skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average census block has a population of 30 people. Millions of census blocks have a population of zero while millions more have a population of only a couple of people. Surely it must be at the census tract level or higher?
Pixel 6 finally getting a Dirty Pipe patch, one month after the Galaxy S22
Building a CI Pipeline with CTest and CDash
sure but:

> If you were a nerd, most were boring.

Is either of those strongly linked to IQ? Anecdotally and in my experience not really.

You can get pretty far on this by implicitly grouping a certain set of interests into "nerdy" or whatever but that is highly culturally mediated. A generation ago video games and sci-fi would have been a core of that set, but those are just the culture now.

The most nerd energy I've ever run across outside of my own interests is in people who follow auto racing and sports. Fiber arts and baking too. Not typically considered or even recognized as valid nerdery but very similar kind and degree of interest.

I'd argue that people who want to be in a group of other high IQ people probably do feel superior to people who can't be in that group. Now, and in the past too. Whether that's a useful grouping or a warranted superiority I don't want to get into. But it's really not more complicated than that, sorry.
Not quite genetically. You can train yourself in solving those puzzles. Although it undermines the whole idea of an IQ club for me.
I've never tried Smalltalk so I can't really speak to that. But I have done some coding in ObjectiveC which is a direct descendant so I can tell you that I strongly prefer Lisp, and Common Lisp specifically because I prefer generic functions to message-passing. Message passing privileges the receiver object and thus introduces an asymmetry which is totally unnecessary. It does nothing but cause confusion. The whole point of having a high-level language is to reduce the cognitive load on the programmer, and message passing does the exact opposite. Message passing forces me to think, every single time I call a function, about whether to write a.f(b, c, ...) or f(a, b, c, ...) or that absolutely horrific syntax that ObjC has, [f a:b] or something like that. There is no reason why I should have to think about any of that. That's the compiler's job. All function calls should use the same syntax -- and that syntax should be (f a b c ...) because all those commas are unnecessary too.
This is obvious nonsense to anyone that breeds, owns or even regularly interacts with dogs. But gas lighting has always been a preferred tactic of those proselytizing "the message".
>Following the occurrence of an event set forth in preceding paragraph, all Rights that are or, under certain circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement, were beneficially owned by an Acquiring Person or certain of its transferees will be void.

I'm not entirely clear whether this statement in the 8K is legal. Seems to me that it would run afoul of the boards responsibilities, especially given that it is unnecessary to achieve the result.
Why coders code?
Scored 140 for a Mensa test I took at a test centre and thought I would get something decent. Even in normal conversations I can form a graph of all the points being made intuitively or form a whole random orchestra in my head.
I’ve gotten to this same point recently too. Cut down on the bonus time - get more music, more silence.
lol - the pandemic isn't permanent. It was a great force to help force normalization of remote work at organizations that otherwise would have never embraced it - but thinking that all companies are going to suddenly change their corporate culture because of a couple year event is laughable.

Maybe Apple will loose enough talent over time to where their corp culture will have to adapt. I doubt it. Wouldn't mind if I'm wrong (I think at least having the option for at least some remote work is overall very healthy overall), but I'm not holding my breath.
> You can even join without taking the test by having an SAT score above a certain value. Dubious.

I'm sure it's true of many IQ tests, but the SAT is notoriously heavily correlated with wealth. Even if you generously assume that the test itself is not biased (which you shouldn't, it was and still is), that means your score is a function of practice and training, not "raw intelligence" if such a thing exists.
You are forgetting that phones are pinging every tower constantly. Turning off location services is almost meaningless. The carriers know far more about you. If you want privacy, leave your phone at home or put it in a cage.
For 2, I wonder if there could be a 'wrapper' service (website) around Fediverse that makes it as easy to set up an instance as Slack or Discord. It would still be decentralized, except the service could abstract away the technical bits entirely.
That's a really interesting hypothesis, and it would make sense. Is it something that you've come up with, or is there some literature I can read about it?
What bothers me the most about video conferencing software is when people talk over each other and you can only hear one of them properly.

This is not a problem in multiplayer video games with voice chat because I think they somehow manage it with multiple simultaneous audio sources. I'm surprised that Zoom has not done that yet. Just do what video games do.
Using Node.js ES modules and top-level await in AWS Lambda
Cows make fertilizer through manure.

> https://www.finegardening.com/project-guides/gardening-basic...
Isn't this a nothing-burger? c_rehash does not run setuid root. Is there an example or threat of a practical exploit that I am overlooking here or is this just academic nitpicking?
BTW I referenced the time of Cain and Abel as metonymy for "early humans", not advocacy for the Bible. While the Bible(s) contain interesting and thoughtful ideas about how a functioning legal system could be constructed, in terms of advocacy I'd advocate incorporating enlightenment innovations such as the US bill of rights, etc.
Why Front-End Devs Might Want to Choose SQL-Based Auth (Webinar)
They can, The problem is that the cities and state refuses to buy the water rights. They want eminent domain without the cost. There are several court cases about this right now.
Potentially, I was recently introduced to this: https://bws.xyz/

Not affiliated and haven't researched yet but looks interesting. There are a few other crypto mining companies offering general compute to manage changing power/price/hardware resources.
Can someone explain why Microsoft has overall the strongest negative correlation with Activision/Blizzard(-0.87) on a 1 year basis. That must be related to the aquistion but I can not figure out how.
> I don't want to devolve into any petty arguments about what makes a Lisp a "Lisp",

Very much agree! I shouldn't have framed it that way.

I should have said: each time you make a hybrid language between approaches, there are new people who will try it out and may discover a new and exciting way to program. Some people, in hindsight, will certainly wish they had jumped further - but they can always do that in the future and some will only make the bigger jump after making a smaller one.
This is click bait.
I did one of these when I was a kid and had just weeks prior to that done some similar excercises I found in a puzzle book. Once you know the tricks you can finish it really fast, and since they indeed use some formula that's basically the percentage of correct answers divided by the time you took times some constant, I got a very high score that I thought was bogus.

Nowadays I would compare its ability to actually measure IQ or skill with those "find the fake coin by only weighing piles of money three times" interview questions, or interviews where they ask you to implement some algorithm for a problem you will only ever encounter on HackerRank or similar sites.
>As for safety, always look left and right when you cross

* or right and left, if you're in the UK
Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt (book 1967, movie 1972)
My story is the same as yours, but I don't think online communications (especially "structured", formal, work ones, like a daily standup over Zoom) capture everything that spontaneous "hallway" conversations do, including with people not on even on your team who you'd never talk to otherwise.

I wish it were same, but, even as someone who grew up with more online relationships than meatspace ones, I'd be lying if I said it is. Maybe VR in some 15-minutes-after-tomorrow future can bridge the gap.

I experienced how "not the same" it is with in-person and then remote interactions with other young people in college classes and then with older people in work, and, in both cases, I felt things were lost once we went remote.
I joined in Chicago for a year, and it turns out that it's really a board gaming club.
Conversely, If the vast majority of people keep commuting and building skyscrapers just to present some charts and graphs to each other in person because grandpa CEO doesn't know how to use Zoom and HR wants to monitor you at all times, we're going to be wiped out by climate change anyway, so pick your poison I suppose. I, for one, choose survival.
> There's an enormous difference between claiming that "you can also just drop files on your server" and have a running application

You're definitely right, but the entire lament seems like a lot of special catering for the convenience of an audience that is technical enough to write PHP, but isn't particularly accommodating to, like, the actual masses of people out in the world who are not and will not ever be inclined to wade through the issues inherent to setting up a shared hosting plan with a PHP provider and hashing out their craving to publish by fiddling with templating code.

The author of this piece has a lot to say about SPAs and other client-side fads, which is fair. Lots of what makes up current trends in the "modern" Web is an abomination. But the PHP application/deployment model they advocate for is nothing special wrt the affordances it makes for non-technical folks, nor is it a particularly good implementation of TBL's original vision for the Web—despite the implicit ("explicit"?) claims in the article to the contrary. On both of those fronts, stuff like Zonelets <https://zonelets.net/> has moral superiority (despite its being basically a toy). The essence of Zonelets is also, at a fundamental level, much closer to what we see with SPAs than the "mildly dynamic websites" of yore.
Love croc. It’s my go to tool for moving files between machines.
The first patterns were mostly rotations and whatnot.

Last patterns were boolean logic, for example 3 or 4 tests were just XOR stuff, another was AND, another was summing, and so on...

I ended with a score lower than my usual, because I wasn't really paying attention... and bored.
>Unless, of course, you'd rather be right, over actually winning.

And thus the majority of friction in todays discourse.

Something I still fall prey to more than I like and try to stay vigilant of so thanks for pointing it out!
i walk a lot, not 12 miles a day, but an above average amount. Good shoes and good socks go a long way in keeping your feet happy. Also, i have pretty bad posture so i have to make it a point to not slouch while walking or else my back or shoulders eventually start to ache so be mindful of your posture when walking more than 2 or so hrs at a time.
but recent IT strategies are highly questionable in this regard.

I think it of as a result of high profile hacks. Either a company is hacked once and they go way overboard trying to ensure it doesn't happen again. Or, some high profile company gets hacked, some C*O's see it, overreact and decide they're not going to be next.
Interesting you thought I haven't tried to have those conversations upward. The problem is there's zero incentive for managers to listen or change.

I do have a negative opinion about managers. Managers mandated themselves into making x times the amount of their top paid report, control decision making, and have hiring and firing powers all in one position. Managers being people doesn't make them immune from criticism, and if me describing the status quo upsets you, then maybe we should be having a bigger discussion about what being in a captured ideology looks like from the ground.
What is odd about Python scoping rules?
Indeed, there are intuitive or instinctual behaviours different breeds have - of course they can learn other behaviours from observing other dogs, and training can reduce or suppress instincts to some degree as well. Context matters too, so if the environment doesn't match what their instincts would lead them to do don't have the opportunity to get triggered then you're not going to see them, at least not as often or as strongly.

The most obvious to me are the breeds that were bred for herding, and where you see that behaviour in mixes of that breed as well - even if it's muted some.

And I tend towards agreeing with you re: pitbulls. I've seen perfectly friendly and generally very gentle pitbulls snap - there's no reason for this amongst the general population.
I found the the filled and unfilled flags on diagonal lines, the filled and unfilled boxes separated by a vertical line, and the dots and box separated by a vertical line difficult. I was running out of time, but thought it may have something to do with shifting and/or mirroring the position of the figures, and/or a base 3 representation but couldn't come up with a generalizable pattern.

I didn't see anything which suggested that its better to attempt and fail or skip and complete as many as possible, which would definitely affect time management strategy.
I got the same. There's really no proof you can give beyond a screenshot.

https://imgur.com/QxSFWsD
They are to catch those sneaky, morally subversive domains like 'xes-spelled-backwards.com'!
I think this varies significantly from person to person. I learned social skills the hard way and pay very close attention to facial expressions and tone of voice. Both of those carry across clearly for me... if the video is good. This does not degrade gracefully over poor internet connections.

But I find the real loss is hallway conversations and seeing the body language of the people I'm are not talking to.

Going fully-remote requires deliberate changes to the company culture to make implicit things like meeting in the hallway happen remotely. This is not easy and requires more upkeep by everyone than just showing up at the office.
A very important detail about HackMaster 4e was that their license with WotC for the AD&D 1e things allowed them to publish a parody of AD&D 1e. They absolutely set out to create a fun and playable game (and IMO succeeded), but everything was contractually obligated to have an element of ridiculousness. On top of the generally lighthearted and joking prose, a big part of how they did this was to take the convoluted parts of 1e that later editions simplified away and instead make them over the top. 1e had lots and lots of overly specific lookup tables for things which later editions replaced with more general rules, so HM doubled down on that and made the tables even more gratuitously detailed.

If you set aside the humor aspect, HM is a game that plays very similarly to 1e, but more fleshed out and with a lot of assorted improvements.
A decade or so back my son applied for one of the few remaining state selective schools in London. About 2000 applied for 100 places. Admission was by similar tests, including verbal and non-verbal reasoning. Despite the claims you can't game these tests, many people use tutors. We didn't, but I bought him all the non-verbal reasoning papers I could find online. He practised a lot, and over six months progressively raised his mark from around 70% (not high enough to get in) to 100% on the final practice paper he did a couple of days before the entrance exam. I'm sure you need some native aptitude, but it's not at all clear to me these really help remove selection bias.

My son told me that when a new teacher gives them a word-search or visual puzzle, they kids will have finished before the teacher has finishing handing them out. On the other hand, he also tells me common sense isn't so common there, so things do tend to balance out in strange ways.
The Mythical Man Month might be an object of worship but it was written in 1975 at a time when software engineering was VERY different than today. Most of what today's developers do is not close to castles in the air and much more like building generic office blocks on the ground.

Of course, some people have to solve novel problems but 99% of us don't, we just solve the same problems again and again.
Just a note on IQ tests: a test conducted by a psychologist includes several different areas beyond what this test covers. Longer term memory, for example, is a component not assessed here. These components are scored both separately and combined as a 'full-scale IQ', and will highlight both strengths and deficiencies in these particular areas. Some people who scored average or low on this test can still have a high IQ in other functional areas, and some who scored highly may just be particularly well-attuned to solving symbolic arithmetic puzzles but be deficient in other areas.
> (With decentralized tech, there is also the possibility that IKEA itself can provide banking/financing services separate from their furniture retail business and that people might be using their "IKEA card" to pay for things anywhere.)

IKEA has already been running a regular bank for years FWIW: https://ikanobank.se/
I have significantly advanced my career working remote full time. You sound like you personally have been unable to advance your career and instead of being introspective about it are blaming it on remote work as a concept. Period.
Some states already have it - according to https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/a-guide-to-... the following states have it in their constitutions that abortion is protected throughout pregnancy:

Colorado
DC
New Jersey
Oregon
Vermont

California recently had a bill put forward that potentially may have legalized killing babies even shortly after birth. Whether that was by accident or design is anyone's guess, and it was changed after there was an uproar.

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-california-law/fac...

Virginia also had some stuff come under scrutiny:

>Gilbert, posing a hypothetical and rare scenario, asked whether a woman that “is about to give birth” and “dilating” could request an abortion and be certified by a physician “if he indicated it would impair the mental health of a woman.” After hesitation, Tran responded her bill “would allow that.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-virginia-gov-ab...
Absolutely. Sometimes with coworkers I'm relatively close to, we'll have those side conversations in a Slack chat...but then that's just making the argument for Slack.
The carrier doesn't know if you're in the abortion clinic or the chinese buffet is shares the strip mall with. You need GPS (or a much denser network) to have high precision.

Edit: and yes I know 5g increases the resolution, but it's still not that good since cell density correlates with "stuff" density"
I took the test and joined Mensa for a year before letting it lapse. I think that IQ tests measure nothing but test-taking ability. I've always been good at tests. I'm not exceptionally bright.
There's significantly more competition among VPNs than there are among ISPs in any given area, so it should be no surprise that some VPNs are more trusted than ISPs. Most people have only a few choices for their ISP, and maybe only one that offers the features they require (for example, only one ISP in my area offers high enough upload speeds to reasonable backup my computers). In many cases people don't have a choice of ISP that will keep their data private.

Therefore, you are trading trusting your ISP for trusting your VPN, but at least you are getting someone who says they care about your privacy (rather than someone who has a track record of not caring) and someone who would face significant business repercussions if they became untrusted, rather than someone that would face almost no business repercussions.
I think a big missing dimension of the return to office campaigns of large companies is the other pressures these organizations are facing. The pressure to return to the office is not coming from management; it's coming from investors who own a bunch of commercial real estate and local political machines.

There is certainly some desire for controlling the workers. But for the most part this is about access to the cash flow commuting workers generate.

The Mayor of New York for instance has made many public declarations about everyone needing to get back to the office, but this is just one public example. Any city has these same pressures, they're simply more acute in NY. Unless you go back to the office you won't spend a ton of money you wouldn't need to otherwise. This is the crux of it.
I am saying maybe the language should consider more radical changes... But I see another comment proposes how this could work in the existing scheme...
PayPal Helped Spur EU Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Payments (Twitter)
Paper was actually published in Science and this is just an editorial about the article.
>I swore I'd never commute again and I intend to live out the rest of my career that way

s/commute/go to the grocery store ;)
Not OP, but I don't feel this has anything to do with any specific people, but more an indictment of the system itself that we've created. Historically, there has never been an incentive or compensation structure that exists in companies that would lead management to begin to care about this stuff over their other priorities and deliverables.
YMMV :)

I joined mensa in two countries; I was involved in one, while in the other, I went only to one meeting.

The first had mostly regular table/social game events, and cultural events (e.g. chess competitions, museums, literature etc.).

I couldn't tell I was at a Mensa club, if not for the orientation of the cultural events, but especially... for the quantity of engineers :)

I remember there was at least one teenager at the social events, and I wouldn't even exclude that they just allowed them in because he was a friend of somebody - the atmosphere was relaxed and playful.

I'd totally join again a club like the first: 1. it was fun 2. the cultural activities were actually interesting 3. I'd network with SWEs. Which is, in some way, the attractive of Mensa - it definitely attracts nerds :)

Regarding me as a member of Mensa. I wouldn't qualify me obsessed with it; intelligence is a tool for me. And definitely I didn't enroll in college at 13 like some other HN readers :)
This is as awesome as it is illegal :)

God speed to OP.

https://torrentfreak.com/images/storman-judgment.pdf

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4615448-Nintendo-Lov...
If the stocks fairly reliably went in opposite directions simultaneously I think that would cause it??
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron for obvious reasons

My Mastodon feed is primarily in German, so I'll recommend some pixelfed users instead (which you can follow from mastodon!). All of them simply because I like the pictures they ppst

https://pixelfed.social/Charlie
https://pixelfed.social/cos
https://pixelfed.social/jett1oeil
On the other hand, the stance that one person cannot be forced to support another would seem to forbid universal healthcare. It's rare to see a 100% ethically consistent position in politics, where most decisions are based on self-interest.
Right haha...like, I WANTED to pay my bills and take care of speeding tickets, etc. I just failed miserably at those type of things for a long time.