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> after crypto tanked with the recent fed funds rate hikes

When? It's at an all time high right now


Recent as in 18 months ago.

Not recent as in the last 3 months.


Pydantic had a nice model where the open source tool is fantastic, but they now sell a cloud based logging system around that. There will be some enterprise tooling around UV that they could sell while keeping the tool itself free


A lot of modern tooling in python is rust based such as pydantic - the skills to maintain this are already available


ruff is also from Astral.


Yeah my bad, good point, didn't realise! Two great tools from one company though :)


Where’d you get that IQ? His GitHub isn’t active either.


He went to a selective school.... but 130 isn't particularly high. It's common in engineers.


Sharing a fact as a defence of someone (he has an IQ of 130 but did X) without having any basis for that fact is worth calling out.

Same way they said an active GitHub while the repo is the opposite of that.

If your argument is "This is weird because of X and Y and Z" but Z is false and Y is unsubstantiated then it breaks the argument.


It's in the 98th percentile, lol. Yes, it's very high.


High, but not particularly rare. IF you see a movie, there are probably several people >130 in the audience with you. When you filter by education and other factors, it goes up quickly. Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.


Very few people understand this. It's why it's very hard to understand how normal people think wrt politics.


While "normal people" often have crude political opinions, the stupidest political takes often (usually?) come from high IQ, well educated, people.

And among those are also the ones with real influence and power to promote and/or enforce them.


> Depending on your line of work, a majority of your coworkers might be over 130.

This seems pretty reasonable, but once you start to get to know people a bit...


Then you realise that trying to quantitatively test intelligence only goes so far :D


The road to hell is paved with smart people who think they can become experts in something just by reading some blog posts and thinking about the subject for a few hours. As one example, see successful poker players who become amateur economists, geneticists and virologists.


30 points higher than the average person on HN!


Ha ha. If anything, HN skews quite high.


I don't know that means anything, I score well above 130, yet I will likely make ton of mistakes even if thought it about it and planned for months.

IQ tests are a single dimensional psychometric measurement tool that when if administered correctly only measures some attributes of what would be considered intelligence.

While those skills correlate to your ability to perform as a engineer it doesn't always translate to aptitude towards this sort of crime.

There are plenty of people who will score poorly in IQ tests but are "street smart". the good criminals (i.e. those have a long successful run or never get caught) are of this category.

For example Al Capone never got caught tied to any of his actual crimes, he had intimate understanding of the legal system and how not to get tied to evidence, he wouldn't score over 130 in IQ test probably


> While those skills correlate to your ability to perform as a engineer it doesn't always translate to aptitude towards this sort of crime.

A smart n00b is still a n00b.


Al Capone had the police working for him.


I am sure the various other parts of judiciary too, bribing takes skill, knowing who to bribe, how to make them vulnerable to bribery and so on, all these are important street skills that a criminal of his stature has to have. IQ doesn't teach you those


Well, "very high" according to what comparison group?

The overall general public? Sure.

People with STEM graduate degrees? Maybe not so much.


Not really. Half of people are barely literate. Maybe the top 10% have writing and language skills cogent and coherent enough to hang out on a website like this. So realistically we're talking about maybe 20% of the people you're interacting with. Possibly more, since this is the modern USENET where all the shape rotators hang out. People who can rotate shapes at all probably score at least that on tests.


Shart taters


Unless he went to a tiny high school it's unlikely that he was the smartest person in the school. Possibly in his year.


There are two people that smart in every NYC subway car during rush hour.


And what percentage of the world do you think are engineers/STEM?


It’s fine to not know, but why not google and check? It’s surely quicker than asking


I see people here in the US take The Beaverton seriously. I see people in Canada take The Onion seriously. It's hard to evaluate things like this from the outside.


> It's hard to evaluate things like this from the outside.

No, it's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaverton


True, but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England (lived all three so still follow the local news and seen stories about this in the last two weeks).


>but numbers are surprisingly bad in the US, Sweden, and in England

Kids in rich countries have their brain fried from watching Cocomelon, Youtube Kids and Tiktok. They've been spawn-camped by ad-tech. Gotta get them when they're young.


The numbers have been going up as those things have been introduced, not down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318019

HN blames social media for everything, but this clearly isn’t it.


https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38

The US scores are relatively consistent going back over a half-century. TikTok and Cocomelon are not the culprits.


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Do you think it is the same reason for Reverse Flynn Effect? IQ scores are dropping in western countries.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a43469569/american-...


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Yeah, but you can't say unpopular facts on HN, because it's offensive to the champagne liberals, so downvoted/flagged you go.


My top-level comment hasn't been downvoted or flagged so things are getting better :)


I think many kids growing up today in developing countries also have their brains fried by the same ad-tech.


Kids in developing countries have pretty hard parents who beat productive values like education into them.


That’s cool, but horribly ugly! What does production kdb+ look like? Is it similarly terse, maybe Perl-ish, or was this purely for speed?

What does each flip asc do?


i1 is Nx2. asc each i1 sorts each N in ascending order. flip transposes to 2xN.


I just copy and paste into a local text file, but I bet there’s a tool if you want to do it programmatically already (unless curl’ing is your idea of fun!)


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