skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you mean violence, not hierarchy. Engels made a similar mixup when he wrote a screed against anarchists based on a misunderstanding of "authority" to mean any form of violence.

Anarchy describes organization and cooperation within a group. There can be groups that have different interests and those differences in interests can lead to disagreements that can be resolved in different ways. That doesn't change. Even in prehistorical gift economies there is evidence for various forms of diplomacy to arrange agreements with other groups: migration, gifts, demonstrations of power, ceremonial fights or, as a last resort, war.

It's worth pointing out that this is no different today. States can make all the laws they want but if they want other states to do what they say, they need to find a different way to do so. And more often than not, this fails unless both sides can find a mutually beneficial agreement.
I've found lsp-mode to troublesome to configure for what it provided, and occasionally getting in the way, so with emacs 29 I just moved to the integrated eglot. Not that I'm using it much, though - I've found it marginally useful for getting used to new languages, but generally prefer to just have full documentation open - once I'm familiar with the code base completion tends to just get in the way, so I often have any form of completion switched off anyway.
Use a hardware-wallet like the Bitbox2 for your big stash.
Use a lightning wallet like phoenix on your phone for smaller amounts which you could loose, like in a physical wallet.
Yeah, after 300 years of being occupied by Russia, finishing off by being ravaged by the Soviets, you get that.
let him teach we don't need one more rapper
I am also a paying customer providing my 2c; only rarely do I use google, and then mostly for maps and image search. I enjoy not seeing ads and the power functionality within the engine.
Completely unrealistic. There's no way a developer would be allowed to talk to the client.
Answering the title only, so forgive me:

> How smart do you have to be to get a degree?

Not especially, what you have to be is hardworking and committed. You don't even need to show significant improvement; just an understanding of the subject material.

Of course this gets less true as you go up the degrees. (Batchelors requiring a broad rote understanding, Masters requiring a more detailed understanding and PhD requiring some sort of novelty that pushes the field forward).

However there's a saying: "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard".

I have lived this.

My sister is not smart. That may seem unkind but she would be one of the first to admit this. Things do not come to her easily, she has a hard time recognising patterns and lacks a certain level of "common sense". She is extremely motivated though. Thorough and hardworking.

I have had the fortune of being quite gifted, I test well and have a great propensity to solve novel puzzles. I, however, procrastinate and am easily distractible.

She has a degree, I do not.

Intelligence had nothing to do with it. Being hardworking did.
Butterfly and moth genomes mostly unchanged despite 250M years of evolution
There is magic in the discovery of a new type of magnetism
any etf tracking this bundle?

edit: never mind. just saw that in 2002 the bigger player is now IBM. I don't want my money near that anymore.
>Person experience --- the half life of a STEM career in corporate America is about 10 years.

As usual personal experience is wrong. By your claim, the median age should be around 30 for stem workers, but it's vastly higher, and increasing, so the "half life of a STEM career" is no where near what you claim.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1611748114

EDIT: I just realized you're the guy that made up assembly instructions that don't exist trying to bluff your way out of other incorrect claims you made. Now I really don't trust your assessment of reality.
London also has a lot of fantastic free parks, museums, galleries, libraries. So I'm not sure I understand your criticism.
Doesn't this mean the value of a university degree has increased?

If you now have to have a degree just to make it to the 40th percentile of the earning bracket that surely means it is more required than ever, and thus worth more.
Related recent discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39418412, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39408196
Bytes aren't bricks.
Reshuffling them from scratch after a smallest change is cheap and fast.
Taking advantage of that is not stupid.
Proper communication and work with client is a skill, and architects have to deal with stupid requests too!

If's fun little article, but is a bit short-sighted. Probably because otherwise it would not work.
My delineation between those with degrees and those without has always been the type of feedback received through the learning process.

Those with degrees tend to be great with theory, but lacking in practice or application. Mind you, they are otherwise pretty bright people, so I don't fault them. They simply didn't get the corrective feedback needed along every step that tends to come with putting an idea into practice. I think of the engineers I work with daily as I write this. They can design new product in CAD all day, but have never built one, which hampers the implementation of their design in the real world and frustrates them.

Those who learned by doing, as opposed to 'studying to the test' such as myself will have a much stronger grasp on the ways things might go wrong (or in some cases, not actually be possible even though it works on paper or in simulation) and be better prepared for it. However, we also tend to have considerable gaps in our theoretical knowledge, and tend to try to make up for it by our ability to quickly adapt or problem solve.

Combined, I'd say the two types of people do make a good team, so long as each is compensating for the others deficiencies in a mutually beneficial way. I rather like the engineers I work with, and they seem to like me, so together, we are pretty valuable to each other and our employers. With other teams, I see this relationship break down when one side starts with the "they don't know anything" attitude.
Sorry for the misunderstanding

In my time (20 years ago) computer related Degrees didn't teach Linux (again, here in Spain).

I, years after leaving formal education, without any degree, have been giving talks at universities to engineering students.

My reference to linux was not 100% related to the IQ... but I did want to talk about working in tech and degrees, which I think, depending on the company/industry, may be a signal for me (rather than be 8 hours screwing the same screw in a car chain). By that I don't mean there is not people with a high IQ in a chain (even there is lot of people with a degree in car chains).

Of course, maybe I'm totally wrong, thanks for pointing that.

Update: To complete... what may affect IQ? education changes? can a person educated one way or another, develop different IQ? physiological (ADN, etc) changes? can mutations over generations change the medium IQ? social changes? can the environment, habits and traditions during the formative stage of a person affect the IQ? I think so... maybe I should start by asking: what doesn't affect the IQ of a person?
Try working in safety critical software. There liability is the norm.
I'm nearly 50 and a UK (England) resident all that time. When I applied for my driving licence at age 16 I was given the opportunity to put myself on the National Donor Register as every applicant at the time was.

Since then the UK has done more[¹] to help the uptake, but still we need more people to donate.

As a motorcycle rider I'm very much aware that I'm in a position to help others when the almost-inevitable happens. I carry a dog tag saying my name, DOB, blood group, 'NKA' 'ATHEIST' and responsible person's phone number. That's my choice, but when I bought my last helmet there was a card to put in the lining with such details, and a small green sticker dot to put on my visor to indicate to paramedics that the information was there.

Awareness of organ donation should be taught in schools because it can help people at no cost to the dying person (religious fantasies notwithstanding).

[¹] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/driving-up-organ-donation...
Linux PC but otherwise yeah, I just laughed when TV asked for wifi and then set it to never ask again.

It has one job, display pixels, that's it, that's all I want it to do.
How is it that Japan lost its foothold in the consumer electronics market? You used to see a lot more Sony or Toshiba logos on things, but I feel like I never see japanese products anymore
lol I can barely get my grandma to text. My parents don't even get Signal. Most of it is will power though, no one gives a fuck. In fact, most of the people in my CS grad program think both are too hard to use and don't see the point of using encrypted messengers. Even people studying security aren't using Signal. Yes, I think its odd too.
Show HN: Turn your static screenshots into animation
Hello HN,

Here is my latest project. It is a small tool that adds a background and some effects to an image.
All the computation is made locally thanks to ffmpeg.wasm

Do not hesitate to ask for details on implementation
just "decimal" works too
> If I had an idea that could make the business $5M, I'm better off going into business for myself.

One of the most naive things I have read today. Ideas are cheap. If you were capable of just "having an idea" and turning it into any considerable amount of money you would have done it already. Let's face it, most "software engineers" aren't anything special. We aren't founders. We aren't innovators. We are just glorified bluecollar workers slinging code.

However we are the closest to the product, we should know (or at least be able to imagine) lacking features and thus hackathons are a good way to try to tease out potential future paths plus it gives your average coder a chance to explore new technologies or just try different shit.
Well, in the case of the UK its going to be submarines or nothing....

Now you could question whether it is worth it - but that's a completely separate question.
Here you go:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...

The paper you linked to was published before they started collecting and storing sensitive user data in the cloud
Private companies can censor information on their platform right? If there is a law complelling speech I agree with you but short of that, you don't expect burgerking to advertise mcdonalds has a better deal in their food right? Or to allow competitors to promote on their real estate?
Likewise, I think I enabled an option to always show it.

Its under System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Show window title icons
> Signal still does not know who you chat with. It's the cloud provider

To me, it's much worse. A non-profit doesn't have my data but Amazon (and NSA) does. With Amazon's scale, it must be trivial to identify everyone.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...
I doubt you’ll find anyone who disagrees that colo is much cheaper and that it’s possible to have failover with little to no downtime. Same with higher performance on bare metal vs a public cloud. Or at least I’ve never thought differently.

The difference is setting up all of that and maintaining it/debugging when something goes wrong is not a small task IMHO.

For some companies with that experience in-house I can understand doing it all yourself. As a solo founder and an employee of a small company we don’t have the bandwidth to do all of that without hiring 1+ more people which are more expensive than the cloud costs.

If we were drive-speed-constrained and getting that speed just wasn’t possible then maybe the math would shift further in favor of colo but we aren’t. Also upgrading the hardware our servers run on is fairly straightforward vs replacing a server on a rack or dealing with failing/older hardware.
I'd -- as usual -- suggest Prolog. Its elegant, easier to understand and more mature. It comes with "batteries included" if you want constraint solving over finite domains.

Besides that MiniZinc is a phenomenal interface to a whole range of solvers specialised to various purposes which are more likely to get you where you want to go if you're not an expert. In the Prolog case -- for all its benefits -- the amount of "mechanical sympathy" required to make it perform well can become substantial very quickly.

Finally, once you've written something in Picat, have a think about how you'd write it in some other language. I think you'll find .. for these toy problems, its easy in other languages too. After all, its a handful of lines to write Dijkstra or A* in most functional programming languages, and defining a state space for a search algorithm is essentially all you're ever doing.
> Sounds better than a city full of shops designed to separate people from their money buying stuff they don’t need.

London has plenty of those.
I'm sure we could introduce some extremophiles. Here on Earth we have organisms living anywhere, including inside of rocks!
That link isn't quite right... if you scroll down enough you'll still get to the relevant bits, but here's a corrected link (I hope)
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=autoexec&next=394457...
Want to remember more? Memorize less
Who is not getting paid to do company hackathon?
Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you will see it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself

-- what Pijul users say when they overhear git users arguing with each other about monorepos.

https://pijul.org/

Git insists that you impose an artificial ordering on commits which affect disjoint sets of files. And then people come up with heroic efforts like josh to try to bandage over that mistake. Or you could just not make the mistake in the first place...
It seems like they are just giving background on what they do for a living for added context before stating that they have encountered low IQ people with degrees in their field.

How you got that somehow they are comparing Linux to IQ is above me; perhaps I am just too low IQ to understand.
Bit of an unfair piece, I'm finding Gemini far better than ChatGPT4, its not even competition.
I would make the argument that what passes for education has gone down drastically. People aren't getting smarter on the path to getting degrees.

Look at Harvard today. One of the US's premier institutions has lost its way when it comes to academic rigor being one of its primary functions.
I think in classic planning like STRIPS, the size of the state space is bounded exponentially in the size of the input (conditions can be either true or false).
This is not the case of vector reachability.

I'm not familiar with picat, but the arithmetic operations used in the blog post suggest to me that the size of the state space is not necessarily bounded by the input. I believe the mention of EXPTIME in the post was removed.
Java is used in different areas, such as embedded systems and enterprise solutions, making it an industry-leading technology framework.
Corporations usually can't just murder people in the streets if they don't like them.
Interesting feature set. Collaborative outlining looks helpful.
The trends for HS and Dropout are also negative. To me it implies education across the board is getting worse (assuming IQ is a good measure of “good” education).
I've always understood IQ to be similar to the "horse power" of your brain.

Filling the brain with more facts, and learning more quick routes and tricks, will, surely, make you arrive at a conclusion faster, but the raw Horse Power of your brain/internal engine is not going to get any higher.
Every product decision is innovation. Being able to configure hardware the way you want without having to comply with government b.s. or design new communication protocols or software systems without the gov dictating how you do that is pro-innovation right? Are you saying people don't make new hardware or software?
> Having to share your phone number does not meaningfully affect security and privacy.

Of course it does, way more than "meaningfully". I actually wonder if I got your message right taken that I am not a native speaker of English.

Do you mean that if your phone is public (and you are known to be the owner) you will not get creepy calls, have ot listed as a free pizza delivery for calls after 23:00, having it blacklisted, ....

I must have understood wrong.

Otherwise what is the number of your president/prime minister? Or the CEO of Google/Apple/... I do not think they are public.
He sounds plenty motivated. He's willing to start his own business to chase a $5 million dollar idea.

In a knowledge based role, the company is paying you to churn out solutions to their problems because the technology stack is setup to serve the CTO's purposes.

He has to start a new company to change the setup.

Your annoyance sounds like sour grapes.
I had a customer request a project that required C# due to a few fancy dependencies they had purchased back in 2008 - which was my first proper contact with .NET. I got frustrated with the Visual Studio UI after a few hours, and switched to editing in Emacs and compiling via CLI tools, only using Visual Studio for editing the project data. It wasn't too complicated to kick cc-mode into behaving somewhat sensibly with C# code.
It would be a shame if they closed the access to the pool of equipment to the public. But then again I would guess that a museum inside a hotel is not contradictory.
Really fun fact about that building. When it was built it was a “list X” facility for UK national security which meant that although it was a massive building in the middle of Fitzrovia and visible virtually anywhere in London, it didn’t appear on maps and the government would officially deny its existence.
So imagine there is an urgent performance issue in production and you have a hunch that this SQL code may be the culprit. However before doing all of what you mentioned you want to verify it before following down a bad path. Maybe the environment setup could take few hours, maybe it is not a repo or codebase you are even familiar with. Typical in a large org.
But if you know the SQL you will be able to run it raw to see if this causes it. Then maybe you can page the correct team to wake them up etc and fix it themselves.
> I don't know who's footing the bill for all that property.

The landlord, for now, until debt matures.

Then, the banks^Wtaxpayer.
A solution to personalize ChatGPT writing style
Whenever I use ChatGPT to write or draft content, the output often doesn’t align with my personality, feeling as though it’s been crafted by someone else, way more hyperbolic and extraverted

Over the past weeks, I worked on a solution to configure the writing style of chatGPT to better match my or someone's personality.

Have you faced the same challenge? How have you tried to address it?
I logged into Facebook for the first time in a very long time. Most of my feed is of plain clothed porn actors I guess, Simulating sex.

Posted by people I don’t know.

What is going on?
As a dropout that has worked in higher education, you don’t have to be smart at all, wealth, cheating, and nepotism/prejudice are all students need.
I could have written this exact post. It contains every point I would have made, including "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard" which was my mantra for a long time. As well as my sister not being 'smart' but very hard-working and doing infinitely better than me despite having much lower test scores.

The only thing that (eventually!) got me through my bachelors degree was thinking "If you just put one foot in front of the other, you'll get there eventually (assuming you are walking on a sphere and not perfectly along a meridian)".

People asked me if you needed to be smart to get my degree (one of the big-4 engineering degrees) ... I always said "No, just stubborn."
Why not? It's one company's vision. I happen to hate PWAs, why are you forcing my usage of PWAs and USB-c? You have alternatives but I can't have mine? So much for liberty.
I would think one was the target address and the other was the change address.

And then if I went so far as to double check that the other address was a change address, I’d do so by looking in the list of addresses for my wallet in Electrum.

But in our scenario I am using a backdoored Electrum. And therefore it could be showing a mixture of the real addresses that belong to me in that list alongside addresses belonging to a different wallet that was set to show up there by whoever backdoored my copy of Electrum.
Deepfake Audio Boom Exploits One Billion-Dollar Startup's AI
> Is IQ everything that counts?

H*ll, no...but it's an easily obtained, one-dimensional number. Which pushes lots of people's buttons. So it's near-perfect if you want people to pay attention to your pretty graphs and glib conclusions.

I suspect a better number (for "good prospect for college?" questions) would be some measure of how willing & able a student is to sit and study (vs. be physically active, do real-world work, and interact socially). At least back when I went to college, there were lots of brilliant flakes. Their HS grades and admission test scores made them look like potential Ph.D's. But their inability to really study, for college-level classes, meant that they flunked out in a year or two.
Cheaper to replace fiber during the day when most of the customers are out, than to hire a rare specialized technician to maintain it maybe
Using Embedded Linux for Motor Control on FPGA
You could summarize it as "Wah Wah, competing technology not as good as trillion dollar R&D from competitor with 20 year market advantage".

Even if it has a lower yield, having a competing technology to EUV is absolutely amazing in several ways.
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The search for extraterrestrial life is targeting Jupiter's icy moon Europa
In October, NASA plans to launch the Europa Clipper on a mission to study Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, one of the most promising places to search for extraterrestrial life in the solar system
tl;dr

If you don't select for IQ on input, you don't get IQ on output. Putting more people through university doesn't change this. It just devalues a degree as a marker of relative intelligence.

This is called "failing" by some people, and technically it isn't (because numbers.) But socially and culturally perhaps it is.

Author suggests at the end that we should spend less time educating people. But - rather obviously - if more of the population goes to university, education for them is being extended to graduation.

So you have kids spending more time being educated, leaving with a less useful qualification.

What's missing is any discussion of how this affects the culture, the work force, and the quality of universities themselves. Is there any evidence it's easier for relatively low-IQ people to become university professors or managers? How does that affect outcomes? What does it mean for employment and economic stability and output?

Overall a blizzard of graphs, but rather superficial analysis.
Hmmm, and yet early reviews of The Birth of a Nation called it "a triumph".

To be fair those reviews are of interest today, just as the evolution of reviews of that work since are of interest.

In the same manner tech Historians (there are such beasts) will find reviews of various releases of historic tech to be of interest, just as here on HN there's interest in old articles about the performance of BBC Micros, ACORN Achimedes, Commodore 64's, etc.