skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So i suppose there is "science" against it?

I don't know the science surrounding it. But i took a test through work once and most seems to be correct.

I don't think it would be "popular" in businesses if nothing would be correct. That's exactly what suprised me the first time, so I'm hesitant to call it bs.

If there is another correlation it could be that the test was pretty positive for me. Perhaps it was the contrary for you? ( I'm just guessing and trying to find differences in experience here)
> I still feel that there is value in this system, but mostly wrt awareness.

And that's fine - but you might as well use astrology.
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> There's also some evidence that different groups, such as different professions (such as programmers), do tend to test differently as a population

Doesn’t that imply it isn’t all bullshit?
I have yet to read the whole article, but I got too excited when I got to these parts[0] and had to write a quick comment first.

This concept as described reminded me immediately of a book I read as a teenager, called Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided_Kingdom

It is about the country being broken up into four sectors based on the four humors: red, green, yellow, and blue. Scanning through some descriptions of Surrounded by Idiots, the similarities are uncanny. I thought the whole four-humors thing and its derivatives have been definitively debunked for a very long time, how did this book not get laughed out of the gates?

[0] Parts that made me pause: 'Around the same time, qualified psychologists began reporting how clients were considering leaving their partners because, “I can’t possibly live with a yellow person”...'; '...they had been tested at the Human Resources department only to be told they needed to move to another team because their “colour combination”...'; '...A teenage girl comes home and tells her mother, with an air of resignation, “mum, I’m a green.” She had been tested by her school counsellor...'
Wargames are great. Vortex has been around for a long time and really gives a sense of how memory-corruption based software exploitation looks like.

If you liked that, check out https://ctftime.org and writeups from the top events (Google CTF, hxpctf, PlaidCTF are some examples).
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> Soviet news at the time was actually much more accurate than the USA.

This is simply false. Soviet news was an official and pure propaganda. For example, Cuban missile crisis was totally ignored by the Soviet media. While the world was balancing at the brink of nuclear war the Soviet population was blissfully ignorant. Another good examples of how Soviet propaganda lied were coverage of Prague Spring in 1968 and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979--1988.

Source: lived there, remember those lies.
In today‘s news, the new German minister for the environment:

“ He does not see the consensus on the nuclear phase-out crumbling. "I have never heard from a politician from a democratic party that he is calling for the reconstruction of nuclear energy," said Habeck. "Then he would have to say that I would like to have the nuclear waste repository in my constituency. As soon as someone says that, I will deal with the subject again."

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/habeck-klimaziele-verfeh...
That’s under 8% of the population buying the book or receiving it as a gift and some percentage of them reading it.
Even with ancient childbirth death rates (~1%), that would be an unusually high number of deaths.

Could be the explanation, but I doubt childbirth is the driving factor.
There is another active thread on the same topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29703564
For my service, DDG traffic[1] is currently 50% of Google's, which is quite impressive. This is not a representative niche of course, but still good to see.

1: https://twitter.com/borg_base/status/1474807112282906627
That's like saying that the tendency of wolves to eat prey can't be used to describe a maximum capacity of wolves given an amount of prey. Maybe we could support more wolves if they starved a little? Or if they started eating pets in addition to wild prey? Or if they expanded their range?

Knowing the maximum capacity that our Earth seems to be capable of sustaining based on current utilization is an important number, and isn't worthy of such a short-sighted dismissal. If lifestyles do change such that the maximum capacity increases, that's a huge win to be able to track.
Wasn't India a major obstacle to the COP26 agreement?
> Tldr: “depression is just a chemical imbalance” is basically a meme

The alternative depression meme is "it's all in your head", which is about as useful as telling a diabetes patient "it's all in your pancreas". I still struggle to understand which of the two memes is closer to truth.
Sure I didn’t mean to imply that those fields in particular are all bogus, but rather that every new book on the subject has to bring a new angle and also often plays a bit fast and loose with scientific rigor.

You’ll see books on why you should do yoga while juggling eggplants or mindfulness through playing quake and it might be some times a bit semi-scientific.
It only needs to be "data-driven and backed by science" if it's making scientific claims. It's totally okay to write a book of advice about workplace interactions based on anecdotes or your own experience (there are many such books) - but it's an entirely different thing to make scientific-sounding claims about how people are categorized.
How does it stream audio while offline?
GPL only emulates abolition of copyright. If a country properly abolishes copyright, GPL has nothing more to do.
Yes. My son was born at the beginning of the pandemic and raising him in Toronto was hell on earth. I bought a house to be closer to my family and have more space for my son to grow up in.

Given the housing crisis in Canada it was not possible for me to buy in Toronto. Seems I was ahead of the curve because the insane housing prices seem to have expanded out from the city to pretty much everywhere but I was lucky enough to manage to get something for a reasonable price.
Whether or not immunity is shared between, say, omicron and delta will answer this question. Hopefully in the next few months. Ideally, omicron is the unicorn that starts COVID’s shift to endemic.
i'm not sure being into astrology makes people more empathetic
> We want people to post things because they’re interesting, not just because they’re promoting content.

When people say "algorithms gone haywire" that generally implies a machine learning or adaptive algorithm of some sort, this sounds like a hard coded "if X amount of submissions from the same URL, ban" type of thing. That's not even really a computer issue, that's just the way a human decided to make the system work.

Same is true with humans and human processes. If one human sets the policy for another, be it a legislative body setting policy for an executive branch, a managerial body setting policy for a customer service representative, etc, is it the customer service representative's fault that the policy is that way and they have to do something they know isn't logical or great in the situation? No.

When you are herding sheep or in this case herding spam bots and scammers mixed in with probably 10-20% legitimate users, you have to make some tough calls to try to optimize the content on the site to make it usable for real people.
You may be interested in the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Pretty impressive you’ve come to the conclusions you have, I’d say. I suspect many of us choose these points of view by their explanatory power. There will always be some social phenomena that elude explanation by any given point of view, of course.
A main pilar of behavioral psychology is that the previously learnt behavior is activated in a certain context, the antecedent. The presence (or absence) of consequences following the behavior affects the probability of such a behavior occurring again a smiliar context. This operant conditioning has been shown extensively in behavioristic research by Skinner and beyond. Genes can be thought of as learnt behavior in an organism accumulating over time. This behavior is also activated in certain contexts. Thus the sentence does not necessarily separate environmental influence from genetic influence although it is easy to interpret it as such.
> I would argue though that being an actuary doesn’t automatically make you bad at anything outside of Excel.

I agree, I just think it's statistically a net negative signal if conditioned only on years of experience. I would expect a generic technical BS or MS in a DS-relevant field to be more qualified than someone who passed actuarial exams, if the two are at a similar point in their careers.

That said, competent employers shouldn't be relying on unconditional signals, they should be interviewing and testing and getting more information on the candidate. For such employers, the signaling value of the actuarial credential ought to be neutral.
Classifying people makes it easier to interact with them. You feel that you understand where their boundaries are, and what motivates them. It’s the reason we have geeks vs jocks, or any other variation of classifying people. Some aspects will bear up under a basic sniff test, which is why they stick around. But it also forces people into boxes that don’t properly describe them well, if at all.
My opinion / guess from 20 years of watching Apple, is something to do with their values, principles and politics, along with PR or at least their projected image vs the actual image they have differs greatly.

We may hear more stories in the next few years. Either the woke took over, or the woke left.
Buying a property that contains a dam sounds risky. Not just because of the tragic event but also not being native. All of my native Hawaiian friends that have land have told me they would fight to the death to keep the land in their family and I am told that is a very common sentiment among the remaining native Hawaiian's. It seems he found an exception. Money talks. Still, I would not want to be surrounded by people that despise me. That sounds very high maintenance and risky. Having so much beautiful land should be a calming and spiritual experience.
Why don't airlines have in-flight video recordings like buses do?
>StraightWhiteNormal are not life choices

Yep, which means your various other comments focusing on exactly that are a form of bigotry, prejudice and/or racism.

>"Enjoy Prosperity" is very loaded. Not everyone finds that implied life prosperous.

No, but you did in your first comment.
I think it was meant with a bit of sarcasm?
Once you generate a height (displacement) map and color map, any easy way to "shade" the color map?

NASA has some pretty decent lunar displacement/color maps of the moon but the color map is evenly lit (no shadows spilling into craters). To render this quickly I want to pre-render the shadows (maybe into the color-map itself).
Most likely we are all (all as in everyone on planet Earth) descendents of that family. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...
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The Sino-British declaration was a way for the UK to save face and to sell the handing over of HK. It's naive or disingenuous to claim that China would do anything but whatever they wished to within a Chinese territory.

Ultimately HK will be fully reabsorbed back into the rest of China. That was always the plan and that was always going to happen. That said, HK is still separate so China is still broadly abiding by the declaration.

What the West needs to realize is that China is no longer a pushover that can be bullied at will. There is still a whiff of colonialism when Western media discuss HK.
So basically it’s a large PLC :)
People love to categorize/label themselves and others (belonging to a group, provides easy answers to complicated questions, etc.). So most will be glad to do so when given a chance.
If you're going to spout pseudo scientific babble, at least spell "Casimir effect" properly. Please enlighten us poorly educated about this upcoming revolution, though!
"Marijuana smoke contains a lot of the same chemicals in tobacco smoke and so it would not be at all surprising if it had some of the same ill effects, like cardiovascular disease and lung cancer. But when people look for these effects, they can’t find any increase in mortality among marijuana smokers. I predict that larger studies will one day pick something up"

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"As far as I can tell the finding still seems legit, and marijuana use does decrease IQ."

This 2014 article makes some pretty bold predictions and claims.
Doesn't Google do 5.6 billion searches a day?

"How many Google searches per day? Google doesn't share its search volume data. However, it's estimated Google processes approximately 63,000 search queries every second, translating to 5.6 billion searches per day and approximately 2 trillion global searches per year."
I did something similar that was quite useful. I wrote a complete outline of my thesis, down to the paragraph level. Then I sat down with my advisor and went over it, before I did any writing. This had a couple useful effects. First, I knew he was in general agreement with my plan. Second, it acknowledged that I was in fact in the writing phase and wasn't doing any more experiments.

A useful side effect is that whenever I wasn't feeling really inspired, I could pick a paragraph at random and just fill it in. I would not call any of my paragraphs "filler" but there was stuff that needed to be written down, that didn't require profound brain work to produce.

Anyway, that's how we're supposed to write code, right? It was, 30 years ago. ;-)
Still a good thing, but title is misleading. 40% of India’s electricity does not come from non-fossil fuel sources. Instead, 40% of their installed capacity is non-fossil-fuel based. There’s a big difference because of the expected capacity factor of wind farms and solar farms vs fossil fuel plants. Even if 40% of your installed capacity is solar, with a capacity factor of 50%, you may be getting only 20% of your Joules from solar (fossil fuel plants generally have very high capacity factors)
Not only is 50% not representative of the whole it also doesn’t seem to be representative of your own data. Looks like DDG is not even 40% of Google’s traffic according to the link you shared.
I’ve been using ddg for years now, ddg (and bing) long passed the good enough threshold for search where I don’t ever feel like something wasn’t found, and I always get a good enough answer for what I was looking for.

It’s possible for other search engines to be technically better, to find more results, or surface the most relevant pages earlier, but it doesn’t matter to me in practice.
I think that the average american (USA) has no idea how good is the life in Europe.. They think we are all communists or they are very affectionated to the USA life style
Arbitrarily dividing people into groups with defined roles is the basis of the "Noble Lie" in Plato's Republic. In that, people are defined as having souls made of gold, silver or iron/bronze.

The idea of giving people a role that they can focus on, from an early age, has some advantages. Of course pigeonholing people has a wide range of disadvantages; everything is a trade-off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes
Y2K was not a disaster precisely because there was panic and concern, and programmers spent much effort fixing it, and it was fixed due to prioritization of resources & effort.

"it's going to the same with Y2038" is like saying we can fold our umbrella in a rainstorm because we haven't gotten wet yet.
Out of the 4 sim cards I have, only one provider supports eSIM. And yes, I'm aware that some iphones can use dual sim with an eSIM but the HK model which is better is dual SIM (with no eSIM).
Pseudo-sciences tend to make vague and non-falsifiable claims which cannot really be disproven empirically. Can you arbitrary divide people in four groups named after colors? Of course. It is it in any way useful except as a method of selling books and seminars? This remains to be seen.
Shy and Outgoing is the Extraversion trait. 5 are OCEAN
- Openess to experience, Concientiousness (attention to detail), Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
Funny how the term "systems engineer" is loaded. I though more along the lines of https://diveintosystems.org/
Depends on the architecture: ARM for instance is a tier 1 target and you can use stable.
> It seems that, if this was possible to implement (card tokenization obviously being an issue here), you could have multiple independent backend providers implementing the Stripe API as a provider, and you load balance across them

Doing your own PCI compliant credit card storage system instead of relying on your payment processor's tokenization system is not too difficult, but is a bit of a pain in the ass.

The biggest problem I see to switching between payment processors is the Visa and MC stored credential requirements. A few years ago they changed to a system where when you store a credit card you have to set a flag on the first transaction that tells Visa or MC that you are storing the card.

When you do subsequent transaction using the stored card, you have to tell them you are using a stored card and send them a reference to that original flagged transaction.

Most payment processors I've used give you a transaction ID that is something they generate, not the transaction ID that the Visa or MC network generates. If you are doing your own card storage that can lock you into using that same processor for future on-file and recurring charges on that card, because only that processor knows how to map the transaction ID you know (the one that processor generated) for the original transaction to the Visa or MC transaction ID.

Note that even if your current processor provides a way to get the underlying Visa or MC transaction ID there may be no way to use that with another processor. The other processor's APIs that take a transaction ID are going to expect one of their transaction IDs.

I'm not sure how widespread this is. Visa and MC announced their "Stored Credential Framework" several years ago. As the deadline approached for when it would become required, too many major payment processors were not ready and so it was delayed a year. By the end of that year there were still major ones not ready (Authorize.Net for example still hadn't even said what their plans were) and so it was delayed even more.

The processor we use was ready by the end of the first delay and we got our system converted to work with that, and I stopped following what was going on with the others so have no idea if it now actually is required everywhere or if there are major processors that still have an extension.
I work with someone in your exact situation on my remote team. The time zone difference is challenging but we’ve made it work and he is a very bright developer who I find invaluable to our team. I asked him one day if he ever wanted to move to America or Canada and his answer was the same as yours. It’s always interesting to get takes from outside of your cultural bubble. I am very happy where I am but I would be lying if I said your situation is not appealing to me (even if only for a little while).
Tried the wifi light bulbs once and every time the power went out the light would turn on at its highest level and lose the connection to the controller. Turned out to be a frustrating experience to replace a simple toggle switch.
I was also struck by a similar section of Reflective Practitioner and wrote this thread some years ago about how professional ambiguity is furthered as computers advance: https://twitter.com/thadk/status/1211175280498356226?s=21
Handover to Bluetooth potentially? Or stream data directly peer to peer.
I went to set DDG on all my devices a few months ago because it was the "right" thing to do but expecting to get inferior results and needing to use the g bang a lot, surprisingly it turns out I never had to use it. Ordinary search has changed with the siloization of the internet: twitter, subreddits, stackow, github, official pages, all the big silos are easy to find and offer superior internal discovery, the fact that google might (or not) be better at ranking the long tail is losing relevance fast.
Ransomware is the biggest nightmare I'm seeing. Everything connected to a company network is having to be audited for patches and approved OS installs. IT needs to have root access to every system. Any system not approved to be networked will be isolated at the switch to knock off the network and that team's other IT systems will be knocked off too.

Security just went least privilege for network access where I work.

This is especially prevalent to VMs and containers. Anything with an IP address is being audited. Anything.
Could you list the books you bought? Thanks!
On my end the growingest vector is audit remediation. Your cyber insurance providers have noticed that you constructed your environments out of swiss cheese and are now mandating actual pentesting and practical demonstrations of your fixes if you want to maintain your policy. Those self service checklists seem to be going away.

gotta say, audit remediation is a pretty chill field to be in as well. The recent round of 'hackers dont sleep for the holidays' articles made me feel glad to get out of the incident response game.
Well, the ones I named are more "wargames" in the traditional sense: tanks and planes and stuff. But as I mentioned, the principles of reconnaissance and exploiting weaknesses are the same, which is interesting.

For more computer-oriented wargames, I really enjoyed what I've done of Microcorruption (if you're into radare2 sort of stuff) and wechall is a challenge site tracker that has links to many other similar games as well as being a scoreboard that you can track your progress on all participating sites on.

Or if you like competition, CTFtime.org is a live calendar of many computer security capture-the-flag competitions you can join. If you're interested in that but want to join a team, OpenToAll is a team that welcomes anyone to join and talk about challenges.
> Red: dominant, driven, solution focussed.

> Blue: analytic, careful, meticulous

> Green: patient, considerate, nice

> Yellow: extroverted, creative, verbal

If that's the definition it's a catastrophe.

A lot of entries listed are skills you can (and do) learn for specific situations, and which just some people do to some degree apply to all parts of their live. But someone applying "patient" to all their live doesn't mean they also will apply it when it matter, nor does it mean a normally "impartient" person can't (potentially already has) learn to be patient when it matters.

Generally all of "solution focussed", "analytic", "careful", "meticulous", "patient", "considerate", "nice", "verbal" are all skills you can learn and learn to apply in all contexts (through for some people it's harder it's still possible, through different people need to approach it in different ways).

I also have meet all kind of "creative" people, so linking that together with other personality traits seem absurd.

"driven" is in my experience more related to unhealthy stress, potentially anxiety disorders

"extroverted" depends a lot on the definition what it is supposed to mean, through in this context it probably means outgoing, outspoken, etc. or similar, in which case in which case it's still bs as this kind of behaviour is often highly contextual.
According to the article, this particular thought was being used to determine who could perform certain jobs. Requiring those criteria to be based in science is reasonable.
Not all polish press. Just the national, govt controlled television. The same that used materials from compromised smartphone of Krzysztof Brejza in 2019