skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use jsonlines on those occasions https://jsonlines.org/examples/
Is there any car company that has not had recalls? Toyota had airbags exploding with metal fragments, killing drivers. Yet that recall is nowhere near as well-known as Tesla body panels not lining up.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681920
I think one of the problems from "being indispensable" is the direction it takes. Being indispensable in regards to people "being left holding the bag while new initiatives are undertaken" means they are/were indispensable in regards to specific tasks/processes/skills or knowledge.

Personally I feel being indispensable can also be seen as being able to be thrown at (nearly) any problem and finding a solution. Catching the ball and creating the basis for a stable project for others to take over/maintain. I am working at an agency and more often than not there is a first small initiative at a client where we just do not know what is expected/needed in terms of skills and in what direction this initiative might go/grow.

So we often throw two people at the "problem". One more senior "jack of all trades" kind of person that can understand a lot of problems and knows how far they themselves can work towards a solution (and when to call in the subject matter experts). And one more junior person to support and learn by swimming in cold water together with said "senior" (can actually - depending on the problem be a junior/intermediate themselves - it depends).

These "jack of all trades" persons, thinking on their feet, being able to improvise and get things done, able to understand and dig into problems ans find solutions - these kinds of persons are indispensable - but they don't get stuck in one specific problem/project.

The processes around them are built in a way so that we free them for the next thing to come our way. And we do everything we can to create new people of that kind.

I'm not really familiar with the military context, but it's almost how I envision an advance/special forces unit operating in front of the actual lines and first creating a beachhead that the regular troops can then build on and bring their strengths to bear.

These types of individuals are indispensable - but ideally not each of the individuals on their own.
> Anxiety, ADHD, neurodiversity

> non-native language. Blind

If we're being brutally honest here, this makes the test a good filter if only for this reason. These are not advantageous traits. All else being equal, a sensible employer ought to prefer the candidate without these ... 'neurodivergences'.

If diversity is such a boon for business, I'm sure the company next door with less discriminating recruitment policies will be glad to take them on board...
As a long time hiring manager, I would never use an IQ test to determine feasibility. They simply (for the most part) confirm an aptitude for test taking, and for tech jobs I've never seen that as an intrinsic good.

People usually can be evaluated on their analytic skills through other means that are more conversational and interrogatory, which in turn also assess soft-skills, which contrary to McNamara Fallacy adherents, are in truly short supply here in techville.
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Peer reviewed study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28953-x
I read somewhere that one reasoning is with DST, children need to leave for school early, which is relatively unsafe (evening is not a problem because school ends earlier). But I guess the perfect solution is simply shorter work hours across the board :p
That sure looks like an IQ test to me.
My Apple Watch actually starts brightening up before the alarm goes of to 'simulate' some light. My Pixel phone before also had that, works quite ok
We have a red digital clock on the bedroom dresser. Much nicer to glance at without blasting my face with blue light, especially if I see it’s 4:30am and want to go back to sleep.

We try to limit smart phones in the bedroom in general, spend less time in bed in the mornings.
> 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's not the job of a faceless entity to decide on what criteria I should hire someone. If I value EQ I should very well be able to do a test for EQ.

IQ tests sound perfectly reasonable and don't discriminate anymore than any other mental gimmick is requested in interviews today.
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This analogy just reduces down to “I think generics are more fit-for-purpose” which is just another way of saying “I think generics are better”. And I certainly think there’s a fair amount of merit to generics, but the folks who have seriously programmed with and without generics are much less fervent supporters of generics (if they support them at all) than the generics-advocates who have only used languages that make heavy use of them. I won’t try to analogous this to power tools or cars or anything else because such analogies are never enlightening and usually at least a little corny.
The window manager seems to do a bunch of different things, some with files and input, so basically it would expect non-UTF text for those operations
> Not everyone wants to sit in front of the computer and read the help file. That is, sometimes it's easier to sit down with a printout, or on a tablet, and read it like a book (or as a document with working links, which this one is).

It's a hands-on tutorial. You don't "read it like a book", you follow it and do the exercises. Besides, only the internal links work, here, so there is no way to dig deeper from the comfort of your couch.

> Yes, it is certainly valuable to have it right there in the editor, easy to consult at a moment's notice.

No. The user manual is not something you "consult at a moment's notice". It's something you focus on, deliberately, during 1-2 hours sittings.
But black tea also kinda makes red tea doesn't it?
Smart summon is triggered through an API call over cellular network, true or false?

Assuming the request is cryptographically signed or else originates over an encrypted connection, is the certificate in the hands of the car owner, or Tesla?

QED, whether or not cops make shit up, Tesla has the capability to remote command teslas. If they are smart, they will prevent you from sending destinations to autopilot navigation over the same API. But anyway if they can push updates OTA w/o user interaction, it's all moot, I, Robot style
What successful organizations have you built following your ideology?
You don't understand how IQ tests work.

It's not measuring aptitude of test taking, it's measuring your ability to detect and apply patterns.
> But that's not disappearing.

I didn't say it was. I said it's getting us closer to that world.

> Disappearing would be when ...

Disappearing is when a civilian gets taken (doesn't matter the time of the day, whether anyone notices or not), and the person in question does not get an arraignment in any open court nor any followup open court proceedings (e.g., trial), and where family gets no access to the person, with no way to determine their whereabouts and health or even if they remain living, typically for a prolonged period of time.

(Sometimes the family of a disappeared has connections and can get them released quickly, but most often the family does not, the authorities lie or refuse to say anything about the case, and the person languishes for years before being released unless they die or are killed during the time that they are held in this way.)

In other words: disappearing == unconstitutional denial of Habeas Corpus, often paired with torture and/or murder. A breakdown of the rule of law and constitutional order.

The English invented Habeas Corpus (to my knowledge anyways), and I suspect that they must have had some experience with disappearances during one of their 17th century civil wars.

When Habeas Corpus is suspended pursuant to the Constitution, and a civilian is arrested, and the family is allowed to see them during the time that the person is held, then that is not a disappearance, though the constitutionality of the suspension of Habeas Corpus may be suspect. When constitutional order is restored, the expectation would be that the person would be released or arraigned. Considering that in the U.S. Congress has never suspended Habeas Corpus, and that Lincoln did suspend it, but only in limited areas and during limited times during the Civil War, we should consider that the circumstances that legitimately call for suspending Habeas Corpus must be extreme. Certainly the current situation in Ukraine does not remotely call for the suspension of Habeas Corpus in the U.S., nor for anything like military tribunal trials for public persons who make their opinions heard. It is my fear that calls for the latter are a bad omen presaging the denial of Habeas Corpus.
yeah, I think I broke you system - completely stopped for me
Sure, but it would cost you more.

All of this for a job with a huge degree of repeatability, which doesn't require a high iq.
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We are not indispensable even to human relationships we assume we would be (forever and ever), how come we consider ourselves indispensable to legal entities like companies?

This was a rhetorical question, i have done that mistake in both occasions. In the case of companies, it isn’t even worth it.
For what it’s worth, this is the read I’ve gotten from this thread as well. I’m not sure how else to interpret the parent’s remarks—his responses seem evasive rather than clarifying.
Governments imposed the sanctions, not the banks.

If the Government isn't listening to banks when we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions, there's something completely broken in a top-heavy FIRE economy. And especially when we're choosing to use economic instead of military warfare.

Bloomberg reports:

Signs of looming financial damage are becoming apparent at many of the world's biggest money managers, including BlackRock Inc. and Pacific Investment Management Co. But it’s not likely to be limited to these giant funds. Because much of Russia’s debt was rated investment grade just weeks ago, the securities were pervasive across global fixed-income portfolios and benchmarks, meaning the impact could ripple across pension funds, endowments and foundations.
“This will be a monumental default,” said Jonathan Prin, a portfolio manager at Greylock Capital Associates. “In dollar terms, it will be the most impactful emerging-market default since Argentina’s. In terms of broader market impact, it’s probably the most broadly felt emerging-market default since Russia itself in 1998"...

https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/risk-of-huge-us-150-bi...
Interesting hero shot. Apparently they couldn’t nail The Mongols.
A schoolbook lesson in steadily pushing "because we (think we) know better" boneheadedness. Well done indeed!
Note that with UTC in e.g. Australia you either get the date changing at noon, or dates get out of whack.

In the US it would be less weird, but still weird.
The only cons of online tests is it they can be faked easily by getting your friend to do it.

If you just want the result for yourself test.mensa.no is pretty good and not a scam.
well, channels, emoji names, syntax highlighting...
You're trying to make this polarized, but it's not about good vs evil. It's an observation that it's likely something in an equilibrium today is likely to shift somewhat in the future. No one is saying "now we need to harvest organs" but "there is going to be a new problem emerging in the future, and that problem will require new solutions".

Even as someone quite interested in autonomous vehicles, and optimistic that they will become extremely feasible, creating dramatic changes in our world in the process, I hadn't until now thought of the organ shortage they might create.

Does it mean we start creating people to harvest their organs? Of course not; please don't be ridiculous. Perhaps it means that biotech companies have yet another gap in medicine to think about tackling, though.
> Not sure how it's predatory.

Neither the licence of that thing nor its price tag have anything to do with it.
> The former is illegal under a 1971 Supreme Court ruling that decreed IQ tests and other tests unrelated to the job to violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This is patently false, and in this context (flat out stating that a hiring practice is illegal) quite arguably libelous.

The case in question:

(1) Did not rule that IQ tests violate the Civil Rights Act,

(2) Did not rule that tests unrelated to job functions violate the Civil Rights Act, and

(3) Did not characterize IQ tests are, categorically, unrelated to job functions.

What it did rule was that:

(A) The IQ tests used were unrelated to the job functions the employer in the case was using them for, and

(B) The IQ test used produced a differential adverse impact on black applicants for the positions, and

(C) Tests or other hiring criteria that produce and differential adverse impact on applicants based on a protected class (like race) and which are also unrelated (or not sufficiently related) to job functions violate the Civil Rights Act.

There are a number of subsequent cases where IQ tests have been found not to be unrelated to the job functions they were being used to screen applicants for.

I remember when sfgate was an imprint of the SF Chronicle (and the latter was a respected regional newspaper) with serious journalistic quality, but it seems to have degraded into trash where the attention to factual detail that goes into random anonymous forum posts is about all articles get.
The title of the book is slightly different (so the other article didn't need a qualifier either):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek%21
Maybe companies need some kind of "Chaos Monkey" system [0] in place for regular employees. Not in "terminating" random employee's contracts, but a culture were regular, maybe even some kind of random transferals onto other projects, or onto internal work regularly happens.

Everybody knows this and everybody should be prepared to a situation that tomorrow they are not working on the same problem they work on today. How would they structure work? How would they share knowledge? What can the organization to to ensure there always are fallbacks to everybody? At least fallbacks that if not perform at 100% but still on 80 - 90%.

Sadly in my org this would not work of the get go, as we often have personal access tokens to our clients' systems. This is sometimes even a contractual obligation as for specific clients we need to be vetted. But even in these cases we could be reassigned/reshuffled towards a slightly different proposition or at least be reassigned to an internal topic for a few days - just like we would not be able to work if we fell ill.

[0]: https://github.com/Netflix/SimianArmy/wiki/Chaos-Monkey
auto lane change and smart summon, and apparently auto-park which is pretty standard even on toyotas and fords nowadays, hardly seems worth it.

See: https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot
(assuming I am malicious (which isn't really a bad thing to assume))
The trouble is Prius is not the best at going over the ocean.
Why yes, I am! It's dark, there's hardly any room to move around, and I'm constantly surrounded in cerebrospinal fluid.
I want permanent standard. My friend who lives a kilometer north of me wants permanent daylight savings. This is at 53 degrees latitude.
Quote from his Bresenham algo: "It is definitely inefficient (multiple divisions, and the like), but it is short and readable."

Well, this wasn't the case for all my Amiga 500 optimization efforts back then in the early 90th. Mix that with machine language and you simply hate yourself a couple of weeks/months/years/decades later, when you simply do not understand what you were doing at the time of writing the code, even though you commented it.

While I really enjoyed pushing the technical limits for fun and visual effects, too much trickery killed understanding and I am glad to use compilers nowadays. It is like plain text vs encrypted text going though my old source code. Very hard to read, very hard to understand.
You might want to read up on general intelligence, which is the well-documented phenomena that your performance on tasks like rotating shapes in your mind correlates very strongly with other tasks:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)

Look at the figures in the "Cognitive ability testing" section -- see how strong those correlations are across the disparate fields of Classics, Math, and Music!

In other words, there is a mountain of evidence that IQ tests correlate with an extraordinarily broad range of aptitudes in daily life, and especially with job performance. IQ is the single most important psychometric correlate with job performance and income of any out there; it's a much stronger signal than race, gender, birthplace, or personality for instance:

"Research indicates that tests of g are the best single predictors of job performance, with an average validity coefficient of .55 across several meta-analyses of studies based on supervisor ratings and job samples."
Interesting take on it. I like it.

But sadly this solves it for the people relying on your documentation. Not for you if you rely on anyone else's documentation if they don't act accordingly.
I believe FSD is level 2 drive assist. Beta could be level 3 autonomous.
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If you have a couple of hours to spare, I recommend listening to the episode of the Songhai Empire by the Fall of Civilizations podcast. They go into the fascinating historical background of the Timbuktu scholars and libraries. Link: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfUT6LhBBYs>
Yes in part. But I like the more random aspect to it as well as the additional dimensions.

It trains people to not rely on @xxxx in slack (or any other tool for comm). It trains people to write better documentation as they will receive unhappy messages from coworkers if it wasn't clear. And it trains people to RTFM first.

At least - there is a chance it can do all of this.
Those non-advantageous traits may have no bearing on the ability to do the job though, only the ability to take the test. This is precisely why it's illegal.
IQ tests are extremely common in Europe for any kind of skilled job. This makes sense, since IQ is by far the highest correlated attribute when it comes to performance. It’s also an excellent way to standardise applicant selection and avoid bias. It even works the other way, when someone too intelligent applies for a job which won’t keep them engaged and challenged. Statistically, such applicants leave rather quickly.

I’m surprised it’s not more common in the U.S.
There's also the one of Itch, 998 games for 10$ - https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine
Smart summon and auto-lane change according to: https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

So yeah the money is 95% a kickstarter pre-order for features that may be delayed beyond the useful life of the car
> The idea is to have, tucked in the back matter, elaborate indexes that allow users to find whatever topic they’re looking for — by flipping pages back and forth.

Yes, that's a huge advantage tomes have over scrolls, for example. It was a big breakthrough!

> Perhaps hyperlinked electronic versions will soon make things easier.

Or this thing called "search," maybe.

I don't think the author has done any study on or deep pondering abuot different media, how they came about or how they work.
> Another upshot of this is that with rarely driven vehicles, you might as well use
> the cheapest oil which meets appropriate specs, because your oil changes are driven
> by additive depletion and oil contamination rather than breakdown of the oil itself.

The Ferrari gets the cheap stuff, the Kia gets the good stuff. I love how some things are so unintuitive.

I just ordered an oil testing kit from Blackstone. Thank you for the idea.
In any job; you are not indispensible. You may think so, or others may tell you so. But you are not. You can easily be replaced. It is just a question of cost.

And while it is fun to fantasize about snarky comebacks. Don't do it.

In ten years time, no one will remember what sort of professional contribution you made. But they will remember whether you were nice or not.

Be nice.
I think he might be trying to point out the fact that it ought to point you to your package manager, and not some dodgy shell script.
That sounds very optimistic. I work for a startup right now which is private but valued in the 10 digits, and they have some video streaming features on their platform, and despite an engineering team spending a few years on this, it still causes some customers problems with freezing playback and stuttering video. On the surface, sure, you can probably get it to work in a basic way. But the reliability, consistency, the overall experience of the user, that is extremely hard to keep going. And I’m not even talking yet about the interface.
I can relate to some of this because I like to understand how things work, like the article author said about himself.

At every job I get hit up with questions because I put in the time to figure things out. I often get annoyed if the other person hasn't done their homework before coming to me, and that comes through in my communication. Because of that, I have a reputation as someone who is "prickly" and thus someone to contact as a last resort.

Quite frankly, I like it that way. I'm still helpful to coworkers, but not so helpful that they'll ask me before finding other ways to get their question answered.
Changing the time twice a year has never been a big issue for me. Even with a toddler with a sensitive sleeping schedule.

It changes on a Saturday night. It's almost not noticeable. One day a year you get one less hour; another day you get one more.

I mean if changing the times one hour is so bad, what about flying across 3 or more time zones?

While I know that jet lag _does suck_, if changing the time one hour at the least impactful time of week is so insane, it must make traveling very difficult for some people.

I'm not even campaigning for stopping or DST or ST (I frankly haven't thought about this problem that much because it just hasn't mattered much to me), I'm just surprised it is considered "insane" or a huge deal to many people.
For those of us who are not familiar with the domain, what differentiates this from Blender? Does Blender not support NURBS? If not, why is that the case?