skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal people save for retirement and then retire. If you’re particularly fortunate, you can retire early.

It’s somewhat unusual for people to do something particularly notable in retirement. We don’t expect it, but sometimes it happens. It seems natural that people who do something interesting become more well-known than people who don’t?

Retirees do spend money and that does provide jobs. They also save money, which raises demand for investments. It’s also possible to give away money, and some do. I think that exhausts the alternatives?

Maybe the more interesting part is how you spend, invest, or give away money? There are boring and interesting ways to do it. The jobs created might be boring or interesting, well-paid or not.
Brief warning about interpreting these studies: The primary treatment in these studies is the therapy, and the drug is only provided in limited sessions to augment the therapy. You cannot replicate these results by taking MDMA ad-hoc without the therapy.

In this case, the study used 10 or more therapy sessions without MDMA. As a caveat, more members of the MDMA arm completed all therapy sessions, and the MDMA arm also had more patients opting for additional therapy sessions, which seems like a strange confounded to allow:

> Additionally, 14 participants (10 of whom were in the MDMA arm) requested further integrative visits, as permitted by the protocol.

The placebo group also scored significantly worse on 2 out of 3 measures of depression prior to starting the study, which is another strange discrepancy that can’t be dismissed.

It’s good to see more studies in this area, but we need to be careful to not assume that drugs alone will fix these problems. Keep in mind that the therapy was significantly effective in the non-MDMA group as well. At least some of the difference between groups can be attributed to the starting differences between groups and the additional therapy received by the MDMA group.
Ah, the Big Tobacco playbook: hook 'em while they're young.

Facebook can't even effectively police their existing platform, how are they going to keep children safe?
How far away would one have to be before human radio signals would simply blend in with the background noise?
Is this a jet powered engine or electric ducked fans? Cannot find it.
Pr(X ≤ μ + 1σ) is closer to 84% but sure I was rounding up...

It is most explanatory at the low end; Cognitively Challenged. Elsewhere it has a correlation it is just not as significant, which is not in conflict with your link.

If you tested all the Children in the US you aren't going to be able to accurately rule out 84% of them from professional careers by IQ.
> That is not the problem the asyncio is solving.

It is, actually! All asynchronous code amounts to having some things occur in the background while other things occur. asyncio just does it with a clumsy interface that breaks everything that already exists.
I was able to open it, it's a pdf. Is it legal to re-upload and mirror somewhere?
If anyone finds this perspective intriguing, you may be interested in the novel "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

In the story, a character proposes that humans are effectively like frightened forest critters with no ability to understand the nature of the seemingly magical rubbish that extraterrestrial picnickers could have left behind after a brief stop on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic#Plot_introduct...
Not BTC but central banks now are planning their own digital currencies, BTC will be the first and old legacy cryptocurrency where it will hold as value until it stop mining BTC. BTC will be replaced by other digital currency in the future eventually.
The closest thing I've seen yet to a flying Iron Man suit, in real life.

The video shows royal marines flying off moving boats, and landing on other moving boats, in open water.

Amazing.
See the Three Body Problem
Some blurring is like pixelization
100k isn't what it used to be.

I often suspect we haven't noticed the inflationary effects on this as a "high" salary as much as we otherwise would because of the psychological effect of the change from five to six figures. Yeah, the median salary is low, but that's been well-covered elsewhere about how it hasn't risen in line with costs or upper-percentile income - so think of this as just another example of "here's a field where you can't make a comfortable income anymore."
I used to work at a startup where I was the most senior engineer below one of the founders, a guy who happened to be remote, thousands of miles away, except about 2-4 times a year when he would fly in for a week or so and share my office with me. He was very enthusiastic about pair programming and we would do this for a couple of days every time he was in town, and afterwards would rave about how thrillingly productive it was. Except it wasn’t really true. I did really enjoy us putting our heads together and solving problems, and a day pairing really did feel more productive in absolute terms than what I would accomplish on my own, but more than twice as productive? Not a chance. More than twice as exhausting? Definitely. 4-8 days a year is about all I could take of that.

PS my theory about why he found it so invigorating and productive was that normally, he was too busy to ever spend an entire day writing code. He would be interrupted with meetings and questions all day. The difference when we were pairing was that he was “hiding out” for an entire day with his head in an IDE and shutting everything else out. I suspect he’d find it equally invigorating if he had the ability to do that on his own.
Dynasty Season 4: An Upcoming Twist on Who Is in the Casket?
On Friday, Dynasty returned with the last season’s closing episodes. It’s all set to some finale-level drama. The Friday premiere just started with a six-month flashforward. Fallon has seen paying respect at someone’s funeral. Now, most of the minds are struggling with the question: Who’s in the casket? Well, it’s clear, Fallon is not the one in the casket!
You are assuming that the top 1% got there based on merit and not money laundering -- a major feature of the business these days.
I would point out that renting out a condo is not a passive investment; keeping up with tenants, doing cleaning and maintenance, etc. can be a full-time job (maybe less so for a condo than a house, but still). And as we here probably know, maintaining a website is not necessarily passive either, and I would imagine the same is true of a vending machine. These are projects, and at some point they become businesses; not simply "here's my money, make me more".
A Global Database of COVID-19 Vaccinations
Absolutely.

Do you think Tinder would have caught on as a website? Apple trained people to use apps.

Furthermore, what about real time video transcoding? Apple kept their web browser purposely hobbled to force people into their dungeon. You can't use a multitude of modern, advanced capabilities with safari. How can I do advanced workloads in parallel, at high performance, in the background? I can't because Apple.
I think management got wise to the fact that when QA and engineering both said the product wasn't ready, it was 2 departments against management, and management's vote was bigger than either of the other two.

Now that QA is gone it's just us versus them, and they have a majority ownership in the decision process.
Totally. It is why this exponential housing boom scares the bejeebers outta me. And I'm in my 50's on my 4th house. I've benefited from it, but I know it isn't going to end well.
FDM 3d printing was invented in 1989. The patent expired in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Scott_Crump
Yes, I totally understand that there are authors earning money from their AO3, royal road accounts. But, very few are making a living doing it. Jemisin was an exception. Of the fiction writers that currently have a Patreon account: "only 25 earn more than $1,000/month, only six earn more than $2,000/month, and only one earns more than the $5,000/month (and she’s already a bestselling author)."

I hope that there are more, and if you can find them please let me know!!!
Isn’t that a distinction without a difference? All of the office suites have both online and offline capabilities - even Apple’s iWork.

On the other hand, I hardly ever use the online version of GSuite, I use the iOS versions that can all work offline.
It says this on the PDF itself:

DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
My grandmother tells me that fans left on will kill me while i sleep.
ServiceNow acquires Lightstep
I drive a 2018 Mazda 3. The touch functionality is disabled while the car is moving, everything is done with a wheel and a few buttons. It works well but it's a pretty basic system (nav and audio that's it). I don't know if it could accommodate advanced features.
I also recently went through the TOS. It really holds up. The best episodes are timeless. TOS has an energy and drama that I don’t see in any of the shows or movies that leach off of that world. I’m probably biased, as TOS is part of my childhood, but it’s the only one I like.
If instagram is a model, then its already started. My feed is basically just guitars/bass/drums and motorcycles. There are these instagram pages who “promote” other pages who pay them. Once the creator is large enough they can decouple and let the feed algorithm work.

Same goes for meme pages, actual models/actors. My guess is this is nascent stage before it really becomes a dominant force for filtering/promoting content.
Compound will give you a risk-free 6.3% APY (other than the risk of smart contracts) on USDC (digitized dollars) https://compound.finance/markets/USDC
A big factor might be void is rolling only.
Yes, it is a US government publication released without classification or restriction.

> DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTION: Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
I left McKinsey to join a startup and how you can make the transition yourself
>"What the government has done here is completely backward," writes Frommer. "The government cannot search every apartment in a building because the landlord is involved in a crime. After all, when somebody rents an apartment, that apartment is theirs."

I disagree. Let's say you "rented" a room at a crackhouse. The house later gets seized and your stack of cash is seized. Is it reasonable to show up to the police station and say "yeah that's my cash, no it wasn't involved in anything illegal, can I have it back?"
A group of Nigerian journalists are digitising thousands of old newspapers
I think the main complaints about VAR in football have been the amount of time these decisions take and the inconsistency of the rulings. Instead of the constant play we used to have, now we see players stand around as the screen shows lines drawn in seemingly arbitrary locations to decide whether or not an attacking player was onside before a goal.

In contrast, fans have been fine with the goal-line technology, which gives decisive (usually) and quick results.

The use of AI in this paper seems more relevant for setting team strategies and picking players rather than enforcing rulings.
Sorry, I was assuming we were not talking uprezing and true film scans. Uprez outputs can look disastorous as people tend to use a heavy amount of noise canceling. Bad temporal noise filters look so bad when you can see residual artifacts from 4-5 frames earlier. shudders. Or someone that did this to content that had a 3:2 cadence, and now want to restore to original frame rate even though the cadence is undetectable by filters. Select fields it is! Ugh. too many flashbacks popping off.
Not to be confused with Hacker News' /classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

/classic uses the same ranking system as the regular front page but only counts votes from early users, defined as accounts that were created before Feb 13, 2008.

I'm guessing this is an attempt at getting around the Eternal September phenomenon, or at least an experiment around this idea.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401292
Ask HN: Can you use logos of other products and companies on your website?
I'd like to create pages for certain products and companies for my pet-project and I would like to add their logos on the pages.

Some internet sleuthing tells me that doing so could result in cease-and-desists or potential litigation, however I'm not sure how ProductHunt & BitClout get away with this in that case?

Product Hunt lets you hunt products and submit whatever images/logos you'd like to.

BitClout seems to have created pages/accounts for companies with their logos on it without their consent:
https://imgur.com/a/64IKVGU

What I'm trying to create is more like bitclout - I want to create pages for other companies that can be claimed
You don't have the exact kernel, if you're even slightly wrong you can end off being worse off. You'll have very significant variation in lower quality optics.

And there's a variety of sharpening tools that claim to do this! DxO is a company that sells a raw processor for precisely this purpose. People still buy better lenses.
That's probably illegal, and as far as I know the big tech companies take children's privacy at least somewhat seriously, as it's one of the few things that can land them in deep trouble if mishandled.
Well it isnt, its a story about why I dont use PayPal anymore and what thats resulted in.

Also, there is no paid product mentioned anywhere?
Approved for public release, right in the cover
Not sure where compiling comes in, either it's proprietary or it's in the repo the same as any other distro.

Another point for flatpak/snap style proprietary apps distribution though - they don't assume anything about the distro will be there.
Imagining Equitable Hybrid Learning
Fauci is phrasing this in a soft manner, saying that people might choose to wear masks voluntarily in certain seasons. But after a year of authoritarian mandates and continued erosion of individual liberties, I am definitely wary of where this is going. This type of rhetoric seeks to normalize this notion, and to me it feels like he's testing the waters for possible seasonal mandates, or possible encouragement of private businesses to require masks in certain seasons.

I am against both because I simply don't think it's worth it in general, for low probability risks. We have to accept that life comes with risks. Those who are risk averse can stay home or wear PPE everywhere if they choose, but we shouldn't all be forced to deal with the discomfort of wearing masks (impeded breathing), the inconvenience (like fogged glasses), and the impact to social/mental health (not being able to see faces, smiles, and share emotions).
Journalctl is fantastic. Never again do I have to parse different filenames, syslog "fotmats" or locations. It just works. Add journalbeat to ship the logs to elasicsearch. Since it's all in journalctl, no need to even configure what to ship. Just works.

The cherry is it's much harder to fill the disk with logs.

No matter the service I'm using the same journalctl command to find what I want.

This is why syslog is completely disabled on all our servers
I'm reminded of Amazing Military Infographics [0], particularly one of the kickers: "The United States Military is operating at a conceptual level beyond every other school of thought except perhaps academic philosophy, because it has a much larger budget."

0: https://medium.com/message/amazing-military-infographics-1ba...
I don't look at Patreons that often, but if I think about the dozen or so that I have (maybe half of authors) none of them have had pictures of themselves on it, or audio recordings of themselves.

So, I mean, it takes being somewhat charismatic in writing, but of the other properties you list... I don't seem them as important at all. Moreover, being charismatic in writing seems to be practically a requirement for being a good author.

Nor is it like the previous model did not have biases, you needed to be good at selling yourself to publishing houses and the like instead of to readers directly, but you still needed to be good at selling yourself.
It was a good idea, in hindsight, to buy Bitcoin 10 years ago. Would buying bitcoin today be an equally good move 10 years from now?

We'll know in 10 years.

Some people have a concern that if the government prints too much money it will cause inflation. Circa 1980 we got 'globalization', 'Reaganism', 'Thatcherism' because people were sick and tired of inflation under the 'New Deal' regime. (e.g. in 1932 people saw deflation as a 'Raw Deal'.)

This will change (everything changes) but in this regime excess money flows into financial investments (stocks, bonds, ...) as opposed to physical investments (e.g. spend your $ to build housing, warehouses or internet infrastructure) and makes mischief like the 1999 internet bubble, 2008 financial crisis, crazy high housing prices in British Vancouver, crazy high Alpaca prices on the "stock" market.

Bitcoin attracts that kind of money and moves it around in a way that concentrates it and that is dangerous in that the world system already concentrates wealth and power dangerously.

Bitcoin competes with gold for those who don't trust government, there is something appealing about gold. Romans liked gold (people got paid a few pounds a year so we know gold was worth about the same then!), ancient Chinese liked gold, hobbits like gold, it will be sad if space colonists don't like gold.

People in India use gold as a store of value so the price of gold is anchored to some extent by what they (and maybe an equal number of people who think similarly elsewhere) think it is worth, being willing to liquidate it, etc. It promises stability not explosive future growth.
I found that with One finance, you couldn’t pull money from any accounts linked with just a routing number and an account number. That was a dealbreaker because I don’t type banking usernames and passwords into other websites for security reasons.
Yes, that is what I came to say, especially about skimming. I don't normally advocate "speed reading", but the "Skimming" section of this page seems helpful to me (I wrote part of the little section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading#Skimming_and_sca...

Others have written about how to apply it more specifically to different kinds of writing, which can be structured differently, like in academic papers, vs. news articles, vs. essays, etc.

Though there are times when one reads to relax, or to learn deeply, and then I don't care much about how long it takes. Longer can even be better, sometimes. :)

Edit: I think Mitt Romney said he likes to be reading 2 books at any given time: a serious one and a fun one. Maybe the fun helps us think about the serious things we read & consolidate memories?--but either way that makes sense to me.
Absolutely.

Popularity and taste rarely coincide because most people have no taste.

(Me covets a The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell first edition.)

The other thing is to read books that are important, not just ones that are preferred or pleasant for a wider perspective:

- Mein Kampf

- Capital (Das Kapital)

- Technological Slavery

- The International Jew

- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-6.

- (ones by ideological opposites)

- America: The Farewell Tour

- Sorrows of Empire

Also, people who don't own any books, paper or Kindle... that's a big "nope."
Give me a break. Y’all are so eager to say “it can’t be racism” to explain current situations despite explicit racism for hundreds of years in the US. Maybe take that learning attitude you’re talking about seriously.
Ridiculous statements like this do not encourage people to take the real serious problems of global warming seriously.

It's a crisis which will be a catastrophe, but under no plausible endgame is extinction for us.
The pages, 1 JPEG each (in case the HN Top load kills the above server):

https://secureview.isolation.site/uploads/file2t3r.l46wc0l.p...

This link will self-destruct in 3 days :P ;) xx
Liverpool have been doing this for years without Deepmind’s help (it’s been more than five years since Michael Edwards was decried as a laptop guru who betrayed Brendan Rogers, for example). The analytics team at City Football Group has only really been built over the last year (but are very good). I don’t know that any of their dabbling before that was at this level.

Your point about applicability is totally right though, see Arsenal with StatDNA and the arguably weak impact of Barcelona’s Innovation Hub. I’d argue that Leicester’s use of (at the time) very rudimentary stats, nevertheless well integrated into their process, was a big part of their sudden success.
It also depends on where you live. Some places have higher rates of burglary than the average, and some much lower. A wealthy individual may have a higher chance of asset seizure, but less for burglary. But again, depends very much on your particular risk profile.
UUID for Better Data Integrity
I agree. When I started to treat my writing endeavours as a hobby rather than as a path to fame, glory, riches and world domination, I also started to enjoy the writing process a lot more. Nowadays I only write when I want to write, and I only write what I want to write. It's a freedom I've come to cherish.
I think this is very open to debate. How many people in the world have seen Star Wars? I would argue that no book short of the Bible has had a higher impact.
And no benefits, including insurance. That $100K for a fairly to very successful author starts to look a lot like a pretty middling $60K or so income in an office job.
I'm sorry you're having a hard time with this. My life is your counter factual, maybe it will provide a different perspective.

I was identified as highly gifted around that age as well, but my parents prevented me from participating in my schools' GATE programs. It is not hard to see how that decision cascaded through my life and led to a lot of avoidable painful outcomes.

I was so far ahead of my peers that school was unbearably tedious by grade 7 and I became a "bad kid". I did the bare minimum in high school so I could pursue my interests away from class. My GPA reflected that level of engagement.

Because my academic record screamed "truant, not motivated, difficult", I was locked out of top quality universities and scholarships I should have easily obtained. I graduated from a mediocre college with avoidable student debt and access to lower quality career options than I would have had through a better school.

I course corrected in my 30s and have had a nice career and family life, but there were 10-12 years of missed opportunities and unnecessary suffering.

Access to opportunity is like compound interest in that early success leads to more opportunity. Invest early and your life will more likely have positive social and economic outcomes. Missing opportunities early can be very costly.

I don't know if gifted kids are being pushed too hard or not. Sometimes, in an effort to provide early opportunities, parents lose sight of what it means to be a kid. That is sad, no question, but challenging gifted kids is important, because not doing so can lead to avoidable personal and professional difficulties. My life is proof of that.
Yeah, there is a vibrant tech scene in portland that fits what you say. I like it more than San Fran because I feel like I can fit the whole town in my head, whereas San Fran is a bit overwhelming (too many meetups up there in San Fran!!) But PDX really does have a bubble-headed progressive wing. They voted NOT to put fluoride in the water!

Boise is simply too far right. I don't want to live in a light purple zone surrounded by bright-red crazies. I'll prefer the type of crazy that protests for social justice over protesting to keep facism and white supremacy. Yet Portland has great examples of progressives who have their heart in the right place but forget to think critically.

New Mexico is collapsing. Outside of ABQ and Santa Fe, it is full of ghost towns. Quite literally boarded up towns between Las Cruces and Roswell. It's a state in decline.