skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree its a simple as class & money, there is no such thing as "the rich" or "the workers". Old money vs New Money, West Coast vs East Coast, South Vs North, Coastal vs Midwest, Lawyers vs Tech, USA vs Europe there are a million sub-classes of "Rich" and even more subclasses of working class esp in NYC. Yes I completely agree its very difficult to change your behavior/job/class like the guys in the article. Its also difficult for a middle class Alaskan to make friends in NY or female nerd to enjoy working in tech or a fat lazy MidWesterner to make friends in Malibu.

The more class/religious/language/wealth/cultural/racial/geographic barriers your cross the more difficult it is to change, but the Guardian often reduces this to a class war which is overly simplified.
Please just flag stories quietly and don't rave like this in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Bill Burr (the comedian) has his own take on this problem.

He makes reading the ads so entertaining they become a part of the podcast -- a very entertaining part! Nobody skips that.

Though to be fair, sometimes he shits on the product he's "advertising" so hard that they pull their sponsorship. Oh well. The brands that stay reap the benefits -- his version of Dollar Shave Club, MeUndies, ZipRecruiter, or HelixSleep are totally contagious.
Don't waste your money on a new set of speakers / You get more mileage from a cheap pair of sneakers / Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways / It's still rock and roll to me

-- Billy Joel

Also: "Where have you been hidin' out lately, honey?
You can't dress trashy till you spend a lot of money"
I suppose it's passe to report like this, but the irony of making this statement, "Nevertheless, the country remains enamored of these rags-to-riches tales which perpetuate the myth that, in the US, anything is possible if you pull yourself up by your bootstraps.", in a story where they are talking to someone who did exactly that means it isn't a myth is it? Myths by definition are 'not real', 'imaginary', or 'allegorical'. So this story clearly happened, it is clearly real, so it doesn't qualify as a myth. And yet the author throws out there this narrative that implies it is. Frustrating.

It also focuses on the east coast experience. Anyone who has lived in the US for any length of time knows that "social societies" in the US have a variety of roots, whether it is the bloodlines of the deep south, the money makers of wall street, the entertainment moguls of LA, or the tech whizzes of the North west.

I don't have visibility into other areas but I know that with just Apple, Facebook, and Google they have moved thousands of people from having a negative net worth, to having a net worth in excess of a $1M. You meet them when they go to seminars about diversifying one's wealth, or at events that have been expressly targeted to HNWI[1] types.

And "Class Passing", a reference perhaps to a practice where light skinned blacks would present themselves as white to avoid discrimination? If that is what they were going for its a bit provocative is it not? Especially for what is essentially a story that says "Some of the people we need/want to hang out with for social reasons are really annoying/irritating/offensive." That has nothing to do with 'wealth' or 'class' and everything to do with groups that self identify with offensive traits or values.

An interesting story is one where you are suddenly much wealthier or much less wealthy than people in your current social group that you like. How do you keep those relationship vital and alive in the presence of this disparate wealth. I have watched many people struggle with that and some master it effortlessly. I'd love to collect those stories and pull out the essence of how to make that work in an accessible way.

[1] "High Net Worth Individual." You know that this is what the market thinks you are when you get a box of artisan chocolate with a brochure describing a service for providing private air transportation on demand for you and your friends.
I have no idea, to be honest. I tried different driver versions in windows, host kernels, etc. Even booting back into native windows OS, no KVM in between. It was showing the same frame rate drops. My 3DMark was also just about halved as well.
> Never order a burger at a restaurant.

... unless you are taking part in some 'whimsically proletarian' sort of event, or making some sort of 'statement'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)

If you count any sort of sound as "music", then sure.
You realize you're alleging that Apple is moderating its App Store based on conversations people are having within an app? Given the gravity of your claim, and the fact that there are cryptocurrency-related applications all over the App Store, you really need to think about whether your possibility is more likely. (It isn't.)

Facebook taking down cryptocurrency gambling ads is much different than Apple removing a general purpose instant messenger. You're finding a connection you want to find, I'm guessing based on your knowledge of PnD groups being on Telegram, that being your sole exposure to Telegram, and your opinion on cryptocurrency.

Apple is very conservative with adult content which I consider the far more likely reason, be that buggy image search, some kind of trending view that porn snuck into, that kind of thing.
A good and true point. How invalid do you think this counterargument is?

If anyone could identify early-stage companies with a 75-100% chance of being profitable, wouldn't we see an investor niche that supports this?

(I can think of one counter-counter argument: the hype created by VCs is so big that the investor and founder markets are acting irrationally.)

Would love to hear anyone else's thoughts on this.
Your example in C++17,

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <type_traits>

class Display {
virtual std::string fmt() = 0;
};

template<typename T>
void f(T s)
{
static_assert(std::is_base_of<Display, T>::value, "Error: T must implement Display interface");

std::cout << s << '\n';
}

int main()
{
f(7);
}

Gives the following error with clang,

<source>:12:7: error: static_assert failed "Error: T must implement Display interface"
static_assert(std::is_base_of<Display, T>::value, "Error: T must implement Display interface");
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
<source>:19:7: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'f<int>' requested here
f(7);
^
1 error generated.
Compiler returned: 1

Of course the downside is having the library author spending extra effort to write those checks.
I find it extremely boring to fetishize the immaterial and neurotic divisions of the bourgeois.
Quantum Computers Struggle Against Classical Algorithms
CNN and FOX as living proof. Give people whatever disinformation they're inclined to believe to sell them advertised pills to treat maladies they picked up at the advertised restaurants--along with a side of advertised crap investments in the hopes of paying for the rest. Since it's broadcast, we at least know what they're up to. It keeps them relatively honest.

Compare that to Google/FB where each person gets a catered experience. It would take an immense effort in data collection and analysis to find out just how hard they're screwing everyone. Going by all of the online scams I've had to ward friends and family away from (which came up on page-one Google searches BTW), my guess would be "very hard".
Who is this Bay Area dentist?
> The only way to become wealthy is to spend less than you make.

This is hilariously wrong.
Really? I grew up in the Midwest where chicken fried rice from the local Chinese place was about as exotic as it got, and our standard meals were some form of overcooked meat, potatoes, and a token green. The evolution of the food and restaurant scenes in the US is one of the things I'm pretty happy about. It can definitely be handled poorly, but for the most part I think it's been a positive.
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I think at least some of it is how podcasts are consumed compared to other media. I (and I think most other people) listen to podcasts while doing something else, (jogging, washing dishes, driving, etc), which both makes pulling out my phone to fastforward through ads difficult, while at the same time, its easy to just shift my focus to whatever else I'm doing until the ad ends, making them less annoying.
Waymo and GM were leading last years as well. Though last year nobody else had accomplished much of anything. Now we've got a bunch of companies who have overcome the initial hurdles and are demonstrating basic competence on public roads. Zoox is really interesting, they only got going on public roads with one vehicle late August (7 by the end of November) has shown remarkable performance given how early in the game it is for them.
Of course - and that's the entire point. There's a single neighborhood rich people organizing to accomplish a single, small goal that they can agree on. That single neighborhood is probably spending millions of dollars in legal fees to fight against the next neighborhood of rich people to determine who has to get the power plant closer to their neighborhood.

There is no collectivist, national (or global) hivemind or concensus among wealthy people about how to oppress the lower classes. The implication of the original post I've responded to is absurd. Wealthy people are more likely than not to be narcissistic and selfish, so any organization is really a prisoner's dilemma association of convenience, at best.

Mark Zuckerberg in alone in a room with an angry mob would be much more civilized than Mark Zuckerberg in a room with Rupert Murdoch - there is just a bunch of wealth people whose voice carries far due to their organizations, wealth, and power, who generally have no allegiance to one other, each espousing their own disparate viewpoints, which generally do not involve wealth re-distribution

Wealthy interests, like you are describing, and as the article portrays, exist in microcosms or small interests, and they conflict with other wealthy interests. One wealthy group might want to manipulate consumer group X to do Z and has to destroy organization B to manipulate consumer group X to do Y.

That's just one portion of the comment I'm responding to - the rest is just some rambling from a psychotic someone who will be carrying a torch to something while snarling the gripe du jour some day.
Thank you for that filter, work amazingly well
It would be nice to follow vanilla JavaScript/ES2017/ES2018 etc features, usage examples, etc. Maybe an ongoing tutorial series on building some common web features, deconstructing interesting stuff found around the web, etc.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think vanilla JS is worth learning without reliance on the latest frameworks and libraries.
- As soon as you have more than 5 boxes, you need different tools for your everyday tasks, interactive SSH sessions just don't work. But you know that already.

- So you've found yourself SSH'ing into a particular box, because that's just the best way to work on a problem. Either it's a pet box (in which case it makes total sense to drop your dotfiles there), or it's a cattle box and you don't care about the trash you left behind, because autoscaling will clean it up for you.
I think you're undervaluing the impact of the internet on small business. Sure, a few guys at the tippy top of Uber-eats are the only ones getting fabulously wealthy, but I've discovered several wonderful mom and pop restaurants through that service. Sure, only a hand full of people at Google are getting fabulously wealthy, but most of the video content I consume these days are regular-ish people on Youtube who now make their living making those videos without having to go through Hollywood gatekeepers. There's been at least a half dozen small businesses I've hired based solely off their Craigslist ads, businesses I likely would've never heard of and might not have ever existed without the internet/Craigslist. I don't understand why people point to the few fabulously wealthy people and exclaim that because everyone else isn't fabulously wealthy that the system is failing us all. We still have a ways to go, but the internet to me has moved several things further down the democratized spectrum than they ever had been before.
Because, to be perfectly honest, most of us don't want to start our own companies. I know for me, personally, that there's a whole lot of extra stuff that comes with running a company, stuff that I have absolutely zero interest in doing, that I would be required to do if I wanted my company to succeed. Second, I also don't really have any good ideas for what the company would do.
Halfway through he notes how processors have millions of transistors, each being slightly different, and notes how we are just soooo lucky to have found a hardware bug now.

Except both Spectre and Meltdown, AFAIK (IANAHWE) are design flaws as the silicon is working as intended. The hardware is fine -- the real problem is that the Intel's reputation is partially built on speed, and, now that the cladding has fallen off, we've discovered the platform was built with really flimsy supports.
On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages
I do, but Visual Studio debugger lets me chose what I step into to.
And centralized surveillance, censorship, and control, too.
Less maintainable? That's a nightmare. As an Android developer who has struggled with couple of 4 digit lines long activity classes I literally shuddered.

This is as if someone used a tool to translate UI code from some other platform to Android (completely into Java) and forgot to refactor.
If you are buying a Rembrandt you are also going to get a forensic verification. That's an edge case.

No one is talking about a perfect solution, you have fake paintings being sold today.

This reduces the risk for fraud and helps propel a digital art industry. And thats just for the art world.

It's fine if you don't believe it to happen, I do and so I am acting accordingly.
I have actually done some "fuck it" and leave it all behind in my past year. I packed everything I owned in my car and moved across the country to a new place I've never been before and lived on a vineyard in wine country CA for a while. I also once just packed a single backpack and drove off into the sunset on a road trip with no plans for a couple weeks.

I learned valuable things from my experiences - I learned how much I value the meaningful friendships and connections I have in my life. I learned that my concept of "I could be happy if only I found the right place to live" to be untrue, as I knew before but had trouble believing until I tried it for myself. I learned how great it is to meet new people, which was new for me as a life-long introvert.

I do really value my friends, my relationship, and my family. They give me meaning in life more than anything else, and I don't just want to leave it all behind to find myself because I feel I've mostly already done that.

My last resort in life would be to move to Thailand to become a Buddhist monk. But I'm not quite there yet.
When I was in college I had a hole on the side of my molar, it was a cavity that had started as small dot, and gotten bigger. I didn't have insurance.

So I took a toothpick and cleaned out the gunk and washed it out with peroxide. (just on the toothpick) I kept it clean with a tooth pick, and intentionally swished spit around the tooth regularly.

Eventually the hole filled back in.

I know teeth can "heal", but I think "re-calcify" is a better term I ran into the past few years. But like anything else on your body, I think it hits a point where there's nothing you can do about it.

I knew a lady that drank so much coke that it ate her teeth away, nothing that lady could do about fixing her own teeth.
How to convert shaders from Shadertoy to ThreeJS
It's okay for Mr. Modi to take advantage of that in the elections if it benefits 500M people. That's what every politician does.
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Anything larger than ~50 people and it becomes harder to maintain the company culture. Kudos to them for recognizing that they're happy where they're at.
>> There is a duty of care to not be the company responsible for making your customers crypto bag-holders.

Are you saying that Facebook is responsible to make decisions for us - because all it takes is one advertisement to override the average human's discipline and self control?
The most important connection in any network is the local
Class distinction and hierarchy are precisely the sort of social mechanisms that convince people that there exists alternatives to certain modes of living (class aspiration).
Quick Ruby tip – how to process nested hash in a simple way
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Forbidden talk list

Original
Religion
Sex
Politics
Money

Addition 1
Hitler & the holocaust
Abortion
Child care
Adult care

Addition 2
Trump
Not OP, but I presume the regulations would be important too. Part of being FDIC backed is maintaining a certain amount of currency that is VERIFIED.

Issue here is that there is no one giving confidence that Bitfenix has any currency at all, we have to trust their word.
>Must have at least a bachelor’s degree (or foreign earned equivalent degree) in a computer or engineering field

Do you require a bachelor's degree for all positions?
We're an all-inclusive service provider (currently), meaning that researchers simply send their samples in and get insights back. We take care of the DNA extraction, sample QC, library prep, sequencing, bioinformatics, and data storage.

There are a couple clients of ours that we're testing our sequencing as a service where we generate monthly contracts and they get the exact same service, protocols, etc. in record turnaround time.

Client base includes companies like Children's National Hospital, UCSD, Pfizer, USDA. Nothing proprietary just yet (except it being really hard) but we're using profits from services revenue to develop IP-driven gene pipelines and informations. Basically specific gene panels and software paired together. We're one of 2 commercial companies in the country offering HLA-Typing which is the same integrated pipeline as described above.

Additionally, we're passively starting to develop high resolution data sets to ingest into a database at some point around specific novel variants, such as HLA Typing, to accelerate research

The end goal is to virtualize the entire lab so that anyone can start research, whether academic of pharmaceutical, from a home office. This means building a software layer that allows them to directly create, design, and implement protocols that interface with the equipment in the lab. So instead of building a $1M lab, you just log in online and run your experiments.

You can think of it as what AWS did to the data center.
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To be fair, most of that strategy is inherited from healthy cell function. As your body grows and cells become further removed from blood supply, they have to send out a demand signal to encourage vascularization of the under supplied region.

Cancer cells simply lack the trigger to stop growing.
While I can (and often do) get along well doing manual inserts from the command line, not all my semi-technical users would be happy (or would be trusted) with a command line.
Physicists to build lasers so powerful they could rip apart empty space
I think this level of timidity would make you stand out more.
It’s simplified, but aside from the subclasses which will exist within any group, isn’t it broadly accurate?
Desktop computers and laptops. They will probably never disappear from desktops, especially when it comes to gaming.
Mixpanel scraping password fields on client sites