skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any work in big tech or finance companies that would pay at least 100k per year.

This is because on what you've written, you've defined financial success for yourself as "a surefire way to retire by forty". Retirements, however, given a large and stable income, become primarily expense driven, when you run the numbers: reducing the amount you spend and consume when your salary exceeds most of your material needs is a far more reliable route and speedy path to retirement than making more.

This is because if you're already pulling 100k or more, are saving at least 30-40% of that (which for most people should be doable, as the median single person income is about $35,000, and the median family income, in total, is $75,062 [1]), and do that for 20 years, the interest on the 600k principal will exceed a 3% withdrawal rate and inflation for 30 years with 90% certainty [2], meaning if you can live on $18,000 (fairly doable in cheaper parts of the country), then you can retire at 40, if you so choose.

I would argue the above retirement plan is far more surefire than the startup-based one, because it only requires a single, disinterested employer willing to pay you at least that much for those 20 years, rather than getting repeated possibly-not-going-to-happen payouts from successful IPOs. Additionally, it assumes somewhat meager, defensive positions: The 3% withdrawal rate is aggressively low to account for bad downturns, and this plan assumes you never get a raise, never get awarded stock, never save more, never accrue interest on your deposited principal before you begin retirement, and never develop any income streams besides your job, despite being a programmer for over 20 years.

Additionally, Dan Luu argues with several salary increases programmers regularly get, you could pull this off in 8 years with my 30% estimate [3]. If you can, for example, increase your savings rate in my setup to 50%, you can have the above 600k based retirement within 12 years, in your mid 30s.

Families make this analysis more complicated, because of housing and the possibility of new income streams and drains, but assuming a two income family, I still would assert the fundamentals of the above situation haven't changed.

So for financial success defined as "able to retire", I would advocate for aggressive savings and living below your means - they're the surest route for high earners, and have comparable speeds and timetables as riskier options

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-12/u-s-house...

[2] http://time.com/money/4689984/safe-withdrawal-rate-retiremen...

[3] https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
For that matter, so can Windows these days.

Somehow I don't think that's what any "Linux on the Desktop" people had in mind.
Future of Ultra-Low Latency Streaming Market – WebRTC, RTMP, HLS
Do you see any difference between “people should try injecting bleach” and “coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body”?

Trump was blathering there and had no idea what he was talking about, but he nowhere says “people should try injecting bleach”
>BeyondCorp lets users connect to corporate resources behind a proxy, without a VPN.

BeyondCorp is about trusting nothing and allowing what is allowed. It's an inversion of being Inside or Outside the network, in that everyone is outside. When they say "without a VPN" what they mean is that you arent connecting to inside the trust and then gaining access to everything.

This product from cloudflare, by integrating with an identity manager, is offering that same kind of deny by default, and allow the allowlist type paradigm. Whether or not it is VPN tech is a bit irrelevant, and misses the point of BeyondCorp. Googles implementation was a proxy by choice, but it's not the only way to accomplish the same idea. I get that you get that, but drawing the beyondcorp/not-beyondcorp line at vpn/proxy is missing the forest for the trees.
Haiku is used in production by TuneTracker Systems (and it's resellers) for radio automation.

[0] http://tunetrackersystems.com/
> unofficial boxes are ok too.

These boxes are labeled as Official and fashioned as if from government. Nobody should be allowed to pose as government.
Ah the "you don't know what's possible" argument.

The rationale for the Dyson Swarm future it can be built incrementally, requires tech we basically have and can scale massively. The consequence is that it's not remotely subtle. These things have a distinct signature because the only way to get rid of heat in space is to radiate it away and that has a distinct IR signature.

Given all this we can reasonably conclude that there isn't a massive set of Dyson swarms within a pretty huge light cone.

So the problem of "you don't know what's possible" is that for each new known unknown (eg whether FTL is possible, whether fusion will ever work as a viable power source) and unknown unknown it gets _more_ likely we'll see these things not less.

Let's say there are 5 spacefaring civilizations in the MIlky Way other than us. The odds that 0 of them go this route and choose to remain "hidden" is much more possible than if, say, there were 1000 spacefaring civilizations in the Milk Way. In a universe with FTL those numbers (5 and 1000) now use a much bigger volume as their basis. Perhaps the Local Group. Perhaps the entire Universe.

Here's the other big problem with "You don't know what's possible": if we can't conceive of some super-advanced technology or higher existence, what are the odds that other civilizations can't either? If we're 1 of 5, we may be the sole dumb kid on the block. But out of 1000? I'd be willing to bet there are others sufficiently like us operating under similar constraints with outcomes we can reason about in aggregate.

Let me put this in perspective. Human peak energy usage is estimated at about 10^11 W (Watts). Years ago a Russian physicist postulated the Kardashev scale for energy, which is pretty simple:

- K1 (Kardashev-1) civilizations use the power output of a planet)

- K2 civilizations use the power output of a star

- K3 civilizations use the power output of a galaxy.

Obviously these aren't absolute units (eg stars have different power outputs) but it's a useful framework. Carl Sagan came along later and simplified the scale somewhat to:

- K1 = 10^16W

- K2 = 10^26W

- K3 = 10^36W (which implies ~10B stars in the "galaxy")

So if we were to advance to being a K2 civilization around our own Sun we would have access to a truly mind-boggling amount of energy. To give just one example, we could essentially sterilize the Milky Way in about 100,000 years trivially without any object going further than the orbit of Mars.

So you don't even need to decide if civilizations would on average do this or not. You just have to decide how likely is that _none_ would. 0 out of 5 doesn't defy belief here. 0 out of 1000 gets more incredulous.

So back to our alien UFOs, the odds that no one does this, a civilization advances beyond this point, they discover FTL, they use it to come here and they hide their presence from most of us. they remain basically undetected in an era where everyone basically has a high-definition camera in their pocket (as opposed to the 50s and 60s) and somehow reveal themselves when they have technology we couldn't even imagine... simply defies belief.
Did Microsoft actually believe that Linux distributions would actually surpass market share? I suppose they never realized that Linux kernel-based technology would hamper their dominance.
The evidence shows that most adults are not all that sharp.
We're heading into the cool/cold season when people will be gathering more indoors and the infection rate will likely rise, and potentially just months away from being able to mass produce an effective vaccine.

It seems clear to me this is not the time to relax precautionary measures.
Two issues with this methodology. First as he states there is a difference between talent and IQ, this does not seem to tease out the difference.

You can imagine someone with alot of experience but slower thinking speed doing just as well as someone with less experience and faster thinking speed.

Second this is also relative to the problem being asked. With the tic tac toe one, you can also think about someone who maybe has been on leetcode alot and has no actual work experience and is generally slow, to be fast on this particular problem since they happen to have studied that before or have exposure to it.

You can also imagine the opposite someone who is really fast at thinking and has experience, but they haven't looked at binary trees in 10 years so they may be slow thinking about a particular subject.
That may be, but the fact remains that nVidia is pushing an interface that no other Linux drivers currently support, for reasons that really only benefit them. The Linux kernel team has never been particularly supportive of middleware layers designed to promote common drivers between Linux and other operating systems, and for good reason—it impedes the development of optimized, native Linux drivers.

The only way I see nVidia succeeding here is if they clearly demonstrate that EGLStreams is a technically superior alternative to GBM, not just for their own hardware but in general, and also contribute the changes needed to support EGLStreams for all the other graphics drivers currently using GBM so that applications don't need to deal with both systems. As long as the EGLStreams code path can only be exercised in combination with the proprietary nVidia drivers it will remain a second-class citizen and projects would be well-advised to avoid it. (Drew DeVault goes into more detail[1] in his objection to the inclusion of EGLStreams support in KWin, which I agree with 100%.)

Or they could just acknowledge that this is a Linux driver, not a Windows driver, and implement the standard Linux GBM interfaces like everyone else even if that means less shared code.

[1] https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/public-inbox/%3C20190220154143...
No one is buying the argument that because of FB's size, hate speech should be vigorously defended on it's platform.
I don't believe this premise that these people only communicate on Facebook.

Sure some businesses are forced on to the platform to communicate with a subset of customers but it's extremely rare that they aren't on all the social platforms AND have their own website.

Family members that are on Facebook have phone numbers and are on other platforms. Maybe you can't spam them with links to every conspiracy website you come across or an endless stream of your kid without them becoming annoyed, but you absolutely can communicate with them. Facebook has only stayed relevant because of the natural lag in popular websites (older folks always get on late) and by buying platforms people have switched to in recent years likes WhatsApp and Instagram. But people do switch and people also are on multiple platforms
What he actually said. He clearly gives caveats to what he's saying: he's not advocating anyone actually do anything. He's talking about further research.

"So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous - whether it's ultraviolet or just very powerful light...and I think you said that hasn't been checked but you're going to test it....And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside of the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting....And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? ...So it'd be interesting to check that....I'm not a doctor. But I'm, like, a person that has a good you-know-what. [Pointing to his head]
Ass Insurance + Monopoly Money: Google and Apple as Dictators
Off the top of my head, I envisioned trying to teach someone. First, I'd write out the problem. Then I'd break that down, again and again. All in English (read: no code).

Then I'd say: Now that we've dissected the problem, let's write the code.

Yeah. High level. But I can see it making learning simpler as it separates the problem solving, from the implementation (code). And the same problem could be demo'ed across multple languages.
Depends where you are. Prefab houses in Germany have become quite normal. This article for 2018 says 20% of new houses in Germany are prefabricated.

Meanwhile the Swiss are developing robots that build houses... https://youtu.be/fxxcEw98Njo
Transmission on a local level is a MUCH easier problem to solve. Storage on a local level is plummetting in price and rising in efficiency; while also reducing its reliance in rare minerals.

PG&E's failures should show that running one big statewide grid is so difficult and expensive it shouldn't be done. We should reclaim to copper and use the savings to make communities self sufficient, which for many small communities is entirely possible
> The question is really do politicians in the US have the balls...

Exactly. Authoritarianism works really well during a pandemic. But it isn't the American "way," so we're stuck with coronavirus.
There is no competition at this price point.

Our vision is exactly like you described, giving millions of people first-class level of access to software development platform in space.
> everyone is doing work for it for free.

Actually, there is a company called CodeWeavers[1], which sells software based on Wine. CodeWeavers's Wiki page says "The CrossOver version of Wine is regularly refreshed with the latest free Wine patches; likewise, patches from the company are sent back to the Wine project almost immediately. CodeWeavers is a major contributor to the Wine project ... hosts the project's website, and employs the project's maintainer, Alexandre Julliard, as their CTO."

Alexandre Julliard has his own Wikipedia page, also saying "He now works full-time on Wine for CodeWeavers."[2] If you look at Wine's changelogs like in https://www.winehq.org/announce/5.19 , you see his name on a bunch of commits. Piotr and Jacek Caban are names I also recognize as having been prominent contributors for years, and googling quickly shows they are CodeWeavers employees as well. So it seems true. I'm tempted to go buy CrossOver just to support their effort.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Julliard
Looks really nice. However I am not sure how much of my privacy is protected when I submit the code to your server. Is it possible to have the code be encrypted somehow?
Or in other terms:

"Why haven't Content Management Systems made web development cheaper?"
> You people

Us citizens?
I’m glad I’ve dealt with anxiety for most of my life before all this happened.

It’s interesting to see the general population deal with high anxiety for the first time.

I think the only way to live healthily with anxiety, outside of medicine, is to develop metacognition about your emotions and thoughts.

Recognize that life is inherently risky and you have little control over it outside of your reactions.

The hardest test is dealing with somatic symptoms and navigating the catastrophic thinking. It’s the ultimate challenge to talk yourself down when you’re convinced you’re having a heart attack or unable to breath.

Covid is a risk but for most people not a significant threat.
I found this prefab house approach shown on This Old House feels much better. Still made of wood but made in modular pieces in the factory that can be quickly installed in the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXmNeT1uKs
It wasn't a dissenting view, it was the court opinion. And citing events from before that precedent isn't so relevant to today's laws.
Modern automotive connectivity is via the CAN bus. It is not a given that the system that's internet connected is even able to talk to the CAN bus.
I feel personally attacked.
> APCs are purely defensive.

Many APC's seem to have significantly powerful weaponry, compared to civilian/infantry weapons anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_personnel_carrier

In Western nations, APCs are frequently armed with the .50
calibre M2 Browning machine gun, 7.62mm FN MAG, or 40mm Mk
19 grenade launcher. In former Eastern bloc nations, the
KPV, PKT and NSV machine guns are common options.
I would wager a guess most of Ferrari clients live in or near a desert. Same for Lambos and other exotics.
Those that assume this is satire, if it is, it's bad satire.

The author tosses in references and citations that if this were satire, are affirmations of how much smarter the author is than their audience, since they know the absurdity (apparently if it's satire) of these claims, but the gullible audience thinks they're plausible.

I don't think this is satire, but maybe I'm not intelligent enough to see through it.
Bored police departments spend their money on toys.

Busy police departments spend their money hiring more cops so that they aren't so over worked.
in 2019 (i.e. before covid), I threw a party at my centrally located, but also quite small, 1 br apartment. Had some friends in from out of town and put them up at a hipster boutique hotel 3 blocks from my apt. They hung out at my place for as long as they wanted, stumbled back to the hotel when they were done, and retreated to privacy of their own hotel room. We all walked to breakfast the next day.

The way the math works out is that I would be able to pay for three nights per month in that hotel for the difference between a 1br and a 2br in my building.

I don't think everyone reading this article needs to shoehorn their own situation into the analysis, but for me it makes a ton of sense. I kind of want a 2br, but I really wouldn't use the space that often and I have excellent alternatives.
The README mentions go-prompt[0] which is based on python-prompt-toolkit[1]

[0] https://github.com/c-bata/go-prompt

[1] https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit
It is incredibly irresponsible for the President of the United States (or of any country) to speculate about obviously questionable practices like injecting disinfectant in the midst of a global pandemic and a national emergency.

And, the sad fact that we have to remind ourselves of this (you don't "muse" about injecting disinfectant!) is an indicator of just how irresponsible, destructive, and and constant the President's behavior, and it's enabling by politicians, the news media, or others in positions of influence (whose responsibility was to condemn such behavior) has been.

This is not complicated. No one who cares about their own well-being would ever want to work under a boss like that, much less let someone like that babysit their kids.
(1) In an efficient market, all the companies are one segment are no more and no less likely to be either rubbish or overvalued than any other segment. The risk is random.

(2) You manage that with diversification. I'd never allocate more than 25% of my portfolio to my own active management. My expected returns are slightly higher than index.

(2a) Buying stocks for my employer or their competitors would be difficult for insider trading. I'm much more likely to buy adjacent segments: suppliers, customers, etc. If I'm picking a supplier, I'm uniquely qualified to have alpha on their stock. On the other hand, my own job isn't very exposed to market changes in those segments.
I think this is an excellent point, and goes to some of my frustration as to how I think the "goal posts" have been moved. I completely agree with the "flatten the curve" mindset of preventing our heath systems from being overwhelmed. But we've been far under that where I live for months now, and it seems like the view from the left (which I usually tend to agree with) is now that we should prevent any transmission and essentially be in our current state of lockdown (which, granted, where I live isn't super strict, but still very few people are going into the office and nobody I know is meeting in groups) until there is a vaccine.
What a bunch of nobodies. Dr Person Fakename and Dr Johnny Fartpants also made a declaration.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-...
So, how is a user to know the difference between “I tried all methods known to me and googled for solutions, but can't turn it on right now”, “the hardware is fine, but nobody can turn it on ever again” and “there’s a hardware problem that means nobody can turn it on again”?

Because if that, I think it’s natural that the concept gets broadened.
please please please do not use google's results as an indication of really anything at all. Don't take my word for it, do this test: search something, like the name of someone you know that's not famous. You'll find that google will reports tens of thousands (or millions! lol) of results. But click through 10 or 15 pages. You'll soon find that many of the pages have almost nothing at all to do with what you searched (and may not even contain any word from the phrase!), but that if you get far enough, maybe 300 results or so in, you'll see that when google runs out of results it will magically just update to show the real number, which is often just a few dozen for a search like the one I described.
You've probably already heard of this one because Ezra Klein appears regularly, but the Weeds is my go-to policy podcast.
I think I'm at like 5000% my daily intake of irony after reading this.
I love this! Thanks for sharing! Haiku is a beautiful OS.
> it seems like we ought to be able to prohibit at least the covert sale of customer data without going full GDPR.

The only effect this will have is making the sale of your data more overt rather than covert.
This is one of the many things I point to when asked questions such as "Why would you trust your VPN provider more than your ISP?"
The Swedish chef doesn't really sound like he's from anywhere in Scandinavia to be honest, while perhaps somehow from all over Scandinavia. Kinda like a mix of all Scandinavian peoples.

"Mange tack" sounds more like danish than Swedish, where you'd say "stort tack" or "tack så mycket" instead. :o)
Notable though your using as evidence a law enforcement action that rates it's own Wikipedia entry.