skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 450 NBA players and 250 golfers on the PGA tour. So if you take this out of a sample of just men in the USA (massive underestimate), then to be a NBA player is about 3 / million and pro golfer is about 2 / million. So that means if there was no correlation, to be both would be 6 / trillion. So if they were correlated such that the combination is 100x more likely than average, the odds would be 0.6 / billion, or 2 men on Earth. But, this doesn't take into account the tradeoff in training time between the 2 sports. Realistically, that would be zero people. So one would expect even with a strong correlation, nobody would be able to be a pro athlete in multiple sports. But wait, some people have! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deion_Sanders, and your example of Michael Jordan was able to play in the minor leagues of MLB, something that most people could never come close to if they trained for it their whole life. So, yes, there is absolutely a general athleticism.

edit: so would be higher numbers because would have to take into account number of people who have been pro athletes at some point in their life, not just right now. But not enough higher that the point doesn't stand.
I remember reading that, back in the day. I wonder what Fisher would think of Russell Brand these days. That dude has really gone off the deep end, it's sad.

Also in all these critiques of wokeness, the conversation always seems to involve Twitter. Maybe Twitter, the realm of hot-takes and snappy one-liners, just isn't a place where people should spend their time?
I'll try Manjaro then; it definitely doesn't work on an up-to-date postmarketOS on a (non-pro) pinephone.

[edit]

Can confirm keyboard works in FF on Manjaro, but it has other jankiness (e.g. it seems to think it is much wider than the screen).
It’s part of negotiating down punishments, in lieu of a big fine we’ll agree to force our staff to watch ethics videos.
Ask HN: Making PCB from home best option?
I’m thinking about https://www.voltera.io/. I’ve tried a mill at home but had issues with alignment. Id like to avoid chemicals… I’ve had great success with jlcpcb - but it takes to long… any recommendations?
The corner and edge pieces are guaranteed to have the right orientation, but the center pieces can be in any 90° orientation. Imagine an arrow printed on a center piece; a cube can be solved and still have that arrow pointing to any of the 4 neighboring sides.

Here's a video explaining special algorithms to rotate only the center piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk1eCZNCTB4
This seems to be a pretty common setup. I’ve heard opinions on both sides about whether it is a good idea.

One of the biggest challenges with it for me is that a dev who is a dev is a very different personality who a dev who manages the entire SDLC.

The former placed in the latter environment is going to be lost and annoyed at all the moving parts. They signed up to write code and to trust that the process would deliver good requirements.

The latter in the former environment is going to be frustrated by all the process. They signed up to really own the product and realize that they really just own a block of a process.

I suspect either can work if you have people suited for each. Switching people between them sounds like a recipe for attrition though.
The cigar analogy with rotation symmetry lost me.

As each axis measures something different, there is some sense of unit dependency (e.g. measuring height in one axis (cm) and measuring weight in another axis (kg)). It is silly to say one number in one axis with a different unit is comparable to another one in another axis.

A different way to say it is that each axis can be (should be) normalized before any kind of factor analysis. The cigar shape is as much a function of per-axis normalization than whatever the underlying pattern is.
> I’m thinking of a construction PM. The job could mainly be done at home other then when needed to meet GC on site.

I’m sure all the blue collar construction workers would totally respect the PM even more than they do now if they didn’t show up on site…

There is an awful lot of privilege going on behind the scenes in these WFH debates.
Perfect example of the Curse, thank you.
I doubt it does any of those (the substances used to make it still will come from similar exploited labor [1] and or have climate consequences), and on top it's not chocolate.

[1] "But what if a chocolate bar could be made from other plants instead?"
Have you looked for answers to your question, and if so, what did you find?

There’s an absolute avalanche of data on this topic - do you want pointers to it, or are you looking to soapbox?
I think you've got the numbers mixed up according to the paper https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... "tomosynthesis [3D mammogram] vs digital mammography [previous test] for all outcomes: 49.6% vs 56.3%"
It was easy to be optimistic about the future when it felt like each decade things were becoming better than the decade before.
This was true in the late 80's early 90's when we used to go up to Redmond from California to pow wow, but I heard that's not true anymore. Also, if any Microsofties are reading this, how would I got about getting the source code of Works for the Mac? It was about 200,000 lines of 68000 asm code that I'm thinking of trying to get to run in the browser. I may make a formal request to Microsoft if I get more motivated about it. I lost my copy along the way.
You get economies of scale with larger companies. The regulations are usually 1 worker per x kids, if I recall and not much more than that. It's not that strict at all. Of course if you had daycare at your company you could have a large room or a wing with a playroom and all that. It's pennies on the dollar to retain good talent, if you actually want to force people back in the office.
you're not thinking like a bureaucrat

they can do it exceptionally slowly and specifically
Common Lisp has bit string literals:

Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.11-r16812M (DarwinX8664)!

? #*010010010101001
#*010010010101001
? (type-of *)
(SIMPLE-BIT-VECTOR 15)
About the USB keyboard, that may be true only for the cheapest keyboard you could find, but basically not applicable anymore nowadays. Rather than giving you the details, let me link to this video, which is awesome at explaining it and much more -- the USB vs PS/2 part starts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdgULBpRoXk&t=1766s
Since this is the most descriptive line out of the highlights section, I personally enjoy that this is the content chosen instead of the "clickbaity" page title which would be "How many jobs can be done at home?".
Popularity and quality do not necessarily equate either, but I think there are many people not competing in this arena that would boost the overall quality. I remember the old commercials on TV about Slim Whitman claiming to have sold more albums than Elvis and The Beatles combined. Can anyone here name more than one song, if that, from Slim Whitman? I am in my late 50s and when I take a glance at the most popular Tik Tok or Instagram or YouTube accounts, it makes me think that a culture with lots of time and luxuries on its hands produces mainly garbage watched by people with seemingly nothing better to do, a lot of narcissism; I get guilty reading HN more than 20 min. per day, but I find the discussions thought-provoking, and having programmed since 1978 on a Commodore PET 2001, among familiar folks and subjects.
My opinion as a former C# desktop app engineer is that TypeScript/React development is much further than that.
It's not pretty, but, everything else seems like a toy for children by comparison.
Find another course about building arm arch kernel writing: https://www.udemy.com/course/raspberry-pi-write-your-own-ope.... I did not take this course, but I took another course on architecture x86 from the same authors and it was pretty good. I have already written a comment in this thread about the course I took. Look for that my comment. It has the disadvantage that it is paid. Sorry for adv again.
I suspect this is one step closer to the gas shut off unless the India mediated sanction bypass works[1].

https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/india-russia-currency-swaps-by...
So if an American moved to Japan and was suggested to learn basic Japanese, it would be ludicrous and typically Japan-centric? They have a few customs as well, are those all ludicrous and typically Japan-focused?
When will OutKast apologize a Trillion times?
Yes although it might be readable in the same way that autotools configure scripts are readable -- technically you can, but you probably don't want to, and if you need to then something has gone badly wrong.
The way it generally happens on XMPP and Matrix is that the upload is stored at the sending user's server, and a URL is passed around. That means the choice is up to the operator of the sender's service as to what size files they allow, and how long for.

Applying this model to the case of a 4K video sent from iMessage, the file would be hosted by Apple, and you would merely receive a reference to it (i.e. URL) so you can fetch it when you come back online. It's natural to assume this model, as most platforms are already using it today, but of course this is all speculative until things get opened up.

On a final note, Pidgin is a poor choice of example in this case. It supports a much older version of XMPP, its support for the protocol actually hasn't evolved much in the past ~10 years or so. In particular it's missing support for this very file transfer mechanism, and a whole bunch of other things such as multi-device and modern E2EE (though there are third-party plugins attempting to plug some of these gaps). If you're planning to do XMPP in 2022, practically any other XMPP app that's actively developed supports the newer mechanism and many other modern features Pidgin lacks. For desktop that includes Gajim (cross-platform), Dino (Linux, experimentally Windows) and Beagle IM (MacOS).
Nowadays, I would recommend not using BIOS booting. Modern machines with UEFI firmware only emulate BIOS anyway, for backwards compatibility with old bootloaders.

UEFI gives you a much nicer initial environment — it's already in 64-bit long mode, for example, unlike BIOS which drops you into 8-bit real mode, with a maximum of one sector in which to perform all the gymnastics you need to do to load the rest of your program and switch to _at least_ 32-bit protected mode (notice how this PDF doesn't even go to 64-bit long mode).

UEFI also gives you better, easier to use boot facilities than BIOS: you can access a memory map, read from the boot file system, switch video modes, and even access network drivers. And you can access all this from long mode, unlike BIOS which only works in real mode. Then once you've booted you can take over the system by exiting the boot services, and have full control over the system just like you want for making an operating system.
What adblocker do you use? I would love to cancel my premium subscription. I used to use vanced on android, but I really like iOS since I've switched.
> but hate speech (in the form of blatant transphobia)

When did ESR voice hate speech in the form of blatant transphobia?
This is not related to LTE, just to roaming itself. In fact, even the manual of the first GSM phone I ever bought said as much (to store your numbers with the international prefix on the address book -- otherwise, they could fail to be matched while roaming).
This already happens on an extent on Delta's website. I've had it happen multiple times where I receive a higher upgrade offer price than others traveling with me on a separate reservation. Other times where even the price of the ticket is different, despite vehement denial from someone in Ed Bastian's office. Hence I frequently use incognito and change my VPN's location to search and get cheapest mileage-based offers since this isn't searchable on Google Flights. Quite scummy to think they're offering higher prices to their more loyal customers (I travel about 50k miles/yr on Delta). Makes me want to become an airline free agent since I'm in NYC and can get direct flights pretty much anywhere.
A return-to-office pain in the ass: Google is taking away its bidets
I can't image doing this professionally at his age. Just so much frustration, change, and BS.

Perhaps he could move into something related but low pressure. Maybe tutoring or teaching (likely not public schools). If he has to enough to retire, then maybe something as a volunteer, like web dev for a local non-profit.
Telling the entire engineering team that they need to move to a different city 1500 miles away.
Gender is behavior, and it’s negotiable.
> Also, Java 9 broke backward compatibility promise, and Java 17 broke it further by disabling a lot of default modules. Docker helps A/B testing multiple variation of JDK for our builds.

Does Java not have a version manager that lets you install multiple JDKs side-by-side and easily switch between them? For ecosystems I'm familiar with like Node.js and Rust this as is simple as a single command to install a given version and adding a text file with the required version to each repository(/directory) (it then gets used automatically when running code in that repo).

The answer for why not use Docker for development if you're using in production (on Windows/macOS) is that it's much slower. So the same reason that I have separate debug (fast compile time) and release (optimised) builds. If you're on Linux then Docker is great.
One problem is that g is not very well defined. It's just some vague factor.

I think it would make sense to define it as something like: the extent someone has well calibrated Bayesian reasoning that exploits information to its maximum to do accurate predictions.

It's hard to test though because there is a dearth of synthetic benchmarks or algorithms to compare to. Humans seem to still be better at performing these types of Bayesian "common sense" tasks than any synthetic procedure, so we can only compare using tests that we subjectively agree other "smart" humans seem to be good at.
A small dev shop in my view is a company (1-20 employees) that typically develops bespoke applications as turnkey projects, either from scratch or leveraging some existing stack (e.g. Wordpress applications, Salesforce applications, etc.)

I would look for companies that describe themselves as:

- Website design agencies

- Creative agencies (look at their webpage if they also have development and not purely design)

- Design & Development agencies

You should be able to find a handful just through a Google Maps search.

Reach out to them and ask if they could use some junior development support, and if there's a particular area they need support in.
as a flutter developer, I’ve been using firebase for my own apps..
What is the lesson you're alluding too?
Reading and using YUI3 (https://github.com/yui/yui3) took my JavaScript to the next level. It's no longer relevant because of improvements to the language, but it's the best model of readable JavaScript I've ever seen.
The fact that we just accept this as how it's gonna be is honestly disgusting.

I'm not saying you're accepting it. Just us as a society.
Wikipedia doesn't need PII in order to operate so this is a terribly unfair comparison when you think of a service providing something more in depth than a wiki. They are also non-profit.

"Following the spirit of the law" is authoritarian non-sense. I can do whatever I want unless its illegal. If the law cannot or does not spell something out how is that the public's problem? We spend enough blood sweat and tears employing legislators and bureacrats. I am not going to also do their job for them.
>I feel it may out those who don't want to be outed.

Not to get too off-track, but one of my close friends is directly affected by this, and it has cause them a lot of stress at work. Thankfully most of the the folks they directly work with are understanding, but still.
This. A maximally productive non-fungible employee has leverage, and employers hate that more than just about anything.
I was a big fan of Ricochet. Unfortunately development has been very slow. Great to see someone working on reviving the Ricochet experience. Will definitely check this out.
Exactly. Because you know what's better than paid shit ? Free shit. Especially if it contributes to me not showing ads _and_ costing Google. I am happy to steal your precious, endlessly reproducible bytes.
I was about to mention this. Thank God for Luke Smith.
It will take some time work through, but there will also be cost savings on office spaces for companies.
Don’t forget the suburban sprawl this sort of stuff will cause. Eating further and further into our natural habitats building giant houses for wealthy, privileged tech workers.
At Polish site, Ukrainians train to fly drones
But is the extra cost you pay (for that risk) fair relative to the risk of revenue loss for the airlines? I highly doubt that.

This is an industry that has a history of ever-increasing executive pay rates with gradual reductions in service quality, gradual increases in incidental fees, frequent bankruptcies, and occasional governmental bail-outs.
I started programming at 30 and started technical lead positions at 35. I'm teaching two friends in their 40s to program in Python.

I know there's still a considerable gap between 40s and 60s from my stories, but the point is that he should try it and you help him.
The degree to which the SAT is coachable is a subject of debate. The biggest studies have suggested that even private tutoring has an effect of less than 40 points.
What fisher and I suppose GP is saying that a future radically different from our own. Especially one that is not inherently just window dressed capitalism. In zizeks words "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism"

Without context these sound like hollow leftie catchphrases but especially Mark Fisher managed to show in many ways how this manifests in capitalist realism
But if they didn't even come close to measuring it then there would be no correlation ? It's not like these tests are applied retroactively to explain past performances - they offer actual predictive value. Selection bias can account for some of it but there are ways to test if this and from what I've seen it still holds up.
I'm not really sure anyone above has implied that intelligence is immutable - just that you can describe it generally.

Consider the physical fitness correlations in the article - I don't think anyone would argue that your level of physical fitness is immutable. But just because the value is mutable is no reason to disregard the current value - it can still be a meaningful and useful indicator.
The US apparently has agreements with UK that they can pick and choose anyone to serve their sentence in the US.

It's pretty ridiculous. UK is not really an independent country anymore.
There will definitely be a place for someone with your dad's blend of experience and interests. I'd suggest that possibly he'd be better in the product owner role, some tech interest and sympathy but with the wider perspective of the other jobs he's done.

That said, there's probably also a programming role where that not-programming experience would be an asset to someone who can also learn the code.

Of course there's probably many many other places where it wouldn't work, the trick is finding that correct fit. But most of being a good developer isn't programming it's thinking about the system, the use-case etc. There's plenty of rockstar guys who can code amazing solutions, but people with a wider experience and a different perspective are much rarer and can be more valuable.
MS is insanely powerful pretty much in every country in the world. They know damn well how to get into the power structures.
Turing completeness may be a flaw, but it is nearly impossible to avoid.
Oh, I agree with you. Influence isn’t necessarily hostile. Russia will need China more, and China will be happy to help. Maybe not on the same crippling-predatory-loan basis that they pursue in African country.

Climate change suggests value in places more northerly and a little further from the coast. If you’re a billion people relatively densely arranged, wide open space next door looks awful nice.
I think you can liken this to web assembly. The output might be text but it’s not intended to be human readable.
How can they trust the literature? The article was just talking about how the evidence can't be trusted.
I've heard the argument that even if there is a reliable measure of IQ and there is a measurable difference between groups of people, that knowledge only harms people and doesn't do any good, so we shouldn't pursue it anyways.

So I think to get everyone on the same page, you have to address that concern in some form, or there will be some people who are always against the idea of measurable intelligence.
Yes, this is generally true, but not always (although this is definitely an outlier). JFK-SCL was $1200 cash through the airline or $287 through a travel agent. Guess which I chose?
> On the contrary, that is precisely the atheists' claim

Not 100% correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

> Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2][3][4] Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist.[5][6] In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities.

You’re talking about the most narrow definition, which is addressed by Russell’s Teapot. According to Russel, the logical position that there is no teapot floating in space is much more reasonable in the absence of evidence than saying you don’t know. To say you don’t know and to continue to entertain theories of a teapot in space is simply a waste of time. Or, if you say you don’t know but refuse to entertain theories of the teapot, then you’re simply projecting agnosticism, without truly practicing it.

A more common application of the term “atheism” is the absence of belief. An absence of belief requires no proof. It’s a rejection of an assertion, which is different than an assertion.

In fact, it’s a common logical starting point of not believing in something until you have a reason to believe. I’m sure you do it all the time with knowledge that isn’t innate. And then of course as evidence presents itself you’re free to reevaluate and change your mind.

You don’t get any bonus points for “not ever being wrong” by saying “I don’t know” all the time. It’s perfectly reasonable to say “I don’t believe you.” Or “No, it doesn’t.” as long as you’re willing to accept future information and revise your views then. Not being wrong isn’t the same as being right.

Progress comes equally from doubt as it does from curiosity. Countless discoveries were made by rejecting unsubstantiated claims. So from a practical standpoint, rejecting theories seems to have some utility.

So, if accepting or rejecting a hypothesis helps someone live a better life, then why not?
Do you realize what you are saying? Would you feel the same when someone with the opinion that your vision is crappy, was to force you to rethink your stance on anything? Let alone on something your put insane amounts of time into?

I realize now that Signal will not be affected, only very large companies will. Nevertheless I find your attitude very concerning.
I agree. I mean in that interview he talks about being a kind nervous/asocial guy. I think Richard has said similar things. Do not blame them at all. And when you can music like they can, you can get away with letting the songs speak for themselves.
Macintosh Programmers Workshop had some tools but we mostly did it by hand so we tended to work on different parts of the program. If that was a problem our manager who owned the company would do a road trip to collect the new code that another person needed (we all lived in the Bay Area.) He had a big financial incentive to do so. Or we would get together, but that was not optimal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...