skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might think that chess would qualify. People become grandmasters in their 20s, with less than 20 years total experience, so surely if you quit your job and focus on only chess from 30 to 50, you can gain enough skill and experience to compete at the world level...

And yet, in practice, almost all chess grandmasters have started young. I don't know of any grandmaster who started playing chess seriously past 30 (and chess.com didn't have any concrete examples that I saw: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/gmsims-who-started-...)

Physical sports are obviously out, as the world level is dominated by people under 30 for all of them.

I'll also comment further on two things you wrote in your original question:

1. "compete at world level" and 2. "don't have to be your full time thing"

In practice, the majority of things that have world competitions will also have people who will devote themselves, body and soul, to it, so if you are intent at not spending all your time on this, not making it your passion, then you should not reasonably expect to "compete at world level".

I think you might do better by classifying "compete at world level" as being very broad, like considering writing a "new york times best seller" to be competing at writing at the world level (in which case, yes, some authors started after 30). If you broaden it to simply "be able to have fun", I think you'll have a far better time of it, and at that point almost any physical activity now becomes something you can start past 30.
+1 for DOpus, though as much as I pester the devs they refuse to develop for the mac :-P
We need to get off of our high horses for a hot minute, I think. When big tech offers increasingly personalized results, we can’t afford being bothered by IP based location specific results. The thing is, I want local results. I use DDG as my main browser. Sometimes I need to search for ophthalmologists in my city. I want some localization. I just don’t want to inform google about the diet and hair count of my mother’s pet in exchange. If DDG offers me location specific result based on IP that is disassociated with my usage after the fact, great!

Privacy friendly alternatives can’t just be restricted for the super niche of power users. I want them to go mainstream. Catering to which involves the ability to personalize results because mainstream users would want to use their search engines for IRL usecases more than not (I imagine).
I don't use DuckDuckGo, but this argument about location data really doesn't get it all.

> As seen in the example above, it polluted my search results with geographically relevant search results that had nothing to do with my search terms.

OK? I hope he doesn't get cancer from this kind of "pollution". Any attempt at showing useful stuff is sometimes going to fail. If you use pagerank to rank websites you're occassionally going to "pollute" the search results with SEO shit.

> Although they insist it's anonymous, the best strategy would probably be to not collect the data at all, but I digress.

But this is the truly clueless argument here. If you send a request to a website, they necessarily know your IP address. For them to look up this IP address in a location database, adds no additional privacy risk.
I second this. Amateur radio is an amazing hobby where you learn lots about electronics, (virtually and - if you like- physically) meet lots on new people and gain lots of knowledge on our planet, its countries and their people. You can participate in contests and compete with others many times a year and all this from home - if you are lucky enough to be able to put up antennas.

I amazes me evertime over and over again to have a conversation with someone living 10000km away from me without having to rely on other peoples/companies infrastructure. Especially when you are able to power your station with solar energy.

I've picked up this hobby with 40 and the only thing I regret is not having it picked up earlier. Also a great hobby for parents since you can operate from home at night times when everybody else is asleep.
Do compilers use that if you break it apart to something more legible? If you don’t, does the intel cpu end up doing the right thing anyway?
Looks great, but do peoples IT security policy’s actually let you use tools like this? Unofficial clients for things like Jira and Slack are basically banned for me.
I can sorta see why, realistically I’m not gonna audit this and see if it’s going to slurp all my Jiras when I’m not looking.
A great interface to Jira (one can dream) would be a few folders representing backlog, sprint and maybe some other views.

Each task is a yaml file and hooked up to your text editor is a language server that can talk to Jira and do autocomplete against @username, Jira ticket ids, etc.

Sync on save.

I’m sure there’ll be all sorts of problems I haven’t forseen, but one can dream of editing task as quickly as editing your personal markdown notes.
> with no chance of the goat escaping

Bold assumption there. As they say, "if it doesn't hold water it won't hold a goat."
Me too! When I used ddg, I still had to use !g all the time. Now I really can't remember when I last used Google search.
Paragliding. Physically not too difficult. It is more a mental game - chess in the sky.
I could never imagine doing this to an animal I care about. This is sociopathic behaviour. Unless they believe the rabbit will survive, in which it's just wildly ignorant. And therefore irresponsible, because a rabbit owner should have a rough understanding of what a rabbit is and how they work.
I tried this debloater, but it debloated my ability to play video games that I like. And debloated the luxury of not having to drop to the command line to fix many of my problems. Also debloated the ability to run some very convenient day to day software.
I understand you're being sarcastic, but there are plenty of intermediate options between "use Ubuntu" and "chisel transistors from a rock". In particular, if you want to dab into comping your OS, Gentoo is a good start. Or, if you want to go a bit deeper right away, Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has you covered.
This is an underrated comment that made me laugh. Thank you.
I think you're right.
It feels like if the problem is phrased as an activity you can become world class in while doing part time without having started before your thirties, you're pretty much restricted to things that are more subjective in their measurements. Arts and crafts have been mentioned. Otherwise the alternative is something of a niche character that there arent really any full time practitioners and the pool of practitioners is fairly small. Maybe something like air rifle shooting or drone racing?
> It feels so childish of me.

It is. "Capitalism is for children" said Adam Phillips [1]

You cannot be a fully fledged adult, a self-determined being, under
conditions of wage slavery.

Education is set up not to allow graceful separation into adulthood,
as most cultures have historically done, but to transfer dependency to
a new set of masters.

Late capitalism in particular, with its intrusive lack of boundaries,
neurotic management, measurement, bureaucracy and surveillance, or any
similar state-controlled apparatus such as in China, is, as that line
in "The Matrix" goes - a prison for your mind.

Philosophers criticised the Church (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) as
"patently infantile family values" to keep people in subjugation. We
have largely overthrown that aspect of patriarchal religion only to
replace it with a Corporate equivalent.

> I'm looking for solutions to hack this

How did occidental culture dethrone the Church?

It didn't happen in one day, when everyone decided to live a secular
life. For centuries individuals stood up, called themselves "atheists"
and refused to join in the rituals. They were punished and suffered
pain and ostracism.

The problem is, for the aspiring Hedonist, entering into a world of
pain to champion a principle that people should have pleasurable
lives, won't fly for any but the most unselfish and far sighted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Phillips_(psychologist)
No it doesn't. Archive nodes don't do any consensus-critical operations that pruned nodes don't do. Moreover, non-pruned nodes are a distinct category from archive nodes. An archive node is a non-pruned node that also stores historical snapshots of the state.

The analogous node in Bitcoin would be a full node that stores all copies of past UTXO indexes, instead of discarding the old UTXO index with every new block. Bitcoin doesn't have such nodes, so Ethereum archive nodes offer functionality not even available in Bitcoin.

I would suggest going beyond Bitcoin echo chambers when learning about how Ethereum works. You're not doing yourself any favors being misinformed about projects that compete with Bitcoin.
I'm really sympathetic to the author. The thing I want to hear however is what does the author and people who believe him think is an alternative that will be profitable (ie., sustainable) in the current world we live in?
Ive had the complete opposite experience.

Office on my M1 macbook air is noticeably more stable and responsive than the dell xps13 bought in January, and the mackbook was like half the price. That XPS is probably the last windows machine we buy ever.

Also most of our employees have fully migrated to libreoffice now.
I think he meant Windows feels like a cheap counterfeit knock off of itself
> Reddit is already a cesspool for many issues including politics, news and race/culture based questions.

So? The blast radius of those issues doesn't fully spillover into the non-political forums.

You want to know which of two different products in a particular class is better? /r/<productclass> won't be filled with political or culture-based proselytising.

Looking to buy a new laptop/car/power-tool/chair? Good advice is to be found on reddit and you may never even see a single off-topic discussion in your search.
There is a minimal set of data that your browser (unfortunately) has to communicate to any website.

Duckduckgo or any other search engine cannot simply ignore your IP address so they might as well do something useful with it. If you don't care about search results influenced by your rough IP geolocation you can always manually choose the region you prefer. In any case, unless you are using a VPN or tor, DDG will always have access to your IP. If you don't want someone to use your data in any capacity you should not provide it or there should be a legally binding contract to discourage improper usage by the company, simple as.
They also didn't try to steal eastdakota's laptop, yet you give no credit to the (I assume) perfectly good locks on his home.
*by other nodes
I actually agree with the author in that users should not expect their data to be stored, ever.

However, the window of discourse has shifted so far away from that perspective that it isn't practical to discuss it when evaluating a mainstream tool like DDG. In our current environment, I think DDG is making the best of a bad situation.
> content creators

I suppose as a programmer I am a "content creator", but, like, gag me with a spoon.

I've seen a handful of those popular clips on youtube, always with a 20-something presenter with coke-fueled loud yelling into the camera, too-bright colors, quick clips, kindergarten animations. Always the blaring pitch to subscribe. Barf. Yeah, I'm an old man, so I'm immune to the attraction of it.
The "trained Marxist" phrase is so strange to me - how does one become 'trained' in Marxism? Trained in guerilla warfare, perhaps. But to be trained in Marxism has the same meaning as being "trained in Platonism" or "trained in Hayekism". The other answers she gave in the interview also indicate to me that she doesn't really know what she's talking about, and is using this language either as a LARP to claim some theoretical legitimacy or basis, or as a way to attract on-the-fence old school Marxists.

At no point did any of this 'trained Marxism' show other than in a small handful of the organization's goals, generally the most neglected ones.
Also being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430395
That's not my experience with Windows. Explorer works pretty much instantly for me. Did you try to reinstall Windows? Sounds like issue with some shell extensions or something like that.
Interesting. You may have inspired me to give it a go.

So where the hell do I start? Any recommendations for a beginner?

I'm in the UK if it makes a difference.
The JVM is an absolutely beautiful constructed software and protocol. I hope it stands for millennia, just like the colosseum, even if not in active use.
A lot of art is like that. Or pick one of tabletop games - kind of warhammer or something like that. Less popular video games have the same property too.
there's nothing about this on Google, and neutrino detectors are definitely not advanced enough for this. was this a joke that went over my head?
Internet discourse always gravitates to extremes. I passionately dislike the big tech monopolies, but complaining that a search engine uses your IP to improve their results and maybe do some A/B tests is counterproductive to the privacy movement.

It sets impossible standards in consumer products and pushes toward more fragmentation of this niche.
For my work I am connected to a VPN that has an USA based IP address, whereas I am based in the UK. Using Google is a nightmare if I look for a restaurant in a specific town as it defaults to a identically named town in the USA. The same problem exists for navigation instructions. In most cases you do really want to filter your result by IP location.
Compete wouldn't be the right word but there have been people starting art later in life that are world class.

Bjj tournaments have age brackets. Check the IBJJF worlds masters. If you win your bracket you do technically get the titles of world champ.
MSG naturally occurs in basically everything savory or meaty, so any side effects caused by artificial MSG would probably arise from consumption of natural foodstuffs too. In general we produce lots of glutamate ourselves too (it's one crucial aminoacid), so I honestly find it unlikely that dietary sources can have an influence on how much of it ends up in the brain, but given that there's no definitive science to back this it's all up for debate.
This reminded me that yesterday I heard a duckduckgo ad on the radio. I thought that was curious.
That's exactly the problem. As someone who does not have access to 32 Eth, you need to trust a pool operator with your money.

This is a direct parallel of issues like home and car ownership. If you're not rich enough, you have to trust a 3rd party, and also get less for your money.
Yoyo / kendama

Although I'm of the opinion they're more fun as an activity than to do competitively.. but for many that's the fun part.
And if you do it eight times afterwards, your son can become a sourcerer.
Note that AOT compilation on Android is a mix of JIT with PGO metadata, where the generated AOT binary is only a subset of the application.

Changes on the execution flow, or updates render the generated binary invalid and there is again another cycle of ASM based interpreter, JIT, gathering PGO metadata, and finally new AOT compilation when device is idle.
I can see why. Cycling in Europe is fantastic, but cycling in North America is terrifying.

I have a car and a motorcycle, but German bike routes are so nice that I still prefer the bike. I bike from the outskirts to the centre of Berlin on a dedicated bike path in nature. It's awesome!

Canada has few such routes. You have to fight for a place on a wide, ugly boulevard lined with box stores, and the drivers take personal offence to your existence.
It is quite sad and irresponsible, but extremely common.
The QC test was bad...

A QC test should at least test every component on the board - including passive resistors. That lets it test for bad solder joints, DOA components, etc.

Clearly their test could pass if a bunch of components were missing. That's their main mistake.
Paramotoring. Bear in mind that elite-level competition is considerably more dangerous than paramotoring as a leisure activity.
Why do people title their articles with an order? I don't know you, doesn't make a good first impression.
IMHO DOpus is an OS in itself !
Way too bloated / complicated for my tastes. Of course YMMV.
This is nice if your goal is to come up with convoluted ways to say the same thing in fewer characters (ignoring the code that you had to add to enable the shorter version in the first place).

With your example, both a switch and simple if-else chains would be perfectly readable and also easy to write.
Then what should I use instead? I am really keen to get off Google.
I don't get the appeal of DDG. The immense majority of people don't care about privacy and are happy with Google. Some people really care about privacy, and for them, like the OP, DDG doesn't do enough.

So DDG is for people who care about privacy... just a little?
What you're describing is actually the artefact of a popular method of organising information in articles called the inverted pyramid[1]. Essentially what happens is the chronological order is discarded in favour of ordering the information by perceived importance

> It is sometimes called a summary news lead style, or bottom line up front (BLUF).[3] The opposite, the failure to mention the most important, interesting or attention-grabbing elements of a story in the opening paragraphs, is called burying the lede.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Famous art collectors tend to be old (and rich).
Seems to be a feature for subscribers only.
Investment research that i've seen regarding the matter basically seems to suggest that one of the biggest reasons for hydrogen fuel's continued relevance is that some companies are trying to get ahead of the lithium turbo bull market that doesn't seem to be stopping. At some point even if it is an inferior technology form an efficiency standpoint input costs might be too much.
You scared me. Oh, my God, what if Google announced free Gmail user will be deleted in one month tomorrow.
Kagi or Brave search? Kagi is superiour in search result quality in my experience, Brave on the other hand is free (as in free beer).
Of course there are plenty of other activities, but I get paid to do this and I like the ability to actually build something. Civ5/Civ6 feels meaningless in comparison. What have I actually effected in the world? Nothing
Writing is one of the skills that you get better at later in life, because of accumulated experiences broadening the range of situations and interactions your characters are placed into.
Over the last month, we've been hearing more about Unity's business developments than its work on the core product itself.
Also incredibly expensive and practically out of reach for vast majority of world population.
Architecture, boat building.
Use narrower beams and you increase the availble bandwidth.
Same as using more wireless access points using lower transmission power each.
A Greek Scandal Reverberates as Eavesdropping Expands in Europe
I just don't like the design of this, or any other explorer alternative for that matter. It always has some very outdated feel to it... combined with an extremely cluttered view. Like texts and icons and buttons and options that I would never need all over the place.
Many years ago I heard of a family whose goat ate through the thatch roof and then started eating stuff inside the house. Don’t leave the goat alone.

Not a goat farmer so not sure if goats do that. Anyone know?
You’re right but anyway the consequence of the supply shortage is a “mess”, more than a “mass mishaps”.
I guess that the main benefit is not the saved 32kbytes, but rather the CPU cycles that are saved by not using jquery...

"jQuery is probably the least of their problems" : they also explicitly said that removing it was a low-priority background task, yet I like that mindset where they care about people having low-bandwidth or low-end devices "removing jQuery means that 32Kb of JavaScript has been removed from the majority of pages on GOV.UK. GOV.UK is already quite fast to load and for many users this will make no noticeable difference. However, the change for users on a low bandwidth connection or lower specification device will be much more noticeable, resulting in significantly improved page download speed and performance"
An Introduction to Iommu Infrastructure in the Linux Kernel [pdf]
I thought you need both a GPU and a lot of memory for the CPU.
That’s nice, but not very helpful if you’re trying to use an existing sheet that has VBA macros.
I had a colleague many jobs ago who’d made a bet with a friend that they could qualify for the Olympics. Didn’t specify what sport, or for what country, just that they’d qualify.

He then went and did a bunch of research into what sports are most (and of course least) competitive, landing on fencing as the best candidate. He also took advantage of being eligible for Irish citizenship, where the pool of potential competitors is smaller. I don’t know if he ever made it to the Olympics, but he was definitely heading in that direction.
I'm 30, at this age life is simply mehhhhhhh.
How are pointers implemented in a language that doesn't support them?
There’s also something to be said about hiking vs sightseeing or shopping.

A few hours at the mall drains and exhaust you while hiking in rough terrain spends a lot of energy but also gives you a lot of energy.

I think it’s the slow pace and constantly stopping combined with hundreds of small decisions (that doesn’t really matter. “Will my life be better if a splurge on the Pottery Barn toilet brush or should I just get the Tesco?”)
> is not just incompetent, but where he will actually cause damage - for instance because he has ulterior motives.

That made me think it was more. And anyway, as much as the fox does with chickens, the goat knows it will set about to kill and eat plants. There's no real reason to call the fox knowingly malicious and the goat not.
”We have deleted all the Windows Update binaries. This makes the system more secure”

I…what. Disabling Windows Update, and billing it as improving security?!
For normal home users? I don't know.

For us lot? VLC. Just be sure to turn down the ridiculous 300ms buffer when you open your device.
Thanks for getting back. I'll take a look at those resources you recommended. Certainly, working with Rust, a lot just 'feels right', it brings together elements I liked from other programming languages like Perl, Erlang, C. Those being: expressiveness, efficiency, a reasonably sane standard library, and functional goodies like immutability and closures.

> You add the field the the whole thing still compiles even though the zero-initialized value probably broke your app logic.

Ah, I found Python notorious for the same reason.

I've found ASP.Net's ORM to be quite good, though this is only with a year's experience, so perhaps I'm missing some cracks that might emerge later.
it's not the browser itself, it's the experience of staying in app when clicking a link. for example when going through a paygate that redirects to a browser. i don't want to leave the app, then come back in manually. with an in app browser it works seamlessly.
Yeah, you ever look at their evil little eyes. If that isn’t maliciousness distilled…