skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh...get rich when? In a year? Two? Ten years? Personally I would scrap the whole question and give them the basics on investing, specifically investing for retirement. Get them thinking about low cost index funds and IRAs. The sooner they start, the quicker they will get to their riches. That's more actionable than any moonshot get rich quick schemes.
I joined maybe within the first year or so and answered one fundamental javascript question which has earned me dividends for many years. I'm top 11% without having even looked at my profile in at least 5 years. Best part is that my answer was slightly wrong and had to be corrected by a comment.
> I have a really really really hard time taking Hegel seriously

I really enjoyed Schopenhauer 80+ pages rant in "Parerga & Paralipomena" on Hegel and why he considered him a fraud. Nothing in philosophy is as consistent as Schopenhauer's "Hegel bashing" or using the term "Hegelian" only in a dismissive way.

Maybe I ought to read Hegel since he is a central figure in Western philosophy. My excuse so far has been that he is only needed if I want to understand and keep up with what influenced thinkers like Marx, the "Frankfurt School", etc. So far I haven't felt not reading Hegel is a problem. It might have even shielded me from a lot of pretentious texts but idk.

Agreeing and emphasizing with Schopenhauer was perhaps my reason for why Hegel now feels like a waste of time. Putting the effort needed into fully understanding him will be pure uphill struggle. This limits my understanding on Hegel to how Schopenhauer understood and interpreted him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parerga_and_Paralipomena
It's illegal to fund terrorism, I don't think paying someone to fund terrorism is a defence in a court of law.
> Good luck figuring out how to translate it into a NixOS config so you can get all the benefits of declarative config that we just described!

Guix has a command that converts an imperative profile to a declarative one. Check out the `--export-manifest` option for `guix package`: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Invoking-guix-packa...

Adding this to nix-env's replacement would be a sound approach imo. Maybe we could have one that also emits a little message for each package which is used in a NixOS module, directing users to a `programs.whatever` option instead of just dumping it in their `environment.systemPackages` list
The slider interface on the second prototype is very appealing as a UX. His other ones look sold out, and naively I could see custom collector synths from artists become quite a thing.

What I love about making music with synths is you're essentially exploring a fractal overlaid on all possible audible frequencies, modulated by time. There is a kind of romanticism to the analog aspect of it that emphasises how it is a tangible event instead of a sampled representation, which is basically a fluffy idea now because physically humans are indifferent to whether it's one or the other, but the way it comes out in music is that on machines like this, the art of it is something discovered and shared moreso than reflected and produced. It doesn't really matter, but if there were an impulse-buy priced one akin to the stuff at teenage.engineering by this artist or another one, I could see a mini-craze for them.
Fujifilm shuts down network after suspected ransomware attack
Like the other reply, this is flat-out gaslighting.

First, it's a fallacy that executive rates for nonprofits should be set by the market based on others. Who would say their nonprofit CEO is in the bottom half? Nobody, or they wouldn't want that person to be CEO. Therefore, everybody reevaluates and pushes salaries up, up, up to the sky ... exactly like they do in for-profit businesses, an endless cycle of greed. Would you have done the job for $200K? If so, you should have. If not, you shouldn't have been at Wikimedia. It's really that simple. Interestingly, the techies do work for significantly less than market rates but the suits don't. You are (or were) very well paid.

As for the fundraising, the messages are self-evident and dishonest to the point they're arguably fraudulent. Like Jimmy Wales using the term "bankruptcy" when he said well, we'd never want that. Sure - it's like a mobster saying "it'd be shame if..." then denying the threat. Both of you know exactly what those messages were meant to and did imply. Stop gaslighting.

I'm sure the WMF will continue to fundraise because, let's face it, that's all the organization actually does. They fundraise and nothing else. Wikipedia is 100% volunteers. Have you even edited anything on Wikipedia? You were/are the PR person before your higher role.

As for the final piece, moving on... no. Absolutely not. Wikimedia exists to make money. You're/they're working on a project right now to charge Google, Amazon, Facebook and the rest (who, oh yeah, are colluding to support Wikipedia as a single-source of truth ... which is exactly a long-term goal. of the CFR - but I'm sure that's a total coincidence). This is a fundraising organization, barely tied to Wikipedia.

Wikimedia exists to pull in money. Nothing else. The messaging is questionable enough I believe it should be investigated by various consumer agencies. At most, 1/3rd of the money raised goes to support what people know of as Wikipedia - those are Lisa's numbers. I doubt the figure is even that high.

People: Wikipedia's server costs are about $2.5M per year. That's it. Figure admin fees about 3x that, $10M per year give or take. The rest ... you can sit until you're blue in the face wondering where the money goes because they're not saying.
Sure, arrive at your own conclusions :)
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers.

The heyday of SO is long over and all the serious Q+A takes place on GitHub, which MS already owns.
Thank you!

Yes, as a SWE when you actually see how these RPA solutions run they are not impressive. Heck, before they moved to the cloud most of them were simply providing a wrapper for Windows interop assemblies (COM, Office, what-have-you) and its native Task Scheduler capability.

As a piece of technology their real value proposition is the deployment, orchestration, & management of the automations. Even four years ago they should have included VMs/VM environments in that package, so that you're not just managing a "bot", but the whole kit-and-caboodle. This would have made their offering absolutely unique and more comprehensive.
Please don't fulminate or post ranty dismissals of other people's work. It leads to shallow, dyspeptic conversation and worse (such as the utterly lame flamewar https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370883, which you provoked) and we're hoping for something different than that here.

On HN idea the idea is to post out of curiosity and intellectual interest. If one article doesn't engage your curiosity, perhaps another will. Annoyances are best left where you encountered them, rather than hauled into the HN threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it unfortunately looks like you've been posting in the flamewar style repeatedly lately. Could you please not do that? It's destructive of everything we're trying for here. You've posted substantive, curious comments in the past, which is great; if you'd stick to that in the future, we'd be grateful.
I think some of the TLP can be approached almost as a poem. I havn't read it in German, but in translation I think the poetic parts are expressive language, organised into stanzas. That's close to poetry.

You don't need a background, unless you want to read the middle section, which is close to advanced maths.
IMHO large numbers of the unskilled workers working for Amazon aren't Amazon employees but rather from various contracting companies; so when Amazon talks about "employees" it's less about people in warehouses or delivery vans but more about people who build and maintain AWS.
Since you're familiar with Sciter, how close it is to actual HTML/CSS? How does it differ? What are your high-level impressions.
This is a great video, but it glosses over some of the technical aspects because it assumes the viewer already understands them. This video provides a basic gestalt of the tech used for these runs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FQJEzJ_cQw
Writing a law that prevents this sort of pass-through is trivial. Hold all parties responsible. Don't even require first-hand knowledge that a ransom was paid.

Writing a law with proper disincentives is also trivial -- forget about fines. Proper jail time for senior execs and board members.

Execs and boards will be damn sure not to pay ransoms, and additionally damn sure that any company they hire to help knows in no uncertain terms that they are also not to pay any ransoms.

It really isn't that hard to write laws that disincentivize paying ransoms and aren't possible to route around with wink-and-nod bullshit.
Same here, the concept is great, ease of use and results are great, but the plastic construction - at least for home and office use - not so much.
It isn't really clear what happened here, and that is a significant part of the problem. I think we are well past the time that we pass a law mandating the companies that provide public services do what the EFF has suggested:

> Provide meaningful notice to users. If PayPal is choosing to shut down someone’s account, they should provide detailed guidance about what aspect of PayPal’s terms were violated or why the account was shut down, unless forbidden from doing so by a legal prohibition or in cases of suspected account takeover. This is a powerful mechanism for holding companies back from over-reliance on automated account suspensions.

> Adopt a meaningful appeal process. If a user’s PayPal account is shut down, they should have an opportunity to appeal to a person that was not involved in the initial decision to shut down the account.
Fast approximate knn using random projections
Hi,
C++ implementation of approximate nearest knn which doesn't suffer from problem of curse of dimentionality whilst giving theoretical bounds on approximation.
Yes, giving people money makes them richer. (that's how rich people exist, in fact, someone gave them a lot of money)

Most homeless people in California were not bussed in, they're locals who lost their houses and now can't get them back. Some of them lost it due to drugs or mental illness, and some just developed a drug habit or a mental illness because being homeless is stressful.
How does poetry2nix compare to mach-nix, in your opinion? The way mach-nix handles native (non-Python) dependencies strikes me as really slick.
It all goes back to the English parliament with it's two houses, either directly modeled after that, or via the Federal government congress.
...Am I having a stroke? Aren't you just talking about a prism? It converts time domain to frequency/space domain, just like the cochlea in the ear does with mechanical time-series.
Yes! I'm surprised this isn't more studied. I used to have fairly strong paranoia with pot— but that was reasonable given the consequences of getting caught. Post legalization, I just don't get paranoid anymore.
Gerrit has gotten a new UI in the last few years as far as i know. I wouldnt nesecarily describe it as pretty, but its my personal favourite review system
I have yet to see a digital voting system that a grandma with 0 digital literacy can dream of trusting. That's my standard for digital voting.

Basically excludes any black box machines, block chain, cryptography and any existing computers.
PayPal has been doing this for more than a decade now. I wouldn't be surprised if its part of their business model to hold funds indefinitely and to collect interest on them.
I remember a couple of weeks ago someone showed their project which was a "personalized" version of StackOverflow: You hired one hour or so of a developer to help you solve an issue.

The problem I see with StackOverflow is monetization: They tried with Ads (which have slowly been rejected by society). They tried as a candidate sourcing service (I used them to hire a long time ago, and it didn't have good Signal to Noise ratio). Then they tried with "StackOverflow for work" which I think makes sense for very large companies (think Oracle, IBM or similar size) but not so much for SMEs.

I would love to see them test-drive a micro-transaction mode where they ask people viewing a Q&A page for a small fee (think $0.01) to view the responses, and they could even share the revenue with people who write accepted/updated answers. This could be an interesting use case for something like Neo, Nano, IOTA or Ethereum (once it goes PoS).

They could even do some kind of "diminishing return" model where the first person seeing an answer pays a bit more (say $0.10) and as more people see the q&a they pay less and less until it is practically free.
I find Nietzsche to be an extremely clear writer, but only if you have an understanding of his background and the topics he’s engaging with.

Kierkegaard plays a lot of games in his writings, but I think his ideas themselves are very straightforward.
Discover the new open source finite element software
Microsoft or Salesforce. Most of the value over the past few years has shifted from general programming topics to platform-specific StackExchange communities.
Better yet do like me and don't have an account. My days are bliss. No trolls. No discussion/arguments about NOTHING. The definition of Peace is not having a Twitter or Facebook account.
True.

The fact is that the zero does not have the computing power I want.
The 3 does not have USB3 and that is a big issue for another reason.

It has to be the raspberry pi 4 :-)
As far as I understand, Hotspot is such an excellent VM arhat some languages have been adapted for it as a compilation/execution target; it‘s not particularly well suited for running other languages. Especially dynamic languages have been struggling with inefficiencies imposed by some of the Java-orientied paradigms.

WASM does not provide a garbage collector, as another example; this probably makes non-garbage-collected languages behave more predictably.
Upside decay (2020)
I think you need 100 points in order to downvote. HN generally prefers to upvote good content rather than to downvote bad content.
will somebody smarter than me please explain why this was downvoted? tia
This. French press isn't the "ultimate" in good coffee, but it occupies a nice sweet spot of "tastes great, not too much work."
The big internet companies pay excellent salaries, so I would propose getting a position there, climbing the corporate ladder, buy a reasonably priced home and build retirement and investment accounts. These companies pay well but it's a trap to addict you to what they can pay you so you can't consider leaving, so avoid lifestyle creep.

Perhaps it's not very exciting but it is reliable.

If I had my time again I might not have gone the startup route but I was lucky so not sad about that. Would I be lucky if I tried again? Perhaps, but probably not.
Yep. At best this holds true for 12-18 months. The founders/execs play dumb in the interest of minimizing attrition.
We just had one for Purdue Pharma. Spoiler alert: absolutely nothing happened to these friendly chaps.
Leopold NIH FOIA Anthony Fauci Emails – DocumentCloud
> now i suspect that you simply don't know anyone who does blue collar work.

Incorrect.

HVAC, plumbing, elevator repair, landscaping, painting... These are all careers in my family. My dad was the only white collar of four brothers. Grandpa was AC/Refrigerator repairman.
Whataboutism doesn't help here and paper ruins the coffee anyway.
Wow...crazy
I've heard about police using ketamine on arrestees to subdue them (often leading to serious health complications or death), but never non-LEO criminals. Found one news story where victim claims drug was ketamine, but seems there was just one big story, not many.

What is the scenario that concerns you?

I think ketamine's dosage (100s of mgs) and oral activity (low) is not conducive towards secretly drugging someone. To drug someone with ketamine without their consent, you'd likely have to inject them. If someone is injecting a victim with a drug to knock them out, ketamine seems like it'd be a lot safer than heroin and somewhat safer than benzos - both of which would have a higher chance of respiratory depression.

I suspect this "long history" is drug war propaganda - ketamine would be more expensive and less convenient than other similar options for incapacitating someone via injection.
PayPal doesn't care about Tor. An intelligence service probably wanted to force this shutting down of Tor enter/exit nodes, so the percent of Tor enter/exit nodes were mostly the intelligence service. (For the best Doxing)
Yeah, between various forums and blogs and the later-renamed expertsexchange you could often find answers. It was SO before SO until they started to plaster it with ads.

I've seen plenty of examples on SO where the accepted answers are actually wrong. Not wrong as time has moved on, wrong even at the time. Early SO is especially guilty of this kind of cult of personality that built up around certain people, so whenever they answered they would be given the accepted answer, even if it was wildly incorrect and/or low effort.

It's an incredibly useful resource but it's not as though if it disappeared tomorrow people wouldn't find a way.
Maybe someone who's holding a LOT of crypto?
I don't know where you live, but cannabis has been considered normal in many areas for a very long time.
The two-party division in the US isn't as big of a hindrance as is commonly thought. Both major parties are big tent parties that play the role that coalitions do in parliamentary systems. Third parties play the role of feeding ideas into the political system and serving as a barometer for where the winds are shifting.
If your suggestion is, "GC languages can be used to write anything so long as whatever parts can't be written in a GC language are written in a non GC language," then yes that's true. But it's also a tautology.
you need >500 points
I just follow a bunch of people, I never click on trends or hashtags.
I cook fish which is much worse for my co-tenants than coffee smoke. Kitchens make all sorts of smells, but it's fine as it's temporary. The chaff is quickly wiped away if the counter is reasonably clear. If the counter is a cluttered mess, you can always roast on the dinner table instead (hopefully you guys keep that one clear).
I think it's a virtuous cycle of modern development that popular SO questions make their into the official documents. And things people find super annoying just get fixed and disappear. I had some issues with a popular framework a few years back and got answered by the creator directly.
It wouldn't be a SMB speedrun video if it didn't have the bus analogy.

Jokes aside, Summoning Salt is a great Youtube channel, and it makes me feel emotionally invested in speedruns of games I've never heard of before. Great storytelling. Not to mention that speedruns (and the glitches people find to get world record times) are pretty interesting from a computer science standpoint.
I think half the people here probably know or know of someone that’s made lifelong friends online, met their spouse online, etc.

That would seem to indicate that you can make and maintain relationships over text and video chat.

I mean, personally, I’d count as my best friends of nearly two decades two people that I’ve only ever seen in person… 3 times?

Building and maintaining those relationships is different from in person. It’s certainly not impossible.
Space explorations problem was that it had little to be exited about, not the other way around.
This is my experience. PowerBI especially is painfully slow even with tiny data.
You're not cynical, that is their strategy. It's why most IT organizations label RPA as "anti-pattern" and want nothing to do with it. It's sold in a way that explicitly calls into question ITs own utility, if not out-right calls it the problem! It's certainly not helpful. The only successful ROM (robotic operating model) implementations I have seen are ones that have the full-throated support and participation of IT.
Have a look at AlphaStar, it's a pretty interesting network of networks that has some skip functionality.

The DeepMind lecture series on YouTube is pretty great.

You'd likely overdue it with skips everywhere, too many connections to learn and backprop on that learning would likely be difficult
They used to target individuals, but have moved to larger institutions with likely big insurance payouts. Schools, companies, government agencies.
Why it's going to be hard to go for green energy:

https://braveneweurope.com/alf-hornborg-a-globalised-solar-p...
Probably not. We can't even go after businesses when they do something that's clearly awful. Much less when the thing they most hurt is their bottom line.
Most Unix admins will suggest you check the manpages for a utility before Googling what you need. The answer is often on your system, you just don't know where to find it.
On single drive you run a variation where you read X MB of data to a buffer, then write X MB of data out, then execute deletes, and so on. This lets avoid some of the problems with small files. Not all, because small files will unlikely to be consecutive, the head will have to jump a lot, and then you still need to do a lot of small writes to filesystem (to remove the files).

There are obviously improvements you could do. For some filesystem you can just remove entire folders rather than remove the files individually just to remove parent folder.
Your best friend is https://search.nixos.org/options

From a quick search, it seems you can use `services.postfix.config` and pass key-value pairs as arbitrary options. Not familiar with this service, but usually if a given one has more complex syntax, there is a “pass-through” option that will simply append to the given config file whatever text you provide, as well as as the sister reply says you can create manually additional files.
imagine the retail value in dollars per liter of an HP inkjet printer ink pipeline
This looks promising, and I like what they've done with the multiple selections. I like the idea of TreeSitter+LSP, but at least for Python it doesn't look to do anything more than basic editing. It says it has indent information for go, rust, typescript, and javascript. Very interested to see where this goes.
Crypto may be past the point where it can be considered self-contained
Upside decay is Lui's term for lower odds rare but useful events combining to create a "lucky break." The outer edge of their upside shrinks. He makes these key points:

1. Upside decay is hard to spot. It’s invisible if we’re not specifically looking for it, because the absence of rare positive events is unexceptional.

2. Upside decay is preceded by a lack of virtue that leads to zero-sum or even win-lose transactions

3. Two Leadership choices: virtuous or unvirtuous culture which leads to two disparate outcomes:

virtuous culture -> positive sum interactions -> weak ties help -> lucky breaks

unvirtuous culture -> zero sum interactions -> weak ties abandon -> upside decay

“The right culture, the highest and best culture, is a seamless web of deserved trust.” Charles Munger

Note: Clayton Christensen makes the same point for individuals who prioritize "winning" and "career advancement" over relationships in "How Will You Measure Your Life (https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-will-you-measure-your-life). Summary at https://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2020/02/16/clayton-christensen...