skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the increase in ostracization, bullying, and shallow celebrity reality shows has caused people to feel like they can barely do anything without being shamed, criticized, or ridiculed for showing a bit of difference from the established TV/movie/politically-correct norm. The divisiveness in owner/worker rich/poor and politician/voter has only sprayed fuel on the fire. Nevermind stagnating wages causing young folks to hold out on having children giving them less incentive to marry.

I don't know how many times I've heard about people not even being able to have conversations at the dinner table because of some stupid hot-button political issue that people feel they have to go hard-line on or take to the extreme just to get a little bit of gloat over things that are trumped-up in the mainstream/YouTube media. If you're the head of the household or workplace or friend group and you don't lay down the law about this kind of divisiveness, then you're letting the people you love tear each other apart.
My friend made an app for this, and it's live in Seattle - https://www.jointhaw.com/
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Following Goedel: God is necessary, because God is defined as the most capable and most good. For the most good, capable of existence, to not exist, is bad. So either God is bad, not capable, or a necessary existent thing.

But binary Truth is so Platonic. I believe there are universes in our multiverse of possible universes where there is an entity that is better than the best entity possible in our universe (no, I do not think that God can bend the laws of Physics and make an immovable object). Also, God is a gradient, since He manifests in people and nature. God as a force of external Good, may be nearly non-existent in times of human war. Nature is more abundant in some places than others.

Finally, more Jungian psychological: It does not matter whether God exists or not exists, what matters is that we keep talking about God. And humans keep modeling the Universe including a God entity. Therefor God is a necessary outcome of human cognitive modeling. We do not have direct access to the physical universe, only to our mental world models, the ontology question becomes irrelevant, what remains is the models. And there, a category error seems plausible: The most capable of Gods, would be capable of evil too, superseding the only-good God. Just like its human modelers are. Just like the old Testament God was good for the chosen people, but evil to the innocent firstborn children of opposing tribes.
> Banking is ripe for disruption

How? Any disruptive service would have to interface with the legacy, non-disrputive players. Visa + Mastercard have a monopoly on credit transactions. First Data + company have a monopoly on debit transactions. The banking of America is still backed by COBOL + mainframes and it hasn't changed yet for a culmination of a bunch of reasons. I just don't know when it ever will...
Hmm, maybe some variant of a solar updraft tower where hot lower atmosphere gases are siphoned up to generate power and heat lifting balloons?
The referenced link is for the so-called 'Vomit Comet'.

I don't know what difficulty the OP had in reading it.

The idea is that someone falling feels no weight. At least at the beginning. Air resistance quickly builds up, causing a feeling of weight.

So, surround the person with an aircraft. The engines compensate for the air resistance, so inside the plane it feels weightless.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft .
Only things exist.
Well not everything would need to float at earth pressure. The production of any fuels or materials that required heavier equipment could be done at lower atmosphere. You could engineer bacteria to break down sulfuric acid for the hydrogen based fuels, obviously the CO2 to O2 part would be easy, or bacteria to produce certain materials. Also I wasn't talking about methane fuel which would need nuclear I was thinking more basic hydrogen rockets which chemical reactions could be simple and effective enough to produce. Additionally solar is already getting thinner and lighter so I don't think that would be much of a problem. And remember on Venus it's not just CO2 it's very dense and high pressure as well. So earth atmospheric pressure air could lift quite a bit and you don't need to be at exactly sea level pressure all the time. Only real problem I see other than the constant threat of death that all colonies will face is launching to and from any floating colonies.

As for the large blimp colonies, I see nothing wrong with that. Sure they'll be big but not any more difficult than building reinforced lava tube colonies on the moon or going to Mars with building sized 3d printers or excavators that can be used to make long term shelters. Like I said all of the planets are going to have tough problems, short of an earth like planet you aren't going to find an ideal easy scenario. Personaly giant airships housing 50 or so people doesn't seem too bad. Like I said though it's the landing and taking off that seems a bit trickier.
This question (or the basis of the analysis) really doesn't make a ton of sense. The overriding deciding factor is really: who is the buyer and how do they want to buy. An open-core model for a strictly non-technical audience is a lot worse off than SaaS. On the other hand, if you have customers with security concerns SaaS may be off the table (still) for many of them.
Not everything posted here has to be strictly news (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), as the amount of discussion shows it's something a lot of people find interesting.
How much of this is in response to the tyranical state thats been trying to subsume theirs?
maybe it's a requirement? or a software? lol funny to say that this happens A LOT in... all Vietnam banks' mobile apps, unfortunately.
I think people in developed countries are reducing their per capita emissions a bit. However, population is still increasing, and people in many countries are increasing their (material) standard of living in a way that increases emissions.
As pointed out by others, Google has had visionary projects for over a decade. Just take a look at their X projects [0]. Here's a few:

- Verily is looking into improving medical tech

- Malta is looking at more efficient energy storage

- Makani is looking at innovative wind energy gathering

- Loon is looking at connectivity for rural/remote communities

- Foghorn is looking at creating clean energy from sea
water

And of course, let's not forget about Waymo which started 10 years ago, way ahead of its time. Google also invests heavily in many industries. They fund multiple fusion energy projects [1][2][3], they had a million dollar prize to encourage people to get to the moon [4], and as pointed out above they are big investors in SpaceX too.

Meanwhile, other than Bezos' Blue Origin, I think this is basically a first for Amazon, and honestly even this feels much more of a business move than a "visionary project", considering there's literally 3-4 other companies trying to do the exact same thing (SpaceX, OneWeb, Facebook, Telesat).

[0] https://x.company/projects/

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/news/a27...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/29/18201220/nuclear-fusion-e...

[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2019/05/21/th...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lunar_X_Prize
Not from here, are you? :)

Cars simply dominate due to the wealth and political power of all the car owners

"Car owner" is not a really good metric for political power or wealth in RI. It's a sorta given, like in most of the US.

If you are able to own/drive a car, but don't need to-I.E. you both live and work within walking, biking, or public transit distance of anywhere in the state you need to go, then you may be more likely to live in a wealthier neighborhood.

Do any of the politicians even ride bikes to their legislature or have any understanding of cyclists' issues?

Good heavens, you're not from around here, are you?

If you were to list in order of significance "things that Rhode Island politicians have demonstrated a less-than-ideal grasp of", cyclist-related issues would come in pretty close to page 900, if one were to be depressed enough to compile such a list. As a rule, people who think it's OK to divert illegally-solicited campaign funds to pay for their mistress's breast enhancement surgery aren't big into cycling. They prefer Escalades.

The legislators from Smith Hill/North Providence might be the only ones in the state who could plausibly ride a bike to work; Smith Street has a gentler slope in that direction. I'd be surprised if it's ever happened.

Really, the only way to make bike transport work better in RI is if one were to somehow link payout of unionized public-sector employee pension benefits to person-miles traveled by bicycle. If you could pull that off, in no time the only way to get anywhere in the state would be by bike. You'd have to get to Block Island by cycling from Point Judith (there'd be a biiig ramp, see...)
I do on occasion but just for social purposes, not for work.

I'm still confused/impressed at how slack took a free service, stuck something similar but not quite as good in a browser, sold subscriptions and got rich doing it.
The masses of macho guys and Trump voters aren’t converting to bike riding and veggie eating any time soon.

That’s why Tesla creating eco cars that out-muscle most muscle cars is so brilliant. It can show people who would never back down from big powerful cars that their fuel of choice is weak sauce.

I think it will be more effective than appealing to them with carrot juice and sprouts.

So... my advice is buy/lease a Tesla and show it around. At the very least you’ll have fun.
CO2 is at record highs and still increasing. Every month should be a record high.
Two students jailed for 42 and 36 years for separate terrorist attacks
It is more difficult to evade tariffs or VAT on imports, sure. For that to even out the playing field, it would have to be refunded to average Americans, and I am not sure it can even happen given the fiscal structure in the US?

Maybe a patchwork of all sorts of federal programs, better Medicare here, some more govt jobs there, etc? A direct refund would probably work much better.
I have done similar things several times and I think it would be boring.

It's Sunday so I guess they are not together. Instead there could be a lot of calls and working on some collaboration platforms. Everyone just staring at the screen, searching, reporting, testing and trying to shrink the problem scope.

If there's a record on everyone there must be a narrator explaining what's going on or audiences would definitely be confused.

It's Google so they have solid logging, analyzing and discovery means. Bad things do happen but they have the power to deal with them.

I suppose less technical firms(Equifax maybe?) encounter similar kind of crysis would be more fun to look at. Everything is a mess because they didn't build enough things to deal with them. And probably non-technical manager demanding precise response, or someone is blaming someone etc.
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If they don't also have really bad traffic, driving will tend to be significantly faster for most routes. They don't look like Seattle, but they don't look like NYC or London either. That said it's nice to be able to relax and take public transportation and is often a win even if it's a little bit slower, but there's no need to deny that it usually takes at least 10 minutes longer to take public transportation in a place that has good public transportation but not horrendous traffic.
It's detailed more in your second link, but Facebook was planning to launch their first batch back in 2016, which ended up blowing up due to the failed SpaceX launch. So if it wasn't for that mishap, they may have had something operational by now.
Only if you declare the center as infinitely perfect in every way. If you allow each axis to trade off with the others, then there is no single ideal. Fixed storage would rather have better prices and cycles in exchange for worse density. Mobile devices would rather have better density in exchange for higher prices.

(You can look at it like a path through the solution space. If you keep letting someone pick which attribute to improve, over and over, you eventually hit infinity/infinity/infinity, but different users will take very different paths to get there. At any particular count of improvements, their ideal batteries are significantly different.)

And with regard to kickopotomus's comment, you can get away with a much higher cost if you're targeting the right niche.
Clearly there are 1-2 people in this thread who, for no good reason, no rationally, deeply, profoundly, bitterly HATE me. To them, it's not my writing they hate but ME. That is your failure, not mine.

They might attack me if I posted 2 + 2 = 4. They are so angry that if they were physically close they would pick up a weapon and try to hurt me. Sick-o stuff.

Some nerds are emotionally, socially, and psychologically backward, and apparently a bunch of hackers are a good place to find such people.

Clearly there are 1-2 here.

Yes, there is old advice -- never discuss sex, religion, or politics because too many people are sick-o and go all irrationally, emotionally wack-o.

Nevertheless the theme of OP and this thread is darned important -- of COURSE we are lonely. Bluntly the reason is that we are abject, total, essentially suicidal FAILURES at family formation, so bad, did I mention, we are having so few babies we are going EXTINCT.

So, clearly there is something profoundly wrong with our culture. Of course, there is a cure: Darwin is on the case and will solve the problem in just a few generations.

In strong contrast, from 1800 to 1850, the US population of European descent multiplied by a factor of 4!!!! That's a LOT of babies nearly all the time by nearly all the women. That was GREAT family formation, since the generations were so short, maybe just 16 years, with each mother awash with women the same age or older right there to help. It worked GREAT.

Now? Grade flat F-. Going extinct.

So, we can correct this issue of "sex" and family formation or continue to fail.

Obviously most of our attitudes on family formation are just sick-o.
> Kim is a genius in managing his brand but he isn't a hacker

He was the butt of all jokes on IRC hacker circles for years - the crazy eccentric guy who would threaten to hack and ping DoS everyone and have a meltdown. He is/was essentially a charlatan and snake oil salesman who never proved any actual skill

That he has come so far in terms of being respected by anybody is bemusing
Population follows production which is a result of technology and progress which is intrinsically linked with capitalism. Take away the population and consumption will still not decrease (as those left over will simply consume more) and neither will the pollution it produces. It's just an easy out to say hey if we could just get those other people to stop producing more people we'd be set though we know that's not really true. They don't consume nor produce nearly as much pollution, money, or technology as your average developed world person.

That being said yes we need to drastically reduce the population, but that really can't be done and will have to happen itself by appealing to the vanity and self-interest of people once they are integrated into the logic of the modern religion. Though as I said that still will not solve the problem. But hey at least there will be fewer people.

And if you think that this is not true, that development leads to declining population then why are all the rich countries still growing through immigration? Their local population has stopped reproducing due to logic of the markets and self-interest and narcissism sure but they continue to grow and if they stop growing everyone talks of it as if it's a horrible thing.
Russia, Iran, and China: three dictatorships unable to survive a free press, free speech, and freedom of association.
>It is literally unnatural to deliberately choose to not have children

Something's being natural or unnatural has no bearing on whether it is right or wrong. I assume that when the OP says "we can no longer justify" they are making a moral claim, which means that saying it's "unnatural" to not reproduce is failing to be relevant.
Recalls Steven Wright:

"He told me that he had spent most of his life working on a research project for the government trying to find out

who financed the Pyramids.

He worked on it for 30 years, and they paid him an incredible amount of money. He told me he was pretty sure it was a guy named Eddie."

https://jjkentala.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/steven-wrights-19...
That has nothing to do with plans for satellites. Especially not space or broadband in general, as the original comment decried.

Feel free to criticize other matters, but don't lump in separate projects.
One thing that bugs me is they measure CO2 levels in ppm instead of moles/m^3 (or whatever would be appropriate). Why is the denominator assumed constant? Why can't nitrogen, oxygen, argon, water vapor, etc be changing too?

In fact people have been extracting N2 from the atmosphere at scale for ~120 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

And apparently O2 has been depleting as well: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138252/

We are at the point where gradeschoolers are questioning why the tables of atmospheric constituents don't add up to 100%:

>Two recent reliable sources cited here have total atmospheric compositions, including trace molecules, that exceed 100%. They are Allen's Astrophysical Quantities[5] (2000, 100.001241343%) and CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics[4] (2016–2017, 100.004667%), which cites Allen's Astrophysical Quantities. Both are used as references in this article. Both exceed 100% because their CO2 values were increased to 345 ppmv, without changing their other constituents to compensate. This is made worse by the April 2019 CO
2 value, which is 413.32 ppmv.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#cite_note-...
I struggle with the same thing. I'm the author of My Budget, and struggle to find OFX credentials to pull transaction details back.

Would you consider taking up the open-source plaid alternative? I've talked to someone who shared some great ideas with me how it can work. We can work on it together.
Implementation is the key factor. There many such areas down here in india but they fail to implement
I used to be an SRE at Atlassian in Sydney on a team that regularly dealt with high-severity incidents, and I was an incident manager for probably 5-10 high severity Jira cloud incidents during my tenure too, so perhaps I can give some insight. I left because the SRE org in general at the time was too reactionary, but their incident response process was quite mature (perhaps by necessity).

The first thing I'll say is that most incident responses are reasonably uneventful and very procedural. You do some initial digging to figure out scope if it's not immediately obvious, make sure service owners have been paged, create incident communication channels (at least a slack room if not a physical war room) and you pull people into it. The majority of the time spent by the incident manager is on internal and external comms to stakeholders, making sure everyone is working on something (and often more importantly that nobody is working on something you don't know about), and generally making sure nobody is blocked.

To be honest, despite the fact that it's more often dealing with complex systems for which there is a higher rate of change and the failure modes are often surprising, the general sentiment in a well-run incident war room resembles black box recordings of pilots during emergencies. Cool, calm, and collected. Everyone in these kinds of orgs tend to quickly learn that panic doesn't help, so people tend to be pretty chill in my experience. I work in finance now in an org with no formally defined incident response process and the difference is pretty stark in the incidents I've been exposed to, generally more chaotic as you describe.
> mostly it seems a waste to start an ISP

I sort of see an analogy with airplane or helicopter pilots.

One of the most important things pilots need when they start out is flying time. And flying time costs money. They can be easily talked into things to defray their costs.

I suspect that launching an ISP is defraying costs of developing and launching rockets. $100 LEO hamburgers.
Maybe there is just too many paper bills (or more like 0 and 1s) chasing relatively slower growing amount of value?
Thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it. My diet is fine, and I surf often for a bit of exercise, but my sleep patterns are definitely not optimal as a student. Unfortunately, I've tried just about every SSRI on the market and they're not for me. Was up to 30-40mg of Prozac a few years ago; it replaced my feelings of hopelessness with extreme apathy, which was not good in retrospect (plus the weight gain). I've been diagnosed with dysthymia since like middle school.

But yeah, I'll probably retry the online dating scene when I get a source of income that's not from school/family. In the meantime, my dream is to be stable enough to have a dog.
I hear a lot of people admit to depression, anxiety, OCD but rarely do I hear mention of loneliness. I don't have a close circle of friends and my primary social interaction comes from local meetups. I run two, one of which is focused on mental health topics. I've met a lot of people through it and never once heard mention of loneliness.

There's a subreddit, r/foreveralone, where I sometimes go seeking validation that others feel the same way. Are there others who received amazing information but have no one to share it with? I only find those stories on the internet. Do we need more celebrities coming out about their loneliness for it to become more socially acceptable to ask of someone: "I'm feeling really lonely, do you want to grab lunch?".

It's not so much that I'm not around people, I just don't have meaningful relationships with any of them. If I were to suddenly get married, aside from my mother, I don't know who else to invite to my wedding. The relationships feel superficial, career focused or just spur of the moment interactions.

I also fear that maybe I'm overly romanticising friendships and family. Is the image portrayed on tv the basis for what constitutes a meaningful relationship? Maybe it's ok to live life like this, with only passing interactions. Then I read something like this:

> Public-health researchers have known for a long time that unmarried men and women are at higher risk of early death from a variety of diseases

And wonder.
This is true, but trivial. If nobody ever asks you to spend time with them, you are doing something extraordinary to prevent it: never leaving your house, violent aggression, being drunk all the time, etc. You should definitely deal with that situation first.

But if you have normal interactions with people on a regular basis, you'll get invitations. They might be tiny or tentative or impersonal, but if engage with questions like "Can I talk to you for a second?" or "Would you like a sample of our new Teriyaki Chicken?" or even "Do you have the time?" you'll gradually open yourself up to more possibilities.
Keeping Secrets in Public Places with Homomorphic Encryption
I don’t have the inside knowledge of this outage but there are some details in here. They say that the job got descheduled due to misconfiguration. This implies the job could have been configured to serve through the maintenance event. It also implies there is a class of job which could not have done so. Power must have been at least mostly available, so it implies there was going to be some kind of rolling outage within the data center, which can be tolerated by certain workloads but not by others.