skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have followed this and am on track to having a nice sum when I decide to retire. I look at that pile. Divide it by what I make now per year. That number is the number I could coast and not have to 'worry' about money with 0 change in lifestyle. I then add that to my current age and figure out where I should run out when I am old. That number is currently not far enough along for my liking. I am also doing ridiculously better than many of my peers on this. As many do not even understand that many companies give you money to put money into a 401k.

Realistically though back when being a millionaire meant 'retire immediately' things were much cheaper. You could get a car for 3-4k. Now a similar car would be 30-40k. You could say 'oh but that car is so much better'. That is true, but this 10x is mostly true across most goods I have found. I think many do not realize what a number inflation did on everyone in the late 70s and very early 80s. So many of these 'sayings' are still around but their numbers off by a factor of 10.
Did you read the entire article?

Or even the bold points at the beginning?

No fully vaccinated people under 50 died, and the overall death rate was 0.13%.

One hundred and seventeen deaths from 92,029 cases is a death rate of about 0.13%.
What's pathetic here is that a bot spam wave can cause performance problems in the network.
Google-like letter avatars using ERB-generated SVGs – kukicola.io
There’s a lot of ways to be great, but part of the issue is how you’re framing it. The goal should never have been for your name to be remembered in 1000 years, it should always have been to leave an impact. That doesn’t mean you are well known or loved, just that you’ve made the world better. That impact can be as big or small as you want, from being a good influence on your kid to mentoring to donating to working on important problems, all the way up to what you think of as great historical figures.

Edit: you should also read Man’s Search for Meaning by Richard Frankel.
"A bass guitar note took my attention from the hacker’s trail.
The Grateful Dead were playing outdoors at the Berkeley Greek Theater,
only a hundred yards downhill from the lab. The police couldn’t keep people
from sitting in the field overlooking the concert, so I skipped over there,
mingling with a thousand others in tie-dyed shirts. Burnt-out panhandlers,
left over from the sixties, walked the crowd, begging tickets and selling posters,
buttons, and grass. The drum solo in the second set echoed from Strawberry Canyon,
adding a weird backbeat appreciated only by us cheapskates in the fields.
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"The Cuckoo's Egg" - Pag 35 (on my edition)
Someone needs to stand up for the massively powerful corporations that are killing us and our planet!
Curious on folks who have been at both places. My impression is that Microsoft runs a more centralized culture than Amazon?
No, it doesn't. Unless that charity is a sociopathic wealth hoarder. Then it does apply and then your point is also moot.
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Let me try: https://visawhen.com/consulates/bogota/h1b

And also the repo: https://github.com/underyx/visawhen

They weren’t clickable before I added the < > either, I just thought that might fix it. Maybe I’ll have to ask dang.
I'm generally skeptical of Amazon, but it does have a new CEO who came from AWS, as opposed to.. say, the warehouse operation side of the business.

Maybe, just maybe, the new CEO will care about higher principles just a little bit more than Jeff did.
The obsession of Americans with "how do you pay for your kids to go to college?" is truly bizarre to my non-US eyes (I am living in the US). They are adults when they go to college, there are merit-based scholarships, sports scholarships, they can work some, maybe I could loan some money. If you cannot afford Harvard or Stanford, don't go to either. I did not, I did fine, and I would not contribute with my money to those institutions.

I got zero money from my parents after I turned 17, and the bare minimum before that, and I would have felt inadequate as a young adult if I had taken money from them, which they did not have in any case. Exception exists (e.g. disabilities).
here is a handful from his history:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7FCx3MrwKGYFEs91Lz0yg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYuQIa9lgjvDiZryUVtFGw

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYbK_tjZ2OrIZFBvU6CCMiA < very popular

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIWlCE2kt0RXCJLRp8HjhiQ

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLyVUwlB_Hahir_VsKkGPIA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk_n3tLHEeCW3oYwea7-8dg

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG08EqOAXJk_YXPDsAvReSg
That's exactly my point. If customers don't care then who's this regulation serving?
Seems like covid coverage (IMO)
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front end development, imo. Both web and mobile. If you could do things like react or vue, there are tons of high priced work for the skilled.
With the right attitude, the amount of money you have in your pocket can be "FU" money.
Aren't there already fridges that run Android?
> Amazon began selling a competing product with a similar (not identical spelling but pronounced the same) name they successfully trademarked B

Trademarks are published for opposition for this reason, right? Client could have filed an opposition against the confusingly similar mark during the opposition period and it never would have ended up in that situation with trademark C. Monitoring trademarks posted to the Official Gazette is an extra burden but important if your brand is valuable.
There's a small difference in that IRC generally is a message passing network whereas Matrix more like a log synchronizer.

So spam becomes a part of the log, which means that it'll consume far more resources than just network resources.
Yeah I didn't understand that part either. The quote doesn't mention data width at all...
I'd rather have them register ddg.* or some other short TLD and be done with this ducking. I can never type it correctly from the second try.
“There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”
― Edward L. Bernays

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."
― Benjamin Disraeli

A theme worth exploring...
Yeah imagine what a wonderful world we'd have if all that scammer creativity were put to work for a good cause.
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That's not FU money, that's enough money not to work for one year. At the end of the year, you cannot, in this context, say FU to anybody.
Good Luck Buying a House
Slack Went from an Unsuccessful Video Game to a $26B Dollar Company
this is not attributal to yt, people don't even know the history of the past two decades
> for most applications a random password with length 16 would be completely fine

Yes. If we could figure out how to actually get people to do this universally we'd be in good shape. But nobody knows how to make this happen at scale.
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The nice thing is the compact dictionary doesn't use extra memory, so why not make it the default?
Indeed; I do this every day with Vim and its term command, with Julia, Python, bash, Elixir—it works with any language with a REPL of any kind.
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The idea that a carbon tax is the best policy is itself an ideological position supported by certain entities with an agenda.
Economists love to push it a lot. The same economists also like to downplay the cost of climate change (the costs incurred due to the damage it causes).
And then there is the small matter of how much should a ton of CO2 be taxed at. Imagine all the lobbying efforts to reduce that number. It will never be anywhere near what it should be.
And EXXON's propagandists have a point. People don't want to be taxed more, and a blanket carbon tax would definitely hit the bottom majority hard.
Interesting choice of words, nowhere did he say that it isn't true.
I couldn't find a common translation or appearance of this saying's equivalent in English. Ungratefulness is the world's wage?
Hash maps are a fairly recent addition to the standard data structures "library", because they are relatively performance-intensive. They are of course very useful and therefore commonplace now, but I think that only came about after the rise of dynamic languages which have built-in hash maps (Javascript objects, PHP "associative arrays" etc.). So nowadays any new programming language which wants to attract web developers (e.g. Go) needs a built-in hash map.
2FA only prevents phishing if you are using something like a yubikey. The phisher can just ask for your SMS code or your TOTP code. You can go buy tools that completely automate this on the black market.
This sends a bad message to would-be whistleblowers. I read it as... "next time, take your evidence, make contingency plans, and finally blackmail the criminals - you're more likely to get paid".
It's interesting that we had such different takes on it. To me Bernays did somewhat of a public service by letting the genie out of the bottle and sharing these ideas publicly. Whether or not we like it, it's happening, and by writing a book about it he made it more possible for society at large to detect and counter these tactics. Of course I know that he was in this system and used these tactics himself for wealth and power. He probably wrote the book to further his own name. But he may have legitimately had the public interest in mind, also.

> The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
Once I worked at a bank developing software for IBM is (AS/400 then). As any other programmer, I slowly built a toolset to make my work easier. My boss saw one of them and asked me to clean it up for the operators to use, as it made their work much easier. I did, they used it daily, everybody was happy.

Months later my boss called me at 3am, very stressed because the operators told her there was a skull in the screen. Fearing the worst, they traced the program back to me, and I sleepily explained: "the skull appears on Fridays the 13th, it's a visual Easter egg, the program works the same as any day".

In hindsight, maybe it wasn't the smartest thing to do. I was lucky my boss and the others were very tolerant, but not removing that Easter egg could have gone very wrong. AFAIK they didn't change it, seems like they liked the predictability. It would be perfect to scare newcomers.
And if you want to play with this the gluonts python library makes it very easy. It also includes some other time series models as well! I've been playing with it at work and it's enjoyable.
Very few ppl look at clickstream data for your own site. That’s not it’s purpose. It’s inaccurate but can be helpful for relative comparison/benchmarking. I don’t care the exact number of visits my competitor is getting, but I do care if it’s twice the amount my site is getting.
>water on said exoplanets based on spectrography

Even though from a theoretical perspective it should be way easier and more reasonable to detect particular molecules on distant planets via spectroscopy compared than to detect things on the mind-blowingly minuscule scale of gravitational waves, I think distant spectroscopy might actually be more prone to error, or at least more prone to false positives.

Just speculating since I have zero expertise in this area, but part of it may be because light from all sorts of sources is reaching us all the time, while gravitational waves significant enough to be feasibly detected pretty much only come from the top percentile of the most energetic events in the universe.

I think if you can discern a gravitational wave-induced spacetime wobble at least once and infer the motion that could've caused it (e.g. black holes/neutron stars merging) and see it matches theoretical expectations, you may continue to have a lot of false negatives, but you probably aren't at high risk of future false positives.

Whereas with spectroscopy, there seem to be a lot of things that can cause both false positives and false negatives even if you do have many prior detections that you believe are accurate. For spectroscopy, both error rates should go down over time as technology and techniques improve, but it seems like it may potentially be an inherently more "murky" observation technique, even if it's far simpler and far less expensive than gravitational wave detection.

(Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this, because there's a pretty good chance I am.)
My point is that converting is a signal promoting more ads, not less.
When they stop giving revenue.
Most of the network was fine, it only affected the main Matrix server and anyone who federated with the spammed rooms. If you weren't in a room being attacked or left it you were fine.
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Sure, these are valid considerations once you have decided to have children. It is the 'how' and 'why' of even deciding to have children that I am curious about.

I mean, were you in your early 20s, grinding leetcode, thinking "can't wait to become a parent"? Or was it more of "I want to have had children when I am 65, so even though I'm not over the moon about it right now it is what it is, I'll just go with it"? Or "all my friends and relatives are doing it, so it never even occurred to me that I had other options"?
Critique does not imply criticism. Its more about analyzing the significance, historical significance , aesthetic value, or meaning of art.
Imagine you want to write a JSON parser and prettyfier. Then writing the keys out in the same order as they were inserted would be very important. Yes, it's true that key order doesn't matter to the computers that consume JSON but humans consume JSON too and key order often matters to them.
oh I see, I think you might be right. Thanks for the correction
Well, rand has problems other than just being a poor random generator.
There is a significant, qualitative difference between using a language that designed for REPL use and one that isn’t.

Those boundaries you talk of are the crux of the issue. A highly dynamic, completely expression based language is going to enable a much different experience. Homoiconicity also plays an important role here, because you can ispect and parse code within the language, with the same functions and algorithms as everything else.
Replaying Ethereum Hacks
Very interesting post. SVGs have amazed me in how versatile a format they can be.
Patent trolls are pure evil.

The solution is to dismantle the system scummy patent attorneys built and use to steal from good companies.

The entire patent system only serves to prevent competition through a government enforced monopoly. Why is there only one big aircraft manufacturer (Boeing) left in the US? Patents. Why is there only one major DB maker (Oracle)? Patents. Get rid of patents and you will greatly increased innovation and competition and the consumer will win.
The affordable electric vehicles outselling electric cars around the world
Were they to do that, their shareholders (including and perhaps especially their institutional ones) would have sued the pants off them, tossed them out of their jobs, and demanded that Exxon get back to the business of making as much money as possible, as soon as possible.

The sea change has been big investors throwing their clout behind ESG initiatives, which would have been laughable even in the 00s.

If we wanted what we espouse to want to happen (big oil got in the renewable business) when we wanted it to happen (1990s?), we should have been pushing for more ESG-flexible shareholder laws & case law for the last few decades.
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> As opposed to the people starving, freezing, and overheating because they don't have reliable and affordable access to energy?

> The oil majors are not wrong in that we need (relatively) cheap energy. And will for some time. Any climate policy that isn't honest about that isn't solving anything.

There are carbon neutral power sources that would have been cheap to deploy. Nuclear was one of those sources but faced years of anti-nuclear lobbying primarily from the oil industry. [1]

Funnily, some of the initial support for solar power came from the fossil fuel industry. Primarily as an anti-nuclear campaign and primarily because they knew solar wasn't feasible early on.

It's only now that solar is far more feasible that the talking points have shifted away from cost and towards reliability.

To be clear, solar is now one of the cheapest forms of power generation. [2] Further, coupling that power generation with nat gas peaker plants has a highly reduced carbon footprint. Eventually replacing those nat gas sources with grid batteries is something that we are now not limited by cost, but rather battery production capacity.

The somewhat new attack I'm seeing now revolves around how dirty mining is. In other words, they appear to be playing the game of "making 'perfect' the enemy of 'good'".

Also funnily, it looks like oil lobbyists are now taking the approach of advocating for nuclear. [3] Why? My speculation is because they know that regulations in the US are now such that it will take years and billions to turn on new nuclear, they are banking on the fact that those regulations won't change and the nuclear projects end up DOA. (prolonging the reliance on fossil fuels).

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...

[2] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/05/19/sunny-places-could-se...

[3] https://www.heritage.org/nuclear-energy/commentary/nuclear-c...
Instagram boss says it is ‘no longer a photo-sharing app’