skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my gaming setup, I've been using 2 Samsung Odyssey G7 (model LS28AG700NNXZA) monitors for a few months. (28" 4k 144hz) After turning off the LEDs on the back, they don't give off obnoxious gamer vibes. They seem brighter and more saturated than any other displays I've used. Of course, the visuals are super smooth, both spatially and temporally. I haven't used them for any paid work, but I've been working on my blog with them. The only downside is that they have external power bricks. (Didn't monitors lose those 15 years ago?)

I don't know how they would work on Macs. There are monitors with the exact same specs from multiple manufacturers, and they all seem to use the same Innolux M280DCA-E7B panel. I looked at the equivalent 32" monitors, but a review or two said the 28" ones had less ghosting (AKA 'faster').

I'm 100% satisfied. I wonder when everyone else's ~24" 1080p60 monitors will look old and outdated to me.
They are controversial within popular culture but the idea that "Ability to solve these puzzles correlates with ability in a diverse range of cognitive abilities" is not controversial within the relevant scientific community.

Here's a nice short book which cites a lot of literature: https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-That-Matters-Stuart-Ritc...

There's even a vox explainer on it, hard to believe they would publish this today: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/24/11723182/iq-test-intelligence
As far as I know they’re mostly controversial because it’s politically incorrect to claim that a wide variety of cognitive skills correlate well with a single variable measured with a simple test. But IQ as measured with a progressive matrices test does seem to have real predictive power, although no correlation is ever 1.0, of course.
I'm not going to spell it out because it's one of those observations that's taboo even here, but it's pretty obvious why in the prevailing political climate this piece would get published in prestigious journals and a piece finding otherwise would not.
Trusting your gut over a paper published in Nature. Bold move!

Some people would use this as a moment to question what they know about dog breeds, but you choose to double down on your beliefs. Very human of you! [0][1][2][3]

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pathways-experie...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belief_perseverance

[2] http://aphilosopher.drmcl.com/2015/12/11/doubling-down/

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/10/0...
> In Go if you get a list of all the filenames in the current directory, it's a list of strings, and the fact that those aren't actually text is your problem, you will need to explicitly take care of this or you can't emit valid JSON.

You'll still emit valid json. The encoding/json doc says:

> String values encode as JSON strings coerced to valid UTF-8, replacing invalid bytes with the Unicode replacement rune.
I think it's something you have to work harder to find, and perhaps find less often as you grow up.

It's joyful to obsess over stuff; to try and get better; to try and understand.

There's two things, IMO, that get in the way as an adult:

* The crush of ordinary responsibility can not leave enough time for exploration and wonder.

* Related: We just get used to following a routine and not completely losing ourselves in something new. Maybe we tell ourselves we can't get good at new things anymore like we used to.

Revisiting old stuff, like Monkey Island, is fun; but it's not nearly as intense as something new. I'm looking forward to it and it will be entertaining to share with my family. It's been awhile since I've found this kind of pure fun and intensity in video games, but I'm sure it'll happen again.
You self-filtered into a group that's only about how smart people are, though.

In my experience, interesting conversations involve people with interests (and navel-gazing is antithetical to that).
Comparing Hare to Rust and Zig
I wondered if skipping was worse than answering randomly.
You have a very negative opinion about management. Please remember that managers are people too and they're (likely) trying their best too. Just as they give you feedback, it is often helpful to give upward feedback too. Especially if it's in the form of "I need you to do X to help me"
I've met plenty of people who've never left their metro area in the 3 decades they've been alive.

On the other hand, when my girlfriend asks me what I would like to do, she has to qualify it with: "inside of this state." I have driven across multiple states on a whim a few times over the past couple years.

The degree to which people crave novelty varies greatly.
Somehow that seems worse. Don't apply automatic filters to sketchy, fly-by-night spam sites that pop up and disappear, but do apply purely automatic filters to sites with a significant enough amount of legitimate traffic?

That seems to be exactly backwards of the way things should be done if it wasn't mostly security theater.
All these arguments against work-from-office/hybrid, not that I disagree with, but hasn't that been the case since forever, pre-Covid? I mean, how did working people live last time? How about people whose job can't be done WFH, like a surgeon or postman?

I'm almost 40, and most of my work life has been at the office (like most people who have experienced work pre-Covid). I also spent ~5 years WFH when running my small startup, although now I'm back in the corporate. In my opinion, and from asking around, what many people want is "choice". Hybrid seems to be that.
> There are some smarter that you and some less smart and you are most likely in the middle range somewhere.

This always seemed to me like an important piece of social intelligence. I've noticed that people who are intelligent enough to be smarter than most around them, but who take that to mean nobody else is as smart as they are, end up getting played a lot by other folks who recognize this failure.
> it's a bit naive or dishonest to say that it's exactly the same work experience

No one even made that claim. From the open letter:

> We definitely see the benefits of in-person collaboration; the kind of creative process that high bandwidth communication of being in the same room, not limited by technology, enables. But for many of us, this is not something we need every week, often not even every month, definitely not every day.
I don't think so.

Being able to switch what provider hosts your social media without losing your network is valuable (and has pro-social effects) without needing to self-host.

> That's how we've ended up with email being as difficult as it is to self-host.

I'm not sure what you mean, what's the "that", what do you think led to the situation where email is hard to self-host?

Even if hard to self-host, email succeeds in avoiding vendor lock-in if you have your own domain. Which most people don't, because of cost and because _that_ can be hard to manage for a normal person. But if fediverse succeeds at giving a typical person the lack of vendor lock-in that email-with-your-own-custom-domain does, I'd consider that a success on the criteria of what federation is meant to achieve.
>However, expecting (and demanding) that the other person can interpret your body language is also a choice.

It's not a choice, it's respecting millions of years of social evolution. You are arguing that the way peoples brains are wired should be ignored to accommodate *you*. Good luck with that.

Also not sure where body language rates up there like someone with an actual physical disability or people just being assholes (your language example). Good luck filing some sort of complaint about being "forced" to interpret body language.

This feels a whole hell of a lot like "this is hard and I don't want to learn how to do it so I'll make up some syndrom to excuse it". Bah.
So I am either very intelligent or ridiculously stupid. All I got was this message: "Your IQ lies outside the area that the test is able to measure. We are hoping to extend this area as soon as we have gathered more data."
They should just accept that they voluntarily joined a company that has always been very skewed towards in office work.
This isn't the point the OP was trying to make and you know that. Lesson one: don't assume the worst about people and don't make hyperbolic arguments in order to be "right". You might have more in-person success that way.
I came across this from one of the authors cited on the studies.
https://twitter.com/eenork/status/1520450288095797251?s=20&t...

My understanding is they use genomic traits across mutts to try and validate if its inheritable.
I agree that bitcoin solves a lot of the issues of corruption in governments by democratizing the currency rather than a centralized fiat that gets abused. However, bitcoin itself can become centralized if we do not all take a small stake in it via running nodes or at least participating in them.
Thanks, this looks awesome. But my use case is creative text generation (chatbots), which from a quick glance doesn’t seem to be a suggested use case for T0?

I’ve found that simply describing to text-davinci-002 how a chatbot should act gives you more fun and believable responses. For example I trained a trump bot on 2000 tweets (davinci non-instruct fine tuning), and it generated responses that were more boring than when I just wrote a sentence saying to please tweet like trump + a couple adjectives to help it.

I ran out of guest API credits on hugging face before I could trick T0 to respond with a chat completion longer than a few words. But I’ll try it some more later.
Wouldn't be surprised. Many people here seem to become insecure when it comes to puzzles. A lot of "I got bored" comments here and people hating on leetcode style problems when both are honestly quite fun and believe would be to any mind that has the horsepower for these.
I had the same thought. As soon as you recognize that there are only a handful of categories of patterns, recognizing the solution is just a matter of matching your question against a known pattern (e.g. this row rotates, you combine the two shapes to produce a third, this shape moves and this one doesn't, etc)

Taking a few of these over and over would quickly attune you to what to look for.

I suppose in a perfect world, you'd be able to generate a test with tricks the participant hadn't seen before to test how quickly a person could cultivate a list of patterns to check each question against.
One of the things that's different about modern videogames is that it's better to be at home with your own Xbox or PlayStation or PC if you want to play with your friends.

We have 4 Wii controllers because when the kids were younger they could play with friends and the games didn't take a lot of explaining.

Going further back, you needed an opponent, probably because the systems were doing all they could to keep track of the action and couldn't generate an opponent, too.

A couple of times my son has had a friend bring an Xbox and monitor over to play in the same room at the same time. Given that most Xbox's are connected to big (and fragile) TVs, a "LAN party" would be quite a feat.
Luckily I can remember back more than 6 months to know this isn't the case, so I don't need to sit here wondering.
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What service does you walking generate for others that they should pay you to do it?

As a daily walker, I have to say it is its own reward.
What does this mean? I didn't even get a score.

"Your IQ lies outside the area that the test is able to measure. We are hoping to extend this area as soon as we have gathered more data."
How can one prove that the selected answer is indeed the correct one? Isn't it possible that there are more concise explanations than the recognized "correct" answer that the author of the test didn't see (and indeed, couldn't have seen, since patterns are a huge powerset ...)

If the reply is that, well, it's the simplest elegant explanation .. isn't that an appeal to popular notion and not pattern recognition as a whole?

Is there any literature on the psychology of IQ tests?
I was thinking the same, but there's no reason to think that only "redundant" people will leave on moral grounds.

They will likely lose some brilliant people, too. Even worse, they may also lose people who have institutional knowledge that's critical to maintaining the service.
> "The deadly gold wars of Lesotho" would probably have been a more accurate title

Not really. The involvement in illegal mining comes later, and violence was part of the Famo before that. There's some suggestion that it was tensions over funeral funds, which is where these groups came from.

Edit: and I should add that the illegal gold mining happens in South Africa, not Lesotho (which afaik has no gold mines). See, for example, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-34589143.
He asked which states "don't care how many women are forced to give birth to their rapists children or die due to medical problems surrounding their pregnancy."

In return I not only told him how to identify other, but gave him a list of six which have pressured providers to close to the point where currently only one remains in the entire state. States who care about how many women can't get access to a life saving abortion don't try to make it impossible for women to get the care they need.
Lots more details from the authors on twitter.

https://twitter.com/eenork/status/1520450288095797251
I think it's fine, comes down to your reasons for trying the Fediverse. I'm not fully opposed to Twitter etc, a lot of people I'm interested in are there and I've managed to filter out the bad stuff to a reasonable extent.

Similarly I find the Fediverse interesting technically and there's at least some content I enjoy, so I have that too.

It's the same with Discord and Matrix. It's probably even better to have both accounts because then it isn't as much of a hurdle to move platforms if one thing doesn't go in the direction you'd like.

As for people leaving Twitter over Musk, I expect most of the big ones to quietly come back once they find an excuse, after all, most of them are mainly addicted to the attention, which isn't as easy to earn in the Fediverse due to a lack of a recommender system with perverse incentives to manipulate.
> And often how quickly you're able to do it, although this test seems to disregard that portion.

It has a time limit, so it does measure how quick you are.
SAD is not social anxiety, please pay attention to what you’re replying to.
Super. Loving this. The thing is, meaning has to be expressed somehow, otherwise it doesn't exist. This expression necessarily has a form then. And there we go. So can meaning be viewed as a linked network of forms? It definitely seems so.
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Hmm this is ... not bad! Wasn't aware of this before.
I still love pagination as the first citizen as it gets bottom margin right. But I think I can live with this page flip thing. Thanks!
In one on ones, or small groups, maybe, but most of my meetings are just board rooms full of glassy eyed people, staring, trying not to look like they're going to fall asleep, caching JUST enough of what's being said to respond without looking entirely stupid if called on by the only person who actually cares about the meeting: the person running it.

Most meetings can (and in my opinion should) be emails or chat messages. My rule is that I only go to meetings where there is a demonstration of some kind that cant be sent in an email, or cake.
This is spot-on.

Nearly all of our younger hires have their social networks _entirely online_, and most of our older employees are in a similar situation albeit with a few token IRL friends.

That said, I work in game development and I suspect that causes some selection bias.
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I feel like my programming knowledge helped, which maybe means it's a bad IQ test - being a programmer shouldn't mean your IQ tests higher. But then again, maybe the causality is the other way around?
Whether it's "ruined" is a matter of opinion, but it's objectively true that a variety of those stories are very popular.

It's possible that a more "authentic" version would have been even more popular, though I'm not sure that's always the case. I just don't see people flocking to see truer versions of The Little Mermaid or The Hunchback of Notre Dame. They might well be artistically more mature, but there's something to be said for stories that are so popular that they inspire people to dress up as the characters.
Responsible Disclosure: 6000 Vulnerability Submissions Later
There are a few proposals for how memory might work, but it's still early.

https://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/neuro/The%20mechanical%20ba...
Did you answer all the questions?
It sounds like your meetings need more structure.
HN hug of death. I didn't see any results. Even without shorting intention, this information would be interesting!
I don't mind research or clubs. If people want to have their own little puzzle club or whatever, that's entirely their right. And research into human intelligence is interesting wherever it goes.

What I'm skeptical of is applying stereotyping - and that's what this is, it's s predictive model that's based on averages, not the individual - to any kind of real decision that's any more weighty that letting you into a club. Like education decisions for example.
It can, and will.
Frankly neither do most old people- the number of older folks who still think you can show up to a business with a resume and get a job at the start of your career are out of their mind.

I've been working in this industry for 17 years now, and only five of that was in an office. I make an obscene amount of money, so it's not like this has harmed me. The idea that the kids need to suffer through an office so they know what it'll do to their career is about as out of date as the resume advice above.
You're saying it's expensive because... people on non-topical forums might tell you their opinion, uninformed of your circumstances?

If you choose language X, I advise learning it alongside people who know and use X. It seems like a no-brainer to me, and not all that expensive.
Spotted this in the code:

def _left_pad(text, indent=" "):
"""Maybe I can find a package in pypi for this?"""
return "\n".join(indent + line for line in text.split('\n'))

You can use the textwrap module from the Python standard library for this:

textwrap.indent('hello\nthis\n is a demo', ' ')
# ' hello\n this\n is a demo'
I scored 185 on an IQ test administered in the 5th grade ... 108 on this one!
No the analogy is wrong.
I appreciate your example devoid of periods and while I agree periods in natural language significantly reduce the cognitive overhead, it is only because sentences in english can have multiple statements.

Periods are not needed if each sentence span exactly one line, which is the case in programming languages.
the separators &&, ||, () do the intra statement disambiguation while for interstatement {} suffice. ; bring no value in practice. Using multiples semi colons on a single line is pathological code that should never exist in the first place.

When I code in Kotlin (which is not whitespace sensitive like python) I really realize that reading semicolon less code is smoother, it takes less cognitive resources (parsing is faster) and is more pleasant because the reading is not interrupted by vacuous symbols. There are no ambiguities in practice. The thing is, habits take time to die but ask anyone that has experience in an officially semi-colon less programming language, most will tell you it is a net improvement.
BTW the vast majority of newer programming languages are semi-colon-less (Kotlin, Go, Swift, Julia, Scala, etc)
One more note on the family bit:

I love my mother. I wish I talked to her more often. But I wish it were about whatever she's doing and not whatever stupid shit she's seen on Facebook. Some post from 8 years ago about killer mosquitos that are going to wipe us out so don't let the kids play outside. "This really happened to this person I've never met or even talked to on Facebook". Mom, I think we would have heard about towns getting wiped out by mosquitos. Though I guess she does have cataracts, so maybe she can't see the date field.

But you used to only get that kind of shit from Reader's Digest. So you only had to hear about it once per month, not every day, with old topics you thought were long dead suddenly coming back with a vengeance.

Society used to have bulkheads.
Starting at 4:10, from the video:

"People think there is more social connection.. ..but we found the exact opposite. So we found in the virtual condition, people are looking significantly more at their partner, almost double."

If anything, the video suggests video calls are problematic because individuals focus too much on being presentable and looking at their conference partners, rather than putting their focus on the actual activity. Quite the opposite of tuning out deliberately (even if this is still possible).
Tech employees organizing their workplaces drew on this mutual aid tool
Years ago I loved mandrill. After they got acquired by Mailchimp it became toast. The user experience went downhill and wasn't comparable to products like Postmark at all. I fear Postmark will go down the same road now. Many great products unfortunately become quite bad after acquisitions. I hope ActiveCampaign is a better new owner than most.
I overlooked this reply but thanks a lot for the thorough explanation!
It depends on who "your community" is - if they're people who can set up their own instance, and care about decentralisation - congrats, there are already loads of them on the Fediverse, in terms of users and instances. C) solved.

If your community is "people I'm interested in talking to" then they don't need A) or B, and there are so many of those on the Fediverse that congrats, C) is solved.

The fact of the matter is the Fediverse (and even just Mastodon) is that 1) is not the current reality (plenty of medium and small-ish instances), and 2) does not have to be, and indeed is not the reality, and even if it were, A and C still need not apply.

I sometimes fear people jump into the Fedi but, understandably, aren't versed on how discoverability works, thinks there's no-one interesting there, and leaves. Whether setting up your own instance or using a tiny existing one, you can browse the user directories and posts from other, larger instances, and find interesting souls to connect with, without having to make an account there.

Most importantly one can search tags used in posts and profiles which relate to your interests. Any good / mature client (or the web UI) lets you search for tags and pin them as their own timelines - so a rolling conversation about your fav topics, across all instances that you federate with.
Mexican authorities investigate National Guard for murder of 19-year-old student
A bit like https://xkcd.com/461/, you mean?