skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does that mean they are racist too??

There's a lot more to diversity and civil rights than just race, although racism is very visible.

> Seems to me that preventing IQ tests from being used as a criteria for positions requiring heavy analytical work is discrimination against individuals who can do well on IQ tests.

Some people just aren't test takers. Anxiety, ADHD, neurodiversity in general for example. Or maybe they came from a place that didn't teach standardized tests, or is taking the test in a non-native language. Blind. Who knows. Someone could be a genius but suck at test taking.

Why should an IQ test be a job requirement anyways? Why not an EQ test? Does an IQ test discriminate against high EQ people? It's a straw man argument.

> It disgusts me to see anybody "apologize" for this. It's like as soon as they get accused of being "un-inclusive" they start "apologizing" before some imaginary mob bursts in and hurts their social media rankings. This is so spineless.

I wonder if there's a middle ground where someone else's success isn't seen as taking away another person's. That would make for less hostile rhetoric on both sides of your argument.

There can be a lot of social and family support/pressure to get good grades, attend good schools, and not everyone gets the right people surrounding them to create those types of opportunities. And checking all the right boxes still doesn't make someone entitled to a special set of job opportunities. At least not in the US. China, maybe so. Other countries maybe different too.
I don't know exactly why but I always find SSE code to be really arduous to read.
New England Journal of Medicine: The Catfish King
I know, this is not simple with so much time passed and I am not a fan of proofing heritage or ethnicity to be allowed to life anywhere.

And I am not directly involved, so I do not propose any concrete solution, due to lack of detail knowledge.

But I do see some solutions. Local autonomy. Federalism. Different districts with different systems. End of absolute rule of the CCP - no more interfering in cultural and religious topics. Allow the exil Tibetans and the Dalai Lama to come back, give them back the monastaries. Let them work something out, with the Han chinese who live there today and in many cases, were born there.
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Is this a Vuze fork? Last time I remember using Azureus, it was a bloated slow mess.
In the US, going up a tax bracket can't under normal circumstances lower your effective pay. The higher rate is only for the income over the floor: if a $1 raise puts you over, only that dollar gets taxed at the new rate. It's possible you'll trigger an alternative tax regime like AMT or meet a benefit cliff, but you'll never make less money after tax just because your income went up.
Preprint server removes 'inflammatory' papers in superconductor controversy
Alternate title: How it took OP years to realise their teammates and colleagues deserve agency.

No such thing as "indispensable". Very few companies and projects die to a singular departure, you're just not that special kiddo.

What's actually happened here is a selfish desire to know things without sharing them. If you learn something new, share it somewhere.

"People came to ask the Oracle questions only the Oracle could answer for the Oracle refused to share knowledge by any other means".

Confluence is pretty good if you use it properly. Weekly knowledge share sessions are also handy.

Learning a thing and sitting on it makes you an asshat, not an asset. Seems OP learned the hardway, but they still need to remove their ego from the equation.

You're not good at knowing things (basic human capability that), you're terrible at sharing them.
Preserving context and user intent in the future of web search
Mo Kane I presume?
Have you tried GoCD?
Hi. Thanks for your comment. This library provides the foundation for crafting any sort of color system. The choice of whether your color system's palettes should consist of complementary vs. analogous vs. other relationships of colors is entirely up to you, and the library makes it easy for you to systematically define that in code (by creating a custom "color mapping function", which is discussed in the README).

Although the library is not a color generator per se, it has one built-in palette generator (color mapping function), which is tonal/monochromatic--chosen as default because it's the most common palette type used by popular design systems like Material Design. You can use third-party libraries to aid writing any additional color mapping function you want to implement. (I can also include additional color mappings based on feedback.)

Ultimately, what simpler-color provides is a well-defined structure for your custom color system that works well with various color-generator libraries.
Modern cars have reached their endgame for at least a decade. There is nothing to replace and recycle. There are no major upgrades. The whole point of electric vehicles is, excluding the battery, they have almost nothing to wear out relative ICE. The best way to upgrade a EV is to slap a modern battery pack in it like putting a 5000 mAh battery in a OEM-2500mAh phone.
This is what happens in places with extreme differences between clock time and solar time, for example west China.

Schools, work shifts, shop opening hours move over time to fit im the light window.
People are focusing on the IQ test, but how stupid does an employer have to be to look at results of a Myers-Briggs personality quiz to filter applicants?

I'd personally put more weight on "what's your Hogwarts house" from Buzzfeed than both of these.
Why would I use this over Transmission or qBittorrent?
For open source projects, it’s very popular in the “big data” world. Kafka, as you mentioned, but also Spark, Flink, Summingbird, Scalding, etc.

And yeah, it’s a pretty popular backend language at some large companies. Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, the Guardian, Starbucks, AirBnB, Coursera, AT&T, etc. all make significant use of Scala.

Go is certainly bigger, but Scala has plenty of adoption too.
> It's a stagnant language that will not get more popular, it peaked.

I can't speak to whether it's "stagnant", but at least as a percentage of questions on Stack Overflow, the claim that "it peaked" checks out. The peak for Scala was late 2016. Go surpassed it in 2020.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=scala%2Cgo
On the contrary, there are literally thousands of formal studies of MBTI. Here, look: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=mbti...

It is very well-studied in psychology. To say that most academic researchers don't "endorse" it is silly— it's not the job of a researcher to endorse a particular survey instrument, but rather to dispassionately study the mind using the best instruments available. That said, the Big-5 personality scale is certainly a more standard survey instrument in psychology, and it really doesn't matter too much which survey instrument you use, because they all correlate together. They just differ upon where you draw the coordinate axes in the space of personality; but they're all measuring essentially the same space of personality.
Yeah it is obviously silly, but in a way that you can imagine some parallel universe where it is used...
So now you "just" need to memorize a lookup table holding information about time when your clocks was first set. And share said lookup table with any visitors. It sounds super convenient :-)
Just a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the federal government having the sole power to regulate interstate commerce. Which makes me wonder if weed sold in a state has to be grown in that state.
Show me 1 (one) ECU running mainline Linux.
i think the indispensable idea is from an era where job stability is important and you might be at one company for decades.

The méthode en vogue of the current era is to jump ship every 2 years because that's the best way to get a raise/promotion. With that strategy being indispensable isn't that important because you will self-dispense in 2 years anyway.
Color me a little confused, but I think I kind of would lean toward letting the database person make the decisions about database rather than the titular managers. Haven't we all been through enough "management heard X technology is hot so we are gonna use that" fiascos?

Management's job is not to make decisions about databases for the database person, but to communicate about problems and priorities, and so on. Don't get me wrong, the dark hilarity of malicious compliance can be great when someone commands you, like they are some bumpkin who just rubbed a lamp and acquired a genie, to do something that is gonna bring down production at noon, cutting off your about-to-be-voiced objection, but let the managers manage and let the experts be experts.
I didn't know what WASI was/stands for.

Here an excellent explanation : https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/03/standardizing-wasi-a-webas...
New England Journal of Medicine: A Call for Antiracist Action
This is really cool, both in terms of what it can do, the approachable pricing model and the video that shows it off.

(Since I’m not aware of the details…) Is this similar to using NURBS as the representation in Blender?

As in what makes this more CAD-ey?
Exports both to STEP and OBJ out of the box, they did get that part right.

But ... what's a "nupkg" ?

[EDIT]: looks like you'll have to pull in all of mono just to install and try this :-( [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38118548/how-to-install-...

[EDIT 2]: my bad, there is a .deb in release 0.5.27

https://github.com/nkallen/plasticity/releases/tag/v0.5.27

[EDIT 3]: now that I've been able to install try it on Linux: this is really nice, very pleasant UI, and for those familiar with blender, the interaction style will be familiar. I will definitely be keeping an eye on this.
I treat the awfulness of Confluence's search as a feature. It forces me to organize and cross-reference documentation.
Thanks for the link, very interesting. The maps that I see are presented as possible candidates for how to meet the housing goals, not a fait-accompli - and they're overwhelmingly concentrated near 101 and the Bay.

I doubt that Marin County is very interested in trying to provide public health and other county services for a bunch of low-income folks moving way out to rural coastal communities. Seems likely that most of the housing going into unincorporated Marin will be smushed right up near 101.

But what about local low-income folks in West Marin like your friends, or the service workers in tourism, hospitality, etc...? Has anybody in your village association talked about what it would take to preserve local control but with a serious commitment for Point Reyes Station to provide housing to meet the needs of local low-income folks?

History has shown that basically once a community exists in California, residents start using local control to blockade housing - with the result being that new housing is mostly built in exurban sprawl by developers who pave over and then subdivide wild lands. These big hammers coming down from the state are basically a self-inflicted wound on the part of supporters of local control.

To provide some personal context: I grew up in the Russian River area. Housing is silly expensive and yet basically nothing gets built, so the towns are turning into retirement/vacation communities. There's roughly no housing that's accessible to people working local jobs, unless you inherited property from your family. I don't think those communities should be sopping up the housing demand for people working in San Francisco, but something's got to push them to build housing for the people who work right there.
For us that hour does no difference at all, it's still dark when going to school/work and it's dark again when coming home. We have 4 hours and 20 minutes of daylight on the worst days, Seattle seems to have about 8 hours so there the DST hour actually does a difference I guess.

But one hour less in the night has been shown to give a higher death rate that week every year so it's been discussed to get rid of it here too.
It is nice to have some competition and so thank you to the developer, but I see no reason to use this compared to qBittorrent, Transmission, aria2, etc.
> If it doesn't work why ban it?

Precisely because, as you said, "it doesn't work." There's not a good amount of evidence that IQ tests (which vary wildly, BTW) are a valid measure of cognitive ability or an indicator of aptitude toward a task (perhaps other than mental arithmetic or something). It only causes people who may be bad at rotating shapes in their mind or whatever to be discriminated against.
My comment did have some clarifying points, but my observation that they may be tired wasn’t a dismissal or rejection of anything, it was just empathy. I’ve come back to respond to this several times and walked away confused each time, because I sincerely recognized that dealing with broken technology takes a toll, and I was surprised by this being interpreted as less sincere. But I did re-read my comment and I see how that could be misread along with those clarifying points.
Because in many shops IT decides what languages people use, given the platforms, not devs.

Also quitting the job isn't always an option.

That is why some of us have to put up with languages that we rather not.
I remember reading "Anything you want" by Derek Sivers. There he describes, that he actually went towards "my company would just be fine without me" with his own company.

So regardless of being an employee doing bodyleasing towards their employer, being an employee that identifies with "their" company or being a boss/founder/owner/manager these two sides of the axis exist and one needs to find the spot that fits for them within that range.

I don't think there are "one size fits all" easy answers. Or at least if they are given imho and by my experience they are wrong more often than not.
Really reveals a cargo cult culture at work.
If you are indispensable - the most productive thing you can do for wherever your work and for yourself is probably to train others to do your job.
There are several features packaged as "full self driving", a subset of which are in Beta:

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

imo the distinction is deliberately obtuse, people pay 10k thinking they're getting FSD, and you do get auto lane change and smart summon, but stop signs and navigating autopilot are behind the safety-scored limited rollout.
Hm, is this pattern the best Erlang has and VM does not optimize it to avoid the need to lock the queue twice? If so then you are right double-select is equivalent even if it is rather messier in Go then in Erlang with the need to provide 2 channels.
Absolutely love this on my Android mobile!!!
Poland was one of the countries that invaded Iraq -- the _supreme_ international crime, aggression -- in March 2003, along with the US, UK, and Oz.

The following 3 years and 3 months ('major combat operations') saw 560 war-caused ('excess') civilian deaths per day.

At 20 days into the Russia invasion of Ukraine -- the _supreme_ international crime, aggression -- the civilian death toll is 691 -- about 35 civilians per day.

This is probably a substantial undercount of 'excess' civilian deaths per day caused by the war, so for the sake of argument we can double that number to 70 civilians per day.

So a Polish leader is going to visit a Ukraine that is suffering 70 civilian war-caused deaths per day.

But as far I know, Poland has never apologized, nor suffered any consequences for, contributing to 560 civilian war-caused deaths per day (instead of 70) in Iraq -- for about about 1,170 days (instead of 20).

How much suffering will Zelensky and the US allow Russia to inflict?

Apparently the US is the only country that can stop this madness - other than Putin and Zelenksy - but Putin hasn't gotten anything to go home with, and Zelensky is holding out for....???
They weren't filtering people based on MBTI.

MBTI is quite commonly used to characterize what types of jobs an individual might take on. If you understand a person's personality, it gives you a way of imagining how you might work with them. It's also popularly used in romantic dating, for the same reason.
It just became exactly the same, we'll still be relying on the tzdata library and date time functions we're using now.
That's easily solved. Just raise the cost for the repairs!

I wish I was joking...
Of course, I hope people aren't implementing time zone utils on their own unless absolutely necessary.

Though, there are devs that work on those system tools. There are also cases where times need to sync and the changing can cause some issues. Stored times should be UTC but where they aren't it can makes some systems use local time incorrectly for a bit on the rollback. I have also seen network libs in games not use ticks for session starts that would be problematic on rollbacks playing at switchover. There have also been flaws in system time utils previously.

Lots of unnecessary potential edge cases, all for an unnecessary time change of time itself except a few places like Arizona.
Yep I get that it’s frustrating. I realize in hindsight my comment about being tired might have come off dismissive, but I mean sincerely that I recognize this is an exhausting thing to deal with, and I hope you get the rest and whatever care you need to keep going. Take care.
Harvard Students’ Website
These two young people, Avi Schiffmann and Marco Burstein, students at Harvard, in just three days have developed and launched the website https://www.ukrainetakeshelter.com/ , a website in 12 languages where Ukrainian refugees fleeing war can immediately find hosts with free rooms, apartments unused in resorts, big or small cities or school dorms.
Pass this information to other Ukrainians, who are now in European countries and not only, but also to those who would like to be a host to these people in need.

#pace #peace #ukraine #refugees
Power steering can override your input by just applying enough force.
Have you ever owned a car?

The last car that I had to sell because I could not afford fixing had a $5,000 repair quote. Not because of the ice engine. Not because of the gasoline.

Because the wire harness was corroded.

Stop dreaming that electric cars do not need maintenance. Maybe not as regular maintenance as ice cars, but definitely they will be eoled in the same lifespan as ice cars.
> MBTI is quite commonly used to characterize what types of jobs an individual might take on. If you understand a person's personality

...it's not through MBTI.
It is another thing that original team isn't found of.

Rob Pike has some posts on gonuts where he asserts the current approach is good enough.
I mean, it's not like the Jerry Springer show was that novel... They overhauled the show to match a format that was already pretty well understood.
Pollarding (not the same as topping) is very common in cities to prevent trees becoming monsters that block out all light (that 40m oak might look nice from far off, but nothing else grows under that canopy, and someone might want to see sky from their garden), can't be maintained easily and eventually become safety issues with huge windage and heavy, old, brittle branches that can break off and fall (or the whole thing goes down in a storm and takes a house with it).

A pollarded tree looks stark and misshapen when it's done, but the foliage will return bushier and denser in fairly short order.

Pollarded trees can also live longer because not only do they not blow over so often, they stay in a juvenile state of young growth longer.
A prediction with no indication of subjective certainty is not a prediction.
You seem fairly upset over this. Have you considered organizing like-minded individuals and forming a campaign to raise awareness on the issue until they apologize to you for apologizing for being inept bigots?
It is not “standardized”, to be sure, but IQ tests are very reliable, and are just about as “proven” as anything else in psychology (in fact, more so, as psychometry has been one field that has not suffered from the replication crisis).

For a summary of the mountain of research done in the field, I recommend “Intelligence: All That Matters” by Stuart Ritchie:

> There is a strange disconnect between the scientific consensus and the public mind on intelligence testing. Just mention IQ testing in polite company, and you'll sternly be informed that IQ tests don't measure anything "real", and only reflect how good you are at doing IQ tests; that they ignore important traits like "emotional intelligence" and "multiple intelligences"; and that those who are interested in IQ testing must be elitists, or maybe something more sinister.

> Yet the scientific evidence is clear: IQ tests are extraordinarily useful. IQ scores are related to a huge variety of important life outcomes like educational success, income, and even life expectancy, and biological studies have shown they are genetically influenced and linked to measures of the brain. Studies of intelligence and IQ are regularly published in the world's top scientific journals.

> This book will offer an entertaining introduction to the state of the art in intelligence and IQ, and will show how we have arrived at what we know from a century's research. It will engage head-on with many of the criticisms of IQ testing by describing the latest high-quality scientific research, but will not be a simple point-by-point rebuttal: it will make a positive case for IQ research, focusing on the potential benefits for society that a better understanding of intelligence can bring.
It's not that you couldn't have used fixed SIMD, it's so it can rescale the SIMD automatically.
I have no idea how you rack up a $5000 bill despite regular maintenance. Was that a used sports car?
It's essentially a safer way to share emails. The email is hidden from the user until they can prove they're not a robot (via reCAPTCHA v3) and it provides the user more options (instead of just a default provider)

E.g.: On your personal website, instead of putting a mailto link to your email (which exposes it to email harvesters and doesn't give any choice to which provider the visitor might want to use), you can put a bettermailto link instead. This gives your visitors choice and gives you security.
Sincerely, no, it is a good low PPI font with a lot of (ugh actually unintended pun) character for its historical use.
Personally I prefer LibreTorrent for mobile

https://github.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent
...is the VC firm willing to publish the scores of the partners themselves?
No, I am aware of the lives of other working people, and I have worked jobs with fixed shifts before.

But I also have seen over the last 20 years that flexible time has moved from an exotic perk to a standard contract term in my country, at least for white-collar workers. And we have mandatory works councils, where workers can have a say in certain decisions, for example shift hours. (In the US the equivalent is roughly when a company has a union.)

So it is not being out of touch, it is a political demand. I am just saying what's possible.
Fake Antivirus – Targeting Ukraine
It is a mistake. Index.js re-exports cannot be tree-shaken by bundlers unless the module is explicitly declared free of side effects.

If you import { foo } you actually import everything. Check your bundle.
As an example, here's my bettermailto link: https://www.bettermailto.com/user/620278e0561f820009d840d2
If you put "are you pregnant?" as a required field on a job application and then say "oh we were just using it to know to get you a gift!", you really think anyone is buying it?
Should there not be some platforms or speech that is ridiculed to death? I think they should be: anti-semitism (really any racism — it has no place on HN) or even the xenophobic fears of white Europeans being displaced… smh
By type-safety I indeed also implied inability to send messages that the receiver would not process. This is essential to allow safe refactoring.
This reminded me to the old awm (Amiga Window Manager). It keeps working on modern distros.