skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In America at least 67% of all "high-net-worth" individuals are self made, with only 8% directly inheriting their wealth. [1] If you consider only men (as women have an easier time marrying into wealth) 76% are self made. I don't think individual wealth is any big secret. The two pathways are either work for others and live well below your means -- an individual earning $50k and living on $20k is a millionaire in 17 years if he tosses that extra in index funds. Or start a business.

The problem is that most of us consume near to what we earn, even when that's not necessary and don't have the ambition to start your own business, which now a days can start as simple setting up a webpage or selling some craft online where there is enormous amounts of free support. So becoming wealthy is impossible without, as you put it, winning the lottery.

I completely agree with you that dynastic wealth is a huge negative, but at least in America it's not as huge a deal as it would seem. And I think people like Bill Gates are at least going in the right direction. He will be giving each of his offspring 'only' $10 million in inheritance. That's an enormous amount of money, but it's also literally about 1/10000th of his peak wealth. If your parents were worth $1 million, it'd be like them giving you an inheritance of $100. But I'm not sure this direction should be forced. Though I used to find a death tax very reasonable, lately I've come to wonder how justified it is, from the perspective of liberty, for a government to forcibly seize some large majority of the assets of an individual in passing, just because they happened to live a very successful life. And even if we do find this reasonable, enactment is going to be dubious at best as it would simply encourage people to distribute their assets, prior to death, to the same people it would have gone to previously by right of will.

[1] - https://www.fa-mag.com/news/most-millionaires-self-made--stu...
If you're paid through ADP or any of the big payroll companies, they're sharing your information. It's wonderful.
https://twitter.com/clearvus streams at 9pm EST on Mondays and Thursdays on Twitch, he has been working through making an NES game from scratch. He is off this week, but people who are interested in seeing this type of work should definitely check out his series, he deserves way more viewers! I've learned a lot from it.

https://www.twitch.tv/clearvus

recordings are posted on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwGj1ciSAtw
> We know the brain can take some damage and still function quite well, but are there single neurons or tiny groups of them that will basically bring down the system if damaged?

I like this question. I'm not a neuroscientist though, but I think most neurons come in fibers that contain several of them. So even if a certain connection was critical, a single one dying will still leave a functional fiber. Because neurons are plastic (to a limited but significant extent), any effect from that single neuron can be partially or completely compensated.
I think Orkut was the first available one in Brazil. It got popular because it was new and had no competition.
My own personal story with the NES didn't last that long, because I was a kid without money, terrible at platformers, and my parents wouldn't buy me a lot of games. You can only play Super Mario Bros so many times before you're tired of not making it past the 2nd level. So I eventually switched to computers (Apple II vintage), and never looked back to consoles.

This past year, however, I decided to take up a little retro project based on the NES. Its best described as a "video game music player alarm clock", using some authentic hardware. It uses the CPU from an actual NES to faithfully synthesize music from actual NES games, while building the surrounding system out of modern components.

First prototype in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izMFPKmD5ZU

Blog posts detailing the project:
http://hecgeek.blogspot.com/2018/02/nestronic-1.html
http://hecgeek.blogspot.com/2018/03/nestronic-2.html
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This needs to be rejected whole sale. One nation does NOT have the authority to dictate what a company can do outside of it's borders and concerns. The censorship issues that have been cropping up lately in these regards are appalling. The "hate speech" legislature of many EU nations comes to mind. If that insanity were to be enforced "world wide" it's seriously time for new service providers to step up that aren't so money hungry for those markets to capitulate.
Awesome, let me know what you think.
There’s a plugin for Wordpress called simple static site generator. I’ve had good results with it.
This feat is hailed as the major accomplishment of the movie. It's leagues above the average Hollywood action movie in regard to breaking 'new' (old) ground.
Right, it's not really a social "network" if it is just a collection of individuals, and charging individuals creates a barrier to network effects, especially with upfront subscription decisions as an immediate hurdle.

What you most likely really want for a self-sustaining social network is community funding where some self-clustering communal unit (the finding of which might be hard as here too you likely want communities to network and organically overlap together) is encouraged to grow organically as a network and raise funds together.

You can somewhat see experiments in this space in the Mastodon world where some instances try to define community boundaries, and find ways to together pay instance hosting costs.

Community funding as a topic also brings up the question of tax-funded as an option or even a necessity. Are social networks a public good? Are they maybe the true "highways" of the internet that should be governed as such?
Interesting. Going along with the biological metaphor - maybe what is needed is a) redefining the boundaries and cohesion in smaller units of organization (e.g. local communities) and b) a more organized circulatory system vs. a kind of directionless diffusion (i.e. current social media).
And this makes the pharmacy give you the brand name drug?

That's surprising. Over here (Germany) the doctor can fill in the name of the brand in the prescription, but unless he ticks a special box you'll automatically get the generic.
100% agree with that. Switched from the official app over to Apollo a few months ago and haven't looked back since.

The gesture-based functionality and the media viewer alone make it way better than the offical app.
> Similar stories come from nurses

Automating nurses seem very very far in the future though.
> It has taken decades to make linux stable and relatively bug free

This is due to the development practices and tools employed, not intrinsic to the construction of new operating systems. There are much better tools now. For instance, Google could have built this on seL4, a verified microkernel instead building their own from scratch and they would have hit the ground running instead of the slower build up they're now going to face.
What we need to look at is their net income after taxes, and there the 1% is still doing much better than the median taxpayer. If you look at the top 0.1% earners, it's obscene, let alone the 0.01%.
I fail to see what the issue is? Tesla said it will continue providing technical help and they are still mandated by law.
What is the real loss for them to being out of the investigation committee? What does the NTSB lose?
I don't see it that way. This research is a good first step to show that there is a problem that warrants further investigation.

The big question remaining now is why? Are night owls less healthy because they are forcing their body into an unnatural rhythm? Or are the genes associated with being a night owl also responsible for these other health issues?
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‘King of Kong’ Star Stripped of High Scores, Banned from Competition
Beautiful work. I was actually looking for a mobile platform to build my newest project on, looks like I'm learning a bit of Dart. Hope you don't mind if I dig through your project every time I get stuck, it looks like you're using a lot of similar functionality :)
Bro you made my day
Even having a basic first aid kit at hand can mean the difference between life and death in a lot of cases. I keep a tourniquet and quick-clot gauze in my first aid kits because ambulance response times are commonly 30 minutes around here. If you have an arterial bleed you're going to be in pretty bad condition by the time the paramedics arrive unless you can control it. I've never seen an off the shelf first aid kit stock those items. Most of the off-the-shelf kits can barely treat a scraped knee.
You cut off your quote too early!

> He has also tried to clean up the kitchen in other ways. “You can’t come to work and scream at people,” he said. “When I was a younger chef, that was how I interacted with my team.

My god, imagine the horror of not being able to come into work and just scream at your employees.
Nope? Just in general, inherited family wealth ends up getting spent within a few generations.
With a lot of good brand and domain names already taken, it is alive and well.
This isn't true at all. I have driven my Model S almost every day with autopilot for the past couple years. After getting used to it, you can very easily "feel" when turning and braking is supposed to happen and have plenty of time to take over if it doesn't. At first when I was getting used to it I would disengage frequently. Now I hardly do, and when I need to I have plenty of time to react.

Honestly the autopilot has changed my driving experience and I hate when I have to drive cars without it.

I do agree that you need to be aware of your surroundings and ready to take over, though.
Try profit sharing.
It cuts both ways though, you can't have your cake and eat it too. A counter example: if I'm the only guy I know that thinks Jim Crow laws are bad and there's nobody around to buck me up, so maybe I consider that there's something wrong with my beliefs.

If you police speech for some people and not others you will create problems, either you think that people are inherently good (therefore everbody should be able to speak until they reveal otherwise) or some kind of top down censorship should be in place to keep things "civil", now the problem is who gets to decide what "civil" is.

So its better and easier and more robust to just let people say what they want to say (even if bad) and just allow people to filter out what they don't want.
You've captured exactly what it feels like -- this is the constant tension among asm developers. I love really high performance code, but I also like accomplishing more than one trivial thing per hour. It's hard to even remember the time before I knew C, when coding in assembly was all there was. When it was "normal." But I do remember the first time I wrote for the M68000 chipset and finding a multiply and divide instruction. "What? I don't have to write my own divide routine?" Tears of joy!

I will typically build something out in a high level language, profile to see where the time is going, and take a closer look at the algorithm first to see if it's sensible or some different approach should be taken. If it's an appropriate algo, then it's time to look at the implementation to see where we can shave cycles.

For the most part, even if you're talking to hardware that requires exceedingly precise timing (interface/bus protocols, certain chips), C will probably do the job. (It's no coincidence it was referred to as "universal assembly language".) Only where one is absolutely starved for resources (as the NES, and many 8-bit systems were/are) is ASM necessary.

"high level when you can, assembly when you must"
Not just Facebook but also Google. They do the same thing and they monopolized the internet.
Or a pen-capable tablet or 2-in-1.
(MacGyver's name is Angus!?)
I would love to see a breakdown by country. Given the endless rhetoric around manufacturing reshoring/offshoring/etc., it would be great to see if thats even something we should care about given how much automation already exists and how much more is about to come online. Owning the robots and supply chain will obviously have some value, but politically speaking, the value is often measured in jobs which seems like its minimally shortsighted if not downright disingenuous.
I never could figure out why Orkut did not see the success that Facebook did. Unfortunately this incarnation requires an Android or iOS app so it is a non-starter for me.
I signed up for an account and have some feedback:

* The signup was very easy

* 2FA is missing, considering withdrawals will be made through the account if automatic withdrawals are not enabled, that is an absolute must have.

* Clicking on "Upgrade your Plan" takes me back to the logged out site even though I remain logged in

* I uploaded a logo and I am not sure what it is used for, it's not displayed anywhere.

* I signed up in particular because I saw Woocommerce on the front page. Post login there is no mention of it, and I am not sure there is actually a plugin for it.

Keep working at it guys - it's a good segment to be in.
>It's a fundamentally pessimistic essay...

Why is future optimistic by default? By the way humanity is progressing, do you see any reason for hope? Do you disagree that we are in a technological runaway?
> i just started learning Common Lisp a couple of weeks ago. Coming from a strong OO programming background, i can honestly say it is a completely different mind-set.

You might not see it much in beginner materials, but idiomatic Lisp code tends to be fairly object-oriented, using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). CLOS is still a bit different from OOP in a language like Java, though: it's a much more powerful object system.
Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
The verification e-mail is going to say something like "Please verify this e-mail address for your new Netflix account", which is going to look very suspicious to anyone who didn't just sign up for an account. As phishing attempts go, this is not likely to be very effective. It's not nearly as bad as skipping right to the part where they ask for updated payment information (with a pre-authenticated link!)—someone who has a Netflix account, and perhaps a credit card which recently expired, has no reason to suspect such a request, and most likely would not notice that the e-mail address the notice was sent to does not match the one they used when setting up their own account.
He's considered a business savant because he somehow outwitted the VCs (and therefore kept a sizable proportion of his company through to IPO).
The headline has been updated to say that:

> Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB

> The National Transportation Safety Board told Tesla Inc. on Wednesday that the carmaker was being removed from the investigation of a fatal accident, prior to the company announcing it had withdrawn from it, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

> NTSB Chairman Robert Sumwalt relayed the decision in a call to Tesla’s Elon Musk that was described as tense by the person because the chief executive officer was unhappy with the safety board’s action. NTSB is expected to make a formal announcement in a release later Thursday, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
There’s also the Ford Pinto. In Brazilian (!) Portuguese, “pinto” is close to the male equivalent of “cona”.
Are you saying it's impossible for Google to block some results globally?

Because even if I may agree with the sentiment, I don't see how technology is the problem here–differences in law are.

And if technology were the problem, that'd be the weakest possible argument. Where ever possible, technology need to evolve to serve what society (democratically) decides. You and I may not agree with this specific decision, but the process that created it is still far more legitimate than whatever Google or, in other cases, two guys and a compiler come up with.
Problem with that is they are not describing regular healthy "evening people".

They are describing people who couldn't care less at what time they wake up because they were in a substance induced coma up to their random waking hour.

Of course those are going to die sooner.

I wish they would find a way to filter those out and test only on people whose internal clock is simply shifted.
Excellent article all the way around. I may assign this to my networking students further into the quarter. It provides a nice alternative use case that should help them think more critically about the relationship between applications, the socket API, and the rest of the network stack. Thanks!
Food is different. Very different. Blurring that with strawmen is easy but not helpful.
Armed revolution is starting to look more and more like the only reasonable thing that could stop this runaway train. Politics is not working. There are many eco-terrorists out there and they have put a lot of thought into this:

https://deepgreenresistance.org/images/decisive-ecological-w...
Google's patent on related entities and what it means for SEO
Ask HN: What are your time-saving non-tech life hacks?
What are your time-saving non-tech life hacks?

I'm looking for things you do in your day-to-day life that save you significant amounts of time.

I shave my hair, and I do it myself.

I don't have to comb it. I don't have to spend time and money going to the barbershop. I don't have to expend mental energy thinking and worrying about whether my hair is messed up (rain, sports, winter hats).

I've been doing that for more than 15 years and the payback has been huge. It's very liberating.
Lets imagine your software shows constant malfunction and one day stops working, and the engineer who wrote the whole critical piece decided that he will officially leave the investigation group but said he will cooperate.

What will happen?
Misleading title. Tesla was forcibly kicked off the investigation by the NTST.
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> Millions will wake up with no goals and no structure to their lives because they have all of their most basic needs satisfied by UBI if the democrats have their way.

And? People are remarkably good at finding something to do once they are bored.

A lot of people veg out in front of the boob tube because they are so exhausted from working to pay for basic necessities that they simply don't have the energy to do anything else.
With the VC and profit margins of the headliners, asking a tech firm to pay more "feels normal".

My understanding is that most restaurants aren't in a position to pay much more; are the urban demographics different enough to support such a thing?
Even assuming you meant Librem, where can I buy a Librem device? After sending the money, I have a tolerance of 21 days until holding the device in working condition in my hand. Any offers?
Yes, I'm right there with you, and the cool part about our jobs being automated away -- besides not having to write all that boilerplate -- is that when the automation takes a steaming shit, we get to be heroes. I'm fine with this. I guess until it doesn't matter anymore, but then I suppose by that time, it won't matter for a whole lot of people, and we'll have something worked out.
Few people realize this, but completely random RAM access can have lower throughput than e.g. large linear reads from SSD. That’s one of the reasons why I don’t trust languages which give me little to no control over data locality.
Is it a crime to hire a PI to tail someone and log their every move?

Online tracking is basically the same thing.
For Linux, Windows and macOS
https://github.com/rvpanoz/luna/releases
Planning to Plan
> what's the point of having an economy in the first place?

Ask yourself who established the rules for our economy and who stands to benefit from them. If you ask them, things are working just as they are meant to.

Our country owes its roots to a wealthy, merchant class uprising. The system they setup benefited people like themselves.
Tesla Withdraws from NTSB Agreement in Fatal Crash Probe
are they going to leave Inbox project in the future?

I’ve been looking to use another emailing service. Suggestions?
https://www.privacytools.io/ is worth reading
Hi there,
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This is exactly what the Tesla does. It periodically "checks" that you are there by prompting you to hold the steering wheel (requiring a firm grip, not just hands on the wheel). If you don't, the car slows to a stop and disables autopilot for the remainder of the drive.
> - Malicious actors can't access most Google data has on you. Especially not by releasing psychological quiz app.

If I remember well, Google was part of PRISM. And it did give data to a malicious state actors. Plus it has analytics, which you can pay to have data on people (although no personal, but personal data from facebook is aggregated and used the same way in the end). Also google let you literally google people to find any data that other service would leak.

It's not as bad, yes. But it's still a lot.

> Google is not tracking logged out users. New id is assigned to logged out users only for very short periods of time.

I'm not an insider, but I would imagine that with android, gmail, chrome, various search tools and google Web APIs (fonts, graphs, analytics...), Google tracks you everywhere, whether you are logged in or not. It doesn't even need a cookie with all the behavioral data it has to fingerprint you.

And it's so big I doubt that any employee inside knows how everything works and everything that is done.

> Search results are much harder to manipulate by malicious actors than Facebook news feed ranking - based on the history of such manipulations.

Now. But they've been at it for more time. I remember the early days of Google, and it was black SEO everywhere. It became only hard to game the system recently. Even when StackOverflow came out, we had so much spammy clones, and it's not that old.

It also came out at the cost of less relevant results: now I can always find instantly what I know I want, but rarely discover something I'm happy I found about that is related to my current search. The bubble is very strong.
Paid forums are niche area, it will not be a reddit alternative: the "filter" you describe is not geared towards maximum quality, but to enrich the owners of the site.

They have financial incentive to ban at the slightest provocation, restricting everything to safe and predictable "high-level dialogue" that can't challenge the status quo.

Reddit thrives on multiple levels of "dialogue" segregated into their own communities. Its pro-growth vs SA pro-elitist stance. Thats why SA will never be a reddit alternative.
I don't disagree.

This just reminds me of a very "gray hat" SEO project I dabbled with 8-9 years ago.

Back then we were grabbing dropped domains and rebuilding them in masse to harvest the search traffic and build an early "PBN." Not wanting to leave an obvious footprint for Google or having to build a ton of templates, we randomized everything. From generating logos on the fly to randomizing the html structure and css classes names an extra precaution.

The sites were ugly as sin, but since Google wasn't rendering CSS on every crawl it didn't matter.

Pair this with our monetization strategy that made extensive use of css's `content=""` to place large CTAs across different sites and this project reminds me of the lessons we learned back then.

Needless to say, this isn't a project I'm super proud of, but when I saw how non-accessible this CSS font was, I couldn't help but think about scrambling the class names as well.