skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worse for most people. Evidenced by unhappiness, drug/antidepressant use, declining birth rates, institutional distrust and breakdown of social relationships. Before, people ate less on average but the food that they did eat was far higher quality (all organic, local produce). Nowadays you have to go to a Michelin star restaurant to get the same quality produce as the average poor person would get every day in the old days. Real estate was cheaper and it was possible to buy a house near your job with savings alone. There were fewer regulations so you could build your own house yourself without worrying about compliance with thousands of different council laws. The family bond was stronger and based on honesty and shared values (now it's more individualistic).

If you had the skills to produce something useful, the market was less competitive so it was possible for essentially anyone to improve their standard of living through education and hard work. Also, employees had stronger bonds with employers and it wasn't uncommon for the business owner to sell or handover management of the business to their top employees (and the pool of employees was far smaller/less competitive). Nowadays, it's not possible for certain people to climb out of poverty because their competitors are big corporations who have access to easy money from banks and governments. Also within corporations, the level of competition is extreme, often counter-productive and the environment is toxic, suppressed and censored. Also, there is constant gaslighting in the media telling everyone how good things are when it doesn't match observable reality at all.
> Those Americans will know that it is practically certain that they will die much in the same position as the ones in which they were born. Those Americans will therefore be less enterprising and much more pleasure loving.

You can see this today with the anti-work movement and the overindulgence in tv shows, movies, porn, junk food, social media, and video games. All these things are corrupting the future generations of kids.

The corporations that create these have made them too accessible. Once kids start indulging at a young age, it's harder to control when they get older. Their lives will revolve around gaining short-term pleasures, and the world will lose out on the potential long-term creative value they could have contributed.
False flag schadenfreude is false.
>I don't think anyone calling Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme means it literally

The non-negligible amounts of comparison to bernie madoff or enron suggests otherwise.
If you are serious about using the JVM, I would suggest Kotlin or Scala as a better alternative to Java as they have all the libraries and greatness of the JVM but they have less of the historical baggage that Java brings with it.

Both can be written in a Java like fashion to start, and have 100% interop with Java (you can mix the languages in projects) so the learning curve is pretty alright.
I would argue, as many would, that a high-school graduate now is much worse off now than a high-school dropout a century ago. Jobs are much more specialized, you can't rely on working on "the family farm", and the prestige of a high-school diploma has tanked to "You don't have this, what's wrong with you??"
How it's going for Venezuelan Bolivar? Zimbabwean Dollar? Argentine Peso?
I did not know that this distinction was between regulations and directives, thanks for sharing. Assuming this is the result of GDPR, the R being "regulation", then it seems that this automatically holds in the entire EU.
I remember 9 year old Ryan discovering fservs on IRC in 1994 or 1995 and having his mind blown at downloading some random image file and it turning out to be a nude woman and being both horrified and mildly curious (but not sexually interested, yet). The quality was crap, and continued to be so for the next several years as I revisited this as a teen with some regularity.

Oddly, I think the Lenna example images, as nudity, in the article on vintage hardware may have actually held my interest more than the stuff did well into 1998 or 1999. Actually, the Lenna and other PG/PG-13 images in those technical styles may have interested me more than the nude images of better quality.
> Why do you consider the energy usage from GPUs mining cryptocurrency worse than energy usage from GPUs used for playing video games or rendering CGI graphics? Or porn? TV commercials?

Because gamers, graphics designers, porn watchers and TVs don't use piles of thousands GPUs kept at 100% load 24/7. The spike in power demand and consumption after cryptocurrencies became popular speaks for itself.

> Why is it considered OK to generate massive amounts of pollution and expend tremendous energy flying beef from Japan to New York for people's consumption, when there are perfectly edible cuts of beef which require at most a short train ride?

Totally unrelated issue that the absence of cryptocurrencies didn't create and that cryptocurrencies can't solve.

> What if the crypto is mined in part or full by renewable energy, which many crypto miners do (it's economically to their advantage in certain areas/climates)?

Because they still pump heat in the atmosphere. Also, most places where renewables such as solar can be convenient, aren't the best places to generate more heat, and they would need even more energy to cool down the electronics.

> If the goal is saving the planet, there are plenty of activities like flying internationally for pleasure, or eating meat that do far more environmental damage than cryptocurrency mining.

Completely unrelated as well. See point #2.
They don't, it's an unexpected side effect of putting pressure on Eastern Europe and the Ukraine. I imagine Putin expected Kazakhstan to be able to manage this internally better than they have, and are now very concerned. It's something of a nightmare scenario for them.
I was having trouble visualizing what OP meant, and this is a great explanation!
arrayOfUsersIteratorCurrentIndex implies you are either joking or are a Windows programer.
We play video games.
I can agree that he needs to be punished to a greater extent due to his broad responsibility. But nothing at all for the ones who actually performed the work to build these illegal sites?
I'm not going to do all that to verify your comment. It strikes me as an absurd claim, at least in part because nazis and communists are opposites, and everybody is predicting the fall of the US' dominance to China these days.

The WEF is just liberal capitalism. The trend towards technofeudalism (everyone is renting their existence from big corps) has been going on for a while, at the hands of capitalists. Because its profitable. See: the growth of financing/credit, software subscriptions, etc.
I think it also highlights the problems with hysteria around science and within the public perception of science.

To the public there is always either:
a) a single hero scientist who is infallible (which is just maddeningly broken)
b) there is never consensus and never 100% on any topic (this is also broken)

Both of these views are Hollywood tropes as much as Viking helmets and do so much harm that even within science outreach. In real world engagement these topics have to be addressed annoyingly often. All these do is create a time sink and brain drain.

If a large group of learned experts tell you something. LISTEN.

By the same logic if the group at large isn't giving a consistent story then unfortunately there is serious disagreement and you shouldn't just trust those at the top.

I'm also tempted to add:
c) big industry is your friend.
(When it comes to selling brawndo, that's true. But in every other case don't treat these people as experts, they're incapable of being unbiased.)
I am not informed enough to give actual estimates. :)

Although your estimates for JIT improvements seem low on my experience. Compilation times are consistently half of what they were before and test suites range between 33% to 50% faster. Even Whatsapp reported server efficiency increased by 25% and many other factors are likely at play there (source: https://twitter.com/wcathcart/status/1385253969522413568).

I _assume_ we will continue seeing improvements on this front, especially if at some point we start doing cross module optimizations!
so people are sorting trash at trash bins outside? I see no reason why this service would not be provided, you give the guy your sorted trash and he just put it in correct bin, or am I missing some rocket science here?
What's the marginal cost of any random Joe entering the country unvaccinated?
marijuana
Does "FreeBSD" include pfSense and OPNsense, especially in terms of UI integration?
Works for me, maybe you are holding it wrong.
> If you look through the history of amazing scientific breakthroughs, I suspect you'll find that the ones that legitimately changed the world didn't require armies of self-proclaimed experts to explain to everyone what the benefit is and what problems it solves. However, when you look through the history of snake oil, boom-and-bust market crashes, and actual Ponzi schemes, that's exactly what you find.

Funny how you carefully avoided making any solid points here. Let's assume what we all know you're saying - Bitcoin, if it was legitimate, would not require shills in order to be successful. Since Bitcoin is fully capable of securing $1 trillion dollars worth of value (unhackable despite the massive prize) I would say its had some success. Are there many shills around for Bitcoin today? Yes. What does that have to do with its success or value?

Even further obliterating the point you were too scared to make directly: the initial momentum which got Bitcoin started and gave the protocol its security which gave it that aforementioned success in security was grassroots and based in technological and academic interest. This is very clearly spelled in the blog post. Did you read the content before forming your thoughts about it? You might as well have not. Embarrassing.
This [0] talk from Computer Chaos Club also points out how all applications that use Facebook as authentication option (or even without it) MUST send user data to Facebook Inc. This of course doesn't require a user to have a facebook account.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0vlD7r-kTc
Regarding flying:

"The problem is mainly one of artificial
heating and ventilation to enable the
aeronauts to survive."

And indeed, ventilation is the primary concern among air passengers in 2022.
So a rebirth of Stumbleupon?
Java and its compiler were free and easy to install into CS department labs.

There was a huge hype train around object-oriented development being the way that somewhat continues to this day. OO was all the rage along with the "Design Patterns" book. OO hype in the enterprise also seemed to drive CS departments to use Java for just about all classes because it was "pragmatic" and a "real" job skill to give students.

I mainly remember being excited about garbage collection.
Creating an equalizer plugin using Elementary and ReactJS
Innovation does just happen, but only under circumstances that need it. People support it because it makes their lives easier. If it doesn't do that then honestly who cares? Don't confuse innovation in general with how many startups the country has.
All they need to fix it is an IBM 5100
It's like a Ponzi because the vast majority of people who put money into it only make money because other people dump money into it, unlike a real investment which creates wealth by using capital to fuel productive activity that earns revenue.
here is a phd thesis on the topic: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/publications/thesis/phd-gagnon/sa...
Their relationship is so interesting to me because it ties to the old "child" monarch vs his steely-eyed advisors. Long story short, its emotional manipulation to come at someone from a position of power and complain about "worry" and "losing sleep." In fiction and history we see these childish kings acting out with their advisors sort of calming them down as this stereotype of how wrong monarchy is, but instead its a valid and intentional leadership strategy: to emotionally manipulate your underlings by seeming hurt and needing of help. Gates played up this coddling attitude because it gets him the results he wants with minimum effort. Nathan recognized this signal and wrote out the logical part of the brain to counter Gates' emotional side. He coddled the child king. This is his job.

The C-levels in my life do this all the time. I've been manipulated many times like this. I think its linked to the habits of being a low-empathic personality. Its run of the mill manipulation which is what powers offices and sales all over the world. I imagine it gets results more often than not but its a bit pathetic looking and an acknowledgment human beings aren't logical animals, but primarily emotional and even the most hardened tech CEO is essentially playing emotional games with their staff, constantly. Its just so brazen and obvious when you see it like this. Especially when Gates is supposed to be the anti-Jobs, and this hard-nosed programmer not a diva, but surprise, surprise its diva behavior top to bottom in the C-suites, because diva-ism works.
People have been afraid of that forever, and yet here we are. It's an issue in poorly managed economies, but of course even in poorly managed economies, you can buy things with it to persist value.
Thanks, I'm sure I'm not the only person from the UK who thought it was something else [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops
I am leaning toward open-sourcing it; perhaps HN can help me make the decision ;)

Regarding extensions that run on every page, I totally understand the concern. That's why we already built in the option to make it manually run network requests (right click on the extension icon, then click on the options tab).
It does make the comment count badge not work though if you choose to do this.
I'd managed to put that out of my mind. See earlier reply in thread.
It's not money if all you do is hold it lol. That makes it an asset. Spending it in exchange for goods and services makes it money, and 4 tx/sec doesn't give you a lot of room to do that. And uh, well, you see, many other assets have outperformed it over the last 5 years.
FTA: “If somebody was using the image scanning, viewing or editing software in the 80s or if somebody maybe has examples of such images, please write in comments”

The Thunderscan scanner, which allowed for (slow) five-bit grayscale scanning from a Mac or Apple II (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...) is from 1984.

MacPlaymate (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-hidden-and-charm...) is from 1986.
How do I minimize/prevent AND recover from burnout from studying?
TLDR-: student who feels like doing nothing eg not like to even read a page during some days. Used to happen a lot during exams. Is happening since 15 days, visited doctor, started taking meds. Meds might be doing their work. I need some guidance and advice that I might be missing.

1) I am Computer Engineering student and burnout is really a huge issue for me. I keep getting burn out(IDK the exact word for this tbh). I feel exhausted. I feel fed up studying. It feels like a brain fog. I don't feel like opening my textbook or watching video. I don't want to do anything at all. I instead browse reddit, watch youtube videos to pass my time. I feel so resistant to studying I don't have a word for that man. This has been happening to me since last 15 days. I am simply idle. It is not like I don't feel fear. Even if I feel fear, I feel like doing nth. I have already consulted doctor and doctor just gives me medicines and nth more. So hope people here will be considerate and give tips independent or dependent my medical conditions. My life really sucks due to this.

2) Even now I have been feeling this thing for around 15 days. I went to Psychiatrist and he added proate medicine. Hope that works. But even though it works I still need some advices and guidances as medicines can't fix everything.

3) It is not like I study 10 hrs everyday. I study 3-5 hrs everyday normally. I even had a vacation where I travelled a lot and had lots of fun. So it is not due to lack of entertainment NOW. but I agree entertainment lacks in my life a lot. I don't have any ways to relax my mind as most ways to relax would be expensive like guitar. And it is winter it is really boring to do yoga, stretching and meditation. (I used to do it as well in the past but still got burn out so this is not the reason why I am getting burn out.).

4) My medical conditions-: The medicines that I am using are-: 1) Proate 500 2) Zosert 50 3) Sizodon 2

5) In the past when I used to get burnout only during exams-: We have 3 days gaps to study during each exam. Our exams last 1 month long And I would finish studying 40% of topics before exams and during exams at least during 2 exams(we would have 5-6-7 exams depending on semester). I would get burnout and fail to do anything during those exams..And I keep failing exams that I have already studied 40% because I can't focus during exams. The culture here in Nepal is most students study during those 3 days and pass the exam comfortably. I have improved here as well. In the past, I used to finish studying once and I would not make revision notes so I had to re-read what I have studied all again. But nowadays I make summaries while studying and just revise it. So it is a bit better in this case. But I still get burnout.

6) What are hobbies,activities that are not very expensive that I can do in order to prevent myself from being burnout very frequently. I won't mind a burnout every 3 month.
The nom de guerre Pol Pot didn't appear in the New York Times until August 1976, which was after things calmed down in Cambodia. Which makes your assertion he was doing so at the time unlikely.

Vietnam invaded Cambodia and the US began arming Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s and 1980s, which again the Times covered, although slightly obliquely. Chomsky condemned the US arming Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
All of those facts are meaningless without context.

Higher education is far more necessary for even a middle class existence than it was in 1922, and the middle class is getting less and less affordable. One of my grandfathers worked a family farm. My dad was able to grind his way out of the lower classes by working at Friendly's and other odd jobs to pay for college (up to and including his PhD). My father in law's uncle was a high school dropout who started showing people around at the local hardware store and was such a good salesperson the owner hired him after a few weeks. None of those are possible for most Americans these days (good luck pulling the leave-it-to-beaver "prove my value to the local store owner" at Home Depot or Walmart).

US citizens are now regularly advised to take Uber to the hospital if they can survive the trip, as it avoids the cost of an ambulance, which is often over a thousand dollars in a country where most can't afford a $500 emergency. I'm not sure how that qualifies as "affordable", and certainly not affordable to 90%+. Granted this is primarily an American issue.

More important to me than the quality of the house is the quality of the school district that it's in (see previous remarks about the modern necessity of education). I can fix/improve a house, I can't fix/improve schooling short of private school, which would probably be more expensive than fixing a house over the long term. Good look finding an affordable house in a good school district near any major metropolitan area with jobs.
I think part of it was that Java promised Unix-y/open systems to stay around when in 1995 it seemed like Windows would dominate server-side programming, in addition to the desktop.
And the old woman did not have access to IUDs.

Nowadays, you can have sex with zero risk of pregnancy.
She said he Couldn’t Make a 3D Calculator Game So he Did
I can imagine a scientific breakthrough that does require some nontrivial amount of explaining to the layman to prove that it's more than a scam.

This definitely isn't it.

The big problem with cryptocurrencies is that most of their promised "benefits" are actually detriments to people who are not anarchocapitalists (or close to it).

We don't want government control of money to be "disrupted", because governments are actually, in principle, accountable to us. The fact that there are certain prominent governments that have become corrupted by big money in practice is not even close to a good justification for tossing the whole "democracy experiment" out the window and replacing it with something that in principle does not answer to regular people in any way, shape, or form, and is very likely in practice to be ruled by those with big money from the outset.

We have about 80% of a working system already in place. What we need to do is fix the broken 20%, not have the absolute hubris to think that because we're The Smartest Guys In The Room, we can build a better, fairer, system that's built on the pure beauty of unfettered technology.
I like these types of essays, even if I largely disagree with them.

Truth is, our imaginations are quiet limited, and always have been. Think of all ancient mythological creatures (half man, half goat, half man, half bird, etc) they're all pretty lame when compared to the wonders you see under a microscope. Reality is infinitely richer than our imagination, and the same applies to the future. It'll surprise us in ways we can't quite predict.

The other thing is, the future almost by definition can never come. The moment it does, it becomes the present and gets taken for granted. We have video calls, cars that drive themselves on highways and fantastic voice recognition (on the latest Pixels for example), but these just become "obvious" and expected and the future moves on.

Finally, why should we expect human nature to change? Some of the biggest social changes over the last few decades - LGBTQ rights and marijuana legalization - are just new spins on the same old thing people have always been up to: getting high and fucking. In the future, they'll figure out even more ways to get high and fuck. Are these new ways of living any different than a self-driving car is a new way of living?
Chasing the Night Parrot: The 'Ghost Bird' of Australia's Outback
Uber and DoorDash don't rely on the workers just as labor, but also as capital -- the drivers provide the cars.

Also, Uber at least doesn't even rely on making money from customers, just raising money from investors.

So they're complicated situations and not easy to generalize.

> what we will do as a society in response to the inevitability of automation and its ramifications to humanity as a result.

We already automated production in the 20th century, "the service economy" is what resulted.

As long as people can be prevented from accessing the product, they can be kept working for it.
I started reading through your site a bit. Great content.

Wanted to let you know that the "Here is the Doxygen-generated documentation for the BADGER layer" link is broken on this page: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/forensic-design-docu...
Talk. Play (board) games. Watch a movie.
"Depart from me, I never knew you."
Very neat, surprising it was somewhat effective. To make it more robust, make sure you’re capturing delisted stocks, and running multiple Monte Carlo simulations with varied parameters (like hold length, etc) helps. Watch for slippage and fees too.

I do these things all day at Quantbase. We tend to focus on longer term strategies with more “moat” so to speak, but have the shorter term plays like a Nancy Pelosi tracker you can throw some money in. A Jim Kramer tracker would fit right in there!
I don't like the taste of alcohol so I've never drunk. I really enjoy going to clubs and bars, though the culture here is different and people get buzzed but not shitfaced. I like talking to people, watching drunk people antics, listening to the music, etc.

These probably aren't things that will work for you, but they work for me, since you asked :P