skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry it happened to you. Yes it would have been better for this institution to send a true calendar event or something that would adapt to each person's local TZ.

That being said, I just googled "12.00 AM" and the very first result is "12.00 AM is midnight". Pretty unambiguous.

If you had never seen this notation before, being an engineer, why didn't you just look it up?
We didn't use to, but now we do. I think we did a better job when we didn't have the team TBH.

Engineers here used to be the ones testing out the code, verifying their changes on pre-production environments, and keep an eye on the deployed code in production to make sure it's working well.

Now I get a sense that engineers do the work up to the point of where QA steps in, and throwing it over to them and moving on. The QA team is new, and so not very well versed in the product, and rely on the engineers a great deal on how to test things, which I get the feeling also ends with the QA team not going out of their way to test things the engineers didn't explicitly say to test. I think it may be playing out in a way where our quality assurance could get worse, and our engineers will end up being less well-versed in the product, and feel less responsibility for delivering quality, while also requiring another team to manage, and spreading work over different people. As a disclaimer I think we may just have a not great setup more-so than saying all QA is bad.
There are a few:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
That's part of why the r for SAT-IQ is somewhere between 0.5-0.8[0] rather than higher. Also the average SAT score increase by retaking seems to be 40[1] points which doesn't skew things that much.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

1. https://www.manhattanreview.com/sat-retaking/#:~:text=The%20....
The left may present itself more seriously, but why shouldn’t the humor be considered a mere veil for the underlying belief? It’s one thing to meme about the vulnerability of the impoverished, and another to state clearly that one holds the ideological position that they deserve their poverty.
This one’s a little less theory and a little more tooling, but is pretty modern:

https://www.rpi4os.com/
Livin’ la vida datos: a review of living in data
Without belaboring the point of refuting all of this:

> It is not possible to mistake pain, because if you think you are in pain, then you are in pain

Phantom pain. You can trust that your amputated leg is in pain, or you can doubt it. The choice is yours.
IQ doesn't behave like you think it might in fairly uncontroversial situations is part of the problem. For example, have a read about the "Rationality Quotient" and the surprising conclusion that rationality is poorly correlated with IQ. I'd certainly expect smarter people to be more rational, but it is not so.

I think that the treatment of things like time factors and tool use is also somewhat trivialised. Those that play chess will note that excellent Rapid or standard players can be terrible Bullet or Blitz players.

Roger Penrose -- nobel prize winning mathematical physicist -- was held back a year on count of his arithmetic being that bad. Yet he is a shockingly good mathematician mostly qua geometrical intuition to which he can convert other things. Who cares, Penrose can just use a calculator. Similarly, I'd say that many IQ tests are just symbolic regression. What if I was brilliant at stating symbolic regression problems, but poor at solving them? Then me + solver would make all the difference, unlike if I was poor at stating them ...

And so on.
Any thoughts on Neuralink's work/approach?
Maybe you’re right in this case, but I find it impossible to believe that apple would allow third party apps ever, if not for regulatory intervention. Given that the existence of Android has not caused that to happen naturally yet, there’s basically no other chance that any other market player would be able to reasonably upset that. Same with google search, Bing and Baidu have a laughably small market share in search, despite both being multibillion dollar companies behind them. And forget small players like DDG or Pinephone, they don’t even register on the charts.

So yeah, market regulation is necessary here, I’d rather roll back useless regulation later than continue with the status quo.
MIPS CPU – A Simulative MIPS CPU Running on Logisim
It was not 2022 when this story happened.

The cost of backups also depends on your income. Stories like this led to more backups, but so did going from being a student, to first-job-out-of-college, to a senior employee.

There's a spectrum between a hard drive costing a full day's work at minimum wage to a few minutes work for a Googler, Amazonian, or a Metamate making $500k/year.
The drones cost $15,000 and don’t carry weapons.

They can break a window and enter a building.
Ask HN: Do people at Google use Google things
I use a Google home almost exclusively to add things to my shopping list. It seemed Google was aware of this, as over the last few months they made little improvements, like images for the items and automatic sorting. Well today Google updated its list app, and removed almost all of its features, including the ability to even manually sort. Thanks Google.
Wish it were by word count!
My wife got a false positive a few years back, her doctor called her personally to discuss and reassure her that it was not necessarily a problem, just an area of suspicion. She wasn't all that anxious or worried about it. The worst thing she was worried about was the chance of needing a biopsy, not the chance of actual breast cancer.

She went in for a followup ultrasound scan and was cleared.

Given the survivability of early stage breast cancer versus late stage, a high false positive rate doesn't seem worse than the alternative of missing early stage breast cancer. Obviously, better imaging or other tools would be even better.
Ah, well either way, youre a hero for contributing to such a great resource.
> Well, you usually see the logged in user’s name and icon on the screen

I don't have this experience. On Windows (10, at least), normally I see either a black screen (if it's asleep) or a wallpaper, clock, and a message saying 'Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to unlock.'

> arbitrarily waiting for windows to bring up a prompt

I don't think it's arbitrary. It's doing something - it's calling Winlogon, spinning up disks and reading hibernation data into memory, restarting power to powered down components, probing authentication methods available (eg: fingerprint/card readers), in case of domain joined computers, validating whether the domain is available (which means firing up network interfaces), and if so, whether the user's password has changed, etc.

There are definitely downsides to Microsoft's approach here - as you mention, in a large number of cases, it takes more time to unlock the computer.

However, there are also upsides if you accept that UX is only one consideration when designing a secure log on prompt, and there may be other priorities.
"Feeling of awe" is an assessment of you, not the bird. I feel awe from sparrows, and there are some absolutely gorgeous black chickens out there.
BIOS boot is necessary for PCI cards with extension ROMs.
Most normal keyboards, mice, and USB HIDs report events at a rate of 125 hz == 8 ms between reports.

Gaming mice usually go up to 1000 Hz / 1ms, the wireless ones usually let you configure down to 500/250/125 Hz if you want a bit more battery life. I'm sure that gaming keyboards also have a high refresh rate.

If you have a 144 Hz monitor that actually means your (normal) keyboard and mice are reporting events less often than your display is updating.
Most of these points are unrelated to work itself, and may be easily rebuked.

Commuting is not a way to "unwind". If you have 15 minutes in the car, why couldn't you meditate for 15 minutes at home?

Interaction is not taken away if you WFH. But even if it was, if there are "nice" people at work, then there's the assumption that there are "not nice" people as well. Do you want to spend your days surrounded by "not nice" people as well?

If attending to the office is seen as a way to expand your friendship circle, then there is the assumption that any other in person activity should help to this end as well. Wouldn't it be worth trying to go to meet-ups, gym, etc., instead of relying on a workplace hostage situation?

Not trying to be too harsh here. But I have found that most people who want to go back to the office, expect others to go back as well. I don't oppose people going back, of course, but I do oppose being an accessory to their way of life.
Also, with the right format, this would make great Youtube material.
what about having an extra in house level of security? Something that does not require the overhead and maintenance of Identity Management System? Not sure what that would look like though.
>We do this experiment all the time. It’s called “education”.

The poster you're replying to said "just take the lower half of the cohort in each categorty (mental/physical) in a given study and give them intensive one-on-one training in all areas for a year". Pretty much every study has show that one-to-one tutoring is far, far more effective than the standard "education" system.

>We collectively have enormous amount of experience in educational interventions, and, in short, none of it really works.

What are you talking about? There's plenty of evidence that one-to-one tutoring can be quite effective at increasing test scores. Yes this approach can't be deployed at scale due to the sheer cost of it, but that's completely irrelevant to the question of whether intelligence is trainable.

You should watch some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_sport competitions, would blow your mind what people are capable of training themselves to do.
I switched to Secrets after reading your post and haven't regretted it.
What we need instead is a DATA-oriented web. The web already largely consists of interlinked databases (anything from Amazon to AirBnB is really just a database exploration tool). Even WordPress blogs are really just databases (with TEXT columns).

The current web is highly unstructured and poses a challenge for automation and the AGI future. I'd prefer to see a web where this data is exposed directly for client consumption (via something like JSON/REST) and a universal data browser that allows consumers to query and navigate any remote dataset with ease (Norton Commander style).
How do you know they aren't travelling the world while "working from home"? Sure, they aren't keeping up with a set group of friends, but they are making new friends every day. The world is bigger than just your tiny little apartment. You can go to Latin America, where they share largely the same timezone as us, but you can play with turtles! Or rescue dogs! Or clean up after penguins (south of argentina). It's really up to you if you think humans are the only way to not be lonely, then yeah, hit up a bar and cry yourself to sleep. But there are other ways. There is so much other there if you just work from home,and stop going into the shitty office, with terrible people. Have you ever noticed the office makes people less original? They all end up looking and acting the same as each other, and I'm the only who who's just come home from petting a penguin and they're like "we just came home from the bar.... again.... for the third time this week...." The office is dead, long live working form home.
You can’t get sponsored work visa for applebees unless you’re doing it illegally.

You either get it for high skill industries or farm labor, no other employment.
By quickly skimming through the README, I couldn't tell if it supports 1on1 chats or group chats as well.
Windows 11 is that next bit. They never finished windows 10.

I still have to dig through windows 7's control panel to change my microphone volume.
SAT mixes in intelligence with education so it's bound to skew more towards people with access, but it's also correlated with IQ, and IQ has significant heritability as well (things like separated twin studies have shown the genetic component quite clearly). So it's probably a double whammy there - good environment and good genetics.
CL is Common Lisp.
My feel is that this pattern leads to quantitatively better software that is qualitatively worse. There are two reasons for this:

1. QA teams come up with new ways to break software in the way humans use it. Automated tests etc confirm the software works as designed.

2. Because the org making this choice isn't stupid, they measure bug frequency and impact and find that "only X users have Y impact where Y is ranked as low" per each bug. No one bug is ever worth fixing. But, user X aren't seeing that one bug, they get hit by tens or hundreds of these on a regular basis. As a result, their perceived experience with a given product is poor and it feels buggy.

This idea that you can measure bugs in isolation and deliver perceived product quality is faulty. A user experiences a product as a whole, and if you can't evaluate that as well, you will be seen as delivering a poor product.
> Only America (and partially Canada) use the US customary system (which is different from the Imperial system.

The US armed forces use metric, right?
https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/3d-mammos-outperf...

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/breast-cancer/screening-tests-...

Related articles on the subject.

Something that should be kept in mind is that false positives should always be talked about alongside false negatives. There is no perfect test, and often in medicine there is an increase in one of those in order to decrease the other.

"A false-negative mammogram looks normal even though breast cancer is present. Overall, screening mammograms miss about 1 in 8 breast cancer"

It isn't discussed in the OP article, and I could not easily find something that differentiates false-negative rates in 2D vs 3D mammograms, but the cost of over-diagnosis might be worth it if that means less cancers go unnoticed in screenings.
> For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally (and IQ tests specifically).

I think part of the issue is that it's very hard to measure intelligence accurately (whatever that means) across cultural divides. If you gave an American IQ test (e.g. an SAT) to Europeans, Asians, and Africans you'll likely get different results, not (necessarily) because of innate differences but because of educational/cultural backgrounds. Poverty levels can also change scores.

This makes it tricky to know what to do with these scores and we need to acknowledge that. This leads some to conclude that we should get rid of the notion of a measurable IQ altogether. That goes too far in my opinion but I understand their concern.
OP here. The online exam is run by Pearson Vue. With my brief research I found it’s a British company. That could be the reason they use AM/PM.

I think with better UX on their scheduling app this would have been avoided. Imagine how much cost they could save with minor improvement. It wasted the proctors, customer service and my time. Unless they don't acknowledge own fault and require customers to pay for another exam.

But the thing that made me realize is that the root case is the time notation itself. Imagine how much frustration and unnecessary expenses this could inflict in general.
Running McAfee products on all production servers.

Lots of issues historically, and recently for that.
Use xhtml with no css.
> Dynamic pricing is a good thing

I'm not sure dynamic pricing is necessarily pareto improving (I think this might be what you mean by "is a good thing"? For folks that are learning this lingo, pareto improving -- at least one party better off and none worse off). I'd have to think through it a bit.
>For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally (and IQ tests specifically).

The reason is that general intelligence tests show differences between racial and ethnic groups. Which isn't shocking, as intelligence is certainly driven by genetics and compounded by culture. But because it is, it upsets people.

IQ testing is a pretty valuable filtering mechanism. Smart people are really important to advancing society. Replacing it with some other, more subjective metric just moves the filter into the realm of political control.

Which seems like a bad idea to me, but what do I know? I'm not a genderqueer left-handed ginger aboriginal, so I'm not very smart.
Signal, Twitter, Snapchat, Discord, Zoom, etc won't be affected. Maybe even TikTok. It's basically just anything by Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon, and perhaps a few odd ones like Steam and Epic's services.
Note that this is not due to bad tests, just a counter-intuitive probabilistic result happening when one tries to detect an a priori very rare condition.

It follows from a straightforward application of Bayes formula:

- Suppose a person has 1% chance of getting cancer, so p(cancer) = 0.01

- Suppose that the test has 99% sensitivity and specificity, i.e., p(positive | cancer) = p(negative | no cancer) = 0.99

- To use Bayes we first need the probability of a positive result regardless of disease status, i.e. p(positive) = p(positive | cancer) * p(cancer) + p(positive | no cancer) * p(no cancer) = 0.99 * 0.01 + 0.01 * 0.99 = 0.0198

- Then by Bayes we have p(cancer | positive) = p(positive | cancer) * p(cancer) / p(positive) = 0.99 * 0.01 / 0.0198 = 0.5

And things get worse the rarer the condition is. When p(cancer) = 0.5 the computations above give p(cancer | positive) = 0.99, and when p(cancer) = 0.001 then p(cancer | positive) = 0.09.

In other words, the rarer the condition, the more precise tests have to be.
I vouch what another comment said, take the consulting route. I've said this before, but in 2019 I've switched to consulting because I've wasted close to 6 months of that year applying to jobs. The hiring processes were that bad for me at the time. And I'm only in my 30s and didn't even have to consider any age bias.

Another practice is applying en masse, if you're not already doing that. I used to apply sequentially to jobs, picking only the best fit and going through the interview process one by one. A waste of time, bulk apply to dozen of job listing (and directly to companies) and pick the first company that throws in an offer (and which also seems decent during the interview).
"Corrupted by political activism" is probably going too far. It's not controversial to acknowledge that lots of historical attempts to measure intelligence have been pretty biased in favor of English speaking white men. Many of those attempts were biased just because of unexamined biases (the kind everyone has). Unfortunately some were also very deliberate spins (one notable example being the book The Bell Curve).

I think it's reasonable to conclude that measuring intelligence isn't valuable enough for all of the negative externalities attached to it given how the world currently is. But then from there it's easy to make the easy jump to saying it's impossible to measure intelligence without those negative externalities, which is probably not true. But if you can't measure intelligence without significant bias, you aren't really measuring it at all, you're just measuring your biases.
Maybe that's what happened. I removed everything from the lock screen and she could have inadvertently locked the screen.
Palantir is operating under the idea that "The AI will figure it out once we can access all the data"

This is a mistake because:

1. A lot of the data at big orgs is garbage or only understandable within a certain context by specific people.
2. Internal politics within lots of organizations prevents access to this data.
3. The AI cannot just figure it out. You need tons of humans in the mix which brings you back to #1 and #2.
On Android TVs, you can install launchers to replace the absolute dogshit launcher that Google has pushed with the latest big updates, thankfully.
Most software is no longer this self contained. It doesn’t need to be that way but often is.

Around 9/11, I was responsible for a major system component that turned out (shocker) to be a lot more work than anyone had estimated, so I spent the week before and the month after 9/11 working fully remote so that I could dedicate every waking hour to the component. Putting aside the lack of balance, it was the most productive I have been in my life despite the high distraction of the news in the outside world.

But the last two years have been nothing like that. Some of that is my current role, and some of that is that building complex systems requires more coordination, but it also seems to me that there is some issue both around engineer depth on average (previous example, everyone was fluent in reading code and it spoke for itself) and that software these days in large companies has just so much internet-group overhead.

And video conferencing is a punishment in most large companies, worse than a phone call because it seems, to me, to result in people paying less attention. I may be alone in that though.
Check the “Mental tests aren’t not cigars” section again - it addresses that.
To the extent the article gets anything wrong, it's the focus on just Microsoft. Microsoft is not some lone, bad actor here.
Ask HN: IVR App for Android?
A common hassle linked to having a phone is spam [robo]calls.

I'd love to have an IVR app answering my phone calls, so that it plays a pre-recorded menu and asks callers to press a digit to actually call me. Ideally, I would ask people to press a different number depending on the call's nature (think commercial offer vs job-related call vs friends/family vs emergency), and I'd love to even have a "secret" code for special people that would make the phone actually ring even while I'm asleep.

Android being open-source, I guess the Telephone app source should be available, so maybe someone already built some programmable capabilities on top of it?
Honestly, I regret arguing on this point. There’s no reason for me to continue on it, since it has nothing to do with what I was really trying to discuss about X11 apps. Still, 8 MiB/s is a shit ton of data, and given that it is screen data I’m sure it would zlib compress very well. Is it shipping the whole app as one pixmap? I am not really making that claim, though I actually thought they dropped XRender based QPainter somewhere in Qt 4, but it’s not plainly obvious that they did. I’ll concede on that. It’s still mostly shipping pixmaps either way, especially depending on how things nest, because the text is absolutely all pixmaps, but it would be more efficient by a decent bit than shipping the entire app as pixmaps due to being able to do compositing on-server.

It doesn’t change anything about DPI independence, because neither XRender nor the basic X drawing functions provide you with scalability built-in.
I would try to identify an ecosystem where he could start building on his own: Custom Shopify functionality, Wordpress plugins etc. he can try to find small customers with simple needs and scale up as he learns. The ecosystem will provide him some guardrails and shrink the surface area to something manageable. You could coach him as he goes if you have time.
I will be able to tell you in a moment as I am installing it at the moment.
In most surveys of this, there are substantial numbers of people who want to get back to the office. That doesn't mean we should ignore the people who don't want to, but the opposite is also true.

It's also about the other businesses that are enabled by having significant number of non-at-home workers in the neighborhood. I'm not saying that this should outweigh or override anything else, but I am saying you don't have to be this cynical.