skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ tests are also unreliable by design. They might work once, but you get different results depending on the test subject was challenged by questions and problems of similar design.

Highlighting that fact would be helpful and expose such tests as nothing but maybe a rough estimate. Your education is probably more important for that than your capacity to solve problems.

Additionally those that focus on these numbers seem to not be the ones that score particularly well here. And in the end "science" that asserts it can determine intellectual capacity of a group is most likely wrong.

That said, you should NEVER censor yourself because someone could perhaps misinterpret your finding for their own perverted goals. That would undermine science itself and it isn't worth it.

> This isn't fucking Orwell, its people trying to make sure that dogshit research in their journal doesnt get cited by mass shooters.

This is the wrong approach.
Spiegel.de uncovers a Russian spy in Italy
Research shows the way Putin's spies are operating in the West, specifically in Germany. It also tells a story about a russian kill team.

The full story is behind a paywall.
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/hacker-spione-kil...
"The other engineer takes his time but when he releases something there are never any bugs."

Ah yes that guy. The person super worried about quality at a startup doing "uber for cats". Avoiding bugs at all costs, meetings, deep unit testing, always rolling their eyes at "bad code".

"Funny how the first engineer gets the promotion and now he also becomes a sub-par leader."

Not really at a startup. You are testing if an idea even "works" - why in god would you start worrying about quality. Bring the product to life, get feed back fast. Your quality slow churning code could be in the wrong direction. People that write deep quality code generally protect it, shine it, rub it. Good luck explaining to this guy this isn't 'what we want'. What is worse than bad code? Good code never used.
It's an interesting idea that's fairly new to me. I guess I don't have enough communist friends. :)

It sounds nice, but will never
happen on a global scale IMO because people will always fight for positions of power. Complete freedom/autonomy/no agency is not what a government wants of its citizens.

So if there was some kinda revolution, sure, but I speculate it would be quite isolated.
Sichuan pepper too; widely used across east Asia for a long time.
or ... why not just use org mode?
Also, you're familiar with whatever laws govern that TLD already, and your local registrars will be by most familiar with them when any issues come up and likely have the quickest turnaround for solving issues. I'd probably avoid using one of the huge registrars (because big companies invariably have poor and slow support that's unable to account for exceptional cases), and of course avoid resellers.
My point: All justifications of oppression are non-causal nonsense like this. I just made an obvious example that is easy to look through.
Scott/Tiger was one of my favourite ways to get access to exposed Oracle DBs when I was a pentester back in the 9i 10g era. Reliably there, not often disabled (well until after the pentest anyway), had good privileges.
I've worked at a company where we used a shared server, relatively recently. Isolated environments were different /home directories and agreed port ranges. Actions that interfered with other folk were mistakes that happened once, because we were (for the most part) not a bunch of raging arseholes and were capable of talking to each other like adults.

It was a lovely environment to work in, in part because sharing our work was a matter of "yeah, I've stood that up on port 6001, can you take a look?" Or "take a look at /home/foo/whatever.py, I think the bug's in there but I can't spot it".

The other part was that it was an absolute beast of a machine for the time. RAM for days, and more cores than hot dinners. And, critically, a very close match to our production machines. That matters more than you'd think, for a large set of problems.
Thanks a lot!
I do feel like that sometimes that it's just a waste of time but a lot of search engines are actually really cool.
Could you explain how the tracking via the cell provider works with 2fa? Do you mean they have an idea of the services you use based on the phone number of the sender and perhaps the format of the message? Or do you mean they actually tie the 2fa code to your identity through agreements with third party services?
? It was imported from the new world around 1700 so 300 years.. not really a long time, just as new as the us.
Scott was actually my boss for a couple years. Always enjoyed our 1:1s. Small world.
The big benefit of Jupyter in the context of machine learning, is that you are often dealing with models that take quite a few seconds to load. You can put big, slow loading, things into memory in the top cells, then try a bunch of logic with them below. Whereas when working with just '.py' scripts, you'd have to reload the model every time, which can make for slow and uncomfortable iteration.
Thanks a lot! That's really interesting
Ask HN: Is there any data catalog that targets ML as the first citizen?
Hi, I would like to know is there any opensource data catalog systems that targets machine learning applications (datasets (unstructral, e.g., text, image, and video) and models) as the citizen?

I have read the awesome-data-catalogs ([1]) list but found none of them is treating ML as 1st cizten and the support for datasets and models are not specific enough.

[1]: https://github.com/opendatadiscovery/awesome-data-catalogs
> Nation states absolutely should provide and host, e-mail accounts for their citizens

Because nation states are well known for producing usable software at a reasonable cost to tax payers? IRL this would cost billions and everyone under 60 would forward their gov’t mail to gmail.
The next step then is the government deciding what will harm us, so we can be protected. And then you got a very nice little fascist country that runs perfectly, and the trains run on time to move all those harmful people away from where good people live. Out of sight, out of mind.
You forgot to explain why price signals were bad and 'artificial'?

I know nothing about Sweden, but:

> https://www.thelocal.se/20220824/explained-whos-telling-the-...

> “I think it’s simply political,” Nilsson says. “The conservative parties are hoping to gain votes by bringing up the nuclear issue. I don’t think they seriously think that we will build new nuclear in Sweden. Everyone knows that it’s terribly expensive and takes a very long time.”

> Söder agrees: “The right-wing parties (Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats and Liberals) have nuclear power as a common interest where they can show unity. There are also several communities where wind power resistance has become significant, and by stating ‘we think it was stupid to shut down Ringhals’, they can attract voters – even if this will not in any way solve the long-term challenges in Sweden, which is to build a lot of new power production as cheaply as possible.”

> It’s also worth noting that the Energiforsk report estimated that power prices would have been 35–50 percent lower if Sweden had opened an additional large, offshore windfarm off the coast of southern Sweden.

So it appears there was need for my "right-wing" comment after all. I must be psychic.
The problem at the core is not spyware and "room checks", they are just a symptom - the question rather is how exams are designed and why schools and universities go to such drastic lengths to prevent cheating.

Most tests are essentially nothing more than tests for the ability of rote memorization - they don't (really) check if the students actually understood the material and are able to apply it to new situations ("transfer of learning"), especially because it is way more difficult to create such tests and to fairly grade them. However, rote memorization tests are extremely easy to cheat on, which requires intrusive countermeasures.

In the end, this is a "common thread" across most of modern academia - the focus has long since shifted from taking in the most gifted of society for actual academic research to providing a fresh herd of fungible graduates for large corporations to prey upon each year, and it shows everywhere from how admissions are handled over the sad and sorry state of frontal teaching to, as seen, dehumanizing exams.

ETA: I've ranted about the causes in the past here, with the reply to my post being really worth the read IMO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32383965
The most interesting exotic numeral systems I know of are Cistercian numerals [1] and Indic [2] and Ottoman [3] Siyaq numbers. The latter two were even added to Unicode 14.0 [3][4], but not many fonts support them.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indic_Siyaq_Numbers

[3]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Siyaq_Numbers

[4]: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1ED00.pdf

[5]: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1ED00.pdf
In this case, where it is erasing one of the container elements inside the loop, the range-based loop would not be right.

But the code is busted anyway. After it erases the pipe (which is always at index zero) it then skips the pipe that was at index 1, if there was one.

Correct would be to do the check and erase before entering the loop. Then the range-based loop would better.
Napkin Maths on Electricity at £0.52 per kWh ($0.61)
This is just nonsense, there is tons of performance critical software.
A lot that hasn't been ported to native still doesn't run properly or at all.
DAWs that run on rosetta have many problems with VST plugins and performance.
Just because something opens and doesn't crash, doesn't mean it works properly at all.
There are dozens of other projects called devbox on github (or some variation of it).
They're positioning themselves as a competition to saas, which has a cost. Saying "it is free" is not exactly true either because costumers that are using SaaS typically have weak infrastructure, which means that one way or another they're going to have to spend money to use this.

I love FOSS, but the fact of the matter is that companies don't really care about FOSS. They care that the software they're using is working when they need it, and ultimately paying $49 a month is cheaper than owning or renting infrastructure AND paying someone to administer it in a way that works consistently, when they need it.

Saying "it is free" is true, but the man-hours you're now dedicating to hosting it, monitoring it, the network admin required, the time spent when it's not working, the single point of failure being moved from a datacenter to possibly an office building, the backup process, infratructure and administration, all of that costs money, and you get it all accounted for (and economies of scale cheaper) with SaaS. That is the single biggest reason SaaS is so popular with companies, with enough SaaS you can just rent an office and buy laptops, and only hire devs.
I think yeah, I overreacted...
That still didn't help me understand his concerns. It's just a rant. However he links to something a little more coherent.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/29/california-legislators-s...
Digital mortgage lender Better.com is conducting its 4. layoff since December
This is the worst thing about it. Holding something and deciding if it's worth your money is a much longer process than clicking "buy now", and you've probably don't even remember doing it when the goods show up in front of your door.
Tech Billionaires Are the New Welfare Queens
A physical address to receive recovery codes? In Denmark, every person has a digital identity and they can authenticate themselves using either a smartphone or a dedicated TOTP key fob, and that could also work. Heck, we even have digital mail boxes for every person.

The reason that email is popular as an online identity is that it is an easy and cheap method for the service provider and user to establish an identity. It would be acceptable for a domain name provider to use a more expensive way of establishing identity since you only have to go through this process for this single provider. A physical office could work if you don't live in a country where people have government-issued digital identities.

Edit: Actually, why would we need all that? We don't need anything but a username, password and maybe a phone number to sign up for GMail, so why should it be different for a domain name provider? Sure, you need some recovery mechanism if you lose your credentials, but that problem is already solved by current email providers by using phone numbers, recovery codes, TOTP, Yubikeys, etc.
Somewhat tangential, but I wonder where do people using their own domain draw the line.

I personally use a "stable" firstname@lastname.com for supposedly trusted, long-term services (e.g. bank, utilities, etc.) and for services that require my identity for obvious reasons (e.g. shipping/billing address).

For sites where I prefer not to reveal my identity (not even to the site operator), I use Fastmail’s Masked Email (akin to iCloud Hide My Email). This, however, means I don't own those addresses, and if I need to change email provider for whatever reason, it's a PITA to update the email address field on possibly hundreds of sites (assuming you can).

I could buy a domain like randomstring.com to use with catch-all, but then I would be more likely to be tracked across sites, especially in the case of data leaks (which do happen eventually).

Then there are those awkward in-person situations when somebody asks my email and I have to say firstname@lastname.com.

What's a good tradeoff?
> "what if you had a mailing address that didn't change when you moved?"

1972

> you move to St Louis you would get name.stlouis.mo.us

2022
The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas [pdf]
Humans don't like chilli pepper. It literally burns our mouth. We enjoy the burning feeling in small quantities.
> Second, research results in population group differences are social poison. They are memetic viruses that fuel violent extremism. The murderer of 10 people in Buffalo directly cited human behavior research in his manifesto. Extremist racist groups regularly discuss this research. This is a fact.

Am I paraphrasing correctly: "Some bad people react badly to research results in this field, so there should be no research in this field" ?
They seem to say "search up", in fact
Interesting anecdote. However hard to generalize that small teams avoid writing code with unit tests & safety checks. I worked in a adtech before - small team of 2 Data scientist, 1 backend guy & a manager. All our code were type checked & ran through a strict code-review QC, before deploying.
Current place has us down to a team of 3 & we do strict version control, QC & robust orchestration because we have to cater to very demanding customers. Although I can imagine the "move fast, disrupt thing" mantra generally works - but it doesn't mean moving fast without safety
I always recommend his talk "A macro writer's bill of rights" [0] to people. It ties into some of the papers he has written, and also shows how nice it is to have a source->source optimizer. You write some code, and can the look at it after most of the common transformations (inlining, DCE, loop unrolling, constant propagation).

I spent some time reading the r6ra discussions and was blown away by the thought that went into the whole thing. There are very few parts of the semantics of R6RS that are actually bothersome. The only thing I really don't like is promises and the dynamic environment.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEX3tUliHw
Sichuan peppercorns, not chili peppers. Although I don't know why gp provided them as an example. They aren't the slightest bit hot, they just have a tingly numbing sensation and a nice flavor.
It is terrible, but what is the alternative to prevent cheating? I had quite a few on-line exams by now and I've seen very creative attempts at cheating so far.
You don't have to be a startup to follow this philosophy! Seems like every app I use is riddled with bugs :)

Come on Asana, let me change task dates and sort correctly. What kind of TODO app doesn't reliably save dates...
Show HN: Auto-generate YouTube chapters and captions
I've been spending the summer building an app to convert horizontal videos (Youtube style) to vertical ones (Tiktok style) and in the process of reaching out to potential customers, found another problem to solve:

An app to generate youtube chapters and captions automatically.

It's basically a UI on top of AssemblyAI, hope it makes someone's live easier :)
Paul Allen: Largest art auction ever to sell $1bn collection
I don't like pizza, it literally makes me fat. I enjoy the taste of pizza in large quantities.
Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?
I am a Mac user who has been annoyed by the most recent TexPad -> Texifier update and is looking to switch - any recommendations?
pick a chilli from a plant and eat it like how an animal would do in the wild. you'll want to jump into a pond after that. The chilli plant evolved in such a way that humans don't like chilli pepper. Humans used cooking and drying and diluting and other modern methods to reduce the ill-effects of spices and enjoy its flavors in small quantities.
Take home tests are a thing.

I've never had one, but from what I've heard they're the kind of thing that if done properly ends up being a better way to test people, but they're harder for instructors to implement.
Another thing that worries me is that you can pretty much direct email to anybody without their consent, no verification is required from their side. Dream work for spammers and scammers.
Sichuan pepper is native to Asia and is a citrus species. it is an old world plant.
I don't think this would be compatible with Schuko sockets because the plug would need two notches to accommodate the Schuko ground pins and the lateral guides in the socket.

It's just regular old type-C to me, I have some very similar plugs (in bakelite indeed) lying around from old French and Belgian appliances (ironically, dating from a time where power in France was 110V).
Beeban Kidron is a high profile movie director. Why not lead with that instead of her title?

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0452319/
A toolbox for a secure software supply chain
This all seems too vague. Is there no registrar making more specifc availability and stability guarantees backed by law or at least believable rationale? Or is there some technical solution that bypasses the entire registrar system altogether?
I'm a php & mysql -dev and still can't understand these websockets.
What if I have a cron job that sends messages to this websocket server and it pushes them to web-app (vue front, added to home screen on mobile phone, not an installed app) push notification.
How this can be done ?
and how can the server even keep up with the websocket connections to thousands of clients ? does the websocket re-open if user restarts their phone?
Sichuan Peppercorn is not a new world chili, and is endemic to Asia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum_armatum
I agree, Jupyter has its place in helping so exploration and learning. A problem that Data Science faces is that the majority of courses don’t show Data Scientists how to progress on from notebooks to write robust training pipelines that are reproducible and safe.
By "essential notebook UI", do you mean the old notebook or the lab interface?

The old notebook was painful to extend in JS compared to writing lab extensions in TS. In Jupyter Lab 3 they have taken questionable steps, but so far I have been able to work around issues.
I also use firstbame@lastname.com for personal and professional communication. But for signing up for services, I have a custom domain name with a catchall email address. Then I register with something along the lines of servicename@mycustomdomain.com. All of those emails go to the same place. The only downside is sometimes a person I work with or whatever will go ahead and sign me up for some third-party service using my main first name last name email address, which is kind of annoying.
The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)
Steam is not Electron.
The US media scream racism and BLM all day so people blame whites, not politicians for their poverty.
I -think- that it might be possible to do so something like ncurses forms.
Depending on your requirements, you may be able to do it with a framework of your choice, a simple crawler and Elasticsearch.

I'm basically doing just that for my little side project with Symfony + DomCrawler + Elastic. But i'm only crawling the home page and the results are manually curated.
Wow, this is a wild read. Some of the most shocking parts:

- Lack of development and testing environments; engineers build, deploy, and test code directly on the production environment

- >50% of employees having access to the live production environment and sensitive user data (getting _worse_ over time)

- Lack of logging of what people did with their production environment access

- 30% of employees' systems had disabled software updates

- Twitter "has never held proper licenses to the data sets and/or software" they used for some ML models

- "The majority of the systems in the data centers were running out of date software no longer supported by vendors"

- Misleading the board (e.g. trumpeting "we have endpoint monitoring software on 92% of employee systems!" but neglecting to mention that endpoint monitoring software reported 30% of employees' systems had disabled software updates)

- Misleading the FTC (e.g. implying that data was deleted when users closed their accounts, when in fact it was not)
I would also lean more towards culture and the environment that Jupyter provides only perpetuates it. I think what made me leave Data Science in the end was that I wasn’t driven by work outside of the notebooks (i.e. coming up with a mathematically superior solution) but driven by building ML driven systems as a whole.

I think notebooks are a great way of presenting findings and showing your workings at the same time. If that was their main use then I wouldn’t have any issues
>Because nation states are well known for producing usable software at a reasonable cost to tax payers?

The largest transfer of public property into the hands of private enterprise in human history was the Internet. At that time it was wild and limitless and full of promise. It’s pretty much stagnated from there.

Just like scientific and medical research, tech research is the most effective and has the largest societal benefit when done at public universities on the taxpayer’s dime.
Whoops, meant Chromium. My bad.
Can you run a Docker container (or many) inside Devbox?
this has been my experience with college too... just a waste of time to satisfy the bureaucrats. They think that winning a silly exam proves anything but your willingness to waste your time memorizing answers.
You've been able to take online classes for decades, why is this suddenly a problem?

Moreover, if people want to cheat they can find some way to cheat regardless of any countermeasures you deploy.
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