skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>these are certainly all the ingredients for above-average success and that's expected and he certainly would have become very wealthy

(My emphasis).

That's simply not true. People nearly always ignore the element of luck that allowed success to happen, and it's the biggest mistake that people make in terms of their politics, IMO. There are countless examples of people's success which they put down to characteristics such as these, but they ignore the luck that allowed those things to come to fruition (and indeed the blind luck that allowed them to have the skills in the first place). They didn't happen to many others with the same characteristics, who no-one has ever heard of.
I've run into programmers that always want to make code faster and more "efficient". What is wrong with that thinking is that computing resources are cheap but programmers are not cheap. Most of the time the more efficient option is readable and maintainable code.
Be sure to have a dialogue with your parents and siblings regarding your family history. My dad has a history of polyps, starting around 40. It's not something I would have known about without talking to him as it's just a regular part of his life to get them removed every few years. I had my first colonoscopy last year at 45 and had a polyp removed. If I didn't know my family history, I might have waited until the normal age of 50 and it might have been too late.
Money is a rationing system. For real world goods it makes some sense, absent central planning. For digital life, and intellectual property money is a bad fit.

The disparities between rich and poor were getting smaller for much of the 20th century. Rich now has a new top bracket which is insane. And, its built on disruptive digital finance models.

Bezos however, is an old school robber baron. His money directly correlates to the relative poverty of his workers and his opposition to unions has a rational basis which equals his wealth.
I was not trying to get into the genocide thing. I just know that Taiwan and South Korea are very close to China. And so I feel like even before China really builds up their military much more, the proximity of those places to China is a pretty significant military issue for US and its allies. Its hard to see how it does not provide military advantages.

More generally, it seems like we want to hold out hope that in the long run serious military confrontation can somehow be avoided down the line. But if not, chip production is a fairly key item that you don't really want to be happening on your enemy's doorstep.
The counterpoint is valid (rising seas don't help), but then we have Saint Petersburg ([1]) that's literally build on top of swamps and occupies multiple islands. It has a first class subway ([2]). It's a little deeper than regular subways, but it exists and works really well.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Metro
Take five! - A semantically-consistent pure-CSS slide renderer
> “I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,”

Really...fired for that? Ridiculous.
It's as if people can't understand context, intent and probably intonation.

Why don't they start demanding for researchers who study uses of insults to be fired because "racial slurs can't be used anywhere regardless of context"? That the problem with absolutes, if you were to enforce them " literally every single time" a lot would go wrong and certain things would become impossible.

What a joke that paper is
Besides the obvious safety concerns, I also have some serious doubts about the efficacy. It's quite well known that the glycosylation of the spike protein ("decorating" sugar structures) contributes significantly to immunerecognition (see e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71748-7).

By chemically synthesizing naked (non-glycosylated) protein fragments, you likely end up with the wrong antigen.
> looking after their power might not be an issue at all; people could just respect and like her as a talented leader

This does sound good, though I have seen zero examples of this fairy tale coming true in the real life around me.
Like the ideas of reading 10K more efficiently. But to me, the text interface of Last10k could not deliver this promise. Visualization is IMO a much better way to quickly grasp information.
+1, I went form mac to Thinkpad. It's got better usability all round.
OLED is less bright, so it makes sense they would take all the nits they can get by not adding a matte layer.

Generally matte or antireflective screens are easy to find in the business laptop segment.
Chesterton's Fence applies.

(1) Shorting is necessary for the operation of the derivatives market due to the need to hedge Greeks.

(2) Shorting is necessary for market makers to provide quotes on both sides, which is why spreads are so tight.

(3) Shorting is a natural part of any market for a fungible product. We can't short houses (this was Elon's flawed example) because they're not fungible. We can short commodities that are fungible (which includes stock) because it's possible to create a contract where repurchase and return of said commodity by the borrower makes the lender whole. Banning shorting is an authoritarian move which says "an owner of a commodity (gold, silver, stock) is disallowed from arranging a voluntary contract to lend it to someone for a fee".

(4) Shorting is to the benefit of longs that lend stock due to borrow fees, which benefits the lender in excess of the adverse market impact.

(5) Shorting is opt-out. The float owner can prevent their float from being shorted.

(6) Shorting is fundamentally healthy for the capital markets. NKLA was only revealed as a fraud because of an incentive created to find downside possibilities in stocks. If you remove that downside incentive, you get more bubbles because everyone is incented towards hype and promotion.
I was trying to scratch two itches with this.

One was a long pending one - once I moved jobs and stopped using outlook in favor of gmail, I found that attaching emails to other emails was impossible(?). While it wasn't a difficulty I faced every day, it still bothered me that sharing emails in gmail was so hard.

Then, on a recent HN thread, someone mentioned that they had subscribed to a gmail comment plugin solely to be able to discuss an email before finalizing a course of action. That's when I realized that many email threads could be much better handled simply by allowing comments and discussions on the side.

The final itch was realizing that if I wanted to self host my email, there was no easy way to parse and read eml files. So the entire effort started with trying to figure out how to present eml files in a human-friendly manner.

Once the eml file reader was ready, I figured I could do more with it than just reading my own emails..and hence Moogle.cc
Today it's considered a highly addictive and deadly drug that is heavily regulated by various nations.
Yeah but you can get reliable smoke, and from brands that you can trust. I would much rather this than be wondering if I'm smoking pesticides.
]D=.~. S=.

I thought I was looking at a sendmail config file at first!
My laptops has always been matte screen until my current MacBook Pro. Never gain. After this I am going back to non-Apple laptop.

(To clarify, Glossy screen is part of the reasons, but there are tons of thing I hate about macbook pro)
> If you are using CodeMirror commercially, there is a social expectation that you help fund its maintenance. Start here.

Nice! I liked this!

This clarification, maybe with a board of supporters for those who wish to be visible seems like a much better approach than all kinds of not-osi-open-source.
RH purportedly didn't change the rules, it was unexpectedly large NSCC capital requirements due to an unexpectedly large level of volume on the week.
They actually call it "Hardware." If you look on the left of the thread linked website, you'll see a very nice "Table of contents." In this table of contents, it lists all the topics that the books covers.

HARDWARE

1 Boolean Logic 9

2 Boolean Arithmetic 31

3 Memory 45

4 Machine Language 61

5 Computer Architecture 83

6 Assembler 103

These topics are fundamental to computer science. Boolean algebra is fundamental to computer science. Just because E.E. or C.E. degree courses mention a topic, doesn't mean that topic all of a sudden becomes exclusive to them.

Also, I notice you're using the first edition. May I suggest you look at the second edition, as stated in the title?
I agree on those points. That’s why I only focused on the cross-reactivity part of your post. Call it a nitpick, if you want.
> The internet is a bunch of private fiefdoms.

For $7 a year you can host a website that's accessible from anywhere in the world. Things are better not worse.
I'd like to agree, but land ownership is essentially local monopoly.

To see exactly how this can go horribly wrong, read up on the Irish famine, which was mostly caused by how the England-based land-owners were using the land to extract value. The local people didn't own any land and would have had to leave the entire island for an alternative.
The repos are basically an App Store. The only advantage is you can add multiple repo sources.
In the US, gas stations make pennies per gallon of gas at best- I think around 5 cents is somewhat normal.
I had a late 2009 MacBook Pro with matte screen, the one with the "ugly" silver bezel around it. It was the last model ever that offered a matte coating. It was fantastic. I used it for over 8 years and even after the first retinas came out I still preferred my old matte screen. Then they reduced the glare but still... I think even better DPI and contrast don't make up for the fact that you're staring at your own face all the time. And it really puts a strain on your eyes as they need to constantly "filter" the focus.

I hate glossy screens.
> ‘The rules of physics don’t apply to us. We’re Ample Hills!’” Scott says. Smith, he adds, had begun to think of himself as “the Steve Jobs of ice cream.”

Whenever someone makes favorable comparison of themselves to Steve Jobs (Elizabeth Holmes comes to mind), it's time to run screaming in the opposite direction.
> Hyping up meme stocks is just the newest addition to tactics like wire fraud, MLMs, etc.

I think your examples and meme stock are two completely different things. MLMs, frauds etc are by design lies while meme stocks are jokes and usually big hive mind mistakes. This is an apples to oranges comparison
There are stocks (and options, of course) riskier than some bet options on bookmakers.

(It's the same math pretty much and Bookmakers are doing the risk calculations in real time so for example you could settle your bet and get a partial return on a bet on the US election for example after the election but before the final counts came)
The 81-year-old who has sailed around the world 11 times
Once you have dealt with a major illness, you realize there is very little 'care' in health care. I sympathize with health care workers(mom is an RN, wife is in school now), but it is an unfortunate situation.

In my experience, outcomes are determined by how much you are willing to manage your own care and, importantly, fight when necessary.
What do you replace the luck with?

We already elect governments and they already have immense resources, more resources than even the richest individuals. So replacing "luck" with democratic election probably just ends up with more and bigger government? That just concentrates all power in government which I think would be worse than the problem you see.
Trump/right wing craziness accelerated an existing movement in VA politics.
I think the point is that marijuana will show up in a drugs days a few days later, even when you're no longer high.

As in, you wouldn't fire someone for showing up sober on Monday morning because they had a glass of wine on Saturday evening.
To put this in context, the member count went from (at most) 1.5M to 8.5M within weeks. No wonder it got crazy out there.
Why not doing two versions of the annual reports? One in plain text to meet the regulator’s requirement and the other one, shorter but more creative for the general audience and building of brand awareness? I believe it’s totally worth it.
> HTTP client in Rust using curl

Which could possibly use Hyper under the hood :-P

https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/Hyper
> can therefore harness the power of science to make a vaccine

The title is misleading. He didn't really make the vaccine. The peptide sequences were designed by people with real biology credentials [1,2]. He ordered the peptides online. All he did himself was mix the peptides with some liquids [3] and spray his nose.

[1] https://radvac.org/

[2] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Estep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Church_(geneticist)

[3] Ok, now I am misleading. There is also chitosan, vinegar, activated charcoal, and more steps than just mixing proteins with liquids.
This author doesn't realize that 'people' don't care if someone is a billionaire if they became one by taking risk themselves. Yes, people will rightfully shit on the ones who inherited their wealth or achieved most of their success through backroom regulatory dealings but elon musk parlayed his whole lifetime earnings into Tesla and SpaceX while the US government printed money to subsidize investment banks and mortgage lenders. Did 'public' sector or 'private' sector generate the more useful innovation? I'm all for the rule of law and at the local level it makes sense to have democratic government. The most obvious trend in this era is that centralization of power is bad but most of it has occurred through politicians who are out of touch with the people they represent who live 1000s of miles away from them + central bankers manipulating interest rates and preventing an actual free market that would let shitty companies go bankrupt. So when people poo on where much of the world has arrived in wealth disparity, they should blame crony socialism in the public sector rather than free market capitalism (which to date only exists on the internet and in crypto). Instead governments are demolishing the currency employees get paid in to subsidize shitty companies and inflate asset prices. And that process is mostly not run by billionaire but by elected and appointed bureaucrats.... This writer has the nuance of a fart joke.
That's what GP was saying.
Let me rephrase: If the data is in the EU it is covered by GDPR no matter where the person that creates the data is at (yes in the US too) but the person isn't covered by the GDPR, the data (that is in the EU) is covered. It is not the same thing. What most people seem to think is the EU overreaching and "making laws that reach outsides its borders" is in cases where a foreign company (like Facebook) gets regulated by GDPR even though the company is outside the EU. This is because the data is in the EU and of course data in the EU isn't under US or any other entities law but EU (and member states). If you transfer data outside the EU you either do so illegally or have to follow the rules of the GDPR. It still doesn't reach outside the EU borders. Of course if you do something criminally the EU might judge you no matter where you are at just like the US with PROTECT Act of 2003 but that is another matter.
> don't just brutally strip mine the entire surface of Mars

What difference does it make? It's already rock and sand.
This sounds like hyperbole. Amazon has a $15/hour minimum wage and a number of benefits not offered by other companies for unskilled labor. It also applies to seasonal workers apparently: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/workplace/amazon-raises-min...

I do think that this gesture may be something only they can afford, and I also think that Amazon should be broke up because they are immune to competition. But I feel like the characterization of Bezos as a robber baron and claim that his wealth is a result of his workers’ poverty has no basis in reality.
It was also a completely different community at 50k vs. 500k etc. At that point it started hitting /r/all consistently.
I liked the old model of a beach of sands, maybe a couple stones, but still a rich ecosystem.

Clinging to sands is lonely, and I refuse the big sites.
I rather doubt snorting some peptides as described will do much. There are some attempts to make actual nasal covid vaccines and I think they use chimpanzee adenovirus vectors. Ie you get a virus that gives chips colds and add some covid bits on. See the Indian one for example https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-unders...

I think they also were talking of trying the AstraZenca one nasally which is also a modified chimp virus.
Trump Organization Sought Ownership Stake in Parler While He Was President
And what would that help solve?
Sure, we're in agreement, I just didn't word it properly. Updated
The market in CA isn't functioning properly quite yet, due mostly to over-regulation but also due to the lack of an national market.

In the longer term it'll sort itself out, but don't hold your breath.
In the cryptocurrency world there is the DNS based OpenAlias: https://openalias.org/ The format is extensible enough to be able to hold a wide range of information sets.
Round here, the ads I'm seeing for "investment" apps seem to be required to have the disclaimer "75% of retail CFD investors lose money". And yet people look at that and think they'll be one of the 25%.
I have on occasion attempted to use https://play.rust-lang.org and https://gcc.godbolt.org/ from my phone. Both are sites where you enter standalone snippets of code (in C or Rust respectively) and get back compiler output: useful when I’m checking up on obscure corners of language semantics, usually for the sake of some sort of internet discussion (and/or for fun). Both sites use fancy JavaScript-based editor widgets (not sure which ones) instead of raw textareas. Unfortunately, on my iPhone these hurt more than they help. On the former site I can’t copy or paste; on the latter, I can’t even bring up the keyboard. It’s not the end of the world; I can always wait until I get back to my laptop. But it would be nice if I didn’t have to.
You can set up a phpBB instance on a shared hosting provider for <$10/month. Interact with anyone who wants to interact with you. Don't even really need any technical knowlege, just a credit card.

People do it all the time, but they keep themselves to themselves and you don't find out about it.
Cake.co needs help with its custom code and third-party dependencies
chris: “Cake is written with a lot of custom code and and a heavy dependence on third-party services. It took a small team of engineers and designers to build it and my expectation was we could raise some significant capital to sustain the team and add more for an Android app, etc. On our list of things to do was multiple images per post, private messages, good search, following people, improving the editor, feed, etc.

We attracted attention from the top-tier VCs and they circled but didn't commit to the big round because we didn't have enough growth. And that put us in the position of a chicken and egg problem we couldn't solve, even with patience.”
"Vandalism" implies wanton, or needless destruction.

There is very much a need for this tunnel. The road is virtually unusable at the moment. All those west of the site need proper access and that is the only viable route.

As much as we'd like to preserve our archaeology untouched, IMHO the real lives of real people trump that.
Subaru Blames a Single Factory Worker for a Recall
Technology isn't good enough to have a matte display that is also bright in all conditions.

Hopefully Apple's micro-etched matte tech from the Pro Display XDR makes its way down to consumer machines.
When you say colonies, my mind renders these dystopian plots when one guy builds a great community with tricky rules and then covertly abuses a whole next generation, because they grew up with it and most of them can’t see anything wrong or decide to quit. Thank god it’s only fiction and we don’t have that irl.
For people who are stuck with a glossy screen: I don't know what the author is talking about with ‘an ugly screen protector’. A matte protector worked great for me: I slapped it on the 13" screen right after buying the laptop, and it's been there for eight years, zero problems with it. The whole thing with a protector is that it's transparent, so personally I'm looking at the picture on the screen, not the film.
This is rapidly becoming not the case, with most major tech and media organizations calling for their "competitors" to be shut down. The recent situation with Parler should have made this clear.

At this point, "start your own" is extending down to "build your own currency and payment processor."
I think there's going to be some level of litigation and maybe prosecution at the end of this. It was clear by last thursday at least what was happening, and yet there were multiple actors -- some of them organized -- trying to pump the stock and persuade people to keep buying.

One example that may not be criminal but is certainly suspect is the "top moderators" on reddit's WallStreetBets sub seem to have been suppressing all posts about $GME that weren't pumping the stock, quite thoroughly, until reddit staff stepped in and removed them. Some screenshots flying around that appear to depict the same moderators discussing payouts and investors. Doesn't seem right.
But then it becomes a race to create the technology that can build nuclear weapons the fastest creating a more volatile equilibrium.
Honestly, I have seen that mentality on HN a lot, but not much outside on real life. I think HN has strong bias here - and partially ideological bias, surprisingly often they want everyone to home school.
> the data was shared willfully through user action.

So it's opt-in, even if you don't tell people what it does when you click that button?

The headline is totally accurate - "Modifying Telegram's “People Nearby” feature to pinpoint people's homes"

> 99,999% of Telegram users do not use it.

Given I can see many people around me this is not true, unless the population is around me is orders of magnitude bigger than it is.
I hope it won’t end up like tyre companies buying up train companies...
Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
Ransomware: User encrypts their own files
The road tunnel makes perfect sense to me as an outsider. Humans made the first mistake by building a road so near and now we can fix it.

Also archaeologists keep saying how important the landscape was around the henge and now tourists can finally take it in without a busy road in their field of view.
How much luck goes into becoming a successful politician?

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just wondering if things are any better in government roles.
The reason I feel federally they will delay legalizing it as much as possible is due to tax revenue. Due to it being illegally federally, the irs does not allow anyone to write off their expenses accept expenses that contribute to the cost of goods sold. This increases the effective tax rate drastically
The war on disinformation is a war on dissent
The second statement is unfortunately true.

But be careful of taking the first one at face value. The outsider might be optimizing for being right. He might also be optimizing for looking good in his social circle, confirming some self-image in his own mind, establishing himself as a prudent person who holds sensible beliefs, or establishing himself as a daring person who holds antiestablishment beliefs. The process that brought him to your attention, might also have selected him for noteworthiness by all sorts of criteria, only one of which is being right; that counts as an optimization process in and of itself.

Which doesn't mean the outsider isn't right. Maybe he is. But be careful of just assuming it.