyzed that my odds of dying of Covid-19 at my age and health are less than my odds of dying in a car wreck. And I'm comfortable with that risk as opposed to the unknown long-term risks of RNA therapy.
While I get your sentiment and even agree on the airbag part of it, we also don't have a staging environment in that sense. Talking SaaS here.

Instead, every developer actually has a full clone of the production environment with all services running while developing. By default only one pod is started for each service (talking Kubernetes here) but if you think it warrants it for what you're currently working on, start a second copy of the pod and see it in action.

QA also tests the same way, i.e. they have their own copy of the production cluster that they deploy the branch they're testing onto.

Once stuff goes to master, we automatically do a 'sanity deploy' to a separate cluster just to make sure that the deployment to prod itself is likely to succeed. Nobody ever tests anything on this cluster though. Nobody tests master after stuff is merged. It's literally just a "yes, CD scripts still work" type of thing. And then it goes out to Prod.
Thank you for the feedback.

Interestingly enough I did have a free option before.

As you pointed out, the feature set in the free version felt so limiting and it added a lot of complexity in the application itself as well that I decided to get rid of it. There is also the school of thought about how paying customers are important to validate the idea compared to customers not paying.

I hesitated a while on the duration of the free trial period and you're right 14 days is probably too short to really evaluate a budgeting solution. A budget takes time tailoring anyway.

Pricing was mostly done based on competition, it's difficult to gauge the actual cost per user without any users other than myself. I'm forecasting the main cost to be on Plaid (though right now that'd be for US and CA only)

Out of curiosity, do you use a self-hosted or desktop personal finance solution? If so which one?

This is definitely something I loved about desktop YNAB.
This page is a good example of everything I dislike about modern Linux desktop developers: https://stopthemingmy.app/
That's a moot point: the actual issue is we know he doesn't have the freedom to say whatever may be on his mind.
OpenBSD ships it by default, with Pledge support.
A CQRS/DDD/Liveview/Elm-Architecture Chatroom
A very fast chat app written i phoenix liveview using the CQRS pattern.
Blog: https://stadler.no/live_chat
It's all pretty sweet everywhere I've been so far, I just don't really prefer the beach for work/heat/distraction reasons, but I do visit whenever I can take a day or two off. There isn't really anywhere I wouldn't recommend outside of the Limon/Moin port area (I don't know any good port towns in the caribe, to be honest, too much drug traffic drama)... just keep in mind the further from the city you stray the further from good internet you're getting with the exception of certain places... Puerto Viejo, it's pretty far off for example but they're well connected enough
Which western doctors were arrested for raising awareness about covid?
I was thinking the exact same thing.

I don't have an MBA myself but I've been asked to write a number of recommendation letters to business school over the years.

https://teach.com/resources/how-to-get-into-business-school/

It seems in general one needs a degree, a passing GMAT, 2-3 years experience and a recommendation letter.

But then again, maybe successfully gaming the entrance to business school is how one demonstrates they're ready for a leadership position in the business world... Just kidding. Kinda ;)
Yes. I build wooden boats. A neighbor is seemingly obsessed with the notion that I could start a business selling them. And I can think of no faster or more effective way to ruin boat-building for me.
Not to mention terms that do come from a general programming paradigm, but have a very narrow practical / framework-specific use within frontend dev that makes it even harder for beginners (e.g. "thunk" might be a general term, but I bet most people googling it are just trying to get some Redux tutorial to work, and will end up going down dozens of rabbit holes trying to understand the general concept)

I really hate to think how many collective hours have been wasted on new coders who learn JavaScript as their first language --- especially when starting with React and Redux, as it's often taught --- and end up spending most of their time spinning their wheels on these domain-specific complexities, when they haven't even gotten to "while loops" yet. This may even be harder for beginners than understanding, say, one of the classic CS sorting algorithms. New coders don't realize though that whatever degree this stuff is harder, it's a sign of bad tooling or documentation, not that it's somehow intrinsically a harder problem in math / CS, since if you're new you don't know what to expect
You should learn the best possible tool available at the moment to do the job. There are better frameworks that will make you more productive.
This is a weird one. There does seem to be evidence in support of the variation hypothesis, but merely mentioning its existence while not being a woman is enough to get you sacked.

The thing I don't get about that, or at least I obviously do get it but it lead to think, surely if you were hiring in volume you might be better off hiring women anyway since you can more precisely know what kind of candidates you want to hire?
Some of the spelling errors were common in his messages, especially “paradice”.
> On the other hand, Stallman has called for the killing of babies with Down Syndrome.

Would you mind providing a citation on this? Because I have yet to really read about it anywhere else.

EDIT: Ah, so it was a rather uncharitable interpretation on his views on abortion [0]. Again, a symptom of someone with zero social awareness and I'm sure it'd be thought to be beyond the pale for some people, but far from a genocidal maniac.

[0] https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#31_October_2...
They might also be more likely to realize that they have a problem in the first place. Medicine depends on patients having complaints after all.
According to them, its just "cute"
I'm pretty sure "psychological disorders" map a lot more to being abnormal than smart specifically. It's really hard to cope when you aren't getting that social hit that comes from belongingness.
So why did he disappear? We don’t know. Let’s ask some people who don’t know either. Maybe they can speculate. Let’s hear what they want to say: He wanted some time off. Communism is bad.
An albatross isn't likely to drop out of a fir and fly off in a huff while I'm figuring out why the chickens are seriously unhappy.

Also, semi off topic -- Great horned owls like using inflatable pools as bird baths.
Just noticed it's L, like /Lrlourpresident (because the I account got banned).

And look at the submissions, and the vote count of submissions. I do not have the comments I read several weeks ago available, but in my many years on reddit, I have no doubt there is clear vote manipulation occurring.

inb4 "those are different things", I know.
> compared to some other language where a lot of scripts needed a fair amount of touch up when the language had a lot of breaking changes.

Python, I am looking at you!
This only gives more credence to the fact that Republicans are actually not fiscally responsible at all. Only after Reagan did the era of responsibility end, https://zfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-04-30-Nat...
Does anyone have suggestions for this post? I write optimistic hopeful pieces like this a lot, that espouse positive virtues, and so often they end up downvoted, sometimes heavily. It feels like such an alien hostile force is out there, dark negative forces silently bringing only downvotes out from the dark forest. A silent world that doesn't have any positive values, that rejects cooperation & positivity. How can I make these words less disagreeable? Or are my grim assessment perhaps too real?

It just feels so cheap, that negativity is so free, that snark is just seems overflowing in most comments, and that's what seems to attract support. Like the case here, I want to see a more open, unlimited mentality. Instead it just feels like everyone's looking for fuel to burn.
Worth what? It takes like an hour or so and there are different types, WAIS, Stanford-Binet. You learn your IQ, then go home and do your laundry.
I dropped coffee about two weeks ago, but still drink about a pot of (flavored) decaf a day. Maybe you could get the same mental benefits from the warmth + taste?
If your intent wasn’t to start a political flame war, what is the insight you’re providing here?

Every animal needs to survive and will do anything to get by including scavenging. That’s nature. At this very moment, millions of things are getting eaten alive. Welcome to the brutality of Mother Nature.

It’s not very charitable to say something deeply provocative and putting a note to defend. It only reflects your prejudice.
I am not convinced that the texture fingerprint is robust enough to remain unchanged once the note goes out into the world and is circulated for a while. Notes would start to be rejected as not matching the factory fingerprint just from normal wear.
No need to walk back your comment! I'm glad you had a positive experience, and didn't mean the "insecure" thing as an attack.

I guess it feels weird to me because according to the scores page, I could join this club, but my brother would be excluded. We could both join a chess club.
High pay does not imply that you live in a large house with ample space for an office even if you can afford it. Someone living in a $1M+ condo in an urban high-rise for the lifestyle is unlikely to have space for an office if they did not plan on needing one when they bought it. Most people aren't in the habit of spending lots of money on things they don't plan on using. Even if you wanted to move to a larger house since COVID means you now need an office, in many regions there is no housing available to buy.

I don't have a home office either and no one would confuse me with being poor. Until COVID, I had no use for one.
KDE was never my cup of tea - it more configurable than Gnome but I always liked the Gnome look (well 3.0 that is, 2.0 wasn't that attractive to me).

Nowdays I need to develop stuff that deploys to iOS so I'm kind of stuck on a mac.
Of course, don't go cold turkey, that's just stupid. You're taking a vasoconstrictor (something that makes blood vessels narrower), which results in a widening of the blood vessels as a compensation. If the vasoconstriction disappears suddenly then your vessels become too wide suddenly (this is what causes the headaches as far as I understand it). If you ease off slowly the compensation will also reduce slowly.
Between the two extremes mentioned there is the engine of the global economy. That's where we are.
> "Not only is a company responsible to do what the party demands, but they also can't admit to doing that if they're asked."
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> But others have suggested it is unfair to judge China's tech giants on the same basis as those from developed countries.

I found the ending of the article delightful. First, because the US has secret warrants for IT companies too, so hearing this out loud wouldn't really be a big surprise. Second, because China still pretends to be an "undeveloped" country? Come on! How long can this card be played.
Wow, that's an amazing resource. Thanks for posting it.
why not.

that said reports in general are between like 1% and 10% of the total abuse so i'm not sure how significant it is
>Apple is certainly incentivized as it'd allow them to continue the narrative that their own SOCs are superior to anything else on the market.

Hasn't this narrative been largely shaped around performance impact on customer experiences?

Recall the announcement video which was decried as "marketing hype" by some tech voices prior to release.

If so, M2/M1X should be able to continue this narrative on a performance basis alone regardless of whether they make the jump to 3nm.