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Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?
I have doubts about my intelligence. I'm trying to get a Data Science internship and had several interviews. All of them were on combinatorics/algorithms, and I failed them, though they were relatively simple. I’ve always been bad at this kind of stuff: I have trouble focusing, especially paying attention to details. I also forget things all the time

I’m a 3rd-year student at a university which is considered prestigious here (Russia), but getting in was rather because of my high conscientiousness, not intelligence. I’ve always been average academically, but when needed, simply outworked everybody and got decent grades. It doesn’t seem to work this time. In my country, there aren’t many DS internships, so if I fail a few more interviews, not sure if I can find new opportunities soon. It makes me sad, as I have to find a job for this summer

Recent average grades at uni/failed interviews in combination with all above made me seriously question my intelligence. There is no Mensa club in my country, but I tried to find reliable IQ tests online: got 86 and 135 on two different ones, have no idea what to make of it. My degree is in economics/mathematics, but I’ve been programming since 16, so I thought DS would suit me as a combination of both. In general, I just really love building stuff with my hands (got some personal projects which employers liked), and making smth with ML seemed cool

Is there a way to tell if I’m simply not smart enough for this? It’s not just about interview questions: I genuinely feel I’m thinking too slow in general, always felt. Should I try to move to other fields? I’d be glad to find any other technical internship, at least for now, but I have no CS degree which is a requirement for them.

I would welcome any advice because the situation kind of depresses me
Not on every piece of clothing you sell.
Hi jrrr! I am co-developer of PaperTerm- I agree it is very niche right now. The Pomera DM30 is a distraction free typewriter- it is relatively new (there is also much older options like the AlphaSmart Neo2)- I hope to develop something similar to that with a laptop and some more office apps. I also research solar power managers, as the low power is definitely feasible with e-ink.
Your proposal structure should be tuned to the project.

Fixed fee is great for clients with experience paying for the type of work you do and who want you to stay in business.

Time and materials is worth considering for any other situation. Inexperienced, lowest cost seeking, and/or I-win-you-lose.

The big thing is not how you charge, but whether or not you are paid. The clients for new companies is generally "a market for lemons." Existing service providers hold on to good clients. Good clients hold on to existing service providers. That's what makes them good clients.

The first phase of your business is finding client relationships. Your great clients will be those who you help grow their business. And that will take time. Good luck.
My rule of thumb is basically just to exclude from the dryer anything stretchy, slippery, knitted, or lacy. With that stuff hung to dry, what’s left is all the plain cotton shirts and jeans that can take whatever you throw at them.
> I cannot be convinced a multi-national mega-corp is ignorant of US labor and the challenges in the US labor market.

Especially one that is a specialist in harvesting laborers from all corners of the world. I can only imagine selecting the right labor force has to be their main competences.
https://archive.is/XQ9Jn
Human Kubernetes == System Admin. It's already there.

But yeah, it could be a fancy new word for VC haha.
Reminds me of the Greek island of blind where 10% of population claimed blindness benefits

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0430/Greek-islan...
$ echo "test" > /dev/null && echo !$
/dev/null
$ echo "test" > /dev/null && echo $_
test
Any women who still have to wear business attire interested in a similar approach should check out MM LaFleur. Well-designed, machine washable staple pieces at a (mostly) reasonable price. IIRC the company was founded by a young French woman who used to work in consulting and knows the pain of constantly needing to dry clean your clothes.

https://mmlafleur.com/
Sure. Make working for a living completely optional and then legalize prostitution.
Fantastic! I played with it some and I'm really impressed. Thanks for not requiring an account. What do you plan to do with it next?
Apart from the guidelines wrt "intellectual curiosity" pointed to you elsewhere, perhaps you can grant her admission for discussion as:

She is the founder of Colta, the only independent crowd-funded source of information in Russia. The high-traffic online publication has been called a Russian Huffington Post in format and style, and has also been compared to The New York Review of Books for the scope and depth of its long essays.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mad-russia-hurt-me-into-...

The website is also mentioned in the OP article.
DBHub – SQLite Storage “In the Cloud”
The current revision, V3, was published in 2013.
Hi, I'm the project lead of MNT Reform, an open hardware laptop that just started shipping (link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform)!

We would be interested in an e-Ink experiment. During the initial prototyping this was one of the options we considered, but back then it would have been prohibitively expensive and we decided to focus on an IPS display and to get to ship a viable product as quickly as possible -- with a tiny team.

Adapting an e-Ink display to MNT Reform would mostly be about designing/adapting the screen housing and introducing a signal path to an e-Ink driver: options could be MIPI-DSI, eDP, USB, or SPI, for example.

Edit: My email is lukas@mntre.com if you want to get in touch directly. We also have a community over here: https://community.mnt.re/
Superscripts are a typesetting concern, not an encoding concern.
> Outsource tedious, repetitive and boring work to our workforce in just a couple of clicks.

This is exactly how you create an environment that is just asking for regulation and rightly so if you show such disregard for other people.

Explicitly treating human laborers in more-or-less the same way you treat a machine is unethical design as well as being an ugly and harmful philosophy. You are literally building a system that enables dehumanizing labor. Is this the kind of future you're happy being a part of building?
I think this is why the PDF is actually the "Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge". It's not a representation of the complete body of knowledge itself, but extracting key concepts and terms and provides pointers to things that are most relevant. If things are irrelevant or disproven over time, the guide to the body of knowledge would remove those terms, concepts, or references and point to something else.
I can certainly see other reasons to not run the dryer so hot, but why would it waste energy?
I think for x > 1 "x-fold" is clearer. "Ten times bigger" sounds simpler to me than "1000% growth".
Your personal experience has absolutely zero impact on the value of this article. The "it doesn't exist because i never experienced it" mindset is a dangerous one.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bindable-... is a must read.
This is the `yank-last-arg` readline comment. Bound to M-. and M-_ by default.

"Insert last argument to the previous command (the last word of the previous history entry). With a numeric argument, behave exactly like yank-nth-arg. Successive calls to yank-last-arg move back through the history list, inserting the last word (or the word specified by the argument to the first call) of each line in turn."

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#IDX9...

Its sibling is `yank-nth-arg`, bound to M-C-y. So if you want the 2nd argument from the last command, you can press M-1 followed by M-C-y (yeah, arguments are indexed from 0)...

https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#IDX9...
There are multiple reasons why:

1) You may have been given a fine erroneously that the data would prove you shouldn't have been given.

2) Financial records have to be kept for several years in most countries. Details of the transaction would form part of this.

3) The terms and conditions say they'll do it.
This is known to be kind of true. At least some part of the body remembers the pain. And it can have some long lasting effects (chronic pain, or stress). That's why nowadays during many surgeries they try to suppress the pain as much as possible locally.

So if you get surgery on your leg, it is best if you have additional anaesthesia or pain killers working in this particular leg. So you wouldn't feel all the pain even without general anaesthesia.
I think this is absolutely it. A lot of best practices go down the drain when the compiler compiles the bytecode. As such a lot of best practices are about people, not the computer. APIs can be just as stable behind a network or a library, but way more people are onboard with never break your APIs than they are never break your function.
It depends on how important it is to the stakeholders.

Anything that generates enough emotion to cause a flamewar isn't going to have intelligent, civilised discussion, so then you have to decide:

- As the platform owner, do you want flamewars on your site?

- As a participant, do you want to engage in fruitless, emotionally charged discussion that will inevitably go nowhere because of human nature?

- Or is the topic too important to ignore?

On HN, for example, dang has already made it clear that flamewars will be buried regardless of topic. I can respect that sort of compromise as a defence against the nastier parts of human nature in order to keep the site a step above 4chan and reddit, even if it's not the ideal of fairness.
Google keeps saying that Kubernetes is a real world, κυβερνήτης, Greek for "helmsman" or "pilot" or "governor"[0][1], but its predecessor was called Borg, so in my mind, the true meaning of "Kubernetes" was always "a network of (Borg) cubes".

This way, I've already seen on TV what "Human Kubernetes" looks like. Resistance is futile.

--

[0] - Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes#History.

[1] - Curiously, it's also the etymological root of cybernetics; cybernetics -> cyborg -> the Borg.
Current state, I would have to figure out what to type into google to see what some symbol like ⧇ or △ means in laundry terms. Either better symbols I don't have to google, or text in a language that I don't speak...but can figure out. The ones with temperatures don't even have a degree mark.
Or you know, just hang everything out.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/hackers-are-exploiti...
Thank you.

Question for legal experts,

Hypothetically if these patches were accepted and was exploited in the wild; If one could prove that they were exploited due to the vulnerabilities caused by these patches can the University/ Prof. be sued for damages and won in an U.S. court (or) Would they get away under Education/Research/Academia cover if any?
Nic Carter, a bitcoiner, had some interesting points about Bitcoin's energy consumption on Lex Fridman's podcast (EP. #173)

He suggests that most of the energy Bitcoin consumes generally comes from places that consistently produce an excess of energy that otherwise goes to waste. Miners, seeking to maximize profit, gravitate to areas where energy is cheap because supply > demand. I'm not sure what percentage of the energy could be considered "excess."

His other point was that the discussion of Bitcoin's energy consumption should be framed in the context of how much value it brings to the global community. Expecting a valuable global decentralized asset to be entirely without energy costs is unrealistic, it's just a matter of how much energy is feasible. Depending on how valuable Bitcoin is deemed to be, consuming the same amount of electricity as a small country might be justified in the short term, but should clearly be addressed in mid term.
Do you actually need to confirm the entire history in order to publish transactions? You've already got the result of hashing everything right up at the head of the chain.
or
man bash
/Readline Command Names<Enter>
Show HN: Connect easily with your friends based on the books you read
That's a good point, what is the first adressable market for such a product to gain first momentum before it can become mainstream. Those seem to be low hanging fruits:

-Writers
-Coders/Terminal Users like sysadmins
-DIY/Hardware Hackers/Raspberry PI/ESP32/Cyberdeck folks
-Productivity Hackers
-Health Tech folks
-Gadget Lovers
-Limited Functionality Devices for Education
-Folks with medical pre-conditions who need to use eink (e.g. https://dasung-tech.myshopify.com/blogs/news/how-dasungs-e-i...)

I think there is a market, I am just surprised that we take usual monitor like eye-strain as well as the blue light for granted and haven't done anything against it for years. Even though we are having more display usage than ever.
My dryer seems to only have one setting, "hot af so be careful what you put in here."
Haha, yes, this is a good tip!
> Thanks for the support.

THANK YOU! After reading the email chain, I have a much greater appreciation for the work you do for the community!
I wonder what the purpose is of adding more and more symbols to a standard that was originally intended to represent texts in written languages. It almost feels like it is the easy part of 'improving' the standard: Adding more symbols, while at the same time there are still many problems with missing characters for existing character sets. https://www.w3.org/International/articles/missing-char-glyph...
Aren’t your container layers compressed in transit anyway?
I quit after a team meeting where my boss completely undermined my competence. I wanted one dev to consider something which would made his work massively reusable for us, but my boss had other ideas and justified his decision by saying "it's his money and not mine".

I had three months notice period where I handed over all my stuff. Initially we agreed that I will work until my last day and get remaining vacation days paid out. But after about 4 weeks I received a letter from HR asking me to use up my remaining vacation days which meant that I had to clear mybdesk within a couple of days.

What makes the whole thing worse is that during my vacation I was legally not allowed to start another job, and one month after my last official workday the global pandemic started.
In Belgium at least the colour of crosses has a meaning: green for pharmacies, red for doctors and blue for veterinarians.

In France I've only really seen the green one for pharmacies but maybe I didn't pay attention.
Ok, something like 13 GB of my 15 GB Google Storage is from gmail, but I might be an unusual case. This app may be really helpful for someone on a chromebook.
Adding my voice to this. It would be an amazing tool for web work -- the vectorized images look far better than the very small jpeg images used in lazy loading today.
"A layout optimized for different viewports results in the layout changing when the viewport changes."

How ridiculous to complain about a phenomenon that is basically tautological. The solution? Apparently it's user agent detection of phones vs. tablets vs. desktops. Because (of course) all phones are the same size, all tablets are the same size, and all desktop browser windows are the same size. Oh, and phones and tables are apparently also square.
Adult Online Hate, Harassment and Abuse: A rapid evidence assessment (2019)
Maybe this can be solved on the browser side of things. I can imagine that a browser could communicate the width of the screen as the width of the window to the webpage, even though the width of the window in reality might be made smaller by the user.
My office took the DISC [0] personality profile and it revealed that there are some people who love compliments, just love them. Even if they aren’t genuine, they like hearing “You’re a rock star, I’m so grateful you’re here today” even if the person is completely unable to evaluate rockstar vs. non-rockstar. Even if they say it every day to everyone.

And there are people who hate compliments.

So it’s funny how within an org there are cogs (and non-cogs) who hate that they aren’t recognized and then there’s cogs who hate when they are recognized.

Not sure the distribution in the population but it seems like the default mode is to shower complements that mean nothing other than the complimenter has some process for complimenting people.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DISC_assessment
A sucker is born every minute. I tell you what, I’ll go write an article showing it would have made sense to use money from selling solar power to the grid on buying a house in Austin before prices went up 30% in the past year. Why not spend all the money? Try to get this logic past a financier. This is truly laughable. I can’t wait for the update that includes February “snowvid” $9k/MWh prices. The author will think they are a genius. LOL. GTFO.
I think you nailed it with Covid. Critical thinking requires discourse, and discourse on all the possibilities beyond the dominant narratives or paradigms. Downvoting does not make reality or the “ugly” truth go away. We should be here to discuss and not be afraid to ruffle feathers and have easily offended sensibilities.
yes, I agree.
Whatever we do, we can't eliminate bias.
And, adding to that, as a society can we force a private company to change their algorithm to better suit our taste?
I am not sure we can.
There needs to be a larger debate on this. Maybe the courts are the right place for such a debate.
I've worked as permanent staff for ISV product companies and banks. I've also worked for a consulting firm on banking projects, and as a contractor at banks and ISV product companies. I could say a lot about the differences [1], but I'll confine myself to one point here: the interests of client and consultant are never truly aligned. Why? Because the consultancy wants maximum duration and headcount from any project to maximise billing. The client wants the project done, and the consultants gone. Yes, I'm assuming time and material billing here, not fixed price. That misalignment means that the consulting org can never really be honest with the client about the true state of the project. I've seen this play out at a cost of tens of millions at first hand. And we've all seen it in industry news, often with large govt contracts.

[1] https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/permie-vs-consulta...
This is how security people undermine their own message. My entire job is being "tge trust but verify" stick in the mud, but everyone knows it when I walk in the room. I don't waste peoples time, and I stop short of actually causing damage by educating and forcing an active reckoning with reality.

You can have your verify-lite process, but you must write down that that was your decision, and if appropriate, revisit and reaffirm it over time. You must implement controls, measures and processes in such a way as to minimize the deleterious consequences to your endeavor. It's the entire reason Quality Assurance is a pain in the ass. When you're doing a stellar job, everyone wonders why you're there at all. Nobody counts the problems that didn't happen or that you've managed to corral through culture changes in your favor, but they will jump on whatever you do that drags the group down. Security is the same. You are an anchor by nature, the easiest way to make you go away is to ignore you.

You must help, first and foremost. No points for groups that just add more filth to wallow through.
I worked in some of the top digital agencies for a long time. It is marked by fast pace and high levels of uncertainty. Depending on the quality of your team this is either an adrenaline rush or a meat grinder. Frequently flip flopping between the two. But you'll never be bored.

The agency landscape is pretty broad. Some shops are very technical, some are design lead. Some can dump an army of bodies on a project and some deploy lean tiger teams. My experience was doing a lot of strategic engagements. I got to do architecture and real planning and quality control. Sometimes it was fire and forget popup projects. Rarely if ever did we own any support role which was pretty great. Got to flip between web, mobile and even experiential work. Very frequently thrown into stuff with no training which is always exciting/terrifying depending on your personality.
iGuide was started in 1995 or 1995 (a Newscorp / MCI JV). Surprisingly no Wikipedia entry for it.
Was intended to be a "TV Guide" for the web.

The i* prefix was popular before the iMac, it was a way to show you were hip and into the Internets much as appending *coin to everything today shows you are hip and into the blockchain.
Before opening the link I made a guess: "99.9% probability that she's in opposition to Russian government and that is the real reason for calling her "best Russian poet".

Opened the article, wasn't disappointed. My guess was 100% correct.

I also laughed at mention of "independent TV channel Dozhd". Independent, really? It's funded by British government to disseminate anti-Russian propaganda and create a dissent among population of Russia.

I've never heard about Maria, but now I'm pretty sure that's her only literary achievement is critics of Russia present and past. It's the only thing that interests the West now and sells well on the West.
T-Shirts are almost always knitted. Do you propose never tumble drying t-shirts?
Using asm is a bit extreme and can lead to many problems. The toy project used is quite limited anyway; you could use one of the tiny C httpds and still get the size under 15k for similar functionality.

Would anyone use this in production? I doubt so. You want a reliable battle-tested solution. Nginx can be compiled to 500kb without OpenSSL; if you need https then it's just a few megabytes, I find it acceptable for non-embedded solutions like containers.
The hotter the coils the higher the amount of energy that's required to maintain it.
> No pie-in-the-sky marketing BS is going to make up for sub minimum wage compensation.

Comically marketing BS is frequently created by consultants who cost money. Money that doesn’t go towards higher wages, or worker bonuses, or coffee in the beak room, etc
The key is not better contracts. At the small and middle scales, pointing to the contract is almost always a sign of a poor relationship.

Good client relationships are worth more than a good contract. You want someone you can trust in a handshake deal. You want a good contract too. But the most important thing is a relationship where people see a problem as mutual. Where it's both the client didn't say and you didn't ask.
The document was last updated in 2003. Nowadays Unicode provides a solution to the gaiji problem: the Ideographic Variation Database [1]. For unencoded Han characters using Ideographic Description Sequences as ligatures is now quite viable.

[1] https://unicode.org/ivd/
Another controversial absence is the "external link" symbol, which was rejected.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06268-ext-link.pdf

The reason seems to be that links are not a feature of a text document, they are part of a markup language, and therefore, it should be a feature of that language instead.

For HN, AFAIK, they deliberately strip emoji, but most Unicode work fine. ("私はひどい下痢です" should show up correctly)
Apply DDD to your data architecture
You're thinking of $_ and !$, and I think they are equivalent - $_ is explicitly the last argument of the previous command, whereas !$ is a history expansion command. ! starts a new history expansion command, and $ is a word designator for the last word of the selected history entry. To quote man bash, " If a word designator is supplied without an event specification, the previous command is used as the event."

I would not that !$ is a bash-ism, whereas $_ works at least on zsh and ksh as well as bash.