skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My bad for using lifting classification nomenclature. Record breakers get social media attention and lifters like to compare/peg their progress to how fast the top 1% progresses. Conventional wisdom suggests diminishing returns at extreme end of competitiveness, but since there are so many new entrants into the sport, outlier "juniors" are progressing extremely fast and shattering records on time scale that normally take years in a mature sport. 5 years is really a short career in lifting terms - many people who lift similar amount of time with less progress are getting... overwhelmed by the progress. This progress is happening in male weight classes as well, but I think women deadlifting or squatting 500lbs makes some men question their masculinity in unhealthy ways. There was always 20 year old women who could deadlift 500lbs, but they didn't train, now they do and they're very visible. Now they are and as expected, some people can't cope and even form toxic communities around their inability to cope. Buettner in particular gets shit on because she gets insulin TUE, and insulin is performance enhancing in muscle building... and keeping her alive. It's all very dumb.
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Yeah, the wealth generation statistic is interesting. I think a related way to think of why amounts of wealth that seem nominally not that extreme by today's standards were extreme hundreds of years ago is that there was much less you could spend that wealth on. People just didn't have the capacity to accumulate nor spend money to buy things and services at the same rates.

So viewing money as tokens of value, there was just less 'value' around full stop. So having much less of it still made you relatively extremely wealthy.
Last I checked no one has put forth a plausible theory.
You're kind of missing the point though. Correlation is enough to get results. Worrying about the edge cases where correlation falls apart is simply worrying about insufficient training data.
Can you provide a source on your comments about Soros? I've seen this mentioned a few times over the years but I had also heard that it was taken out of context or that he had misspoken and later retracted. Would like to see the primary source if you have it
Couple of years ago, Big payout:

- Paid / Allocated money for all taxes

- Legal tax evasion planning for future, a lot planning prior to transaction, I don't want to give $1-10M in tax. I would rather move to a country that I can avoid tax completely or lower it significantly. There is no country in the world that's worth paying $5M extra to just to live IMHO.

- Separated wealth into multiple banks and 2 countries (reduce risk of investment)

- Went to an expensive holiday and flew first class for the first time :)

- Bought a lot hardware, treat myself with simple things. Like hobby hardware, cutting edge hardware. I realized buying an expensive car cost $300K buying hundreds of hobby stuff doesn't even cost $50K and brings me more joy. I was a nerd I guess now I'm just a rich nerd.

- Helped relatives a lot, just gave plenty of money

- A lot of Sadakah (charity) & Zakah (mandatory in Islam, 2.5% of wealth goes to poor every year)

- Invested a lot in real estate, all in cash. Safe long term investments (if you know what you are doing, I have family who does this)

- Invested in 4 companies. 2 early stage tech companies and 1 brick and mortar old school business. 2 are very risky and expected to give a return in 5-10 years, if any. Many countries

- I'm going to give a very unpopular advice, spend your money. I mean really spend it. I'm not saying burn it (i.e. parties, private jet and yacht) but spend it on stuff that makes your daily life better with the right economical balance. For example fly in first class but don't get a private jet.

- Put something like $2M cash aside, for whatever the future brings

Most satisfying thing I've done was to help less fortunate. To me $0.5M is couple of percentages in a rich person's increasing wealth but splitting that money to tons of people in 3rd world countries means hundreds of people's live will be so much better. If I were to spend it for myself my life quality might have gotten better by 2% but spending that for other people means hundreds (or even thousands) of people's lives will be 20-100% or infinitely better. (What's the % of life quality improvement when you can start drinking healthy water? or afford food?). Did you know $30 can make someone see again through cataract surgery? [0] When I learned it kind of shocked me and made me question my life and where I spend my money.

AMA about charity :) And if you hit jackpot please go and help someone unfortunate, I don't mean someone who cannot afford a new iPad for uni, I mean someone who cannot afford food, clean water, or life changing operation. Think about numbers and efficiency before doing charity and deciding where that money goes.

P.S. I'm a Muslim therefore I don't use interest. Which means majority of the traditional investment models don't work for me. That's why I invest a lot in real estate and businesses (who doesn't use interest) rather than stock market, funds, bonds etc.

[0] https://www.cbmuk.org.uk/get-involved/donate/
You can't really blame people for looking out for themselves in the short run, but still I think it's a little weak to leave one of the biggest tech endeavours to do something else. Honestly, if I would work in a key role in Tesla I would rather take a demotion to non-C-level before I accept to leave that company.

And if you don't think just short term, it's also the biggest financial opportunity, even if Tesla loses. All the knowledge, connections etc that you can build in that time will pay off in the end. There is not a single company in that size where losing for the company necessarily also means a loss for its ambitious talent.

Think about how America and the Arabs hired the biggest Nazi talent after second world war. Even losing and being clearly labelled as the devil is not enough to stop talent from being successful. Always keep fighting!
That's a list of all fatalities involving Teslas reported in the media, including ones caused by human Tesla drivers or the drivers of other vehicles involved in the collision, and speculation trying to associate that with a number of miles driven.

Then they have "miles per death" numbers in the 150M-240M range, but the US average is less than 100M per death (typically stated as the inverse, deaths per 100M miles[1]), so according to your data they're apparently better than average, though collecting it through media reports this way is questionable anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

I see a column for deaths attributed to autopilot, but it sums to 4 in the US, which is too small to be a good statistical sample even if we knew how many miles per death that was, but I don't see any data for miles driven on autopilot regardless.
Demonstratably, you don't actually experience doing so. When a solution to a problem you were thinking aloud about yesterday suddenly pops up in you mind today, you have 0 idea how your brain came up with it.

What you experience is only the pop ups.
The roof is rarely a good escape route unless there are several ladders going down the ground. Even then, in my country, this would likely not pass inspection as 30meters of horizontal and 30 meters of vertical movement are the maximum for fire escape routes to a safe place (ie, a fire shielded stair case with no fire hazards, which requires special doors and monitoring that no flammable materials are stored there plus ventilation, or simply the outside of the building on the ground).

The roof is dangersou because if the fire gets too large, the fire fighters will be forced to switch from extinguish to control and the roof might be burned down. If nobody notices you up there or equipment to get you down takes too long, you're screwed. On the ground you can get more distance.
You can find it in my profile, I just added it.
Weight training does use the aerobic system when you're not lifting heavy weights. As for the state of fitness, there have been studies about weight loss due to lifting heavy weights.
There have been some research studies focused on exogenous estrogen mimicking chemicals (Xenoestrogen). Some plastics exhibit these affects. "BPA (Bisphenol A) is the monomer used to manufacture polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins used as a lining in most food and beverage cans. BPA global capacity is in excess of 6.4 billion pounds (2.9×109 kg) per year and thus is one of the highest-volume chemicals produced worldwide." -https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469672/
"YouTube reflects and shapes our modernity" - this quote spoke volumes to me. Anyone can access videos now from years back and with things such as YouTube rewind it is possible to look back at significant events from different years in a easy to understand short video.
> Overall, I cannot emphasize how much fun it is to spend a few million dollars in 12-18 months without being fixated with savings.

Not sure if I understand you right, so I'll just ask.

Did you just spend your millions? And you still presumably have to work?
> It looks Venezuela, Libya, Iran ...

Given these examples, Hong Kong would be much better off without such intervention.
I get what you're saying, but my projections are based on observing similar sites in similar niches.

I also understand that potential buyers are bearing more risk than they'd have if the site were live with real revenue numbers; that's why I'm willing to sell it for cheap.
Only reason people hate on others improving themselves is because it brings forth their own inadequacies and chips at their ego.

Rock/wall climbing is fun and you can really see yourself improve fast if you just have the discipline to get to the climbing gym three-ish times per week. Plus it will make you look good and feel better about yourself which will just make you all around better person.
There are few things they don’t tell you about weightlifting:

- stretching is critical and takes time, without stretching you’ll eventually injure yourself.

- eventually you’ll get some minor injury and will have to manage that and wait for it to heal.

- start by getting a coach to specifically learn good from and find your max weights for different lifts. Strictly control trainer’s desire to add some non-core exercises, once good form is established, dismiss the trainer.
> Making a second Tiananmen Square painful for Beijing is not

That would be in no-one's interests.

Immediately after the Tiananmen Square events in 1989 the US sent a high ranking general to Beijing to reassure the Chinese that this changed nothing.

The situation has changed because now China is seen as a real rival but the US and the West still have zero interests in going down that route. Not least because China is not a small country, it's the second economy on Earth.

I think the events in HK are being spinned and that some people are really losing their sense of proportion.

Bluntly speaking: The events in HK are irrelevant globally and are regional news at best. They are not a global issue that deserve international involvement.

At the same time, it is very difficult to understand the message and aim of the protesters, and their violence made them lose a lot of credibility.
Same thing as people voting for Trump. They just like to watch the world burn.
Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll give it a try. I’ve been mostly running up and down Quarry Bay Park, but it does get boring after a while and the proximity to the highway probably isn’t too healthy either.
I also love cycling but in Hong Kong it seems too freaking dangerous for all sorts of reasons.
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That's unsubstantiated. Arguably, an ability of a person to play any specific multiplayer game at a specific time can be reasonably thought as a measure of consciousness. Then a simple ranking can be used to assign a number.

It is a good theory as it clearly works with drugs, sleepiness, etc
> > FWIW, any Americans looking to (try to) help may write their Congress representatives to support the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.

> Please don't. We don't need more concrete excuses for the central government to claim that there is foreign meddling. If the people of the country cannot awaken to fight together in solidarity against the authoritarian government, then it's just too bad. So be it. I still live in Hong Kong and it's a scary thought, but it's also the only correct way.

> In fact, nobody can expect the US or any foreign government to want to "save" Hong Kong in good faith. We don't need your saving.

Thanks for voicing out your view, but I beg to differ.

I am a Hong Konger and I support the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act 2019, and I welcome Americans to write to their Congress representatives to support the Act—in fact I persuaded my friends to do so.

The central government has been claiming foreign meddling even when there is none: they claim that the protesters went to the street because of direct monetary support by the United States, which—frankly—is insulting to the million protesters. They made similar claims during the 2014 Umbrella protest already, without any evidence of foreign meddling even until now.

Let’s be honest: the Hong Kong protesters would have lost much earlier without foreign support (mostly media attention). The Hong Kong protesters are pretty pragmatic: they don’t expect foreigners (including the US) to “save” Hong Kong in good faith, the protesters only hope that it would be mutually beneficial to align their interests with that of foreign governments, and the protesters would do their part.

Let me use Singapore as an analogy (and to be clear, this example does not imply independence movement or whatsoever): Lee Kuan Yew succeeded with the foreign relations of Singapore largely because he aligned the interests of Singapore with those of foreign powers, such as of Taiwan and of the United States, so that Singapore got their support (including military one). It does not mean foreign meddling or that foreign government want to “save” Singapore in good faith. It means alignment of interests.
The rust compiler now has features that few or none C and C++ compilers have: incremental compilation within a single translation unit, pipelined compilation, multi-threaded and lazy query-based compilation, ...

Implementing each of these features have required whole program refactorings in a large-scale codebase performed by few individuals while hundreds of other developers where simultaneously evolving the software and implementing new features.

Having been a C++ programmer for over 10 years, none of these refactorings would have payed off in C++ because of how time consuming it would have been to track all bugs introduced by them.

Yet they do pay off in Rust because of my favourite Rust feature: the ability to refactor large-scale software without breaking anything: if a non-functional change compiles, "it works" for some definition of "works" that's much better than what most other languages give you (no memory unsafety, no data-races, no segfaults...).

Very few programming languages have this feature, and no low-level programming language except for Rust has it.

Software design is not an upfront-only task, and Rust let's you iterate on software design as you better understand the problem domain or the constraints and requirements change without having to rewrite things from scratch.
The thing about comparisons is you need to compare like to like as much as possible. Demographics are an essential part of actuarial statistics. I think the best comparison is between Tesla and luxury vehicles, and here is an article showing Teslas are much more dangerous:

https://medium.com/@MidwesternHedgi/teslas-driver-fatality-r...

I'm not sure if you noticed (I didn't the first time I saw that document), but there are multiple tabs and that's under the 'Resources' section.

That said, the data is obviously incomplete. Only Tesla really knows. While it's obviously a guess, I think the most damning evidence is that Tesla isn't releasing their own data to the contrary, because I think Elon Musk of all people would be ecstatic to shutup the haters such as myself.
And my point was in various US states this is apparently legal to do if you trade Tony Xu for some restaurant owner and DD drivers for servers. So why has it been Ok for restaurants to do this? Does a different law apply to DD situation?
Oh, nice!

The compression algorithm is said to have been written by Satoru Iwata himself, giving a hand to the overloaded GameFreak team when the development of Pokémon G/S was hitting size limits pretty badly [1].

There is a readable version of the decompression routines in the Pokémon G/S disassembly repo [2]. As the code was originally written in assembly, it is not decompiled–only re-documented.

Which means the code we read is the actual code Iwata wrote it 20 years ago.

I really like seeing the traces of actual human beings in a disassembly. Noticing different coding styles; seeing where routines were written, then patched over later… We read code, but we see people.

[1] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/11476/how...

[2] https://github.com/pret/pokered/blob/10289bf/home/pic.asm
Great to see people are interested in the tutorial.

I'd be happy to answer any questions to the best of my ability.
Been using it for work and my first 'request' would be to add the "commit message recall" that SourceTree offers, a feature I always missed in Tower.

With it I can make small commits individually (eg "added new CRUD resource-class for users") and then recall the last message and make minor changes (eg changing "users" to "posts", "comments", etc).

I might be alone in loving this feature though :D
The i3 was reasonably good for its time, then they disbanded the team and lost their way
> I've never been so mildly horrified with my own unintended consequences and revelations in that 'world' since I dropped the companion cube into the incinerator in Portal.

For me, dropping the companion cube just meant that the door opened and I could continue to move forward.
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Incremental compiling has helped a lot here. Even if the first compilation takes awhile, the next one will be much swifter.

It's especially useful when only making minor changes to the code (which is pretty common).
No, to compare HK with US, you should first give US back to the native Americans. The US belongs to the native Americans. It was a colony of the Brits, and then inherited by other white colonists.
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Yes, you have to specify the constraint for code that assumes the constraint to type-check.
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As snazz says, Noodler's bulletproof is pretty good, smudging is still a possibility with it but depends more on the paper you use. Another good one is De Atramentis Document Ink (better than the Noodler imho)
The prototypical modern bankers were the Fuggers - who were effectively early Europe's Fed, but somehow escaped the attention of contemporary poets.
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In case it wasn’t already blatantly obvious, my point is that terrorism in the US is fundamentally associated with “brown” people, and elicits the most immediate and direct attention from governments, whereas mass shootings are almost always committed by white men, and even the worst mass shootings against children elicit no real action.

But yes, guns have been regulated in the past — when? After the Black Panther party brought open carry weapons to the state capitol during a protest.
Snopes has a great write up on it that points to primary sources, including a “60 Minutes” interview.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germa...

The tl;dr is that such accusations are weird, false, propaganda about Soros.
I'm imagining the classic scene from movies where a teen boy comes to ask the dad if he can take the daughter to prom, except he just opens a pull request
For me it's because they do damage their workers' rights and their fans are so insufferable: The denial that they have quality issues, the repeated lies ("we are going to build a factory in weeks", while everyone knows that it will take years), the massive overvaluation. It's either you are on team Tesla and celebrating every of Elon's brainfarts or you are "big oil" that is trying to destroy them: Just look what happens when countries try to introduce standardised charing cables.

I just wish they would be frank about what they can and cannot do.

EDIT: And by the way about that pathetic "climate change" argument. Right, they are now selling Fiat their CO2 certificates thus enabling them to do wonderful green washing.
Do you believe the two scenarios are mutually exclusive?

I've definitely seen people be extremely disorganised in some aspects of life but also sufficiently, moderately, or fairly, successful in others.

I suspect companies are also capable of exhibiting similar behaviours.
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yeah if you look at banking, people with titles like Vice president or Director leave all the time in relatively large numbers and it means nothing. C-suite is another story.
Do you have a source? Because you're directly contradicting the article.
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I emailed bitmex support and they said it is possible may have been accidentally triggered by them. However they did say they have no issue with the account and that "If you have any issues getting the account re-enabled and think we can assist further please let us know."

So Twitter may have shut down your account because Bitmex asked them to.

I don't really fault them because ultimately Twitter is the one at fault here, being the judge, jury and executioner.

Depending on what's actually happened it could be the case that Twitter are legally required to act. I don't think it's entirely fair to blame them until you know more about what's going on.
PC-NFS let us do our DOS/Windows builds on our Sparcstations using a cross compiler. We did our builds on SunOS and could keep our source repository on SCCS.

I still have the retail box and manuals!
Check. It. In. Anyway.

Amen
TLDR version: “it’s making it too hard to privatise services”
To add to this list, I haven't used it but I've recently listened to a few demos of the commercial orb composer [1]. I personally think that the melodies and hooks of these music generators usually sound a bit lame, but orchestration and accompaniment somehow make up for it.

https://www.orb-composer.com/
> 6. FreeBSD
The secure UNIX alternative

lol, they obviously didn't read the memo. Freebsd is insecure by default. https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
Yes, the difference in diets and smoking and drinking habits will do that. It's still not pollution in the examples you gave.
According to [1] the terrestrial biosphere contains 2000 gigatons of carbon combined oil and gas reserves contain only 370
gigatons. 28% of earth surface is taken by deserts, and if we simply restored ecosystem there it would take 560 gigatons of carbon. So we do not need to store any amount under ground, we only need enough people to make irrigating deserts profitable.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle