skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree it was inartful and ultimately counter-productive, it was nonetheless understandable (and quite frankly unremarkable) in the context of the broader zeitgeist. Thankfully we know not to judge people's character on the basis of two tweets.
Lol, yeah, the other thing I try to remind my staff is that the 1:1 is primarily for them, not me. So if they need the time back or have nothing to discuss, unless I have something important, I'm fine if we just cancel (this is especially common when someone takes days off around the weekend... there ain't much to say if there's only been two work days since the last 1:1!)

A 1:1 has a specific purpose. If it becomes a mindless ritual it loses its value.
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Millions of jobs were lost due to Covid, many permanently. This was on top of jobs lost in 2008-2010. Each wave permanently removes a bunch of people from the workforce. Pre-2008 it was easier for the unemployed to rebound and find work even without advanced degrees or advanced skills. Not anymore. So there are a lot of people not contributing, either on disability , living with friends or parents, or on some form of welfare. Yet, in validation of MMT, as evidenced by low inflation, low treasury bonds yields, and the strong dollar, supporting these people is not as economically prohibitive as originally believed. The US economy has surpassed the rest of the world since Covid and since 2008 in spite of a lot of people not contributing. A single Bezos or Musk in terms of econ productivity is equal to millions of low-contributing people. In an ideal world, maybe everyone would contribute, but that is not the world we live in.
Every time someone mentions extended spreadsheets I like to bring up Resolver One. In the mid 00s it was a spreadsheet interface in .Net that generated python modules under the hood running on IronPython. As a side effect you could import sections of one spreadsheet into another spreadsheet, go behind the scenes and edit the Python to connect to a DB or run arbitrary code, generate GUIs using the .Net facilities, etc. I thought it was neat. Unfortunately they never got traction and as far as I know they were aquihired by a financial company that used it internally.
How does an always-broken link, with no commentary make it to the front page of hn?
Bummer in what way? You got the best RISC-V board that will be available this year.
They have been honing the tactics for 100 years now, originally developed to exclude the Jews from WASP Universities.
Hi, Kopia author here.

Yes, Kopia does segregate metadata from data. Directory listings, snapshot manifests and few other minor data pieces are stored in pack files starting with "q" while the bulk of data is stored in pack files starting with "p". Indexes into both kinds of pack files are stored in filenames starting with "n".

This has some interesting properties. For example we can easily cache all metadata files locally, which provides fast directory listing, manifest listing and very fast verification without having to download actual data.
Yes. People who know how to program in matlab and python, but also have to manually open up excel / csv files need this. Loading up excel is slow, writing a python script where you have to search the docs to find the functions you want is slow too. A programmable and fast spreadsheet is needed.
I like this answer. I think it generalizes to a channel-driven approach.

Channel(s) -> Problem -> Product

In addition to SEO, hanging around online forums like Reddit or even HN can work, as long as it's not done in a spammy way.
So better give him some pills and put him back in line with the rest of society. Right.
There is nothing mandatory in life except of course death.
'I was completely inside': Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale
It's interesting how much the problems with blockchain SSO mirror those of blockchain currency. In both cases, the goal is to liberate people from centralized authorities. And in both cases, the advocates seem both to radically miscalculate how much the benefit of that shift accrues to ordinary people versus abusers, and almost completely miss the benefits of central authorities, who have at least some incentive to make recoverability and reversibility accessible to consumers.

I don't doubt that there are things you do to facilitate account recovery on immutable distributed ledgers, but it just seems pretty clear to me that you're working against the design of a blockchain when you do that; the blockchain isn't doing much that centralized systems aren't already doing, and they're doing a lot that gets in the way.

Certainly, I wouldn't want to be the person whose job it was to explain to a SOC2 auditor how my company's Ethereum SSO system works.

I wouldn't stake real money on the value of ETH or BTC; the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent &c &c. But I'd probably make a real bet on blockchain-mediated single signon never achieving significant adoption, for some reasonable definition of "significant".
Yep, I dropped out of school my sophomore year because I was working a job and I was prioritizing a social life I didn’t have in high school. 7 years later and I’m too busy surviving crappy jobs to go back to school, or I think that I would be too busy working to succeed in my coursework.
Of course they do. Social networks bridge the gap between publishing and communication for the public in a way that has been absolutely transformative in many people's lives, and many people do want that and find that useful. People want to chat with and share media with their friends and affinity groups. They want to follow trending or interesting subjects. They want to post cat pictures and memes.
40% of the country doesn’t wear MAGA hats, and didn’t at the peak of that cult, either.

And even if they did, popularity doesn't make you different from the Nazis or the KKK, both of which had fairly high peaks of popularity in their respective geography.
See also Case manufacturing behind the scenes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27155584 - May 2021 (1 comment)

Additional relevant threads:

Flipper Zero: Tamagochi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405919 - March 2021 (48 comments)

Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870255 - Jan 2021 (14 comments)

Show HN: Flipper Zero – Tamagotchi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941733 - April 2020 (10 comments)

Tamagotchi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859083 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Flipper Zero: Under Development Multi-Tool Device for Pen-Testers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842830 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)
> can be inflated by a command or act of will

> not backed by a physical commodity

Aren't these two ways of stating the same monetary property? The reason that fiat currencies can be created by fiat is they aren't backed by anything.

> Commodity-representative/redeemable currencies cam be created at will

No they certainly can not. Not without an actual supply of the commodity. At least not in the case of redeemables. Obviously some 'representative' currencies, like those that Zimbabwe has tried, have ended up turning into fiat.
An underrated comment this.

For those who don't know, the Varna system, also known as the caste system has long been justified as the 'natural order' of a scholar's child being a scholar, a warrior's child being a warrior, a tradesmen child being a tradesman and the lowest class of a menial worker's child being a menial worker.

The fact that so many are willing color the discussion with - observable trends seem to suggest this is a natural fact of life is only elementary is both disgusting and unsurprising.
You didn't answer the question.

How about this: you have a business that sells stuff online and but then a buyer suddenly refuses to give you money in return and says "I don't like money as it has corrupting power. I prefer an alternative means of compensation but can't think of any but it doesn't mean it cannot exist. Since you have a profitable business it's on you to find the alternative payment that I like".

The Brave model is innovative but I don't understand it. They're trying to pay the consumer BAT tokens for consuming. Isn't the consumer the one that needs to pay to consume?
My take is to compare how ads are displayed today, vs maybe 10 years ago. Ads today are almost indistinguishable from organic content, and are typically at the top of any results. I would think that ads could still exist if organic results were still prioritised, and probably that the ads are clearly marked.
I’m 35 and burnt out by working almost nonstop since I was 14… I have something to show for it, but I don’t care anymore and would rather live like your nephews.
I see those as separate. Paying someone to take on risk I see a clear argument for.

Its specifically the "do it this way because insurance wont cover you otherwise" that I'm reacting too, because I think that had caused a lot of damage to society. Effectively nobody is taking on risk under the model insurance companies push - insurance won't let you do anything risky, and won't pay if you do. That's why I say it's a losing proposition to have your behavior dictated by an insurer. (Probably a prisoner's dilemma really, because inevitably some group gives in, then makes to worse for everyone)
The only reason nations get dollarized is because they do not trust the fiat currencies issued by their own government because the government chooses to extract more from seignorage than the benefits of having the currency or the government is not otherwise trusted to not seize bank accounts. Thus they choose to opt out of their local government-run system. That is an effect rather than a cause. Once that happens, a whole host of other problems occur, from breakdown in credit systems and payment systems to underground economies and loss of tax income. Bitcoin solves none of these problems, which are the core problems. Rather, trying to use bitcoins rather than seashells, gold doubloons, or foreign dollars is just an expression of the population's lack of trust in their own government and switching from one of these alt-currencies to another doesn't help the government at all. What would help the government is enforcing rule of law, establishing trust in financial institutions, providing value for amounts taxed so that there is popular support for taxation and trust that the money is well spent, and establishing faith in the government's currency. That is what would help El Salvador, not hoping that the US government makes it easier for foreign nationals to acquire dollar denominated debt.
This ENS thing could be interesting. It makes it possible to have a distributed identity. If only if Ethereum was not overinflated.

As a result, reserving a name on ENS costs 120$ a year. Few people would be ready to pay that to get a username.
As a person who is in this age range and in essentially the opposite position--my disabled mother and college age sister live with me in coastal California--the kind of thing you're describing with the guy who wouldn't come out of the room is bonkers. I know this kind of person exists as an archetype but between your anecdote and the article I'm just baffled at the apparent prevalence.

I guess part of it is the fact that my circumstances didn't even make that lifestyle an option. By my late teen years it was increasingly obvious that I had to go in the kind of direction I did if I wanted my family to have a decent life. If I had a middle class nuclear family, is it likely that I would've tore through CS classes and leetcode as much as I did? I kinda doubt it.
> We can say that people should not be selfish all the time. That will not change a simple fact: people ARE selfish.

People are selfish and generous, angry and compassionate, courageous and scared. None of those things are more fundamental than the other. We are biologically the same as the saints and sinners, as the people who burned witches at the stake and the ones who risked their lives to save others. You can choose the best or worst angels of your nature; we each can.

It's perverse to claim, against all evidence, that we are defined only by the worst in us. To take away our free will and choice. And for what? To provide an argument for a political movement?
I always kind of thought the kernel was, at its core, the thing that handles processes and hardware io. Even if you use one of those tiny micro kernels it has to handle processes and present an api through which to communicate with devices (even if it doesn’t handle the devices itself.) I think it’s true you need a kernel to compile a kernel in this sense.
cool story, but

Every time you use an auto-complete writing tool like TextSpark.ai you are drawing on a vast pool of reading and writing experience equivalent to hundreds if not thousands of years of human life experience. Such tools could allow you to write like no human has ever written before.

maybe im missing something but auto completion is totally different to self-training against a chess ai... one builds your brain muscle, the other could atrophy it
Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)
I don't think we even need to settle for reduction. The US economy as measured by GDP and other metrics has surpassed countries with higher pop growth rates, especially since Covid. It does not matter if the % who makes stuff shrinks if productivity goes up.
Now go look at their doodles for Mother's Day and compare them to Father's Day. Historically, I mean.
1. The whole Sahara + mideast was a lot greener a few thousand years ago due to ice ages et al, not due to soil depletion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period

2. The Euphrates floodplain is still quite green, like the Nile's. It's not like the US midwest where you have thousands of square miles of grass, but you do have a strip of extremely reliably fertile land (and for civilization-building, reliable seasons are super important).
The prior four years were an exercise in the extreme amplification of divisiveness by all sides. I wouldn't blame anyone—on either side—for being momentarily swept up in it.

(To be clear, I'm not claiming equivalence and don't dispute that most of the blame rests with Trump's divisiveness.)
That's why the Tigris/Euphrates was so important. Even to this day, despite recent mucking about with waterflow, there is still a fairly large series of swamplands/marshes in southern Iraq that most people don't imagine when they are asked to describe the geography of Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_Marshes
> What’s the ratio in other fields of top achievement for kids to follow in their parents’ footsteps? It’s entirely unsurprising that academics raise academics, doctors doctors, Olympians Olympians, teachers teachers, etc.

Actually, I suspect that most teachers discourage their children to follow in their footsteps ...

And your points about doctors, olympians, academics, etc. have a common point:

Large, up front expenditure of money.

A child of a steelworker simply isn't becoming a doctor short of a very, very small number of paths (generally involving military service).

A child of a high-school teacher simply isn't becoming an Olympic figure skater. The monetary investment is far too titanic.

Engineering used to be one of the few fields where you could transition from blue collar to white collar even if you were a child from a poor family. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be very true, anymore.
They won't be entering the labor force at 40+. Without some kind of disability benefit that keeps them housed and fed, they'll end up living out of a car or a tent, playing games on a phone they charge by running the engine on the camp Winnebago. Bloomberg will run articles about how cars, tents and gasoline are holding them back from participating in the economy.
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Indeed I can't find in Polish any other singular -anin not derived from place, But słowianin in plural is słowianie, and there's lots of -anie words not derived from places.

For example abstract nouns formed from verbs, like:

pisanie (writing) from pisać (to write)

palenie (smoking) from palić (to burn)

śniadanie (breakfast) from archaic śniadać (to eat)

jedzenie (food) from modern jeść (to eat)

bieganie (running) from biec (to run)

etc. There's easily hundreds of these.

Then it would be

słowianie (abstract noun for people who can talk) from archaic słowić (to express in words)

The only weird thing would be that słowianie is plural and all of the other -anie nouns made from verbs are singular.
I say this as an Asian person: surely black folks getting disproportionately policed and killed is a bigger manifestation of institutional racism, no?
i agree 100% that the conversation is one-sided.
Hm - I think something to consider is who's information it really is that you want removed. Information that I put up isn't Google's to remove, but if I want to do that, should I have the right? Especially if it's actively harmful to me and benefits nobody (see previous mentions of non-consensual sharing of explicit images), shouldn't I have control over it? If I am wholly responsible for the existence of some unique content, or it was created against my wishes, I think it's within right to control it (to the extent that practicality allows).

For clarity: this shouldn't apply to information that a corporation produces, because corporations aren't people and shouldn't have the same freedoms. Open source is still good, and controlling information that you discover, not that you invent, is unreasonable.

Overall, my issue is less with control over information (because if you believe all control is bad, then you have to say that revenge porn isn't too big an issue, and that's not a position I'm personally willing to take) and more capital's control over information because of all the cases when capital is misaligned with the interests of the people who need it. All of these cases feel like they define technology. Lots of the history of technology can be understood as large companies (bourgeoisie) trying to keep information hidden fighting a decreasing population of 'hackers' (the proletariat), and that fight's legacy is found here, on Google's hidden page gatekeeping what should be known.
From everything I’ve read the Middle East used to be a kind of paradise. Maybe not as lush as Central Europe or Southern Asia but it was not as arid as it is now. The common reason is that early agriculture was not efficient, or understood, and sometime in the Bronze Age an equivalent of the Great Dust Bowl occurred as Early societies basically salted the Earth they depended on (completely on accident.)

Also certain places, e.g, Israel, were actual forests just 10-12,000 years ago.
A lot of SSI is about delegating Sybil-resistance. Websites use Google or Facebook sign-on not just because it's more convenient for users, but also because signing up many accounts on these services is a bore, thus managing spam.

If the sign-up process was as difficult for the small services as it is with Google or Facebook, users would give up. But users already have Google/FB accounts or know it's worth it to have one, so they don't mind the process for Google/FB.

For now, there's no accepted standard identity mechanism attaching to ETH wallets. It's not a trivial problem either. If while reading this you just had some idea how to quickly solve it, chances are someone had it before and it's vulnerable to either centralized control or user abuse. ENS might work at deterring spam but it's way too restrictive for now.
So from living to surviving. Its nice to live in your society.
It's not disparaging to say that the best RISC-V chips are now similar to Pentium in microarchitecture. Those (and PowerPC 601/603) were great chips in their time.

The current RISC-V chips are using modern process nodes and running at 10x higher clock speeds and the HiFive Unmatched board has modern peripherals such as 16 GB DDR4 RAM, M.2 SSD, current PCIe graphics card, gig ethernet etc.

So it's a far better computer than any Pentium 133 or something like that. Just similar microarchitecture.

Intel is still today basically using the 1995 Pentium Pro microarchitecture, with a few tweaks. The equivalent of that is already announced in RISC-V land, just not shipping until probably next year.
The article actually addresses this in the final sentence:

“Nearly half of prime age men who are not in the labor force take pain medication on any given day; and in nearly two-thirds of these cases, they take prescription pain medication.”

I think more prominent than the soybeans/BPA/microplastics kind of causes is just plain old opioid dependence.
Some pretty interesting past HN comments at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
It’s pretty unlikely that a hacker would be able to run write/delete operations on a source control server with a regular employee’s credentials. And even if they did, there are probably enough copies floating around that they wouldn’t really need to pay a ransom for it.
I’m curious if this or other tools can help me with the following use case:
I have a Synology network attached storage.

What I want is a way for me to incrementally back up to Synology when I’m on my local network/VPN, while Synology maintains an encrypted cloud backup of my stuff.
Alternatively when I’m outside of my network travelling, my laptop is backing up directly to the cloud with a way to sync that up with Synology.

In other words, I want to have a synchronized local and offline backup that works seamlessly whether I’m on my network or outside of it.

Is that a reasonable expectation?
Does a tool like that exist?
What about the scifi trope of robots making things? After all the productivity of a single human has been skyrocketing for more than a century now. I do not which -ism that is. Somewhere between socialism and startrekism I guess.
What avenues would they have to realize their potential? College is obscenely expensive, a degree from a community college is afaik useless, rent prices are bonkers, and the job market for those without a degree is wage slavery.