skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a slow motion tragedy.

From an environmental perspective, this kind of minimalist lifestyle actually seems quite healthy. They don't drive, and I assume they don't fly or buy a lot of stuff, so their carbon and other resource footprint is small. They don't take up much extra space, so they reduce suburban sprawl and land required for housing. They probably won't have kids, which further reduces their environmental impact. Maybe we should encourage more people to live this way.
Dang, only $250k for 1400 sqft? That would easily be $1.25M+ here.
Has it not occurred to you that it's precisely the modern economic knowledge, technology and techniques that have driven us away from gold backed dollars or trying to fix the money supply (and float the interest rate or crash the banks)? I mean, macroeconomists have spent the majority of the last century proposing and carrying out natural experiments on different monetary policies: if they've moved from being almost universally in favour of the Gold Standard to almost universally against it, that's not evidence that what we've actually learned is how to make a Gold Standard work.

And no, our post-gold standard economic crises have not been proportionally more devastating than the Great Depression, or taken as long to rectify as the Long Depression, and I don't long for that kind of "stability"
He said, in a time of record unemployment and low wages that are impossible to live off of. Almost like there are other factors at play here than just men being lazy.
HN loves to forget that not everybody can be a FAANG employee or has the desire to sit in front of a computer writing code their whole lives.
Not going to get much of a retirement if he never paid into social security.
Wouldn't the cookie then be invalidated if you e.g. switched between WiFi and cellular on mobile?
If you’re over 2000 employees, there’s little excuse for not requiring a badge scan to queue for all IT desk interactions. That scan should display name and photo to both desk workers and on a ‘now helping’ screen others can see.

It’s not foolproof, but it’s incredibly difficult to prevent tailgating because people don’t want to start an incident by incorrectly challenging a coworker. I’ve heard of it somehow happening even with card turnstiles, double door scans and required photo confirm by lobby security.
And now as I connect between ipv4 to v6, connect to my VPN, switch from wifi to mobile data each change requires a login and I very quickly abandon your app for one that doesn’t force multiple authentications throughout the day.
Perhaps even more powerful would be spreadsheets + Prolog. Since Prolog's main strength is finding answers for you, I imagine putting that on grid would have very interesting results.
But those are not important metrics for a legal tender currency. Bitcoin is a fine deflationary asset but a very bad currency.
Yes any feature as far as I'm aware can have a start date and end date so can show the changes over time. As can be seen in London (https://www.openhistoricalmap.org/#map=16/51.5108/-0.1086&la...) where the shape of the river changed when the Embankment was built in 1869. As far as I'm aware there is no reason why changing coastlines couldn't be mapped, though it is a lot of work to draw in a long length of coastline.
Videogames provide fake achievement and an easy thing to do to occupy you - I think some people are more vulnerable to this kind of thing than others. For me, the fake achievement feels fake and I don't get much satisfaction out of it - but for others I think it mimics real achievement enough that they can pour hours into it.

Online dating sucks for most men - if you're not in the top 2% of attractiveness for men it is a waste of your time (especially in skewed markets like the bay area), you're better off going places to meet people in person and working on your social skills that way (I think your friend is right).
I guess I'm thinking more about a "decentralized Google" where it's impossible to remove things like revenge porn. Is there anything we can/should do about that potential?
Aren't mugshots public records?
> Part of this problem is our societal failure to build enough housing to keep up with the increasing number of people.

The issue is human overpopulation, not our society’s “failure” to destroy the fabric of closely knit communities.

Humans are by far the least efficient life form on this planet, and what little enjoyment most humans get out of life mostly comes down to the integrity of their local communities: their safety, their health, their prosperity. Yet we’ve become so hyperfocused on economic growth that we’ve turned our larger society into a malignant tumor unto Earth, while ironically an increasingly high proportion of humans lead unhappy, unfulfilled lives.

Why do so many people just accept the answer is more growth? Until we can master interstellar travel, we have to contend with finite physical resources.
There may be some aspects of online dating that are properly described as "viscous", but I think the cycle you're referring to is vicious :)
"cannabis" and "hemp"

https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/107526
My guess is that a large part of it is social. In STEM you don't have to be as personable to succeed. I'm perfectly capable of bringing a face, but even though I'm an extrovert god damn is it exhausting. Thankfully, working in stem I don't have to, so I don't, and I save my energy for non-work socialization.
Care to share an example of someone better?
In a parking spot, I never turn the steering wheel without the car moving forward or backwards. It's bad for the tires. But what drove the lesson home for me (pardon the pun) is when I drove a rental car with no power steering, sometime in 1990 in Europe.

If the car is not moving, and you try to turn the wheels with no power steering, you feel massive resistance from the road-rubber interface. When you let the car move this way or that, even just a little bit, that resistance dramatically eases.

To hell with power steering; what's it good for?

Power steering and brakes are dangerous because they are powered from the engine. In an emergency situation, exactly when you need the controls to respond in the expected way, your engine may die. Suddenly, you have no braking power, and the steering is all weird.
PC gaming alone uses the same amount, there are many useless activities (well the both provide entertainment) that could be stopped if you want lower energy usage for the world.
Ban gaming and obviously ban fashions since that is close to catastrophic catastrophe regarding greenhouse gasses.
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Video game addiction is a real problem. I spent my freshman year of college rooming with man-children who played video games non-stop. They didn't explore the city, they didn't meet new people, they just played video games in the dark, screaming into their headsets and eating their takeout at their desk. People can certainly have a healthy, fruitful relationship to video games but since then I haven't felt the need to touch a game.
Variation on a theme. Make my comment <50 and you're down to 20k deaths.
Direct your attention inwards. Repeat to yourself that everything is fine. Distract yourself with something silly like trying to visualize popcorn or s'mores. It can be done.
Not sure why you think there would be a link between the two.
> Maybe we should encourage more people to live this way.

Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. Life is meant to be lived; the purpose of life is at least eudaimonia, not slowly rotting away in front of a computer.
I think people carry a LOT more resting tension then they're ever aware of. Sitting at my keyboard, doing my thing for an hour or two, the building's not on fire just ordinary coding... If I stop and ask "am I tense, what do I feel right now?", in many, many cases I find my shoulders are almost clenched.

Keeping my feet flat on the ground, continually checking my shoulder tension, adjusting my ergo so that I don't continually feel an urge to lean forward, and having a chair with fantastic lumbar support have made a huge difference.
Agrarian societies had cyclic work. Some societies could be especially arduous, but the most successful and populated areas weren't. For large chunks at a time throughout the year the farming population didn't have more than daily chores and personal projects. But of course during planting and harvesting they would work their asses off. A lot of the rest of the time was personal preference. You could make your house bigger, or you could make beer to drink, you could make crafts for fun and sell a couple, or you could just dick around.

You can see the large amount of extra time available in old religious and cultural holidays which were both numerous and often spanned many days or a week or more at a time. Huge chunks of time of the year that many modern workers wouldn't be allowed leave from work nor afford if they could.

You can also see Egyptian pyramid construction which is now thought to have been mostly (but certainly not exclusively) volunteer farm workers in the off season in exchange for booze and "luxury" services like studied dentistry services that otherwise didn't exist in most of the rest of the world yet. If they wanted they could just live off their own share of crops and dick around most of the year though. Working on the pyramids was a bonus, not a requirement, and their scale proves how many free man hours they had to "waste" on stuff like building giant stone mounds and carvings and art and other religious practices. Their success is marked by how many excess man hours people had to dick around with.
> Calling them all "Black" is just reductionist and frankly racist.

When Black activists talk about Black with a capital “B”, they are referring to a shared identity group, not a skin color. Now, its true that the name of the identity group has origin in other people's description based on skin color, but that’s history, not meaning.
Documentation is for yourself in 2 years.
There’s a movement towards curtailing disability fraud so he might have a problem in between.
Personally I'm not convinced the rewards outweigh the risks in regards to encryption, at least not at this moment in time. But again, I'd much rather issues like these were debated democratically than some tech company deciding one day that they need to view my private messages to "protect the children".

But to your point, if the sharing of child porn or other illegal content ever got so bad that something urgently needed to be done I would personally be open to limiting the use E2EE (if there truly was no better option) and I'd assume most people here would agree, although I would argue in many cases it's E2EE that prevents you from becoming a victim of things like revenge porn in the first place.
Well, in a very hot labour market in a big city, you will actually have to pay more for workers if you're far enough that people can't take transit conveniently. That means they have to buy a car, and drive it every day, so why take the job paying effectively less? In a sense, the market already is accounting for things like the cost of gas, somewhat. It'll be true for WFH as well.

Other than that, in general, previous wages were negotiated with the old work-in-the-office dynamic. Now that the terms have changed considerably, it seems only natural to ensure one isn't getting the short end of the stick under the new contract. At the very least run the numbers and make sure you break even?
Yeah, IDK. I won't be there see it.
> If the company in your example can be contacted to overturn ownership, essentially degenerating the immutability and irreversibility of the ledger to levels comparable of existing solutions, then what is the actual advantage of this not only inefficient, but inefficient by design method of bookkeeping?

Currently when you buy a house, you have to go through a decent amount of effort both in time and money to essentially determine "who owns this house, and are there any liens on it". By using tokenized ownership, you can get rid of this part. Yes, it's not ideal that someone can override the ownership, but it's setup in a way that requires extensive effort and documentation to do.

Ideally the party that could overturn ownership wouldn't be a company, but instead would be an elected, large group of people that determined this. And maybe there could be a way to opt out or select an alternate override?

The point is that this system can be a ton more efficient, enable additional abilities (fractional ownership, instant, extremely low fee loans, etc), all things that the existing system does not allow. Yes, allowing ownership overriding isn't ideal, but I don't think allowing a group to override ownership in a transparent way completely negates all benefits of a system like this.

> I find it hard to reconcile "99.9% of transfers very cheap" with the property that at least proof-of-work and proof-of-space actively rely on literally counteracting any effort at becoming more efficient.

Ethereum will be moving to proof of stake in a year or 2 (> $10B are locked up until this occurs, so I am very confident it will happen).
> Most modern rdbms/nosql database vendors

"Modern" = "not a traditional RDBMS". Expecting your 1983 Toyota Corolla to fly, regardless of the fact that it's now 2021, is unrealistic. But personal helicopters have been around for a while.
There are other possibilities between poorly executing a bespoke cryptocurrency and using bitcoin even though it's not a good currency. There are options that already exist which have low volatility, low transaction costs, and don't require injecting more and more energy for security. If those options don't seem mature enough (they do to me, but I dunno, maybe they're not), then a good option would be to wait.
Unemployment is actually at a ten-year average at the moment, and entry-level wages are growing.
I worked as a video game tester briefly while working my way through college (Mattel Intellivision).

It permanently destroyed my interest in video games, along with the fake rewards it offers.
There's also an obvious selection bias - the matches may be sending low quality messages, but if women are largely selecting only the top 2% of good looking men they're skewing these results themselves. The 'better' men never get to the messaging stage at all.

I'm happy to be out of the game, but online dating is bleak for 98% of men.

Okcupid used to have great data on this before they sold out, a lot of it ended up in this book:https://www.amazon.com/Dataclysm-Identity-What-Online-Offlin...

The data in that book corroborates a lot of this. We're not that different from gorillas - sexual selection is tough and most of the discussion around it ranges from wrong to dishonest.
Could you expand on that a bit? Why did the fixed ratio hurt farmers (or anyone who had to borrow)? Or, how would a float between silver and gold have helped them?

It's not like a bank is going to lend you gold dollars and accept being paid back in silver dollars (or vice versa) if the ratio between them isn't fixed...

[Edit: Never mind, ffggvv answered this question below.]
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Fuck it, I kill Gods in my spare time and desecrate their remains, no matter their political leanings.
It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel
This doesn't really take into consideration that a lot of businesses/teams within orgs had to quickly pivot strategies due to market conditions. Scrapping plans and shifting priorities last minute, a.k.a. thrash, comes at a cost. So yes it's not totally surprising that people had to work more hours to accomplish a similar output
Oh did you say just TWO ?

Nah. I created a Microsoft account with my work mail adress. Then a Windows 10 account with this stupid installer. So I did get two accounts.

But that was before my employer decided to create « corporate » Microsoft accounts for everyone.

That’s 3 accounts. With the same mail address. Now I just avoid to log in with those accounts because I don’t even understand how it even works.
Doesn't always work, video games are probably the cheapest addicting entertainment out there. Doesn't take much income to just survive and play video games all day long.
Yes, and it's mind-boggling:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56579449
When I want to wake up, I direct my attention outward and take a deep breath. That will fully wake you up. Don't panic. If you do, remind yourself that you are safely laying on your bed and try again with an open curious mind.
An extra bedroom for a home office in NYC is a significant cost. For a median priced apartment in Brooklyn that will easily be $15-20K extra a year.

For people in cheaper cities it might be less of a burden.
The US is not in record unemployment. Not in either direction.
To be clear, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm more just trying to provide context for how it came to be. The environmental regulations the US operates under were mostly passed during the Cold War. We've had no significant environmental regulation since. Maybe we should have some... but we haven't.
Electricity can kill you. Doesn't seem like a good comparison.
I've seen those arguments against free college (what if people get a useless degree in literature!). I think it's bogus.

I want to live in a society of thoughtful intelligent people. I pretty much don't care what you study. I don't care if it has immediate industrial impact like STEM. Higher education is tied to all sorts of benefits, including lower crime rate, better health outcomes...

I think if someone wants to attend college, and they've got the aptitude, then I want that person to do it. I don't want them prevented from learning because of cost.
Already had EOL announced

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/05/microsoft-IE11-retired-ju...
This is great! I hope we can slowly stop referring to people using these crude reductions.

I remember arguing with a classmate when I was a child, arguing that I wasn't "Black". I wasn't necessarily offended by the term... more confused and disappointed that they didn't see me as I saw myself. If they spent just a couple seconds looking closely, they'd see that hardly anyone is actually black or white.
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This is exactly what we do. It is like having a locally run staging environment, and is really great. Can exactly test things like http server configuration, cron jobs, multiple nodes (vagrant vms) coordinating with each other, etc.
Then call it what it is, "Working from home while homeschooling during a pandemic, compared with normal office work: Evidence from the trenches."
I think this is probably the best solution. But what activities do you recommend? Compared to a couple generations ago it seems like it's harder to find good casual activities that appeal to both sexes as a default meeting ground.
And "fancy" still retains some links to "fantastic" and "fantasy", as in "fancy dress" or "flight of fancy".
X correlates with Y & Y correlates with Z doesn't imply X correlates with Z.
One place to search https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/.

Disclaimer: not familiar with US medical industry or incentives schemes for docs
Once you have a lisp, implementing microKanren is straight-forward. Just as the lisp and you get the Prolog for free!
Looks like you're being downvoted for suggesting video game addiction, but I think it's a huge part of it. I refer to it as 'digital drugs'. They're definitely addicted. Even on rare occasions when they show up to family gatherings they've got their face glued to their portable games and rarely speak.

Of course, the parents played a part in enabling this. Their mom (my sis) will often suggest I buy them video games for their birthday/Christmas but I refuse to do that. What they need is a kick in the ass to get them outside.
On a slightly unrelated but nevertheless interesting issue: a while back I wanted to find an “incel” board to see how discourse thereon actually was, and Google returned no direct results to any of them but DuckDuckGo immediately returned the results one might expect when searching “incel forum”.
As someone who is into programming and lisps, I would prefer a declarative language (a la SQL and the relational model) which is just simply superior at manipulating data over some FP language (OOP langs are much worse of course). But then, many already use SQL instead of spreadsheets.
Something doesn’t add up about that story. I’ve lived in the UK, council housing and unemployment benefits are meagre.
It's the great "public" vs. "publicized" debate.
> People often pay electricians even for tasks that are just "flip a switch and turn some screws," after all.

Not really.

People pay electricians for their experience and knowledge that give them the tools to solve complex problems, simply, without messing up your wiring, causing a fire, or blowing something up.

Removing a link on Google, on the other hand, involves clicking on a link and filling out a form. You don't need state licensing or problem solving abilities to fill out that form. Any "reputation managers" out there that are doing this are essentially defrauding people, and it's shameful.
But at least they would be working, probably know how to drive a car, and may consider furthering their education/career when they realize how little they make for their time.
I’ve done this at times and it always wound up putting me out of phase with normal hours. That quickly causes all sorts of scheduling catastrophes.

I have however found that being a bit short on sleep one night and making it up another works perfectly fine if your weekly average comes out ok. Another thing all the sleep articles claims isn’t possible.
I think a lot of companies hiring programmers take an analogous approach, and tend to get a lot of mediocre candidates as a result.
Sounds like it was only the man who wasn't inclined to work, and that the woman has been changing that tendency, as well as presumably having a decent income of her own that's being considered here. So something north of 50K after tax per year for a two-income couple isn't too ridiculous by any means.

185K delta between the two scenarios feels wrong, though - that's almost 4k a month, an astonishing high rent bill for a couple just out of college. The "find an apartment on their own for 1-2K, maybe even with roommates, but ideally just in a cheaper area" option should be seriously considered compared to living at home. Get a bunch more savings AND some very valuable life experience!
You can write books, compose music, build software, debate opinions all in front of a computer. It’s not the sitting in front of the computer that’s the problem.
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The phrase "living at home" made me think of stay-at-home partners as opposed to living with parents, which led me expecting a very different vibe of the article
A lot of them are. But racists are also racists.