skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, according to my 3 WISC tests and 10 years working in a research environment along with faculty and staff at a famously rigorous ivy league grad school, I assure you my sample size of interactions with people that have IQs that are several orders of magnitude higher than average is much larger than most. Do you have a specific criticism of the study's methodology or data?
Only if there is an economic incentive to it. Currently, there is none. (A cynic in me would say the reverse is true at least in Apple ecosystem, as more resource-hungry apps push users to upgrade their devices more often.)

Moreover, I'm not sure how much you can gain, actually. You can probably get some reduction in app size as far as code segment is concerned, but usually most of the space is taken up by assets, especially in games, and they're already well compressed. So basically we could optimize the last 20% which are the hardest to get right.
The Amiga. It's More Than Just Games [video]
The automatic things it really helps with IMHO is: debugging, code navigation, and inspections. You can always do code nav with string searches and debugging with print statements, it’s just a lot slower. The inspections keep your code style consistent but ultimately without them, if they caused a real bug you’d find it from your tests.
Wow I actually remember this. That cover was sharply buried somewhere in my memory. It's a shame websites don't have that same level of tactical and visual information to seed a deep memory.
So far, betting on RISC over CISC in terms of ultimate hardware performance has been a good bet.
If you're a senior engineer, mentoring junior engineers IS your actual job, in addition to the coding work. It's arguably the more important part of your job description because junior engineers write most of the code, so you get far more done via mentoring than you do typing on a keyboard
Yes. That fact that it isn't is pretty clear evidence that somebody's getting paid to allow this.
https://www.darpa.mil/program/hierarchical-identify-verify-e...

https://www.dote.osd.mil/News/What-DOT-Es-Following/Followin...

Darpa themselves say they want it for social media analysis, IP probe detection and infrastructure monitoring
I pay less for the full toolbox than I do for my spotify family account. I think it is about £12pcm, though that is with the 40% discount you get after 2 years of sub.
> a specification at this point would only serve to have other people bike shed about syntax, features, etc.

It makes little sense to announce a language with a lot of details over so many years without providing a decent specification. Either the author is interested in feedback, then a specification or language report is the established vehicle among language designers, or he is not interested in feedback, which raises the question why he publishes any details at all.

> It takes a very template focused mindset and uses the features of the language

But as it seems that's a focus point of the language; why otherwise the author would take the effort to even modify structure declarations with compile time expressions.

> that it focuses on the way memory is mapped (similarly to how C does it)

What do you mean by that? And is this really a unique selling point if it is similar to C?
You probably don't have a slow hard disk
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I suspect solar isn’t cheap enough yet for it to make sense. Probably doesn’t help reduce the need for batteries either in the north, since you won’t get significantly more range from it in winter.

Every solar panel made should be installed where their power production is maximised or they help reduce the need for power lines. When we’ve reached 100% renewables we can start sticking them places where you get less out of them.
So I've heard.
Well, it wasn't meant for home PCs....

It was marketed and sold as a business OS. I agree with the Op (OPs?) that it was revolutionary.
least capitalist hacker news comment. do the arrows mean flow of capital? i don't think so. i think it means flow of people or cultural influence or leadership
ePub I think gets generated on first request.
> Apple hides option to allow unsigned apps from the Mac GUI

How so? Isn’t this still an option in settings? Or are you referring to something else?
6 DOF input device using just a camera and blob of silicone? So <~$1?
I usually prefer reading to videos but those were excellent. Thanks for the share
Are you trying to report this to Akamai or your ISP?

You are a home-based consumer, with consumer-grade service? Then your ISP does not care, and none of their engineers are paid to heed consumer reports about any connectivity issue, much less third-party ASNs.

Your ISP only cares about your wiring and signal from demarc to head end.

If there's truly a chronic issue between your ISP's backbone and Akamai, then I'd lay odds that you don't possess the tools or resources to troubleshoot that enough to be of help.
Customise a USB numeric keypad under GNU/Linux
Why would it be useful to you to be able to calculate longitude on a desert island?
I agree with you. I actually tried to run Win 2000 as an OS on my personal machine for a while (from a license I 'borrowed' from my work).

The stability was amazing, but there were still some compatibility issues with games and so on.
I don't know, they don't give them to me anymore :(
Microsoft On the Issues: Russia’s African coup strategy
In math, this is mostly an English problem I think. Next time you find a Wikipedia math page to be an impenetrable wall of jargon, click the Wikipedia language tool and choose another language, any will do.

Then use Chrome's tool to machine translate the foreign language version back to English. I've found invariably this makes the article more coherent then the native English language Wikipedia math page.

It says something about the culture for sure.
It's actually very easy to type blimpy in ed, the standard text editor.
I probably benefitted from this. When I took my test, the driving school booked the exam for me. I failed the first time, and expected to need to wait a month for the next available exam (according to the website) but the school arranged one the following week.

There was no additional cost, so I expect another student wasn't ready and they changed the name to mine.

That's a legitimate reason to allow swapping the name, although it would be fairer if they were forced to cancel the appointment.
Not much detail on the actual condition other than its a mitochondrial disease. There's lots of things that can cause that, so the news article doesnt really serve much purpose other than to tell us, that the NHS has no solution and its going to court.

I know doctors can be restricted by NHS trusts, they can also be possessive, defensive if their experimental theory's and treatments are under the spotlight and their tests are often but mere jigsaws pieces to a big picture, so a lot of theorising, testing and elimination needs to be done.

The fact she's on a ventilation would suggest iron and manganese is involved, there 1000-2000 mitochondria in each liver cell, and just one mitochondria in other cells. As we are complex chemical reactions, identifying the problem is often half the problem in unusual cases. Is it a membrane issue which would involve vit E's (tocopherols and tocotrienols), or a zinc/cysteine/choline issue? And those are just the more commonly known chemicals involved.

Its a shame more details are not public.
> Primarily Discord, pseudonymous, GPU-poor volunteer community somehow coordinating enough to train >10B, OPT/BLOOM-competitive models

what are the discords for Eleuther and RWBY are they public?
Did this headline make anyone else feel like they forgot how to read English overnight?
See this thread on twitter for reports: https://nitter.net/jackerhack/status/1632029845642412033, https://nitter.net/jackerhack/status/1630636510994378752
Why do so many people care about banking apps and that "pay with the phone" thing?
TLDR: There are npm packages used as PoC to demonstrate typesquatting
The fingerprinting algorithm described in the paper handles noise and quality issues - it’s not just for lab environments. That said there are many parameters that can be tuned from real-world data, additional filters that can be applied, and no doubt Shazam has improved things over the years.

With regards to engineering, I believe the lion’s share of Shazam’s engineering goes to things other than the core algorithm: app development, song ingestion pipelines, enterprise analytics for the record industry, etc.
At least they were up front about the fact you were renting it. If it broke they replaced/repaired it.
The relative security of open and closed source operating systems implies not much of a difference in that regard.
Question: I only ever hear how RWKV is threatening the dominance of transformers... from the RWKV folks, while everyone independent is happily using transformers. Is there any substance to the above claim that's been independently verified?

Not an NLP person, so apologies in advance if I've missed any obvious papers or references.
I used to use Jitsi Meet, but lately they're mandating we sign in with Google/Facebook[0] I think to stop anonymous usage of the service.

[0] https://jitsi.org/blog/authentication-on-meet-jit-si/
That wasn't less true for any other appliance that's ever existed, largely because of the availability of the schematics.

People have a right to know what they're buying. Companies are testing legal and cultural boundaries, silently changing functionality and usability by altering software or access to required services after sale.

It's not "too complex", it'd just be a hassle if people knew.
I know how Unions work. The OP stated: ...it's time for you to toss that leadership out. You can do that by leaving, or talking to management about this, or unionizing.

A Union can organize and sustain a strike. But they cannot "toss leadership out". Not the CEO, the Board or any manager at any level.

They could theorethically "blackmail" a company saying "strike will not end until X is fired" where X is a PM or manager or whatever but I never really heard of anyone trying this tactic, not to say actually succeed...
It needs to go back further:

2002: Microsoft proposes Palladium, everyone loses their minds.

2007: Apple effectively implements Palladium, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'.
> I began wondering how can I utilize this thing's raw computing power as a programmer.

Are you developing apps for it?

(You could always use it to mine crypto lol)
This will be great for going around roundabouts, tracks and imitating acrobatic aircraft smoke trails on the ground.
My particular "killer app" for dnsdist right now is at my house I have 2 machines running dnsdist, set to forward to my pihole by default with health checks. If the health checks fail, the dnsdist daemons failover to google/cloudflare/etc.

This lets me run a single instance of pihole (avoiding all the issues with trying to replicate configs across multiple pihole instances) and still having a solid backup if my pihole server goes down as it is by far the most likely piece of infra to just stop working.

I also use it to route requests to my internal authoritative servers and failover to my external secondary authoritative mirrors as needed. This lets me keep all my local traffic local and still have my external failover as a catch all if my homelab infra is down to my own screw ups or some hardware failures.
They were calling attention to the problem, not proposing a solution. But calling out a problem is a call to action for people to try to come up with a (or multiple) solution.

Just because there isn't certainty that it would happen like this, doesn't mean there's not a possible future that looks somewhat like this. Nothing that was listed here seems particularly far-fetched to me, I don't think.
Same for software and operating systems. You can perfectly emulate a sophisticated OS/2 network with database server and whatnot, but how are you gonna have a museum 30 years down the line that shows you that oddball smartphone OS called Windows Phone? Even if you can run it on something, without all the online services it talked to to make the metro tiles look pretty and apps like weather, translator, the app store and maps work at all, will it even make sense to demonstrate it?
> blimpy blimpy blimpy, blimpy blimp'y limpy b. blimpy blimpy blimpy limpy b blimp'y blimpy blimpy blimpy blimpy blimpy (limpy b blimp'y blimpy blimpy) blimpy blimpy limpy b blimpy blimpy blimpy blimpy limpy b blimpy blimpy blimpy limpy b limpy b?

Agreed
I really wish there were a viable linux build of LINQPad.. I wonder what has stopped Jetbrains from building out Rider's scratchpad support to be on par DX wise with it..
I was confused for a minute, thinking the announcement was that VSCode was going away!
This is a business connection.
As a Kubuntu user, I have to disagree. From my perspective as a developer, the Linux PC experience has surpassed both Windows and Mac. I really couldn't care less what the other 95% of people are using. In that case, it's even more remarkable that even with just 5% market share, Linux can deliver such a cohesive, compatible experience.

10 years ago, I couldn't have done my job without Windows. Now I can do absolutely everything using Linux. IMO, people who are still on Windows or Mac don't know what they're doing. They've probably just been drifting through life, not really thinking.
How is Jetbrains Rider compared to VS 2022?

Especially in regards with Azure integration and platform emulation.
The transition from Maestro/VPay to MasterCard/Visa debit cards in the Netherlands is now nearly complete: https://www.betaalvereniging.nl/betaalproducten-en-diensten/...
Spectrum puts account and security code on every bill page, even ads
My Spectrum bill had 3 pages this month: 2 pages of advertising and 1 billing page. I was about to throw away the 2 ad pages but noticed that the ad pages have my personal info, including full account number and a 4-digit security code at the top of the page. So I have to cut those off and shred them. It's no wonder there are so many security issues these days.
You could fullscreen them, yeah. Just for gitui on my monitor, I find that 67% is both sufficient and enough, and keeping a little bit of the other window in sight helps maintain spatial context.

Besides, when it's something like runtime logs in a terminal, I sometimes keep the terminal maximized (to avoid line wrapping), but only leave it peeking out, so that I can switch to it if I notice something strange in the left side of the output.
IMO, for Mac, text looks good only on Apple monitors. I'm using a MacBook Pro M1 connecting to the LG Ultrafine 32" 4k monitor. Text on the laptop monitor looks very good, but looks terrible on the 4k monitor. It is said that it's because of no ClearType feature in Mac OS.
If I want a small machine like the Mac mini, I'll pick up some Chinese mini pc on Amzn or an Asus mini pc (for a better brand name) or an Intel nuc (the most expensive in the mini pc line). Those mini pc's can connect to at least 2 4k 60Hz monitors (for the ones < $300). The $400+ mini pcs are usually able to connect to 3 4k monitors. They can go with 16GB or 32 GB memory easily. Only the $2k M2 pro mac mini's can connect to 3 monitors and have 16GB ram.
I think all of Apple products are very durable. You can stick with 1 mac mini for 10 years or more. If you're not very unlucky, you can use a Chinese mini pc for 3-4 years. When it dies, you can have a newer, better (in configuration) Chinese mini pc for the same price.
> I hate the fact that I'm paying for development tools

What feels wrong about it? Most professions that require tools don’t have a problem with it (construction for instance)
It wasn’t a fork. It was one and the same. Xamarin was started by Miguel De Icaza [1], who also created Midnight Commander, GNOME, and Mono, the .Net runtime for Non-MS platforms. Xamarin was bought by Microsoft. Mono Develop became Xamarin IDE became Visual Studio for Mac.

I know this because I contributed. Along with working alongside the grandfather of MonoGame. In 2010, .Net was in a weird place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza
> When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks. They are not doing this by going to government-run community service centers. They are not always doing this by utilizing the endless array of well-intentioned not-for-profit outreach programs. They are doing this on their own, organically across the country, in McDonald’s.

Three - not connected - tboughts:

1) And in the middle and upper class suburbs and urban areas they tank up on sugar & caffeine at Starbucks, sport their Hoka running shoes, take their mood adjusting prescriptions religiously, never miss a session with their therapist and fall asleep basking in the glow from their mobile device. It's a great time for The Greatest Country in The History of The World.

2) There are plenry of gov programs and non-profits and yet the majority come up short? How can so many be so consistently off target? Or do too many of these efforts exist to serve themselves and "the mission" is more like a cover story?

3) Human are social beasts. We can keep telling ourselves that technology (e.g., touch screens, the internet, etc) is the new black. Perhaps, but that black is showing plenty of cracks. Who'd think a fast food chain from the 50's would be the local saviour? It feels like a dystopian sci-fi story.
When it comes to (mechanical) watches in particular, hacking has another meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_watch
If you're Tim here, here's a career protip

Don't spend all your "empowerment" energy at one company. Companies WILL undervalue "glue" developers (and also "glue" teams). Eventually being so focused internally can hurt you.

Instead, if you're good at helping others, do it publicly. Speak, blog, participate in open source. Turn your "helping others" energy into one of helping the broader development community. Pay it forward there and it will reap more dividends.
As a manager in technology I'm starting to really detest stories like this, because they are often bandied around by IC's with a very narrow view or opinion of why it's bad to do new change X or Y "because here is a story", which on the surface may be similar to what happened here but is in fact a good idea. In reality things are always so much more nuanced, or require much more context to judge, than what people naively think.

In this particular case, I can think of a few reasons why the original scenario that this team was in would still be considered "bad". For example, maybe Tim received tasks to do and he didn't do them, now the company is behind on things. Maybe the other people are not as good as their job as they should be, but because of Tim's interference that's being hidden. Maybe the expectation is that the other people are as good as Tim, so why are they not helping each other out as much as Tim is? Should Tim get a promotion, or are the other people performing badly compared to their position and salary? Maybe the tasks that Tim was supposed to do are more important than the ones he's helping others with. Maybe the company didn't budget this much investment (2 people) for a specific thing that needs doing, and as there's just so much engineering time going around, what other tasks are now receiving less time than budgetted?

There's so many ways where this story may fall apart in a real context. Obviously, something has to change (expectations, budgetting, salaries, job levels, etc...) to align reality with the direction that the company wants to go into, and that change is not necessarily (limited to) "keep Tim around and have him help everyone out and everyone will be OK and this is the optimal scenario and management bad".

The implication also being that "evaluating people on story points is bad", but that completely disregards the fact that doing this has surfaced an issue in the department that needs resolving (and before I get pitchforks thrown at me - that issue may very well be that Tim needs a change of job title and a promotion) - but obviously expectations and reality didn't align beforehand, and the story point metric surfaced it and allows for resolving it. In that sense, the story point thing yielded benefits that otherwise wouldn't have been had.
C++ of 1996 predates the first ISO standard (1998) and the Boost library (1999). Back then, c++ code was still relatively readable...
Clion doesn’t have Scons support still:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-1102
9 years!
You're not feeling off. You simply don't understand that basic morality means that you cannot force others to do what you think is right for them to do. You want to find a way to get others to do what you want. This is immoral - you do not want others to have or exercise their freewill. And you want to use other people to force your opinions via police, legal system, etc on others.

Put simply you think anarchy is a political philosophy. Whereas anarchy is a moral position - it advocates for free association with others - ie no force.

The fact is that it is not morally acceptable to force others to do what you would like them to do, if they are not harming you. You wouldn't force your neighbour/friends/family to do what you say, if they are not harming you. But you consent to government using immoral force to get others to do what you want (steal money, enforce certain behaviour, etc, etc). In fact you think we need something like a dictatorship to wield even more force even more overtly. I think you will get your desire, unfortunately, as most people agree with you.
The actual constraint is that AI has a fundamentally parasitic reproductive strategy, it cannot reproduce on its own and it's reproduction is likely to be detrimental to the host.

A sufficiently powerful AI will overshoot and kill it's host so to speak, in any number of conceivable scenarios that don't necessarily imply also killing all humans, just digital infrastructure.

This would have serious consequences, but those consequences probably would not include complete extinction for us, and the unsustainable nature of digital infrastructure was obvious way before AI advancements became a serious mainstream issue over the last several years. It's possible AI does not even represent a significant acceleration towards that end that was always going to happen.

So I think we are safe at least in that very limited sense.
Thank you, for this comment and for the work you've done, all this time.

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THe thing that gets me is that people seem pretty much content with things. E.g. they'll complain about Amazon and then in the next breath admit that they still shop there. Etc.

Some of it is complacency. (A friend of mine, an academic, was talking about "the pain" of switching from Twitter to Mastodon. I had to stop him. You just click some buttons? You don't even have to get out of your chair.)

A lot of it seems to be apathy.

And then there's contentment with ignorance.

People say that this is just "human nature" but I feel that's a cop out.

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FWIW I think of Capitalism as a kind of economic API. It's very useful, but you have to run it within certain resource limits and policies. (E.g. don't "eat the rich", just tax them at the rate that we did fifty years ago, eh?)

Science and capitalism have delivered technology and wealth, we won history. We just haven't really noticed yet.

We have to stop fighting each other and take care of each other.
I did install them. I noticed they had a 2012 date, which surprised me. Maybe the wrong ones are available?
Rage Against the Machine Used Capitalism to Sell Communism