skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, I am aware that there is no core technological or logistical issue. The issue is purely societal. Yes, I can get behind enabling people to specify policies on what to do when untreatable or mental diseases kick in.

The death penalty does not exist to reduce the suffering of the convicted, but to get rid of them. The true issue with the death penalty is that it can't be graduated (except by adding "cruel and unusual punishment") and it can't be undone. Prison sentences can be legally challenged and the innocent can be freed early.

There is a real slippery slope here: what length of prison sentence is considered to be worse than the death penalty? An additional thing to consider is that many countries without the death sentence actually don't impose true life sentences, but very longish ones (upwards from 20 years). Confinement for life is for those irredeemly judged to be a threat to society after their sentence. Compared to that, many death row inmates actually spend decades fighting their sentence. They could end it at any time if they wanted.
It's still better, but the gap's closed quite a bit in my experience.

It also still seems better than clang/gcc at working out whether inlining is worth it or not.

But it's also still quite buggy (it used to be as well, the number of work-arounds/#ifdefs needed to get some cross-platform applications built used to be quite annoying. In some cases, we couldn't even use exactly the same version of the compiler per platform, we had to split versions per platform!).
Because most rich people are born into wealth and all its advantages. "Luck" indeed. I think something like significantly more than half of 1%ers were born into 1%er families.

Another is height. There's a very strong correlation between height and lifetime earnings; tall people are seen as better leaders, trusted more, and frankly, more physically intimidating. Tall men are much more desirable to partners.

Getting back to wealth...let's run down just some of the advantages.

Having parents with the free time to do things like read to you as a baby. Babies start figuring out language pretty much the second they're out of the womb. Their little brains are working out the rhythm of the language in order to figure out where the word separation is, so they can learn words.

Childcare (and childcare that likely isn't religiously affiliated.)

Going into Pre-K. Again, likely not religiously affiliated. You're learning useful stuff, versus being brainwashed.

Better chance of living in a good school system, or even if you don't - your parents recognizing you're in a shitty school system and getting you outside tutoring, being involved in your education (helping with homework, going to parent-teacher conferences, etc.)

Having regular doctor's visits, dental care, vision, etc.

Having enough to eat, and probably good quality food as well. A shocking number of kids in the US go to school hungry. And we charge kids to eat in school - somewhere they are required to be. It's bananas.

Better access to exam prep/tutoring/ability to participate in enriching afterschool activities

Likely less stress in the home. Sure, rich families have their own dysfunctions. But likely nobody's worried about paying the grocery bill that week, you're clothed, etc.

Able to work internships that are of academic value as opposed to a job that makes money because you / your family need the money. Parents are likely well connected and able to leverage their network to help you get an internship of value.

Better access to nicer colleges both financially and due to access to things like exam preparation/tutoring, and the aforementioned good-looking internships.

Let's also not forget that college applications cost a considerable amount of money, which is a scam and a half. You can literally buy your way into a nicer school by applying to more schools than the kid whose parents can only afford to apply to one or two.

You're more likely to get help with purchasing a home, so you don't flush a ton of money down the drain renting - which means you can be pumping money into investments, both retirement and otherwise. Or pursuing an advanced degree, and the income bump that comes with it. Maybe even both. Early investing in retirement pays huge dividends later. This also means late in life you're not scrambling to stuff every dollar you can into retirement savings so you're not eating rice and beans when you're too old to have any sort of luck finding a job in tech...which means mid life is a lot more pleasant.
> Not every kind of "smartness" is rewarded on the job market or on the market in general.

Also financial smartness is a thing.
Neumorphism is interesting, but as far away from Windows 95 style as can be.

It's tactile, yes, but low density, low contrast, borders are non existent, colours are used to create intense gradient background palettes, instead of using them to increase readability and usability.

Neumorphism has all the drawbacks of modern flat design, with none of the benefits of old UI design studies. But it looks cool.
Adhering to principles naturally comes with sacrifice.
Andrew Hunter Murray is also a researcher for QI, and co-host of the related and very entertaining podcast No Such Thing as a Fish.
Of course that's what we end up doing in practice, using external tools (CLI or IDE) to work around a limitation in expressiveness of the language. This advice is a testimony that there's indeed a problem upfront :) And it comes short when searching from commonly used names...
OP makes a valid point stating the article presents no evidence. Therefore, would those who down voted OP care to explain why they did so?

EDIT: I'm being downvoted for asking a genuine question? Shame on you. This place is turning into another Redit.
Defining a common syscall interface for stream initiation and cert verification, and then implementing the logic as a Linux kernel module would be a decent compromise I think.
Are most smart people even trying to optimise for net worth?

I worked with a lot of very intelligent people at my last job, and it just wasn't a priority for so many of the people there (company owners included).
> Middlemen implies a few (or one) centrally controlable group (or unit).

No it does not.

> Is a router a middleman on the internet?

If that router is controlled by a third party, then yes, a router(entity owning that router) is in fact a middleman.
>All users would have liked Fords with multiple colours rather than black.

They did, over time, choose car manufactures with different colors. But they also loved the price Ford could get for them making only one color available, at first.

The problem was that getting multiple colors made your car extremely expensive and the car had to wait way longer in the queue for the paint to dry. But only at first, over time those problems got solved and people could get to choose colors for cheap.

Today everybody wants closed 3d printers with swappable heads that could print multiple materials and support. They just don't want to pay USD3.000 for it when they can buy a printer for USD200.

If you want to be successful you always have to listen to your users. But you also need common sense.
I wonder if I just got lucky in my youth trying to repair a mac classic II (at the time it was about 10 years old), or if the 9" CRT that must have not been turned on for years at that point didn't have enough of a charge?

That machine eventually lived and functioned perfectly for quite a few more years (ended up just needing a new HDD) until finally dying.
Fixed. Added pricing on website: https://tablum.io/pricing
That's true. I was thinking that hobby goals aren't real goals, because their real purpose is to entertain you, but then realised that all goals are like that at the end of the day.
> In hindsight, it is obvious that the fact a scientist has made an important chance discovery in the past does not mean he or she is more likely to make one in the future.

I believe luck is a bigger part of life than we'd like to admit to ourselves. However, saying talent doesn't play a role in success (especially in science) seems plain wrong.
While we’re on the topic, I wonder why humans aren’t microchipped. Would be very easy to identify people as needed.

Might get us out of this password hell (I can’t remember shit now days).
I don't want a move to enforced static typing everywhere in Ruby. But rbs is relatively non-intrusive. Having the standard library covered by it, and allowing people to tighten up things where they make sense makes it less cumbersome to avoid elsewhere. And it allows those people who feel they need to have type hints everywhere in their IDE to still use Ruby. I find it clutters things up more than it helps, but if it helps others then that's great.

I'm slightly concerned that people will overdo it. E.g. I've more than once wanted to pass an input to something that enforced stricter typing than necessary via guards e.g. checking its input with #kind_of? when it otherwise only needed a class that implemented a sensible #read (for example). But Rubyists are pragmatic - I think after a period of overzealous annotations (the way people went totally overboard with monkey patching for a while) most people will keep the type declarations just loose enough.
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I'm in the UK (London specifically) and have worked for daily rates between £600 - £950, with durations lasting between 6 months - 2years.

IR35 has certainly thrown a spanner in the works, but i'm noticing more and more businesses offering 'IR35 friendly' contracts.

As an aside, I no longer contract, have gone the startup route instead.
Ideally ALL protocol (by the definition of it) ought to be openly defined. The authentication to use the protocol is another thing. Of course, security by obscurity is how the banks talk to each other.
Ask HN: As a solo/micropreneur, what infrastructure are you using?
In these days of Kubernetes and microservices everywhere I am using a monolith in a single server in which I have also the database (Just use S3 for object storage) (servers are pretty powerful nowadays)

I don't have scale and won't have it short-term, but I can't avoid feeling overwhelmed by what I read around here.

What is your real life not so cutting edge infrastructure?
SkyFail: 6M Routers Left Exposed
Okay. Winamp really was the shit back in the day. Nowadays there's plenty of competition.
Wealth follows a power law because there is a positive feedback loop. Having some wealth makes it easier to get more wealth. So, if you're smart/lucky enough to get a bit of wealth, you can continue to use whatever smarts you have to get more.

The article seems to imply that since other human traits follow normal distributions, then wealth distribution should also be normal if it's determined by human traits. But that doesn't follow because it ignores feedback. Being a little tall doesn't help you get more tall. Most human traits don't reinforce themselves the way wealth does. A smart person with a million dollars can make money a lot more easily than a smart person with zero dollars. A smart person with a billion dollars can do even more.
If you are so smart why don’t you have more free time to live your life? Is mostly the challenge I see to people in my circle of peers family and friends, regardless of money status
> Carnivals sure seem fun!

I like that most ride owners (at least in UK) FUCKING. HATE. CHILDREN. It must be purely about the cash.
It depends what you're publishing, but if it's fully open access then you can post it at https://osf.io and get a free DOI almost immediately. Obviously it's "their" DOI. If you want your own prefix, then you need to register as a DOI issuer (or whatever the correct term is) which I presume is the cost you mention.

To me it seems similar to certificate authorities. There are several DOI issuers who act a bit like letsencrypt, doing their best to make an opaque process easier to navigate. But it simply takes a fair bit of cash to become an issuer.

Maybe there's space here for a different approach, but DOI and Handle are the incumbents and the "market" is resistant to change.

Have a read through the posts at the Crossref website, including the minutes from their meetings. There's plenty written on HN too about the likes of Elsevier and their monopolization of academic publishing.
Everything's about luck. Are you smart? Luck. Are you good looking? Luck. Are you rich? Again, some combination of things that are all essentially about luck.
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This is of no utility until the DoJ and courts start punishing corporations for breaking laws and regulations in some meaningful way.

Right now, even egregious violation of regulations results in a trivial financial payment and the charges are put on the shelf - and forgotten about if the corporation "behaves." In theory. In reality, companies can keep breaking the law, violating those agreements to 'behave' - and the DoJ / courts never pursue the matter.
> No need to get messy on the actual stairs.

This would only be a problem if you didn’t bring any lefties.
this sounds like "survivor bias"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
You can fall down positioned upwards or downwards.
because i am smart ;)
Selfish and opaque transaction ordering in the Bitcoin blockchain
Salaries are part of the problem; there is a very rigid salary structure in Germany's civil service. The salary band in which programmers would fall is OK but not overly attractive. There is very little headroom to pay talented developers a salary that could compete with what they get elsewhere.
Honestly I think web3 is pretty doomed to discover why centralisation wins. In particular you can see this with the popularity of various blockchains. You immediately gain value by building on a chain with popularity. People gravitate and that increases the popularity and suddenly they’ve centralised around one piece of technology. Sure it’s decentralised in operation but that’s not the only axis. Similarly we’re seeing lots of platform power develop already including instances of disregarding the blockchain as a source of truth.

The one part I grudgingly do like with NFTs is it gives people ownership of data that escapes platforms. NFTs are imperfect at this as they lack privacy, are ruinously expensive and complex to untangle from the entities that created them. Also all the usecases so far are more about speculation than defeating platforms. The non-blockchain alternatives like Pods and so on seem more compelling to me.

But yeah to me we’ll see more decentralisation naturally when users are in charge of their own data. I also think this is going to only really take off when we solve digital identity and on boarding that isn’t horrendously technical.
"CCP virus" -- Kind of makes it hard to take you seriously.
Yeah, imagine all the opportunities where you could have been outraged but weren't. What a waste.

Jokes aside, I agree with you and think "modern framing" in media should be scrapped again and journalistic work should return. Hard in the economy of today, but still necessary.

Tha AfD wasn't far right on its inception (still right wing though) and the former leader was correct about a lot of things. Correct in a way that predictions became reality, this is measurable under scrutiny. They radicalized themselves more and more because media steadily reinforced that picture which of course attracted other people to the party.
Your argument is the main point he makes in the intro and is the strongest argument against the theory. But the arguments the author lists himself are not very strong:

1. "The swordsman theory is predicated upon the belief that castles were intrinsically designed as military structures"
=> "just because most were; there are a lot of castle like fortress that were actively used as defense sitations.

2. If staircases were genuinely engineered for military purposes, then we should always find that they turn clockwise. => No, opposite, since not all were used military it might not have been a priority for all, and also not all builders might have been aware of this strategy.

etc...
"pushing the boundaries of thin & light", yet smartphones keep getting bigger and heavier. The latest & greatest from Apple features phones that literally weigh more than half a pound.
Where I live, the land registry is trusted.
They made websites faster by restricting what you could do with them. For the average shitty news website it made an enormous difference.
Thanks! Wrt "There are several DOI issuers who act a bit like letsencrypt" -- I haven't seen any that are free like letsencrypt, did you have in mind any concrete issuer?
It's also about energy/kilogram, especially in Aviation.
Aren't there 486 class cpus in space ? I thought they made radiation hardened designs that were sufficient for their needs.
Yeah, there's no magic material that can violate the second law of thermodynamics, because it's the second law of thermodynamics. One-way mirrors are just partial mirrors with less light on one side than the other.
We are quite literally alpha zero ourselves. We developed chess by playing ourselves. I don't get what is particularly surprising that there are not infinite ways to play good chess?
The two tools I'd recommend for navigating ruby code in addition to #source_location are Solargraph[1] and, my favourite, good 'ol exuberant ctags[2].

Solargraph is an amazing project but ctags is still just so fast and low overhead that it's what I mostly use.

ctag support is available for most editors and is built into Vim. You need to first generate a tag file (or have an editor plugin do it for you[3]) and then press Ctrl-] to go to definition.

1. https://solargraph.org/

2. http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

3. https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags
SDL/SDL2 and games/emulators/interpreters like Scummvm/Frotz/Mednafen should give Serenity OS a huge array of games.
Other than Rails, what do people use Ruby for?
The https link doesn't work for me, working link: http://www.scholix.org/
Sea: +100% revenue growth for 13 quarters
you just nailed it with the power law example. But how would you explain the _rags-to-riches_ scenario?
The NFT Bay Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
Aren't the shared concepts simply predicated on 'the rules of chess'? No surprise that an algorithm and a 'rational actor' share similar themes when both are constrained by the same rules.
> the web appeared and despite having a searchbox in every app, there still isn’t a keyboard shortcut for it

This infuriates me. None of the browsers have a shortcut to "search this highlighted text with Google". I instead have to right click, and carefully pick the option between "Print" and "Copy".

Not a single one, for an operation I do 200 times a day. I do not understand how it is possible. It's the most common operation I do in a browser.
Is there any Win 3.1 app which can use so much RAM ?

Maybe someone will start a new software project targeting the platform. That would be the second most interesting project.
Embrittlement is a product of high-pressure high-temperature storage. LH2 has its own difficulties, but they don't worsen with time.
Personality traits like that are also normally distributed and the concept of 'grit' specifically is controversial:
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/15/04/problem-grit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grit_(personality_trait)#Scien...
A Guide to Deliver a Full ML Pipeline
How is the article sexist? You have to stop thinking everything you read is related to politics.
From one individual user’s perspective - card upfront trials mean that there’s a good chance either (a) I don’t want the product but will be unable to cancel the account due to dark ux/cx or (b) I’ll forget about the trial period and begin being billed then go through hell to get out of it.

I much much much prefer a no ties trial, even if you restrict functionality, volume or some other thing which makes it not useable for regular workloads. It’s a trial, I only need to get a feel for if I think this will work for me, then buy or move on.
A gentle introduction to Compile-Time Computing – Part 1
This is so stupid it makes me think the author is rich.
You are ignoring that we often use software created by other people.

Raise your hand if you have ever spend an afternoon trying to get someone else's build scripts working. Wondering why make, cmake, scones and ninja are used in the same project...
> Also, private businesses should always be able to enforce their rules on their platform/property, as long as they don't discriminate against protected classes like ethnicities, genders, sexualities, etc.

> Otherwise you could just shit on the floor of a restaurant, and they could do nothing about it.

While they both fall under the broad umbrella of 'ownership', I find it deeply misleading to equate Twitter, Inc.'s ownership of the URL twitter.com/XxxBloodNinjaXxx to your fellow citizen John Q. Smalltownrestauranteur's ownership of a floor that he personally cleans with a mop every evening.

They are two form of ownership that have very little in common, and naïvely treating the owners as if they were equals and had the same power leads to poor policy.
Is it? Okay, so you don't have to specify the external-to-internal port mapping (and routers might offer you a default of external port = internal port anyway), but other than that it still seems like more or less the same procedure to me.

And at least my own home router does indeed use the same configuration interface for both IPv4 and IPv6.
The line

Clang 12.0 -O3 1.2955e-1 1.2553e-4 –3.1%

seems wrong to me. Is there a mistake?
I have no idea how half the editor controls work (on Desktop).

How do you assign colors to a button? There's no 'accept' action in the color picker, 'X' closes it without assigning the color, and clicking on the color rectangle changes it randomly on mouse over, before you can apply it.

Is this supposed to be mobile only?
Woke as an intellectual trend reminds me of the Soviet Communist mainstream thought process, in two ways in fact: one, its base assumptions are very noble, and are about creating a better world (I'm talking here about rank-and-file Soviet believers, not the criminals at the top and throughout the management structure). But also, it was a monster who devoured everyone: believers and non-believers.

One day you could be delivering a fiery speech on the evils of exploitative Capitalism, how Communism is the only way forward, and how you bow to the Proletariat. The next day you could be on a one-way trip to a Siberian labour camp. Maybe your speech wasn't vigorous enough. Maybe you made a joke that was ill-received. Maybe you didn't make a joke, but someone in the audience did. Or none of the above really, and you were just unlucky.

I don't yet see this so much with Woke; right now, the enemies are the Unwoke, and bear the brunt of the criticism. But as and when Woke grows (which I'm not actually sure is happening), the in-fighting is bound to begin. One person is for Equitable Science but maybe not Equitable PE lessons, let's cancel them. Another is for all things Equitable, but not quite in the right way, woe to them.

The thing about such ideologies is that statement-driven movements favour making more and more extreme statements, because simply repeating the message doesn't drive the movement forward. But then inevitably some people get left behind.
You don't even need to go as esoteric as "good rubik cube solver". My first job was at a physics laboratory as a research assistance. At least some of the people holding physics PhDs from elite institutions (the one I worked in is internationally renowned and a source of many nobel prize winners) are definitely "smarter" (for some definitions thereof) than a lot of people working at FAANG companies earning multiples of their salaries.
That is of course the correct answer. Smart people are like most people, they don't care about being rich.