skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only ever lucid dreamed if I had a very bad nightmare, then I could realize it was a dream, take control and turn the tables on whoever was causing me problems in the dream.

That said I have periods of non-lucid extremely complicated dream narratives - for example maybe I'm not even a character in the dream and there is a narrator of a story that could span generations.
Lowkey (YC S18) is hiring full-stack engineers passionate about gaming (remote ok)
Considering the constant hype I encounter for this online, not so surprising. Perhaps the clear lead from the plethora[0] of similar software? Though Obsidian seems to be getting more popular.

I recall reading about some privacy policies issues a while back [1], I wonder if anything has changed.

[0] https://www.notion.so/db13644f08144495ad9877f217a161a1?v=ff6...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21849239
£62k is not very far from entry level in finance, and as you become more senior you would typically earn 2-3x that. Outside of software engineering, I don’t think things have changed that much.

Part of me thinks that if engineering was offering better careers, we would have flying cars now. But I also see it as a market and if engineers aren’t paid that much, it is probably because there isn’t a supply shortage. For software developers, there is a supply shortage (as every company is becoming a software company) and it translates into higher wages.
> [With] all his billions, Jeff is rounding error in the big picture. He’s not the problem; the legal/regulatory power structures that enable him and his peers is.

> Amazon is a perfectly OK company, to the extent that planetary-scale sprawling corporate behemoths can be perfectly OK in 2020. Which is to say, not OK at all.

Very well put - if Amazon wasn't around, the system all but guarantees that some other company would play the same kind of role. "Hate the game, don't hate the player"
Not exactly, they also signal that the style of the product will overall match the public image of the celebrity, which may actually save some time whey you are shopping, but most probably not worth it.
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I spent nearly six years homeless. I don't qualify for disability, though I am disabled.

If I hadn't tried to establish an earned income, suicide would have been my only way out of my predicament. No one was going to rescue me.

With a third of people not working, we don't have the means to rescue everyone. The only way to fix this mess is to find ways to get people working again. There is no other real solution.

I get really tired of hearing pie in the sky talk of how people in lousy circumstances "shouldn't have to" do x, y or z. In practice, it winds up being a means to trap them there and give them no way out.
I had one of those in the 90's.

It was nearly indestructible. Never left my wrist during daily jogs, showers, swims, saunas ... you name it.

After a few years finally some water had gotten into the housing. The watch was still working, but the screen had become less readable. Still, best watch ever owned.
this is true of most if not all companies in the knowledge sector. Google for example is known for starting as a phd project.
Hi. I have been trying this technique for a few days and it is getting better as I practice.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/national-napping-da...
I'm guessing your parents are still alive and live in the same country?
But he said specifically that he earns 10-20% less than his friends (and probably a lot less than the one who founded his company), so in fact he can afford less than them. It's just that he is content with that much.

On the other hand, many private companies don't contemplate (on don't look favorably upon) employees who work part time or anything below the standard 40 hoours/week, so if you do work in the private sector you don't have much of a choice. If everyone was magically allowed to reduce his/her working hours and salary by the same percentage I wonder what would be the outcome.
I've made the jump in the other direction: from an almost-US-style hyper-capitalist country to relatively social democratic countries (first Austria then Germany) & my life here is astonishingly better than in my country of origin (level of economic development is similar, in fact I'd probably be earning more in the country I was born in while paying lower taxes).

So whose anecdotal evidence do we take, yours or mine?
> but it’s something you aren’t offered in a lot of private sector jobs.

To an extent isn’t this because these types of benefits aren’t affordable? The pension, extra vacation, etc wouldn’t be possible without the tax revenue raised from your friends who are working more hours.

In America there is a saying “good enough for government work.” I think a lot of public sector jobs get a bad rep because they hand out middle class lifestyles (arguably maybe even upper middle class in Washington DC metro area) at the expense of the private sector.

A lot of government employees (and contractors) just got paid to sit at home for 3-4 months during the pandemic if they worked in secure areas (can’t take classified information home). That’s a benefit that the private sector just can’t provide.

I guess I don’t really agree with the article. We need hard work, it’s what keeps the system going. We have it so much better than other parts of the world and we shouldn’t take that for granted.
$72,000/year. Individual median income is around $30,000.
Exactly - In my experience anyone could share their google docs to everyone under the sun, with or without notification. You don't get asked permissions to agree to have a shared file in any case.

So as long as you don't filter out the share file requests from other people, there's no need to keep the notes about "some stranger has shared this file with you". Coz you wouldn't care.

Though it's probably good practice in comms to inform someone by chat/separate email that "here's a new shared file you should be looking at."
It's a little disappointing they don't address the idea of peer competition.

We live in a time of insane material wealth, so we create artificial scarcities of necessities to ensure peers compete with each other.

The article does mention the substantial rises in productivity we've had, but this: "There’s something missing: the question of whether the American system, by its nature, resists the possibility of too much leisure, even if that’s what people actually want" merited far more exploration.

There's a horrible positive feedback loop going on.

Say 10 people want a home in an area that has, oh, 8 homes.

If somebody chooses to work long hours, read emails on weekends, etc. they have a better shot at getting promotions and being able to outbid their peers for those homes. If someone doesn't do this, they have a better chance at falling in to the 2 people who can't afford a home.

So the workaholics work and work and work, get the raise, and buy a home with a big mortgage attached. Maybe a $1.5 million dump in San Jose. Now they're a highly-leveraged housing speculator who desperately can't afford for house prices go down. And the leverage they used to buy the house is secured with the threat of homelessness and personal ruin.

So they oppose any and all new building ferociously and cruelly. Scarcity is the only reason their house even has value!

Similarly, _they_ had to work nights and weekends, so why shouldn't other people? As they rise up the ladder this is what they select for.

So we have house prices ratcheting upwards, people working themselves to the bone to get in to the club of "homeowners" (a dubious word when you owe 90% of the home's value to the bank), and a strong incentive to make sure it keeps going that way.

It's true that presenteeism and wasted time at work are an issue, but ultimately there is a point where more time working means producing more (say 20 hours vs 10), and in a sector where results are hard to quantify people go for the easy thing to measure - hours where you butt was in the seat.

I mean, houses are pretty cheap to build. Habitat for Humanity does it for $50k. Imagine if you could work part time and build your own home? It would threaten people whose power comes from housing scarcity! Why, what if it turns out there's no inherent reason their house should cost 25 times the median income? Can't be having that! Better make it illegal to build homes (or demolish existing low-density ones) anywhere near a job.

The only homes that get built near high paying jobs now are over the wailing shrieks of existing rent-seekers (aka homeowners). The person who owns a home in Berkeley can vote, because they live in the area, but the person who would _like_ to live in Berkeley but commutes from Stockton has no voice. I'm hopeful that remote work will finally destroy their power, though with a decrease in tech incomes as well.
Ugh! --I wish there had been a disclaimer on that link, saying it was one of the Grauniad's 'Pass Notes' articles. Quite possibly the most relentlessly unfunny attempts at humour around.
But you can 'hold in' cancer?
But you can't remove labour unions or government intervention either. Capitalism didn't come up with workplace safety standards and it didn't make kids go to schools instead of working in factories.
3D print it.

Yes automation solves it.
It would stop working if less people said "it will work even if you're difficult!" and more people just took a little time out of their workday to be difficult.
That would require reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Both seem to be missing from the op
It's with a European (Austria-based?) VPS provider, Edis (edis.at), and my server is hosted in a UK DC.
You should probably have a look at DoreenMichele’s bio...

> I blog about a variety of topics, including things like homelessness and earning money from the street, something I have firsthand experience with.
Is there no grace period while properties are vacant? In the UK the tenant is responsible for paying the equivalent of city taxes, the landlord only needs to pay if it's vacant for more than 6 months. The only other taxes you need to pay are income tax on the rent you receive.
It is definitely a structural problem with the modern Western post-industrial economy. I don’t pretend to have a solution, but it seems to me that people will tolerate rough working conditions or boring jobs if there is an overall mission or purpose; compare WW2 factory workers to contemporary Amazon workers.
Finance in London does pay well, but there are plenty of engineering opportunities as well.

I would say that UK junior and mid engineer roles are in general worse-paid than in the USA, but senior roles are competitive. Getting a big salary straight out of uni is not something I've seen over here but you hear about it in California.

If you're in London you have the benefit of a pretty thriving tech scene. If you want to look further afield then Bristol, Manchester, and Edinburgh seem to have a lot going on as well, and lower living costs.
Because you won't be able to operate in any country that have an agency that monitors cyber-whatever stuff. FBI\NSA\FSB you name it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895064

Sort of proves me wrong but I'm still sceptical.
> the “folks with little savings and expensive mortgages” that you allude to actually come out on top.

What good is an expensive mortgage when you can't pay it, lose your home, and now have bad credit preventing you from capitalizing on all the new opportunities created by all the foreclosures and vacant rentals?

The savers have options. At any given moment a saver can decide to buy a pile of stock, or go get a mortgage. Why would we sit idly by while inflation gets so bad it no longer makes sense to hold cash? It doesn't happen overnight, there will be plenty of interesting opportunities in the mean time available to those with good credit and/or a pile of cash.
Your comment got downvoted because there's a lot truth in it. :D

Manual jobs will be getting automated, and countries relying on manufacturing will be hit by that process the hardest.

Like in Factorio - first you're resources bound, than you are labor bound, and finally you're design-bound.

Modern economy is design-bound. USA being de-industrialized developed economy offers good quality of life and opportunity for intellectual workers, and attracts a lot of talent. Most HN readers is Americans, so they love to complain about USA, but "grass is always greener on the other side". As much as there are messed up things in USA, there's also plenty of things that are working really well.

The main problem is the gap between people who benefit from the post-industrial economy, and those who do not. I also don't see a better way out of it than just some well-designed form of UBI. And considering all the COVID stimulus, the USG is already paving the way...
The crucial point is that such a grocery trip basically requires a car. Meanwhile the rest of the world is used to having businesses within walkable reach.
> the Google/Facebook ad cartel is rapidly destroying publishing business models that have been essential to civilized human dicourse

and

> every reporter I’ve talked to has tried to get me to say awful things about Amazon and in particular about Jeff Bezos. But at my last job they taught me to think big and, with all his billions, Jeff is rounding error in the big picture.

This sounds like the media business needs a reboot and that we only ascribe such a high value to it because we didn't get a look into the sausage factory before. We belived the nice stories the journalists told about themselves.

Today we can read what Tim Bray thinks about his interaction with journalists. Before the internet he would never had been able to communicate this to people in the rest of the world.
Those democracies didn't just emerge in spite of totalitarians though, they emerged because of them and the stability they established. Stable conditions historically lead to democracy but democracy in uncertain circumstances segues into stability much more rarely. Yes corruption is a problem for totalitarians but cracking down on corruption has been a growing aspect of the Chinese model for exactly that reason (whether or not they'll succeed is another matter but it's incorrect to automatically assume that a totalitarian state will be blind to the problem by default). Further, those democracies emerged in a wildly different power climate. A modernized military operating without any rules of engagement is not going to get overthrown by its people when over half the population is content.
Thank you. Sleeping on it, and writing this post, has definitely bought things back into perspective: we can all have off days.

It had been a while since I'd had this sort of negative experience, and what I would say is it's re-reminded me to make sure my hiring in the future caters for this sort of thing. Particularly for less experienced devs.
1% extra profit is something competitive airlines like Ryanair would no doubt appreciate. Also it could ensure the aircraft operates at optimal fuel efficiency, which is central to their business model. Maybe for national airliners these marginal gains matter less and automation could be a bad look for them.
Yes, the the bad thing mentioned in this thread was supposed to be existence of admin moderation tools. Nit the way they use it, but that it even exists.
That's because every day has 16 hours of living in it. Every hour is precious. 16 hours is enough to do all of those things.

About my favourite thing about Europe vs America (maybe even just SF) is how much the people I work with care about doing things. It's not even for anyone else. It's like that scene in The West Wing where Sam Seaborn is told he doesn't have to finish a speech, but he looks up and says, "I just. I just want to nail this."

I love working with people like this.
Off topic, but ha, this funny. "Tito" and "anti-authoritarian" in the same paragraph, just LOLz. The intro is a bit off, politically.

On a less off-topic note, checkout Bulgaria's wildly successful clone of the Apple II in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravetz_computers
Yeah, aircraft can't pull over to the side of the road in a catastrophic failure, and aircraft manufacturers will not pay to have the unique actions that a human faced with death would take built into the aircraft systems.
Nothing you say convinces me that GPT-3 is exhibiting any conceptual understanding.

Imitating existing texts better is not conceptual understanding.

"Understanding" means you can explain why you made a decision. It means there exists a model with conceptual entities that you can access and make available to others.

What GPT-3 does is this: "I am given many answers to similar questions, and I build up a huge model that reflects these answers. If I'm given a new question, I come up with a response that's probably right, based on the previous answers, but there's no explanation possible."

Don't get me wrong - it's amazing! But it's not understanding anything yet.

Even humans have skills that we know but do not understand - like "walking" for most of us!

But on abstract question, we almost always have access to a complete set of reasons. "Why did you go back to the store?" "I left my bag there." "Why did you talk to that man?" "I know he's the manager, I'm a regular." "Why were you happy?" "I had my bag."

(Indeed, this is so common that people often "backdate" reasons for actions that didn't really have any reason at the time. But I digress.)
Brave builds subscription VPN into the iOS version of its browser
> It's worth asking why workers felt insecurity when the statistics suggested there shouldn't be any.

Probably because they aren't saving enough to be able to weather bad times, because a serious medical issue may ruin them, because no matter how much you save, housing, college, and medical costs will grow in tandem, and because despite official unemployment being low, most employers aren't willing to compromise on worker-hostile policies. [1]

The answer to your puzzle may be that employers have become a lot better at bargaining, lobbying, and union suppression than they were a few decades ago. It may also be the case that the government has become better at maintaining a high enough level of unemployment (through monetary policy) to prevent workers from gaining too much in a boom economy.

[1] Any of the tech folks on HN try asking to not be subjected to an open office hell, prior to this COVID thing? How great of a bargaining position did the software-engineer shortage give you in that conversation?
Considering that your anecdotes are about four different countries, rather than two, your last paragraph is needlessly antagonistic.
I'm wondering why Subcomandante Marcos is wearing two clocks? At first it seems like he put it on his left arm in one picture, and on his right on the other - but on the b/w picture casually "hides" the second clock with his hand.
I was hoping I see someone mention Semco. They were the outliers before that word was coined. For me, it's still a dream to work in a software company which is run like Semco.
GDScript in the Godot game engine is pretty similar to Python.

• https://github.com/RodZill4/godot-procedural-maze

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YShYWaGF3Nc
V0.25.0 lifelines released – Python hazard modeling library
I was specifically just talking about the reaction to the trending mod tools existing, as if that was bad or surprising in itself. That there are mod tools doesn't prove that there is political targeting. And in reverse, if you claim that Twitter isn't especially targeting some group, you hopefully aren't basing that claim on a naive "they can't be doing that because they don't have moderation tools".
I few this comment is overly negative. Just to provide a counter-datapoint, I have seen quite a bit of GPT3 on HN lately but could not understand the research papers at all. It’s too abstract, and I often fail to see what they really mean.

This article and the animations definitely helped me a lot in understanding this. I learned quite a few things, so thanks a lot to the author!
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SGX is a tool in the toolbox, but it solves a different problem: isolating a small section of especially privileged code from the rest of a larger, less-trusted application.

The sandbox described in the article is trying to do roughly the opposite: protect the main application from an isolated section of untrusted code.

Also, SGX requires extreme care in deployment due to side-channel attacks, see e.g. https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insigh...

SEV is also interesting, but requires code to run in a separate VM -- which satisfies my requirement above that it at least be in a different process.
Not only is Martin Blais' explanation very helpful, his software, Beancount, is also very suitable for any personal finance projects, especially if you have a background as Developer.

Personally, I combine beancount with fava and find it much better than e.g. GnuCash.
Are you suggesting that Europeans don't care about doing things?!
"GnuCash" was the first thing I looked for when I opened this thread. This application is an absolute godsend and I'm not sure why it's not more popular with developers. It takes some getting used to / setting up, but once you understand how it works it will revolutionize the control you have over your finances.
Howdy from Poland too!

I work in Payments in Tumblr and WordPress.com and it blows my mind how outdated US banking is.
India is outinnovating US in financial markets. World is going to be quite different in 20 years.
> Intel said it is reorganizing its technology, systems architecture and client group. Its new leaders will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan.

This is similar to Apple in 1997, when the CEO was ousted and Jobs stepped in as interim CEO to restructure Apple's product line. Maybe this will be Intel's comeback?
Psychologically not, but staying home is physically way less stressful which possibly makes the difference.
>unless there's some explosion in productivity...

Or if the historical increase in productivity would have benefited the workers instead of the capitalists. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/15558/producti...
Why inter-domain multicast now makes sense
They are expanding internationally - if you can read Polish:
https://www.forbes.pl/biznes/blik-w-zjednoczonych-emiratach-...
It's important to emphasize that this unfairness is only temporary, and it temporarily disadvantages mostly only people who have an advantage by sheer coincidence and not because of their abilities or achievements.

There is a similar issue in the theory of just resource distribution, where it can be shown that a more egalitarian resource distribution can sometimes only be achieved by temporarily allowing transfers that are not Pareto optimal. In other words, to make a society juster in terms of overall resource distribution you might sometimes have to make everyone worse off for some time. (If you don't allow such transfers, you'll be forced to call a society with a Gini index close to 1 "just", which would be absurd.)

On a side note, since that was mentioned by others, there is no such thing as "personal justice". Justice always concerns society as a whole, since it concerns the effects that the actions of members of society have on each other.
I assume working less while still making the same annually would lower suicide rate. One of the main reasons people commit suicide is financial problems. Added free time is never unwanted and can be substituted for whatever the person desires. I personally think we’re burning out the younger generation with all the optimizations that have came with technology but at the same time continuing to expect more from people. I think we’re missing out on what benefits come to society when people are less overworked.
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1. You're saying that anyone who can't afford housing is a leech without any alternative explanation.
2.You straw man. He didn't say we need to give people who don't work houses that are above the private standard.