skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is precisely the problem we're trying to solve.

- Text Editors - with the exception of some specialised tools, text editors are seldom made for authors, they are either too much specialised or too little. Building a custom word processor precisely for authoring means we can fine tune the writing experience.

- Exports - Almost all of the default export options suck, they create unreadable messes of typography with zero consideration for making something beautiful. There is a reader on the other end of your books, it is our duty to give them the best reading experience. With our own typesetting engine we can create beautiful looking books at the click of a button.

- Selling - This is where most of the competition lives, you can publish on KDP but need to stay in their price bracket or they take 70% of your book price. Setting up blurb is not easy. Even if all this happens, you would still need to provide support and handle returns and refunds.

I believe Authors, Readers and the entire publishing landscape would benefit from a fully integrated platform, but only time will tell.
Another of Huxley's books that's shamefully unknown is "The Perennial Philosophy" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061724947?ie=UTF8&linkCod... where fleshes out the teachings of major religious traditions
Was the 2008 NTDS for all ages or just adults? Did it control for mental health? Does asking a single question about attempts without follow-up interviewing ("Have you ever attempted suicide?") have any effect on the reliability of the data? [1] Why say "40 to 50%"? How can a rate "go as high as" 40% to 50% -- do you mean, when you add more variables besides identifying as trans?

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170326131846/http://williamsin...
I disagree. I think that the 24-hour news cycle does contribute to the problem, absolutely. However, the critical aspect you're forgetting here is that the internet conditioned us to not pay for content because the ability to distribute content became commoditized. Once that happened, one of the largest sources of revenue for print publications disappeared, which forced print publications to rely more on ads, and therefore stories with headlines that drove more ad impressions (i.e. clickbait).
Yeah, that was fantastic
Green Quicksand: Facebook, Money in Politics, and Holding Power Accountable
401(k)'s started to became popular in the 1970s because they allowed management to increase their tax-advantaged compensation relative to labor, whereas defined-benefit plans had stricter and more effective rules regarding management/labor compensation disparities.

Then during the 1980s as corporate accounting schemes became more sophisticated preference for 401(k)'s and other defined-contribution plans exploded because of how liabilities are calculated.

In every conceivable measure pensions are theoretically better for workers and society as a whole. I say theoretically because that's predicated on employers and pension funds (if employer managed) obeying good (translation: dead simple) accounting practices rather than spending all their time and effort figuring out how to subvert them in order to cook their balance sheets to increase their yearly bonuses. Many corporate merger waves since the 1980s have been driven by schemes to drain pension funds (cost "synergies"), and of course states are notorious for failing to fully fund pensions on a YtoY basis (states, unlike corporations, aren't actually required to fully fund pensions[1]).

All of these downsides to pensions can be easily remedied. But corporate interests have succeeded in selling the narrative that pensions are unreliable and inequitable, while 401(k)'s are more reliable and equitable. In fact pensions are categorically more equitable, and any less reliability (which is a dubious claim, notwithstanding the many high profile pension failures over the years--nobody reports on someone's 401(k) fund vanishing during a recession) is a consequence of lobbyists phenomenal success in killing legislation and enforcement efforts responsive to corporate financial accounting schemes. Overall reliability of private retirement systems has fallen over the past 40 years, but the decline for pensions was more precipitous simply because they were so damned good before CFO offices became profit centers.

Life insurance markets were once dens of fraud and outright thievery, the mortgage backed securities and CDOs of the late 19th and early 20th century. Relatively simple reforms restored the market to nearly unassailable reliability. Though, I suspect the necessary legislation only succeeded after life insurance stopped being the center of growth and profit for financial markets. Legislation regarding private retirement plans likely will only ever make substantial reform once corporations have finished exploiting all opportunities for subverting employee income disparity and asset protections, finally shifting their attention elsewhere.

[1] "Fully fund" does not mean paying in the entirety of a worker's expected retirement disbursements. Rather, it means ensuring that each and every year you pay the full fractional share of expected liabilities. Basically the same thing an individual is expected to do when managing their 401(k) contributions.
What are you going to do when people remember that they don't need the internet and can just gather in their own homes and have conversations nobody can legally monitor without a warrant?
I think this is quite relevant, but for the opposite reason that you're implying. Yes, news has always had the unreliability problem, and maybe it is especially bad today, but the corollary problem is the topic of the OP: Americans distrust the news. You claim the reason for increased distrust is the obvious one: The increased badness of the news - that reporting has gotten so incompetent and/or misleading that people are now seeing it through the Gell-Mann amnesia. My experience, however, is that more and more people are using Gell-Mann amnesia (or just general knowledge of reporting incompetence) as a blanket excuse to dismiss media that disagrees with their social/political feelings. They are clinging to this new idea that they know better than those fools reporting the news, and so they throw the baby out with the bath water to serve their preconceptions.
They can't contribute to a Roth IRA, but they can contribute to a Traditional IRA, just without a deduction.

https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
This change effects actually zero people who aren't millionaires many times over - this website is literally a conservative think tank.
>Tantric sex and drugs where people are genuinely happy

That seems like vapid, temporary happiness to me. Like rockstar, Kurt Cobain, type happiness.
> Also activists who are clearly engaging in motivated reasoning in arguing that Facebook needs to do more to censor

censor _everything_
More like: “we’re paid very well to represent the interests of the elite. The elite don’t like upstarts trying to join them via wealth accumulation so we design a tax code that makes accumulating significant wealth via working and saving impossible.”
I agree that bitcoin has exactly one of the properties that makes gold valuable. It lacks the others though: you can actually use gold for a wide range of applications, from electrical to cosmetical, and it's rarity actually makes it even more useful as decoration, as it becomes a brag (look how much expensive gold I can afford).

You can't build electrical circuits from bitcoin, nor can you wear them as a necklace(I guess you could print your keys on a shirt or something, but then they wouldn't be yours for very long)

Scarcity alone isn't enough, you need a use for them too..
Fukushima.

Three Mile Island.

Chernobyl.

Kyshtym.

When a solar plant breaks down or a dam bursts the worst that can happen is a minor inconvenience. When you get a nuclear meltdown you get land uninhabitable for literal millennia and global contamination.
Honestly they should close the backdoor Roth and update the Roth income rules to stop requiring the backdoor Roth. It's annoying to use it as is. Getting rid of the mega backdoor seems like a no brainer since it's a clear loophole. Or if you want to keep something similar, change the Roth contribution limits for everyone.
This seems… fine? And a lot less FUD-y than the original article. I find that talk of the “freedoms” being taken away often is propaganda by the corporate interest youre paying to exercise the supposed freedom
If it's being used to avoid taxes then yes, the loophole should be closed.
It’s not about every day it’s about cool days which lower demand for AC. Look at a long term graph for the spot price of electricity.

Also, the grid not designed to move arbitrary power from any producer to any consumer. At times your throttling power from a wind farm while also importing electricity in other areas. The ISO wholesale power market prices electricity based on the cost of generating and delivering it from particular grid locations called nodes. http://www.caiso.com/pricemap/Pages/default.aspx
California's vehicle registration fee factors in several things, the most influential (I think) being price, which is probably why Tesla registration is higher than most gas cars. I've seen $500+ registration fees on ICE trucks.
What is "Full stop"? I'm seeing it used more and more in political internet discussions
Is not all investment speculating? Very few investment classes provide 100% guaranteed returns.
> The power of those companies was simply sharply reduced.

I'd argue the opposite. We got Exxon out of the Standard Oil breakup and Microsoft is just as scummy, if not even more scummy than ever. AT&T got broken up and several of the Baby Bells just ended up all merging together and now we have Verizon. Antitrust enforcement has had a net-zero effect at best.
Apple can still provide all of the OEM features if they really want, the obvious solution here is to give people the option to install third-party things (eg. Please enter your PIN number to confirm a third-party installation) and then boom! You're finished.

It's quite obvious that the only reason Apple hasn't added that feature is because they have no intention on losing their stranglehold on the App Store. Without sole propriety of software, Apple's value proposition starts to crumble. So, why should we let them keep it? What do we, as a society, gain from letting Apple be the richest company in the world? The answer is nothing, and eventually some day when they go under we'll come to the realization that it was all a zero-sum game anyways.
Consistent Fitness – Cohort based fitness
Hey HN! This is Joe (nezaj) and Stopa (stopachka). Both of us are Clojure hackers [1]. For the last few years, we’ve been on a journey to get fit. To do this, we hired a personal trainer, created a mini-community within our friend group, and built custom tools for ourselves, to create a sort of “Datadog for our fitness”.

3 months ago, we had a realization: what if we tried to create a company that did this? A combo of a nutrition coach, personal trainer, community, and custom tools that helps you get in the best shape of your life.

We weren’t experts, so we started off by launching a free cohort, and signing up 20 people. The cohort ended this past Sunday and folks lost an average of 7-8LBs over the last 3 months. Our top performers had up to 9% weight loss!

It started off with an Excel spreadsheet and a Slack group. But very soon, it turned into (a) a Slack bot, (b) a mobile app, and (c) a curriculum, that progressively sets you up with the habits to reach and maintain the best shape of your life. [2]

With Consistent, you get a bundled set of curriculum and tools to help you learn what you don’t know you don’t know, and make progress.

The program is 4 months, and costs 799 (200 dollars each month). This is equivalent to 2 sessions with a personal trainer a month. To keep us aligned, we’re also offering a 100% money-back guarantee. If at any point you choose to leave the program (even 1 day before close), you can get your money back.

There’s one catch though.

We require you weigh yourself everyday, log your food everyday, and log your exercise everyday. In addition you need to send a reflection once a week as well as a shirtless progress photo.

We've already signed up several founders + engineers and have a couple more spots for our next cohort, which starts October 17th. If you’re interested, please let us know by filling out our interest form!

[1] The story: https://consistent.fit/posts/founder-diaries/

[2] Product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3izicogMCM
20% for X and you need to open sounds great.
Numbers from Peru tell a different story.

https://osf.io/9egh4/
Your very first link is Hawley sending a letter because Facebook censored a Hunter Ukraine story.

Republicans are pissed because of the censorship (the big ones being lab leak and Hunter Biden's laptop, but there are smaller things all the time, 15 days bans for sharing a story the narrative doesn't agree with).

There's a good argument to make if FB wants to act like the arbiter of truth, the "truth" they choose should be legally liable.

Democrats are pissed because FB doesn't go far enough or something. They want ALL conservative media off the site.

Democrats want to amplify that censorship, Republicans don't want any censorship. Who is on the right side?
yeah FB comps are no higher than Google, and lower than Netflix
Fed to Release Paper Exploring Launch of Digital Dollar
California is also home to the Aliso Creek gas leak which was the largest in US history. Larger than the Deep Water Horizon event in the Gulf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Canyon_gas_leak

[edit: typo]
I have a book recommendation for you: book of Ephesians in the bible.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." - Ephesians 6:12

Today we're calling it "mentally unstable" or "psychotic" or "sociopatic," but yesterday we simply called it "evil."

It's the eternal struggle.
Having a database like this is useless unless the masses start to care about the subject. There has yet to be a campaign successful enough in educating/convincing the masses into why this is a bad thing. For most, as long as the app allows them to communicate with friends, entertains them (or their kids) with a game, etc, and the app is free the masses just won't care.
Quite far from it. Have a read!
I would encourage you to join the vitess slack channel and let them know of any issues you run into there. Resharding has successfully been done at massive scale, so its unlikely that the system can't handle the load. Here is the blog post from when Github re-sharded live under full github load https://github.blog/2021-09-27-partitioning-githubs-relation...
There are more than one grocery stores, but there's only one app store. The point is valid, but I'm not sure if it's the whole story.
this change effects literally zero people who aren't millionaires many times over. The change effects high net worth individuals who are trying to game the system and not pay taxes. This is not even complicated.
I figured something like that was the case, thank you for the explanation. Still that seems like a bad hack that terminals are not going to implement because it goes off-spec. It seems as if iTerm or kitty protocols (or anything else designed for a real screen and not a printer) would be a much better choice for a terminal trying to choose.
The answer is simple: because FB is seen as a conservative propaganda distribution network and the others are not. The subreddit that was seen as a conservative propaganda network: r/the_donald was successfully eliminated and liberals want to do the same to FB.
Joys of Porting a Kernel to WebAssembly
>I’d say that’s just a bad seller who would have spammed you no matter what payment processor you would have gone through

Except for Apple who would not have shared my address. Bad sellers on the platform is the platforms problem.
> People didn't stop using oil after the Standard Oil break-up. Nor Windows after its antitrust brush or cigarettes after the tobacco master settlement. The power of those companies was simply sharply reduced.

I actually disagree with this. When the company is forcibly broken up there's a chance that it's "power" (what?) is reduced but if we look at Standard Oil, that quicky is shown to be not-what-happened. SO became Esso and Mobil, who became ExxonMobil, and ostensibly went right back to doing what it did best (owning most of the domestic oil market). Breaking up the company doesn't actually change the practices or culture of what got the company there in the first place. The new companies which are spun off oftentimes don't even know how to operate as companies and so they're easy pickings for the nucleus of the original company.

How many competitors to Windows popped up after the microsoft antitrust suit? Is there a "windows specific browser" to compete with Edge or IE which is from a former microsoft company?

The same thing for smoking. If we look at smoking as "I light something on fire and jam it into my food hole" then yes, the numbers look promising according to the CDC website. If you look at a Vice article (https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xxx83/the-shady-link-betwee...), however, all the tobacco companies did was shift their business into providing alternatives to cigarettes. But they're still made from nicotine. It's just smoking without the smoke. That's the other reason why they're pushing so hard to regulate vaping - the idea that there's an "open source" "anyone can make this" alternative simply cuts out their business.
Couldn't agree more, I would be happy to pay taxes if the government represented me. However under the republic we have, it has fallen extremely short in representing my interest. I vote in every election, write letters to my representatives and attend town halls.
Not in the US. IRA contributions are post tax. 401k contributions are pre-tax. Depending on where you live this may be semantics as they may be the same program with different names.
No, people trust activists and propagandists, because they know where they're coming from. The problem comes when people claiming to have some bizarre abstract Platonic neutrality are constantly lying to you in order to push you into the behavior that they would prefer you have.

Activists and propagandists are far more honest, and are far more trusted by the public.
Yeah this is the biggest reason they're so interested in the "whistleblower" who essentially said nothing we already didn't know and had zero data to backup her claims.

MSM wants their dwindling market share back. I don't like facebook and I don't use it. However, everyone should be wary of the reason there's such a big push by politicians to censor it more and why MSM backs this so much.
Re: revenue generated, if this [1] article about Peter Thiel's $5bn Roth is correct, that's $1bn+ in lost long term capital gains tax on him alone!

(That said, I'm guessing the intent of the provision is more about fairness/eliminating a loophole for the wealthy than strictly generating revenue).

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...
I'm excited to listen to the full podcast. The highlights look really solid.

I think I would like to get into some of the optimization work on Python. I've contributed to some of the DS/ML/NLP libraries in the past, but the core language would be super interesting.

Anyone have good resources on getting started on that sort of thing?
There's been a couple Netflix public outrage instances. Like when they split up their pricing plan for streaming and DVDs, or the backlash over Cuties. But Netflix is still going strong.
Thank you for the succinct summary. I agree it all seems reasonable, even too modest.

Having these basic guardrails in place may be a good first step, and in the future the thresholds could be dropped below $10MM and 400K.
If they came to capitalist America knowing of its history, they're probably A-OK with being politically abhorrent.
This simple answer is it's easier. Income is mostly cash-denominated, so it's very easy to value. Wealth is often illiquid, so it's hard to know how much to tax.

Look at property tax, for example. It's a wealth tax and it requires a very complicated apparatus to generate ok-ish numbers every year. But that mostly works because houses are a moderately liquid market, so appraisers can mark to the existing market. And even then there's a lot of dubious stuff around the margins, like the way Trump was giving different valuation numbers depending on whether he wanted a loan or to brag (high valuation number) versus paying taxes (low valuation number).
That still doesn’t make it “too big to fail”, which is a specific phrase referring to organizations whose failure might have disastrous financial consequences.

Their recent outage resulted in some monetary losses, but it didn’t crash the dollar.
I see these comments here and there and am always stunned. There's a strong nihilistic streak in the modern environmental movement.
Some of that is correct, the Queen has soverign immunity (a bit wider in scope than, say, the immunity afforded US presidents), and her household has excemption from some laws.

Some of the power you are referring to is the Royal Perogative in which the monarch is important constitutionally but not practically because the use of the Perogative is reserved for the Prime Minister.

Some of the things you mention, such as 'owning' swans and dolphins are not the possession of the Queen as a person (she can't sell them) but the Crown which is almost a deliberately confusing term that means the state. We'd talk about Crown buildings rather than government buildings for example.

Britan has a deliberately confusing unwritten constitution which works well much of the time and while we like to use language which makes it seem that the monarch has lots of power they really don't. The Queen absolutely does not have a nuclear button nor can she nuke anyone. The power to go to war used to be a Royal Perogative (the PM could declare war) but even this is now lost after adventures in Iraq and requires assent by parliament. Here you are confusing a symbolic role for a commanding role.
A few things:

0. Whistleblowing is a real shitty strategy for enacting change. How about actually fighting for it from the inside first?

1. "Think of the children", really? Maybe the answer is children shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised but that's hardly Facebook's problem.

2. I hate misinformation as much as the next guy, but whether people like to believe in stupid shit like the magnetizing effect of vaccines is up to them. The fact that they believe in this shit is a failure of the educational system and our society in general. For better or worse, free speech is the cornerstone of American society, and again it's hardly Facebook's problem.

3. If people resort to Facebook for their daily "news" consumption, that speaks more of the abject failure of traditional media than it does of Facebook's nefarious motives. Maybe fix the tragic decline of journalism in this country before trying to single out one Tech organization as the scapegoat du jour.

(Throwaway because it's hard to have an opinion these days without being judged. I'm a vaccinated immigrant who hates being an Independent because that mostly means the two alternatives are shitty)
> that still adds up to $2,451,526.58 to run 1,024 A100 GPUs for 34 days

Salary costs are probably even higher than compute costs. Automatic Speech Recognition is an industrial scale application, it costs a lot to train, but so do many other projects in different fields. How expensive is a plane or a ship? How much can a single building cost? A rocket launch?