skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect most "profitable and lasting IT businesses" are motivated by money.

In fact, people who aren't afraid to get blood on their hands, and play dirty, are quite likely to succeed...monetarily (at least, in the US).

But there are costs. Despite the appearance, most people are not sociopaths, so how we make that money comes with a price (or a reward).

For myself, I built up a decent portfolio, over a long career; the old-fashioned way. I lived frugally, avoided debt like the plague, and saved as much as I possibly could, investing in relatively stable opportunities.

I'm not rich, but it allowed me to weather the very nasty response I got, when I searched for work, as an older developer.

These days, I'm working for free, on stuff that probably won't make any money, and I'm really enjoying it. This beats golf every day, like a lot of folks I know. In fact, I'm probably working harder than I ever have, in my life.

Personally, I believe that there's a lot to be said for living frugally, and avoiding personal debt; but this attitude seems to be heresy, these days.
https://zwischenzugs.com/2021/07/12/if-you-want-to-transform...
One heck of a cropped sensor. There have been many attempts at this over the years. https://www.dpreview.com/articles/5677027893/why-your-belove...
Admittedly I'm not clicking on the link (2002 is peak antipathy both ways due to Iraq war build-up), but I've seen similar stuff that doesn't account for French people have a negative attitude towards everything compared to other countries. If you ask French people in a poll whether they approve of something they are much more likely to disapprove
Does anyone know whether this had any impact on relations?

My experience with seeing discussions online doesn't give me much confidence in the persuasive ability of "here are logical reasons why what you're feeling is wrong".
I am sure plenty of people could claim that cannabis and other drugs found in nature have been used just as long if not longer than alcohol by various tribes and groups around the world.
As a french, it reminds me very much of the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency manual: a pragmatic and clear book that tries to make approachable what seems an impossible topic to handle.

That's really a side of the american culture I'd like we promote more.

Also a proof militaries are not devoid of humanism.
paywall bypass : https://archive.is/3VhQB
Say if I develop in python, Why should I use this instead of pylint which is open source and vetted by the community?
I don’t need to - Google’s actions demonstrate it.

Google Drive is a private resource, not an avenue in Milwaukee. Google is not the government.

You have the freedom to speak, but not in a newspaper you don’t own. You have the freedom to assemble, but not in a privately owned shopping mall.
When the USSR broke up, I had a school teacher at the time who said Russia will cease to be an enemy and become like France, an ally that opposes us a lot and causes headaches just out of national pride.
>without a special waiver

Oh wow so difficult for a recruiter who is paid per recruit to fill out. /s

The military is often the last resort for many people, as a result it attracts a different demographic.

>officers, and many enlisted, have Bachelor's degrees.

So? Aren't most deployed people non officers?
A masters degree isn't much harder than a bachelor's. If you want to be an academic, I would think these orthogonal explorations would be a good thing because you need to know how all the parts fit together and how they fit into the world.

The only issue I see here is the missing deadlines part. I think you just have to be more disciplined and make your grades a priority.
What would you call the level below "heavy"? I'd imagine if you asked most people the scale would go something like "nondrinker", "light drinker", "moderate drinker", "heavy drinker", "full blown alcoholic". If so then 14 drinks per week is the upper end of "moderate".

I'd expect it also depends on how you drink it. One restaurant-pour glass of wine with dinner every day adds up to 14 drinks a week but no reasonable person would call it "heavy drinking". (Yes, plenty of people here are saying that it is. No, they're not being reasonable.) I'd expect drinking 14 drinks in one night once a week would absolutely count as heavy drinking, though.
> France sounded like a muslim country back then:

>> Most French girls before the war had far less freedom than our girls back home. A great many were not permitted to go out without a chaperone. France is dominantly Catholic in religion and in morals...

Can you imagine: from that to disallowing fathers to do a DNA test in less than 100 years!
> And just want to make money, as much as possible, don’t care how (as long as it’s legal).

I think you can start out by being an affiliate for a successful saas business.

A lot of companies have affiliate programs which pay you out 50% recurring commission on every sale. People make a lot of money doing this and you can get started almost instantly as compared to spending months making a product first.

Of course there are always pros and cons of everything but This way you can get a real taste for sales and marketing and what it takes to makes money very quickly
Maybe not common, but The Fellowship Of The Ring (full motion capture and CGI for Gollum) was released in 2001, while The Matrix Reloaded was released in 2003.

I don't think Jet Li needed to extrapolate into the future at all.
It's an interesting comparison for unintended reasons though: I love DoTT almost as much as Full Throttle, it's such a good and iconic game... but I also find it frustratingly difficult [1]. Ok, it didn't have action sequences like Full Throttle but its puzzles are frequently bizarre. I had to use a walkthrough to finish DoTT which always mars the experience, while I didn't for Full Throttle.

Don't get me wrong, I love DoTT. In fact, I feel like... taking over the world!

[1] Mind you, even DoTT is a piece of cake compared to its predecessor, Maniac Mansion!
So, why is the government considered infallible precisely on those topics, if it is tacitly understood that it can actually make mistakes elsewhere?

Also, the formulation feels strangely US-centric, even though people use Google Drive all over the world and the formulation does not explicitly say which governments are considered as infallible in their census records. With no qualification, "government" can well be government of Iraq, Hongkong or Belarus.
Never got around to playing it, but I probably spent 10+ hours trying to get the demo to run on the family PC. Unsuccessfully.
I'm going to suggest to you that when trying to get the most out of a research paper, you might want to read beyond the second sentence of the abstract.

It balances and talks about the paradoxes - such as the French obsession with McDonalds.
One wonders how researchers are confident that they haven't sampled maintenance work on the figure, rather than tapping the original material to arrive at the age estimates.
I don't normally go for memes, but this describes it pretty well. https://mobile.twitter.com/cyb3rops/status/14159370796457779...

There's a lot to discuss about those specific issues, but at the very core of it is: why is the printer spooler running as SYSTEM and why hasn't it been fixed a decade ago?
This isn't necessarily a huge help, because those errors could be triggered or manifest at any point where unsafe code is used transitively. In C, not every single line is unsafe. All that the unsafe keyword ultimately does is to force you to aggregate such lines into blocks with the word "unsafe" around them.

You can speculate that this is a significant improvement. I would argue that a disciplined use of a simple language like C would, in practice, be safer than using a complex language like Rust which has "safety" written all over it - but then liberally sprinkles unsafe code into all the gaps.

We can both agree that C++ is the worst of both worlds.
As far as I'm aware, Communism was a "dirty word" since the Russian revolution.

The obvious conspiracy theory is that those in the halls of power embarked (successfully) on a multi-decade project to suppress and discredit Communism as an acceptable political belief.
When I started out in the early 90's, I did digital prepress. We had a leaf back for a Hasselblad. You had to take the RGB channels separately, one at a time, so it was only useful for catalog or product work. It was really amazing at the time, considering we no longer had to do drum scans which were very very very very slow and labor intensive, plus no more waiting for the slide film to process.
That's not my impression at all. I think the characters are ace. And this is not only a recollection from back then, I bought the remastered version and confirmed my impressions.
I’m definitely on the side of the argument that says power is power, and private companies can do just as much harm as governments can. However, there’s a difference between gov’t censorship and censorship by private companies like we’re talking about here.

It’s the difference between not allowing the government to say what you can publish and requiring a company to publish whatever you want.
It doesn't, the problem with auto-reboot is that it encourages people to disable auto-update because it is the easiest way to get rid of the auto-reboot.
> Open source has one really good benefit, Having more eyes on the code, which means less likely a bug goes undetected.

This a million times.

The concept is so simple it doesn't even need proof or examples as solid arguments, but just in case, here's one: the famous Interbase backdoor.

Interbase was a database engine by Borland. In 1994 some developer added a hardcoded credential backdoor to ease development, but forgot to remove it in production.
The backdoor wasn't malicious, yet still dangerous as it gave administrator privileges to anyone; it went unnoticed for about seven years and multiple versions of the product. In mid 2000, Borland released Interbase as Open Source, and within six months the vulnerability was discovered and fixed.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2001/03/back_door_s...
This is actually delusional, I'm sorry.

Cuba possess exactly 0 anti-shipping threat to the US. There is no feasible scenario where Cuba develops enough, with a population of 11 million, to become a military threat to the US. It could fire off a few missiles before the positions get destroyed, sure, but so could any nation with an SSK.

The reason for the enmity towards Cuba is nothing else than the Monroe Doctrine, and despite any appeals to "adulthood" which are thinly veiled appeals to paternalism, the Monroe Doctrine is interpreted better through an elementary schoolyard bully lens than through the eyes of the adults in the room - "if you're ij my class you can't be bestest friends with anybody else". It doesn't come with any consideration for anyone beyond the US and its not even about security, it's about dominance.
> 2 glasses of wine a day is a good indicator that you have alcohol in your system at least 1/3rd of your life!

What? The standard, conservative 'party line' quoted by national health authorities is that people process around 1 standard drink per hour. A standard glass of wine is 2 standard drinks, so 2 glasses would take 4 hours max to process, or 1/6 of a day. Unless you're using one of those giant glasses and filling it to the brim so your 'two glasses' is actually a bottle or more.
What's there to be proud about when a foreign power manages to bring a local infrastructure project to a halt?
Except the term "misinformation" appears nowhere on the page https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505

Instead it refers to "misleading information".

Absent a specific definition of "misinformation" from Google's lawyers -- who likely authored or at least reviewed this page -- we are left to consult the dictionary.

The dictionary defines "misinformation" as "information that is incorrect". There is no requirement of intent. The information may or may not be misleading.

That is, the term "misinformation" may apply to any incorrect information regardless of intent.

Is it possible to have incorrect information ("misinformation") that is not intended to or does mislead (~ "misleading information"). Your answer: ___

Is it possible to have correct information (~ "misinformation") that is intended to or does mislead ("misleading information"). Your answer: ___
I have some passively cooled i3-7100u boxes I recently got, each with an M.2 slot and 2 RAM modules, and they idle at around 2W each when booted into Debian.

I've never felt like Pis are that great for power vs performance for most applications, and make more sense in places where you can make use of all that GPIO and compact size.
California becomes first state to pass a guaranteed income plan
We don't have comparable embargoes on nation-states whose governments have committed much more heinous crimes.

Like with sanctions in the Middle East, it just hurts regular people and the government continues to not care.
Hope their studies are reproducible, I'm getting a little tired of psychnews that make headline, only to learn it was just garbage.
Update on NIST’s Investigation of the Champlain Towers South Collapse
OTOH,the brain needs animal fat for DHA:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20190...
Think about it like this - every single extra simple boolean configuration option doubles the configuration state space of the program. Add just ten option checkboxes for a feature and you have made the system three-orders of magnitude more complicated. Everyone pays for that complexity.
It's true that the US government has always compelled private platforms to remove speech if it is illegal as determined by the legislative branch or common law (e.g., hosting child porn). What's unique about the current situation is that what's being censored has direct influence from non-legislative bodies such as the executive branch and the CDC, and what is out of bounds lacks specification and is subject to change according to the whims of a small handful of people.

This is a big change because the legislative body is significantly constrained in what it can censor through multiple mechanisms. The slippery slope concern falls flat in that old context, but not in this new context where 1 or 2 people (who we don't see and who may not have even been directly elected) can label something as misinformation and have it scrubbed.
>I wish we had such a book currently on how arabs and the muslim world are different

I also wish we had such a book currently on how progressive and conservatives are different
Because they are already disoriented and disengaged so they don't need more.
That's me. I don't regard it as an advantage, but I've come to be okay with it. I've quit before, for months at a time, and once for 2+ years. I used to go to Japan regularly for 2-3 weeks at a time, during which I'd have none. What I found is that I'm not more productive without it, and the quality of my work was not affected by it.

I found that indeed I am able to concentrate more deeply with it. Without it, I find myself far more tempted to drink to relax -- which breaks my personal rule for alcohol use: never for stress relief, only for celebration.
Related: since cancer thrives on sugar, what impact is from the sugars in the wine and beer people drink?
Well this just in.... [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57874744
Highly dependent on country/region/state I'd imagine.
It probably depends upon the definition of "small-sized company" :-)

In some companies a form of screening out is in place, barring access to some online material, however it is AFAIK done for economical reasons (avoiding letting company resources used for non-work stuff, avoiding any mistake such as a dubious download, contribution or comment be associated with an IP address rented by the company...), not in order to enforce censorship. Each employee is free to access to whatever he wants... using his own time, computer and network connection.
Congrats! I hope more people gets into learning by space repetition.

I do not agree with the way you are marketing yourself (critisizing Anki) you should be good on your own terms. From you website.
« ZORBI IS THE TOOL THAT ANKI SHOULD HAVE BEEN
Anki was built in 2006 for lifelong learning, and it was good for a while.

But let's get real. Anki is a clunky tool that people tolerate. You have to worry about optimizing settings, downloading addons, and updates that might corrupt your data.

Zorbi is easy to use, you won't have to worry about settings or addons, and we release new features every week.»

Also, is not clear at what point you will be asking for money.

Best of luck!
Sure, but personally I would argue that it almost always makes more financial sense to do a combined Masters-PhD (i.e. a research degree), especially in fields with plentiful funding.

That was the case for me in Ireland when I did my doctorate.
This totally ignores the positive impact of making housing available to those willing to pay the most for it.

If a young professional is willing and able to pay $3,000 a month for a unit, and a poor long-term resident is only willing and able to pay $2,000, renting to the former will lead to the more productive party gaining access to the high productivity neighbourhood.

If there is a 20% productivity boost from living in the high productivity location, and the young professional generates $12,000 a month in value, while the poor long-term resident generates $5,000 a month, allowing the young professional to outbid the poor long-term resident will lead to a $1,400 boost in monthly productivity.

That productivity boost in turn leads to more jobs created for more poor people.
When I tried to add my bookmarks from a file, one of the website seems to not be online anymore; archivebox just stops execution when it encounters this issue.

How can I make archivebox ignore such errors and continue with the rest of the websites?

Command used:

archivebox add < exported_bookmarks.html --depth=1
The person in the article is described as "a super-fit 54-year-old", but in the pictures it seems that they are overweight at the very least. Here is a clearer picture:

https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/health/coronavirus/halifax-...

not only are they overweight, but I don't know what they are doing at the gym because it isn't bicep curls.
Right, because well educated, wealthy men don't rape teenagers...
I came back to using KDE over the past year after a long hiatus. KDE is great on opensuse tumbleweed.
I used Gnome many times over the years but it feels way behind KDE. PopOS has done a reasonably well with Gnome but I wish more distros chose KDE as their primary DE to give Gnome more competition.
What makes you call previous studies garbage? Haven't psychedelics actually helped people with, say, PTSD, in those previous studies?
I know some people whose hubris reached such heights during the pandemic, they believed themselves to somehow be immune to the virus, and boasted about how they never follow any of the best practices or would ever get a vaccine, while denigrating those who were afraid. Eventually some of them caught a crippling case of COVID that may have nearly cost them their lives or perhaps worsened its quality permanently. What did I say? Good.
Get me one that doesn't have ulterior motives and I'm sold.
...is there another reason to build a business?

I mean, sure, there's a lot of other axes to optimize on, but nobody builds a business that's completely divorced from a profit motive.
Officials are probably more educated than the general populace, since they almost always need a university degree, but enlisted personnel might even be high school dropouts, so I wouldn't trust any regular soldier to be humble and respectful.
All short links from rb.gy shows Deceptive Page Ahead
I have a created a flashcards app for Android as well which got quite popular:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flashcards.wor...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_drink
> But then I also know at least 4 people in their late twenties who prefer weed and gaming over getting a job.

I find this kind of phrasing confusing. I think most people would prefer their substance and activity of choice over getting a job, most people just don't have that option. I'm guessing these kids are being supported by their parents or partners?
Deceptive Page Ahead message on all the short links from rb.gy
The Pirate Bay Away from the Keyboard (2013)
I think the project founders would need to distance themselves from the project (or at least announce they would no longer be decision makers), and have a bunch of different people try to take the project in different technical and idealistic directions, with some failing and some succeeding.

If the project survives that, you can have a lot more confidence the project can resolve disputes with no key members being vital to the process.
I don't at all believe people would reject it. People have been censoring content for a long time in far worse manners. Early 90's had plenty of "obscenity law" enforced, Ronald Reagan and regulation of content in games and music was a thing. People cheered it on, and that was actual government censorship, not corporate.

People agree with censorship if it's in in agreement with their belief.
No, but it’s pretty trivial to exploit in combination with other things.
Another thing that's been mostly sweeped under the rug wrt WW2 is that Russia both did the most damage to the German army and paid the highest price.

America only started their offensive after Russia started winning and likely only wanted to deny them Europe. And the heavy casualties in the war likely caused Russia to fold on the cold war as well, there were just not enough able men after the war to create families with about 80% of the male population in their prime dead. That low birth rate circle continues to date.

The world would've been a very different place with the USSR still in power and indoctrinating europes youth for generations.

America likely did save the Democratic western Europe at that time, just not from Germany.
Not quite :)

It's a result of patient deliberate effort, unsurprisingly.
TIL that youtube has trash audio quality for no good reason even when it's a trivial component of total bitrate.

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/14632/any-differ...
I believe they are two different people. The "super-fit" individual isn't pictured.
You said:

> It's really just... not that hard...

..and:

> I personally think it is a sign of modern hubris to assume that effective family planning didn't exist prior to 1960s and the advent of birth control.

If I am misinterpreting what you said, the problem is your communication skills, not my interpretation.

When someone says, "You're wrong", perhaps you should consider that you were wrong.

If you don't want to admit that what you said was wrong like an adult, fine. But if you're going to continue to try to paint me as if I'm bullying you, you can't be surprised if I step in to defend myself.
> Posting this because there were many reports of Internet disruptions in Cuba and HN likes stuff about underwater cables.

An unbuilt cable is unlikely to be related to current disruptions. It's much more likely the regime is using disruptions as an anti-protest tactic against the recent protests.
That's why I would argue for a "safe" keyword. In this sense, the compiler can actually help me write safe code and encourage library authors to do the same.

Either safety really matters and performance can be given up for it, or vice versa. I do not believe that Rust is a "reasonably-safe" alternative to C, because C is already reasonably safe if written with safety in mind, but with the added bonus of being simpler. Rust is reasonably unsafe when written with performance in mind, whereas C++ is just unreasonably unsafe.