skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it necessary to use a worker for the timer? If you just record the start time, then inconsistent setTimeout calls aren't a problem because each call calculates the duration from start time to current time. Or am I missing something?
I joined Mensa many years ago.

I'm indeed a bit insecure about my intelligence. But when I took the test I was actually surfing an overconfidence wave, getting extremely positive feedback on my first job and being considered a prodigy -- it turned out that I was suffering from a very bad case of illusion of competence and my coworkers weren't particularly strong on electronics. Well, but I didn't know that by then.

It turns out that, now looking back, I realize I sought Mensa because I was feeling extremely alone. I was always thinking or working on something alone, since my teenagehood, and I was getting tired, despite the admiration I sporadically sparked.

Unfortunately Mensa didn't help on that. I really disliked the experience. The people, its goals, everything. The only piece of advice I got regarding my loneliness issue happened right after I delivered my test to the psychotherapist. She only said that I should try to find friends regardless of their IQs, because life isn't only about that.

She was right.
Deploy Explainable AI with ONNX Runtime
Probably a hundred hours per course. Plus time to market and whatnot - I work on OSS a lot so I have somewhat of a pre existing funnel. Overall I probably make around 20/h? Not a ton but I really enjoy it!
> All banks I know of in my country require you to install an invasive "security software"

Is this meant to be taken literally? I would be surprised if e.g. mBank didn't work with SMS as the sole enabled 2FA.

Personally, I would rather have an extra Android phone for cases like this, as well as for the times when one has to make an actual phone call, though. I wouldn't expect the call quality on the pinephone to be anything to write home about, even if the software was all mature already.
As superpower mascots go, I think the eagle turned out to be pretty much perfect. Large, powerful, masters of their environment, noble from a distance. Up close, intelligent, optimally utilizing resources through scavenging, leaving nothing to waste and who love the opportunity to provide to their young ones and benefit other creatures through symbiosis.

One can spin it whatever which way.
Bodies: Alice Roberts traces how knowledge of anatomy has grown and changed
I should develop some physical ailments to become smarter.
Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia
That feeling is the same thing with railcar shortages. They are super easy to produce. But no one wants to be stuck with them if there is a glut, only a few manufacturers of railcars and they don't scale like servers. They make a normal amount of railcars, and when they need more they can make what 10-20% more? And then since they are "easy" to produce they still might take weeks to months to finish because of parts they rely on all being strained as well.
Is there a source code or more details? Does it connect to SIP or PSTN gatewaY?
> people insecure enough to join an IQ-restricted club

I don't understand this sentiment. There are race/ethnicity-restricted clubs, men-only clubs, athletic clubs, equestrian clubs, farmers clubs, car ownership clubs. However, when it's about IQ (something which you say you hold in disdain), suddenly out come the insults. Insecure nerds, right? They only have their insignificant test scores, they must be a despicable lot!

Did you ever stop to consider that people might be seeking something different, that this is their attempt at finding other people with similar interests? There is nothing wrong with one valuing their own high IQ test score.

Disclaimer: I have never taken an IQ test, but if I did I probably wouldn't get into Mensa, extrapolating from previous test scores and grades.
The author's name is Blake, but AFAICT this has no relationship with the crypto hash algo BLAKE/BLAKE2 (by Aumasson, Neves, Henzen, et al).
Obscurity can be a valid layer in a multilayered defense.
Paper: The Unavoidable Interface
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di-yRj6TIK8
India looks to Africa to meet oil and gas need, to slash middle east supply
I think that isn't entirely correct. MS Teams was built separately from the Lync/Skype for business app AFAIK.
never roll your own crypto, but sometimes maybe ....?
People clear caffeine at different rates, which has some impact on quitting stories.

I drink like 50 fluid ounces of strong black coffee a day and don't really have a problem on days I drink a lot less. One thing I do is avoid consuming significant amounts of caffeine after noon. That way it's a normal thing for my body to have cleared most of the caffeine.

Do you drink the 3 cups throughout the day?
That's where the supply shortage comes in. If lots of people have money but there's excess capacity in the market, nobody will raise prices because the firm that doesn't ramps up capacity and captures the excess market share. If lots of people have money but there's a supply shortage, the firm that refuses to raise prices lacks the excess capacity to capitalize on their consumer demand, and fails to gain market share.
they've known of this for a long time. The logistics folks have data for very accurate predictions:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/inside-californias-colossa...

(from a few months ago)
Do such allegations really hold any real water to achieve political ends?

I find that every time I read about such matters, it is from some Anglo-Saxon place where emotions about such matters seem to run high.

I cannot think of any Dutch occurrence of someone being dismissed from a party alleging any gender discrimination, and I would to what extent such arguments are truly something that sways the Anglo-Saxon, because every time I see them made, publicly or privately, they seem to be coming from an Anglo-Saxon source, in particular the U.S.A., but the U.K. is not very far behind.

But perhaps, it is simply a function of district-based politics where one votes for the man, rather than the party, so the personal life and identity of politicians takes a far grander scale than in other systems.
Any way to get it to run Windows applications. Would it be possible to build something like that
Time for Open Source Tractors.
> In 2020 people didnt really have a choice and many had kids at home. That is not a normal WFH situation for many.

Similarly, people who homeschool their kids often remind others that having your kids at home learning remotely because the school is closed, is not the same as the usual homeschooling. (And similarly, many of them hope that current experience will make more people consider homeschooling as an option.)
I submit that we should test this to discover whether there is any real benefit to fresh toast in space besides the obvious vehicle for delivery of peanut butter and jam.

Based solely on the name, which conjures images of the origin of the radiation that we propose to study and potentially to reduce, I propose that we should use this toaster:

http://automaticbeyondbelief.org/
1) I don't think that the term "retard" is a constructive way to refer to people of IQ 70 or lower (or anyone, really).

2) Everyone I have ever met is, in some field or other, and in some kind of thinking, really dumb. Some people are low intelligence in everything, but I've never met anyone who was smart at every kind of thinking.

3) When dealing with, say, people who know way less about computer programming than I do, I don't feel depressed. I may find that certain topics of conversation aren't going to work, and thus want to find another group for those conversations (perhaps HN), but if you cannot find some constructive and rewarding way of interacting with people who have a different IQ than you, that is a problem you should (and can) work on.
Been doing a few interviews recently and the narrative I’m hearing is different. Most companies want to go back to the office because of “company culture”, and are very happy I’m still in the Bay Area. Personally I miss going to the office and seeing my coworkers and friends in person. If WFH works for you that’s fine, but it’s not for everyone.
I've used https://www.freecodecamp.org to refresh on a few subjects and pick up some new tech that I needed. They also have coding challenges and interview prep.

You might also want to start hanging out at meetups - many are virtual now. When user groups open in-person again, they're a great way to meet other devs and pick up work.
Do you need social logins? If not (and you just want email/password login) then implement it yourself. Auth isn't hard, and Firebase Auth doesn't provide you much in terms of managing roles/permissions or anything like that.
That makes me want to crash a meeting wearing some nonsensical number like 500 and challenge anyone who questioned it to a "battle of wits".
Not Perl's - or any other programming language's - problem if a company doesn't know how to do their stuff.
I agree, configuration can and will be different. Just like I mentioned for example, we don't run the same number of replicas as Prod either etc.

The staging environment or any other kinds of testing environments will also have the same issues of differing configuration. Always. So there's really no difference there.

Since you mention credit cards, I don't know which PSPs you've dealt with, but there's a bunch out there, where you do _not_ get a separate URL for their test/staging environment. If you're lucky, you get test credentials and if you're not, then all you get is "To make a failed test transaction use 4111 1111 1111 111, any CVV, to make a successful test transaction, use same card with CVV 123". And these same PSPs tell you about PCI compliance and such.
Something along those lines, yes. Mirror/archive/caching obviously requires setup and maintenance.

Vendoring gems works well if you (and coworkers) develop and deploy on the same platform.

A minimal approach might be to keep local copies/clones of all gems. If things blow up, you can always build and vendor any missing dependencies, and then redeploy. You'd need to keep a local environment available that matches your deployment env, for building native gems.

GitHub and RubyGems are very reliable, although of course not 100%. It's more common (but still rare!) that an individial gem owner will do something odd, or remove an artifact. Often, you can wait the issue out, or spend a few hours constructing a workaround.

But sometimes you cannot wait. And sometimes you don't get the chance to decide -- your deployed and running code will suddenly fail because an application in AWS or GCE needs to scale up with new instances, or your existing instances auto-update, or otherwise replace themselves.

If that would be a serious problem, it makes sense to invest time into reducing third-party deployment dependencies.
"I decided to take an I.Q. test administered by Mensa, the organization of geniuses. If you score in the top 2% of people who take that same test, you get to call yourself a “genius” and optionally join the group. I squeaked in and immediately joined so I could hang out with the other geniuses and do genius things. I even volunteered to host some meetings at my apartment.

Then, the horror.

It turns out that the people who join Mensa and attend meetings are, on average, not successful titans of industry. They are instead – and I say this with great affection – huge losers. I was making $735 per month and I was like frickin’ Goldfinger in this crowd. We had a guy who was some sort of poet who hoped to one day start “writing some of them down.” We had people who were literally too smart to hold a job. The rest of the group dressed too much like street people to ever get past security for a job interview. And everyone was always available for meetings on weekend nights."

Scott Adams

https://woodrow.typepad.com/the_ponderings_of_woodrow/2006/1...
That’s what programmers tend to do. Inception :-). Abstraction over virtualization over abstraction over virtualization etc.

And still there are root exploits that are about to go all the way back up

I like react-native, as in the architecture (nativescript has a better bridge). Unfortunately it’s JavaScript. I guess we’ll have to deal with it another 40 years min.
The article mentions other chemicals:

> Families living closer to fracking wells also had higher levels of chemicals, such as 1,2,3-trimethylbenzene, 2-heptanone and naphthalene, than families living further away.
I liked Anathem and Reamde. DODO was ok, although it leaves you hanging a bit and apparently the sequel is even worse from that point of view, from the reviews.
Someone who has high IQ and depressed, may still perform poorly at school. This can also be a vicious cycle. High IQ alone isn't sufficient for educational attainment, it's not even particularly necessary in most fields: for most people education is a matter of hard work and rote learning.
Buy caffiene pills (Caffiene only nodoz or equivalent) and wean yourself off by lowering your dosage down over a few weeks (“titrate yourself off”). Breaking the pills into smaller amounts during the last week is annoying, but the technique prevents headaches and other symptoms.

And beware that some bags of coffee beans have residual amounts of pesticides/fungicides etcetera which is possibly a cause of your problem. I sometimes get a mild allergic reaction to a coffee supplier, so I have to change suppliers until I find one I am not allergic to. I am pretty sure it is pesticides or another treatment... I am a fairly scientific person who loathes unscientific hypochondriacs: I have reasons to believe it is something in the beans and prior experiences suggest a treatment product.
American/Canadian Propaganda – A Xinjiang “Genocide” Panel
I think we probably do disagree to some degree here. In particular, Stripe was actually my next choice as an example of how not to do transparent value-based pricing, precisely because its pricing used to be simple and clearly tied to the value in processing a transaction, but over time it has drifted away from that into something that I (running a long-time Stripe merchant) don't find natural or easy to remember.

Stripe now seems to have several distinct services, each with their own pricing. It's moved some functionality that used to be inclusive into those other services at extra charge. It's grandfathered, but not forever, some customers on different rates and different functionality shifts. It's stopped waiving some fees in cases of reversed transactions. There are different possible fees for international payments depending on locations, on top of any currency conversion fees and exchange rates. I could no longer tell you, without looking things up, what we're paying to Stripe for any given transaction now or how much of it Stripe would keep if for example we later decided to refund that transaction.

I do know that the added complexity has resulted in higher overall fees for us, and that has certainly had a deterrent effect within my own businesses and professional network. For example, while it wasn't the only factor in our decision, my new business has looked elsewhere for payment processing. A few years ago, all of the founders would probably have just assumed by default that we'd use Stripe, because we'd all had generally positive experiences with it before.
Word. Even their 00’s releases are among some of my favorites.

The GGP post stating that we’re somehow in an ebb-tide of synth programming quality and musicality probably doesn’t have much of an ear to what’s being created.
> China hasn't been communist for a long time

This shows how wrong people can get about China. It's easy to label a country with things like "communism" or "socialism" or what not, but it's not the reality. Can people own private property in China? Check. Can people start a company under the rule of law? Check. Do private enterprises compete with state-owned? Check. Do private enterprises win in market? Check. Do companies resolve their conflicts via rules of law? Check. Does government, to a large degree (how large is arguable), rely on market to allocate resources? Check. Does government enforce ration? Nope. Does the government plan all the economic activities in a centralized fashion? Not any more. Does the government mandate a specific way of allocating wealth? Not any more. Does the government insist that the state or the people own everything? Nope. Does the government limit the freedom of its citizens to move around? Yes and no. One can choose where to live and work, but those with a Hukou will have much better benefits. Is China a totalitarian state? Most likely. Is it a communist country NOW? You've gotta be joking.
Or, in my experience, node.

(Although it wasn't "perfectly functioning" Perl code but whilst it was an abhorrent mess internally, the actual problems were largely caused by the database parts - awful schema, bad server setups, godawful queries from an insane home-grown ORM, etc., which could all have been fixed in a couple of months.)
They just claim it's broken.
This looks amazing. Thank you.

I've found an error.

In Chapter 6, Section 3 (Introduction) you say, "In a previous chapter, we covered decimal and binary notation." but those topics aren't covered until Chapter 7 :)
You can work out that your 25 minute timer actually took 30 minutes this way, but you can't fix it to make it actually take 25 minutes.
Wow he really said that. Kinda stupid if you ask me, people may take it personally. This is why when you mean "We need a more distributed supply chain" you say "we need a more distributed supply chain" and don't single out a geoethnic region.
This just seems like Intel's version of Amazon's AWS.

"Hey we have a world class [whatever] over here. Wonder if we can sell it to the world as well as using it for our business?"
I'm afraid of "partial" WFH meaning that I have a schedule opposite others, and there are many people I simply never see.

I tend to be a fairly black-and-white thinker, so it's easier to envision 100% office or 100% WFH, and harder to get my head around a mixed arrangement. Particularly if that mixed arrangement means I don't have my 'own' desk and equipment in the office.

That said, even though I've done WFH in bits and pieces here and there, I've enjoyed WFH this past year a lot more than I thought I would. I'm thinking of my post-Covid schedule being in the office tues-thurs, so that I still have a consistent block of time where I'm going in "every day" for a few days, rather than every other day.
First image of a black hole gets update that sheds light on magnetic fields
I come to HN for responses like these.
> But others have suggested it is unfair to judge China's tech giants on the same basis as those from developed countries.

This is incredibly out of touch. How is China not part of the 'developed' countries? Some people seem to think we are still in 2010.
Which, is basically what you would expect a CEO of a western country if the business deal they spent years on failed. China is at fault for it failing, but this reaction is common anywhere.
Ruby gem mimemagic licensing issue causing all Rails app deployments to fail
People mostly get by on heuristics.
It's practical to call the collective states with joint borders. For example, "Lower 48 shipping" on Amazon is different rate.
Setting up a Pi for remote Internet connection monitoring
Especially because they gave us long timeframes (my Silicon Valley company announced "no return to office requirement until September 2021" last summer sometime) in order to give us all the ability to make longer-term plans, rather than always wondering "Will it be this month?
That's of course true, universally, across the globe, for anyone who had similar status.

Oh, except, of course, none other, the Elon Musk...
> Besides talk about how you are in MENSA?

I was in an ultra-high IQ society called The Thousand. Not because my IQ is in the 99.9%, but because they weren't smart enough to figure out how to password protect their Ning group.

There was very little content, and the average poster was probably less intelligent than the average HN poster.
Where do you see that? I tried hitting cmd+s in Safari, Terminal, and Pages and got a normal macOS file-save dialog in all three cases. Looks more or less the same as it has for quite a while. I haven't touched anything related to file save settings (I probably should, as I'd like the arrow-down-to-browse-files to always be expanded, and I know there's a setting for that somewhere, just haven't bothered to yet).
I would imagine the only time it is important to stop a counterfeit bill is the first time its used, right? If the goal is to stop people from counterfeiting, at least.
If you do this, it'd be great to have a way to select the 'mode' of search (exact query vs 'smart' terms). I'm not sure what the user interface ought to be, but "literally" "anything" "would" "be" "better" than the contortions you have to go through to force search engines to search for the terms you've actually provided.

Great job so far, by the way, keep up the good work!
This article reeks of "Reefer Madness" - it would be much better if the author could have written more careful prose, but I guess 90 years of federal prohibition leaves only old cliches.

The article probably has some points, sucking hot smoke into one's lungs can't be that good for you, but I'll bet this is the sole and only topic where they claim regulatory capture is bad, or even exists.
It's against HN's rules to have friends/fans/teammates upvote your submission or post booster comments. We ban accounts and sites that do this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Yes, and they wind up working alone because they don't have the patience to explain to people who take too long to understand what they are trying to do. That behavior gets interpreted as self-centeredness and lack of team spirit, leading to loneliness and a more or less self-imposed banishment.
Resentful employee deletes 1,200 Microsoft Office 365 accounts, gets prison
There are already so many documentaries on Zodiac. It's probably my favorite case because of the ciphers and letters. Unfortunately I'm not sure we'll ever catch him. I personally believe it was likely Arthur Leigh Allen, but it's also possible that he was just a fanboy and loved the attention of people thinking he was The Zodiac.
"hiking the Great Wall" might be more regionally appropriate.
No interest group or club that I've belonged to has ever stuck only to that topic in discussion.
Most Gnome developers, I suppose, are on RedHat payroll and are not teenage.

They are busy working on various things, this is certain, and these things are apparently more important for them. Like, well, GTK4.

I suppose most Red Hat customers are corporate, and when they ask for featureful Linux desktop, they likely mean playing nice with corporate systems. This is why Evince is such a good PDF viewer, compared to a lot of others; it can even fill in forms. This is why the file chooser without image preview is fine as is for corporate use, because I suppose that 0% of graphic designers choose a Linux machine in a corporate setting.
I tapered off of energy drinks at the beginning of the pandemic (I didn't want to be dependent on them, just in case). I simply drank 1 fluid ounce (about 28g by weight) less per day until it was 0. I'm sure I could have cut down faster, but I didn't need to and it was easy enough that way.

Speaking of Excedrin, I chatted with a doctor online once, and he said he knew of people who were addicted to Excedrin and it was dangerous (presumably because of the acetaminophen, which can kill you if overdone) and people should throw it away. I can see his point since that medicine combines an addictive drug (caffeine) with a dangerous one. Probably a fringe opinion, but thought that was interesting.