skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went ahead and did it all... by the time I was half way through, perseverance came into question. Wow that is boring.

At about the 3/4 mark, I guess, some of the patterns were really hard to figure out, and the clock is ticking. My mind goes to "wait, I kind of suck at pictorial pattern matching with so many different objects", and "is that the only judge of my IQ? What is mensa? Oh wait, clock ticking, not bored out of my mind"... I scored almost right in the middle of the bell curve. I guess I really suck at pattern matching, or I am just dumb. They want you in the very top for mensa.
no qualified to give a definitive answer, but from looking from the outside:

- clunky verbose syntax

- at odds with economics incentive of the web. everyone want to build their own walled gardens and make access to data harder (ex anti-scraping measures)

- reasoning using the open world assumption (OWA) is harder the the other-way around.

- tried to do many things at once.

- the multitude of ways to reason and represent non trivial things. how do you handle disagreements esp when taking into account OWA. it's possible but hard. a lot of people would just rather have a closed world of reasoning where they dictate things instead of tackling it 'the proper way'.
We can also test how far most people can jump and their ability to memorize numbers or do arithmetic or algebra quickly. We don’t have a “movement quotient” or a “calculation quotient” so what exactly does an “intelligence quotient” aim to quantify precisely? It’s not intelligence, I’ll argue.
Ozone-destroying chemical is on the rise despite crackdown – Science – AAAS
Nota: A terminal calculator with rich notation rendering
These are so basic operations that it cannot be true that an online Alexa or Google Home assistant is better than alts.... If you talk about getting informations, routes and others, maybe, but for a simple alarm or a timer, who would require online connectivity....
I get where you're coming from, and they're questions I'm working on answering as well. Unlike you, I have worked in jobs where that kind of proactive find-and-fix mentality was prevalent, where they bought into continuous improvement. They do exist, it does work, and that's what made it so frustrating when I wasn't allowed to fix things in this job.

I don't have all the answers yet, and it's something I'm in the process of doing. However, what is really helping me (and what made me realise this was the issue in the first place) is working with a coach. It's a bit like therapy/counselling, basically someone to guide me through the process of figuring out what went wrong and why, and how to fix it in future. He's from the tech industry, so has a base level understanding of things, and was able to give me some good pointers for how to find resources.

I think the thing that started me off learning & reskilling was reading blogs from technical coaches like [1]. Clearly the job I want does exist, and there is a demand for it. It's not common, but it exists.

[1] https://philippe.bourgau.net/
And gen8+ U's are much better than previous dual-core chips, which were basically all i3's.
Well then you could consider remote jobs to be worth £2k+ more salary, net.
Testing Out HPC on Google’s TPU Matrix Engines
boys are too busy on their phones playing video games and watching porn in school

mostly just anecdata across the net driving that conclusion
Hedge fund guy here.

Every desk I ever sat on talked about macro, but none of them ever made any money from it. Equity options, fixed income (the home of macro traders), trend following, HFT, and so on. Everybody throws around macro vocab, nobody has anything resembling an idea of how it affects markets. Or rather, nobody has a convincing framework for how things connect. Bonds, STIRs, Fed Funds rates, inflation, growth, unemployment, all that, all you ever seem to get is individual stories that sound good but that don't fit into any kind of explanation of how the economy works.

I did a degree in economics too, and unsurprisingly that also did not bring everything together. Contrast that with eg thermodynamics where over time all the stuff makes sense, and it even connects with information theory.

Even if you did have a coherent macro story, you would struggle to answer the most important question: What is priced in? This is mostly a question about local dynamics rather than macro. Why are used cars expensive? What about chips? What about bonds and currencies and so on? All things that you can learn about, just not in a macro book.
> It will make Apple younger, whiter, more male-dominated, more neuro-normative, more able-bodied, in short

They are free to leave and enrich other companies.
Yeah you may be right about adding the lane, but the bigger issue is that the converted HOV to express, which means that cars with two people still have to pay and cars with one person can now pay and slow down the carpool. So now fewer people can use the carpool while at the same time others can slow down the carpool.
But has it been shown that working memory correlates to anything in specific?
listmonk does look awesome but I couldn’t see how you could make newsletters available to read on the web too.
History of Vaccines – Lyme Disease
In all fairness: there is a difference between the original creator coming up with his/her own beloved continuation of a beloved project, and a soulless money grab by leveraging name recognition with an existing fan base. Irrespective of who is doing the soulless money grabbing (corporation, original creator, etc).

Return to Monkey Island comes across like the former (so far), various Trek and Wars continue-spinning-off-quels more like the latter.
Actual – Privacy Focused Self Hosted Finance Management Platform Now Open Source
Benchmarking cognitive functions should be much more interesting than it currently is, with data tracking progress and regression. I feel like the tests are too focused on low level raw hardware bandwith of simple tasks, and not enough on semantic reading comprehension and problem solving. E.g robustness against cognitive biases should be benchmarked, thinking outside of the boxes/ solutions by transpositions/free associations should too.
Such a toolset would also help measure the effect of nootropics differently, vs e.g. the magnesium threonate ~9 IQ points increase
> But it's not the same as brainstorming on a whiteboard with your colleagues in the same room.

It's better! We pair it with a slack call and collaboratively edit it.

> For a lot of my breaks when I worked in the office I ended up sharing them with colleagues and made several (hopefully) life-long friends out of the habit!

And that's an outcome that happens with WFH, too. You don't need to go to lunch together to make friends.

> It's easier to empathize and relate to my colleagues when I can understand them better through body language when we're talking about life.

That's good for you; but again, WFH doesn't prohibit you from seeing people. If you need body language then have a video call.
Maybe I'm in the low IQ bracket but I suspect i would score higher if i knew what kind of changes/patterns are allowed. You can probably learn and train for this kind of test pretty effectively by just building a mental checklist for possible patterns to check against.
I came to the comments first. \o/
It was always and - you can use a vpn for watching foreign tv - cheers!
Your best bet is probably to use VSCode + Haskell plugin, version 2.0+ (which handles the installation of everything via GHCup, I believe), barring any macOS-specific problems I don't know about.

That's the setup I use on Windows and Linux, and it's great
> Honestly in a business setting with "trusted" coworkers, less so. I tend to take what my colleagues say at face value.

That's... not all that body language conveys?

Body language helps with basic things like "Oh, Amy is trying to break in and is struggling to make her point", or "Hmm, Doug looks like he's concerned about something, I should ask him his opinion".

Digital A/V communication tools also bring with them a whole host of other sources of friction, including poor audio and video, latency issues, and so forth. They are, at best a weak by tolerable substitute for face-to-face conversations, and quite frankly, IMO anyone who tries to suggest otherwise is not being honest.

You might feel that the tradeoffs are justifiable, but let's not pretend there aren't tradeoffs.

> The big advantage now is that people who would have been steamrolled in meetings have a chance to get their thoughts heard

And conversely, people who type slower or struggle with written communication for various reasons, are significantly disadvantaged.

And that's ignoring the fact that written communication lacks critical nuance (which ends up being poorly filled in with things like emojis) that can lead to confusion and misunderstandings.
Any problems with the study? Control group is "random distribution of dogs" and the other group is "18,000 but of a no specific breed". Is that a problem or does it even out.
You're already talking yourself out of walking and you haven't even started. ;)

12 miles is totally doable, but start with less because you'll injure yourself if you don't walk at all now. Even just 15 minutes of walking is great.

I am more of a bicyclist and luckily there are many trails around me. (I don't like riding on the streets) On a nice summer day I can easily spend 3 hours riding. If you work a full time 9-5, there is still plenty of time in the morning or evening to get a few hours of exercise in . (I should take my own advice here!)
Most of those complaining joined Apple when it was fully on-site, and very remote hostile. Even those that joined during the closure were aware of the company's stance on remote work, so what they are asking for is a favour.
>When I go to lunch and talk to my colleague about her favorite places to snorkel

Yet you take it for granted that she will go to lunch with you, and that she will engage in neurotypical "pleasantries". I'll bet that anyone who doesn't want to go to lunch with you, you will take this as a negative at review time. "They just aren't trustworthy" or "He isn't a team player", despite them being the highest performing person on the team.

>Have you tried having conversations with folks without making it about you?

I very rarely make it about me, because my goals are to solve interesting problems that make money by benefitting our customers. In this conversation, the problem is "how to maximize productivity at Apple given a diverse workforce". You are the one that wants to make it "about someone". You are providing an excellent example of neurotypical privilege.
The thing about these newer C alternatives, is that they have to provide compelling reasons for people to want to use it. Not just be a little more modern than C, but features that put it over their competitors.

In the case of Rust, at least they made safety a thing to hang their hat on. As an competitor, how do you "out safety" Rust?

Golang carved out a nice niche for itself, and the involvement of one of C's original creators and Google backing it up sure did help out. And Golang has ignited a group of its own alternatives like Odin and Vlang.

Not sure where Hare can find a niche that isn't already occupied or how it's going to make people want to jump ship to them.
The conclusion is that we should remove barriers whenever possible. Climbing a mountain is more difficult for people in a wheelchair, but that's just the way it is, we can't make the mountain equally accessible for everyone. Climbing the stairs of a skyscraper is more difficult for people in a wheelchair, but it doesn't have to be that way, we can install an elevator.

Extend that to everything. We shouldn't ask people to do something inconvenient when we could make it convenient.
> That has nothing to do with a majority of people imposing restrictions on themselves. 59% of people in Mississippi oppose abortion, including the majority of women. There is no need for California or New York to parachute in and tell them otherwise.

You could also argue that if 59% of people in Mississippi oppose abortion there's no need to make it illegal. No one will ever force that 59% to start having abortions.

The 59% could simply _choose_ not to have an abortion.
I got bored after maybe question 20 and got an IQ of 100 back.
> Well then you could consider remote jobs to be worth £2k+ more salary, net.

I consider them to be worth a lot more than that!
I'm more on the introversion end of the spectrum, and as someone who's been both an engineer and a manager I'm a big believer in big unbroken chunks of silence and concentration for focused engineering ("makers vs managers schedule", etc).

And... I would say a majority of the major project setbacks / failures I've seen over my career have not been due to engineering failures, but have been due to either:

1) Misalignment or lack of agility about priorities / goals and inter-team dependencies. Situations where people and teams put their heads down and do a lot of engineering... that ends up not being the right engineering.

2) Interpersonal conflicts that simmer, escalate, and aren't defused early enough and harm collaboration.

In theory, both of these could be addressed well in fully remote environments, with careful product, product, and people management.

In practice, I have personally seen it be much easier to head these problems off in environments where people are having regular informal face-to-face and non-transactional interactions. The lunch / coffee break / hallway-chat-after-the-meeting sort of discussions. Even being in separate buildings across a large tech campus has been a barrier to this.

Again, I would be personally happy to WFH, but I do feel I've multiple times seen significant project and company-level benefits from shared workspace interaction, so there are tradeoffs.
Your feelings of selfishness and empathy will always be in tension with each other.

uhm, no they won't, because my well-being depends on your well-being.

showing empathy is in itself a selfish act, because i want you to show empathy for me too, but i can't expect that if i am not showing empathy myself.

so there is no tension at all. the tension may be between prioritizing your needs over mine, but even if i prioritize my own needs i can and do still empathize with yours.

i can't even properly evaluate what should be prioritized without emphasizing. it is necessary to understand the consequences of prioritizing my needs over yours.

the end result is some kind of balance. how that balance looks like depends on our relationship and the nature of the conflict.
These WFH stories seem to preferentially solicit comments from WFH employees who enjoy the flexibility to comment on HN during the workday.
On top of that, just figuring out which Lisp to start with, and how to get started with it, is an ordeal. In the JVM ecosystem, Java is pretty obvious, and Kotlin is a pretty obvious alternative. In the Lisp ecosystem, the well known SCIP is targeted at Scheme, Clojure is pretty well known, then there's Racket, ChezScheme, CommonLisp, and the they all look like pretty good starting places.
Not outright payment, but there have been many efforts over the years to capture walking energy. One example I found after a quick search: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30816255
Importantly... the behavior is self-reported (by dog owners), who almost certainly have some bias about their dogs. I know I do. :)
> I've been pitching this idea for years and no one's ever given a serious critique of the idea.

It would dilute the Twitter brand and divide internal resources. That's the main critique I can think of. Would never happen while Twitter was a publicly traded corporation. Under private ownership, it very well might happen.

I think the Fediverse idea is great, but people are dumb. @somebody is about as far as most people can handle. @somebody@domain.with.dots is confusing, and nobody will understand. Imagine having to explain bang paths to Fred in accounting so he can send an electronic mail.

Never underestimate how obtuse the average computer user is. They can be taught, but it takes many, many years before it becomes common enough that people grok it without trouble.

(I like your idea, btw.)
In India, there is a selection test happens for schools called JNV[1]. These are schools designed for talented underprivileged kids who grew in mostly rural areas.
The selection test actually uses this format of pattern recognition to judge abilities of 10-11 years old kids.

I thought that’s pretty neat given how universal pattern recognition is and it helps remove bias from selection process towards kids who can’t afford extra classes to pass the exam.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Navodaya_Vidyalaya
Impress your boss and co-workers with your extreme company loyalty by receiving an "It's a girl!!!" text message from your no-longer-pregnant wife.
ActiveCampaign is a huge company, I remember when they were the scrappy new guys
Maybe they want a summer of protest and rioting? It could be argued it helped get Biden elected re: BLM.
This is a very interesting idea. My criticism would be that our memories are such imperfect recollections of the real thing that its hard for me not to see them as a "copy" rather than a "pointer". Signal loss through the fabric of space?
become a drone from home or queen from home if you don't want to be a work from home
It would be nice for more users or developers to take note of the philosophy of OpenBSD. Using FreeBSD as your base wouldn’t be my first choice.
It looks like SOFIA and Webb are operating at similar frequencies. Could it be just a coincidence that SOFIA is being turned off just as Webb is passing its validation tests?
I'm also not convince this is a good fit, but for another reason: if you're a pure Deliverability Company, it's far easier to maintain healthy relations with email hosting providers and get useful information or data from them.

By contrast, if you're a Marketing Company, well 'enemy' might be bit strong but these providers will definitely be far less cooperative, and your service might suffer from it.
> 2. M1 based machines have trouble initializing/re-initializing them after sleep.

I suspect this is an M1 thing. I just upgraded, and I've noticed some similar, by milder behaviour with my Dell monitors.

When the mac resumes from sleep, it occasionally has forgotten one of the screens, and although it initialises, all my window layout is shifted to one display.
Based on my experience with Mensa members, being obsessed with your own intelligence is seemingly the primary criterion for joining Mensa. A long, boring test was probably exactly the selection filter they're looking for.
Yeah, one of my "How Web Apps Work" posts covers much of this question:

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/11/how-web-apps-work-...

Quick sequence walkthrough, for the typical "Client-Side Rendering (CSR)" scenario:

- Ahead of time, on a developer build system: the original app source code is run through a full compilation process, including stripping out types, processing assets like images and CSS, bundling the hundreds/thousands of original source files into a handful of merged files to minimize downloads, and minifying it to shrink download size. (Once upon a time this was done with Browserify. Today, it's typically a build toolchain based around Webpack, such as Create-React-App, Next.js, or the Angular CLI, or a similar toolchain using tools like newer / faster tools ESBuild or SWC.)

- These "static files" are deployed to some web server system, and the server software waits for a user to request that page.

- Browser requests a site for the first time. Server returns a small HTML page that has links to the primary page CSS, and the pre-built JS app bundle files.

- Browser loads the JS, and the client-side app code bootstraps itself. It attaches itself to a given DOM node (usually an empty div that just acts as a placeholder), and does an initial render, generating all of the initial DOM content as it works through the component tree

- Now that the UI is initialized, the UI framework waits for user interactions, at which point it applies state updates, checks to see what the UI should look like _now_ based on the component tree, and efficiently updates the DOM to match the desired results.

There's also "Static Site Generation (SSG)", where the same React/Vue/Angular/Svelte UI components can be used to generate plain HTML files ahead of time, and "Server-Side Rendering (SSR)", where those same UI components can be used to render HTML as a string on the server on demand in response to a page request.
In an actual test the time is extremely short and you have to work on intuition.
I find the anti-backpack mindset interesting, because I started urban walking after getting wilderness backpacking experience. I can't imagine walking around without a daypack, and I often bring it with me even when it's empty. On my morning commute today it held a Kindle, a spare set of headphones, and a plastic bag for when I buy more groceries than can fit in the pack. I'm probably not going to use any of those before I get home, though.

Backpacks are magic for longer trips. Food, water, coffee, all go in. Unsure about the weather? Layers layers layers, all in the pack. I also use LL Bean's PrimaLoft Packaway (I own two, one black and one orange), and have a shell for rainy/snowy weather. Unless it's both cold and rainy, one of the two goes in the backpack.

I've also never worried much about pocket preferences on my shorts and pants. I instead care about pockets on my packs. My current big pack is an Osprey Exos 58 (but the newer version doesn't have hip belt pockets or a shoulder strap pocket), and my daypack is an REI Flash 22 (with easily accessible side pockets, and a top pocket that you can reach with an awkward shoulder movement).

Edit: The big floppy hat comment was absolutely spot-on
I've always heard that Apple culture is secretive to the point where multiple people working on the same product can be talking about the same thing without realizing it (since each team has different codenames for the same product).

is this true?
Prisma raises $40M in Series B
www.reddit.com/r/d100/ is a subreddit devoted to making 100 count lookup tables for random events and objects
Yes, "reweavers" are extremely rare.

Master tailors who create bespoke clothing and work with very expensive wool fabrics may still have a reweaver that they use. It's only economically sane if one is dealing with suits, for instance, that start beyond $2000.
> They care about the things an IQ test can predict.

They are good at predicting the ability to do IQ tests!

Seriously though - aren't they still fairly controversial? I have strong doubts on an intuitive level.
This could never happen here, could it? Governors would never target businesses that disagree with them.
How could they possibly enforce that? Is there any government in the world that's currently able to enforce such laws?
Don’t take this too seriously, but this sounds like my prior experience with undiagnosed adhd.
been a long day
https://www.rkmoniofficial.xyz
So basically, how to continue to exploit your employees for maximum output even though technically people can chill out. Got it.
I took the test to be part of Mensa when I was 17. It was a one hour or two hours test? I think. I remember I got very bored by the end and I stopped paying attention to the questions and I started to answer without doing all the analysis it was required.

I passed it and I was part of the the society. I found it quite weird because the rest of the people didn't look like "smart" or "intelligent" or whatever you could think of Mensa people.

At the end I just decided that they (we) were good at identifying patterns. I stopped paying after one or two years.