skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This expresses pretty much what I was going to say. To contextualize it a bit, I always mentor people to start by getting a job in a company that is doing something in their skill set. Instead of looking at it as "just a paycheck until I can start my own thing." try to actively learn about how that company works, really works, from marketing to sales to manufacturing to legal to operations. Most people are willing to mentor if you tell them that you are hoping to start your own company one day and want to know what you don't know.

Ask questions of people like product managers of the form, "How do you validate your ideas for products before you commit to invest building them?" or "What product did you think would be a hit and was a total flop? What caused it to flop?" Ask people in release engineering or manufacturing, "What takes the most time in getting a product out? How about a feature to a product?"

If you are a software developer, imagine that a functioning, growing company is a large legacy code base that you want to learn how it works. How the pieces work together, what the roles of the parts are. If you're a hardware engineer imagine the company is a big circuit you're analyzing, same thing, what do the parts do and how do they contribute to the overall functioning.

You will get to know a lot of people in the company and you will get a much better understanding of what it takes to bring a product to market.

What ever you do, and this applies to people anywhere in their career, do NOT consider any job "just a paycheck." Use a job to learn more about why people are willing to give this company money so that the company can pay you to work there.

The secret, such as it is for entrepreneurs, is "For what reason would people give me money?" And you can also ask "What would I pay for this idea?" and then subtract from that what you've learned from your work experiences would be the costs of producing it.

PS> Even the best university education does not train you to build a successful company from the ground up. Nobody teaches that, you have to learn it from people who have done it or even better are doing it.
Yeah this link isn’t that useful without a comparison.
Couldn't I go to the Apple store & copy down a real serial number?
Obviously not a short circuit. The element has a carefully chosen value of resistance.
In safety we try to prevent rare events (such as death) and these are rare enough that “past deaths” are not a useful way to predict the likelihood of a death.

A crucial metric that occurs more more often and does help predict deaths is “HPI” - high potential incident. A worker eight metres in the air dropped a spanner. It thudded on the ground, harmlessly. No one was hurt. No problem, right? That’s a HPI. A workplace that has a death will have had many HPIs. The dice-roll is not “it’s a new day, we roll the dice”. When a HPI occurs, that’s when we roll the dice.

Or in nuclear war estimates: a HPNWI occurs (high potential nuclear war incident). The Cuban missile crisis springs to mind as a particularly big example. But many many smaller HPNWI’s have occurred. Border skirmishes between nuclear powers. Sabre rattling by nuclear powers. Elect a president who uses threats and brinkmanship. Do this year in, year out. The dice is rolled not because time passes but because risky decisions are made and risky actions are taken, over and over and over and over and over and over, year in, year out.
What seems to happen from what I've seen is not quite that. Junior teachers work in low-performing schools and classes, while experienced teachers are are the better ones. But, and this is a big bug, unlike many professions, seniority doesn't reliably correspond to performance and may in fact be negatively correlated! Young teachers are often more enthusiastic and capable of engaging easily-distracted kids while experienced teachers have a clearer understanding of the syllabus and content so it actually seems like a good fit for everyone.
The slider is very bad UX : I missed it too at first. It is not pronounced enough, partly because it is all the way to the right.

A former boss would say : make it red.
> And yet they are the world's largest army by headcount and the second largest by budget.

Of course. What's the point of amassing capital if you don't have the firepower to defend its interests? What do you think the US military exists for? Bringing freedom and democracy via drone strikes? Strong militaries are how you subjugate the weak and isolated, strong economies are how you subjugate the powerful and globally connected. But a strong military (or in lieu of that, a nuclear arsenal) also prevents other strong militaries from coming in and taking away your toys.

> US will have to split attention and forces between China and whatever Russia is doing

More importantly, Russia will come out extremely weakened from this war and with the entire West having committed to economic sanctions China will have an unbeatable upper hand as a trading partner. If Russia engages in direct conflict with the West, even better as long as things don't get out of hand.
After last 4+ years with headlines of Russian influence/collusion and indictments/secret indictments/charges coming “any day now” (and nothing happening!)…

Sure. This time it really was the Russians. Because in the middle of the largest military intervention Russia had since the fall of the USSR they would devote resources and care about what happens in Ottawa.

It all makes sense.
There would have been a dev environment (MacBasic) for the average user, but certain forces had other plans:

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=MacBasic.txt
Really the story is this reply thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/janedvidek/status/149872324818338...
I don't take the statement that packets are dropped elsewhere as obviously true. Your own box will drop due to queue discipline buffer sizes, NIC queue pruning, and a hundred other reasons.
What a turn of events in such a short time. The video made me wonder if more people now believe in Santa Claus than believe in the Russian Stock Market. Wish that was a joke.
My reaction to this is, I quote:

Note how none of the bullet points address anything of significance.

https://open-ui.org/ which would actually benefit users isn't mentioned at all.

It will be the same useless bullshit for the next 10-20 years, sabotaged by Google.
likely your ip is in a flagged zone that your isp purchased.

i had to call schwab to get them to allow me to login.
Is there documentation to hand on how to actually run iOS on this fork?

The readme of the repo is still just the normal qemu repo readme.
The colleges we have are too expensive. They tend to bundle up sports/research/culture/medicine/whatever/education. Students have to pay tuition to support all that. If you're strapped for cash, there's not really a way to opt out of all the bonus content and just get the education.
latencies generally got smaller but spinning rust is still slow and the speed of light didn't change
Or more likely a relatively small amount of power which would take many days to have any useful effect.
I'm not sure why you're set on not understanding geopolitics. Maybe the idea that the west could have done nothing to stop russia is comforting. Maybe the idea that we are blameless is comforting. Maybe russia needs to be evil, for you.

You can persist in these delusions if you like. russia has been very clear, and avoiding this disaster was in the west's power, and esp. that of the USA. Germany and france warned the USA this was going to happen, and it insisted ukraine be part of NATO nevertheless.

You still think things like "agreements" and "rights" and "soverignty" matter -- they dont. These are just games played amongst friends. When you arent dealing with friends, what matters is real stakes -- not made up things.

The USA had the power to prevent this; and indeed, still does. In arming ukraine they are sentencing it to death. Russia will level the country. This was in our power to stop.

You lot, in wanting to be Right in the stories you're telling yourselves will get ukraine destroyed. Russia is a rational actor with needs and objectives. We could've given it what it wanted. We still, to a large degree, can.

But you have your nationalistic pride, your stories, and your delusions of agreements. This will not end well. Ukraine will be flattened. It is in the wests power to prevent it, instead, we're sending ukraine enough arms to get itself killed.

We're not doing this to help ukraine win. It cannot win. It will be destoryed. We're sending arms to ukraine to punish russia and get them bogged down in a quagmire. We're goading ukraine into killing itself so we can punish the russians.

These delusional stories you're telling, they cost lives. Ukrainian lives. Lives, no doubt, you're dead set on spending. Russians are pulling the trigger so you have no blood on your hands. I tell you: you do.

We're sending the nerd out to the playground with a butter knife, and the big bully is going to send him to hospital.
> IMO the best reasonable outcome I see for this war is for Russia to annex the Donbas, and possibly the Azov coast. Ukraine will commit to neutrality from NATO and no missiles, but leave open the possibility to join the EU as an economic partner.

This looks "nice" on paper, but how would this neutrality be actually enforced? I'd imagine that a situation where Ukraine has a relatively small army and commits to not hosting either NATO or Russian military bases would be a) quite uncomfortable for Ukrainians and b) highly unstable, with the balance bound to tip to one of the sides sooner or later. Are there any historical precedents of a similar arrangement that worked?
At first i thought this was similar to GeoGuessr, but actually it’s a lot better (GeoGuessr i often have absolutely no idea where the location is)

You could probably make a really popular game out of this
Yeah, the population of angry people that public-facing workers have to deal with is different than the group who writes angry emails that reach the founder. Immediate reactionary anger vs focused and articulated anger.
> Historically, kids would learn to work on the farm, attend church, etc and they'd see other children, but most of the time they'd be learning from adults how to act and strive for.

They’d also have a fair amount of siblings and cousins, the children of hired help, and entire village’s worth of other children to interact with. And depending on the era, a fair amount of absenteeism when it comes to actual parenting. So having peers of your age was both common, historically encouraged (stories of childhood friends abound), and important in establishing your place inside your community.

That being said, they were exposed to more adults on a daily basis, and integrated more into the life of adults.
Particularly, they were exposed to the daily lives of adults at work. Which I think is a large part of helping to influence a child’s growth.

Childhood as we know it now is also a modern concept — the switch from childhood to adult was more child > young adult who doesn’t really know what they’re doing, rather than our modern child > adolescent > young adult path. (Edit because I hit submit too early). Childhood as also being an experience of being sequestered from the outside world is also modern.
I used to think "gifted" implies there is some natural high intelligence, where in reality its the children of well educated and/or motivated parents. Honestly now I think both benefits from segregated education so I dont really care about the distinction.
Well the best and brightest going into finance are helping "discover value"
The source displayed at the bottom if this page clearly shows it's just extrapolating from numbers that are older than 2020.
lots till 2005, then not much since
I'm the co-author (Walter) of the Ultimate Simpsons Doom mod. We were never sued by Fox (now it would be Disney). Hopefully there is some sort of statute of limitations. Although these days Disney seems to be pretty cool about fan-art.

Myk Friedman did pretty much everything for the mod.

My contribution was the technical work required to remove id Software assets (graphics & sounds) from the WAD so that it could be published on the popular WAD FTP site of the day. You can read more about it in the "WALTER SAYS" section of the readme at https://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames/themes/simpsons/ulsimpdm....

Sadly, Myk passed away a few years back. I never actually spoke with him, it was all over email and USPS, and some facebook when that came around.

John Romero appeared on a Doom themed episode of the Netflix show "High Score". In the episode, there was a quick montage of a bunch of Doom mods. The was a split-second of a Simpsons Doom mod that appeared on screen. After careful study, I determined it was the original Simpsons Doom by Steve Blauwkamp & Chuck Fuoco. I was this close to being able to say my work was featured on Netflix. Ah well.
Most TOS have room for cancellation by the vendor. They could also refuse to renew their service. Customers could try going to court maybe?

GDPR is for the EU, which Russia is not a part of, so it doesn't apply. Even so, GDPR allows for monitoring IP addresses, for example to ban an abusive IP.
It's kind of a pop self-help book but I really enjoyed Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets, particularly in terms of managing risk and making decisions in uncertainty.
It ends up just being a population density map unfortunately.

Names are concentrated in cities, well we knew that. Would be nice to somehow normalise a bit for pop. density.
Sadly it proves the point in a perverse way: we're so used to everything being important that we/some got desensitized and no longer perceive the true scale of things. (The boy who cried wolf, etc)
Do you have apps from these companies installed on your phone? Your phone's unique identifier (plus maybe associated account information like name/email/phone number/etc) might be flagged on some database used by all these apps - perhaps Sift Science?
To further support this, the top 4 polysilicon producers in the world are ALL in China. You can watch the price of polysilicon explode in 2008 when China got serious about pollution then drop like a rock immediately afterwards when they started making in en-masse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrystalline_silicon#/media...
Admittedly it seems less common, but... there certainly are some Smeds in Sweden (and the rest of Scandinavia). The names are not ALL sons/sens and geographic features... https://forebears.io/surnames/smed
I can relate so much. I have a coworker that is a lot like the coworker described in the submission and I notice myself behaving very similarly towards that coworker and it bothers me.
Covid for 90% of the population was never something to have fear over. Something to be cautious about yes but the range of sheer panic among people under 40 in good health that i met was beyond silly.

I don’t trust the media anymore on anything. Every article they print that i have deep knowledge about or insider information on is so wrong as to be malicious.

Read the news to get an idea of what is going on but any opinion they present and most facts are pure bullshit.
they are "artificially made" by postprocessing aerial images. (You can actually do cameras that create orthographic images, but that's more for industrial vision etc since the frame covered obviously can't be larger than the lens, which doesn't really work for aerial photography, so if people talk about "ortophotos" in that sense they mean processed)
On-the-go coding on an iPad with Blink Shell and VS Code
As I understand it, it was largely due to the superior efficiency of the Russian engines over the bulk of US engines, at a vastly better price than the US options of the time. Then institutional inertia takes over as switching rocket engines is apparently not just a trivial switch for a rocket design (but IANARS).
> The ways we could end up in a nuclear war are frightening to the point of madness.

Haven't read the book, but I watched Dr. Strangelove when I was young(er).

What made the movie great to me was that it made me realize that, although there is a nuclear "safety net", it was designed and controlled by humans — flawed humans who don't always behave rationally and who may not act in the best interests of humanity.
What are some positive aspects of Russia invading Ukraine?
Charter schools were used to get out of legally mandated de-segregation. If we want a better education system there's no shortcut. You need a well funded, equitable public education system. We're the outliers in the industrial world here. Look at school lunches as just a baseline comparison of what fuel we give our children and then imagine all of the lacking supplies we force teachers and parents to purchase.

The issue is we determine funding for them based on zip code. Poor schools get less funding. Isn't that ass-backwards? All the elites get to enjoy wonderful districts or private options they can afford and the public gets stuck with textbooks from the 50s.
Well that's one way to kill web3's problem with centralization.
While it is difficult/impossible to accurately quantify the probability of war, and that the ground truth is far more complex than these simple models, there still has been a long list of historical incidents in which the outcome was decided by sometimes random and even independent factors outside of anyone's control and makes the gambler's ruin argument compelling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
A CPAP machine changed my life. I had undiagnosed sleep apnia for most of my adult life and just assumed being constantly tired was the way. Until 5 years ago, when I had a sleep study and started using a CPAP. I had avoided the problem it for so long because I didn't want to go sleep in some lab and how does someone sleep with a giant mask on their face every night. Just excuses despite multiple people telling me I would stop breathing when I slept and a habit of just falling a sleep when I stopped moving.

The answers were: you don't need to sleep in a lab anymore most places have take home units and you get used to it quick because sleeping 8 hours and just waking up refreshed and really is worth anything.

I can't preach any louder about getting a sleep study. It changed mine and my wife's lives for the better.
SE/30's are the best. Here's a summary of some other modern and contemporaneous upgrades available: https://nickpunt.com/blog/se-30th-anniversary/
What’s the difference between what Russia is doing and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq. Why weren’t American athletes banned?
GDPR applies to EU citizens and residents and I don't think it prevents tracking for the purpose of blocking.
According to this all latencies improved dramatically except for SSD random read (disk seek only improved by 10x as well). Reading 1 million bytes sequentially from SSD improved 1000x and is now only 2-3x slower than a random read and for disk reading 1 million bytes is faster than a seek. Conclusion: avoid random IO where performance matters.

CPU and RAM latencies stopped improving in 2005 but storage and network kept improving.
Correct, hence "an infinity" (also, infinity * -0 is NaN).
It looks like almost everything is blazing fast now. I'm not sure how long the first X takes though - how long does it take to establish a TCP/IP connection? How long does it take an actual program to start reading from disk?
There's a whole new wave of retro FPS shooters that you might enjoy. Heck, we might even be on the third wave or so of them now (they started to come back ~2010). 'Boomer shooter' is the term to search for: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/boomer-shooter-definition-ori...

Also check out advanced gzdoom mods. The gzdoom engine never stopped innovating and now supports near full 3D environments with slopes, room over room, dynamic lighting, etc. but still has the same core frenetic and fast gameplay of the core engine. Here's a good taste of what's out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Db5O5-xk0
In the past, I tried many time to start businesses and many times I failed (although I always had a job and tried only in my free time).

Now, I have been running a business for the past 7 years, and it keeps growing.

Is it because I just kept trying? No. I might still be trying if I followed that approach. Instead, I took many courses on starting and growing businesses. That's what made the difference.

My problem, which is your problem, was that I just kept writing code for ideas I had. That's a recipe for failure.

You admit that you don't know if anybody would pay for the thing you are building. Stop. That's going to end in the same way as before.

You have to start from finding customers even before you decide what product you will build. You need to know who they are, how to reach them, what they need. You have to learn their pains and dreams. Only then you create a product that solves their real problems.

I recommend studying the stuff of:

- Jay Abraham: https://www.abraham.com
- Ramit Sethi: https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com

But there are also many others. The important thing is that you learn how to start a business and stop throwing spaghetti at the wall.

If I were you, I would get a well-paying job to support your family. Then you can try something new with the safety of a salary. That's what I did in the past. Your time will decrease with a family, but I am helping friends with two small children to start a business, so it's possible.
There was a summer when we didn't know what the hell the virus was going to do. Where hospitals were overflowing so much that if a young person got in a car accident they'd sit in an ambulance. Or if they got the sniffles and hugged their mom they'd kill her.

I'm starting to distrust any person who claims to distrust the media over covid.
Wolfenstein 3D was not released in 1939 though.
Yes, switching power supplies can be used to go from AC to DC, but those are not inverters. They're a form of active rectifier.

Perhaps you learned it differently, but according to any source I can find, they're defined as I said.
Yeah, definitely. I started designing one a while back but haven't done the external mounting system for it yet. This is the prototype (finished one would have longer wires and an enclosure that clips onto the back of the Mac someplace): https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?attachments/img_20201213_191...
MacGolf is a must have in this article. I'm so sad it wasn't included.
which was response to Germany banning RT first
'those kids aren't going to be in the "regular" public classes, they are going to private school'

Most private schools aren't set up to cater to gifted kids. If you don't believe me, ask the folks running a private school how they deal with kids who are 2-3 grade levels ahead in math.

Then ask them for concrete examplea of what they actually mean. And concrete examples of the outcomes this differentiated instruction has achieved for those kids.

Private schools often have smaller class sizes, nicer physical environment, better equipment and higher expectations. But the curriculum is still aimed at the average kid in that school, with little consideration for the outliers.

EDIT: I should have mentioned, that I interpret 'gifted' to mean something like top 3% by ability (corresponding to an IQ of about 130). Back when SFUSD used to identify kids at gifted and talented, they were talking about the top ~30%, which is totally different.
Infinity is not a special type of NaN. Infinity and NaN are encoded with the same exponent, but they are distinct numerical data.
Printing dollars doesn't create wealth. Print money (fiat) devalues that currency.

Ron Paul (per End The Fed) would say that it's the unthrottled printing of dollars than enables the USA's warmongering.