skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternative (but not exclusive) explanation: the easy pickings for geniuses have been picked over, and it takes longer than before to achieve genius-level accomplishments as a solo prodigy. Neither Einstein nor Beethoven contributed to multiple fields like Newton or Leonardo DaVinci did.

[Though Beethoven—or any musician—may be bad example(s) to include here: music is a field that is much less objective in ranking quality of ideas compared to ranking impact]
I think you can analyze most human behavior as driven by some kind of anxiety if you want. i.e. I eat because I'm anxious about starving to death. But it's not considered a disorder unless it places you outside of fuzzy "normal" bounds and impairs your life in some way. Lots of people are ambitious, that's normal.
AAAAAND TWO AND THREE AND FOUR AND FIVE AND SIX AND SASHE AND TURN THAT NOMIAL INTO A PRIME AND FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT! HANDS LADIES!!! LET ME SEE YOUR JAZZ HANDS TIMES THE SQUARE ROOT OF SEVEN DIVIDED BY THE OUTPUT OF THE GLITTER FACTORY!!!

Sounds like it could be fun.
https://archive.ph/MPHyp
I belive it got cancelled (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/sidewalk-labs-cancels...).
Based on our current understanding of fungally dominated soils, restoring temperate forests will do far more per acre for atmospheric carbon levels than restoring the same acreage of tropical rainforest.

Which we also need to do soon because the longer you wait, the wider the band around the Tropics where fungally dominated ecosystems cannot thrive.

Not that we shouldn't have people working to slow tropical deforestation, but we can't and shouldn't put all our eggs in that basket.
Why is that evidence that they are _better_ than PHP's ecosystem? That's the claim I'm skeptical of.
Bellingcat investigator: “Putin wants his killers back” (US prisoner swap)
I’ve been looking a lot at RedwoodJS, but it doesn’t seem to be “just right”. Don’t know if I’m bike-shedding, either.

I do think React is a requisite for a rich application (not blog). I think auth + DB + deploy + fe/be in one asset is challenging. I certainly get why folks build their own constantly. But you burn out before you make any real progress.

I’m not sure we’re really achieving any higher level abstraction on our technologies.
I'm not sure about objects, but at least for control structures like "if" the answer is in your quote:

> (except for a few control structures)

Blocks are available specifically for those limited control structures, like "if".
>So...kind of a weird comparison, could be wrong but fair warning, you could catch yourself writing a Youtube comment at any time, any place, without any notice!

Curious, what do you mean by that?

Also, I am mainly speaking about the online conversation around this topic, not so much Mexican citizens in a city. As you say, people can have different opinions on it in that city.

I understand this is a complicated subject with different points of view. I was just posting on here to get what others thought about it.
Project was abandoned supposedly due to COVID but possibly that was just a convenient excuse.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/7/21250594/alphabet-sidewalk...
This is an "um ackshually" reply. Nobody used LiveWire and it died a swift death.

And don't "um ackshually" me about saying "nobody." You know what I mean.
Mental health is tricky because its affects can be so complex depending on factors like personality, genetics, or even other mental health conditions. Something that fuels one person’s drive could incapacitate another, under neither of their own doing.

I think people can have strategies for turning challenges and disabilities into assets, but again it takes the right set of circumstances for that individual. It takes strength to know when your specific circumstances aren’t lining up, and how to reach out for help (community, therapy, medication). And for some people, that condition may switch someday to enabling success rather than hindering.

But to the point of the linked article, it talks about how maybe not needing to strive for overwhelming success in the first place leads to better overall life. How anxiety likely can drive you either up or down, but contentness is maybe in the middle somewhere.

I’ve had this thought before. Robert Herjavec has mentioned on Shark Tank how he “sleeps 4 hours a night because he’s always working”… maybe that’s just how he wants to be seen, but why does he even feel the need to project that image? He must have absurd anxiety, because if not, he would’ve slowed down and been happy with what he has ages ago.
> It gets repetitive pretty quickly if you have the insight to start figuring out how it works, which those kids would. Genius kids' hobbies tend to differ from their peers'.

"I understand and now no longer care" is one of the most freeing feelings out there.
Do we ever think we'll collapse all of the complexity layers for programming on the web? Coming from other languages, I'm finding that the agreed-upon web standards make development super hard (we have to collectively build these towers of babel on top of them, since we can't fix the underlying stuff)

I guess WASM maybe is one possible solution here
This Reddit might be of interest: https://www.reddit.com/r/HairTransplants/.
Read the username. It's trolling.
BC in the 80s, 90s seemed like completely different worlds compared to today. Vancouver especially seemed to have peaked early 2000s before the housing bubble took off. Rainforest Cafe, Playdium, Indy 500, Vancouver Grizzlies, Canucks.

It had so much going for it. What was once a fun, soulful city is now something completely different.
Rant: Please give-me real links to images. I love ctrl-clicking them and then later looking at them on the open tabs. This clicking an image and having a modal overlay prevents me from reading the text.
I think they’re saying ifTrue: is an intrinsic in their transpiler, so the method call is skipped and replaced with a C statement. They could have chosen instead to generate C code that actually invokes a method on a receiver (using whatever their calling convention is for methods), which would be slower but monkey-patching would work as usual.
(At the risk of sounding uninformed) - why?
> But other time, the code need to run automatically reacting to external events or to run continuously, which means, it needs to run on a server somewhere.

why couldn't this be solved much more easily with ngrok or one of its competitors?
Mainly talking about the online conversation around this is hypocritical. Flip the countries around, most twitter accounts support it. Now do it in this direction and twitter accounts are all against it. Its hypocritical in my opinion.

Not speaking necessarily about the people in Mexico City, assuming they didn't immigrate to the USA themselves ever. It would be hypocritical of them though if they did immigrate to the USA at one point and are now complaining about USA citizens immigrating there.
This is an anti-money laundering law. It doesn’t ban transactions that size, just in cash.

You know what still works? Debit cards. Credit cards. I’d assume checks. Possibly other apps (though I’d be afraid to put so much money through them personally).

BTC does nothing good special here unless you’re trying to launder money.
Well, my git, ssh, caches of what not, almost everything is in my home directory directly. It's even worse than "My Documents"
I am reminded of Txtzyme: https://github.com/WardCunningham/Txtzyme
freedom of speech is not an essential part of representative democracy, as well as three branches of government, 911, internet or zoning laws. Oh well, uk is not a democracy, what they even know about it.
Today I learned a 4G router was a thing that existed. Nice setup
I have the beta on an iPad and no sign of extensions. Another pain point for me is that the system password manager doesn't work as well as it does with Safari (and sometimes not at all), and that does not seem to have improved either.
>I'm willing to bet that I can train someone without any coding experience in Python.

I doubt it, maybe some hyper genius, you need to try and see how someone new to programming understands thing. Stuff that is super obvious to us is just unclear for a new person.
100% you are a dude.
Thank you. I was wondering this!!
The need for GPUs during an unprecedented spike in demand for chip fab capacity couldn't have helped.

I think the basic model will eventually work out, though. The bandwidth is there. The compute has to be cheap enough that the biz model works by just taking the retailer's cut of the title sale + maybe a tad more. The tad more can come from one-time hardware sales and maybe better negotiated cuts of the sale from the studios. I would never ever have purchased a copy of any AAA title without Stadia and similar services. I think the same is true for almost all Stadia purchases.

But Google's failure here makes sense. It's a low margin game. google sucks at low margin games.
Don’t worry. You’ll be able to rent out your car as a robo-taxi using FSD so it will pay for itself, IIRC.

(/s)
Value is, admittedly, subjective. I once felt the same (this much for storage!?) but let us enumerate the value: 2TB of durable storage with highly reliable syncing services, web interface, mobile apps, selective sync, sharing/links, etc. Is that enough to make 10€ palatable? To each their own value decision. For me, the time savings using the product and the piece of mind are worth the cost (although I also pay Apple $10/month for iCloud storage, and would move from Dropbox is iCloud files reached parity wrt sync/selective sync).
This is fair, and familiar. A common sensation over the last half-decade or so is to be shocked without being surprised.

That this was a predictable facet of DFW's character doesn't make his purported actions less saddening and hurtful.

It's okay--expected!--to struggle. It's common--awful, but repairable!--to hurt others in the process. The open question is whether that repair would have ever been available had he lived.
Acorns taste bad according to all accounts, which is why people don't generally eat them, until famine arrives.
> a loose convention to put text files in "/etc".

For user-specific configuration there's also ~, as with ~/.vimrc and ~/.bashrc. Windows has something similar in C:\Users\theuser\AppData.

edit And ~/.config/, as others have mentioned.
I think that this "Heartland Institute" cited may be a biased source.
It was the discussion of the situation with cloned virtual machines that convinced me, not this.
Software Engineer; pre-exit startup, where should I be during exit?
Should I shoot for a manager role for the exit?
Or a higher up software engineering role?

Or a lead role as the company scales up?

What is ideal in terms of making money and setting myself up for the future
After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance
This reminds me of NFB's _Welcome to Pine Point_, a web documentary about a vanished community:

https://pinepoint.nfb.ca/
Well hey, thanks for doing half the work for me.
At least if there's a zombie outbreak, I'd go to Kitsault for refuge.
Oof - I find Python very ugly to read. Give me semicolons and curly braces any day.
Google, canceling a project? Surely you jest.
Toronto's Pearson airport has PR problem: It's known as worst airport
We get it. You already made this comment: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/07/that-time-when-i-acc...

The author responded:

> In case it was not obvious from the text, I did not do either of these things. No-one else should either.
I think we have to look to Alan Kay for an original definition, since he invented the term, and according to him, inheritance is not a necessary part of object orientation. In Smalltalk (and various Lisps), inheritance is something that is created from objects and messages, not a fundamental feature of the language. In [one place](http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...) he defines it as "OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things."
This is not correct. A bad actor can find search for numbers a million ways (buy numbers that connect to a cell tower, search by birthdate, who responds to your spam, etc).

We are a cybersecurity company and our entire leadership team has a decent online presence. You can just look any of us up.

Edit: Whoops meant to reply to the comment below
>I figured it was some probably-from-critical-theory-because-aren't-they-always liberal-artsism, but looks like it's just an unusual-bordering-on-archaic sense.

I don't think that's correct (and the age of the dictionary quoted probably isn't helping); if you search Google Scholar for "knowledges", even since the year 2000 you get about 85,000 results. It's a term of art in sociology and anthropology fields, and marginally within philosophy too. It points to multiple understandings of the world which are disparate enough to be their own 'system' of knowledge; multiple such systems are known as knowledges.
I attribute some of my anxieties to my grandparents who always made it seem like there was no middle ground - you were either doing OK or going to be homeless and destitute. If you weren't near the top of your class - well, oh shit, you would be delegated to a low paying, remedial job if any at all.
I attribute their behavior to growing poor and going through WW2 in an occupied country as tweens. I don't know why, but I don't resent their behavior, I know they always loved me dearly and were just looking out for me. To this day though, whenever my manager wants to talk to me, I reflexively think to myself, well pack it up kids, we're moving out to under an overpass.
The only phones I consider are those supporter by LineageOS. My Pixel 1 is still getting weekly updates.
Very well done! I played around with this sort of stuff many years for a property search engine startup. I tried to make a “max commute distance” filter. It was much harder than I thought at the time!
I use them all the time, as long as they can be written legibly.

$result = $someCondition
? $foo->abc()
: $foo->def();

To me that's much nicer than an if statement.
Apple Pay has been supported in WebKit’s web view (which every browser uses) for a while now, but with some conditions. The biggest obstacle was that an app couldn’t inject any JavaScript code of its own into websites. I wonder if they removed this safeguard.
Sometimes a little colorful language makes dry topics a bit more fun. I don't think the title was meant to be statistically analyzed. :-)
Bulk mail is priced to maximize profit to the postal service. Raising the rate 1000% would effectively end bulk mail. Adding a penny cost per spam would be more than a 1000% increase, and would effectively end the spam.
That’s sort of like asking “why do so many people end up dead?”

Because the human activity Markov chain terminates with death, or in the case of bikes with ending up at the bottom of a river out of the way of accessibility.
Agree wording could be improved. For number harvesting, there are probably thousands of databased out there with far more info for almost free. We made an attempt to create awareness on how important your number is as in too many identities attached to it and then vulnerability against SIM Swap

- Your Crypto Bro
I am genuinely interested in this, please excuse my naivety.

My expectation would be that new Product work would, at some high-ish level, be sanctioned by company leadership. Or you wouldn't be spending weeks/months/years on it. Ideally Marketing would be involved in that leadership decision, and this is where they could raise that kind of concern. But even if they are not, Marketing's "boss" (CEO) could/should tell them they need to market it or go pound sand.
It's interesting that hooligans and lowlifes trend towards similar behavior the world over, as if there is something in the human DNA driving them towards these actions.
It took me longer than it should to realize we were not talking about a service to place proxy calls to 911 (emergency dispatch) but a service called "911" that sells proxy accounts.
> an accurate rendition of... Muhammed's faces.

Accurate depictions of Muhammed[0] are difficult to come by.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad
It's interesting how "critical theory" is used as a prejorative not only going on a hunch, but also that the very use of it degrades the quality of any article without question. Personally I've come to enjoy quite a lot of work which many would categorize under 'critical theory' and a lot of work which many would mistakenly categorize under 'critical theory' simply due to the topics covered.
> So now the film "Kick Ass" opens with a panning shot down a skyscraper to a foyer where my friend and his wife can be seen having an animated argument.

I don't see them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEsNvObIwQg
The Beijing-Shanghai line now averages 292 km/h (that's including stops - the train's top speed is 350 km/h).

Maybe even more impressive, the trains cover the first 1018 km, from Beijing to Nanjing, at an average speed of 316 km/h.
Doxxing isn't a business idea :) But yes the goal is that people will upgrade to Efani Secure Mobile if they're security concious
Presumably because it’s where the European Parliament is based
They should write this stuff in Haskell, so booting can happen lazily and you can start using your computer instantly.
I had the same thought at first. But I think the point is that this sort of heuristically cobbled together sort wouldn't typically be the stuff of academic research, brilliant and practical though it is.
Sure, there are plenty of people born these days who presumably have the capacity for genius of the greats of the past. And yes, the sheer number of scientists working today, with access to knowledge and facilities far beyond what was available centuries ago is producing a stream of research and increased scientific understanding that is far greater than it's ever been. None of that invalidates the hypothesis (which is all I'd call it) that there'd potentially be more stand-out geniuses if we didn't live in a world with so many distractions available in devices we carry around with us all the time.
> Dr. Theodore Fucknuckett gets upset at not being allowed to login

This is known as the "Scunthorpe Problem".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
The unfortunate thing about anxiety is that it’s just as possible, probably more so, to end up avoidant and underperforming rather than ambitious and overambitious.
6-speed, 7-speed, 8-speed, 9-speed, 10-speed, 11-speed?
I am glad that your story worked out as it did.

For others who might be coming across it, let me provide my story, which pans out very differently.

I was recently diagnosed with CPTSD (but it took a long time for doctors to reach that conclusion), although the anxiety was known for a long time.

Here's how it began: I was close to the end of a prestigious university program (3 years done out of 4) when I "snapped". I suddenly ran out of energy. I could no longer bring myself to care to go to class, and I found great comfort in running away from things. This was the beginning of what would eventually become deeply ingrained avoidant behaviour.

My ambition no longer matched up with the energy I had in my body. It no longer matched up with my ability to tolerate things. I could no longer live up to my ambitions, my dreams, my desires, my goals.

I broke, and I was suicidal for a long time (on and off for 10 years).

I am slowly working my way out of my issues now. I am learning how to deal with deep seated anxiety as a way to give me more energy so that I can achieve my goals. One of my doctors mentioned something crucial: anxiety saps energy. Having an overactive amygdala is harmful, because when you are having a panic attack, your body floods with energy (in order to execute "fight or flight"), but very briefly. The cost of this flood of energy is a massive drop in energy that lasts longer than the flood did. This is a possible explantion (amongst others) behind my perpetual low energy.

For me, part of the process of dealing with anxiety (amongst others, like mindfulness and self-kindness) is learning how to achieve my ambitions by making realistic goals, and learning how to feel pleasure in "small", consistent achievements (the depressed brain is excellent at making every achievement seem worthless). Feeling pleasure in these small achievements is important in order to fuel the necessary consistency of said achievements.

tl;dr: in my experience, anxiety is unlikely to be a driver of achievement, and therefore unlikely to be a cause of productive ambition.
- personal finances - get statement exports to sqlite db and I have dashboards to manage expenses/finances, retirement account data in sqlite and charts for actual and projections

- my car - I collect data in sqlite db - amortization schedule/actuals for the loan, fuel/maintenance expenses etc. Dashboards on top of it with metrics such as $ spent, miles, cost of finance, cost of ownership (per mile) etc.

- workouts - I used enodomondo but they shut down and I had a data dump, I currently use garmin. So I get all the data to sqlite and drive a dash with overall work out stats over years across platforms.
Nuance! You can do better than black and white, good/bad binary decisions.

I totally care about those other factors. And I am acutely aware of the effect that physical abuse has on real, actual people. It's unavoidable that this would effect my reading of someone's work.

That the writers of the Constitution were morally fallible means they weren't the final authority, and we should be willing to grow. They had wisdom; we should take what we can of it, and take a nuanced view. This is no different from my take on DFW: there's art and learning to be had, but it's no longer the pure and innocent enjoyment I would have had prior to knowing how personally hurtful he could be.

The MLK stuff is uncertain as yet; the FBI was clearly trying to blackmail him, but the records remain sealed. We'll know more in a couple years: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/e...
I'm no real estate developer, but isn't $50M very cheap?
I don’t like trains though, it takes so long especially in a large country like the US. Great for recreation purposes or travel within places closer than 3 hours by car but not otherwise.
> well pack it up kids, we're moving out to under an overpass.

This gave me a good chuckle, thank you!

It's actually the same for me, only my parents were the cause not theirs and I honestly hate them for it.
An additional Mike Schur Infinite Jest connection: https://www.vulture.com/2013/04/last-nights-parks-and-rec-wa...
Nice. It doesn't seem to play very nice with cities that have multiple stations. If you hover Paris, Gare de Lyon gets selected most of the time. But if you zoom in, you can select other Paris stations (e.g. Gare de L'Est) which leads to different results
Apologies for that you can email me directly james@efani.com or use our live chat and sort out what the issue is. Otherwise try again on a different browser?
I love her best albums, like Blue and Hejira. Sadly, I don't listen to her much anymore since I listen to all my music on Spotify and she pulled all her albums from the platform, because Joe Rogan (or something). Disappointing.