skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, we are rewarded with income and prestige when we did something valuable for society - so pursuing success isn't inherently shallow either.
Much has improved and illumos keeps getting better and faster: since 2005, no code which causes performance regressions was allowed into the Solaris codebase. Each speedup committed set the base higher. Nobody would be allowed to commit code which slowed the performance thereafter. Any case where GNU/Linux was faster was treated as priority 1 bug. Yes, a bug.

Implementing tools within other tools for convenience is stupid, as it kills modularity, which is the UNIX®️ philosophy: I don't need that kind of "convenience" since I know UNIX®️ and therefore which pipes to use to which commands to get the same effect. grep -r replaces find + xargs + grep and therefore goes against "do one thing and do it well" as well as against "design tools to interface with other tools". For example tar is a tape archiver, therefore it has no business implementing compression - that's what dedicated compressors like bzip2 or xz or 7z are for - they know best how to (de)compress and how to handle their own formats. Therefore, the GNU approach of convenience is stupid beyond retarded.
Doesn't the executor need to be aware of all the different mechanisms that can be used to poll, and so there's an implicit coupling between the async function implementation and the executor?

For example, socket.read() might return a future that represents a read on a file descriptor. I don't know the internals of Rust's async support at all, but presumably the future is queued up and exposes some kind of trait that Tokio et al can recognize as being an FD so it can be polled on using the best API such as epoll_wait() or whatever.

But let's say there's some kernel or hardware API or something that has a wait API that isn't based on file descriptors, and I implement my own async function get_next_event() that uses this API. Do I need to extend Tokio, or the Rust async runtime API, to make it understand how to integrate this into its queues? In a non-FD case, wouldn't it have to spawn a parallel thread to handle waiting for that one future, since it can't be included in epoll_wait()?
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It would be "about it" if employees simply got payed their value, which is never the case.
If I imagine I'm in a position as a developer / project manager / whatever working for Google trying to advocate Google committing resources to the FTP protocol in Google Chrome, I'm struggling to think of a way of promoting it that shows it will have a return on investment.

How do you display ads while someone is accessing an FTP server?

ftp://example.com/directory/file.extension can be a link in a website, where the website displays ads.

I'm just imagining some people having a conversation that goes something like this:

"The funding for this feature has been removed because we can't serve ads on a page like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f "

Edit: grammar
She wrote in the thread that people received 1000, 2000 shares. They are trading at about 35$ now. Who knows, they could skyrocket a few years from now and be worth millions, but at the moment they are worth a good amount of money but not a life changing one. Nothing to be sad about.

I worked for a startup many years ago (so they called themselves but being a phone operator before virtual ones they had to start big, 2k people and more.) They offered me options but I asked for more salary and less options. It turned to be the right decision because they got close to the IPO but never really did it.
Ridiculous, Firefox removed support for FTP far before chrome.
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Who is the buyer? How does it help them advance in their career?

That is what you are trying to figure out.

This link may be worth reading:

https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2017-02-10-how-to-write-p...
> The trick is to find your own tribe. It took me forty years to find mine. The group of people where you really can feel yourself belonging, where you can be one of all. Only then will you succeed.

That was a spot on answer. But this last bit was the best, mainly because it universal. We all - high IQ on down - need others to be more successful.
But you don't need `await` to call an async function, you can use a regular function call in a symc and then the function returns (synchronously) a Promise.

What cannot be done is to perform a blocking call on a Promise from a sync function. And that is by design because JavaScript has a single threaded runtime.
The article uses phrases like "As a developer become more senior, they become more independent.", which indicates they view seniority as the independent variable.
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> That way the work can be peer reviewed and the Scientific community has a chance to learn from it.

After trawling through so much peer reviewed work which in their view is utterly broken, I can understand why they'd be despondent/mistrustful of submitting it to a peer review process.
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I suspect this answer is missing an underlying point - high IQ is correlated with high ego. I find that there are wicked smart people in this world, who have also managed to overcome their own egos, and who get along well with anybody. They don't feel that there are topics that are beneath them, or that people are lesser beings because they like TV shows. They might not like the same things, but they accept people's differences.

The way I explain it to my kids is that your intelligence is just like the color of your hair. You are born with it. You can take actions to change it, to some extent. But there is zero reason to judge anybody for it. People are who they are.
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> Once the difference between two human beings’ intelligence becomes too great, all communication becomes impossible.

Would an intelligent person use such meaningless, imprecise exaggeration? Maybe we shouldn't conflate IQ with general intelligence?
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Try chemical empathogens instead of alcohol. They do work just as well when the others didn't take them ;)
Just as a reminder, Firefox did this (a year ago?).
Who's debts are the world's population covering? Are we in hoc to Mars?!
This'll happen when the major ideology held by most people is competition.

One wouldn't expect Google to say "We recommend you use our browser, Google Chrome, but there's also these others that work fine to."

It's probably the case that back when the number of internet users was smaller the place had a more community oriented vibe, whereas now there is huge sums of money and power at stake.
If you recognize that the GOP only pretends they don't believe in global warming it makes more sense.
Yes, what are you saying to your users? How are you asking for their time? How many of these users have you tried to contact?
> I’m sorry that the author doesn’t consider a real reduction in emissions a real difference.

Building a new (electric) car also produces emissions. It may be that we produce less emissions overall by continuing to use existing cars.
> fundamentals matter rather litte

Having a small impact is not the same a having zero impact.

Traders operate over longer timeframe even if they are holding an individual stock for minutes there is a limited pool of stocks. Keep playing the game and longer term impacts add up.
Lets ignore the biggest issue (spam) and focus on the bike shed.
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You can look at it, a simple loupe is enough to be able to clearly see the shape of particles. Sand particles from deserts are usually smaller and rounder, and much more uniform in size and shape. This makes the sand much more fluid. Beach sand is usually more irregular in both size and shape, giving it a more "grip". Here's a nice example of how it looks https://geology.com/stories/13/sand/
Can you please explain to me why you believe optimising against power users is making the internet worse.

I tend to agree with you, but would you mind fleshing this out a bit. Or, if you've written this before please point to it.
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They are small players compared to the Social Security Trust Fund and the Federal Reserve Quantitative Easement holdings. Both of those total six times Japan or China.
> Indeed; by the same "security" logic, why not get rid of HTTP too then? (Or SMTP, for that matter?)

I believe those will happen, in the long run.

The next HTTP spec includes mandatory SSL, and Google had a hand in designing QUIC, and Google has been deprecating traditional SMTP authorisation.
I believe it is Trump who wants to buy it, not US government.
Astronomers probably just saw a black hole swallow a dead star
Even more so with the pocket smartphone.
So an investor that can anticipate an increase in, decrease in, or general level of a) market risk, b) a market's risk premium, or c) available market capital, can predict market movements. Just because CFAs use fancy names for market imperfections doesn't mean that they're not exceptions to the EMH.
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein

Smart people usually never learn to work hard.
Angelist was how my co-founder found me. It came via an email. No idea if it cost money. She'd been looking for a few months for a technical co-founder to take the idea from PowerPoint/manual prototype to MVP.

There was a vetting process (on both sides, it's like getting married!) including a technical interview.

Equity was a difficult conversation, but better to set it out at the beginning. Lots of calculators out there via Google that can help provide perspective. Make sure you vest over years. (We did a 6 month/6 month/every month for 36 months schedule.)

Also, why do you need a cofounder? What are they going to bring to the table?
Ask HN: Higher IQ? What are your hacks for assimilating?
There was another NH thread:

"People with unusually high IQ, why are you still unsuccessful?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722716

That links to:

https://www.quora.com/People-with-unusually-high-IQs-why-are-you-still-unsuccessful/answer/Susanna-Viljanen

It's a great, thorough and helpful answer. Understanding helps (e.g., alone in a crowd). But now what? How do you assimilate without selling out and dumbing yourself down?

For example, when I was younger I never read the sports page. I couldn't be bothered; until I realized such info gave me common ground with others, other I would normally effectively ignore.

But the struggle is real. It continues. What are your life hacks (?) for being more accessible and less island-y?
Pay a coach. That'll be much cheaper.
Hmm. I'm a happy FastMail customer of >2 years, but sometimes the web app loses the connection with the host (especially when on flaky wifi) and fails to re-establish it. This is really aggrevating when you hit send on an email, which disables the input text box but then just hangs indefinitely in a "Sending..." state. I've already reported this to customer support. Symptom of JMAP, or just a run-of-the-mill bug somewhere?
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What counts as the glory days of computation? On HN it’s probably having a great deal of control and ownership over our systems. I’m not sure that’s what most people would consider glory though.

I work with digitalisation in the public sector of Denmark, one of the most digitised countries in the world. We have thousands of employees and citizens who interact with our systems on a daily basis and when we benchmark them on what they want public sector software to be like they unanimously tell us they want it to be more like the iOS experience.

They simply don’t want technology to get in the way, and they don’t care that the price for this is ownership and freedom. For them the glory days won’t begin until they can get completely away from the operation systems and applications of “old”.
There must be a simulation for this kind of architectures to see what is the best combination of size and components while making it practical! I wonder if anyone knows something like that? A tool to minmax these choices and estimate if this can be done with resources they have got.
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Have you actually proven this hypothesis. I know of at least two instances where a co-founder got less than half when joining at a very early stage.
Pretty sure the async/await support in C# predates Python.

C# introduced it in 5.0, which came out in August 2012. The Python proposal (PEP 3156) for an async library was posted in 2012, the proposal (PEP 492) for async/await syntax in 2015, and implemented in Python 3.4 and 3.5 respectively, I believe. So C# predates Python by about 3 years.

From what I can gather, Python was influenced by C#. But C# doesn't have a global lock, and that's not why it has async/await.

Edit: Added PEP reference.
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IntelliJ will suggest unimported trait methods and will automatically import the required trait if it is selected.
Yes, Most of the time 可 means 'able' in '__able'.

But it could also be 'a thing that can be easily loved'. Rr simply, 'pleasing'. For example, 可口 means tasty. So, 可爱 could be understood in both ways actually.
Show HN: ClojureScript pixel game engine with Blender live-reloading
Farmers are the largest federal welfare recipient when you count subsidies after the tariff debacle. Quite an irony that stereotypes welfare queens as as an undesirable minority.
Ugh... WebDAV itself is a nasty can of worms, full of half-assed optional extensions and specification warts.
Huh? This seems to disagree: https://support.google.com/families/answer/7039872 - you can set approvals for both paid and free apps.
The quick case for WeWork as an actually disruptive business
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A quick search on "communication range" returns as first result a post [1] calling it a myth.

"Hollingworth was writing specifically about leadership, and in childen, but Towers extrapolates the point to claim that any kind of ‘genuine’ communication is impossible across a 30 IQ point gap"

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/08/31/my...
> It's not insulting, but I'm "insulting the creator"? What exactly are you contending?

If you tried to insult me, but I didn't find it insulting, you would still have gone online to insult me even though I didn't find it insulting.

> No, "most people" don't necessarily like it.

False, you're not 'most people'. Every main distribution has picked it up. You're living in a bubble perhaps.

> woodwork to white-knight for it when some one criticizes it?

Oh god, now the white-knight defense? Come on, your argument starts okay and then you say absolute rubbish like this. I fail to see how calling some programmer a moron is going to help improve systemd.

> It is not built to do low-level init stuff during bootstrapping or within the init itself, hence the name Desktop bus.

It started that way, but that's no longer true. Some could argue that systemd allows dbus to go back to what it does best. Before dbus was being use to start long running daemons, etc.

> With respect to incompatibility: you now have to use journald.

Very valid reasons for this, this video[0] conviced me but perhaps you won't be
swayed.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lUeQVYuNs

Anyway, thanks for not getting personal in the comments. All the best.
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In Go you need to manually tell the runtime to spawn a goroutine with the `go` keyword, which also «litter» the code…
I hope he didn’t download the adware/malware infested version of FileZilla though.
I feel like this is a complicated topic. Two common reasons spring to mind....

1) Intelligent but interested in things which are not necessarily eat paths to becoming successful according to society i.e. R&D

2) Low emotional intelligence and therein poor social skills. Humans rely heavily on social connections and collaboration to drive value. I’ve often see clever people who think they are better than others but do not have the ability to get on. Some intelligent people think they are extremely logical but their decision making is often emotionally charged.
That was very cool & educational.
I slightly mis-spoke in a sense, yeah. This stuff has changed a bunch over the last few years :)

So, futures have basically two bits of their API: the first is that they're inert until the poll is called. The second is that they need to register a "waker" with the executor before they return pending. So it's not so much that the executor needs to know details about how to do the polling; but the person implementing socket.read() needs to implement the future correctly. It would construct the waker to do the right thing with epoll. Tokio started before this style of API existed, and so bundles a few concepts in the current stack (though honestly, an integrated solution is nicer in some ways, so I don't think it's a bad thing, just that it makes it slightly easier to conflate the pieces since they're all provided by the same package.)

Async/await, strictly speaking, is 100% agnostic of all of this, because it just produces stuff with the Futures interface; these bits are inside the implementation of leaf futures. And executors don't need to know these details, they just need to call poll at the right time, and in accordance with their wakers.

I can't wait until the async book is done, it's really hard remembering which bits worked which way at which time, to be honest.
This is an amusing thread.

FTP in the browser typically looks something like this https://imgur.com/20ooI9f

Plenty of space for ads.

HTTP is basically FTP with ads.

Funny thought. Imagine if, to this day, the internet consisted of pretty much that.

You go to ftp://nytimes.com and it just has a directory structure that consists of yyyy/mm/dd and the file names where things like statement-from-chinese-ambassador-to-australia.txt

And maybe a directory named breaking-news

Imagine if Twitter was a list of text files named yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm-ss-username.txt

Ha.

Imagine if you had to upload a text file like this

---

Please place an x between the brackets as desired

[ ] Whopper Meal
[ ] Super sized Whopper Meal
[ ] Coke
[ ] Sprite
[ ] Eat-in
[ ] Takeaway
etc

Name on card:
Card number:
Expiry:
Card Security Code:

Sponsored by Nike and the Ford Motor Company

----

Edit: changes 'threat' to 'thread' in first line, typo could have been confusing. Second edit: made list verbatim.
I like learning foreign languages because it's interesting to see how they outline ideas and idioms are a great way to learn about the culture. So it's an enjoyable hobby that builds a skill (maybe of little value, but I can deceive myself).

I chose Japanese because I watch and read a lot of stuff from Japan. It's also very different from English, which is fun.
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See your point, but depends on your interpretation. I don't care about downvotes personally, for me it's a sign that they can't form an argument against mine.

I try not to get personal so normally I'm not downvoted for that at least, just being wrong heh.
So server side is secured how?
>No one will give credit to those who pay with Monopoly money.

The creditors are also using Monopoly money.
Fair point, I didn't know that.
It doesn’t matter what is “better” for “people”.

If I want to use FTP I will use FTP.

Google should be able to do what they want with their browser, and I may choose to use another browser (already done).
How would you download a folder of files via HTTP? I don’t want to wait 10 minutes for the server to zip them, thank you.
> Have you ever had a hard time figuring out if someone is really bright or not?

How do you define bright?
Assuming bright to mean able to achieve post-grad honors:

I feel like you could easily distinguish if someone is bright or not within a few minutes of chatting.

I think that regardless of the subject of discussion, there are a number of strong indicators in the way a person speaks. One example is confidence: very rarely have I met a person I'd call intelligent that is also absurdly confident in their beliefs.

I realise my above statement is highly interpretable. What I mean is intelligent people seem to allow for their assumptions to be flawed, and be open to being proven wrong, about stuff that they can be proven wrong on (i.e. belief about a mathematical postulate versus belief in an objective truth such as global warming is real).
> The browser at one end was called Chrome, and the one at the other was called Firefox.

Firefox was originally the simplified, cut-down version of Seamonkey; Firefox has been on this trajectory of simplification since before Chrome or WebKit were invented.

> The whole "protect the users" mentality is IMHO misguided and dangerous

It's definitely dangerous - good intentions, dystopian sci-fi, etc. etc. - but I'm not sure if it's misguided.

I don't mind being forced to follow road rules, even if I find them inconvenient, because I benefit more from other people following them (personal safety, etc.) than I would from being allowed to do what I want.

I don't mind being forced to install security updates, even if I find them annoying, because I benefit more from other people installing security updates (more reliable infrastructure, fewer tech-support calls from family members) than I would from being allowed to do what I want.

I expect browser security is similar - I don't have exact numbers to hand, but it wouldn't surprise me if I'm better off being a bit restricted than I would be if everybody did what they wanted.
IQ tests measure specific abilities but not all abilities.

As for the definition of success, that depends on the individual.

For example, to be successful in academia correlates reasonably well with IQ. However, success in sales far less so. Many successful artists also have high IQ due to their spatial and creativity traits, however that doesn't mean that they'll attain high levels of profit from their art. Programmers often have high IQ, but that doesn't guarantee executive suite jobs with their high salaries and lots of perks.
>Europe is much closer to recession than the US. Maybe they're the marginal buyers of US bonds and driving down rates?

Makes sense, since the majority of their debt now has negative yields.
I think your point is still largely correct, but the dates are a bit off (I too found the timeline in the tweet confusing so I turned to linkedin)

2010 - WeWork is founded

2011 (Nov) - author joins

2013 ("mid") - has equity discussion

2013 (Oct) - author leaves

She was an employee of slightly under 2 years, and it seems she did leave shortly after this equity related convo with her boss.
Well I don't want to continue this argument too much, but I take your point on board.
> The price of unusually high IQ is terrible loneliness. We truly are the outsiders.

This is so true unfortunately. But success has almost nothing to do with being more intelligent as success depends mainly on luck.
> What we really need is a universal internet messaging protocol like Email, something that everyone agrees on and can deliver the rich experiences people expect today

I believe the lowest common denominator will eventually win, something like HTML or email. That may be Matrix.