skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two observations:

1) people who seem to have gotten the highest scores are not following directions properly (e.g. someone on Twitter who got >98 used decidedly technical terms like "codec", despite clear instructions not to use technical jargon)

2) this seems to measure how extensive your vocabulary is (e.g. obscure noncommon words seem to score much higher than common words, even though the common words may be quite diverse, seemingly simply because common words are...well, more common and so more likely to be mentioned in a sentence together, just owing to English sentence structure).

I don't understand how knowledge of a broad amount of words maps to creativity? The person who would do best on this test is someone who knows a variety of very obscure nouns. In other words, someone who memorizes a wordlist. How does this map onto creativity?

Case in point: young children are extremely creative, and yet I predict would score very low on this test owing to a very limited vocabulary.
I have never heard a Canadian say that, in fact as a (also) Latin American immigrant it was made clear to me that “Canada is not America you retard” in high school.

I agree with Latin Americans, for what its worth. USA is “United States of America” not “United States, America”. But its a useless fight. In Spanish Ill be precise.
I like to program kind of like that also since it's easier to me than using frameworks usually. But why are you "irreplaceable"? I mean, people can't understand JavaScript and normal HTML unless everything is in a React project or something?
Definitely. There needs to be QA's and Designers and PM's and all sorts of roles within tech. Even having a little technical experience in some of these roles will be a big advantage.
And how would what you're doing differ from "diagnosing someone based off a blog post"? You've decided they don't have it. Do you have information other than the blog post that allowed you to come to that conclusion?
> Then he rejected the offer of $ 50,000

You can’t reject your own offer!
"only 2-10% of rape accusations (Prof Ford's lawyer says she believes this was attempted rape) are proven to be fake"

Not "very very few" in this context at all. It's extremely high!

Due process doesn't have to be 100% infallible but it should certainly be resistant to hostile corruption like those 2-10% of rape accusations.
Right, a disorder is something that interferes materially with your life.
What I do right now is typing with the keyboard and extensive use of the GUI with my fingers. So I'd still want at least a detachable keyboard, but also use it in full tablet mode. Among its uses, I'd read sheet music from it at band practice.
If only we could say how we truly felt
So if we just look at the score, is the conclusion of this test that if you limit yourself to respect the rule, you are not creative ?

Honestly, I don't see any justification why this score should be correlated to creativity.
Even if the GP claim was true, it does not follow that every thing that is being "laughed at and only adopted by nerds" is the next big thing to redefine the industry.

Augmented reality has some nice properties in a number of contexts. In others, it's totally irrelevant. Whether someone will come out with a product that will make it irreplaceable is a different matter.

It's like touch keyboards. Sure, they are better than phone keypad-style keyboards for entering text, but actual physical input still performs better. They are a different paradigm that allows device manufacturers to provide a more often desired feature (larger screens), but while they are winning over in places where they do not fit (like in-car infotainment systems), almost everybody prefers physical knobs for a number of features (like climate control). This will likely lead to a reversal of the trend.
I've been working in the computer industry for over 30 years and I never went to school I was self-taught and never took any boot camp and never went to a diploma mill either so I know that those resumes generally get thrown in the trash, but if you're going to talk the talk, you got to walk the walk too so the real test is on the interview(s)....if you can pass the interview(s) then generally you can get the job but you also have to be able to do the job so whatever it is that you're claiming that you're an expert in you should really try to be one. This goes with any trade, especially the ones that don't require licenses by law.

Prior to the web in the 1990s I would say it was a lot harder than it is today to try to figure out and become the guru kind of person that you needed to be in the early 1990s and it was a lot of it was because the just there was not a lot of material about the subject matter like Unix and software engineering and just the web was not available there was no PDF so today it's a lot easier than it used to be for sure, I'm saying to become self-taught. anybody can download a PDF about some subject matter read it spend a lot of time and become an expert, compared to anything prior to the early 1990s. The way that I became an expert in the early 1990s was by reading source code and figuring things out because there was just no documentation for anything. as a matter of fact the reason why I got into software engineering in the first place was because so much stuff was broken and just never worked that I spent more time debugging software than I did actually using it...

as far as experience, you can get experience just by volunteering or doing internships and then using that as leverage on your resume to get real jobs when you don't have experience. When I was in my early teens I volunteered at random internet/BBS providers to fix their broken systems, and this turns into experience that you can put on your resume.
>"...And then back into the closet that information goes."

Or used against you. Happened several times in my life, no thank you. The iron thing is. Most of them are working in care.
Yes, but not everyone has the talent to learn quickly, get good enough to get a job, and to keep that job.

I'll give a metaphor. I always wanted to learn how to kickflip as a kid, but I sucked at skateboarding. It took me 10 years, many pairs of shoes, and tens of thousands of tries later to land a kickflip. Can I kickflip? Yes, barely. But does that mean it would be worth my time to pursue skateboarding beyond doing kickflips? Probably not. I just don't have the talent for it. Other people learned to kickflip their first few months of skateboarding.
Ive reminds me of a pretty good designer elevated at the right place at the right time
Intel never had smartphones to lose. Inetl can generate all the same advantages as amd by simply buying Chips from TSMC if they want (and they already do for some chipsets) so there is no operational disadvantage. Intel is already mostly caught up to amd and will be making significantly more per chip than amd very soon.

TSMC is competing for something Intel doesn't want to sell. Intel even when it was in the lead wasn't tabbing it's newest process for 3rd parties. You're declaring TSMC Victor in a game Intel never played. And in a handful of years if Intel gains back process advantages you will likely still declare them the loser for not playing the cutting edge fab for other companies game they don't want to play.

TSMC is not playing the same game Intel is, and in 2021 when by all accounts Intel was behind TSMC and and, they still managed to make similar profit to TSMC and laugh at AMD's inability to buy enough chips to make anything close to competition for either Intel or Nvidia.

Now they're also getting into graphics cards and have largely caught uP with amd designs. Their future is bright.
The problem is that the adjective “United Statian” is a mouthful; Yankee (my dad’s favorite) unfair; gringo refers (used to?) to Italians in Argentina.

United States doesn't have an adjective. Colombian would be nice, but its also taken and now problematic.
What if 10% of children are afflicted by a mental condition because of pollutants, or other problems of modern life? Is it okay to medicate then so that they won't be have substandard lives compared to 90% of children?
I mean offer as in offer and demand. There isn't many people with the engineering skills, ML expertise and on-the-job experience.

The barrier for entry means that interviewing for the job, even with experience, is very difficult. As others said maybe the different is there is huge demand. Still I find it paradoxical. You'd think having experience in a field with high demand and low offer would be a pretty good deal. And yet it would be easier for me to find a job as a generalist than as an specialist.

My advice to get in is based on my experience so YMMV.

I'd say the easiest way is to transfer internally to an ML position. That's how I got here. If you are a solid engineer, teams are happy to fill in your ML knowledge gaps. Anecdotically most people I interview got to ML the same way. If your company doesn't have official ML Engineer roles or ML projects, you can position yourself to jump in when the opportunity arises, or even pitch a project yourself (leadership seems to be suckers for ML-for-anything).

The second easiest way is as a student/new grad/junior. Expectations for juniors are lower so it's always easier to get in. The ML round of the interview is mostly theoretical so students aren't at a disadvantage.
Oh, I've never heard that! I might have to make some diet changes now... At least for breakfast/lunch
I use a program called Latexdraw that gives the best of both worlds. You can draw with the GUI and get pstricks code and use latex expressions and math fonts. (Free, author accepts donations)
http://latexdraw.sourceforge.net/
>Having a high IQ, being economically privileged, very good looking,is going to change the impact ADHD has on someone.

In my case it meant staying out of jail, managing to graduate college and getting a career I could thrive in. Still... serious downsides along the way and always a struggle to hold it all together.
Still doesn't really make sense because the ISP still incurs the same expense. They had to buy that capacity which still exists while you are taking a short holiday. If its a long holiday you can cancel the service for that time.

If your service doesn't work for a significant period, you likely can receive some compensation enforced by a government body.
1. Flagging != removal. Flagging raises awareness of issues with content to the actual moderation team and/or algorith. The removal process remains with YouTube.

2. There are governments not subject to the US Constitution and its First Amendment.

The actual story here is that flagging seems to be increasingly a capability that's being withdrawn from ordinary, or even selectively chosen, YouTube users, and instead is being permitted only to specifically chosen groups and organisations.
> To ensure speed I wanted them to all be static HTML

Feels like people shoehorn Gatsby too much into those kinds of situations. Bless you for keeping the dream alive - every time I see well written and small HTML/CSS/JS code on a landing page I want to scream.

Despite knowing React and being familiar enough with Vue, Angular etc. I still get imposter syndrome when I see a site's markup and see weird artefacting that comes from some framework that I have never heard of.
I would assume from the fact they were diagnosed (as they stated) by a professional (hopefully)?

As someone who also fights an internal battle with my diagnosis 24/7, comments like this are not helpful and can even be hurtful.

Would you ask someone with a hearing aid how they could be sure they were deaf? Or someone wheelchair bound how they could be sure they can't just walk if they try hard enough?

The world of work that we have made for ourselves as a society can be as inaccessible as the built environment can be to those who need accommodations to move around it safely.
I literally just reacted to my surrounding environment, because I’m sound sensitive and I was curious what would happen if I just used what I pick up from my environment. Maybe creative? I was just wondering how the thing works. 90-something% and I didn’t bother to keep a reference. I was actively regurgitating other thoughts expressed around me, but with no intention other than understanding what’s being measured. Again maybe that’s creative, but it wasn’t intentional.
Well, I would be one to argue that the US de facto defaults all the time.

But Nixon’s gold window was the most egregious.
> I don’t follow your logic here. Why do you say that? FWIW what I’m saying here is supported by psychiatrists who prescribe the medication.

That's interesting, because I was thinking of something my psychiatrist said - he explained it as something like "your frontal lobe doesn't work properly" and compared it to a lightbulb flickering on and off. Of course, his practice targets engineers and I expect he just says things that sound good.

But they also start off by prescribing medication before anything else, and then diet and exercise. For a personality disorder or something like PTSD, wouldn't you start with therapy and then consider medication after?
fcd – LLVM-based native program optimizing decompiler
We run high-touch recruiting programs with a small number of schools. We send people to their career fairs. We take multiple years to build a strong presence on campus. Our recruiting team has finite resources and time.

As a result, our hiring program only directly targets Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, UW, UM, and a small set of other US schools. Recently, we dropped Northwestern from our list, because it just wasn't yielding a good number of candidates.

We obviously hire candidates from a variety of other schools and backgrounds, but we don't seek them out. For example, we'll reach out to you if someone already at Palantir makes a strong recommendation. But we are absolutely not looking for you as a first priority ahead of our college hiring.
What does that actually refer to—that humans pretend not to be animals?
I want a phone that knows I'm going to put a screen protector on it and put it in a case.

So what if it's thinner? I'm going to put it in a case that makes it huge. Design it with the case in mind. You put a stupid camera bulge on it. The whole phone could be the thickness of the bulge.

Why do I have to put a screen protector on it? Why doesn't it come from the factory with a screen protector?

I don't know how to design a phone that knows it will be wearing clothes, but it should be obvious to designers that many people do not use a naked phone.
+1 ! They actually did some coverage of projects in India, if I recall correctly, showing water harvesting techniques that accelerated biomass growth.
Same here. I don't think I or these words are particularly creative, but they got me to 99.17%:

bacon trumpet motorcycle galaxy decimeter phosphorus plumber

Maybe "decimeter" is slightly technical, but the others, definitely not.
I understand your example, but it's not very convincing. Purchasing a license for use seems extremely different from a book scenario for licensed material, where I imagine Lucasfilms owned the actual book and its contents.

I suppose my question wasn't very precise. There are lots of contracts for licenses and the like that state they are non-transferable. Imagine you did not put that in there. Is there some sort of contract law backstop to prevent this from happening then?
I agree that some people could choose to see the positive aspects of adhd because it's less painful, but it doesn't mean they are deluding themselves. As a startup founder I think adhd worked both for and against me. Hyperfocus, the ability to perceive constant emergencies as fun, mania, etc. Downsides were very real too; dropping out of college because it was too boring, not opening my mail on time, being late with things, being disorganized, etc. Now that I have access to medication, I see it as a net positive.
I increased a game’s completion rate by 32% (What’s My Word)
With the huge interest generated by Wordle, our company has created a Wordle inspired game with the ability to make custom words as our co-worker posted the news here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31106825).

As a PM, I looked at the user funnel’s data and found the following issues below;
Players who comes into the game have shown interest in this type of games
Puzzle Start (from Game Start)
All Users => 80.1%
Players come from Share => 100%
But players (coming from shared links?) are dropping out of the game without completing a row
One row complete (from Game Start)
All users => 17.7%
Players come from Share => 70%
Puzzle Complete
All users => 11.80%
Players come from Share => 70%
It seemed like the best way to make a player finish the Puzzle is to make them complete at least one row. We have come up with the following Hypothesis and test to see if our Hypothesis is correct.

Hypothesis: Increase in 1st row complete will increase Puzzle Completion rate; looking at the funnel analysis, increase rate of Puzzle completion will be similar to increase rate of 1 row Complete rate.
Hint word will appeal on the first row if player does not complete the 1st row
Hint word will have one letter which is in the answer but in the different location

We ran the test for about a week and got the results below:
One row complete => Saw 34.2% improvement
Puzzle Complete => 32.1% improvement
I think the lesson learned here is don't reply to offers unless you really want to sell.
I disagree.

How would you be able to validate data that you can map to your tables without hitting the db?

If you wanted to add a new row of data to one of your tables, you would have to hit the db, get row columns and make sure that data fits.

Or you could write out your table structure separately outside of the db, and validate against that, but that would just leave you with two sources of truth which is an antipattern.

Or you could just use an ORM.

I'm fluent in SQL, and understand the solutions that ORMs solve - it's not just a pure abstraction over sql queries, but the tooling and utility provided wrapping around that is what makes it so powerful.
Video seems to be private.
The more users, the less likely you are to use an off-the-shelf framework.

Netflix: https://netflixtechblog.com/building-the-new-netflix-experie...

Facebook: https://blog.risingstack.com/the-history-of-react-js-on-a-ti...

Edit: find out what framework (although it didn’t work on some urls I tried): https://www.wappalyzer.com/
Encapsulated 'freeze dried alcohol' aka 'powdered alcohol'

<https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='freeze dried alcohol' '...>
Yes, definitely this. I do not see how this test claims to measure creativity. It is essentially a vocabulary test.
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The canonical example of why atomic database transactions are needed has always been transferring money from one account to another without creating a temporary imbalance.

Yet the actual real world financial industry has never solved the issue and doesn't care! It's just numbers...
It was driven by power and heat for the portable market. Intel x86 laptops were the best at the time and PPC couldn’t compete especially with thin and light.
I already had a job but I literally got an offer without an interview after giving a talk at a meetup. And I just think generally if you keep attending one and get to know some people they'll eventually have referrals for you, a lot of people need talent.
It's been a while, but IIRC the integrated GPUs are only L3-cache coherent. So while that greatly improves the memcpy problem, anything that would have fit in L1 and does a bunch of math may still be a better fit for AVX2 or AVX-512.
That sounds like a truism, but actually I am not sure it follows. You
may be thinking of data, but knowledge is different.

Consider the ordering of:

Signals (semantic/non-entropy (changes that have meaning))

Data (interpretable signals)

Information (data that informs)

Useful Information

Knowledge (justifiable, true and useful information in context)

Wisdom (knowledge applicable to human survival and evolution)

Then, given Sturgeons Law that 99% of everything is rubbish at each
level then "knowledge" is not growing as fast as you might think (and
much human knowledge is lost at a terrible rate). Humans presently
generate about 2-5 Exabytes of raw data per year. Only a small
fraction of that is information, considerably less is useful
information, and some fraction of that - in the form of good quality
books, journals, papers etc, encoded without redundancy, is probably
in the order of 100s of gigabytes per year. For over 70 years a shelf
of encyclopedias was considered approximate summary of essential
knowledge. It's not implausible that storage growth could overtake
knowledge production at some point in the not to distance future.
My main grip with having ADHD is why it's so damn hard to do simple things like open the mail or make a phone call, it's almost like needing a secretary to survive. Second gripe is how hard it is to get an appointment to get medication sorted. I've never felt judged or victimized for it, though I have felt personally lacking due to my struggles to get things done.
https://archive.ph/jS9wI
TLDR; Had to install MRPI first (extension of KUAL), simply by extracting it into kindle's root, and keeping KUAL (coplate's patch) in mrpackages, original KUAL didn't show up. Then simply following koreaders guide.
My thoughts as well. Tshark supports a ton of dissectors. How does this project compare? Being in go, can it reuse the Wireshark dissectors that are written in C?
> brute-force solution... Hint: you only need two loops.

Well, yes, there are all sorts of tricks, including the use of a solver :)

In my earlier post, read "brute-force" as "full enumeration". The comment was about dev's intuitions re: the time required to fully enumerate a space; ie when is it worth thinking about anything other than the stupidest solution possible.
This is silly. Yes, the cult of OO (and overuse of OO) is bad. But at the end of the day it helps people get stuff done. Even if it may be "flawed" in concept. So in that category it's just like ... Unix, TCP/IP, or ... ASCII, or ... just about any large-scale programming language you can think of.

Just another variant in the "Why the 'else' statement is bad" genre, this video.
Optimisers are perfect for solving problems where you don’t have access to a large training set. I actually recommend starting with an optimisation algorithm first and only then try NN if using an optimisation algorithm isn’t enough to solve the problem.
Isn't that just the nature of exploring things that are hard to experiment/interact with? (It would be difficult to directly speed up time on cosmological scales or manipulate galactic clusters for experimentation)

How wikipedia explains consensus:

> The term non-standard is applied to any theory that does not conform to the scientific consensus. Because the term depends on the prevailing consensus, the meaning of the term changes over time. For example, hot dark matter would not have been considered non-standard in 1990, but would be in 2010. Conversely, a non-zero cosmological constant resulting in an accelerating universe would have been considered non-standard in 1990, but is part of the standard cosmology in 2010.
I joked about the last advent of code, finding problems that could be parallelized and try to solve them with OpenMP. Sadly at the time I was stuck with a machine that had a god awful 2 core AMD CPU that struggled to browse the web.
So you would agree it's not meaningless?
Your example is one enabled by the application, not by the platform. You can find easier video editors on windows or on android as well.
I have family members with similar issues. If you could could elaborate, what are the common situations when ADD works in your favor, and what are the times when you find you need your brain to work differently?