skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it probably isn't. How do they respond to LEO requests if they're based in the US?
there is no reason to believe that a service worker can't have a good career.

This may not be the case now, but that can change.

I'm always wary of paraphrasing Graeber, but it's possible that living in a world where a small handful of individuals own the majority of the wealth has led to the market rewarding various jobs in a way that creates more misery than is strictly necessary - for example corporate lawyers being paid hundreds of thousands because they can help billionaires get even richer, while farmers producing the most important of all resources, food, are constantly hovering around the poverty line.

EDIT:
and as a mathematician, I would appreciate a proof of your "mathematically impossible" proposition. :)
> If you don't like the licensed sets, or even sets with instruction books, then you're still covered. Lego, Mega Bloks, and others have buckets or bags of just parts.

Unfortunately it seems this is not true also for Meccano (my favorite). By looking at their products I see only branded/licensed sets and none of generic parts.
If you're gunning for a job why would you want to represent your comp as lower?
100% agreed. Our 5yo started getting into them about a year ago as we sunsetted the Duplo bricks and they're by far his and my favorite toys.

We have a bunch of Star Wars sets and while the builds themselves are great, 90% of the fun has been breaking them down and building our own ships and designs. I watch him completely immersed in the world when he makes and flies these ships around, it's amazing. I hope we're still doing it when he's 13 too.
You said:

> Hell, there's still a lot of 5.x deployments out there that work just fine.

forgive my ignorance but I was under the impression 5.x isn't actively maintained anymore?
I always thought about MSFT as like working for the government: A somewhat boring, stable, 9-5, predictable workplace, but you're exchanging that for lower total compensation. But you can stay there for an actual career, family and all that.

Whereas the more "fun" companies like Google/Facebook/Amazon will chew you up and spit you out, and you just have to make as much money as possible in your 20s/early 30s before you burn out.

This could be a slightly unfair stereotyping of these companies, but from the people I've spoken to it rings true.
Yes, the explicit goal of most of the early individuals in the Bitcoin space was an anarchic desire to reduce the influence of the State on our lives.

Please do stay away if you're not interested, we don't want you either.
It's more than that, people who aren't really interested in science or the math required to do good science are attracted to the "social sciences" in a much higher degree. People who are unqualified to do analyses are publishing papers and those papers are getting published with the approval of their peers who are similarly likely to be unqualified.
> Is this really that unusual?

You'd be surprised. So many places it is not the thing. Or it is made hasslesome with team calendar update plus email to manager with justification and so on.
Discriminating hiring based on certain things is illegal (for example, martial and/or parental status). If you ask about these things during an interview, even casually, and then do not hire the person, they have basis to claim you did it because of what they learned about that status.

Also, I believe in some places, it's illegal to ask what they were making at a previous job. This might be something that an interviewer discusses if they don't know about the rule.

There's just a lot of little landmines like that.
EU Commission's Chips Act and semiconductor package (Chips for Europe)
Haha there you go - that’s that opportunity that people with kids take that I was just talking about. ;)

But generally yes, everything you’re saying is 100% true and a valuable contribution to this type of conversation.

The thing I think about quite a bit is this: People with children will frequently bring up how much they’ve changed and matured after having kids. And I have seen this happen with many friends. But it’s also very difficult to really imagine the consequences of the lack of that decision. Because you don’t really have a clear view into that alternate timeline in which you don’t have the kids. What’s more we usually view that timeline as static - we don’t imagine ourselves continuing to change and evolve in it. “I was a irresponsible young adult right before kids so I would continue to be that irresponsible today if not for them.” But if you assume that just as much growth occurs in that other timeline, only in a different direction, then not having kids can be just as big and profound a decision as having them.
Nicely written. I like to think of UBI as a tool to get out of a local minimum which isn't easily possible if you're a slave to your minimum wage job.
That's just bad faith now, your definition of fragmentation does not match the dictionary one.
How does UBI work if everyone just decided not to work anymore?
How would it work if everyone involved in say medicine decided not to work anymore of if everyone involved in the military or border patrol said 'nope, I'm done'? Would we just print more money to give to the people that streamed over the border? What if the people that print the money or send the checks decided to quit?
I don't think about my personal footprint much because I don't view that as a realistic assault on climate change.

Perhaps it's too optimistic but my focus is more on options like solar and fission in the medium term, fusion and carbon capture in the long term.
>We need better alternatives to Reddit
I am working on one - heahy.com, it's still very small and unfortunately mostly used for memes and porn :) I will try to do something about having more high quality discussions but probably some changes to design are necessary before doing any marketing.
What is that? A yacht for ants?
>But does that give the current de-facto state religion -- cradle-to-grave workaholism (wildly out of proportion to the amount of work we actually need to do to sustain ourselves) -- a pass?

It's not really a "religion" though. People aren't working "wildly out of proportion to the amount of work we actually need to do to sustain ourselves" so they end up in Valhalla or whatever. They're doing it because they want to be able to buy goods/services with that money, or for the FIRE crowd, doing it so they can stop working a decade or two later.
I find content written by Eli Bendersky pretty informative: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/
> I accepted. Despite the downlevelling, despite the fact that compensation was well below market, Shopify was a big step for me. I will always optimize career decisions based on a position's potential to improve my ability as a developer. I will optimize for this over title, benefits, and pay.

Why is Shopify offering well below-market compensation?

Also, this makes it sound like the author is "optimizing" for an internship, not a job. In a successful job role, you don't need to optimize for one of those factors over the others, you get most/all of them.
The “follow 3d-puzzle instructions” way of playing is pretty shallow.

>> I don't disagree that its shallow but its similar to a jigsaw puzzle, sometimes you want to just do something to keep your mind active and have a sense of accomplishment.

>> As mentioned in the other posts, there are just a lot of custom parts in the new "licensed" sets to have a proper return on investment - particularly once Harry Potter, Marvel, Architecture, Star Wars all get jumbled together. The suggestion for creative play is to buy the City Legos or 1000 random piece sets which seems to scratch this itch really well.
All slogans are somewhat vague. But "defund the police" strongly implies something that the movement allegedly doesn't actually support.

And it wasn't a misinterpretation because the movement literally tried to entirely defund several major police departments.
"Sanewashing" is the charitable explanation: Someone convincing themselves that the slogan means something sane out of social pressure to conform and adopt a slogan they don't agree with. The less charitable explanation for what's going on is called "gaslighting": The people you're talking with know damn well the slogan means something insane, but they'll lie to you and act condescending and superior in order to convince you to ignore all of the evidence and accept a sane definition.
> Does anyone in the great HN community have a proper understanding of the risks of sharing one's personal data, and could enlighten me?

All data will eventually be leaked I guess. Not trying to sound scary, I genuinely believe that most data anyone collects about anyone else will end up in the wrong hands (if it's not in the wrong hands to begin with).
It seems like those who don't want their old jobs back, don't want to work for the wages offered in places like sandwich shops, or think they're above a certain class of work prove this out. The "everyone really wants to work" idea seems pretty squarely in the land of myth, at least here in California.

Someone has to wash dishes, dig ditches, empty bedpans, make sandwiches, etc. Further, the sandwich shop which employs family members etc. and doesn't pay an unskilled laborer $30/hour will crush the ones that do. Multiple businesses have demonstrated that virtue alone doesn't make overpriced goods sustainable in the long term. And nobody seems to want to examine the basic math behind adding $10 per hour to everyone's hourly wage.
US tech salary discussions always throw around incomprehensibly large numbers and complain that they are "small"
I really like your idea and hope you expand on it. E.g. let the user choose the intervalls or offer pages instead of chapters (chapter length might be very different depending on the book?). Also, international languages or at least the original language also.
Chances are your information's already stored somewhere that you have no control of. Knowing that, it might be better to focus on mitigating the impact of identity theft rather than preventing it entirely. One way you could reduce the impact would be setting up many (10+) bank accounts and splitting the money between them. if someone stole your identity, how likely are they to be able to empty every one of your accounts before you notice and freeze them? another option would be to put your money in crypto, making sure you have custodianship of the wallet. Though, that adds the risk of crypto tanking in value.
Thanks :) I first implemented sha256 in js to understand its inner workings. Then I started displaying its variables with react and adding this stepped mechanism. Finally, I added some notes on the left to add some context of what is going on.
Watch this mama chimp treat her son’s open wound by applying insect “poultice”
I've run duplos through the dishwasher many times with no problems at all. On the regular cycle with dishes. Our dishwasher (Bosch) doesn't have a heating element for drying, it just makes the water really hot and waits for the water to evaporate from the hot dishes.
Amazon chickens coming home to roost.
If you are a solo contractor / business owner, indeed you cannot pretend for unemployment compensation ("chômage"). But if you care about accounting, after some time you can live off several months / years without any revenue.

One last thing: at least in France (don't other countries) you are obligated to contract for multiple clients (at least 2) per fiscal year to avoid fraudulent employment and the risk of losing a client the next day. And in this day and age, landing a new client in the IT/Software/Data/AI/whatever industry is relatively easy!
Maybe we lower the US military spending budget to "only" be 10% higher than the next highest spender. That should free up some cash.

Gotta start somewhere :)
Every time I hear about the seeing through walls hacks, I wonder why the developer just doesn't send the other users locations unless it should be visible.

Maybe because doing the math to figure out if it should be visible is handled completely on the frontend to keep latency low?

This is the equivalent of a bank API giving you everyone's information, and the frontend SPA filtering it to only the logged in user.
What's in Your Package.json?
Thanks. You are right, it restricts what I can do, which is counterproductive. I will look at fatfire, thanks!
The "ultra-wealthy" are not where the money is. Besides, what many leftists actually end up saying by focusing on those is that Gates and Buffett should not be allowed to put their money towards eradicating malaria, giving every African safe drinking water, and countless such high-value causes. Instead that hard-won wealth should be taxed from them and frittered away to fund a one-time super binge of mindless political activism and foolish "green" boondoggles in the highly developed West. Needless to say, I think this is a very bad idea.

You want to tax Larry Ellison's yacht and other ludicrous spending, fine by me. But that's the ultra-wealthy's consumption - it's not even their income, much less their wealth. If you can't tell the difference, you're not getting the point of this debate.
>E.g. Crowd Control which limits the posting / commenting abilities of individual users based on their history or other heuristics.

Aren't you of the opinion this could be misused?
I love that tech companies have such a failure of support that Hacker News is literally the only outlet. It's crazy that we've hit this stage of oligopoly, back in the 90s, we could just cut a company with terrible customer support loose, but now there's too much corporate lock in
I mean, do you want to build a winning coalition or do you want to keep sending out confusing political messages and complain amongst yourselves about how the game just isn't fair?
Years of experience is relative to the company, and software type. Companies like Google, production products are likely on a totally different level than almost any other product in existence. So 10yrs at none google company is not equal to Google engineering. What plays into all of this is the complexity of the problems they solve at scale, and level of academic sophistication. Map software, search engines, Google app suite gui products are not simple or easy to build.
It's kind of odd how much of the interview process for a developer is counter-intuitive.

Like the coding challenge. The naive expectation is that you quickly and correctly solve the problem they give you. But the actual expectation emphasizes asking about edge cases and collaborating with your interviewer. Solving the problem quickly and correctly is not actually the optimal solution. Partially because it doesn't allow you to demonstrate collaboration but also because the interviewer might think you've seen the problem before and have memorized a solution. Even though memorizing a solution and regurgitating it is basically what everyone does on these challenges.

General work experience questions are similar. You don't want to tell the truth. You want to give a STAR (situation, task, action, result) answer that shows you have whatever characteristic they're looking for. The majority of people won't have actual good stories for most of those so just hammer that grain of truth into whatever the interviewer wants.

I'd add thoughts about system design, but I really suck at those and still haven't quite figured out what everyone's looking for.
Jamie Fenton has released the ROMs for Robby Roto as freeware. So that's one.
The COVID stimulus programs were a sort of UBI program. We're now starting to see mass inflation in part due to lower labor participation and excess liquidity.

Obviously only part of the picture as quantitative easing and low rates are also driving excess liquidity, and omicron is also driving lower short-term labor participation.
Also ask whether the entire system can live on the blockchain. If it needs trusted third-parties to provide data, broker deals, etc. all of the overhead isn’t giving you much.
Yeah, I agree I probably worry about it too much. I use 2fa everywhere, but I always feel there are risks remaining...
Nearly all of the parts in a “Harry Potter” or “Star Wars” set are generic. And there’s nothing stopping you from making up a game/story mixing robots with your wizards.
It’s easy for this example but usually the line is way more blurry

Currently richer areas already subsidize plenty of things like roads, airplane routes and many other services. It’s figuring out below what number of users it is when it is no longer appropriate
Exciting implementation of a really cool concept.

> Today's market structure costs institutional investors (and by extension households) at least a trillion dollars annually (and Smart Markets hold the potential to eliminate that loss).

How does one get to this estimate? That is ~5% of US GDP. Everything else was easy to follow - this seemed high, at least intuitively.
Thanks for addressing the glaring hole I suspected my argument might have, PR accepted!
California Sheriff Free to Rob Armored Cars Money of Legal Marijuana Businesses
The user.
I am not familiar at all with 4chan and its functioning, but if I remember correctly there is no "they" in 4chan, similar to the "Anonymous" group... everyone can go into 4chan, sometimes a radical leftist will go there, next day a radical rightist will post. Is there actually a "cultural leaning" in that site?
A related concept which is just a bit broader is WEIRD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias

Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic dominate the participants in psychology studies, even when they're not just psychology undergrads encouraged to participate in research.
Indeed, the former corrective is more what I wanted to get at. I wanted to point out that the "you can be anything if you put your mind to it" narrative is doubly harmful as children very much observe the contrary in reality but nevertheless still have the naive platitude repeated to them. I think this contradiction contributes to making the first bump in the road, never mind getting into AP Trig or something, so much more intolerable.
> until we start automating ourselves into unemployment

Still waiting for steam engines to replace human labour...
As someone who does play competitive video games seriously, rather than having anti-cheat, I would prefer to play on servers/ladders where the players are vetted and where getting caught cheating has meaningful social implications. Open-for-all servers with accounts that are trivial to make is the problem to me.
Travel, same as always.
> Not print money. So you give everyone some amount, say 12K/year, and then support it with taxes.

I’m trying to say this with utmost respect. But $12k x 330M is $4T/year.

In 2021, the US collected about $4T [0]. The US spent about $7T [1]. So it would take lots of iterations to figure this out.

I think there are some efficiencies so you can reduce some of this budget but introducing a UBI like this would up the spent to $10T and require an extra $6T in taxes every year.

It just seems so non-sensible. As the only way to reach this level would be to inflate money so it bought nothing much.

Proposing this seems less likely than just researching Star Trek replicators to reduce the need to buy food or something.

Or free housing for everyone is more feasible since that seems more achievable than increasing tax revenue by 150%.

Even if you seize every penny of US billionaires assets that’s only $4.2T [2]. At least that covers the first year but then those assets are gone.

[0] https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/reven...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/business-economy-government-spend...

[2] https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires/
To be fair, that's a smaller fraction of his wealth than almost everyone spends on a car.
> You’re describing accelerating creative destruction. It’s painful but good.

There is this aspect, true - and necessary. An equal folly is to believe this is the only thing, or even the only significant thing, going on.
>Fair point, but even in an abusive relationship the solution is to take on responsibility and get out of the relationship, not whine until somebody frees you from it.

Well, in that sense, aren't leftists also "taking on responsibility and getting out of the relationship", by e.g. organizing, protesting, throwing down governments, and establishing global socialism? :)

>With regard to cars, bicycles already exist. I personally have never owned a car in my life.

Yes, but what's missing is that a city structured for cars is already a different beast than a city structured for pedestrians (and/or bikers). You can always personally use or not use a car in city X. But if X is built for car use, it wont be a good city to walk or bike in.

So, if enough people want to reshape it, they should be able to have a go.

Like the car people had their go in the prior, car-focused re-shaping of the city (there was one, since cities that existed pre-car were initially built more walking friendly), but them with the trillion dollar car industry and lots of private interest to assist them.
It's also perplexing to Americans who don't hate cars, as we all live in 15-minute cities as well (by the definition that no daily task takes more than 15 minutes of one-way travel time).
"Atheist's civil liberties" is is not changing.
I don't think improvised desks are inappropriate for early-stage startups, especially in the 1990s. Apple started in Steve Jobs parents garage.
imagine a world where we could tune in to neutrally-moderated longform debate on policy instead of points-scoring five-minute sandwiched-by-advertising talking heads talking through a scripted (at least by the host, if not both parties) sequence of talking points and slogans. instead this is the world we get, the world we're told to accept, the world where people like my dad can watch a night's worth of "news" from each of the major cable networks and think that that's an actually balanced, nuanced information diet. the whole thing cannot implode soon enough.
It has a cloud option but it requires a lighter accessory and a flame install. Luckily there are no known bugs, but without a proper firewall you may experience total data lose of unconnected devices.
Ethereum scaling firm Polygon raises $450M from Sequoia, Tiger Global, SoftBank
I wish you the very best of luck with this. I can totally relate to spending forever on a project like this, and the feeling you get, when you finally debut.

I've done that, a few times. I'm doing it now. I have app that I've been working on for a year and a half (2 years, if you count the backend work, that I did several years ago). We'll probably be releasing, in the next few months.

I don't think that I have an application for this, myself, but I will be happy to share it with others, that may have the need.
This seems extremely unlikely to happen. If people were truly interested in renting out their cars while they aren't using them (and letting them get driven into the ground), Turo or Getaround would be huge.
Most anarchist philosophy starts from the idea that "general populace" is a bad idea to begin with. People should be living in small, hyper-independent communities. They sidestep the scalability question by asserting that a community of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) is already unnatural.

(Not a philosophy I agree with, but one that I observe as pretty cornerstone).
What happened to Japan's electronic giants? (2013)
Suicide of clandestine Army operative raises mental health questions