skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR: yes

"If Books Could Kill" also did a critique for those who prefer to listen to a podcast.

I found the book appealing as naive young person. Yet so little of its advice was within reach to me. And the house I bought was a modest net loss compared to rent I would've paid. It boils down to buy cheap real estate and antiques that will be desirable in the future. I.e. be born in the right place, right time, to not too poor people, and make lucky choices. Also financial fraud wherever you can get away with it.
you should be able to refine question titles
>> The totality of all the observations we have cannot be explained in any other way than an expanding universe.

If someone has a theory that incorporates "the totality of all observations" then physics is over. Redshift explains most observations, no other concept even comes close, but there are certainly things out there that remain unknown that are not explained by redshift. Dark energy is such a monumental observation that every theory in cosmology must remain caveated.
I guess this reflects a view of blogging that maybe is more what people today would use twitter or mastodon for, with lots of blogposts with the same title like "open thread" or "links for sunday". Today people mostly use blogs to publish essays, and then a slug based on the title should be sufficient, since you're not going to publish two essays with the same title. That's what substack uses.
When I signed up on Twitter in 2009 these ToS in no way implied using my tweets as training data. Nor they are worded explicitly that way now either.
So you’d solve the problem of passkeys being, at this very moment difficult albeit not impossible to move, by dismantling the modern financial system?

I do remind you that all money transactions are done electronically. You’d have us go back to checks?
Core CPI inflation, which excludes the index’s more volatile food and energy components, was 3.2% in July, matching estimates of 3.2% and June’s 3.2%

CPI including everything was 2.9% below estimate
> Restaurants have to be able to cope with catering to common allergies, it's really not hard.

To the contrary, it's actually extremely hard.

When I order, I probably get something incorrect ~10% of the time. Whether fine dining or fast food.

To deal with life-threatening allergies, you need to get that error rate down from 10% to, what, 0.000001% or something?

You're literally asking for hospital- and pharmacy-level procedures, controls, and training. Which would make restaurants far more expensive and there would be far less of them.

Not impossible, but yes extremely hard, when servers mix up orders and cooks mix up tickets and runners mix up plates and tables.
This is what the analysis was 10 years ago. What has changed?
Good one. Next you’ll tell me that I’m horribly under compensated for not getting huge amounts of equity when no one in my company gets equity.
I haven't read the book, but does it really say this?

> He also tells of how he can back out of contracts by inserting a clause “subject to the approval of my partner”, where said partner was actually his cat. That is called “fraud”.

How can you take anyone seriously who does a thing like this?
Contracts require an exchange of value. If I got a free trial I would argue they got nothing and so there is no agreement.
> Mostly hiring devs fresh from university so there was a ton of group think due to a lack of new ideas

This is a very interesting description of group think between less experienced developers. I've never thought of it this way, but it seems to have some truth in it.
What’s interesting to me is that the company, “National Public Data” is a wholly owned subsidiary of a company called Jerico Pictures (yes without the h)

What the heck business model explains a video production company owning personal data for practically every American? I feel like there is a lot more than meets the eye on this one.
Kiyosaki is absolutely a charlatan, I thought we all learned that in 2010?
Part of the problem is balancing all the factors - a "star" metro like Stockholm is much easier to map than one that has actual rings and loops and similar.

You could perhaps have thin lines between "walkable" stations for the cognoscendi or similar.
> Try to go tell the head of accounting they need to make all their data rfc4180 compliant see how that goes

Fun fact: I did. And not just for accounting systems, but all sorts of data ingestion pipelines. Did it work every time? No. Did it work in many cases? Yes. Is that better? Absolutely.

Here is the thing: If I accept broken CSV, where do I stop? What's next? Next thing my webservice backends have to accept broken HTTP? My JSON-RPC backends have to accept JSON with /*/ style block comments? My ODBC load-balancer has to accept natural language instead of SQL statements (I mean, its the age of the LLM, I could make that possible).
Personally, I find a lot of nuance can be lost when just blindly following a route that an app recommends to me. This is particularly true when there are emerging delays on the tube and you need to figure out an alternate route, the time it takes until your app realises it needs to give you a different route is very annoying and a map allowing you to quickly figure out a different journey is great.

I also find that apps have very different idea to me in terms of my willingness to walk instead of bus/tube especially during changes. For instance, it’s often easier to walk from Liverpool Street to Moorgate for the northern line (say if you’re going to London Bridge) than it is to tube it to Bank or Moorgate. Until fairly recently, apps always told you to take the tube. I think this only changed because Liverpool Street and Moorgate are now properly connected via Elizabeth line.

Also when lines share tracks, looking at a map can often show you that you can use a different, quieter line for most of your journey then change at the last minute. For instance, when travelling west on Hammersmith and City from the city, it’s often advisable to take the quieter Metropolitan line for a while then change to the H&C you need when the two lines diverge.

Obviously for most people this doesn’t matter, but I’d maintain that maps of all kinds provide a valuable understanding of the network and allow people to make smarter decisions.
The article uses the phrase 'semantic meaning' three times, but we are dealing with tokens here, which leads me to wonder what sort of semantics sub-word tokens have. For example, does compositionality [1] apply over sub-word tokens? Does the success of LLMs in generating text that could pass as human-generated suggest that it does?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_compositionality
Sliced bread was invented in the 20th century
Even a quick glance at Kyosaki’s twitter will show you he’s gone full loony nowadays.
Everyone else is talking about key lengths here, but the better reason to avoid RSA is that it's full of footguns that ECC hides from you. ECC constructions don't generally expose a direct encrypt-to-the-public-key operation, which is almost never what you want (unless you're doing RSA-KEM, which nobody does) but frequently what you get. The de facto standard RSA padding --- by the way, another parameter ECC doesn't demand you fix for your system --- is PKCS1v15, which is admits a padding oracle attack that TLS has spent 2 decades going through contortions avoiding. Even the process of randomly generating keys --- for Curve25519 this is practically a simple as "fill a buffer with random bytes" --- has been fraught with problems.

The reason not to use RSA is that you're not going to get it right, because it's hard to get right. In cryptography, that makes it intrinsically bad on the merits.
I moved from Pass to Bitwarden so https://github.com/chx/ykgodot is abandoned but you still might find it useful.
If the immorality of theft is of no concern to you then perhaps any of the following reasons may jive a little bit better with your ethos:

1. Destruction of savings

2. Distortion of price signals in markets

3. Impoverish those on long term fixed/low income

4. Creates massive inequality especially inter-generationally

In my estimation however, if you really have to ask about the benefits or downsides of theft then you've already started at the wrong end of things.
I feel all this. :)

Incidentally a lot of my recent work is basically glorified Bash scripts (Nix takes care of portability issues for us, but the language is still Bash), and then we've recently created a tool in Python that we invoke as a command-line application.

I try to write my Bash in a tasteful style: I embrace bash features (since my scripts ship with with a precise version of bash anyway) where they make things clearer or more concise (for instance, associative arrays). I do use bash parameter expansion, mostly to avoid nesting conditionals or long lines that read like

test ... && declare ...

but I usually include a link to the bash manual page on parameter expansion in a comment next to them as a courtesy. I favor long flags and split most commands with multiple args out across multiple lines.

I do use one bash option via `shopt`, namely `lastpipe`. It lets you assign variables from pipelines, like:

cat someConfig.toml \
yj -tj \
jq -r '.someField.nestedField' \
read VAR

instead of using a subshell on the right-hand side of an assignment. Almost all of my assignments take that form, and there are no unnecessary intermediate assignments, virtually no mutation of variables, and very few ifs or case statements. I think and hope that it's possible to read any chunk of these scripts, then, with very little context: you can focus on a single pipeline at a time without regard for the rest of the program or any variable assignments.

I also just don't do any parsing or validation of arguments in bash. Once I feel I need those, I use something else. Those scripts aren't things I present to outside teams as interfaces.

I find it easier to read my bash scripts than our Python code, but I don't have much history with Python, and I'm also partial to those kinds of pipelines— they're basically the same as method chaining with `.` to do basic FP stuff in OOP languages like Scala and Java and Ruby.

But I also wonder where the line is and what business my team even has writing Python when none of us has much Python experience at all. We've succumbed to the standard argument that we should use Python because it's easy to hire for, which I think is probably a bad one. As the program gets larger and more complex, does anything come after Python for us? How do we know when it's time or if a given program should (from the start) go there?

I don't know yet, but as I try to level up my Python skills, I'm also starting to learn Rust with writing CLI tools in mind, with the book Command-Line Rust. I'm hoping that after that, the upcoming Refactoring to Rust will help me devise a way to decide when switching to Rust is actually a good vs. bad idea, as well as how to do it.
Yes and also 4 hour work week
Great, the sooner a 9 digit number stops being significant, the better. They were never meant to be a ubiquitous identifier/authentication token.
the advice is all shit but the meta-game isn’t - writing pop advice books actually is lucrative, especially back then. It’s just that you have to pretend you’re doing something else, which in his case was some nonsense about residential property.
The "If Books Could Kill" podcast discusses this book and others in the same genre. The two hosts are reasonably thorough in their research, and quite amusing as well.
Thanks a lot for linking that piece, it's a great read.

That said, I don't believe that the fact that Swatch owned Omega and Blancpain was known outside watch nerd circles until very recently.
That speaks volumes about your friends.
The US doesn't recognize any court as being above itself. Most countries probably don't either, they're supposed to go back home and get it passed in their own country's system.
Bingo, this is exactly the plan. Of course there are non-trivial engineering challenges when scaling up, but that's the rough idea.
Post author here. There are so many great additional examples of intriguing URL patterns in the comments here. TY everyone for sharing ones you remember!
You used reception here to argue against me, going so far as to claim that people are “protecting HN” from my comment. Given that, I pointed out another form of measuring said reception. Suddenly, you were up in arms about using reception and continue to protest it.
Are you seriously trying to argue that technology is adding to inflation? I'm not following...
Ask HN: What do people use to make product promo videos?
Saw this one on Twitter, looks gorgeous: https://x.com/rishmody/status/1823704880286187642. Have been seeing more and more of these launch videos.

What tools do you all use/ recommend?
It is the sort of advice people who will never be in those positions hear and think it must be part of how rich business people operate. It is basic knowledge porn, like Malcolm Gladwell books, but with less sophistry.
> you have 7 figures in stocks and 6 figures in savings anyway

I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious here. I’ve been in tech for almost twenty years and the only way I could have 7 figures in stocks is if I still lived at home and didn’t contribute anything to the budget. There is a whole world of people working in tech outside of Silicon Valley’s ridiculous compensation. Money is still a concern for the vast majority of us.

No one in my company has equity except the founder. On the off chance we actually get far enough for me to get equity I’ll be lucky to get $100k out of it.
Every currently rich person has done a million fraud-like-but-maybe-not-actually-fraudulent things like this and that's how they're rich, so it's not completely insane. You definitely don't get rich by staying within the white painted lines. This particular one is more on the insane side of the spectrum... but do you remember that Elon Musk had a large golden parachute contract at PayPal, meaning they had to pay him a lot of money if they let him go, and then he made really stupid decisions so they had to let him go, and give him a lot of money?
Interesting that Oxford Circus is the pivotal point. I use the tube regularly and it's the place I would least want to get to.

Also all distances to London are measured to Charing Cross (the actual stone cross I think), so maybe that should be the centre to be consistent.
He already has stated publicly that the “rich dad” is a characterization. And the book is about the 4th product in his attempt to teach finance courses. So I’m already suspect of the article.

Yes it’s a terribly written book, but that’s typically the case from non-professional writers who just have something to say.

My biggest takeaway is that “stay in school so you can get a good job” is not a great wealth creation strategy. You just compete with other highly qualified candidates for jobs that pay 20-30% more (See 20+ years at Boeing). Jobs like this also attract other risk averse people.
Meta comment.

Something I've wondered of late. I keep seeing these articles pop up and they're trying to recreate ADTs for Python in the manner of Rust. But there's a long history of ADTs in other languages. For instance we don't see threads on recreating Haskell's ADT structures in Python.

Is this an artifact of Rust is hype right now, especially on HN? As in the typical reader is more familiar with Rust than Haskell, and thus "I want to do what I'm used to in Rust in Python" is more likely to resonate than "I want to do what I'm used to in Haskell in Python"?

At the end of the day it doesn't *really* matter as the underlying construct being modeled is the same. It's the translation layer that I'm wondering about.
"Get Rich" books have frequently worked throughout history.

For the author.
You shouldn't feel bad about that, because that money isn't lost, you just used that money to buy enjoyment which is valuable as well.

And that is without even accounting for the amount of knowledge and experience gained by self hosting.
What else is new? It seems every week there is some massive data dump of private information. Until people/CEOs start going to jail for lapses in security, that allow these hacks to happen, things will not improve.
I like the book's message much like I enjoyed The Four Agreements; however, they both could have been a magazine articles instead of books.

My takeaway from Rich Dad Poor Dad is think about ownership and value creation instead of working for wages. I religiously follow having my assets buy my luxuries.
From memory, so I'm probably wrong, but: I thought the bona fides for Curve25519's design was that it demonstrated clear engineering reasons for all its choices, and Bernstein's issue with other curves was that NUMS constants (like pi, e, etc) were manipulable in the sense that you could take permutations of them --- the (silly) B4D455 paper.
Re-fixing Servo's event-loop
Ask HN: What skills/things are you learning?
I'm learning to use guitar with capo right now, and hopefully can learn using arranger such as Yamaha PSR-SX700 to be able to accompany music
Isn’t it just a matter of checking if two lines’ perigee fall within radius sum, and if so check if the respective segments’ closest points to the perigee are within radius sum?
Great, more training data for LLMs...
Since the balls probably don’t move much per frame, should the list be considered “nearly sorted?”
You can distill all the advice this book has to offer into one sentence: Rather than succumb to lifestyle creep, direct your cashflow from your 9-to-5 towards other endeavors that can make you money. That's it. That's the book. There is no step-by-step guide on how to do this, just a narrative, anecdotes and a few examples mostly around real estate.
Am I missing something? The Peru flag is a 2:3 rectangle, which is the most common flag shape.
You don’t think he made a lot of money in real estate?
How was the implementation hard? It seems like it would be a bog-standard set of redirect rules.
That's a quippy response I've heard here before, but it doesn't check out. You, without any knowledge of my personal experience, are asserting that everything I know about my experience is wrong and I am deceiving myself by thinking I know anything about myself. But in truth, this is nothing more than your attempt to deceive me, plain and simple gas-lighting.

> You’re currently on a social network that’s basically just YC’s advertising board.

If that's the sum of your proof, your thesis is a joke. I am not the customer of any YC company, nor have I ever applied for a job at one, nor have I ever or will I ever apply to YC itself. Your attempt to cold read me was pathetic.
What is a good alternative book along the same lines?
Here's a food for thought. Many people aren't that well read or critical thinkers, they just lap up anything served to them in a book. If many people are recommending something, consider it passing through your well-hardened filters/firewall.
> Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American

...thus making them available to the the only group left without easy access.

My larger point being that it's time to shift our concern from privacy - to disproportionate privacy.

It isn't randos who routinely harm/exploit us with our own data but those in power.

I suggest that equal privacy would serve us far better than privacy laws that target us and few else.

For equal privacy, the default starts out somewhere near: If you can see mine, I can see yours. If you're going to restrict just us, 1) you need to openly+clearly justify it and 2) the restrictions need to sunset.
I create ad-hoc shell scripts or alias anytime the commands get complex. If I find myself reusing them in other contexts, I add them to my bashrc files or create proper scripts to add to my home bin.

That’s why I dislike macOS these days. Not many software bother with scripting interface and the increasing IOS-ication makes it a chores for power users (still great if your usage is confined to a few apps).
The story behind the experiment:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physics-experiment/app5.h...
I agree that there's probably more to it than meets the eye. But a lot of companies are basically just holding companies that don't actually do anything economically useful on their own, eg IAC (the CEO of which is now lobbying for the removal of the FTC chairman).
(cough) kill and yank.
I found it very amusing that Tim got burnt out because people got into the habit of tricking him into a lunch by claiming that he would be joined by someone important, who of course didn't show up. A tactic that Tim himself popularized.

Not so great when you're the one being taken advantage of now is it?
Data still needs to be cleaned ;)

ML based linkage has evolved a lot over the past years, and a few people are trying out LLM based ones - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06434v1
And for contrast, here is another book from the early 2000s that, seems to have stood the test of time:

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

1: the entrepreneurial myth: the myth that most people who start small businesses are entrepreneurs

2: the fatal assumption that an individual who understands the technical work of a business can successfully run a business that does that technical work

> Gerber draws the vital, often overlooked distinction between working on your business and working in your business.

https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About...
Double-clicking is also undiscoverable. People had to be taught about it. Nothing natural or previously familiar works that way.
Dunno. I don’t think his real estate advice in the book was good.
This seems unwarranted. Even if many rich people grifted their way into that position (for whatever definition of 'rich' you prefer) some proportion will have ended up that way through a combination of skills and luck without actually acting immorally.
Black and White and Wildlife
I do not believe that the Senate could override the Constitution by getting Belize to go along with them in 1950, either.
I had a brief look at the tool. It's a pity but it's not a tool, it's a service with unclear ToS. The CLI tool is a wrapper which sends openapi definition to the service. That's a big NO.

In general I get a feeling that it's just a small feature who wants to become a paid product.
I've done alright for myself investing and owning a small business. I read this book years ago and I found it gimmicky. It's chapters and chapters of clickbait-y cliffhangers and parables that just never pay off with anything concrete. I recognized a lot of the rhetorical maneuvers from MLMs and "filler sermons" I grew up around. And the most financially illiterate people I know swear by it as an infallible text.
Reminds me of the South Park episode where agreeing to Apple's Terms and Conditions gives Steve Jobs the right to perform experimental surgery on you (inspired by the B horror flick Human Centipede). Just found the episode title, "HumancentiPad" S15 E1 from 2011
Thank you for the answer (that is not a semantic discussion /end-of-rant)

I had no idea that the London map inspired so many others (among them - the Paris one I mentioned in my question), I thought that the design was rather a typical one for maps of underground services the same way as ground maps look more or less the same (at lest in their raw design). TIL.
Yes. He really does say this.

He also encourages people to attend finance seminars and get involved in network marketing.

The audience for most personal finance books are people with absolutely no experience with personal finance. People with no experience read a book, conclude that it is filled with expert advice, and then recommend it to others. You kick this off with things like an Oprah episode and the momentum carries itself.
GenAI will make markets narrower and deeper. Vertical market consumers are performance intolerant. They are also far more enlightened about their needs than typical. Don't think you'll get 4 shots at goal - but the MVP concept will evolve to far more than todays