skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be curious to see if the rate of "exceptional" children is higher for "exceptional" families than "unexceptional" families since by definition it's going to be far from the norm regardless. But the rate could still be 2x or 3x (I don't think it is, but it's a possibility). There's a lot of focus on the exceptional but I think where having a very rich or wealthy family helps is less in a much bigger upside, which certainly exists in some degree, but in a much higher floor.

If you are born into a single-income, lower-middle class family, your floor is poverty and even literally starving to death. If you're born into a family of two high-income individuals, the odds of you living your adult life in poverty are vanishingly small and your floor is probably something closer to a ho-hum middle/upper-middle life. If you're born into a family where one of your parents is the CEO of a publicly traded company and makes tens of millions a year, your floor is probably a $150k/yr lower management job in some sector-adjacent company that your parents had to call in a bunch of favors to get you.

It's not so much that coming from an exceptional family increases the "genetic" odds of exceptionality, but it provides safety and security that allows you to take risks someone waiting tables at night to pay for college wouldn't be able to, which coupled with the natural contacts and associations you'll have, gives you a huge advantage.
It may be acceptable to you but for me and a lot of people, it is not. The solution for me is to never associate or work with the FSF and advocate against this type of behavior from "leaders" in our industry and field.
Over 25 years, I worked for 4 startups, 2 pre series A, 2 series A. All were VC funded, high growth, successful. 3 were acquired; 1 stayed private.

I worked for startups because I really wanted to “get rich”. And, I put way too many hours in trying. In the end, I did get moderately rich. But, honestly, it was mostly from saving and investing well, not from exit events. Unless you play the political game, I doubt you’re gonna get rich from options. And, they don’t write the options contracts like they used to.

When I started working, I made $30k / year, and I loved my work. Now, I make $180k / year, and I hate it. I hate the people mostly, and the politics. Lol. I do have enough to retire early, and I probably will because generally I feel the golden years of software development seem over. I liked it better when it was a bunch of nerds playing with tech - people who loved it. Now, it’s more people who would have otherwise gone into banking. Ymmv.
Writing Notes by Hand Might Not Be Better Than Typing (2019)
> - Of the major issues around software freedom and digital autonomy today, approximately zero of them are TiVoization - and, as described above, that's not because GPLv3 was wildly successful in combating the threat, it's because it turned out not to be that pressing of a problem.

I'm not really sure how you define "software freedom" or "digital autonomy". What I do know is that the majority of phones sold today run Android. Despite being technically "open source" and therefore free software, it is impossible in practice to replace the software due to "secure boot". This is what GPLv3 was intended to combat. I agree that it was a failure (it turns out corporations _really_ don't want us choosing our own software).
Demystifying Time Complexity
I have mixed feelings about this server side license stuff that mongo db started. Imagine where the internet would be today if the creators of apache and mysql had tried to prevent shared hosting providers in the early days of the web from using their software
I’ve never seen anyone argue that. Well, until now anyway.
Does ARM have a uniquely complex build process, or is it the mix of architectures that makes it more difficult?
It's initially for two huge HPC systems. It'll be interesting to see what kind of availability it ever has to the rest of the world.
Sure, RISC-V designs can be open or not... And of course there's always the cost of fabbing.

There're already designs freely available to use though, either as they are, or to build upon.

And there are also now many other companies designing using the ISA; decentralising the production of chips.

But - over and above the revolutionary economics of it - it's being recognised as a good ISA, and RISC-V cores are already being incorporated into consumer electronics.
yes. mac is at least predictable. i have never booted up to some random shit in my task bar..
Mind my french, but it can also just mean loose without passive connotation, like in 'loosing a game', also can be in the sense of пропить (that means 'waste on booze', now how do you translate that one, in one word?)
Noura Al-Matroushi Is on Path to Become the First Arab Woman in Space
I think it is more meaningful with regard to what the article is after, in that it shows the paths to the top very clearly and how that has changed over the years. You could get a clearer picture with your approach of how on average the paths upward have changed, but I don't think that was the goal of the article.
SRI built Siri using Nuance for the speech components, and Nuance continued to be used for Siri under Apple: https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/05/apple-siri-nuance/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/30/nuance-confirms-i...
> Of the 73 new fortunes in 2020, 56 derive from founders' or early employees' equity (52 founders, 2 early employees, and 2 wives of founders)

0 husbands of founders

An observation. Maybe it ought to say spouse to avoid the meaty bait of several different flavors that supports this reality. As at least 1 of these is an ex-spouse it also brushes against divorce expectations in various jurisdictions, where the unpaid contributions toward the union fit an O(log n) level of efficacy instead of linear O(n).
> Think of all the amazing writers across our civilization whose work is linkable

Can you give some, please? I'm probably one those folks who cannot distinguish decent from amazing blog posts.
Exactly. At the end of the day there is only so much stuff to go around and we're pretty much at the limit of what people actually want. If a billionaire wakes up twice as rich tomorrow is he immediately going to buy a bigger mansion? Another car? Another yacht? More expensive food? Realistically he's unlikely to really want anything else. Billionaires have essentially infinite wealth. They can have whatever they want. But if one of them one day decided what they really want is a B52 bomber or an entire neighbourhood I think the limits of that wealth would become apparent.

I think what we're seeing is the limits of possibility. There are more billionaires than ever because they're all essentially at the limit. People like me are rich. I own a car with leather seats and air conditioning. I have my own home cinema. What do they have that I don't? A bigger car? A better home cinema? Who cares?
This reminds me of a recent mapmaker I discovered (and ordered a map from):
https://lordofmaps.com/
I did not even know about this stuff (but can now see what are perhaps the reasons why my comment elsewhere in the thread are being downvoted).

Is there a place I can quickly catch up on these events?

I also don't think that the foot skin eating thing is a non-starter. People are weird; I can live with that.

But the other stuff is obviously troubling.
You can open the destination pages in your chosen browser with the Google Search App in Android: (1) Tap "More" at the bottom of the screen, (2) Tap "Settings", (3) Tap "General". Then disable "Open web pages in the app".
> Now if you unexpand the arrow, you get 1, but if you expand it you get 3 =)...

Moreover, if you expand arrow next to {value: 0}, you will see literally this:

v {value: 0} [i]
value: 3
It would be extremely dangerous to your bank account.
You are not unlucky the vast majority of startups fail.

You need to be extremely lucky, extremely talented, extremely ambitious basically extremely everything to create a company and get rich from it.

It's pretty much a pipe-dream to create a company and get rich from it. The most likely result is ending completely burnt out and having wasted a couple of years.
That's just hard water
A link to the web version generated html is not included in the repro.
To me it looks like they mostly contribute to projects that are SDKs to use AWS.
Microsoft and Google are both monopolies, and thus bad for competition. One has a desktop/server operating system and office productivity monopoly and the other search and smartphone software monopoly.

Google figured out that to compete with Microsoft and Apple you have to basically give it away for free. Look no further than Android and Google docs.
If the post was not published in this year, you can indicate the date with "(2019)" at the end of the title.
The people who have the most hard drive space will mine the most Chia. How is that any different to just paying with USD to get more? In terms of it being a "much more" fair model.
That article is currently being discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26781440
Nope - I'm right there with you.

This creeping worldview where everything is black and white is starting to get very annoying.

Personally - I'm not an infant and I can recognize that nearly every person (actually - every person) I interact with on a daily basis holds viewpoints that I would agree with, and viewpoints that I would disagree with.

There is no paragon of virtue, and there is no paragon of evil. Everyone will do good and bad (and god help you if you try to get us all to agree which is which).

I still somehow manage to interact productively with most folks.

People who fixate on this type of social judgement are mentally unwell.
You don't have to chase your dependencies. You just need an adequate suite of tests and then run them with the Graal Tracing Agent enabled [1].

[1] - https://medium.com/graalvm/introducing-the-tracing-agent-sim...
Emma, no, the top 1% has at least 10M in liquid assets (primary residence doesn't count). 150k will never take you to that level.
> There were no fund managers among the 100 richest Americans in 1982. Hedge funds and private equity firms existed in 1982, but none of their founders were rich enough yet to make it into the top 100. Two things changed: fund managers discovered new ways to generate high returns, and more investors were willing to trust them with their money.

PG brushes past this to talk about tech company founders, but I thought this part was actually kind of interesting. Why is there so much money in hedge fund management? My understanding is that their profits come from skimming off the top of the proceeds generated by investing their customers' money. What's stopping hedge fund management firms from racing to the bottom by competing for customers?
So, with all the talk about RMS being on the autism spectrum in the last threads on this topic, with RMS speculating about it himself, and now this letter where he talks about his problems about interpreting social cues: To me this reads if he never bothered to get an official diagnosis? Since there is a lot of stigma that comes with neurodevelopmental disorders and mental health in general, I get that this is a highly private matter. That said, if it's the case that he truly suspects that he is on the autism spectrum but never bothered to get a diagnosis that would somewhat be a bad sign to me just on a general level, considering all the push back that he obviously got from people because of his behaviour.
People started flagging anything about Stallman because there were over 100 submissions in 2 weeks.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636
And, if you want to find where such "bad apples" come from, look no further than the UN, or any other international legal or military apparatus.
theoretically, you could do away with the whole 'i'll pay you a percentage of my earnings' and just trade the tokens. The tokens would appreciate in value as your social standing did. It's a ponzi scheme like all coins are (i have alot of money in crypto) in that you are just looking for price appreciation on the coins before you sell them.
Epic committed $444m to exclusives in 2020
Zoning doesnt matter unfortunately, prices go up in line with maximum possible mortgage amounts.

Real-estate prices have no bearing on 'value' of the land or materials. The buyer is convinced that he will get that money back and then some from the next sucker to buy it off him. It a pyramid scheme, detached from real economy.
Helicopter to Attempt First Trip from Mars Surface
It took him weeks to make a public statement and that is what he came up with?!
That’s not the same as cluttering dev tools with ads (though I agree that the Apple OS ad situation is bad)
Ugh when did alt right crazies invade HN? Multiple comments in the thread from accounts a few months old that have posted nothing tech related, nothing but right wing talking points.

(And lots of it is BS)

Maybe it would be better if we don't allow off topic threads, just to discourage politics bots from invading
OTOH, the top comment is a criticism. So, probably not all is lost :)
>The solution then would be to find a way to charge not for the copies, but for the time effort that the artist put into the production of the music.

But this method would be anti-consumer for many buyers of music because the final quality of a song does not always correlate with effort.

- low effort but high value: a musician can have a flash of inspiration and come up with a catchy chorus melody and great intro hook on a synth in 15 minutes. They then record the vocals in 2 or 3 takes and thus the whole song is done in less than a day. This ends up being a hit song.

- high effort but low value: an artist struggles for weeks and months on composing a song with many rewrites. The producer brings in a dozen other co-writers to help finish it. When they go to record, they record 100 different takes of the vocal and then construct the final vocal by splicing in syllable-by-syllable from the different takes. Very laborious. And yet, the final result is music that's heavily produced but lacks an addictive chorus and does not compel repeat listens.

A lot of movies and its sequels are like that. The original on a shoestring budget had a better story and a magic quality but the new sequel with a $200 million budget and an army of special fx artists ends up creating a dud.
PG is apropos for this forum, but beyond that he is plainly a good writer. I don't know who you consider 'amazing writers across our civilization' -- but whether it is Gracian or Scott Alexander, PG shares one thing with them, namely that his works will be quoted beyond the lifespan of his contemporary readers.
How often have you had windows switch your default browser? Genuinely curious as I've been using Windows 10 since release and have never had my default browser switched away from Firefox.
Lots of things give people a head start in thinking about those problems. But an MBA is a ticket to power.

If you really can't see what's controversial about giving power to a bunch of young people with a smattering of training and a very specific ideology, you haven't been looking at the harm caused. Maybe start there.
Here is the full quote:

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that
she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was
being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her
to conceal that from most of his associates.

He literaly said the girl was being coerced by epstein to _appear_ willing. Not that she was a willing participant. You are grossly misrepresenting what was said.
> So is ARM the future at this point?

The near future. A few years out, RISC-V is gonna change everything.
Interesting. I wonder if the seismic requirements change as well. I'd think with such tight tolerances you'd have problems with flexing from even a modest quake.
Ask HN: I'm building a platform to invest in overseas realestate.Would u invest?
Hi - I'm looking for specific feedback on the following:
1. do you invest in international properties? if yes, what type of
2. what countries would you invest in
3. why wouldn't you just buy stocks?

this is our mvp
https://www.getglobalhome.com/
At https://audext.com/ your privacy and security are very important to us. All uploaded files are stored securely, are used exclusively for transcription and can be deleted manually or after a time limit.
Significant legal protections assumes that someone has the capacity and willingness to wage a legal fight. Meanwhile, as a court case can take years, they still have to put food in their belly and a roof over their head. Given that "at will" employment is so common in the US, it's also pretty easy to fire someone for "reasons" without it being "because trans" (while still being obviously "because trans"). Hiring bias may not even be apparent those those doing the hiring as they hire similar person after similar person because "they fit the culture better", while never questioning the biases that underlie the notion of "culture fit."
That is not reality, that is what American right thinks about European people. We of course know that we are paying for healthcare with our taxes, but we also know that in the end what we pay is lower than what we would pay without a government healthcare system. So we chose this healthcare system consciously.
"demographic distance"

You mean they're all white, and men, and you have decided that means they are all the same, regardless as to the details of their backgrounds.

This is literally racism, bigoted prejudice based solely on the group membership of people you don't like.

You can't just look at people in these positions and say "they're overrepresented therefore systemic racism" or you're going to get into a really awkward place when you start to notice that Jews are actually overrepresented in places of leadership.

If you consider race and sex the most important attribute of a person, then your statement about demographic makes sense. Only then.

Regarding your username, you are in fact a coward.
It may be a dumb question, but if the product is good, why should I care about personal views of whoever created it?

When people go to the market, are they supposed to ask "okay, I see your eggs are free range, but do you guys support gay marriage?"
People tell me I'm blunt sometimes but have you tried to price nuance lately? Doesn't come cheap.
I'm not sure what distinction I'm supposed to be making. What are these websites doing differently?

To me, 'delete' means 'remove this entry' and 'clear' means 'remove the data in this entry.'
Slightly more realistic would be a story about a technocratic nation that changed its flag to something like a "Free Speech Flag" (as mentioned in another comment) containing a representation of an illegal number, with the global media industry then conspiring to generate support amongst the public for regime change in that nation.
Putting Our Chips on the Table
> In 1982, 84% of the richest 100 people got rich by inheritance, extracting natural resources, or doing real estate deals. Is that really better than a world in which the richest people get rich by starting tech companies?

Data is a natural resource and is being extracted. It is not better. It has nominal differences and doesn't cause as much pollution.
it's funny how when you open an article criticizing how Facebook tracks you the first thing you have to do is go through 70 pages to tell the site you're reading the article on to not track you.
Tangent: Apple should bring back the Xserve with their M1 line, or alternately license the M1 core IP to another company to produce a differently-branded server-oriented chip. The performance of that thing is mind blowing and I don't see how this would compete with or harm their desktop and mobile business.
Clubhouse’s Post-Pandemic Future
Did you read "almost as dishonest" as "almost dishonest"?
Next Generation of Dev Tools
My two cents on why his writings are popular:
- He uses anecdotal evidence which appears to be sound at first. Looking at the top 100 billionaires seems to give a good idea on how wealth is created and distributed, but really it is only a glimpse at a much bigger phenomenon (especially since the data only comes from two years).
- His style of writing is very accessible and natural. He wrote an article on his style (http://www.paulgraham.com/simply.html), and it seems to strike a chord with technicians who prefer this over more complicated prose.

I feel these are the same reasons for why effective altruism is so popular among technicians. It offers clear cut answers, and avoids uncomfortable questions.
Free private repos? Dark themes? The ability to use your Github account to log into other Microsoft places?
You can tell it's a fable. Here's the clue -

> lubricated by Cointreau and Grand Marnie

In 1978 the access to this sort of spirits was all but reserved for Politburo members and their entourage. No way in hell a bunch of programmers would be able to toast with Cointreau, leave alone lubricate themselves with it.
People are capable of critizing the bad things that both FB and the Guardian have done
I think one of the problems is that he speculates about being on the autism spectrum but it looks like he never bothered to get a diagnosis, which then to me also means that he probably is not receiving potentially helpful advice that could improve his interactions with neurotypical people.
Any link to the app(mobile/web?)?
What exactly is your point here?
How did you get it to do that? I have a Pixel 4a, but the Google app will only open results in a Chrome webview, even when I use Firefox or Brave as my default browser everywhere else. I don't use the Pixel launcher if that matters. I would actually like to fix it.

Edit: I figured it out. I'm not allowed to uninstall Chrome, but disabling it made it finally use Brave as a fallback. So they actually implement using whatever browser you want, but they just ignore it unless it's actually impossible to use Chrome.
Mix of architectures and the fact that our normal CI server is still x86-based and really didn't want to do ARM builds.
True, i came to know people appreciating it here that it is better than siri,alexa in terms of speech recognition, is it really that good. Support system you mean IVR?
There's a lot of interconnects (CCIX, CXL, OpenCAPI, NVLink, GenZ) brewing. Nvidia going big is, hopefully, a move that will prompt some uptake from the other chip makers. 900GBps link, more than main memory: big numbers there.
Side note, I miss AMD being actively involved with interconnects. InfinityFabric seems core to everything they are doing, but back in the HyperTransport days it was something known, that folks could build products for, interoperate with. Not many did, but it's still frustrating seeing AMD keeping cards so much closer to the chest.
>"being rich is okay"

Sure being rich is ok. As long as they make mortals better off which is not what is happening now. Rather majority of the people are getting worse for wear in the process.
Which is exactly how they got their name: the Ordnance Survey was the organisation responsible for generating accurate maps for the purposes of planning and executing artillery shoots.
Not if the Irish have any say in the matter.
Forrest didn't care about fame and fortune, went for life and love.
I've worked two startups and two public companies (and a University) in my career. Other than the small salary, I made nothing from the startups. The first public company made me enough to buy a house in the Bay Area and the second made me enough to fund my own startup as well as invest in others.

So yeah, my experience tracks with yours -- all my wealth was made working for public companies (that I happen to catch during their biggest periods of growth). To be fair though, that may change if my investments work out. Then most of my wealth will be from investing in startups.