skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IQ is an attempt to measure human intelligence.

Technical interviews while correlated to intelligence are not trying to directly measure it. In theory one should be able to improve on their technical abilities regardless of their intelligence. However, they can not increase their intelligence (at least not dramatically).

I think it's fair to say that technical interviews are simply fairer for this reason since someone can work at being competent at a specific set of skills while not being able to work at being more generally intelligent (as measured by IQ).

Given performance on IQ tests tend to correlate to one's social economic background, I believe the political motivation isn't just about what's in the best interest for individual job seekers, but also because IQ tests could be used as way to screen out otherwise competent candidates that come from "undesirable" social economic backgrounds.

Personally I think IQ is underrated as a general measure of intelligence and is a very good indicator of potential competency at any given skill. In my experience high IQ individuals are simply nicer and more interesting people. They're also able to pick up things significantly faster where IQ differences are large. For all its flaws if I could only rely one data point for a hiring decision (at least for a technical role) it would be IQ.

I say this as someone who generally scores poorly in high quality IQ tests. The only exception to this is if I'm given a non-verbal IQ test like Raven's progressive matrices, then I'll typically score in the top few percent of the population. For this reason if you set someone like myself a technical test I'd probably pass it, but this would be unfortunate because you'd then find out I'm unable to communicate and have barely functioning memory. In which case you'd probably wish you hired someone who preformed worse on the technical test but had a higher IQ. And this is why IQ is so useful – it tends to correlate with broadly with the type of person you'd want to hire.
I think this is actually a perfectly legitimate point of view if people are paying for the externalities: 1) CO2 emissions 2) paying more for road usage.

Everyone has different preferences and we should be free to fulfill them.
> Consider a spray of photons, usually considered massless.

They are massless but have finite energy, which is the flip side of the same coin; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_equivalenc....

> Would they gain mass based on whether they encoded a message?

They already do encode something. Whether that's message or noise, depends on other parts of the information system that creates/processes those photons, and it is in those parts that the variable costs will be incurred.
I agree, it seems like JP Straubel is the key independent variable for Tesla.
Doesn't it also require a ton of energy to move a five ton truck to my driveway in order to deliver a 100g charging cable?

I'm not sure the laws of physics are on the side of the status quo here.
Loss of smell may be an early sign of brain diseases
> > > The Kiwibots do not figure out their own routes. Instead, people in Colombia, the home country of Chavez and his two co-founders, plot “waypoints” for the bots to follow, sending them instructions every five to 10 seconds on where to go

ooh ooh! When people say reporting can be racist, this is a perfect example! Including extra negative details that are not pertinent to the story at all.

Imagine if every story about a US company mentioned started with, "The new startup, which is based in the United States (home of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy)..."

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_a...

SFChronicle could have instead opened with: "people in Colombia (a country with free childcare)" or "people in Colombia (a country that has worked to eliminate childhood hunger)", but, instead, blatant racism!
https://archive.is/2tfCC
How the heck do you expect me to do wicked 360 kick flips and other extreme sports activities without soda? Water just doesn't cut it :)
What! This is terrible. No other unrelated entity should be able to impact another account they don't own, no less deactivate it!

Imagine an automated form of this where you can just mass deactivate antagonistic accounts
What you get when you pick a board is not just the raw specs, but also the community, apis, and documentation. I choose to buy Adafruit products because I know they will be documented and supported for a long time.
And the real cost of building parking in a residential building isn't the cost of the concrete and painted lines -- but in the opportunity cost of not being able to build / sell more units in the space occupied by cars.
> Food delivery companies as well seemed to be testing out robots that would bring your food to you albeit in a more sidewalk bound way

Former delivery robot startup cofounder (Robby Technologies) here. To be honest hardware was by far the most time-consuming thing. I wanted to spend 80%+ of our engineering time and funds on software but it turned out that we ended up spending 80%+ of the time dealing with electromechanical issues, supply chain issues, bad USB cables, motor controller issues, shitty crimping jobs, thermal management, plastic breakage, bad PCBs, bad BMS, bad lithium cells, snapping drive belts, malfunctioning locks, malfunctioning cameras, manufacturer-mislabeled motor wires, sensors that didn't meet specs, antenna placement and RF interference, and lots more. Then there was the operational overhead of figuring out how to charge, move, and store all of them, and how to get things in/out of them when businesses weren't willing to walk from the store to the sidewalk to drop something in a robot, and the customers weren't always willing to come outside to grab their stuff. Then there were robots that got stuck in potholes and the like, and had to be rescued by driving out to them. All that while trying to scale up manufacturing, which never really happened beyond a certain scale. Guess how much time we had left for writing autonomous software.

The thing is, autonomous driving, especially on the sidewalk is actually much easier than the hardware problem of figuring out how to design, build, and scale a new type of vehicle from scratch. The main issue is we, and likely all the other companies, were stuck in a hellhole of hardware problems that something was always "on fire" hardware-wise.

In retrospect I see the companies that went to the roads instead of the sidewalks had it slightly easier on the hardware side: they could just buy a reliable car and mod it, and get to work on software. Safety-wise, of course, they have it much harder, it's a trade-off.
> Even the poor do better when there's more jobs available

Only if those jobs offer a livable wage. If instead they are McJobs that result in workers spending more than they earn (e.g. SNAP), then poor people are doing worse, and it's a net-negative on society.
Could you point to some examples of such breakage?
..Ok but we're talking about the size of the economy you do know that right? Did you read even the headline?
This reminds me of one of my favorite court cases, a rare application of the 3rd amendment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engblom_v._Carey

A prison tried to break a strike of workers who lived in prison dorms by replacing them with members of the National Guard, until a court ruled that this constituted illegally quartering soldiers in their homes.
> Sensors on major roadways are more difficult to tamper with

The second amendment says no, not really.
No, it's just an ecosystem thing.
start from this https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/...
Or alternatively don’t drive ancient polluting cars in heavily populated areas with fantastic public transport?
We could definitely fund things. Or tax LLM firms in some broad way to redistribute to the respective societies for using their creations.
A while ago I ran into the first site that told me I couldn't use my fastmail masked email: remove.bg.
I don't know if they block every fastmail.com address, or if they somehow check if it's a masked email.
That's an excellent argument. While I'd have preferred to stay closer to the original title (eg 'How shall we live?', where the 'we' connotates an abstract us), you make a good case for why the distributors might have opted for vague and mysterious over philosophical but possibly awkward.
Again PPP cannot by definition used to measure growth.

It has limited applications for developing economies and measuring AIC which it was initially conceived.

Here is a good breakdown of what it is, how it’s constructed and more importantly what it can and cannot measure.

https://www.oecd.org/sdd/prices-ppp/purchasingpowerparities-...

Regardless of how you slice it the national purchasing power of the US has doubled since 2008 whilst the EU’s has stagnated.
You need to trust (or verify yourself) that they're storing things securely at-rest on your own hardware. Which it seems like they aren't.
The use of average was just a joke.
My point is that most people in the world live outside Japan and the West (however you want to use that term). Even if most people in hacker news belong to the West (not sure that is true) I do appreciate if the comments don’t take for granted that things are said from a western perspective.
Not official, but this one generally works great: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-hide-my-ema...

There’s also this nifty shortcut that works for both iOS and macOS: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6b0c16ff0dfb4814bd881112354...
I would bet that even the worst Amazon truck gets more pounds of product per Joule expended than the best drone for any reasonably real world distance/load.
That’s mostly due to obesity, which is a consequence of the quantity and (flavor) quality of food getting better over time; a side effect of economic prosperity.
If it's any consolation, I don't think Miyazaki could force Miyazaki to make another Miyazaki movie; having the right reasons seems to be intrinsic to his work.
Unfortunately, I think just about any name will have a collision at this point.
Inaccurate. They actually tried every remedy to delay/deceive/dissuade this. This is verified in official emails declassified as part of lawsuits.
"GDP PPP can increase whilst your economy contracts."

Still, if PPP GDP increases, with all else being equal (eg. stable population) it would imply the standard of living is increasing.

That is why PPP GDP captures a more accurate measure of the real world.

Said another way, what truly matters isn't "GDP growth", but changes in purchasing power/quality of life.
Yes me too, depending which password I use I get a different account with same email! Madness
It’s true, but as cold hearted as it is, they didn’t have to let them in. Poland sure decided to pick and choose. The Greeks are not having it either.

One day there will be a massive wave of climate refugees rushing out of the uninhabitable zone and there will be US soldiers in the border guard towers with flamethrowers. The US will welcome immigrants when it suits them and roast them when it doesn’t.

As I am in Berlin right now I’ll remind us it wouldn’t be the first time people on top of a wall had kill on sight orders.
I can recommend Mouser, DigiKey and RS-Components.
The future of the ad-based internet [video]
He's not going to like an AI with a working bullshit detector
Arduino’s decision process doesn’t make sense to me. The Uno R4 Wifi is another instance of selecting an ESP32-S3, but pretty much treating it as a dumb peripheral to a lower seed main MCU.
yes, because if we take one risk, we must take all of the risks. you might as well smoke too by your logic.
Everyone was 99% sure. The Navy was just being discreet and staying committed to the search, which no doubt is protocol.
My dad is a high school math teacher. When I was growing up, there was a few years that he had a computer lab in his classroom. He named all of the computers after mathematicians: Archimedes, Bernoulli, Gauss, Euler.

That made an impression on me, so I followed a similar pattern when I started having my own devices to name: Erdos, Newton, Pascal.

Since then, I've settled into my own naming scheme, themed to women pioneers of technology:

My phone is named Lovelace after Ada Lovelace.
One of my servers is named Hopper after Grace Hopper.
My laptop is named Kare after Susan Kare.

My wife's naming scheme for her devices are space themed: Nebula, Luna, Io, Ganymede.

When we have shared devices, we sort of merge the schemes into space themed scientists. For example, our Apple TV is named "Copernicus", which I found a fitting name since the world revolves around it when it's on.
The comment doesn't make any point about relative risk. They're only mocking their friend for telling them about something unhealthy when their friend also does unhealthy things. As if it somehow cancels out.
I second this. The online Liddle Scott Lexicon is good, but wiktionary brings some very nice modern features like those you mention and many others.
Thanks for this… have been struggling with this until now.
I don't think Miyazaki is available for commission.
They probably got initial funding from investors thinking about a future exit. Investors aren't as interested in a company that intends to simply survive on modest profits forever. This is also why startups tend to magically die when big companies aren't doing well.
No affiliation, we weren't aware of that!
I also use cloud init and one can quickly (5 seconds) spin up VMs with it. I use virt-install which has command line options for the cloud init related files which makes everything very easy.
Chlorine is annoying but so is legionnaire disease (which can deadly) or a gastrointestinal infection.
Yeah, the memory is overpriced. So are eyeglass frames (rimless are especially overpriced). But as long as you can afford it, a few hundred dollars isn't that much spread over a few years. Or, think about the other option. You can get a not-MBP and have a clunky experience [1] but save some money, or spend a the extra few hundred for a MBP with enough memory to be a great experience. (Assuming you like macOS, of course.) I interact with my MBP all-day, every day, and it's totally worth a few hundred dollars to get something I love using.

[1] In addition to the non-MBP hardware being clunky, your choice of OS is cutting your steak with a spoon (Windows), or a huge drawer full of tangs, handles, prongs, and spoon-bowl and you spend your time digging around to assemble a knife, fork, and spoon that are the same style and finally give up and settle for "well, it matches if you squint" (Linux). I love the idea of Linux, but I've never actually gotten my system to where I like it, just to where I can tolerate it.
> You're missing the point.

No I'm not. I know exactly the point you were making. I'm disputing it.

The problem is the devil is in the details, and both the tired metaphor and your defense of it leave those details unspecified.
> Why should I contribute any information just so that it immediately gets monetized by a handful of LLM firms?

If this matters to you, then you shouldn't. But to flip this around: why should you care?

Unless you're doing some unique work targeting a global audience, the point when LLM gets trained on what you created is way outside space you'd normally care about. Trying to capture all the value your work generates does not lead to a good world.

Or maybe it's me who isn't profit-minded enough, but e.g. a lot of what I wrote on-line, including blog articles and commentary on Reddit and HN, has been used by search engines for free for a long time (over a decade, in some cases), and now is (most likely) part of the training corpora for LLMs. But I never believed, and still don't believe, that I'm entitled to some share of the gains LLMs (or search engines) make.
Wait why does it require antigravity to deliver some groceries on a drone?
I live in a Durham, NC and there is a small radius where a company called Flytrex does drone food delivery. We use it every couple weeks since they have almost no fees unlike Uber Eats. From what I understand they place the order, drive a car to pick up your food, drive back to the launch pad, then load and send the drone. It then drops the food using a long cable that leaves behind a reusable bag in your front lawn. It’s surprisingly accurate since it has about a 15ft diameter circle to hit in my front yard to avoid trees and the house.
The one downside is the weight limit and weather. If you go over something like 8 pounds then the drone will fly what it can and someone will follow begging in a car with the remainder. Bad weather means car delivery.
256+ QAM is there but you will almost never see it in practice unless you’re next to the AP. Wifi7 defines up to 4096 so maybe the economics will drive improvements that didn’t land in 6E APs.
I felt the same way until I took up regular exercise and my body's hydration preferences changed almost overnight. Now I guzzle the stuff like, well, you know.
And on the flipside if I reach an intersection at the same time as a driver, if they see me pause they'll sometimes wave me across. Happens maybe once every month or two.
We weren't aware of the iOS client actually, looks cool!
Yes, maybe good to put the ideas around "dataism" (don't know a better word, sorry) really to the test.
Enforcing such a policy via mass surveillance is a bit Orwellian though isn't it?
If they were only able to construct a "legal" case through the knowledge gained by the fruit of a poisonous tree, then the new tree should be treated as tainted as well. But that's not the law.

They can and do violate the law (without consequence) until they find a foothold that allows them to fabricate the appearance of a legally obtained chain of evidence. Then, they fully suppress the evidence about how that information was originally obtained.
I don't know that I have a position yet. The problem I have is when a tech wizard says the tech is so complex nobody knows what is going on is never good.

>I do not want to be forced or prodded to establish relationships with creators or communities. I do not want their ads and upsells.

I feel the same way I lurked on HN for 7 years before signing up. I enjoy the lurking aspects of the internet.

I usually think the internet can survive anything.

This seems like the same disruption that Uber promoted to avoid regulation. Imagine all the great ideas we can generate and claim they are original to the unauditable AI thought process.

The last worst thing to happen to the internet IMHO was SEO. I sort think a schism may develop to the reality of the broadcast world and the narrowcast world.

I definitely think that valid uses exist.
> If a civilian is allowed to do it, so is a police officer.

That is often not the way it works, most especially when it comes to obtaining evidence.

If some random person breaks into your house, goes through your files until they find documentation of some crime, and then hands that over to the police, it would generally be admissible in court as evidence against you.

Whereas if the cops broke into your house and went through your files without a warrant that specifically permitted that, any evidence they acquired that way would be poisoned and inadmissible.
Don't you just feel like you're getting nothing in return from diet soda?

It just tastes wrong and you're ingesting chemicals you probably don't need.

A relative of mine who drank diet coke daily just had her bladder out due to cancer and she never really drank alcohol and took awesome care of herself. She suspected her diet-coke habit and in light of this news, she might be right. I get it, this is HN, I need numbers, not anecdotes, but it sure is curious.
Is there data on the average skill level of refugees?
As usual, the difference is energy density between hydrocarbon fuels and Li-ion batteries. Power the drone with gas and it becomes a different story. But then you just re-created the helicopter and all the problems which explain why no one is doing helicopter package deliveries.
Took a quick look: VERY impressive, thank you?

Have you tried finding a way to get your OS to supply you with the total list of emojis? That's the only thing I'd try to improve after I took a quick look.
Just trying to get comfortable with how well the jurisdiction supports people with special needs.
Japan has no street parking (and the occasional public lot run by the city) and I never felt this to be the case. You're right, there's no expectation of driving into a massive parking lot everywhere I go, but instead there are convenient paid lots at pretty much any trip destination. The only times these things get booked out is during big events when transit fills in the gaps anyway.
I think what confused me was that I didn't see anyone actually making those assertions, so I assumed they were doing so.

Ooof
> Your home is private . You have an expectation of privacy there.

Yeah, but if you put your illegal drugs and illegal guns right there in the window where everyone can see them - be that on the dashboard of your car or on your front room windowsill - you can't really say they were "private", can you?
The WSJ article [1] from which this chart is derived does account for both inflation and purchasing power when comparing incomes.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/europeans-poorer-inflation-econ...
The examples given prompt me to say: if all you have is Rube-Goldberg hammer, everything looks like an Escheresque nail.

Sieving primes by turning functions into coroutines, parsing text by yielding characters, all with unnatural functions and state management... that;s an improvement over what?
It's probably better for your teeth, and, if you're drinking caffeinated soda in large volumes, that's not great. So: the sense in which it's better for health is pretty measurable.
the opposite is true, too, since "Clear History" in Chrome Profiles behaves correctly and (AFAIK) is scoped just to that Profile unlike our container friend: https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/3...

I still use them because combined with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-c... ( https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container ) is a game changer for my workflow but it does make me sad that issue has been open for so long
> The problem is we have more and more people never graduating out of entry level positions, and today we have folks demanding those entry level positions support a comfortable lifestyle.

That doesn’t sound right. To me it seems obvious the problem is these jobs used to provide more purchasing power than they do today. The increased grievance would be because of this drop in purchasing power, not because people are suddenly demanding a “comfortable” (<- loaded word) lifestyle out of the blue.
> ooh ooh! When people say reporting can be racist, this is a perfect example! Including extra negative details that are not pertinent to the story at all.

Hold your excitement. Chavez is the CEO.
Interesting, I am woefully ignorant on typical drone ranges.
Brb automating a denial of service attack
I've been wondering whether an LLM could list its sources, if the training data included source data for each document (perhaps in the form "The source of the following text is XYZ:")
Specifically, you need to give it access to your contacts to create contacts on WhatsApp, otherwise you just see phone numbers.
Germany is an economic lion held back by its inability to digitize (even when it does it's half measure still attached to the past) and its development of deep relationship with untrustworthy countries (Russia being the prime example.) Trying to buy the 49 Euro Ticket can be done online but still requires approval by a human and an IBAN. That's my current favorite recent example of Germany making absolutely no sense relative to its peers.
Stackoverflow ceased to be a public good around 2013. Now it's a source of solutions from ten years ago, with a bunch of closed duplicates that could've had up to date solutions, and closed questions for being too interesting.