skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This emerald mine story is commonly quoted by Elon Musk’s detractors but it is misinformation and has been explicitly labeled a myth by journalists who investigated it (https://www.insidehook.com/article/history/errol-musk-elon-f...). In terms of hard evidence, it’s not even clear that his father actually owned a mine, or what qualifies as a “mine”, or what its output was, or what his father’s income was from this mine. Most mines are small operations that amount to digging on a bit of land, with varying degrees of profit (or unprofitability), and not some massive corporate operation digging out those giant town-sized holes in the planet.

Musk, his brother, and mother left South Africa and moved to Canada, fleeing his allegedly abusive father. Elon held various odd jobs early on (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/03/odd-jobs-elon-musk-had-when-...). He also worked his way through college and ended up with lots of student debt (https://marketrealist.com/p/elon-musk-emerald-mine/). That doesn’t match your narrative that he was born into riches and was successful only because of that.

I also know plenty of people who weren’t born rich and became successful via hard work and talent. It is pretty evident that their life priorities, work ethic, and other qualities are very different from the average person. To reduce their lifelong efforts and sacrifices to luck is really just a completely false narrative used by people today to undermine the idea of a meritocracy, since that’s necessary to ethically justify large redistributive policies, by labeling someone’s fortune as “unearned”. It’s the same reason why Musk’s detractors repeatedly reach for this emerald mine story without a shred of evidence.
I can give one example where the ML/AI toolkit is useful, even if only the largest providers in the world may need to work with real Big Data[tm] volumes. Fraud detection. And you don't need to be a particularly big operator to get sufficiently large & varied data sets.

In a way I think it helps that fraud is an ever-evolving, fiercely adversarial domain. New avenues are explored all the time. Occasionally old tricks are revived for a while, because they may work in the margins but become distinguishing features as soon as they see more use.

And even if your ML is based on nothing more than a random forest, you can still get surprisingly useful feature combinations out of it. (Or as our data scientists said: individually meaningless features may become a valuable signal when enough of them occur at the same time.)
I somewhat agree that a gritty person shouldn’t keep a fast food job, but some of the Uber drivers I meet are incredibly gritty. They work incredibly long hours and grind on multiple apps. They have well thought out strategies for how to make as much as they can per hour and have plans for how they will invest their money.

I admire the heck out of em but I can see most people don’t want that life. I have no doubt that kind of work ethic could be wasted in the wrong environment but a successful person should have both grit and the ability to find an environment where they can use it to get ahead.

I’d even argue that corporate America as whole rarely rewards grit with a couple exceptions.
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Ways in which Facebook violates consumer expectations to maximize profits (2018)
- ''Artificial'': not naturally occuring, also not a "clone"/"fork" of something natural.

- ''Physical'': not software simulation, virtual; "exist" in the same world we live in.

If my original terminology is insufficient or ambiguous, please suggest better terms.
Ask HN: Recommended texts for programmers dabbling with product management?
We are growing and my role seems to be evolving from "front-end developer" to product manager. It feels interesting. What are some good texts I can learn from and get better at it?
Thanks! curious to get flavor from all directions. I am not attached to fin. Can you point some towards art?
This is relevant to my interests...
This has come to light because of this thread:

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1383248029067538437
So VISA and MasterCard have zero intrinsic value as companies. Does not pass the sniff test.
Has anyone tried evolving small shaped block to self assemble when you shake them together? I'm thinking of SLA 3D printing the shapes in various materials to create a functional component by simply shaking everything together.

Has this been thought about?
FF should focus on a better UX. Try FF and Edge on Windows 10, Edge seems much snappier because it boosts the mouse scroll speed. A friend wanted to switch because of that, and increasing the overall mouse scroll speed on W10 did the trick for FF. It's little tricks like those that make non techy people switch.
'Conscientiousness' and 'Grit' I think are different attributes.

Conscientious people are like your 'nice Grandparents': they are consistent, orderly, pay their bills, are pleasant, predictable, file their taxes, recycle, don't steal.

Gritty people are those who mount the psychological effort necessary to take on a challenging problem, and have the wherewithal to keep going when things get rough.

To me the bit of confusion might arise between: 'Grit' and 'stubbornness' i.e. continue down an actually bad path and 'Grit' and 'Lack of Self Awareness' i.e. people utterly underestimating their ability, or the complexity of a domain. 'Fake it tell you make it' is actually a helpful characteristic in some areas, but in others it's not.

I do believe that 'grit' and 'conscientiousness' are both positive attributes in people who start companies, but that 'conscientiousness' is probably a more important attributes in most of the employees.

From the article: "Conscientiousness was twice as useful at predicting success as grit was." I have no doubt it's a better predictor for general life outcomes and especially academic outcomes. Doing a degree is mostly a grind.
Plenty of evidence proves that intelligent services:

- Buy exploits on the market, with the US govt being the biggest buyer.

- Buy data off legitimate advertising and intelligence companies

- Hire people to find bugdoors

- Hire people to infiltrate all sorts of companies and extract information or plant bugdoors

- Convince or coerce companies to plant bugdoors in their own products

- Do the hacking themselves, plant hardware backdoors and so on

Unsurprisingly, they use all available methods.
What Is a Direct Listing?
That’s for the person to figure out. If they’re hard working, they’ll sacrifice [some leisure activity] to research which books to read.
I work for a large EU Telco and I can tell you the inside battles to get stuff done are absolutely ridiculous.

Of course I work for a subcontractor too.
Minus fees, obviously. They make money no matter what drivel they buy.
Sure, I just think it's overly narrow to call that meaning a "Catholic/Christian sense". When I left the church, in fact, The Lord of the Rings remained a source of great meaning for me specifically because it enshrined that meaning in a non-religious context. Obviously for Tolkien, personally, those themes would have been rooted in his religious life. But I think it's a strength, and not a weakness, that they can transcend it.

(Not that I expect Amazon to do a good job of preserving them either way, for the record :P)
> If you're going to take the retro route, don't cheap out on the details. Do it all the way or don't bother.

That's quite passionate of you. I like how the OP added their own things. It's quite creative. For example, Paint has multiple themes, rendering of the undo history as a GIF, and multi-language support. I don't remember Windows 98's Paint having any of that, and it's all awesome.
The USA isn’t a utopian democracy. Never has been. It’s an oligarchy of power interests.

The Biden election represents tech’s full entry into the oligarchy. It did this by explicitly weighing in on the political battle.

Now that it’s hand is on the tiller, it can’t help itself and will keep its hand on the tiller.

Expect tech to weigh in on more and more issues of the country. Initially it was label itself as an erstwhile benign force, then beneficent, and then finally its mask will be unveiled.

Remember when big oil had so much power and wielded if? Now it’s big tech with so much power and it’s wielding it.
I have found this extension helpful for helping mitigate WebGL fingerprinting on Firefox — https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webgl-fingerp...

You can test its effectiveness here — https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
The real reason superpowers clash is that they all want to be the dominant but there's only room for one at the top. The political or economic systems are absolutely irrelevant here. All that matters is what needs to be done to stay the dominant superpower. The closer the race, the lower they're all going to sink.

US leadership fundamentally doesn't care about human rights abuses in China more than Chinese leadership cares about abuses against black people in the US. They don't care about bringing democracy in a country when their next move is to make sure "the right" leader is appointed. They don't care about freedom of speech when they can block it as needed under any pretense. And they don't care about any of the principles they advocate if those principles get in their way, they will all happily ally with someone embodying the exact thing they're fighting against if it server their interest of maintaining or growing their power.

And getting to the point addressed above, they care about the image of the company they forced to introduce backdoors only as far as they can be punished by the bigger power, or if they can't sell it as fighting the terrorists (or scare word of the day). Case in point, Sweden and Ericsson wouldn't get away with it because their sphere of influence is a stone's throw away and the US would crucify them. China and Russia can mostly get away with it because their influence extends far enough that they have enough of a "friendly audience" for which they can sell a story. The US can get away with it everywhere else because even if Cisco is backdoored through and through, the US is the dominant superpower and is able to pressure allies to "see things" their way, and they can also sell everything as "the fight against ...".

Superpowers see advancing their interests by any means as a matter of survival and this takes precedence over anything else. They'll do what needs to be done and deal with the fallout after. And if you live long enough to move through these different regimes you start seeing the pattern immediately, only thing that changes is the "feel good" story the people are served with.
Your stance seems contradictory to me. We are unable to manage comparatively very compact nuclear power facilities, so we will litter the world with solar, hydro and wind generators, all of which are required in incomparably large quantity? It seems like nuclear power would make the risk more centralized and predictable.
>"QIRA is a competitor to strace and gdb" [for QEMU]

Information/Description:

http://qira.me/
> My thesis is MS will never go down this path, not because it isn't an excellent idea but because Excel has become inrefactorable.

They’ll just make an optional feature called PowerSomething that is integrated with the Excel UI but mostly a separate tool that interacts with the main Excel system without sharing its limits.
Just looked at it, it only triggers when player encounters an error while decoding video.
> I am just sentimental about my childhood pastime and keepsake, and I want to recapture it as best as I can.

Sigh. I get the desire, but it feels like it just won't be the same.
Work-Permit Backlog for Immigrant Spouses Takes Toll on Professional Women
I was nodding along with you (though I'm not into trains anymore) until this:

> Also I am a self taught DBA and never ever use keys. I’ll take in any incoming fire as probably deserved :).

... that's like saying "I'm a self-taught programmer, but I never use functions."

I mean, yeah, you can still get some things done that way, but if you spent a little time learning what's possible, you might be a lot happier with the end product.
I use Prolog for my research. I study Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) for my
PhD. ILP is a field in the intersection of machine learning and logic
programming, that studies approaches to learning logic programs from examples,
background knowledge and language bias (it helps to think of background
knowledge as a library of sub-routines from which a program is to be composed
and to think of language bias as constraints on the structure of learned
programs).

Obviously Prolog is well-suited for this task, but there's a reason why you
don't often hear of "Inductive Python Programming" or "Inductive Java
Programming", say. The reason is that imperative languages tend to have lots of
specialised syntax, for example for class declarations, loops, variable
assignment etc. Whereas Prolog syntax consists entirely of one kind of
expression, the Horn clause. So for instance, to learn a program with a "loop"
in Prolog you "only" need to add a recursive clause to the program, where a
recursive clause is simply an ordinary Horn clause with the same predicate
symbol in a head literal and one or more body literals. To learn a program with
a loop in Python you have to add the loop to the program as a specialised
structure with its own peculiar syntax.

Also, because in Prolog everything is a Horn clause, examples, background
knowledge and language bias can be (and often are) represented as Prolog
programs themselves, so it's possible to learn new background knowledge, new
language bias and even new examples. That'd be tricky to do in Python where
examples, say, would be not programs, but the inputs of and outputs to programs.

The sister field to ILP, of Inductive Functional Programming exploits the
homoiconicity of functional languages in similar ways.

Finally, Prolog is a language with a deductive inference algorithm as an
interpreter and it turns out deduction can be sort of inverted into induction.
Which is to say, we can go from reasoning to learning, with but a tiny little
hop. Well, ish.

If you're interested in more details about my work, there's links in my profile.
the solution involves buying a 100 euro product with 6 customizable buttons (cool product but expensive). Anyone know of cheaper alternatives for a keyboard buttonset (between 4 and 20 keys)? Probably standalone numpad (with customizable keys) comes closest but maybe someone knows better.
Grit sounds like a strict subset of conscientiousness.

I find it indistinguishable to the industriousness aspect of conscientiousness (and unrelated to the orderliness aspect).

I wonder if they can point to any concrete differences between grit and conscientiousness-industriousness in terms of definition?
Windows is a mess. I don't expect it to be any secure in the following years.

It is unlikely that non-admin permissions were able to stop the attack. the amount of 0-day EOP's within windows is ridiculous, truly unbelievable.
Point taken, and in my original comment, I wasn't expressing the hope that hobbits would turn toward the camera and recite the Apostles' Creed or something. I was just hoping that the underlying spirit and values of Christian belief, which I believe suffuse the work, would not be contradicted or trampled on by the new treatment.
Definition of a snake oil salesman. Even great companies like SoFi that went public via one of his SPACs still end up screwing investors because of disadvantageous promote and PIPE. When the ticker change happens watch it drop and then wait for PIPE dump and it will drive it below IPO of the SPAC itself.
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Do you present a set of 9 GPUs or pick one at random?
Signal vs. Telegram: A Detailed Comparison of Security and Privacy
I just vomited in my mouth a little
Agreed: fingerprinting is using ways one browser or device consistently differs from others to derive a stable identifier.

Several others on this list are also not used for fingerprinting, and are instead detecting robots/spam/abuse. Unfortunately, there isn't any technical way for the public to verify that, because client-side all it looks like is collecting a bunch of high-entropy signals.

All the major browsers have said they intend to remove identifying bits to where fingerprinting is not possible, which will also make these other uses stop working.
Quite appropriately, there are plans to reactivate it to serve the new Siemens research campus that is currently under construction.
Thought I'd get their docs updated - https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate#manually-triggered...
I would break SPACs currently in the market down into 2 categories; pre-DA and post-DA.

In other words, there are a number of SPACs which have already posted their target company, their financials, future projections, as well as other things like PIPE investors, % SPAC ownership etc. Most of these, due to the current climate, are trading at or slightly above NAV, therefore, they are akin to buying stock in any other company with a small downside if the deal does not materalise [1].

What you would be referring to in your example are pre-DA SPACs, in which you are correct as it relies on the sponsors prior performance and praying they will find a good target at an appetizing valuation. However, even here there is a small downside, since of the 430 SPACs searching for a target [1], the majority are trading at or below NAV with very few breaking this rule, which is why it is so lucrative for investors and arbitrage HFs.

For instance, if you do proper due diligence on a particular SPAC sponsor and have mild conviction on their ability to obtain a good target, chances are their SPAC is trading at or below NAV, therefore, it opens an opportunity to invest in something near risk-free. If a deal does not materalize, then you get $10 (or NAV) back, and if it is a good target you reap relatively good rewards. If it is a bad deal or you do not like the company, you have the ability to sell at or near the same price you bought (provided it was close to NAV), since very rarely in the window of post-DA to de-SPAC will the SPAC price fall below NAV. The only significant downside is opportunity cost since the core idea revolves around parking money and not utilizing until the sponsor announces a deal, and other investments even in index funds may have provided higher returns in that timeframe, which could be a good or a bad thing, especially in volatile markets.

[1] - https://spactrack.net/activespacs/
When there is a hardware failure, do you have to rebuild or does the original vm come back in minutes/hours/days?
I work in one of the companies in the business (a competitor on some Amdocs' markets), and this person seems to know what they're saying.
I'm not advocating for IP laws, I agree they're not conducive to prosperity. What I'm against is abuse of trust between business partners, theft of information for political gain or commercial exploitation (counterfeit products), and general dishonesty and deceitfulness.

I'm not well versed in game theory, but if tit-for-tat is a winning strategy, it's unreasonable to continue to cooperate with a party that actively tries to screw everyone else over at every turn.
All value is tied to scarcity and gold is less scarce than bitcoin.

If we find a million tons of easily mineable gold tomorrow the price will dip below copper's. This can't happen to Bitcoin.
The second half of that statement is purely argumentative and as stated can neither be falsified nor proven true.

The first half of the statement is also not obviously true to me, given the large amount of wage income that is federally marginally taxed at 22 or 24% and the large amount of long-term capital gains that are taxed at 23.8%.

Is some wage income taxed higher than some investment income? Obviously, yes. Is that done specifically to disincentivize work? I don’t think so. Are long-term capital gains and qualified dividends taxed lower in order to incentivize long-term investing? I think so. Do we conclude from that that politicians hate workers more than investors? Exploring that requires looking at facts not yet in evidence here.
Antidepressants, a surprising treatment for Covid-19, could help stop variants
I understand the point you are trying to make, with the question incorporating an accusation (i.e. that the person beat their wife in the past). That is different from asking pointed questions about potential actions (e.g. "have you ever beat your wife?").
That is definitely true, but I think there’s an effect where citizens of a democracy are less likely to be willing to go to war against another democracy. It would be easy for americans to justify war against china, because americans value democracy and can say “we’re liberating them from their oppressive government”. (And some segments of the chinese population are very oppressed, so it wouldn’t be wrong.) But it seems less likely that a democratic government would oppress a majority of its population than an autocracy world, so that justification is harder to make
There are religious themes in The Silmarilion but there are virtually none in Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit from what I recall.

Whatever Tolkien may have said privately- virtually every character comes across as not having a religion. None of them prey to God when in danger.

People are responding to the books Tolkien wrote, not what he said he wrote.
I think s/he is hinting at the fact that many Europeans and Americans believed that Hitler had the right idea about race and religion. Eugenics was a big thing in the US between WW1 and WW2. I also remember reading that one of the main reasons the ivy-leagues decided to change its admission system from money and meritocracy to the "search for all round candidate" also partially stemmed from anti-semitism - all the essay and interview bullshit that we see today was created to find reasons to reject the "wrong kind". Some old Harvard or Yale (don't remember which) admission applications of candidates rejected even had hand written notes, "looks too much like a jew". ( https://www.businessinsider.in/education/harvard-is-being-ac... ).
Chrome: Add "/path/to/chrome.exe" --disable-webgl
Firefox: about:config webgl.disabled true
Edge: easiest seems to be install Disable WebGL Chrome Extension

Test your browser here FIRST, then disable and test again:
https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/graphics/webglst...
Everything Easy is Hard Again (2018)
I think you’re getting close to arguing that there is no free will and that everything in the universe is therefore luck or randomness. Perhaps one way to look at it is that even if humans philosophically are robots, the ones who sacrifice more (via hard work) deserve different, better outcomes.
How is this possible at all? Don’t allow readout of canvas (or similar) at all without asking me if it’s ok. Problem solved. I don’t care if it becomes annoying on the off website that does have a valid use case for it. This just shouldn’t happen.
Massive benefactors just like in the old days. Possibly crowdfunding. Would be interesting to see how far that can go.
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Also this, which wasn't directly the CIA but by CIA backed groups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier, a political assassination on US soil. (Although not a US citizen)
FYI It hijack back button and only asking for email signup
True, but you seem biased against any risk at all, which if endemic explains part of the disparity.
What about MacOS? Isn't OpenGL deprecated?