skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
College will become high school. It will be free, mandatory, and which one you went to won't matter at all. That's not important. But what is important, is that like high school, it won't matter what you studied, or if you stood out. In fact, it's already happening.
> bc the real way to make money is to attach yourself you the largest possible business and then climb

I don't know how you get that idea unless you are talking about the handful of C-level positions at tech giants. Otherwise switching your job every few years and increasing salary/position each time is generally the more profitable path than staying at a single company and waiting for promotion.
FYI, development has stopped on uMatrix (github repository is archived and read-only). I've switched to using uBlock origin in advanced mode. It's not as flexible, but it does similar work.
Bouncers were my regular insult to my developing identity in my latter teenage years. We were engineers, we didn’t understand what those bouncers wanted... We couldn’t bring girls, we didn’t know many. A weekly frustration.

I believe that is why I really enjoyed becoming gay. I was cute, muscular and decently dressed, lord knows why I wasn’t welcome in straight clubs (and I wasn’t effeminate), but at least in gay clubs there was no ratio or requirement to bring women on board.

The same when dealing with a gay relationship: No assigned gender role, no problem if the other is doing the washing up. I literally became gay because it was easier, I was desired by many, accepted in clubs, found equality in the relationship, where I was refused by women. I never pierced the secret.

But I’m still regretting.
100 Reasons You Need Financial Independence
And the next day started shooting at each other again. Humans are truly weird.
The link really should be https://docs.mailway.app/self-host/ to get the docs for self-hosting, and not the repos which don’t really have any useful information to read.
Selling Clubhouse invites (Crazy but I make $300/day)
Hey all,

Two weeks ago I received a newsletter from indiemaker.co about a website that sells Clubhouse invites and makes $1K/day

The owner is selling his website for $15K - why would anyone want to sell a website making $1K/day for only $15K?

I thought there has to be something wrong with it and I tried selling my invites on Reddit and Twitter. As the result I got out of invites. So obviously there is a great demand for Clubhouse invites.

In r/ClubhouseInvites, there are hundreds of redditors trying to sell their invites to whose who need. But there are hundreds of thousands people who are unaware of the existence of r/ClubhouseInvites but still looking around to find an invite.

So I went ahead and created a marketing plan where I tried all marketing channels to sell invites. And for the last two days I have been making $300+ / day selling invites.

After having enough know-how, I also created a simple guide for those who are selling Clubhouse invites and decided to monetize my experience too here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/944647216/how-to-make-100usd-day-selling-clubhouse

Clubhouse has not been monetized yet but users are already making money out of it :)
I look at swizec's reply as defining some attributes of talent (something the article says is not generally defined when people talk about talent)..
I'll always remember Centralia fondly as the post-apocalyptic wasteland of my childhood. Before the state was forced to close off the section of Route 61 that later became known as the "Graffiti Highway," you were likely to encounter abrupt drops and ridges in the pavement as you drove through, the result of subsidence caused by the fires burning through the coal veins below. You were also treated to the sight of smoke wafting up from fissures in the ground, and sometimes even flames.

I took my girlfriend for a visit 7 or 8 years ago. At that point the town had been almost completely razed. Without explanation to an uninitiated viewer, curbs and fire hydrants bizarrely poked out from a field of weeds that had grown over much of the town's streets, the houses behind them long bulldozed and abandoned. The strangest thing to me, though, was the juxtaposition of the newly-constructed Locust Ridge Wind Farm high on a neighboring mountain, its enormous windmills plainly visible from the rubble on the hill in town, all offering a stark and beautiful reminder that even after the apocalypse things can get better.
> nine to twelve months long, ... So what happens if the first two vaccines were benign but also ineffective?

We'd know it was ineffective by 3 months tops. Presumably several vaccines would be in play, and after 3 months switch to the more effective ones.

We'd have had an effective vaccine loong before 9 months.
it depends on the position you are hiring for. Is it a position that needs solving problems with new technology? or is it to maintain a 5 years old application used by 1 million paying customer? each needs a different personality and maybe a different type of talent
This is demonstrated in the second half of this video (around the 11:30 mark):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4LhcbSmXQ&t=619s

This seems good enough for emulating early 8088 and maybe even 80286 PCs, so opens up a big catalog of early games.
Assuming you mean natural body building (without hormones etc): More muscles means better circulation, so you are less likely to feel cold. More muscles also increase the basal metabolic rate so you are less likely to get overweight.
Ahh this was a great great article back in the day. Lots of fun on smashthestack.

See also:

- Standard x86 calling conventions -- http://unixwiz.net/techtips/win32-callconv-asm.html

- A x86 instruction reference -- http://ref.x86asm.net/

EDIT: formatting
I didn’t ignore his other points, in fact I very clearly said I agree 100% with the rest of the article. Please stay away from ad hominims on HN.
That's the issue at the heart of it. Ads are annoying, but a certain type of lucrative person clicks on them. A YouTuber asking to hit that bell and like button is repetitive, but it works. Sometimes superfluous additions ruin products, but customers will purchase things that make them feel good.

We have the internet we deserve.
Have you seen the documentary What The Health? Thoughts?
>The original FAWB proposals targeted all semi-automatic rifles with detachable clips.

OK, I agree with you that such a proposal makes sense conceptually. (But I would still oppose it on the grounds that it offends the Second Amendment.) My complaint about conceptual incoherence is limited to bans that focus on things like pistol grips.
I have a few concerns: what's the incentive for Big Tech to adopt this system? Will it have to be forced by law? If so, how do you deal with data sovereignty? Could I self-host my own pod instead?
I liked xpdf, but stopped using it after my package manager said it had unpatched CVEs (and at least implied unmaintained). Any chance it's been cleaned up now? I see a recent release but couldn't find a change log.
This seems like it would make a great stack for driving or street-situated games as well.
We've been very very close (probably more than once).

https://www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905796/nuclear-war-1983-stan...

In short: Russian early warning system operator sees 5 minuteman ICBMs coming towards them. He does not have time to go check with someone. If they are to retaliate, he has to just launch now. No such thing as "waiting for the president to decide to launch". He didn't. Turned out reflections of the sunlight off clouds set off their sensors.
There are file names that can’t be expressed as UTF8? I’m intrigued.
How does your version of the story go?
I remember eating red deliciouses about 30 years ago and they were terrible, for the exact reasons in the article. It turned me off of apples, to this day, I still mostly eat pears, and shy away from apples.
The thing is (and I live in NOLA at the moment and have for years) even though cash bars have been declining the alternative scene still self organized - there used to be one just down the street from Republic on N Peters (which is not the FQ granted) where lots of people would head immediately after Decadence for example (I’m being purposefully vague but if you know anything about the scene you can determine which I mean)
I totally hate Facebook, never had an account and will never have.

However, why the first media resource administrator of banned page reached, was Russian propagandist outlet Sputnik? Their style is disgusting Goebbels-style propaganda, coordinated attacks on social media using resources of St.Petersburg troll factory, and for sure they use Facebook for their propagandist purposes.

I can assure, in Russian jurisdiction any resource like Wikileaks would be shut down, and founders will soon have tea with Novichok.

I just want to say, siding with one evil against another could not be justified.
Yet another idea is to force them to provide freely accessible API and possibility to extract all data in a free format.
Form follows function.

The addition of a pistol grip does lend increased tactical maneuverability to a rifle. It doesn't just look scary. The tactical ability of a semi/fully-automatic rifle does not exclusively come from its ability to rapidly chamber rounds, it also comes from its tactical maneuverability, especially when firing multiple rounds in a short period of time.

This is why the military uses rifles that look like the M4 platform, and not rifles that look like the M14 platform anymore. This is why the AK-47 doesn't look like the SKS. The addition of a pistol grip to a semi or fully-automatic rifle represents an advance in military technology.

The 2015 San Bernardino Shooting, the Sandy Hook shooting, and the Orlando nightclub shooting all involved light, tactical rifles with pistol-grips. Stephen Paddock had 21 pistol-grip rifles, and not a single Mini-14.

There is a meaningful advantage in the ability to kill people in in-close, rapid-fire situations with a light, semi-automatic rifle featuring a pistol grip. This is why people whose job descriptions involve killing people at relatively close-ranges (military, SWAT) use this style of weapon, and not a weapon that looks like a Mini-14.

The stock Mini-14 looks like a traditional hunting rifle, because it is engineered for hunting. Its design is not optimized for controllability when rapidly firing multiple rounds in multiple directions in a tactical setting. A good hunter shouldn't need to discharge much more than two rounds, and they have one single target. They're not controlling for recoil over the course of an entire 30-round magazine, while pivoting in multiple directions.

In that context, the legal classification of an assault weapon does make pretty good sense.
He isn't asking that though, so was there something you wanted to say about what the GP actually wrote?
I think the second paragraph of this article is unintentionally revealing:

> One high school near me just dropped freshman advanced-standing (honors) English “to combat the effects of academic ‘tracking” because it “ultimately separates students of different socioeconomic and racial backgrounds.” It turns out that middle schools from lower-income areas aren’t adequately preparing their students for high school. So rather than fix that problem, they dumbed down high school.

So rather than write about that problem, the author takes the far less interesting path of complaining about lowering standards. Much easier to advocate a return to a recent status quo than to dig into the sticky, uncomfortable reasons that education is stratified by race and class.

This article is basically a case study in what it purports to call attention to. What could have been an interesting article is merely a mediocre fallacy-filled defense of conservative economic policies that, increasingly clearly, do not work.
This article assumes grading and categorizations leads to non-mediocre results. And yet, to use the article's own example, Steve Jobs took classes at Reed college without actually being enrolled, losing the opportunity to even get a "loosey-goosey grade-point average" but was considered "exceptional". Being graded doesn't "manifest merit".

These kind of articles tend to vacillate between two extremes. Either academia is killing creativity and producing unthinking drones who live for grades, or schools are too lax with their grading to produce exceptional students.

Mediocre is synonymous with average, which logically speaking, a school will be more likely to produce regardless of its grading policy (aptitude being a moving target). Simply put, exceptional people/circumstances that produce exceptional results are exceptional because they are not the average, so expecting a non-average result from an education system servicing large populations is unlikely in any scenario. Improvements in education require specific solutions to specific problems, arguing more grades/categories are necessary in order to produce some vague idea of merit isn’t a relevant assertion.
Leaving all the ridiculous gender politics aside, body building is very comparable to those so-called “pro-ana” models in how unhealthy it is, and I believe it should be treated the same, which is, of course: allow a man to do what he wants.

However, it strikes me as a particular dual standard that some jurisdictions have tackled models whose body fat percentage is dangerously low, but who do not have steroid-built, unhealthily large muscles with it that their body fat can't healthily support, but seem to be completely fine with adding said unhealthy muscles, to the former.

It comes as no surprise to me that such jurisdictions elect to primarily use the very unreliable and pseudoscientific body mass index in lieu of the more reliable body fat percentage as an indicator of “underweight”, for had they elected to use the latter: it would accurately show that most body builders are unhealthy low in fat, and would be struck down under the same rules.

But of course, that is not what they desire, for that falls under what they consider to be their conventional ideal of beauty, and “health concerns" have always been one of the first thing the authoritarian reaches for, to enforce his own will and social control over others.

We ban drugs, for they are unhealthy! but alcohol? well I don't know about that... they are socially acceptable, after all.
"The clinical trial participants who were evaluated were relatively young and unlikely to become severely ill, making it impossible for the scientists to determine if the variant interfered with the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine’s ability to protect against severe Covid-19, hospitalizations, or deaths."

"South African health officials said they would inoculate health workers in the coming weeks with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which has strong efficacy in preventing severe cases and hospitalizations caused by the new variant."

So: some encouraging news, and some discouraging news.
So would you say it's Greek to you?
It feels to me like the article just sets up a bunch of straw men to knock down.

To start with, when most companies say "we only hire top 1% talent" in the context of software development, they don't really mean talent as some sort innate potential, they mostly just mean skill (combined with a bit of potential to become even more skilled).

Further, the idea that most people think talent is one dimensional, static and linear is just mystifying to me. Does anyone actually thinks this? He takes a literal view of "the 1%" and extrapolates that to derive these assumptions. But no one means that literally, it's just a phrase meant to invoke the idea that they are are highly selective how they hire. That this has to be explained is... odd.

The author then repeatedly carps on about how "talent" cannot be quantified and then, somehow, thinks this means that the interview process is meaningless. Um, that skill cannot be quantified is WHY we have the (admittedly flawed) interview process.

If all of these prevalent assumptions about talent are wrong, what does it say about our hiring and management practices?

It doesn't say anything because assumptions are false. And even if talent can be "developed" (here I think he means ability to learn how to improve skills faster), everyone knows the hiring process is flawed. Because, you know, both people and roles are complex and multi-facetted. So hiring is hard. Hopefully practices will improve to become better, but I'm not holding my breath.
It’s not just the GOP who misunderstands Section 230
There is a great book by Carol Dweck - Minset. She distinguishes two types of minset in people. Fixed - who believe their capabilities are static and even when they have some success they are afraid to do more in order to not ruin the impression; and growth mindset - who believe almost everything can be developed and are not afraid to learn and try. There is a lot of research and interesting examples from businesses, social and sport in the book on the topic of thise different understandings of talent.
The vultures are already circling on to their next victim for alleged 'hate speech'.

At this point, the NYT considers anything as 'hate speech'. To them, it has no meaning.
How to get a job at any company:

1) Know the company better than the company knows itself.

2) Know their "pain". That is, know the set of problems that would be faced by a key decision maker or senior management -- on a daily basis.

3) Know who the key decision maker(s) is/are.

4) Figure out a way to communicate with those decision makers directly, sidestepping their "minions" (lower-level rank-and-file non-decision-making employees) that act as gatekeepers who turn away people -- including most job applicants.

5) #4 may require some out of the box thinking and acting, for example, figuring out how to attend a party, gathering, or other social event at which the key decision maker or decision makers will be present.

6) Email should be avoided -- until and unless you have built rapport through another channel...

7) You need a few things to make this happen, you need to be smart, but you also need good social skills, good faith, ethics, integrity, and a little bit of luck... If one or more of these things is not present, you will fail.

8) Persistence and Flexibility are virtues.
They pick them early, keep them in cold storage, and ripen with ethylene gas. The Macs in particular are hard little balls with zero flavor.

Go to an orchard that has Courtland apples and try them fresh off the tree.
You can get Pink Ladies (Cripps Pink) from Italy, France, Argentina depending on the season
Unfortunately I can't find it now. I was looking for it earlier because I wanted to reread it myself. Wish I'd bookmarked it at the time. Sorry about that.
This is a great game. Used to play it quite a lot. Playing a lan game with 2 friends was incredibly fun. I'm too old and blind to play a game that needs this level of reaction now, but if you can actually play a modern FPS and if people are still playing this, it's quite unique.
Hearing you on FM. Just gonna test drive it for a bit, to calibrate my expectations.
HaikuOS looks like an OS dedicated for desktop use. I've just gotten myself a Mac mini last week. Big Sur is the ugliest OS I've ever seen. If that's where the future is heading, then I'm not sure I want to continue using computers. I could use some dated UIs, such as the Haiku one.
Fair enough.
Thanks for taking the time to explain your thinking!
The author claims that using these patterns will result in faster code. Has anyone done the actual benchmarks and tested this claim?
I think it's true in those circumstances, but I don't believe that's part of a systematic policy.

I would imagine that the possibility of Cixin Liu leaving would be contingent on whatever the idiosyncrasies are of his personal circumstances. I would say he's not necessarily constrained by the examples you've cited, though they raise a valid concern.
You need motivation as well as talent. I have a friend who's one of the smartest guys I know, he has incredible side projects but at work does the bare minimum. Meanwhile I know guys that dont have talent but can grind, can code well but just steady output, can hit deadlines and are generally motivated.
The M134 weighs 85lbs without ammunition, and the actor has to hold it out in front of them in an awkward position. 85lbs isn't a lot to lift or carry close to your chest, but it's a lot to hold out in front of you. Add in the need to carry/consume a prodigious amount of ammunition plus the recoil generated by the blanks, and it's a lot to deal with.
When part of someone’s job is advising the public, and they mislead the public when doing so, they should face consequences - even if they are otherwise the best person for the job.

In the current political climate lying and wilful deception have become normalised. That has to stop, as an urgent priority. Democracy relies on the electorate making informed decisions, and that system is compromised if they are being mislead and manipulated.
The article makes some decent points but I think the premise is altogether wrong. It’s always good to remind ourselves that hiring the “right” people is actually less (but not by a lot,) about raw talent as it is cultural fit, values alignment, being motivated by what they do (hopeful a combination of personal growth, contributing to something meaningful, feeling you’re “goos” at your job, and money) and clicking with the rest of the team(s). In fact, I’ve seen a lot of extremely talented people being very unsuccessful and unhappy because the job just wasn’t right for them.
I’d argue that Facebook is already more powerful than many small and developing countries. Millions of people spend hours a day on their platform... in the past they’ve disclosed experimenting with affecting the emotions of users (with little self awareness and no express consent). They’ve contributed to genocide in Myanmar and numerous other social issues.

A few minor algorithm shifts could potentially sway public opinion or even gradually radicalize people and they’re more aware of it than anyone, especially the leadership of the country they primarily operate in.
The issue is not building muscles, in almost any body building competition, what comes with it is lowering body fat to unhealthy levels.

Know well that something as simple as visible abdominal muscles already requires a body fat percentage that is lower than what is generally considered healthy.[0]

One's musculature should not be “defined” for optimal health, — that requires dropping below healthy fat levels.

Professional body builders go far beyond that, of course.

[0]: https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/how-to-get-six-pack-...
My read was that talent, as discussed in bullshit mba speak, is meaningless. Which I can easily get behind. Most MBA speak is just a cloak for confirmation biases.
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Not to mention that success is often fair dose of luck. But if you know it and try multiple times while correcting your mistakes, the chance is only increasing.