skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People with incomes under 50k/year overwhelmingly voted for the winner in the recent election, perhaps they’ll reconsider when chicken is $15/lb and strawberries are $10/pint, roof replacement costs doubling, etc. They likely do not understand the impact that illegal immigrant labor has on food affordability, but they might find that out now. Hopefully congress will increase SNAP benefits if food prices start spiraling upwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville...

> In a demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck Ehime Maru. Within ten minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the thirty-five people aboard were killed: four high school students, two teachers, and three crew members.
From first principles I'd expect the functional limit not to be one of power generation but of energy transfer. The limit probably manifests as wiring and motors overheating in a full electric drive (I don't think any subs are...) or as sound, heat and fatigue in reduction gears and gear shafts.
It's ok to notice
This is me trying to use jq for anything remotely complex. At least LLMs took the pain out somewhat.
Or to rephrase "who wants to see the platform not limited to attacks on conservatives only"
> build a mini-app from scratch in just a few hours

But how often do devs normally set up a project from scratch? We have like 3 new apps in a few years where I work now in addition to the long running ones. So on average one in like hundred devs here have been part of creating something from scratch.

Sure, when you know what you're doing it's quick. But the first time can be slow, no matter how good you are. So for a coding task that should take a few hours, you might have spent all the time just getting up and running, and then you actually start the task as over time.
> It's not a pointless ritual. It tests for determination, grit, and willingness to grind on difficult, frustrating and ultimately value-free tasks.

This is what people say whenever one criticizes the methodology of any test. They say that the real test was actually the friends we made along the way. The real test was the degree to which you are willing to humiliate yourself, or to accomplish things you don't understand the purpose of, or to accomplish things that you do understand the purpose of but disagree with logically or morally.

We filter for the worst, most damaged, and most desperate people.
I feel like you forgot the "/sarcasm" at the end.
> He captioned the photo with a phrase that could be translated multiple ways in English, with one strong option being "professional idiot" — with the German "Schwachkopf" literally translating as "weak-head."

Outrageously corrupt power abuse.

This is also the guy who came out with a long eulogy of how good and perfect Israel is apropos of nothing.
At some inflection point, though, cramming becomes learning. This is in a different place for each individual, but it's true regardless.

Nobody hires anybody other than artists based on whether they can "create an artful and _____ ____". People are hired based on either what the have done, can claim to be able to do, or whom they know.
I'm already seeing this as part of my mentoring work. It's very problematic.
I'll translate these claims to how I understand them. Note that these aren't my claims and I won't/can't defend them.

> He still claims that vaccines cause autism.

He claims that an uptick in autism incidence is correlated with a lot of environmental things, one of them being that the number of childhood vaccines has increased, and as a result, work should be done to validate each of those environmental changes, vaccine schedule changes included.

> He's ardently against the HPV vaccine [in children, because their risk for HPV is negligible], despite proof that it decreases cancer risk with no comparable downsides.

> He claims that 5g causes tumors.

This based on some court case that he won against the government, as he mentions in your YouTube clip. No idea how real the risk is.

> He's a huge advocate of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, despite there being zero legitimate evidence of them having any affect on COVID 19.

There is plenty of academic literature around these things, I'm not qualified to comment on the quality of it, but it exists, and I'm not talking about YouTube channels.

I'd imagine the same thing is true about seed oils, although I'm not up on his views there.

My overall point is that every talking head that mentions RFK makes it look like he's just some weirdo that thought up all of these kooky ideas. If you go to the actual horses mouth, you see that these ideas came from one expert or another. Some of those people are probably wrong, but I (and respectfully, probably most of the commentariat) aren't actually qualified to tell you either way.
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Sorry about that! I hand-wrote the whole post on my tablet. More motivation for me to write more legibly next time!
That is very useful. What does it have to do with this?
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I know half a dozen of Senior Staff at FAANGs and they make I would say around 600k - 700k, more of course if stocks appreciate but that's hard to control.

Consistent total compensation offers of $1mil+ is probably reserved for roles above these, sometimes called Principal or Distinguished. I would say the rate of having one of these in an org are like 1 for ~150 engineers.
It uses https://docs.rs/ignore/latest/ignore/ to walk dirs while respecting ignore files
> USA never gave weapons beyond required (hostage crisis) to Iran.

Same can't be said about Iraq, can it?

> And China is doing a lot more than exploiting capitalism. They are pushing neo imperialism just like Russia.

Oh, absolutely. But none of that mattered to us when China was a fair-weather trade partner, so I frankly find it hilarious that people want to act suddenly offended by Chinese ambition. What, 40 years of trade reliance didn't give you the insight into Xi Jinping you needed?
My understanding is the electric motors have in general gotten scary-powerful. I know some cruise ships have switched over to them because it simplifies the overall mechanical architecture (fewer moving parts, fewer high-pressure fluid circuits). Some of the Royal Carribean fleet has "azipods" that can be angled 360 degrees to provide arbitrary thrust for simplifying docking and undocking.
No home study grind on puzzle problems is a substitute for years of practical experience, which is what most teams actually hope for in their higher-level engineers.

The point is not that the friend didn't pick up some implicit knowledge or become a sharper engineer than they were before grinding, it's that by exploiting the screening strategy, they got placed into a job they're not truly qualified for.

Are they bright enough to fake it until they make it? Maybe, but that's not going to be the case for many of the countless placements that were made like this, and hints at why both product and software quality is in bad shape these days.
The new “gold standard” here for anyone who’s interested is now an IETF standard.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9420/
If Musk wants to pay even more money than The Onion and the Sandy Hook families, fine. The Sandy Hook families will get the money.

Though I don't know how you conduct a fair auction now that two key bidders' bids have been revealed.
Yes, ask give interview tasks which are realistic depictions of the actual job tasks.

No, the hiring managers that are into cargoogle culting are not actually that interested in how to do interviewing properly. Not unless, say, google does it and they can copy it.

For them the important thing is that leetcode is a safe, defensible choice because "everyone else does it that way".
> hundreds of thousands of RLHF'ers through dozens of third party companies

Out of curiosity, what are these companies? And where do they operate.

I'm always interested in these sorts of "hidden" industries. See also: outsourced Facebook content moderation in Kenya.
If it's an MD you can substitute "take an ibuprofen and see if it goes away", otherwise proceed.
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Tech jobs should be more like interviews instead, rather than making interviews more like tech jobs. I'd rather solve algorithmic puzzles all day.
I was going to say that I'm not sure the article is quite right. While the UK does have BADR for up to £1m, it applies to individuals, not businesses. So if I sell the shares in my company or liquidate my company, I can use it. But if the business does an asset sale, there's another step: the company selling the assets. And that company has to pay its own taxes first.

If my British company sold its assets for £1m, it needs to pay 25% Corporation Tax on that. Then I could liquidate the company with its £750k remaining cash and pay 10% on that (for now, it's going up to 14% in April). This results in a total 32.5% tax, not 10%. Above £1m, it'll be even more as there's no more BADR (so roughly 40% tax total on the £1m+ chunk).
This has definitely been an issue for me before, I think at least for a while Ubuntu/Debian didn't ship gdb with tui enabled, you had to build it yourself.
> I still have to understand how the github credentials stored on my computer are harder to steal than the pypi credentials stored on the very same computer.

This is not, and has never been, the argument for Trusted Publishing. The argument is that temporary, automatically scoped credentials are less dangerous than permanent, user scoped credentials, and that an attacker who does steal them will struggle to maintain persistence or pivot to other scoped projects.

The documentation is explicit[1] about needing to secure your CI workflows, and treating them as equivalent to long-lived API tokens in terms of security practices. Using a Trusted Publisher does not absolve you of your security obligations; it only reduces the scope of failures within those obligations.

[1]: https://docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishers/security-model/
My point is that Stephen King is partially responsible for the increase in toxicity. Instead of being the change he wanted to see, he just made the platform worse in the exact way he was complaining about.

He comes off as a hypocrite and it isn't a good look for him. If you think toxicity is bad and is ruining the platform then don't be toxic.
People have been mounting off the shelf cameras to microscopes since before digital cameras existed.
Agreed. SQLite is becoming popular on the server-side as well. The latest version of Rails making SQLite the default is particularly interesting.
Wasn't Tik Tok supposed to be "banned" by now? Is that even going to happen with the change in federal administration?
Starfighter doesn’t seem to have gotten anywhere

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37985450
Go's success is there only because of Google, not for any technical merit. Without Google, Go would be a forgotten niche language.
Ironically the JS debugger is the only one I ever use because it's the only one that "just works".
> Have you worked with them since they went through this regiment? Doing a DS&A coding problem regiment + system design will change you as an engineer. You might be surprised how good they've become.

Having done this prep, I can't tell if this comment is sarcasm. Building real systems makes you a good engineer. Maintaining systems over a long period of time makes you a good engineer. Working with other experienced engineers makes you a good engineer.

Doing this prep you do learn a few things along the way, but it's contrived. You already know what you need to learn, which is often the hard part on the job. It's works as a filter since the ability to learn concepts is important, but it's usefulness continues to trend downwards as it becomes more standardized.
Discussion (50 points, 2 days ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42131974
Unazomber, maybe?
Shadow of a Laser Beam
Which? launches £3B action against Apple over competition law breaches
At least you only have to pass the bar once.
If you want to search and replace a command line, there's tools to do it in your favourite editor.
Stress can disrupt memory and lead to needless anxiety
> Imagine a tyrant government is after you and has control on information like you propose

You're straw-manning. I never proposed anything like government enforcement against misinformation.

I don't think misinformation should be illegal, for the reasons you touch on: You certainly don't want government deciding the truth.

Who gets to decide what is misinformation is an entirely different issue. But I can at least hope you can agree that misinformation as a concept is unethical, right? People are literally dying because of misinformation. Again, set aside the question of "Well, who decides what is misinformation?" and consider just the mere concept of it.
There is soooo much post processing happening in the visual cortex. The image from the eye is crude, only in focus in a tiny area, warped and upside down. It's quite incredible how our brains create this seamless virtual reality out of that input soup.
You’ll be happier with neither, but i support anyone getting off of X.
Children with autism or ADHD might struggle in some ways, but be better off in others.
It seems clear that there is no objective reason they are worse than a neurotypical
person, so if a "cure" to these conditions was developed, you would have some degree of
moral quandary.

Careful, you are most likely talking about someone spending their energy at masking their handicaps. *You only see the handicap you can see*.

Someone with high intelligence but severely damaged executive functioning might look like the under performer in your team, but is giving all they have to work and still failing in silence, with their personal life being a giant mess.
I work for a telco, though not in that department. We put a lot of effort into trying to block spam calls, and adapting systems to the newest tricks. The reason why the results aren't better is (I'm being told) a combination between IP telephony making reliable source tracing all but impossible, and common carrier laws which mean that you can't block a call unless you're 100% certain it's a scam, otherwise you open yourself up to being sued.
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Using coding tests to hire developers is like asking a CPA to complete an arithmetic quiz.
The problem I see in a lot of cases is putting too much emphasis on solving the problem in the interview, instead of working through it. Many interviewers claim that they care more about the latter, but in practice failing at the former ends up disqualifying you.
Are the Nazis more or less courteous on X? I'm not sure which distinction you're trying to make here.
Carl Sagan was among the clearest science speakers ever. I miss him. I watch the old Cosmos every few years.
> And, he wants them to see it. I cannot think of any other reason why this decision was made. Are there any?

Yeah, because it didn't make any sense. All you had to do to see blocked content was to log out of Twitter.
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I'm pretty nervous that neither Wayback Machine nor archive-dot-today appear to be able to snapshot Bluesky posts. Between this and paywalls, I'm not aware of an alternative user-accessible check against edited / deleted posts.

Might as well be a Telegram/Discord channel, or a Futaba Channel site. At least vBulletin could be archived.

Looks like there's a page on https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Bluesky for it though.
>> Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked panelists if they are familiar with "rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities – hybrids." All four speakers said no

Stopped reading when I saw this person's name.
Underwater nets were a common defense against submarines during the second world war, protecting harbours and the like. I have no reason to think the case is otherwise now.
People making 30k to 100k on average voted for the winner. People making less than 30k or more than 100k did not.
If all you believe are lies, what's the difference?
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Why? Any IDE can format JSON for you. VS Code even does it out of the box.
Ah, so you didn't click through and actually see what this tool is, you just read the title.
I trend more towards print debugging than breakpoints.

To me the beauty of print debugging is you can see the flow, and see it quickly in contrast to the debugger. Simply with the debugger, a lot of the time is spent stepping past (at the moment) superfluous breakpoints.

Step, step, step, step, …, step, step, BANG!

Versus a quick BANG preceded by a trail of debris I can then postmortem. I use both, naturally, but prefer the crashes with a debris field than walking on eggs to potential disaster.
I can guarantee one thing and that is that they will not learn.

These kinds of people do not learn from their mistakes. They find scape goats to blame and will try the same thing the over and over again like the fools they are.
There's movement from the Internet Advertising Bureau, they explicitly say that this signal must be adhered to if the header is present, and this signal must be forwarded to Demand Side Platforms.
Can we create an abstraction on top of modern day CRUD work and turn it into the solving of algorithmic puzzles?
I have a couple family members who are doctors. Medical school and residency were nightmares, but after that they are golden. One of them works one week a month and makes 400k. Others have pretty cushy 9-5s and are taking home ludicrous salaries. They are also pretty recession proof and their salaries are fairly immune to economic pressures. I don't think mass doctor layoffs happened in 2008 or 2022.

With software you never have to stop proving yourself, and your skillset is always a few years away from being outdated. A doctor with 20 years of experience would be welcomed anywhere, but an engineer with 20 years experience is viewed with trepidation. The next "big thing" could roll out at anytime and suddenly crypto engineers are getting 800k job offers so everyone furiously tries to learn crypto stuff. A few years later that all dries up and now you have 100k engineers who are out of work and learned tech that no one cares about anymore. All the LLM engineers might be in the same position next year.
> > My monitor does not require online account yet - I don’t see why my VR classes should either.

> They are standalone devices with a consumer OS and app store, much like your PC or smartphone.

My PC does not require online account yet - I don't see why my VR glasses should either.
> When was the last time you had to debug an ancient codebase without documentation or help from a team?

All the time. 300-400k SLOC in C++. Legacy in the sense that there were no tests of any kind. Little-to-no documentation. Solo developer at the tiny company. Fix bugs and add features while keeping the system available to the tens of thousands of users.

A more recent example: here’s a patch for a critical feature we need. It was written over a year ago. The original author isn’t available anymore. You can write the code from scratch or try to resurrect the patch against master.

Being able to jump into a project and lead people towards some goal is definitely a skill for senior developer positions. Yes, you generally have a team you can lean on and have the ability to do research and all that. But how do you show that you can do all that in an interview?

Agree with the conclusion that a good thing to test for is for problem-solving.

The tech side depends a lot on what you’re doing. Although it gets ridiculous and organizations get lazy with this part. You don’t need to be white boarding graph algorithms for a junior web developer role. If your application is a social networking role and you’re interviewing a senior developer or architect? Definitely. They’re going to be teaching this stuff and need to understand it at a deep level.
The Plomin and von Stumm study --- easy to find critiques of it! --- is about heritability. It cited unpublished GWAS data to claim polygenic scores would predict more than 10% of educational attainment, and thus intelligence. The educational attainment GWAS study that was eventually published found less than 5%. And remember, the twin study heritability data that most people cite in threads like this claimed over 50% (twin study heritability numbers for all sorts of traits are apparently overstated by factors of 2-4x, which is wild).†

An example of evidence against the reliability of educational attainment and intelligence heritability statistics: comparing intra-family heritability (across large numbers of families) to population-wide studies: for educational attainment, it turns out there's little correlation between the two; for simpler phenotypical traits, there's almost 100% correlation.

To sum this up:

1. The 2018 Plomin study gives sharply lower genetic/EA numbers than were floating around previously (say, from the Jensen-ist era)

2. Plomin's own numbers were preliminary and overstated

3. Researchers in the field criticized that study nonetheless

4. Subsequent studies on direct heritability and molecular heritability put even lower ceilings on it (basically, all credible behavioral trait heritability work has been done after 2018 --- and in fact this is broadly true of a lot of genetics work, not just trying to statistically mine behavioral traits out of genome scoring)

5. Even those results have flunked basic sanity tests (for instance, getting wildly different results in intra-family vs population-wide studies).

It's not looking good for people fixated on this idea.

† I'm being very loosy-goosey with the numbers and units here
Well, he wasn't wrong about the conclusion.
> AI only needs to be as good as a human and cheaper

Setting aside the current limitations of LLMs for a moment, this is just a really unfortunate view on a new tech in my opinion. Its nothing unique here so I don't mean to single you out. I've seen it plenty of other places. The idea, though, that we effectively imply that most humans are idiots and we just need to invent something that is as good at being a functional idiot but for much less money leaves humanity in a terrible place. What does the world look like if we succeed at that?

To you main question, though, I think differences in human opinions and ideas can be easily misconstrued as a lack of intelligence. Our would also consider environmental factors of the average person.

I'll stick with the US as its what I am most familiar with. The average american has what I'd consider a high level of stress, chronic health conditions, one or more pharmaceutical prescriptions, and our food system is sorely lacking and borderline poisonous. With all those factors in play I can't put too much weight behind my view of the average person's intelligence.