What makes you say that? It was explicitly created as an EU alternative to HN by a person from the Netherlands. They posted about it on HN a few days ago.
I haven't found anything public about where its hosted
I was probably not clear in my original comment. My point, in context of this thread, was that it is hosted in US-based company. So things like Cloud Act still apply.
like the idea of the article. however, it gave me bad vibes. this “virtues” only use is to have moral high ground over other “virtues” instead of deconstructing intelligence as a whole.
why is it bad that the person with the highest IQ does puzzle columns?
are all people with IQ supposed to be doing groundbreaking research?
can you only do groundbreaking research if you’re intelligent?
i think the real virtue here is not “slowness” but rather persistence. what do you think?
> are all people with IQ supposed to be doing groundbreaking research?
I don't know about "supposed to", but... it's a reasonable hope or expectation, right? That someone with extraordinary capabilities would want to use them for some extraordinary benefit for mankind. I appreciate vos Savant's contribution to public knowledge, but if you have the ability to make your name by progressing something extremely challenging (like the Riemann hypothesis) then wouldn't you want to try that?
Reminds me of that scene in Good Will Hunting where Sean presses Will on why he sticks to manual labouring when he's far smarter than highly trained university professors.
I agree that it's a reasonable hope but not an expectation. I don't think it's fair to put that type of pressure on someone, and I don't want to assume that's necessarily what you meant.
I don't know if you read "Flowers for Algernon" but that's what I think about when discussing highly/exceptionally intelligent people.
That's totally fair. I didn't mean "expectation" in the sense of social pressure, but rather that it's likely that someone would want to use their skills in that way.
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nice to see that there is some research being done in this field, it closely mirrors my own experience in trying to switch off.
the point of embracing boredom seems the most valuable here – i often tend to scroll instinctively in order to not to be bored. oftentimes, some boredom helps me recover from whatever i got distracted from.
The quote in the article is "as fluent in Python as we are in multiple other languages”… Russian is mentioned elsewhere, so gets incorporated by reference rather than directly here, but Python is still the exemplar she used for computerese.
Mastery in every domain is great, but part of that is knowing that mastering Python isn’t mastering any CS domain.
It kind of is relevant, Python seems to be a go-to language for “hacking”, isn’t it? When you look at computer or software vulnerability POCs, it is usually Python.
In late 2025 the foreign intelligence service of any <=G20 nation should, realistically, see Python competency as roughly equivalent to arithmetic, shoelace-tying, or conversational English… my point is it shouldn’t be a reach goal.
governments are moving from the office suite to libre office suites. some say this is helpful for digital sovereignty, others insist that the reliance on spreadsheets needs to be addressed first.
could this be a step towards bridging the gap and making programming more accessible to non-technical ppl?
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