skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some good lessons and reminders here, not least to practice self care and mindfulness and to remember that "as much as you might love your work, work won’t love you back." Taking the focus off Osaka specifically though, ambition for some, including myself, isn't a dirty word. When I think of ambition i think of pursuing meaningful work, setting goals that force me to grow, etc. It's our society's emphasis on achieving success and earning more at all cost that's the real problem. Careerism is a trap and the pressure is real but it's not the same thing as ambition, even professional ambition.
Why do you believe that maximizing USG revenue is a net societal benefit?
It's not the actions that we need to address, just the number of people doing them?
Sounds like a classic hype cycle to me, however without the stabilization of effective large scale adoption.
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27422449
This doesn't help a lot if you have a neighbor WLAN in reach.
They would just used that one to locate you.
Sounds familiar.

"OK, some of you experienced druggies are going to get a chuckle from this. This is a description of my first trip. I grew up in a real conservative environment. I always wanted to hallucinate but I was real scared of LSD. After all, it causes chromosome damage and a lot of the people that trip on it either jump out of windows or end up in a permanent psychosis. Some of the lucky ones that make it through the trip ok suffer from uncontrollable flash backs
for the rest of their life. Pretty scary stuff.

I never was around people that used psychedelics much. The few times I had the opportunity, I was unable to find out enough about the source and quality to put my ignorant self at ease. It seemed like I was never going to get to have a psychedelic experience.

Well, I was surfing the net one day and decided to test the reach of information contained on it. I was trying one exotic topic after another in Yahoo. I was amazed at the knowledge contained on the net.

I decided to push it to the limit. I asked about psilocybin. To my amazement, a few indexes to documents came back. I quickly down loaded them and started studying them. I was astonished to find out that the spores for Psilocybe mushrooms could be mail ordered because the spores did not contain any controlled substances. And best of all, there was no overdose for psilocybin."

From the Magic Mushroom Growers' Guide: https://catbull.com/alamut/Bibliothek/Growguide.english/Mmgg...
Or if you are really really cynic: It's like one of those knock-off consoles that your tech-oblivious grandparents would get you, that comes preloaded with a bunch of no-name games of questionable quality, only with a bright coat of color and a cool marketing page!
I meant specifically for my tile-laying turn-based board game, but those are good general ideas, thanks!
The US has pretty good Social Mobility as well, it is complete myth that the "rich" in the US is stagnate, most of the Billionaires in the US are 1st Generation Billionaires, this highlights there are income and social mobility.

As a personal anecdote, I am many times better of income and wealth wise than my parents even though we have the same education level and seemingly the same income opportunities, yet I have made better choices with my finances (learning from their [bad] example). My sibling is the same. One of my parents has zero retirement savings and will live off SocSec (likely with the assistance of me and my sibling). My other parent has slightly more savings but not by much and has lots of debt, both are within 5 years of SocSec retirement Age
I agree with the sentiments about mob rule on social media being extremely negative.

The thing that always amuses me about any sites with ratings is that most people (the site owners, the reviewees, the reviewers) often assume that everyone has the same barometer for 1-5 stars. That's very likely not the case.

Take Goodreads as an example. My Personal barometer is

* 5 star = I would re-read this multiples because it was so interesting/engaging/life changing.

* 4 star = I really liked this book. I probably wouldn't re-read it but it was memorable.

* 3 star = Pretty good book.

* 2 star = Book had some flaws or it didn't appeal to me for specific reasons. I didn't like it.

* 1 star = I did not like this book at all, and I would tell people not to read it.

I think there are probably a lot of people that disagree with my barometer :) Maybe their 5 star is anything "pretty good" or above, and their 1 star is "this author should be banned from authorship, that's how much I disliked this book."

Curious to see what other folks' barometers are.
A strong benefit of seasteading is that a small group of people can pick and choose which things they want to be legal. For example, you cite a couple things which are legal in Germany, but homeschooling isn't legal there, nor is vacuuming on Sunday.
"Sure nobody asks for my grades now that I’ve been out of college for a while, but they still look at where I went to college.."

How do you know that? Do they mention it? I'm really curious on this one.

Other than the rare alum, I haven't had anyone comment on my undergrad more than a year or two out of it. Recent jobs and projects make up the vast majority of any conversation.
> If we're going to have Medicare and private insurance companies pay $56K/year per patient for a drug that may not have positive effects that outweigh the risk of side effects, that's a major problem.

Hmm, what if we added a new phase where it's approved but can only be sold at a low, regulated price? Then if/when it is proven effective, they can transition to charging more.

Without getting into whether it's actually a good idea, in theory the high prices are meant to be a reward that makes it worthwhile to invest in drug development. Delaying the reward would still allow that incentive but keep it tied to actually creating drugs that work while still allowing patients earlier access.
It is data massaged to create a synthetic representation with a "color" chosen by scientists who then spread around the word its a photo. Even the president of the Max Planck institute one of the most respected German institutions called it a picture. Did you notice it was made with radio telescopes ? Do they take pictures ?

If I take radar measurements of big asteroid coming close to earth and you represent its elevations and valleys
do you call it a picture ?

They even choose the colors....
I plan to download the data make a new "picture"
with a bright green orange and wait for them to tell me
why the color in my "picture" is incorrect...
> With bare eyes I see them, but diffuse. With polarized sunglasses I can see every single one of them, their movement in the wind, and even their structure. Similar boost for seeing waves on the river.

This is eerily similar to what I have experienced. I seem to notice the color of flowers, movement of the leaves whilst wearing polarized sunglasses and some infusion of THC.
The first 14:30 of that video has no audio and basically B-roll footage. I'm sure a lot of people wont watch the whole thing and miss the actual conference.
Thanks for your enthusiasm for my answer. :-)

The arbitrarily parameterized instances part is really important. In Bitcoin this is done by feeding prior blocks as input into the hash and then getting the hash to match the adjustable difficulty value, so you can generate new problems automatically based on the history.

The Stack Exchange answer that someone linked to here mentions this issue by saying that, if you just had a generic and deterministic useful problem, people could precompute solutions to relevant instances of it, which would amount to premining on the blockchain.

The "doing work to verify transactions" aspect comes in when you can make the problem instances actually encode a specific version of history. It's not obvious how to do that where each and every instance would be of intrinsic interest or value to someone.

Maybe there's some kind of physical simulation where this could be the case (like, each individual hash represents a particular randomly chosen chemical from a very, very large family of chemicals whose properties are being explored by simulation in some way, or something), but I'm still not sure how you could then make a successful result be easier for other people to verify without repeating the same amount of work. (I'm not familiar with a technique for proving, in an easily-checkable way, that the result of a complex physical simulation was such-and-such.)
That's an argument for a tax on those assets then. Corporate taxes for stocks, property taxes for real estate, etc.
I don't think anyone is arguing to tax any unrealized gains except the exceptionally wealthy? Like can you argue that someone worth over 100mm would be hurt by say 1% annually?

I can see an argument for executive controlled corps, like Zuckerberg wants to maintain control of a company. But it seems like there are many ways Zuck for instance could avoid losing his voting power or restructure some even odder special share class so it doesn't matter.

If he doesn't want to pay cash maybe even allow treasury to hold this 1% as stock and pass the voting power back to the owner.

Opens a HUGE can of worms in many ways (hold, sell, incentives to increase value can be bad for the rest of us).

But I like the fundamental concept of adding back benefit for OUR gov for all we do to help.

if the rest of us taxpayers are giving huge support to the market and corporations like QE, stimi, loose regulation/tax law, trade wars, whatever, we should also get some of the gains to fund services or lower taxes on the other 50 or even 99%.
We're designing the system, so I think we can choose what makes the most sense. I think regardless of whether or not you have taken out a loan (collateralized or not), you would still need to declare a value right away.

In a case where you have a collateralized loan to purchase the asset, I imagine the lender could require the value you set to be at least the value left on the loan. (But the lender probably shouldn't be allowed to set the value beyond that stipulation.)

I also want to say that I definitely do not have all the answers for all the possible policy issues that might or will come up. I enjoy trying to think them through, so the first attempt might have problems and the cycle of finding those problems and fixing them will eventually lead to something that hopefully works well.
This is fine. I will try being more thoughtful next time.
> Who is this built for?

I don't know, but it seems buying a standard console would get you more games and less e-waste.
Your first sentence is correct. I'm quite happy using it the way I use it and don't hit any really sharp edges.

Thanks for the link, I remember when Hooks came out but I didn't feel the need to adopt them, I'll take a look again.
> The former is something that only benefits the wealthy person. The latter is something that already benefits society.

Even a rich person's consumption "benefits society"* by stimulating the economy. Their spending is someone else's salary or profit margin.

*Leaving aside that most consumption is a negative for the environment.
It's definitely a problem area that's currently tricky to tackle properly for all but the largest of teams/orgs. Building in-house is often a luxury, and one which requires a big investment not just up front but into the future with upkeep and support. Of course it's nice to have a custom solution, but we've been working hard to make Runway flexible and able to adapt to every team's specific workflows and processes.

PS - thanks for the kind words - we're big fans of the book! Maybe you can squeeze us into a second edition? :)
Agreeed. I really enjoyed the talk with the `curl` creator
A simpler solution is to get rid of the approval process and let people operate their own bodies how they personally choose.
I guess my question then is: assume for a second Amjad has a legitimate grievance that Riju copied repl.it. (I hoped my comment would show that this is at least not a completely outlandish claim.) In that hypothetical scenario:

Sure, Amjad should apologize, and he did. Shouldn't Radon apologize? Why is this a completely one-sided thing? Why is Radon allowed to be like, I don't think I did anything wrong, and I'm disappointed by Amjad's behavior, but Amjad isn't? In this hypothetical, they both did something wrong, shouldn't there be a mutual apology?
I am with you. React as originally designed made sense to me. You render the screen point-in-time and React takes care of updating the screen efficiently. This is all I need from React. Everything else is bloat.
> sub millionaires erroneously believe they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires

This is fucking spot on.
I'm convinced he biggest benefit to colonizing Mars if we have the technology is that there won't be as many people there. If you can make Mars livable you can make anywhere on Earth livable even post climate crisis. The real thing that goes away is there won't be 7ish billion other people who also want to keep living trying to copy the tech and competing for those resources.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27439301.

It's very important to understand that this story was at #1 all day yesterday, in contradiction to HN's normal rules. That is, we bent over backwards to allow this story to have much more attention on HN than it would have gotten in a normal case. That's why it got 4000 upvotes and 1300+ comments and was the #1 story the entire day (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-06-07).

Why did we do that? Because we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is the story: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... That is literally the first principle of HN moderation, and we stick to it strictly.

Less moderation does not mean no moderation, however. It does not serve the community, or the quality of HN, to repeat the same thing all over again the next day. Downweighting follow-ups in order to avoid repetition, is another bedrock principle of HN moderation; otherwise the front page would be dominated by the same few stories every day. There are lots of past explanations about that at these links:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
"Within five minutes of this decision I became distracted by my phone and started scrolling through twitter. One of the trending topics was "Lauren Hough, Goodreads" and since I was determined to procrastinate on my literary endeavours for as long as possible (what's another five minutes on a five year record?), I decided to have a look. "

It sounds like Hough knows how to whip up some social media outrage to generate free press. The author of this piece would never have heard about Hough or her book were it not for a little incendiary language lighting a giant signal fire of hate on the endless pile of fuel that is twitter. The author of this post literally let social media select a book for him/her to read. If you go on to read Hough's book because of this post on HN, you can join the club!

It does make you wonder how many awesome books will go completely ignored over the next decade because their authors didn't know how or weren't willing to ride the social media hate wave.
Being into scientology.
Nope, no affiliation or connection at all. Just me being the average HN user posting something interesting I found :-) I have questions myself, especially how they haven't shut them down due to copyright issues.
They addressed the SDK availability here - https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1400849495198289920?s=19

Basically, they don't have resources yet to open it up and support it enough for people to have good experience with it.
I upvoted this because its an amazing example of a project achieving the exact opposite of what it aims to do (bring money/views to positive climate change). Remarkably, these are professors at NYU and UT Austin.
1. You don't have to sell the stock -- one could fund an ultra-wealthy lifestyle by renting expensive things, using stock as collateral. As your stock goes up in value, so does the value of things you have access to.
> Mars colonies will likely still be reliant upon Earth for survival for a hundred years to come as they will not have adequate resources, support, or manufacturing capabilities for self-sustenance let alone growth.

It'll take a hundred years after we start for the asteroid survival argument to be valid. A hundred years is too long, so let's never start.
Wait, I thought the first 250-500K home sale profit was not capital gain taxed in the US?

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/capitalgainhomes...
I really wish I hadn’t bothered studying electrical engineering at a mid-tier school. There’s zero EE jobs available for that kind of graduate. You just can’t get recruiters to look at your application. Half of my graduating class is stuck doing self-taught DBA work for the local bank, telephone pole, or health insurance company. It’s so frustrating.
Thanks for the best laughs in a while friend - that's pure irony right there!
Exercising stock options is a unique case. If I as an employer give you $10m worth of stock (through grants or options), you have something akin to an "income" of $10m on the receipt of that stock. (For the record I disagree with taxing stock grants/options until they're realized and the proceeds can be used to pay the accompanying tax burden.)

If I give you $1 worth of stock and it appreciates to $10m, you have capital gains that will be taxed when you realize those gains.
Turning gas into heat is very efficient. Turning gas into electricity and then into heat is not. Winter heating with renewables is problematic. You need to meet very strict insulation standards for it to be viable.
It is a bogus valuation... as it is not market based. If you can't sell the stock, and nobody wants to buy it, (yes, there are startups that are in this position), then that valuation is mostly wishful thinking.
Often the valuation undervalues the company as well, but that's another story.
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It is not clear whether you would spend more time on administration with another webserver. I don't have experience with your webserver, but mine are 'set it' and 'forget it' affairs.
I think you're having this reaction because of the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. [Nintendo's marketing for the Game Boy focused on the form and function of the device as much as its games](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-ej_8XBwmI). Believe it or not at some point the Game Boy's looks were considered fashionable!
Hurts the 99% far more. 5% when you can barely afford food makes a difference, not so much on your newest mega yacht.
Just imagine Income Tax + Sales Tax... get taxed on what you earn, then taxed again when you go to spend it!

This is a clever way to reduce purchasing power without making it seem as bad, ie. nobody really considers the tax on a new car purchase until they're signing the final paperwork... or even on a new T-Shirt. Depending where yo live, this sales tax is non-trivial too, sometimes up to 10%+.
I am so sick of these answers. I am tired of changing the formatting. So. Freaking. Tired.

I never, EVER, want to see another number in scientific notation unless I tell it too.
It looks lilke Ruby but it's actually PulpScript, and it looks like they made it for this.
A lot of libertarian paradise pitches wind up looking a lot like a company town yeah.
Most likely Lua. The developer page says the SDK supports Lua and C.
You can send suggestions to hn@ycombinator.com

I'm aware that there are several enhancements to comments display and especially large-thread display, in the works. Yesterday's load-induced outages were probably related to this.

More graceful presentation of large threads is something HN could improve. It's a hard-ish problem, though there've been some elegant solutions elsewhere.

Kuro5hin progressively auto-collapsed threads as size increased. K5 itself is dead, though the Scoop CMS it ran on still has a site up and the behaviour can be seen here: http://www.scoopdev.org/main (Go to a discussion, toggle the display mode between Threaded, Nested, Minimal, Flat, Flat Unthreaded, at the bottom of the page, JS required.)

On Reddit, the default UI accepts a "?depth=<count>" argument, which can make large threads more readable. Reddit Enhancement Suite has a "hide all child comments" feature.

(I've forwarded your suggestion BTW.)
Two things about React will never stop being funny to me,

1. An entire generation of front end developers have staked their careers on a framework developed by Facebook. Facebook!

2. The hooks API. I honestly thought this was a joke when I first saw it. Developers will talk about the elegance of functional components then go and use the hooks API.
I had the same question...perhaps it has to do with the length of the videoclip.
Big discussion, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27430508
This is outrageously favorable to the uber-wealthy (and anyone who is an order of magnitude more wealthy than you.)

Piss someone off? Maybe they'll just come in and buy your house. Cherished one of a kind item? Jeff Bezos likes it, so it's his now. Property developer wants to build something on your land? Get ready to move, no questions asked.
Very good point! I thought the same thing about the original comment, but you actually analyze the entire thing improved why it is incorrect. Thank you!
Nitrous was action.io before that but it was like 2012, the company I confounded Codeanywhere, which was originally named PHPanywhere started in 2008.

Just some Cloud IDE history
> Apple says that all current content on iTunes U will stay up “through the 2020-2021 educational year" […]

That's ending any day, no?
How does the imposition of obligations to "society" through an involuntary social contract differ from slavery itself? Honest question. Is it just a matter of degrees? Does the will of the people entitle the government to enslave us in some limited capacity?

If you have a master who can tell you what to do, compel your cooperation with the threat of violence, and from whom you have no legitimate recourse, are you free? Does it matter if that master is elected or not?

I'm not saying that I'm "right". I'm simply saying no one is, and that words like "right" and "good" are human constructs, not factual observations. They vary from person to person, community to community and culture to culture. Given that we are all equal as people, it seems to follow that no one has the right to impose their ideas of "right" or "good" onto someone else, regardless of whether the imposition is democratic or authoritarian.

> There is only Steve, Jamel, Selena and 332 million other siloed ego-states; a confederacy of individuals for whom freedom, safety and the ability to flourish are zero-sum competitions.

This seems to be an accurate description of the real situation though, doesn't it? We're not ants. People fundamentally disagree on basic things. We lack an oracle to mediate these disagreements. One side forcing the other's cooperation is morally untenable. And a confederacy of individuals does not equate to freedom, safety and flourishing being zero-sum. Voluntary cooperation has and continues to achieve great things, why not let it be?

Regarding meritocracy, what does one look like in your mind? What happens to individuals who lack merit in a meritocracy?