skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But he has conspicuously failed to sell to 50% of his nation. Obama was a consummate salesman too and occupied the middle. Do you really think a rich entitled Trump who inherited his millions out-sold the first black president of the USA? Trump sold to his own. Obama sold worldwide.

Tony Blair is a consummate lier and fraud and he sold better than Trump. He has a post prime ministerial income based on selling. Once Trump leaves office, like Bibi the lawsuits are a mile thick in paperwork. He won't sell nearly as many books as Blair or Obama, except critiques which may not pay him royalties.

I doubt if the miss universe comp wants him back either.
I pay with bitcoin basically whenever I can.

I don't have a credit card. A site can either support Paypal (ugh), or support our nice secure local payment system (marginally likely), or they can support Bitcoin and then a Bitcoin payment provider has to support our nice secure local payment system, which is much more likely. Either way, once the money is in Bitcoin, I am the only one responsible for the security of my wallet, and if I lose that I'll at least know it's my fault.
YouTube is owned by Google, which this post seems to ignore.
I am wealthy, but I admit I'm an idiot who just got lucky.
And I believe that the majority of wealth comes from pure luck.
Come one, you get born in USA and you salary for the same job is automatically 10 times higher than if you were born in India.
A bit of a plug, but if you wish for something that has the Postgres reliability, the taste of nosql but with strong typing and a json output a la graphql, give a try to edge db:

https://edgedb.com

The team behind it is awesome (one is a python core dev), and it's a FOSS, but they have been using it internally for some time.
The 12” Macbook shipped several years ago with integrated Intel GPU (fanless!) and a 12” 2304x1440, 226ppi display. It’s a bit slow, but it is a workable display. I recently got Gentoo running on mine.

The fact that PC graphics software is still stuck in the 90s isn’t a good reason to ship low res displays.
Game of Thrones chat bot – SerialChatBot
Which means the parent of the idiot was good at the game, but does not mean the idiot himself/herself is good.

Unless by "good at the game" you refer to the skill of dropping out of the right vagina, like royalists do.
There is a lot of truth to this. I'm in the process of designing a language with integrated SQL where I "code-generate" the in-memory tables, and beyond appreciating language I also appreciate relational tables for what they do.

What I am finding really nice is that I don't even have maps in my language since I can just use tables and get the benefits of maps along with indexing and all the fancy stuff.
I don't see how that applies here. There are lots of ways to make high income that have no ethical dilemmas.
Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller
Microsoft's division that made X-Box {,360,One} was in the red for years as well and lost billions before it made its first profit (I think it's now profitable overall, but I wouldn't be surprised if it actually didn't yet return all the money put in to it through the years).

Almost nobody else would have been able (or willing) to sustain the costs that made it into a success.

What matters is the bottom line.
> Apple had the original PARC Smalltalk

They had V1; the image provided by http://www.wolczko.com/st80 which the VM referenced in this post is based on is V2.

> There are probably a few that I missed that are still in use.

Here is one that works on the original (unmodified) Xerox image: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Smalltalk
Corporation tax does have its problems though. In particular it's easy for globalised companies to shift profits around the world to avoid paying it.

Personally I'd rather we started treating dividends and even capital gains as normal income and eliminate corporation tax.
While I agree with the conclusion to strongly prefer StringBuilder, in most cases the difference is zero: The JVM will prove no other thread can access the object, so it remooves the locks
also, the dolphins thought they were more moral than humans.
Unfortunately I do have problems with explicit retention. Probably some of the strategies in the comments would improve it a lot.

I have implicit retention of many things, but I often forgot the sources, I cannot list my favorite books on the spot, but if we discuss a topic I'd have flashes of relevant memories come back.

It's like I'd grapple with a book, dream about it, get confused, shaken, startled, questioning, then I integrate it back into normal life. Especially deeper books, like I had with The Selfish Gene which dispelled so many myths I had and confirmed things I thought to be correct.

You have to go through the Baader Meinhof effect of seeing that thing everywhere. With each book I view the world from an entirely new point of view, that each seem all encompassing (how ads manipulate you, how social status and prestige works, how the finance world works and cheats, how employers manipulate, how sexual behavior works, how quantum physics works or evolution or mental games we play etc), to get the smug feeling that this current book explains it all. After going through this with 5 books, you realize that no one story explains it all, but then what to do, read about narratives, move to nihilism, then realize the boundaries of rationality and faith, believing that "good" may be in one sense illusory but worth striving for. Then you read up on more traditional views on this etc.

Trying to "retain" is a bit like measuring the quality of your friendships based on how many life facts you've memorized about them. It's surely correlated, but also misses the point. The time you spent together and the experiences you had together are valuable in themselves.
I agree. I think Rust is also excellent for CLI apps. Also better than the other languages you mention.
See my comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23320443

tldr: > We've been building furiously since January but (not surprisingly) we haven't yet reached feature parity. But we will :)
Failing is part of the learning-Process.

With more money can of course learn to fail in greater scale, but IMHO this also has benefits in it's own. Learning to think big is a skill of it's own. Small business plays by different rules than big business, even if they have overlaps.

And I also think how succesfull you really were can only be said after staying on your peak for some time, because some games go really really long.
this implies that having social skills in themselves are not a gift someone can possess.
It's way faster in terms of UI atleast. It boots up almost instantly, configuration is pretty simple and the UI is better IMO.
Alan Turing comes to mind.
> Another thing I didn't like, which I mean makes sense, but in order to label a device you need to run their client.

I hope I understood you correctly. A feature recently introduced (Or perhaps I just recently noticed) is the ability to label devices without using their clients, you can do this by prefixing your unique DNS endpoint with the label and terminating it with a hyphen.

Eg, Phone-xxxxx.dns.nextdns.io
This is interesting. Essentia has a js wrapper too that runs via WASM.
Zettelkasten externalises associations. Spaced repetition trains recall. I'd say they complement each other well.
Switching to kernel has become much more expensive thanks to recent security bugs, though
nice - if you build something and want it featured, let us know: alpha@supabase.io
I hope we are building a statistical model of which one is eating which to map where are the missing pieces of the puzzle and direct our focus of research.
You had ample guidance in the UK not to use a dead language like VB.net. In my experience the only teachers choosing it for the lazy route of the mountain of lesson material that already existed from vb.net in the 90's/early 00's.

Stop wasting your students time and learn literally anything else.
There are a whole load of very similar looking robots out there, an image search for "quadruped robot" or "hexapod robot" will yield loads of them.

It's great that someone is getting into robotics, but this does have the vibe of someone over-selling a hobby project.
> They also add a level of indirection,

neither shared_ptr nor unique_ptr add any additional indirection compared to raw pointers.

Of course if you can you should use inline value types, but that's a different thing. The parent was talking about replacing raw pointers with smart pointers (personally I have no particular issue with non-owning raw pointers).
If you calmly re-read the post you were replying to, you will see that they didn't question different goals than theirs, at all. They said "many smart people", not all, and they didn't say that those outside that subset are stupid.
This is a very difficult topic. Since discriminating on age is illegal in most countries, there aren't (much) sites/platforms where age is an actual explicit factor. Generally speaking, startups/scaleups are more inclined to hire younger folks. Older companies are more open to hire older engineers.

The bypass might be, looking for companies that have a lot of engineers with 15+ years of experience. You can do so with paid LinkedIn accounts. I'm happy to help with some specific searches if you don't have a paid LinkedIn account yourself.
Amazon in advanced talks to buy self-driving startup Zoox: WSJ
...and he's been planning it since the 1980s, so yeah, it's hard to make the argument that he didn't play the game persistently and well.
> Users find it extremely simple and easy to use.

Anecdotally, I'd disagree with this statement. It seems people pay for it because the video is more reliable than web apps and skype.

It's really rather basic stuff: "Schedule" is used as a noun but it can also be a verb, so bad choice of labels. To admit someone to a room I have to bring up the partipants chat. Wtf. When I'm in another application whilst awaiting people to join I have to keep checking, why not a notification and sound when they join? If I'm trying to join a meeting in similar situation, I can't work because there's a window blocking my screen (Mac). The constant suggestions of dial-in audio (wtf) are annoying and confusing. etcetera, ad infinitum. Additional complaints: there is a weird bug that causes audio quality to drop to "tinny phone" levels when using airpods. They fixed it. And now they broke it again. The white balance doesn't work and I can't adjust it...

Don't get me wrong, I use it because the video works with groups and doesn't stutter often. But the UX is awful.
Is there some kind of whitelisting for queries that come from the client as to avoid the hammering the DB with expensive queries / queries that make no sense?
>Trump is a world-class salesman.

When did Mexico agree to pay for the wall?
You might want to look into how Hasura does auth. IMO it's really well thought through. However, it doesn't handle the actual authentication, just the access permissions afterwards. If you could layer firebase-style auth "strategies" (email/password, Facebook, Open ID, etc) on top of that kind of system, while keeping everything accessible directly in the main database, that'd be pretty awsome.
Inertia is slightly different to supply response and most inverters use grid coupling for frequency and phase synchronisation so are not suitable. The slow response of old plants is an asset in this case and only a problem if they are generating rather than just providing inertia, which is instant.
In jargon, the precision is lower than 50%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
I appreciate the attempt, but this gives no information about what an fb actually is.

The word people need is "femtobarn".
For those signing up - we have hit our cloud limit. we are getting in touch with them now to increase the limit
A method to produce hydrogen in vivo photosynthetically
Where is the pricing information? I couldn't find it on the homepage or in the help page (even searching there doesn't help). Even the article on 300K free queries a month [1] doesn't have anything related to pricing.

Where is the announcement that it's out of beta? I don't see that in the homepage either. What am I missing?

[1]: https://help.nextdns.io/en/articles/3962038-what-happens-aft...
No one is making the argument that he's the best president ever, or even a good one. The point is that he became the President of the USA - he played the game very very well.

It becomes more apparent when you see his videos on the subject from the 1980s - he was planning this move for decades.
I'm interested in Robotics (I made a simple ping-pong ball collector a while back https://sendcat.com/dl/D9DI15MAOjhKMFJYLJLADj64ywyU2qGWaKMSl...). Are there places I should go or things I should read to find out more about the latest developments in robotics in general, or the use of brushless motors with encoders/dynamic walking gaits specifically?
Wasn't a comment on the status quo, but rather the future.

I think the Go trend confirms my point: an isolated group of programmers have been able to adopt Go for that kind of infrastructure, but outside of those shops most people are quite determined never to use Go and rant about it a lot.

In the same way, Go will be replaced by FP and app developers will not go near it.
Generally, happiness is a reward from doing what your genes want you to do. The greatest happiness therefore, should be found in the process of breeding and caring for offspring.

Social status (consumption, skills and achievements) helps you secure higher quality mates and offers greater security to your offspring. That's why gaining social status, feels worthwhile, but without kids it feels a bit empty.

Before kids, I knew the breeding was pretty good fun, but my genes gave me no indication that having kids would be fun too.

Perhaps thats just to ensure those genes are spread far and wide and to concentrate on social status before the all consuming process of caring for offspring begins.
Right! I remember now buying the book just to read the chapter about Anders. Was not disappointed. (for the record other "masterminds" were also interesting).
Idiot usually means someone who doesn't know basic facts or has trouble anticipating consequences for their actions. But I think part of GPs comment was to note that the concept of idiot needs to be readdressed. For example, if your hypothetical person has a family network (just another tool; but a v. good one!) that helps them, then they choose to either stick with their family or try to strike out on their own. We're already discussing the situation where they have chosen to leverage their family network.
Social Media Usage at All-Time High. That Could Mean a Nightmare for Democracy
He's not world class at selling walls. He's world class at selling Donald Trump.
Chapo Trap House had an interesting take of MasterClass. In their view it's basically a way of alleviating imposter syndrome. It's real function is to give people some sort of credential, and thus permission. Watch a MasterClass on photography, now you have permission to be a photographer.
How is this actually different from using Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1)?

For ads, I already use AdGuard.
> Unless by "good at the game" you refer to the skill of dropping out of the right vagina, like royalists do.

And some people are born athletically gifted, or extremely attractive, or with very high IQ and a temperament for grit.

There are lottery winners that lose everything in a few years.

Just because you are born into money, doesn’t mean you will succeed.
> Reading books and trying to remember the maximum information seems rather pointless unless you're specifically studying for an exam or something. Your brain already optimises and retains the most relevant/interesting information for you.

That is just not the case. The brain does not work that perfect way. It tends to remember new info about stuff you already know a lot about.

That is whole reason for reading for retention is to hack the brain so that it remembers what I want to remember.
Unfortunately I do have problems with explicit retention. Probably some of the strategies in the comments would improve it a lot.

This is pretty normal. For example, students who learned physics often forgot to apply what they already know to situations that differ slightly.

If you want to bring that knowledge to the surface more often, you're going to need to add cues.
If you are wondering (as I did) how they can know what is your DNS resolver, they simply makes the webpage load some JS from a random host, like "https://853af2kklyt-dda385.test.nextdns.io/". Of course, as this host cannot be cached anywhere, their DNS are hit by your DNS resolver, thus they can know the IP of your DNS resolver. In my case as I have a DNS server at home, it displayed the name of the AS of my provider.
A blog with a paywall!!!!
What about freelancing ? It'll be more flexible
specifically what types of companies are you applying to e.g. what size, industry?
Amazon seem to be working on bringing Amplify up to the same standard as Firebase, and it's certainly getting there, so in the near-future there may be quite a few alternatives.
Apart from GM's supercruise which is only avaialable on a top end Cadillac CT6, there is nothing that rivals OP or AP. Telluride/Pallisade are good but not close to either of above products. Not sure whats holding manufacturers back
I am ecstatic that someone is finally taking on Firebase. As a Firebase user, I find it invaluable. Their free plan and limits are very generous. The fact they offer not only a database, but authentication, hosting and perhaps one of their biggest features besides authentication: Firebase Functions. I have API's in deployment that are solely running using Firebase Functions and using Firestore as the database. The CLI is also another huge Firebase feature.

Following this intently, because Firebase has no true competitor, let alone an open source one. Nice work so far.
Would you agree that higher intelligence equates to a greater likelihood of wealth over the long run (lifetime)?
In this case I think it means "a slight incline" https://youtu.be/NFO0sFC34yE?t=111 :)
This is not simply "unfortunate", it's done on purpose.

People who are not able or willing to earn money under the existing economic system are denied food, housing, clothing, healthcare, legal representation...
Huh. What happened to oldgeekjobs.com? ("Domain currently for sale")
So tethics then?

https://www.vulture.com/2019/11/silicon-valley-recap-season-...
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Taleb-Asness Black Swan Spat Is a Teaching Moment
Why is it winner take all?
> different teams thinking for a long time is absolutely no guarantee of a successful outcome

Of course it is no guarantee for success. But an outsider has absolutely no clue about what was discussed and what the politics were. So I think it is naive to make comments like "this is never going to work", or "removing the headphone jack will bring Apple down".
> I am wealthy, but I admit I'm an idiot who just got lucky.

Did you win the lottery?

> And I believe that the majority of wealth comes from pure luck.

People believe all kinds of weird things.

> born in USA and you salary for the same job is automatically 10 times higher than if you were born in India.

And the threshold for being considered wealthy is also 10 times higher. What is your point?
I've worked in companies that have had numerous developers your age or higher so don't worry, you will find somewhere. One thing I'd suggest is looking at consultancies in your area where experience is important. I've heard banking tends to have a slightly higher average age too. And finally, consider contracting! A senior experienced developer can earn a good bit of money and being 45 works for you rather than against!

FWIW, the consultancy I worked at that had multiple 'older' developers was https://oxfordcc.co.uk. They did some pretty cool stuff :)
overly reductive evolutionary psychology 101 but ok...
Before this incident (I've been through a few disasters and violent incidents), I was already on my 13th antidepressant (vilazodone) which doesn't appear to be working. Also on propranolol, clonidine, atomoxetine, carbamazepine, baclofen, gabapentin, and 40 mg/day of CBD. I buy CBD isolate (pure CBD) in bulk and make my own sublingual tincture using a precisely-measured ratio of ingredients comprising:

- Organic coconut oil

- Vitamin E T50

- Grape seed / citrus extract

- CBD

in a dark glass container filled into sterile saline spray bottles for use.

If you don't do this, then you're probably either being cheated or don't know what you're taking.

Anyhow, so far this new antidepressant doesn't seem to be working so the dose is getting upped. If this doesn't work, it's back to mirtazapine and weight gain. The only other options involve anticholinergics, extrapyramidal issues, electricity, magnets, and/or brain surgery.

I also have gradually, over the past few years, developed some sort of neurological decline vaguely reminiscent of vascular, frontotemporal, or Lewy body dementia or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (I was born cyanotic over several hours because of incompetent Kaiser Permanente doctors and was hit in the head extremely hard as a teenager twice and didn't receive proper medical care).

I can barely speak, I stutter a lot, my memory is disappearing, and my level of consciousness and clarity is declining. I can't code in any language anymore and I used to work in Rust, Haskell, C, Crystal, and so on. My sleep is a mess... one or a few hours here and there at all times of the day. I use every bit of concentration to write this. If it's an incurable condition, I will go somewhere very, very remote in Montana or Wyoming and breathe nitrogen.
Success is not guaranteed just because someone was sent to an Ivy League school by his rich parents.

This is the blank slate fallacy where people believe (for political correctness reasons) that any kid had same chance of success if he was given the same opportunity as the success of kids.
That’s part of the pitch. He’s not selling to Mexico.
What boots up almost instantly? It's supported on quite a few OSes [0], not to mention the underlying hardware. I found AdGuard's (Home) UI to be a bit more polished but it feels like it has feature parity with PiHole 5 otherwise. I tried both but stuck with PiHole since the community around it seemed more developed.

[0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Star...
Bash Bonus #2:

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'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving (2018)
And still their products where shit all the way through until they could sit down and try to do a feature for feature copy of slack.
Just FYI, making a good auth solution in Supabase will instantly make me a customer.
There is evidence that mail in ballots causes more problems though. However to find unbiased information about it you have to search for articles from a time before it became political.

> Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show. Election officials reject almost 2 percent of ballots cast by mail, double the rate for in-person voting.

New York times article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-...
Try automotive.
For lots of money you have to rewrite your personality, loose interest in anything not related to money and you loose the ability to do pure good in the world without a return of power, money or status.
These risks are the same as for any tech startup company. Many people have made a similar gamble with equity. And in the meantime, salaries for AV software developers, machine learning engineers are not exactly below market.
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OK should be sorted. If you have any problems, email us on alpha@supabase.io