skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a correlation between intelligent and income but we have been conditioned to misunderstand what intelligence is. we are taught that schooling is as sign of intelligence but that is just a sign of Memory and a sign of formatting. Many people fail because their ideas as are not formatted correctly or their ability to remember remember during an exam. There are many people who have failed education and still succeed in their dreams. Elon Musk is an example where he said "I didn't go to Harvard but all my lawyers did".Is Musk more intelligent that his lawyers even though he does not have the same education. So what is intelligence? The issues is also how do you measure success. May people choose Money as that quantifies things and then we can compare. The main issue is Quality is not comparable. Neither is Happiness. Success can only be measured with yourself. because you have to do the things that need doing to get into the positions to be seen as dumb. The Politician who says some really dumb thing or the businessman that does not seem to know what he is doing, have done some really smart things to be in a position to be dumb.
Sure they are smart, but you'll find smarter people at any theoretical physics department, if we're talking IQ. Also, I don't think we are talking about rich as in global top 100, what I at least meant more mundane financial success, like earning $1 m a year.

At that level, you definitely don't need to be a genius, I'd say if anything a genius is much less likely to make a million a year.
yes, next article would be.... i bought a book on amazon and helped build it into a trillion dollar company.
It's the same mindset that goes into dismissing pop music as low effort drivel. It actually takes an incredible amount of skill from a bunch of people at the top of their games to make a pop hit.
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In my experience of senior positions, they're typically ignored if you apply through Linkedin. You're better off going direct with a nice cover letter.
I agree, I want that too. It was not an afterthought in case of Yatta but rather a difficult tradeoff to make in terms of extending the syntax (which I try to keep minimalistic) and providing an easy interface for interacting with external processes.

You can see the result of making this tradeoff here: https://yatta-lang.org/docs/stdlib/system/#running-a-pipelin...

Not as "seamless" as bash maybe, and perhaps not feature-complete yet, but I hope this can serve as a starting point and we can build on this for future releases.
> You absolutely should avoid them if you can help it.

The issue is knowing whether you can "tough it out". Will you make it through without medication? Will you make it through in a reasonable time frame?

It's a valid point, but I don't think it's a good idea to judge that for yourself. It's very similar to anti-biotics. It's a good idea to avoid them in general and not take them when you don't need to or when they won't do anything. But it's a terrible idea to want to make that call if you don't have the training. And it's a bad idea to figure "ah, I'm better, I'll just drop these now" after a day or two.

I personally believe that the "zombie-like state" is blown out of proportion, and I'm certain that even with side-effects, anti-depressants are still much nicer than going through a major depressive episode.
Where in EU, and are you up for perhaps moving?
This is pretty cool. Poop’s a good universal, non- invasive test. If the sample rate was high enough would be helpful to detect outbreaks, esp. if this becomes seasonal.

Probably not economically feasible, but you could envision “in-line” sampling systems spread throughout the waste system to localize where an outbreak is starting and send in the contact tracers and testers.
Probably just weasels. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494...
IMO the only inherent issues with hobby-style servos are lack of feedback (force and position) and lack of direct torque control. The rest of the complaints are features of all cheap positioning elements and aren't unique to hobby servos.
Because otherwise only New York, Texas and California matter, which the framers of the Constitution decided was a bad idea.

I actually like the principle of the electoral college, it reminds me that the US is in fact, a Union of States.

The real issue I see are the rampant gerrymandering of the congressional districts, which have a far greater skewing effect on the results than the electoral college (well, technically the same because the congressional districts are identical to the electoral college).
FYI, the delay of source availability of future Qt releases is not clear.

Last public discussion about the subject, to my knowledge: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2020q2/006098.h...
I have colleague who still write desktop application in Delphi. I sometimes work with him and to observe how he write Delphi, which is quite impressive, and the performance is remarkable.
However, it is really bad at some points.

First, it is not friendly to web, we have some special web requirements, we decided to spawn a node process to do it.

Second, the tooling is so much better in Visual Studio. And the compiler is so much smart with sophisticated and syntactic analysis.

Last but not least, it really lacks 3rd party libraries so people always need to implement themself.

C# may not be the best option for any application. But it is general enough to almost support every types of application.
> As an aside, the US relationship with Taiwan is entirely unofficial. The US political stance follows the One China policy and recognizes Beijing as the capital of a China inclusive of both what is colloquially the PRC and the ROC.

That's false on multiple counts. The official US policy only acknowledges China's position and does not recognize China as having sovereignty over Taiwan. This has been clarified publicly on numerous occasions since the early 1980s.

The Taiwan Travel Act further upgraded US-Taiwan relations and made them official. That's why China was so upset by it - publicly stating that it violated their One-China principle - and why the Taiwanese President was able to freely travel to the US afterward.
Agreed! urfave/cli is very handy.
I'd love to see a self driving car attempt India or Viet Nam.
Generally, the US does not. If they do for a higher paying position, I would find it weird and/or a sign that they aren’t open to negotiation, which I would take to mean they aren’t competitive (but that means you also have to be desirable enough to have options).
Thanks for using my css microframework <3 It means a lot to me !
There were common style elements across all the Xerox PARC software systems, the one not mentioned so far is Interlisp-D. I don't think you can claim that Wirth was only influenced by the BCPL and Mesa group.
Ask HN: How would you build a shopify or Airbnb today?
My question only targets the technical aspect, how would you build a MVP for a complex project like shopify or Airbnb today?

Here you can see what they used 10 years ago: https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/e-commerce-at-scale-inside-shopifys-tech-stack

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/02/20/what-technology-stack-does-airbnb-use/#39ee8ca04025

And keep in mind, the goal is to launch as quick as possible as your next rent is due and you need to make money.
I'm really curious which countries these are. Please do provide a reference to these studies.
I've read too many stories of people and companies being temporarily (and possibly permanently) incorrectly flagged/banned from Google (by some algorithm).

If your business depends on Google, you are taking serious risk. Even if you have a contact within Google who can champion your case, a loss of your Google services could end your business.
Do you think graduating from a top university makes them smart? Do you think working at a top hospital makes you a great doctor? Etc. There is a distribution everywhere. At top universities it just might be not as wide as some other places.

You should watch closely the people you admire. Donald Trump is as successful politician as one can be. He is as rich as one can be. He has a degree from a top university. But he's a useless person and dumb as a rock. If you try to follow his way you will get nowhere. Good luck.
It seems people are commenting on the title of the article and not on what the article says : it's easy to think someone is stupid when you read about them making a bad decision in the news.

Classic examples are:

"Hitler was stupid to invade Russia". In fact he needed to conquer oil fields to keep the ability to wage war andhe Russian army was particularly weak at that point.

"Kodak was stupid not to sell digital camera". In fact Kodak did develop digital camera technology. They were behind one of the first commercial digital camera (The Apple QuickTake), they licensed their patent and were number one sellers of digital camera in the US at some point.

It's easy to fall into this trap when you only high level information. I think that when you get more detailed information this effect dissipates. You then realize that there are many factors and stakeholders.
What makes a betting person good or bad? It's hard to score and compare process and intention. The most natural way of determinig the quality of the betting person is by their results.

It's not a very informative way of looking at the world, but it's the most straightforward.
There is https://xon.sh/ which calls itself "a superset of Python 3.5+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython". The tutorial at https://xon.sh/tutorial.html is fun. I did use it as my primary shell for a while many years ago. I think I stopped because it sometimes got confused about colored terminal output or something like that, it's probably much more mature now.
We should remember that "development frameworks" were not even allowed in the early days of iOS [1]. That we can use them now is a huge step forward. But at the same time, little prevents companies like Apple from throwing the switch back for new apps.

[1] https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Quoting from [1]:

> We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform. If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
I want something like Argh (https://github.com/neithere/argh/) but for Go... any hint ? There are a gazillion cli libs, it's hard to test all of them.
I apologize if I came off as vitriolic (truly), but I found the "zombies" statement to be very offensive, given my own run-ins with severe depression in the past.

There are problems with statements like that:

1. Turns away people who might otherwise have no better treatment option ("What's the point of living if I'll just be a zombie anyway?")

2. It comes off as judgmental which has an isolating effect to people who are on the treatment. Hearing something like this could lead a person to question their sanity when they'd otherwise be okay (aka triggering, maybe you triggered me!)

3. It's just wrong.

Antidepressant drugs generally don't turn people into zombies at commonly-prescribed therapeutic doses. At very high doses they can have an emotionally blunting effect and even this is preferable in some cases. There are side effects and no one would argue that it's ideal to be on these drugs, I totally agree with you on that, but there are worse things than being on a drug.

I think you just have to be really careful when you throw blanket statements around on these topics because the people they can influence are not feeling their best and at much higher risk for suicide than people who wouldn't care because they wouldn't need drug treatment anyway. Personally I hope to never deal with antidepressants again, but in the past they've helped me get through times when I felt otherwise out of options. And somehow I escaped turning into a zombie :)
There's a nonprofit that researches this: https://80000hours.org/
It's easy taking the high road when you're not the one actually doing something.

As a business, if you're getting something for free, assume someone else is subsidising you, as there's no such thing as free lunch.
A femtobarn. Unitwise, it's an area, a measure of the probability of an interaction, the "literal" cross section of the things you try to hit.

Luminosity, often measured in inverse (femto) barn, is the other side: The number of tries, given by the number of particles you collided.

The product of these is the number of events of this type which occur on average.

So if you measured for 10 inverse femtobarn integrated luminosity, a process which has a cross section of 1 femtobarn should have happened 10 times.
A much more thoughtful treatment of this problem is "The Dictator's Handbook." There are three possible explanations:

1) The CEO knows something I don't.

2) The CEO is dumb.

Those are rarely it. The third one is:

3) The CEO is optimizing for personal wealth / fame / success, and there are political considerations.

Most CEOs can recognize that a business decision can be absolutely the right thing to do for the business and not make that decision if it either would cost them (1) their standing with shareholders (2) their annual bonus (3) their standing with the board (4) their standing with internal constituents.

The key skill CEOs need to be CEOs can be summarized as: "How to become a CEO." That involves a lot more management of politics than it does business success (but still a fair measure of both). Furthermore, if a strategy leads to business success but costs a CEO their job, they cannot take that strategy.
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What you're missing is the discovery time of the elegant solution, and the knowledge required to know that it may exist.
Investors diversify, so we need CEOs of individual firms to take more risk than we want for our portfolios as a whole. To be worth their wages, a CEO of a publicly-traded company should be making risky slightly-positive expectation value bets; were the firm too risk-averse, it'd be just as inefficient as if it were to keep too much cash on hand.
I'm so glad that this is illegal in the UK
Rethinking the World in a Virtual Reality
Yes, I also found it very rewarding when my scheduler eventually worked. Saving and restoring the registers was quite tricky. I eventually decided to just save them on the thread's stack so I wouldn't have to worry about registers being clobbered by the context switching code.
This article is really focused on the question “why is AI so bad at data extraction from PDFs when it can beat humans at Go?” and it does answer its own question toward the end. AI is very good at inverting simulations (chess, Go) because you can generate an infinite corpus of perfectly labeled data. It is bad at inverting document creation because there is no exhaustive MS Word simulator. Soon people will realize that applied AI is really an exercise in simulation design.
There is a database management company called Superbase, the names are confusingly similar. I read a bit perplexed about Superbase being a YC company. https://www.superbase.com
Where would the average bloke in the street go to find that in 1994? And where would they get that knowledge?

(I mean, these days, the first thing you'd do is Google, the second thing is ask on SO or similar. You'd do this before even thinking about coding something yourself. So the bar to jumping to brute force has shifted somewhat.)
Luck. The answer is luck.
Tim Cook isn't even a billionaire.... and Bezes only has a 1/10 of a Trillion, which is still many orders of magnitude more than Cook.

If your were instead talking about the coorporations they lead, they have been trillion dollar companies for a long time. And Apple is enjoying ts best years.
Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass
Microsoft did roll their own version, but it's Open Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/tree/master/src
My servers use proprietary protocols and one of the first thing my protocol handlers do is check validity of the input. You will not find generic "read until EOL/Whatever" in my code. The low level logic knows exactly what to expect at each point and how to validate it. All over encrypted connection.

Good luck hiring dedicated expert or team willing to break it. I am not Google and cost of trying to break my software where it matters far exceeds any potential benefits.

So sure, I am not the a prime choice as security target which makes it even better.
Your probability of high-scale success is extremely low. So use whatever technology you are most comfortable and efficient with, keep your code as simple as possible, and then worry about scaling later.
This is something you'd have to be very careful about, since players would likely get very annoyed if too many NPC 'hints' were outright misleading. The ones you mentioned seem fine (since they're basically just 'generally right, but missing some info'), but the tendency of NPCs to lie outright was one reason why Castlevania 2 got so much flack back in the day (along with a shoddy translation that made it even worse).

Can work well for a puzzle though. Recall a few Zelda games having setups where one NPC was actually a spy for a rival group, and you needed to cross examine what other NPCs said to figure out who that was.
The hiring processes I personally experienced and have some meaning to me at the same time, all favor these traits in general:
1. Enthusiastic problem-solving attitude usually in a specific platform or set of languages / tools
2. Willingness to learn new things and to discover the unknown that a candidate proactively executes by reading or trying new things
3. Ability to adapt technology-wise and ability to collaborate with different kind of people, not necessarily just "the geeks"
4. Willingness and ability to pass or share knowledge in any area

Myself, I experienced it is harder for me to keep pace mainly with point 2. and 3. because I already have learned a lot (full cup so to say) and having less spare-time dedicated for such things (as I dedicate almost all my spare time to family more than before).

There are also aspects directly favoring different candidates (not necessarily correlating only with age) I would like to emphasise, which unfortunately are consciously or unconsciously considered:
5. More skilled and experienced people tend to ask for more money
6. More experienced people tend to have more hard-to-change habits which may be incompatible or hard to include into the company culture / workflows / whatever else
7. Cultural differences between generations of people tend to create tensions

What I recommend to you is to embrace the above points (definitely not a full list) and try to emphasise your best traits or think about how to sell them in the context of the hiring process and at the same time try to mitigate the problematic points.

In general, you have a big advantage you probably do not see now - life experience and also tech experience. Younger candidates simply cannot compete with your age. I think you need to find a way how to wire your hard-obtained experience as "your output" that definitely has a value for any company. Embrace those facts and build your self-confidence on them. It may be the case that the job you apply for will be little different from what you experienced up to now - more mentoring, more leading, more advisory work, more inter-department communication (from/to tech language of the geeks) and so on.

And I sincerely wish you luck.
And over the course of the population there are going to be a lot of outliers (both winners and losers).
> Is this not the case anymore?

It is but it has some drawbacks:

1) Play Mode inspection/modification capabilities are harshly reduced. Unity is years behind re-implementing those.

2) Not all subsystems speak ECS yet. Many of them are still essential.

3) There is now a distinction between what you see in Edit and what you get during Play.

4) Serializing ECS is easy but de-serializing is still a pain. You have to keep track of GO's that hasn't finished their async conversion to defer de-serialization.

5) Yes, GO->Entity conversion is async so you need to manually wait for all conversions before your game can start playing.
I think this might be of interest:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/thir...

It contains answers to how things are done internally, the threading model, etc.
MITRE. (www.mitre.org)

When I joined at 43 the average age of the company was in the late 50's. It's dropped a bit, but not much. And I run the DevOps group in my department, so we do things that would interest you. We're strong engineers, but we value expertise over the latest buzz words. Trust me, I plan on retiring here.
Java has made some strides with startup time. It's still a little bit slower than python when loading the full vm.
> I hope people don't mind [that his parents helped him start a business]

parents != parents

maybe i'm stating the obvious, but "if you want to get rich, come up with a good idea and work hard" is way easier when your parents can invest 300K in your startup and you have that safety net to fall back on. as in, that's a substantial factor into somebody's "self-madeness" that's often overlooked

(i know that's not what you said, but imo it's a common sentiment re: creating a successful business)
> Why, oh why, are some people so obsessed with lowering the number of COVID-19 related deaths at every possible opportunity? Its weird.

Maybe they want to minimize the amount of secondary COVID-19 deaths?
Texas Instruments Bans All ASM Programs/ Games on TI-84 Plus CE Calculators
The op is not reducing everything to talent, or even implying that talent is especially important. If you are thinking about this statistically (the OP is), than these examples don't matter.
The implication is a distribution of outcomes, not definite outcomes.

The argument works regardless of the definition of success used.
You should be familiar with "survivor bias" before paying for their service.
China banks demand employees sign pro-security law petition
The UK used to have this. Rather than paying for car insurance, you could deposit £50,000 with an insurance company. See https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/motor-insurance-... for details on what happened to the scheme.
Weirdly, Medium seems to be the closest.
Ho-hum, another alarming article about how we're all going to hell in a handbasket. If the virii don't kill us, the climate change will.

It's all about globalist control, and people are waking up.
Yes, but this is not an UI app. I don't think I have leaks because memory sits at a fixed percentage even though I get hundreds of requests a second.
Generate beautiful blob shapes for flutter apps
Very good points on eval. Can the read() example be similarly redeemed?
The encryption key is generated dynamically and it is not stored together with the encrypted content, thus in case of any leakage the words that were written are safe. The writing is decrypted and shown decrypted only to the writer itself and our team doesn't have access to see the words you've written.
This doesn't mean that self driving is a winner take all market.
I have found Cognito to be a similar enough, if not more quirky, offering, but at a fraction of the cost. Auth0 is just too expensive.
QT is so open source unfriendly who cares they released a new version?
added a comment, still see it. Appears I can also see it from a different browser (though still from the same PC, at the same external IP address).
Why Gary Vaynerchuk Is Flat Out Wrong (on hard work)