skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Medium hijack the right click when you select a text. What a frustrating user experience.
Hmmm... There might be an opportunity in combining these into one product.
The book The Millionaire Next Door provided data to support "Seek wealth, not money or status".

The book was written by finance professors who examined the characteristics of actual millionaires. They found a lot of people who appeared to be millionaires did not actually have a net worth over a million dollars.

High status professional are expected to drive nice cars and live in a big house. It's harder to be a millionaire if you're spending a lot of money.

The authors were surprised to find that a lot of the Americans with a net worth over a million did not fit any of the "millionaire stereotypes" at all. They drive an old pickup truck and drink Bud Light.

I like the Tweet thread, but prefer the Millionaire Next Door cause it's backed up by actual data. It also seems like the Tweet thread is focused on advice that'll get you a net worth in the top 0.1%. The central premise of the Millionaire Next Door is a lot of people have "regular jobs" and get rich (depending on your definition of rich). See the janitor that amassed an $8 million dollar fortune: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/29/janitor-secretly-amassed-an-...
I'd argue that the people posting anonymously on the internet are not the same people who mustered up the courage to seek help in person and talk face to face, sometimes (often?) with children in tow.
Washington Crossing the Delaware (Sonnet)
I had someone claiming to be a recruiter contact me on imessage. He wanted a software engineer for NordVPN ASAP WITH REALLY HIGH SALARY.

His sense of urgency, the emphasis on high salary AND contact channel screamed scam.

(Instablocked)
Be that as it may, he wouldn't get sick when he didn't think he was eating fast food. We'd go to a diner for breakfast sometimes, and since he perceived it as a nice family-run place, he wouldn't get sick, even though their food was still processed garbage that showed up frozen in a truck every morning.
Given the colonialism of Greece, couldn't they have been Greek mercenaries? The Herodotus source linked just says the Greeks in Sicily fought, not the Greeks of Sicily.
It's a very new phenomenon that those two things are different, and it is still the case that they only differ on very few, very small niches.

But yes, that seems correct to me.
That's the whole point. They're illegal/immoral, but decentralization means you can't mitigate them despite that.

Tell me when is the last time a drug dealer used a wire transfer with reason "for the cocain"? Oh they don't do that. I wonder why.
The very next sentence explains what he means:

> But the reality is everyone can be rich. We can see that by seeing, that in the First World, everyone is basically richer than almost anyone who was alive 200 years ago.
Agreed. It's important to find an outlet for expressing yourself outside of work. Be sure to keep it either local or anonymous.
This is obviously true, a very simple example is the following piece of news: "the most recent vote of the US Senate was 50-48", which not only requires you to look up the actual number, but is also time-dependent.

However, the common usage of "fake news" is not only literally "news that is not true", but rather "news that is deliberately not true in a very specific way".

Many object to the usage of the term itself, and honestly I myself agree that it's not the best way to describe the phenomenon, but it's something that exists regardless of how you choose to call it. I can see the research being useful, I wouldn't say "garbage in, garbage out" really applies here.
the reality is that it turned out to be easier to make things with lithography, and we don't need to pantograph our way to the bottom (whew!).

Many cell phones now have sensors that are mems-based, built using lithography (accelerometers being the best example). In many senses, we've started to achieve the goals of the book.

You might also enjoy Diamond Age.
It's a law that all civilized countries have.
Allowing executions while dismissing evidence makes you uncivilized.
Heh, I love how courts still accept eye witness testimony as reliable in the first place.
Mumblings of a “Big New” Open-Source GPU Driver Coming
But can THIS study be replicated?
can’t say i’ve ever had the pleasure.
There's a netflix doco that you'll enjoy. But essential AI beat the game of go and the world wobbled for a moment but kept spinning.
> I'm a little surprised they chose dynamic over static linking.

Yep, it's worth noting that the vast majority of closed source games I've encountered on Linux are static linked. For what it's worth (as a big proponent of dynamic linking and the maintainer model) I think that's totally fine. I wish there were no closed source applications to begin with, but if there have to be these programs, the process necessarily bypasses the model of maintainer quality control and patching. Games are supposed to be very long lived anyway, once they're past the initial period of getting regular bug fixes.
Not having evidence and not caring about available evidence are very different things.
https://archive.is/wWsjs
How does the state justify this behavior in 2017? We execute so few people and it’s already so excessively expensive what’s the logic for refusing to test and retest everything? 20+ years in jail waiting to be executed seems pretty cruel, if not all that unusual IMO.

Tangential but I also strongly oppose lethal injection as a method of execution - if the state lacks the will to line up a proper firing squad, it has no business executing citizens in the first place.
I approve :D
What is the likelihood of this study being true? Will it be cited a lot now?
Taxes even that out a bit. The person with an 800k house pays twice as much in property taxes. In many states, the amount that the state can raise taxes on someone whose house may have "increased" in value is limited.
There are sometimes sitautions where someone's guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt; I don't imagine prosecutors would be particularly afraid to pursue the death penalty for someone like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik (who got 21 years in jail for the murder of 77 people).
Hiring vs. Nurturing Managers
Little to argue with on the fundamentals here, but ending up in a place where everyone's winning move is to work for one of five unregulated monopolies is, ahem, a bummer, in a macro sense.
>This isn't to say that classical music is somehow always utterly superior to pop.

Today it's almost forbidden culturally to even suggest that it coule even be (superior).

The thing is, to say such a thing, you need some kind of shared cultural basis (of what's superior and what's not), one that even those who don't "like X" (the way we might like peanut butter or not), nonetheless agree on (and whether they care or not, feel like it's somewhat their loss for not liking it).

Those times, had that (shared cultural agreement).

In more modern times, after the 60s especially, and in the US doubly so, culture is whatever one makes it, the mass consumer is king (because everybody wants his/hers money, so they treat them as such), and personal taste is the be all end all, end of discussion.

Whereas in another era, to say Bieber or Drake are inferior to Bach, for example, would be so self-evident and accepted by all (for the Bieber's and Drake's of their era), as to not even be worth saying.
I agree with you on how governments often work. I can’t agree that’s the whole point, though. Why would it be? I’d be curious to understand why you think so.
People who are in a position of power always have more opportunities to hurt others.

But sometimes, in rare occasions, during revolutions, the rich might not be in a position of power.
Qualcomm reveals tiny Linux-driven 5G NR chipset for IoT
No. It's not possible. It would be horrible idea.

Law is a process, punishing people who do their duty for the errors in the process when they have not been involved in misconduct would not be justice.

Death penalty itself is wrong.
Watching a website draw itself with a turtle would be quite an interesting transition effect too.
dont take your iphone to china? Dont save any important or personal data on a system you dont control? If you care about your privacy and still use an iPhone or iCloud i have a bridge to sell you
As someone who worked in tech in the 20th century, we also worked long hours, fyi.

We didn't connect with coworkers outside work, I think, because social media didn't exist and so we held on more to earlier friendships longer and actually were more open to acquainting ourselves to new strangers we met in public.

The old "can I have your number" days.

I think politics were present in the office much, because pre-social media, there was no conduit to get bombarded with hyperbolic political messages. ...and thus those people who were very political were not invited to social gatherings more frequently. ...something you can't do as easily on social media.
> In what way?

For the most part the standard does not address the existence of libraries other than the standard library, but 5.1.1.1 contains "Previously translated translation units may be preserved individually or in libraries." This, to me, suggests that from the standard's perspective, when you link in a library, you simply get that library, whereas on Unix systems, when you link in a static library, you specifically get those object files from the library needed to resolve not yet defined references, and when you link in a shared library, you get something where it becomes possible to have duplicate definitions where rules come into play as to which definition will end up used.

> You make an interesting point with the example. It's not something I had considered before. Would weak linkage (or a similar mechanism that allows for a provide-unless-the-user-already-did-so type of behavior) fall under an implementation extension, then?

Yes, I think so. Shared libraries implicitly have some sort of weak linkage already aside from the explicit weak linkage that you can get with e.g. GCC's __attribute__((weak)), but both forms count as extensions, I would say.
Not all heteros produce children. Most gays don't produce children. I, personally, don't care but don't get offended when people say they think having children is important to the survival of the human race. It's kind of obvious.
I was kind of hoping people would be commenting "Wow this fixed my issue" but I guess very few people have 2560x1440p60 monitors...
From my related research I believe this a major underlying problem facing much of the world (especially the West). If compressed airways (and related issues) are causing humans not to get proper sleep, the downstream effects on society could be huge.
I wonder how this argument would be applied to police murders of innocents. How do we deal with that?
It's not a bad design choice, it's a driver bug, since 2017.

The power/heat is due unnecessary clocking up when it isn't even doing any work. The non-dGPU version does better at the same task.
Honestly it's very disappointing I have to explain this but I NEVER ARGUED THE LEGALITY STATUS of these activities.

I argue the fact Bitcoin and other coins enables crime.

I'll make it really simple for you: would you hire a hitman with a briefcase full of cash, or you'd do a bank wire with subject "for the murder, thanks"?

Think why we don't use bank wires for this.

Now think why anonymous cash transfers are hard internationally.

Now think what Bitcoin is. It's anonymous cash over the Internet.

It's a huge enabler for illegal activities because it's anonymous and decentralized and happens over Internet.

You can spin it any way you wish, but the fact speak if you're a criminal, Bitcoin is automatically the most attractive way for making transactions to you, aside from person to person cash briefcases.

Law is centralized by nature. Because law has to be enforced in a centralized nature. Decentralization and anonymity means you can't apply the law. "Illegal" means therefore NOTHING to Bitcoin.
A little more nuance around different types of startups, goals, etc would go a long way.
I think that's probably quite misleading to just look at nominal value. Purchasing power parity might be a better metric, but I still don't think that captures the difference in people's lives in different countries.

Being poor in America is means perhaps having some comforts that are rare even for middle class people in other countries. For example, the home square footage, number of appliances, size of wardrobe, number of cars, etc. But on the other hand, middle class people in a less materially rich country may have government safety nets, accessable health care, higher education, in-demand skills, ability to save and access credit, manageable work hours, and enjoy the social respect that comes with professional careers.
>The reasoning given by the judge was it wouldn't matter, that there were three people who saw him at or near that neighborhood on that day and time and honestly the DNA just wouldn't matter," Short said.

Not mentioned is that he was her neighbor. So, yeah, people saw him in the neighborhood, often.
Have you looked at the psychology of decision making when poor and struggling? It might open your eyes as to why people don't make the optimal choices (financially or others).

And a lot of people literally do not know any better. They've never had someone teach them how to manage money and potentially had bad role models growing up. So its easy for you to say, with the knowledge it seems like you have, this is what you need to do. It's much harder to put into practice.

Especially when you consider there are many folks that do manage their money well, don't splurge on non-essentials, work multiple jobs and still cannot make ends meet.
People have a right to political privacy.
How much of your salary are you willing to pay to house violent criminals for the rest of their life?

Let's not forget that someone else was also murdered too
CNA Financial US insurance conglomerate has paid $40m to ransomware operators
TLDR: My Macbook Pro is hot and noisy when connected to a 2560x1440p60 monitor, even when the lid is closed at idle. This article outlines a partial solution that enables silent operation at idle when the lid is closed.

Sorry, didn't realize paywall was default option: https://axu2.medium.com/solved-by-1440p-hidpi-macbook-pro-16...
I wrote that - thanks! Somehow it ranks highly on Google, but there are some links at the bottom to some other (better!) posts that I read first.
I find it interesting how many individuals appear to both love and hate FAAANG companies. They love the products but seemingly hate the fact that the companies exist.

Would it not be equally fair to claim that both consumers and laborers also "exploit" FAAANG companies to their own benefit? Take Amazon as a single example - if not for the Amazon fulfilment centers, where else would these workers find employment? And if the claim is that it's such a terrible work environment, why not work somewhere else? Fact is, they are employed there of their own volition so clearly there must be some advantage over potential alternatives. Comparing Amazon to a hypothetical "perfect" employer is a straw man, a more fair comparison is to existing alternatives (including unemployment).

Would it not be fair to also suggest that Amazon has, directly and indirectly, contributed to raising more people out of poverty than any other company in history? They have opened the global supply chain to everyday consumers on a massive scale. Because of this, one can now buy a 65" flat screen television for $500 USD - a price point within reach of many low income households and no longer considered a luxury purchase. And the factories where these are made are paying much higher wages in much better working conditions than existed previously. And they are continuously improving.

Or consider AWS - this alone has enabled countless startups to succeed with virtually no upfront infrastructure costs. If AWS disappeared tomorrow, how many HN readers' jobs would be in serious trouble. How many newly minted millionaires owe their success, in some small part, to the services that AWS provides?

The point is, this is a give and take situation. Sure FAAANG companies make money. Because we give it to them, voluntarily, because we have decided that the benefits they bring to us are worth more than the cash we exchange for it.

If one has an issue with how any of these companies conduct themselves, the obvious response is to take your business elsewhere. If enough people agree, the business will adjust or a competitor will take its place.

I don't personally care much for companies making it impossible to repair their products, but I'm also of the opinion that I can vote with my feet and with my money to help change that.
Death is an immutable punishment, that really should be all the logic needed to dissuade people from supporting the death penalty. Locking an innocent person up for n number of years is a massive injustice but at least the person can be freed and compensated.
For context, here’s the other evidence the judge is referring to:

> Asked about the new DNA evidence, Rutledge repeatedly insisted Lee was "lawfully executed" and pointed to the testimony of an eyewitness who purportedly saw Lee enter Reese's home that day and then leave, "erratically," 20 minutes later.

There’s also more context here for anyone interested in the case: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledell_Lee

As for the DNA findings:

> In April 2021, new DNA testing found "unknown male" DNA on the murder weapon and bloody clothes found at the scene. However, the test also "found moderate support" that blood on Lee's left shoe could have belonged to Reese.

EDIT: Apparently, a “tire thumper” looks a lot like a small wooden bat, so there’s not as much confusion as I thought about the murder weapon. I mistakenly thought the prosecution was alleging a “tire iron” was the murder weapon.

https://www.thv11.com/mobile/article/news/crime/ledell-lee-d...
Well, GP didn't say what the punishment might be. Could be say X strike(s) and you can no longer preside over such cases.

(Just devils' advocate, I live in a country without it or a need for it.)
Of course it is. The 13" MBPro and Intel Air work great with external monitor.
My favorite method of following a blog continues to be using an RSS feed reader.

(It's kind of like email: email is boring and old-fashioned, and there are many shiny new alternatives, but I still use email more than I use anything else. Same with following a project's progress on a blog using a RSS feed reader).

If you add an RSS feed to your blog, I'll subscribe :)
No citations and the writing style make this feel like a pretty sketchy "thing on the internet".
I think this is a weasily way to put an argument. Yes, we can agree that just sitting around doing nothing is unlikely to help someone’s outcome. But when you have a growing population throwing their backs on 2 jobs and still struggling to make ends meet, you might want to consider that this people do have the choice mindset, and the choice mindset is failing spectacularly. So with this in mind, and with agreement on the point that you need to try, could we focus on the externalities instead of congratulating ourselves about our choice mindset?
Where are you supposed to live meanwhile?
Feature Flags in ToneStone
You could punishes judges even for harsh senteces (of people later exonerated), doesn't have to be just about the death penalty.

And to make it more balanced, you could also punish them for exonerating someone later found guilty (with the available evicence at the first trial re-examined).

Just rough ideas, which might not work at all, but still, as it is judges have no skin in the game (not even their reputation, sometimes it's even the inverse: some judges purposefully give harsh senteces, e.g. to blacks to score political points they'll later exploit).
I was going to say I found Philisopical Investigations much more interesting than Tractus.
That’s what Wiener suggests in Uncanny Valley, when she describes the windfall when Microsoft bought the GitHub shares she had the option to buy during her time there.

It wasn’t life-defining, plus she noticed that many other employees didn’t have enough savings to actually exercise.
Aware, yes. The point I made before was pointing out that you can implement what you want in Python relatively easy. That R has a wild west set of systems is exactly my point.
> hardest workers in the building

It took me a while to understand that work is not paid based on difficulty, but on labor supply and demand.

The reason why many very hard jobs pay so low is because there’s lots of people who will do them.

There’s an axiom about smart work > hard work but I think that oversimplifies too much.

I did manual labor for a few summers and it didn’t pay very well. I just didn’t understand why my work was so hard and paid so little and it frustrated me.

But understanding how wages work at the macro level gave me some mental peace.
I don’t know anything about the specific case, but often DNA from someone else would be totally irrelevant.

If I murder someone with my kitchen knife, my wife and her fathers DNA will be on the murder weapon.

If you buy a gun from someone and then go shoot someone with it, it might have the sellers DNA on it.

So it’s sometimes the case that DNA can’t really create reasonable doubt.
> Honest question: how do we fix this?

We need to create new a social institution of Anti-Science, which would work on other stimuli correlated with the amount of refuted articles. No tenures, no long-term contracts. If anti-scientist wished to have income it would need to refute science articles.

Create a platform allowing to hold a scientific debate between scientists and anti-scientists, for a scientist had an ability to defend his/her research.

No need to do anything special to prosecute, because Science is a very competitive, and availability of refutations would be used inevitable to stop career progressions of authors of refuted articles.
That's not an accurate description at all.
I think it makes them feel appreciated when others are thanked as they now feel that they are part of the group (who is being thanked). Their individual donation doesn't need much praise if any. I agree with one of the other posters that it is related to loneliness. I could be mistaken obviously.
To the pro death penalty puritans: I guess this is what happens when you play god.
Which is an absurd statement on its face
Thanks Arathorn, I've now given this a try. However it's not nearly as compact as I would want. Especially the room list on the left, as it still uses the room avatars in this mode it will only show a pretty small number of rooms there. Making the font smaller won't fix that. When I move everything to Matrix I will have at least 50 rooms open at any one time (different IRC servers, whatsapp bridged, telegram etc etc) and I don't want to scroll too much.

Also, every time I have to expand the "Show xxx more" ones for each section, I can't just scroll to the bottom of the list. So that's an extra click.

When I mean a high density look I mean without avatars etc :)