skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ):

Although IQ differences between individuals have been shown to have a large hereditary component, it does not follow that disparities in IQ between groups have a genetic basis.[11][12][13][14] The scientific consensus is that genetics does not explain average differences in IQ test performance between racial groups.[15][16][17][18][19][20]

And a quick search on Google Scholar:

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-295X.1...

https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/230/1/19...
You make it sound like a bad thing. Being proud of harboring hate speech puts one in a very specific category of people, one I wouldn't be proud to be part of.
> announcement for the feature on twitter literally emphasizes the lack of ads

Guessing that’s now how they’ll pitch it to an acquirer once it takes off.
>I don’t want to subscribe to hundreds of newsletters to see tweet (sorry, notes).

There's an option to just subscribe to notes and not newsletters on desktop, apparently, under the three-dots menu:

https://substack.com/profile/34072171-katie-substack/note/c-...

That UX is awful, but I'm sure they'll work it out in the coming weeks.
The Energel pens are a bit too light for my liking. So, I use Energel refills in G2's body. Best of both worlds.
How's the independent contractor market?
I've been trying to figure out what system this is or, if it's a homebrew hack, what it's based off. Not Call of Cthulu, as they note in the article. Not GURPS (wrong type of stats and 'Faith' isn't a GURPS stat), or World of Darkness either. Obviously not D&D of any edition, nor its variants (DCC, AS&SH, LotFP). Not Troika, Vaesen, or Mork Borg or any indie system I'm familiar with.

It could be an indie system that doesn't have much Enlgish-language presence, but the player was using English names for abilities.
> Hell - since you mentioned search... Just look at the backlash right now happening to google. They've sold out search (a while back, really) and people hate it. Ads used to be clearly delimited from search results, and the top results used to be organic instead of paid promos. At some point, that stopped being true.

Only people in HN-like communities care about this stuff. Most people find the SEO spam in their results more annoying.

> At least with google search I could still tell that it was showing me ads. You won't have any fucking clue that OpenAI has entered into a partnering agreement with "company [whatever]" and has retrained the model that users on plans x/y/z interact with to make it more likely to push them towards their new partner [whatever]'s products when prompted with certain relevant contexts.

You won't know this for any local models either.
I’m not a citizen, but I’m holding out for a pure “tech” company for now anyway for various reasons.

Thanks for the hint anyway - perhaps someone else will benefit.
Amazon now charges fees for UPS Store returns, forcing Whole Foods dropoffs
I agree with you. Although I wouldn't bet against Musk when it comes to growth. He may come up with some quirky ideas like free Doges for anyone that sign up for Blue...
I hope people realize that fuel cell cars are also EVs, and have only a handful more moving parts to deal with. People have mislead themselves into thinking the BEV is synonymous with all EVs. This type of thinking could easily lead people into making serious mistakes.
Seems just like one of the many cookie-cutter Twitter clones out there. I don't think people would even be talking about Substack Notes had it not been for Musk's tantrum.
As a fellow southpaw, I was convinced to buy a bunch of their recommended pens (IIRC their standalone "best pens for lefties" article is more thorough than the left section in the "best pens of $current_year" article).

The Pentel EnerGel (specifically, the "Pentel EnerGel Alloy Gel Pen - 0.7 mm - Black Ink - Silver Body") is the best pen I've ever used. It feels magically smooth with minimal smudging. For me it writes much better than the Jetstream, although if you do a ton of writing you might prefer the grip on those. I also really like the multiball (for writing on non-paper surfaces), the power tank (aka the poor man's space pen) and the Sarasa dry gel pens (less smooth than the Energel but the designs are fun)
That's just not how these models work.
Shell in the Ghost: Ghostscript CVE-2023-28879 writeup
I don't think I can agree with this take.

> He assembled the top talent to produce the best products that pushed our experience with technology forward.

Assembling top talent is something a lot of people could do, what made Jobs special is that he did that while still actually giving a shit about the quality of the product his company produced. "Oh, he just" is less a way of dismissing jobs than it is a way of saying "hey assholes, you could be more like Jobs if you just actually gave a fuck".
>But then wouldn’t making jobs higher paying and life better make the issue worse?

Yes, which is what we see in the data. People with higher incomes have fewer children than those with lower incomes.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
> Are there any liberal areas where it's actually nice to live if you are poor or of moderate income?

Lots of the Great Lakes Region. I live in a liberal area where the average house price is ~150-200k and I rent a 2 bedroom, ~1000 sq. ft. apartment in the middle of the city within walking distance to things for $950.
Look, what follows is my opinion and why Im against EVs for the short to mid term future. Im not a domain expert, but I am a physicist and an engineer whose worked in energy and for the DOE on sustainable energy sources. Again, Im not a car engineer.

Carbon emissions is why we're transitioning. Its why EVs are made mandatory. Its the premise that the EV has to fulfill. Thousands of little ICE parts have little consequence since cars, typically, die for every other reason except engine failure. This has been the case since widespread adoption of automatic transmissions and fuel injection.

The math of EVs is pretty daunting too. Take an EV and ignore its greater sin of creation (ie resources to make one vs an ICE car). Now pretend it runs on pixie dust (ie actually zero emissions).

Now compare that to taking that EV's (electrically) massive battery and, instead hybridizing N number of vehicles. Ive run the numbers, and the EV has (much) greater CO2 emissions.

If you use regulatory power to funnel those batteries to preferentially hybridize contractors' vans and trucks (ie the F-250 and 350, not the wanna be cowboys' 150) the comparison sucks even more.

Note that this analysis uses efficiency numbers from current widespread ICE engines, not rather niche (for the West) CNG cars that can run at very high compression ratios (methane has an octane rating of about 120) and have much higher energy content per gram of CO2.

And you know what the funniest part of all of this is? We could slash transportation CO2 overnight by lowering and imposing lower speed limits.

But again, this is what Ive come to believe with car manufacturer and EPA data in excel. YMMV
She'd instantly get caught, and it would have a profound effect on the next 15 years of her life (for instance: it would immediately put her in a higher security class of detention).
Oof. Are you going out for L6? Is the goal a big company, or a startup?

Reading all the comments in this thread, I wonder if there's some correlation to specific areas of the tech industry. e.g., Are people working in the AI space (or even something like ML infra) just inundated with job offers right now?
Mandatory sentence reductions for milestones like 50%, 75%, 100% of ordered restitution/forfeiture would almost certainly incentivize repayment. Right now the federal government collects 7% of what they are owned from criminal defendants, see https://sci-hub.se/https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/d... (page 2). It has been proven that white collar criminals are typically the more calculating type and that they weigh the risks of getting caught so if there is a good reason to preserve at least some of the money they fraudulently obtain instead of spending it all on luxury goods they will likely do so. It's very difficult to argue that the current system is effective when there are people who caused bank failures through million dollar frauds getting 7-8 years in prison and $100 a month restitution payment plans. Right now your "intended loss" (not actual loss) is all that matters for the purpose of sentencing guidelines calculation - for instance if you submit a fraudulent loan application for $50k and don't get it (or get it but pay it back) you're just as bad as the guy who got it and spent it at all.
Wow, didn't exactly stick their necks out on the design did they? Almost zero visual differentiation from the noisy flamewars of Twitter this is supposed to be the antidote to.
> had been at his last 3 jobs for roughly over a year each

And yet the manager would be your boss. Not sure why you think how long someone has been in a role is somehow a worthwhile signal.
I imagine there is something in the paperwork you sign when you pay for it that basically says roughly "this may never actually materialize" and that's the key difference.
I'm getting a lot of recruiter spam lately, but a lot of it is low effort and AI driven.

A local unicorn reached out recently on LinkedIn with what looked like an organic message, so I gave them a chance. The interviewer was stand-offish and bitter. I then checked out their LinkedIn page and they had laid off 10% of their workforce in the previous 6 months.

I am not a big fan of interviewing, but I have noticed a corporatization trend among small companies, where they tell you things like "it's up to the hiring manager" which means they are not actually hiring anybody, or you are making enough money that you are out of their league, etc.

One of the things I miss the most about the 2020-2022 period is how honest those companies used to be, and how smoothly money was flowing even for the average Joe.
Microsoft Patched Critical RCE Vulnerability in MSMQ Service
Show HN: Discord Time formatting with natural language processing
Discord has a really great feature where you can type <t:1681269600:f> and it will show up as "April 12, 2023 at 4:20 AM" but magically translated for everyone's time zones. Super useful for collaboration, but I'd never seen a tool I liked for generating them. So I threw this together using chrono-node so you can just type something like "6pm tomorrow" and get something you can paste in anywhere.
I was working at an Apple Store when Jobs died. People started to leave flowers, management put up huge sheets of paper in the windows and people wrote all sorts of heartfelt messages. What other CEO’s passing would engender that kind of sentiment? Those people didn’t just prefer Apple equipment, they loved it.

Jobs tapped into something deep with his ethos and product vision. He had an uncanny knack of understanding what appeals to many people and bringing them to market. Arguably he also had a knack for forming teams that bought into his vision and were able to execute at a high level. I think that Tim Cook has said that Steve’s most lasting legacy is Apple itself.

I’m looking forward to reading this book. A founder that had deep convictions, the business chops to make it profitable (eventually), and the luck/skill/determination to inevitably launch at exactly the right time has a story to tell.
Can you share the shortcut or explain how it works. I dont have much experience with custom shortcuts yet.
This is just an ad for a political policy that doesn't address any of the problems, would not have helped the author's friend, and if it were the only policy enacted might not have saved the murder victim's life.

Adams's proposal to involuntarily hospitalize people did nothing to address these problems that don't only affect New York City's chronically homeless:

- Hospital staffing or capacity for triaging, assessing, treating, and making committal decisions on chronically mentally ill patients; police can't directly involuntarily commit people, a doctor has to do it[1]

- Lack of training for first responders, and especially police, to compassionately handle people suffering from acute mental illness; his proposal added a video call hotline. It also leans on NYPD's existing specialized training section, which is only a four-day program, has a stated primary goal of handcuffing the person, and hasn't stopped police from following protocol instead of killing mentally ill people.[2] It also was apparently announced without any coordination with NYPD, who by their own admission found out about the new policy only when Adams publicly announced it.[2][3] NYPD in turn started implementing the policy without rolling out the training Adams mentioned, and directed officers to its legal team for advice instead of the hotline.[3]

- An existing shortage of first responders, much less specially trained responders,[2] much less effectively trained responders.[4]

- An existing shortage of in-patient beds and supportive housing, a shortfall that the state government is attempting to address independently of Adams. In-patient psychiatric hospital bed capacity dropped 20 percent from 2014 to 2022 with only 5,000 statewide, which left the handling of mentally ill people in places like NYC to understaffed and undertrained ERs.[5]

Adams didn't respond to any of these fundamental shortfalls in his November proposal until three months later, with new proposals that didn't have budgets, didn't propose expanding fundamental mental health care infrastructure, and instead focused on clubhouse models for employing functionally mentally ill people without addressing the acute or chronic mental illness targeted by his involuntary hospitalization proposal. The only part of this new proposal that was even funded at the time it was announced was the other third of it, exclusively focused on substance abuse.[6]

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/03/13/ne...

2: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/nyregion/mental-health-pl...

3: https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/nypd-moves-ahead-with-eric-ada...

4: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1019704823/police-mental-heal...

5: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/nyregion/hochul-mental-he...

6: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/23/adams-mental-health...
$2M a pop, though. These packs in question are huge, meant for grid-scale solutions.
Could we get people here to add what kind of field they work in?
According to the wikipedia article, even with good behavior she will serve a minimum 9.5 years with no possibility of parole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elizabeth_A._...
> It's my understanding that the ME chip is involved with the secure boot process.

There is another way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35436908.

> The security is about preventing other programs from being able to capture the video and audio.

There is no need to remove my rights to achieve this, just like with the above: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/03/18/gui-domain/#audio-d....

Giving up your freedom without a serious reason leads to no freedom at all.

> Creating a VM specifically for a wifi card is not done by >99.9% of ME users.

Maybe it should be done, if you think it's so important that people should give up their rights. I see no downsides in having a VM.
Ah, interesting… I think the discrepancy is where we’re looking. FWIW, I started my career at AOL-Time Warner in Florida in the late ‘90s. Management was all “good ol’ boys”. Definitely no role models anywhere. (I was closeted at the time).

I’ve been fortunate in some ways, but nothing came easy to me. I didn’t come from money, didn’t graduate college, didn’t know anyone… I moved to LA just to escape that toxic environment, and found a good job developing embedded systems in 2 weeks. I’m an autodidact, so my only qualifications were a portfolio of projects, including an old TI DSP project and a pre-Wi-Fi embedded wireless device. Over the next ~15 years, I kept moving up in rank and salary, changed jobs a few times, received patents, contributed to papers, and was lucky enough to be mentored by some truly amazing people…

I’ve always felt success is a combination of hard work and luck, even for those “born into it”. If true, that likely means for everyone like me, there are a dozen or so who didn’t make it, or never took a chance.

And yeah, being gay still isn’t fun. Maybe it made it easier to take a chance moving 2600 miles from home though — I figured I’d be dead within a year if I stayed where I was…

Hope that doesn’t sound like some kind of humble brag; I’ve obviously had my share of failures and loss.. That said, given how lucky I feel at this point (I’m in my 40s), I couldn’t understand how you’ve never met a positive role model… But I do now, and it was naive of me to extrapolate my experience into the general population… And I’m not suggesting I worked harder or did anything to deserve my good fortune… FWIW, I’m really sorry you (and likely most people) haven’t known the same men and women I’ve been lucky enough to know…

Really hope that doesn’t sound like some arrogant humblebrag, or diminish your hard work!
you mean like people?
You do not want to "correct" the wiki because the wiki is not wrong. The person you are replying to is clearly thinking about some sort of RF system (given the frequencies mentioned) where it's important to have a baseband filter to eliminate aliasing, and that filter will have some sort of roll off region, resulting in a higher sample rate than available bandwidth. That's all great, but the Nyquist theorem isn't talking about an RF system. It's referring to sampling. When the wiki uses the word "bandwidth", they mean the frequencies that don't alias given a specific sample rate.
What would you like her to do instead of jail time in this instance?
It helps learning about history but it takes time.

Ian Kershaw is nice to read and gives a good overview over European history.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/279961/roller-coaster-by-ker...

"In synthesizing and evaluating an enormous body of scholarship, not only on Europe, East and West, but also on the wider world and the globalisation processes that have so deeply affected European history, Ian Kershaw has produced a historical masterpiece."

(Times Literary Supplement)
> Consider this website, the outdated interface is held up as some kind of filter against an “eternal September” of an influx of “normies” who can’t see past the terrible UI for the apparently sheer brilliance and sophistication of the content on this site, but to me, it’s just garish.

I certainly don't hold it up for any gatekeeping nonsense, and frankly I despise that anyone even uses the word "normies". What I like about this site's UI is that it places function over form and isn't built on a pile of trendy garbage and designed by people who never use it.
Why not look into other cloud providers such as Digital Ocean? Much cheaper for compute and bandwidth.
It has been for a couple months, yet HN keeps trying to convince us there's plenty of positions open, just a little slow.

Personally, this is the worst I have experienced in 16 years, also because I'm in Britain and we have our own sets of issues on top.

I am barely keeping afloat with underpaid Upwork gigs. Contracting work is pretty much dead in UK. Recruiters have not landed me a single interview after connecting with two dozen of them. Not a single one in two months.
To this day, my wife reminds me that was the first question her mother ever asked me and my answer was "as little as possible."
I look at FAANG experience as a negative for startup work. I’d much prefer to hire someone with five years of experience at three startups than five years of experience at Google.
> Again, I'm not saying they're reasoning like people

Cool, that’s really the only point I’m making. On the one hand it’s certainly true we can overcome a lot of the limitations imposed by that basic token sequence prediction paradigm, but they are just workarounds rather than general solutions and therefore are limited in interesting ways.

Obviously I don't know for sure how things will pan out, but I suspect we will soon encounter scaling limitations in the current approach. Not necessarily scaling limitations fundamental to the architecture as such, but limitations in our ability to develop sufficiently well developed training texts and strategies across so many problem domains. That may be several model generations away though.
New Zealander without college degree built a $1.8B rocket company
Also, to chase those dollars while being on the leash of Google’s massive investment.

So they lost the plot on the altruistic mission within months of setting up shop, and now are just a pawn in a bigger game between other companies.
Three strikes can be triggered with much less, even petty theft can trigger it. In this example, the defendant received 25 years in prison for his third crime of stealing a pair of socks[0]

"Specifically, the Three Strikes law made it possible for a repeat offender to receive a prison sentence of 25 years to life for a nonserious or nonviolent felony (for example, petty theft with a prior)"[1]

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cruel-an...

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/2005/3_strikes/3_strikes_102005.htm
I hate those things. Anyone know of a way to get rid of them?

In particular, the "Open in the X app" banner is obnoxious. I get showing it once, but if I remove it, don't show it again.
I’m curious, what works better than Twitter for this kind of use case? Mastodon is better than Twitter for me, but it still is very slow.
Looking at the first example given I think this book is the one missing the mark. I genuinely have trouble when things have less borders! I don’t care about things designed to seem nice, I want them to be usable!
>rehabilitation effect of prison

There is no such effect in the USA. Prisons are 100% not designed to rehabilitate anyone here.
> have 0% faith the current hardware will ever run a real level 5 solution

Me either! But that’s not fraud. It’s delusion. We don’t criminalise it because the difference between genius and crazy is often only apparent ex post facto.
Buffett says geopolitics a factor in Berkshire sale of TSMC stake
Terrifying amounts of no, not even a little.
Project CETI
Next on the product roadmap:

- Infinite scrolling feed w/ ads

- Video Substacks

- Infinite scrolling video Substacks w/ ads
I think this was posted 2 days late.
Twitter is not important. Breaking news were always there on TV from the beginning of time.
> Most people I think aren't opposed to well designed UI that incorporates a central tenant of Jobs', which is that design is functionality and not purely visual

Jobs loved skeuomorpism, which isn't inherently bad, but having iOS UI elements reproduce the stitching from seats in his private jet skews close to "purely visual". Also, the (early) iOS date picker was unforgivable - I assume Jobs was aware of its existence & approved of its rubber-stamp-like, user-hostile skeuomorphic design
FAANG is shorthand for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google, not a specific tech stack.
Where can I get such a rug? I fixed up my home office a couple years ago and it's nice except I need a rug both to make it look nice and to absorb some sound.
That's true. Alarmingly, medicine is pretty badly affected, though! Basic science seems to do better.

And as computer people, our house is not clean either, despite the formal character of computer science. Empirical results in computer science, demos and benchmarking done in the field, and more, also matter and are often non-reproducible just a few years after publication— if source code is provided with the paper at all, which it often has not been.

Science is amazing, both for its processes and achievements. But there's lots of important work being done and yet-to-be-done on science itself. Critical thinking is essential to that work, and it goes beyond formal reasoning or puzzle-solving in the small.