skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear to me what kind of position/stack you are applying for. But I would say if you're finding "pretty advanced calculus problems" in your interview coding challenges, that you may either be applying for positions that require that kind of mathmatic thinking, or the companies themselves do not know how to select relevant gate problems for hiring candidates. It's probably a bit of both, but I would take those as signs that maybe they aren't the kind of company that you want to work for. I have only been a dev professionally for 4+ years, but can say I've been on the other side as the interviewer. The LeetCode/HackerRank hiring code challenges are not without their flaws, but at the same time, there is necessity for assessing candidate's skills in problem solving and their ability to work through coding challenges.

Honestly, someone who is 16 years deep in their software dev/eng. career I would expect to utilize their contact network to find potential jobs above relying on coding challenges and applications. I would expect you to be a Senior level dev who can orchestraste teams and a bit of product/project mangement, if in addition to working on code yourself, demonstrating system and software architecture level prowess and aptitude. These are not so much things that can be solved mathmatically/programattically in a coding interview per ce, unless a hyper-focused chunk is being used as the challenge. But I'm just in the peanut gallery... My advice is to use your network and taylor your resume, use a resume service if you need to -- they can be 3x-10x their weight in making you more attractive as a candidate, as well as perhaps take a new approach towards finding positions to apply to.

Maybe even reach out to people in the past you have worked with and let them know you are looking, and if you have positions you are applying to, pass them the link to the job description and ask if these seem like descriptions of a job that would be appropriate for you. As introverted as so many of us are, we tend to think that we should know how to do everything ourselves. Sometimes, if not many times, we need another set of eyes and perspective on our approach.
Build things, get stuck, read the docs, build more things, repeat.
You're never going to get much agreement on IQ as long as a certain type of strong egalitarianism is the prevailing outlook on the world, because the consequences of IQ being important tears apart virtually everything about that.

If IQ actually is reasonably important in some capacity, then it indicates that humans are not fungible and almost everybody would be forced to rewrite all of reality in their heads.
Show HN: dnum, a small library for big decimal numbers
IQ is a dismal measure, yet it is the best predictor we have for a variety of operationalized constructs. Delete the soft sciences entirely if IQ, of all things, is not good enough for you.
no doubt that government leaks to test policy

but this one's such a huge vote loser even the opposition refuse to discuss it

it's some journo that's got wind of part of some second hand discussion and has turned it into a scoop
If there are, then why are you complaining that they "won't sell them to you"?

I complained about no such thing.

Mineral resources to make the batteries? Why do you think that Tesla has a waiting period of months.

Certainly not for this reason. Telsa has always been months, even years behind on deliveries.
The beauty of a license agreement in plain text
Popular games switching from pub servers to matchmade 5v5/6v6 bums me out. It feels like it was just done to chase esports money, and it's such a worse casual experience. Way more stress, way less community.
Indeed, anything legal would be a wild escalation.

Finally having an email is great!
Who could argue for hours and praise and upvote someone getting Doom running on all their household appliances?
Learning the syntax is the easy part, the language is quite simple with few rules. But, I agree with the other sentiments. It needs a better UX for it to be mainstream. There are few attempts being made[1][2], only time will tell

1: https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/docs/
2: https://devenv.sh/
I think as a Brit I'm still technically in the "We". ;)

What I have realized since living in the US is that every state is wildly different. Even regions within states are wildly different. Of course, I knew this before moving here, but it's a different thing entirely to experience it.

There are definitely big issues in US politics, at the federal level, at the state level and at the city/regional level. But if you don't like somewhere, you can move. I live in Seattle, for example, where a significant number of LGBTQ+ young adults move from all over the country.

The UK in comparison feels incredibly homogeneous, diversity of regional accents aside. London dominates the entire country both politically and economically. The impacts of poor governance at the country level are felt everywhere and cannot really be offset by regional authorities.
IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
Open High-Resolution Satellite Imagery: The WorldStrat Dataset
The ArchWiki for Arch Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/
This generic explanation for everything always gets posted to HN whenever the UK comes up in any capacity, but it isn't "fact based economics". Inflation is surging throughout Europe and the world. Trading Economics has a useful map that visualizes it:

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate

Inflation is high because governments printed enormous sums of money to fund lockdowns and furloughs. Helicopter drops of money creates inflation, it's as simple as that. This effect was predicted right at the start of lockdowns and now it's here. Moreover Brexit only actually took effect at the very start of 2020 so there was all of a few months to do anything before COVID hit and the government had no time to actually do much with its new powers.

Honestly, it's very tiring to see these kind of unsubstantiated comments so systematically rise to the top. If you want to prove something is causally linked to leaving the EU you need to prove it, not simply assert it and then declare anyone questioning that assertion is engaged in "denial".
The Qt framework has excellent documentation which made it very easy for me to learn it back then!
Created on the spot, just for you. But it is what you typically do in life, if you have a job that opens the possibilities to do more.

But: do not forget that the point is with the organic view: the interdependence of the two poles.
I did this quite a few years ago. If I remember correctly, it was so convincing that people emailed Dang because I set the username at the top to be “pg”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248773
Another example of when you say "nothing to see here" everyone goes "wait there's something to see here?"

If they hadn't said anything no one would be talking about it except for some really niche space aficionados.
impressive site, impressive achievements

hats off
Personally, via Peterson, I read a lot of the IQ literature and Peterson's arguments around it. I became reasonably convinced of his major claims (namely that IQ is a valid measure of intelligence, that heritability is a valid measure of genetic determination, and that IQ is largely heritable). (Incidentally, all these claims are profoudnly false).

Subsequently, I watched a long-form breakdown of IQ and my doubts increased. I then "clicked" IQ into place: for most of my adult life ive been complaining about fMRI, pharam, (AI), etc. -- ie., medical misuse of stats --- and somehow Peterson had lulled me into a false sense of security.

Taleb's article was the nail in the coffin, and I read around the references associated with it. I now place psychometrics firmly in that category of pseudoscience which is "absue of statistics by idiots in lab coats with GUIs".

I expect the culture to be following along with me, if at a long long distance. I think in 2022 "the informed elite" are roughly absorbing the obvious issues with AI, Psychology, etc. and that tradition of statisitcal BS which was clear at least a decade ago.

My "pro-IQ" scepticism was initially agaist people worried about racism, etc. It's very lullying for a sceptic to be confronted by people who dont care about reality that muhc. But this is a trap. IQ is actually BS, and its a shame that the people often most against it are also often very poorly informed.

To address IQ research head-on is a little like like addressing old-testament theological scholarship. The level of understanding of both the field, statistics and the philosophy of science required is very high.

It's a field which florishes, as often with theology, from extremely complex arguments with absolutely insane hidden premesies.
However much we like to laugh at them, the US is fundamentally in a much better position than us economically.
I think they put her out there to die, and that she knew it. When 80% of what she did gets redone by Sunak, it will be marketed as relatively humane and egalitarian.

It's like how everybody got to attack May as incompetent for the Brexit she proposed, which was obviously the only Brexit possible (i.e. as far as the EU was ever going to go.) They push her out, sneering, then go on to do exactly the same deal they pushed her out for. The UK public just needs scapegoats, and the UK political class serves them on a platter.
Yea I liked almost everybody in DSP.

I disagree strongly however with the management's tech approach, the Broad cannot compete with the other companies in the Boston area in terms of comp. What worked in the past is smart people came to the Broad for the fun, autonomy and intellectual challenge over pay.

If you reduce people to just worker-bee's finishing CRUD tickets on an Agile board - you'll get efficiency for the 1st 2 years but you'll lose so much institutional/domain knowledge and collaboration; the PMs will get promoted in 1 year while projects on a 5 year timeframe get uber-delayed; the smart people will get bored and leave and even the good efficient engineers in the system will also leave for the better well paid tech jobs that Broad cannot compete with. I've seen it in every company who has run this playbook.
I can't find the exact article. For some reasons "everything" pre-brexit about immigration has been buried by Google. However the route of African migrants through Italy to the UK was well known before Brexit.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/african-migr...
Yeah unfortunately I see that a ton as an Indian myself , where we’ve been taught to be submissive.

Many of my other Indian coworkers are always too scared to push back in any form, and many of my Indian friends back in India would work till the early hours of the morning regularly.

I’m lucky in the sense that I know to push back often when something doesn’t feel right or is illogical to me. Ironically I was often chided in high school for that as teachers would suggest that this would be bad for my career. It’s actually been the best thing for it, letting me become system architects at multiple large companies. But I see where they were coming from, in that the same attitude would have burned me if I’d stayed.
Just about to say that. I've worked with a few very talented engineers who simply wouldn't look anyone in the eye during conversation, but focused their full attention on the subject under discussion.
FTX says 'unauthorized' transfers have been routed to other exchanges
Why isn't this at the top?
I was trying to contextualize how big of scale that number is. And I was reading the NYTimes piece on ATT/TW/WB.

"That amounts to a loss of about $47 billion for AT&T shareholders, based on AT&T’s $109 billion valuation of the deal at the time it was announced."

AT&T lost its shareholders $47 billion in 4 years. Obviously you need to divide both numbers by stakeholders, but even still. IT is really hard to just fathom how much $10B, $15B $47B is. At these scales, numbers just mean different things.
> Do you mean something like Scotland going there own way?

Yes, exactly this – the four countries of the UK going their own way and the UK ceasing to be.

(It's my personal opinion – people will of course have their own take, and good reasons for having their views – that such a happening would be a devastating event.)
I agree, there was lot of effort put into python documentation i believe.
By that definition so does the UK.
Do you dislike ReactOS too, since it looks so similar to Windows? If not, what's the difference?
The entire reason other companies are now making electric cars and will be making cheaper electric cars is that Tesla forced them to by eating into their profits.

And I realize the Model Y isn't cheap. Yet. But it will likely be the highest selling car in the world next year, replacing Toyota. You can gripe about them not being economical but replacing the use of fossil fuels is the bigger issue being addressed. And isn't having the wealthy and people with expendable income fund that transition what we want?
Show HN: We created a tool to visualize scientific knowledge
I posted our project a few days ago in a thread about Vitamin D.
We’ve made some UI improvements people might find interesting.
Hello, author(?). I was more so interested in how belief or association with those who believe in "creationism" compromises business/technological endeavors in space exploration. A more simple question could be: "Why can't space pioneers support Republicans?" but that would only serve as an abstraction over what I'm really trying to figure out.
> To me the "addendum" was the low point of the article. Because it turned what might have been a principled position into

It was a principled position, and more important, it was the truth about why I left Twitter.

I don't think that omitting the truth to make a better story would be a good idea. It's not honest. I realized after leaving Twitter that I didn't want to go back to the social media experience, but that wasn't actually the reason I left.

> To end on a positive note - I like your apps and the spartan css style of the blog.

Thanks!

> So this is a friendly message :)

I'd say it's a mixed message. ;)
Are we calling all pharma products "vaccines" now?
Welcome to the world of science where critique, positive criticism and open questioning is encouraged! We’re glad to have you finally join us.
A higher proportion of people are using their cellphones to comment
Direct link to dataset: https://zenodo.org/record/6810792#collapseTwo
Perhaps start hunting the executives and employees on LinkedIn?
Concurrent learning is the answer that you are looking for. Many activities take a certain amount of time but not 100% constant focus.

If it takes 10 hours of road driving to get comfortable and 2 hours to get comfortable with stick, you could do them both at the same time.
> Those drop too quickly, the air separates near the top. It doesn't buy you anything.

Unless it's a complete fabrication, Light-Year claims that the design is relevant to aerodynamics:

https://lightyear.one/articles/lightyear-0-the-most-aerodyna...
Borges’ “The Library of Babel”, Annotated
For you and others reading this, here's some ways to put your skills to work on solutions:

https://workonclimate.org/

https://www.mcjcollective.com/

https://bootup.airminers.org/
In all seriousness, I think people not reading the full article is a recurring theme on hn.

For controversial topics, it's a major problem: people don't establish what's actually being debated, instead attacking/defended what they think I'd being debated, so the conversation develops slowly as a result.

However, I also think it's a strength of hn, because hn has a strong culture of going off topic: allowing for people with related experience to share and to suggest new avenues to explore. Often, instead of bookmarking the referenced article, I bookmark the hn thread instead for this reason.
Thank you for confirming!

I find myself closer to the 'fan' side of systemd, but I'm under no illusions either - there are several detriments.

I find some of the heavier responses to it strange, either for or against. It's like developing a personality around a preference of sporks over forks/spoons.

Use what you like, help those who have trouble... but neither needs proselytizing
For now. I know someone who was "doing waaay better in the US", took 3 weeks of leave and came back to a huge series of lay offs, market saturation, unemployment with no healthcare then his visa renewal was declined. So he had to spend his last wedge of cash getting back to the UK...

Took a position with 2/3 of the US salary but actual tangible security.
> Caufield's main argument was that we have become swept away by
streams

The idea that a website was a "place to go" seems to have been
replaced by the idea that a website is a spectacle to watch. In that
sense cyber-space is dead, there are only timelines to hop in and
out of.
Tailscale's documentation: https://tailscale.com/kb/
Even IQ itself was meant as a way to identify what supports people need to keep up and negate the difference.
My problem with any voice assistant is that it doesn’t have a UI, so it’s hard to know what it’s capable of. You have to try a command and have it fail. And then you don’t know if maybe you worded your request wrong. Or you can go to the marketing website and try to memorize all the commands it understands which is too difficult. So that’s why we all just use it for timers and weather and nothing else.
Many people say passion and motivation are elusive. Better to be disciplined.
There's also this for more hacker news satire although it sadly seems dormant now:
http://n-gate.com
Don’t you think the Swiss out more into Horizon than they got out?
This is why I like CS:Source a lot still. User run servers but they have updated the graphics enough it doesn’t feel too dated compared with newer titles.
I very much respect your view but i couldn't resist commenting on... how insane all that sounds to me. Chaos was, for me, the essence of an epic, memorable LAN party.

It's fun to see how different people can be.
It doesn’t erase the gap, but it’s worth mentioning the cost of living here is much lower than a lot of hubs in the US.

For example, I live less than an hour from London and my total monthly outgoings (including a mortgage) are less than £2,000.
I'm not really sure I follow - the NI and Ireland example seems like a poor one because of the political history.

Why is a hard border unworkable in the Scottish case? I could definitely imagine this is true, e.g. if Scotland has to import much food or other goods. Or because Scotland depends on the pound. And maybe, in that way, it shares some parallels?
TBH, I don't get excited about new package managers.

The last thing I want is a balkanized distribution space, and every new package manager is just one more place that package maintainers have to be aware of, learn, and configure. That makes each one a net negative by default, so the value-add that other package managers don't bring to the table has to be significant to get my attention.
It was invented as a clinical test of retardation, and the only correlation with IQ and objective independent measures of performance is in the region of very low scores.

Note, that when carear-IQ correlations are brought up it is universally in those populations subject to an IQ test filter who are then shown to correlate with IQ scores (ie., those who take, eg., MCAT, LSAT, ...) --- which, if it isnt clear, is circular.

Average and above IQ shows no correlation whatsoever with, eg., wealth.
Brexit is annoying for consumers (try buying stuff from Germany as easily now) and actively lethal for some businesses. I'm feeling the sovereignty already
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> To get everyone at the LAN to play the same game no longer meant passing the CD around

Pretty sure I spent more time installing games and fighting with cracking software than I did playing games at LANs :)
> 4. Again, people using metrics to be racist is an argument against measuring intelligence, not against IQ itself. You could make the same argument about literally any other system measuring intelligence.

Yeah, the real backlash against IQ is against the implied policy that people think ought to be implemented if IQ is real and determined genetically, as they believe that intelligence is related to moral worth, which raises the question of "what do we do with the worse people if we have a tool that can determine who is a better or worse human."

It's a complex mixup of Equity vs Equality.
I'd be delighted with any attention my code on Github got, good, bad or otherwise.

The only thing that would embarrass me is the number of things I start and never finish.

As far as suggestions for improvement, I'd be happy for any. But I understand the reluctance of the OP. This is a little like my impression of code reviews. That's like standing in front of your coworkers, naked, and asking them to point out any "opportunities for improvement" with your body. I wonder if there is a strategy for code reviews that avoids this.

(HankB on Github (for anyone curious.)
When telling people about HN, I'd emphasize first reading the guidelines, and not treating it like other social media. Then I'd say, when some comment thread goes intolerable, they can get relief by reading some n-gate. (Though the content of the last post precluded mentioning it at the company where I was working.)

I hope the n-gate person is well, and that they didn't blow a gasket, taking on the burdens of too many HNers.
While I am completely convinced that humans are changing the climate, I am not convinced that air travel is the big contributor claimed by many. We are only now getting satellite evidence of the amount of methane venting being done industrially, which seems to be a bigger contributor per unit of mass emitted.

I live in the U.S., which has many big automobiles transporting just one person. They are a much bigger emitter of carbon per person per unit of distance traveled. I don’t see why we should be discouraging commercial air travel while allowing individual automobiles to emit so much.

Those of you who are against air travel for climate reasons, can you share a source that has convinced you that it is a real problem?
As soon as you include images and custom fonts it becomes really hard to keep things small.

I just measured my landing page which looks like every other SaaS landing page out there and it's 12KB of HTML/CSS and 202KB of illustrations and fonts (4*35KB illustrations, 2*25KB fonts).
That fast enough is good enough shouldn't be a hot take?

But if you are implying that the web today is fast enough that for sure is a hot take. Our industry most certainly don't care the slightest about performance nor user experience.

Popups alone are proof of that.
I see 'intent' is an unpopular conceit here.
Thank you for sharing. Good read. I was trying to integrate modsecurity into ingress-nginx but you changed my mind. Why not do it the cloud-native way and have it as a sidecar instead. D'oh
> but not based in reality.

I don't know about reality, but what you've done is delivered anecdotes when we know that prices in the US have gone up about 10% and prices in the UK have gone up 15%. There's no need for anecdotes, especially for another round of calling Brexiteers deluded.
Yea if there's a unsolicited take-away from me... don't ever become a lifer or think a company/field will never change. Nobody, even if it's GOOG circa 2010's, IBM circa 1970's, MSFT 1990's ever offer good combination of intellectual and comp forever. Only you and maybe your mother care about your well-being... I don't feel sad anymore about the good jobs/research opp. is now gone. I realize I was lucky and I aim to always to try adapt to get into those environments and accepting things are always changing.