skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Narcissism can be driven by a lot of factors, so it depends on why you are narcissistic.

If you feel that your life is not going right, that you aren't taking care of yourself and your responsibilities properly, this can drive you to focus your attention on yourself and be less curious about others.

If you feel that other people do not care about you, that you are entirely on your own, this can drive you to focus on yourself and be less curious about others.

Of course ideally you would use a temporary state of self-focus to put yourself back on a positive track and achieve a greater level of security that then allows you to broaden your concern to embrace others. If you do that, you are not a narcissist; you just took some time to get yourself straight. You put on your own oxygen mask before helping others.

If, on the other hand, you get stuck in the mode of focusing exclusively on yourself, without making progress on the factors that drive your self-focus, possibly even making the negative factors worse and making your isolation self-reinforcing, then it becomes pathological. You might need therapy to help you focus more on others and solve the underlying problems another way.

The issues driving your narcissism might be different, but no matter what they are, I recommend a double-pronged approach: actively practice caring for others in defiance of whatever dynamic is causing your narcissism, and at the same time investigate the underlying problems in psychotherapy, because the better you address those issues, the less unnatural it will feel to care for others.
Was obviously including the 2 hour walks at both ends in the total travel time.
Gotta say, having worked with the Android Bluetooth stack, I'd be surprised if there weren't lots of serious issues like this. The handling of pointers in there is often both clever and not helpful.
... so he's an MBA
There are a lot of very affordable cars, but according to this article people are purchasing beyond their means via financing. Here's a list from mototrend of 10 vehicles starting between $15k-20k https://www.motortrend.com/news/top-10-cheapest-new-cars/
I don’t know about GS8+ but older devices don’t let you turn Bluetooth on while in airplane mode.
"[...] as civet coffee has gained popularity, and with Indonesia growing as a tourist destination where visitors want to see and interact with wildlife, more wild civets are being confined to cages on coffee plantations. In part, this is for coffee production, but it’s also so money can be made from civet-ogling tourists.

Civet dung, studded with partially digested coffee beans, used to be collected from the wild. Increasingly, civets are instead kept in cramped, unsanitary cages on coffee plantations."

That's the gist of it
While it’s true that automakers are driving up their trim levels for margin purposes they also have to contend with supply chain complexity and legislative complexity.

So if 80% of people want automatic windows and 15% of the remaining don’t care one way or the other it makes sense for a carmaker to deprecate manual windows to remove a part set.

Similarly I don’t want a fancy av system in my car, but the law requires a backup camera so standardizing on a single screen powered by ever more complex av software only makes sense for the car maker.
manual windows require more moving parts
Well, if that's not enough to convince you to subscribe, I don't know what would be.
Isn’t this just another sign of consumerism and poor financial decision making for “status”?

Automakers are having trouble selling affordable and reasonably priced new cars causing them to drop them for pricier SUVs. Consumer behavior is driving these trends.

I’ve seen plenty of friends buy a new car that costs what they make per year. The only way to get by is to have 5-7 year financing or they’d be left with nothing after payments and insurance.
It might be a useful approximation but I think some other very important factors are churn, compounding, and natural ability. By churn I mean: take Overwatch. Sure there are people who stay with the game for a long time but many many players play for some time and drop off as they move on to different games or other things in life. In a high churn environment just staying for a long time gives you advantage by practicing, almost automatically. On the other hand, it is much harder to do in things that people practice for decades, like making money or being a doctor.

By compounding I mean that having some amount of something makes it easier to obtain more of it. Money and capital in general is the prime example of it. Fame maybe a subtler example but explain a lot of boom or bust success in industries like acting or pop music. Outside of your own motivation you don’t get much compounding from Overwatch skill.

Natural ability also plays a role in certain occupations. Being “mere” 6 ft tall requires an insane amount of work and dedication to make it in NBA (go Kyle Lowry), and anything under that is basically zero chance. Eye-hand coordination and explosive velocity in baseball. Being big in American football or handsome in acting etc.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
I usually say some mumbo-jumbo about learning, growth, etc. Then ask the same question back: "Where do you see me in five years?" The look on their faces is usually priceless. The best when they are HR and don't know anything about my job.
I read it differently. My takeaway (and I think he says as much in the article) was, by being bad among those who practice, you can be 95%ile among those who participate.

"I'm also not referring to 95%-ile among people who practice regularly. The "one weird trick" is that, for a lot of activities, being something like 10%-ile among people who practice can make you something like 90%-ile or 99%-ile among people who participate."
In this case, "participate" should include casuals, and "practice" should not. Thats not clear in TFA.

I have personally found this to be true in most arenas, esp casual adult sports or music or hobbies like drawing. At one time some in my gym (wrongly) thought I was a great boxer, but sure enough I was abysmal in competitions but stellar compared to gym goers. Among practicing boxers I was mediocre to bad, among participating non-fighters, I appeared much better. And after a very small amount of actual participation, all those gym goers were downright intimidating to non-participants / nonfighters. This is why I tell people to try out self defense classes. A little practice elevates you above 90% of those who might do violence against you in the world.
What makes you think that the small companies are struggling to survive? And from all of the policies in Germany that exist to "protect" the employees (minimum wage, employer share of pension contribution, health insurance, etc) what makes you think that this particular policy deserves such special concern?
A similar analogy: talented musicians who can only read music but completely lack the ability to improvise.
Is it really that the middle class can't afford cars, or is it that a lot of folks want to buy a car they really can't afford?

My much higher concern is that the reason people take a seven year auto loan, as it is the default option given to them and see a lower monthly payment. By doing that, one can think they can afford the $40k or $50k car, not realizing that the total cost of ownership (i.e. maintenance, gas bill, etc.) also just rose, and the money they are paying in interest is also much higher now.
Same here, caused anxiety. We must be a minority bc I started avoiding Netflix completely unless I saw a show in the news that I wanted to check out.
Transition from Static to Dynamic Friction in an Array of Frictional Disks
The tap and hold works well. I guess I will settle on expanded view with fn key for app controls. Probably the best for my usecase.
Wow. I'm a vintage computer enthusiast, specifically Atari, and my beloved Atari 800xl computers only have a 1.79MHz clock speed.

I'll never cease to be amazed by technology. I was born in 1985 and our first computer in the house (aside from an Atari 260 and NES) was a machine in 1995 although my computer usage began in 1990 with Apple II variants. My first portable (Game Boy aside) ran Windows CE around 1998ish and my first remotely 'smart' phone was a Treo 650 about 14 years ago. I still get plenty of value out of 8-bit Atari computers yet the USB charger sitting on my desk I'll discard without a thought if it breaks and it has a clock speed 5.5x that of my beloved Atari 800xl computers but the 800xl did come with 64k of memory from the factory so at least there is that, ha.

Just looking at how far the technology has come from 1979 (800xl release date) to 2002 is mind boggling. Had you described an Android or iOS phone to me in 1995 I'd have asked "are you writing a science fiction novel?" and now I have 5 of them I use on a daily basis (multiple accounts on a freemium game) and 2 that I carry on my person. It's crazy and wonderful and terrifying and even a little unbelievable.
Partly as a reminder to self: how hard could it be to build a noise cancelling/phased array setup for streaming?
> why should the manufacturer provide any support or be compelled to do so

I don't think anyone is asking for that.

The ask is 'don't disable existing paid-for features on the car, thanks'.

The legal reductionist version of this situation is buying a house and finding that 2 rooms got demolished because the builder had a lease agreement on those with the previous owner.
> If I had to guess they know what they're doing engineering wise, but they're taking a calculated (and poorly thought out, in my opinion) risk that a small percent of people will regularly peg the cpu at 100% usage, and they're further relying upon clock rate throttling and the cpu die thermal sensor to keep things from melting down.

If that was the gamble, you'd assume that the laptops would thermal throttle way below the physical Tjunction limit. As a matter of fact, they're still allowing themselves to reach very high temperatures even in common usage, despite an undersized (hence, to some extent, less reliable) cooling solution. That's kinda hard to explain as a sensible choice.
Yeah where you sample matters. In over watch you sample everyone from casuals, first timers etc to pro competitors. It if you just sample all pro competitors it will be much harder to reach 95%.
Python dicts are now ordered
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I just bought this book per your recommendation. Thanks so much!
What is false about this claim? Copyrighted material was used in the video and the claimant does own the copyright.

Fair use is a defense against copyright infringement and whether something is fair use can only be decided by a court on a case by case basis. Unless a court has already ruled that the video is fair use then there is nothing false about the claim.
Was really pleasantly surprised to see this included a section about Overwatch. I have watched my Overwatch gameplaye to improve, but never my programming. I'll give it a try.
Counterpoint / Devil's Advocate: By reducing the amount of options (e.g. giving the buyer the choice between electric or manual windows), they reduce their own costs. With enough scale, for the manufacturers at least, electric windows are only tens of dollars more expensive per car than manual ones.
So what you’re saying is you have a need to just be “right“ without also understanding the back story behind it?

(I didn’t say anything about GP being wrong, I simply gave more details about the how and why)
Yes, put them out of business. That will teach them.
So everybody deserves to drive a brand new car right off the lot? I don't think so. It is exceptionally stupid to take any loan on a rapidly depreciating asset, let alone a 7 year loan on a car. Give me a break. Dave Ramsey is flipping his lid right now.
I kinda feel like an idiot... I buy a new car every 4 years. The last one I bought cost just above $68k... At least it's a relatively fuel efficient SUV. You can also end up buying a cheaper car that burns the extra payments in gas and upgrades/repairs though to be fair, though not as much as $60k I know...

I have no wife to reprimand me. :/
> I had overlooked the degree of control Tesla has over their products and made owning a Tesla one of my medium-term life goals for the environmental benefits.

Less mad electric car manufacturers are available. Typically more environmentally friendly for most users, too; Tesla are very much on the heavy end, so you have a lot of sunk cost that's really only helpful to people who need as much range as possible.
In the US, software is "licensed not sold" so first sale doesn't apply.
Wait until they discover how milk is made...
So I first thought that using gfxCardStatus to force the use of integrated graphics could help.

However:

> gfxCardStatus v2.3 and above actively prevents you from switching to Integrated Only mode when any apps are in the Dependencies list (or if you have an external display plugged in). This is because if you were to do this, your discrete GPU would actually stay powered on, even though you've switched to the integrated GPU.

https://gfx.io/switching.html#integrated-only-mode-limitatio...
Worth discussing, not downvoting.

Did he finance amount due on the trade? Oooh, that's a huge no-no.

(I didn't go past the paywall.)
Last year India shot down a satellite, and now it’s showing off the weapon
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I like to keep my macbook on an elevated stand when its connected to monitor/keyboard/mouse. Does anyone know of a passive cooling stand (no fans) that works with macbooks? Maybe just something with a giant finned heatsink that presses right up against the middle of the case or something?
Have you compared with other BT headphones?

Because in general, BT headphones are great and I understand that people love them. But Airpods are not among the better ones in my experience. They drop out more than my other BT headphones, and the fact that they have no volume control is just unbelievably stupid to me.
It needs to be direct engagement at that price point. No one is going to pay Rachel Ray 1000/year for blog access. Someone may pay her 1000/year for access to Skype cooking lessons. High end prostitutes are a nontech example of where they should focus on a small number of Whales. Also people who get paid to do keynote speaches at 20-50k a pop could have long term engagements with 100 fans paying 2k/year.
I should have been more clear - my point is not so much that people should use vanilla JS rather than a framework, it’s more that the majority of SPAs I’m forced to interact with could have been implemented just as well with HTML, CSS, and a relatively small amount of JavaScript - small enough to not beg for any kind of framework at all. If the nature of the app really truly demands a full-blown SPA, then by all means go all in on something like React.
My thoughts exactly. I doubt she has fans paying her, it’s just her VC theory that isn’t realistic.
Every android developer is willing to get more download
Until the Butlerian Jihad my friend
On a related note, I have a 2018 MBP touchbar and it's currently out at Apple so they can replace the bulging battery. My guess is that it runs too hot sitting on my wooden desktop.

Anyone have any great recommendations for quiet cooling systems?
Given Apple's less than ethical history, I'm not sure it's reasonable to give them benefit of doubt.

They might have an excuse that fans can believe, but the real reason is to suppress bad press.
It's a good loan I guess, but the real question is, can he afford it? Can he afford an outlay of 36.000 over 7 years? Can he afford to pay X per month for 7 years straight?
If you're looking to be valuable in the job market then my advice would be to focus on fundamentals and soft skills. If you're more interested in changing what you work on day to day then I think you need to apply elsewhere. It's really hard to change the stack of legacy software and often doesn't make business sense. Even when there is a lot of value in upgrading, you will need to convince people that may not necessarily agree.

What has worked for me is to move to what has made me MOSTLY happy. It's rare that you will find a perfect situation.
> He found himself unprepared for the hard sell from the finance manager. The add-ons brought his payment to $448 a month, nearly $100 more than he had expected to pay

Given the reputation of car dealerships, I'm surprised there's not a cooling off period for transactions like this.
Not explicitly, but in practice, it does. It is often not viable to jump through the hoops required to do it. That is, if your lawyers will even let you try.
First Greenland, and now this.
That may be true, but outside of eliminating labor cost of the driver it’s hard to see how it’s significantly cheaper. And even though vehicles are a depreciating asset, there’s often a point when depreciation stops.

I’d really like to see how these services compare with the costs of running a cheap used vehicle in the majority of the US.
Why can't you? Compiling iOS apps?

Otherwise anything an Apple product can do, a competitor does cheaper and better.
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I wonder how this changes with electric cars?

I bought a Tesla last year, and a Chrysler plugin hybrid. Both were eligible for $7,500 back from the US government, and another $2,500 back from my state. In both cases, the dealer offered a 6 year loan with the understanding that I could put $10,000 back into the principle once I got my refunds.
The loan is good. What is not ideal is how the cheap money gets you to buy things you wouldn't buy otherwise. This didn't need to be a $27k purchase. But since he could get a loan that felt easy to pay, it was.
Thermal and Vibration Energy Harvesting for IoT Devices
Somewhat tangential, but the most absurd ad I've ever seen was when Dodge ran an ad during the Superbowl quoting from this speech.
Assessing how Australia’s perentie lizards interact with restored mines
Pangolin identified as potential link for coronavirus spread
A story I've heard more than once is that techie people are intimidated by (for lack of a better term) sexy saleswomen and that actually somebody like my mother-in-law who has had a lifetime to develop customer service skills is often more effective.
Did you watch the video? The claimant lost the copyright to the melody in the court case. Furthermore, the section of the video they flagged wasn't from their song in the first place.
I don't think there's just one answer to EULA validity in the EU, but rather there's a bunch of shit in EULA's that is enforceable in the US but have absolutely no basis in all/some EU countries.

For example, shrink wrap EULAs have not been considered binding here.
But a large corporation with many in-house lawyers fighting a single person YTer is not symmetric. They can "win" just because the small person cannot afford to fight. There needs to be a level playing ground.
If you have kids or intend to have them in the future this is a life lesson they need to have drilled into them.

I bought the cheapest house within commuting distance of where I work (in London) and am still trying to figure out how the hell to get out of that mortgage sooner than the final term. My car was bought outright as was my campervan.

I don't know how the people who drop half a million on a house and 50k on a Chelsea tractor, earning the same wage as me, sleep at night.
The recent(ish) NumberPhile video about Russian Peasant Multiplication seems to have struck a chord, being submitted here three times[0][1][2] (that I've counted).

It seems to be new to a few people, even though it's old (obviously), based on binary (not so obviously), and ubiquitous in learning about taking powers (critical in cryptography).

So I thought I'd submit this post that I wrote ages ago. The material isn't time critical, it's always true, it's always relevant, so I didn't put a date on the title.

Comments and feedback welcome and invited.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22241502

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22256230

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22265913
> What is false about this claim? Copyrighted material was used in the video and the claimant does own the copyright.

My understanding was that the section of the video they claimed as containing their copyrighted material ACTUALLY contained the melody from the other song - the one they claimed didn't sound like theirs.
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I would like to see some stats from youtube and other platforms actually auditing those sub counts. I really have a hard time believing some youtube channels actually have 10,000 subs, let alone a million. While I agree with the article and the tier system, patreon is basically an e-begging platform. I understand that probably isn't popular to say but that is how I see it.
That seems like a good observation...sample size matters. Being one the best players in my over-40, non-contact, recreational hockey league is very, very, not meaningful. I could move up a bracket and be an ignored bench warmer. Or move down and be a superstar.

Seems recognized by everyone playing though. We focus little on who has talent. It's more about cool multi-player strategy, and funny stuff. Terrible players that "luck or effort" into something magnificent is way more exciting and celebrated than a known good player scoring/defending. "Goalie didn't show up and here's a dumbass in pads" are the best games, even if it's your goalkeeper and you get destroyed on the scoreboard.
The solution for this was tilting trucks. As the train rounds a curve, the cars themselves bank to counteract the outward forces, just like an airplane. The track doesn't have to bank, the vehicle does.
Analog in-memory computing can solve power challenges of edge AI inference
Don't know why I thought this was so funny, but I did. =)
GP is describing Salieri in Amadeus. It is an absolutely correct description of the character.
"knowingly"

I formally attest I did not knowingly commit fraud your honor.
Yah but they don’t burn out.
I quite like and agree with the numbers here - you could be getting 10k / year before your first whale, so it does not make much economic sense to only focus on a 100 biggest fans.
Here's it driving around https://youtu.be/VFOisGUSDGk

also some earlier HN stuff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19135917
It depends on how much the loan cost him. I’ve been taken for a low interest loan on a car before that cost a $1000, really annoying.
Yes, but there's only 1 vtable per class. While the latter shows a shockingly high reduction in code size, which seems to imply a ludicrous number of tiny classes with few call sites per method in use in the Chromium code base, relative to what I've seen when doing compiler development, it shouldn't translate into much of a change in heap usage.

From reading those, my main takeaway is that the Chromium codebase sounds awful.
Profit seeking corporations love consumerism, most humans are fine with a safe warm place to live and enough food to raise a family.

Convincing them to voluntarily transfer their wealth to someone else is the goal of consumerism, hence the ridiculous money spend on propaganda convincing people they need more things than they want.
Agree with used. I've gotten both my cars from Carvana and it has worked out quite well; saving over 10K per car by going for a 2 year old car each time.
Yes!

Part of the cross-platform story here is an Emscripten port of webgpu.h,

https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/pull/10218

So you can write an application and run it either natively (using Dawn or wgpu-native) or on the Web (as WebAssembly + JavaScript).