skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the guy you replied too, but I don't think he was implying that poor people are stupid. It's more like people who work for their money and earn it step-by-step are better suited to manage and grow it further. Earning money gradually gives you leeway to slowly adjust your lifestyle to your upgraded monetary status.

I'm not sure this is a sound analogy, but imagine someone picking up cigarettes for the first time and building up tolerance over time as they go from one cig a day to two, three, four and so on. Now, compare that to someone suddenly smoking 10 cigs per day. The latter person is more likely to get wrecked from the side effects.

Edit: I checked your profile and saw that you're the co-founder of Industry Dive, damn. I love your newsletters and websites!...especially Payments and Banking Dive.
The absolutely terrifying thing about Kaczynski's manifesto is that much of it is a rational, if utterly cynical, reaction to modernity. How a man who could think so clearly about the implications of our societal choices could conclude that the answer is to mail nail bombs to innocent people both bewilders and scares the bejesus out of me.

On balance, Adams definitely had the more relaxed, froody attitude towards it all.
Who hurt You so badly :) (Oracle ?)
>people being informed of what is really happening in closed-off autocracies and dictatorships from the first-hand accounts

This extends to democratic systems as well. It seems as if a veil has been lifted on the workings of governments and corporations because information and reporting is no longer processed and packaged by a compact, semi-corrupt media system or fourth estate. No one is going to believe a Weapons of Mass Destruction lie anymore, few are buying into the Ukraine crisis etc, multiple government dissenting views on Covid have proven to be accurate despite censorship and banning. Time scales are shortened, information leakage is everywhere, distribution avenues are many orders of magnitude larger than they used to be, and people really do have a lot more time to look at and think about things. It seems like we are just now more aware of the crap that is happening at large corps/govs.

There is a fifth estate now – a formidable alternative to legacy media, of small and independent, more numerous and interesting, analysts and interpreters of the world and human affairs. This is enabled by more easily usable social media – it is twitter/YouTube/podcasts. This is special and new and I am thankful for it. Now, we have to diminish the negative addiction and consumption effects that these same systems can have.

I suspect these systems do not actually need that much money to operate and manage, and can eventually be treated as water/energy utility type businesses - regulated to fixed profits and with anti-addiction rules. This is no longer advanced technology.
You could just do a lot of 4-5 story buildings like in Paris. Building up too high has its downsides because it requires more space on the ground, plus a good percentage of space (30-40%) in a high-rise isn't actually usable living space.

Most places don't need high-rise condos everywhere when low-rise condos in a dense neighborhood orientation would work out great.
I'm not saying to imprison everyone, obviously. I'm saying to imprison everyone who steals.
Diving into the deep end on projects, with a practical or interesting goal in mind. Along the way, pick up the needed skills, reference papers, tutorials, etc. Take an online class if it seems that would help. Ask for help when required.

I find that when taking classes, reading papers, articles etc, I learn far better if I can #1: Immediately see where the material is useful due to having encountered a problem it solves, and #2: Immediately put relevant information into code/CAD/notes etc.
> Android firmware scene died

hahaha...negative.

It just leveled up.

GrapheneOS.org
CalyxOS.org
> It is legal

Are you sure that the usual suspects don't make authors assign copyright or at least distribution rights? I wouldn't put it past them...
It's true that technology advancement requires capital and seemingly absent military threats the government is happy to allow private interests to supply that capital.

There's another distinction to be made which is also useful, that between open and closed systems. The PC ecosystem in the 1980s democratized computing yet was privately funded, so I don't think the private funding barrier is impossible to overcome when trying to make progress.

One thing I don't hear much about is how any system that relies heavily on a large database produces concentration. The internet era came to be dominated by companies with huge databases.

That's different from the PC era. This is mostly just a technology yo-yo between centralized systems and decentralized systems over the years, and you have to ride out the storm when your favored flavor is on the outs.

Techno-optimists should be focused on building decentralized databases and many are. Until we've solved the problem of systems with huge databases outperforming systems with decentralized databases, concentration will continue.
Good clarification.

I’m only familiar with the tech industry (software, marketing, design, etc.).
No. People buy lottery tickets for a lot of reasons. It is a fun bit of escapism and entertainment that costs just a few dollars.

You're making the assumption that everyone plays the lottery because they think it is a smart financial decision.
Very cool and unexpected to see something we worked on on HN!

If you’re a good hacker who wants to work on this stuff (Rust, C++, or OCaml especially) we’re hiring cryptography engineers[0] and offering training on all the relevant cryptography.

We’re also majority worker-owned and worker-governed which is a rare perk for VC funded startups :0

[0]: https://boards.greenhouse.io/o1labs/jobs/4023646004
I don’t think our current earth population is unsustainable though.
I know several entrepreneurs who could have saved themselves years of work and millions of dollars by just trying to fill out a business model canvas before starting their business. PG isn't saying that my above statement is false.

He is saying that it isn't useful for him when deciding who to invest in.
I think if there seems to be a contradiction between the tweet and the essay it’s only a sort of psuedo-contradiction.

The point of the essay (as I understand it) is that writing about something (as for example in a business plan) helps the writer understand the topic. The tweet says that pg is not interested in descriptions written by someone else. That writing a business plan can be edifying for the startup founder and at the same time of no interest to an investor, is consistent with both the essay and tweet.
> Is there a requirement for this effect to work that you publish your writing, exposing it to external scrutiny?

It isn't the publication that confers this particular benefit, if that's what you are asking, but the threat of publication.

But the threat needs to be credible to confer the benefit. Whether the threat can remain credible if the work is never published probably differs from person to person.
The child (<5 years) mortality rate in the US in 1800 was 46.29%. I can't seem to readily find US life expectancy at birth for 1800, but most places seems to have been 30-35, which would correspond to life expectancy at 6 years of age of at least 51-60.

Life expectancy at birth was around 30-35 for at least the several preceding centuries in Europe.
That’s probably true from your perspective, but not backwards from mine.
> That really undersells the `static if considered paper` which has got to be the most offensive standards paper I've read.

Indeed. Never read something stinking so much of sour grapes from NIH-suffering old farts.
I recently wrote about my learning strategy under a post called “How Learning Works: Components, Loops, Systems”: https://romandesign.co/how-learning-works-components-systems...

> It's like Charlie Munger once said about mental models: “All this stuff is really quite obvious and yet most people don’t really know it in a way where they can use it.”

The long and short of it is that you go through a cycle of Knowing, Doing, Assessing. Each of those has sub sucked and pieces but they fit together really well and work generally across different types of things you’re trying to learn (intellectual, skill,ms, physical).
These are called snapps in Mina, basically the state of a smart contract is nothing more special than the balance of an account, so you can store it on the blockchain in the same way. Now Mina is a succinct blockchain and zkp allows most data to be stored off-chain so I think the idea will be to limit heavily the amount of on-chain data.
You can get out of it in the US too but it's a condition of entry to public schools that isn't easily evaded.
The idea of bi-directional links sounds promising and exciting in theory, but after trying it out on Obsidian for a couple of weeks I have found following it overly laborious and have now reverted back to the good-old tree structure of Dynalist.
Exactly this. My understanding of Paul's philosophy is that sometimes a person or group has the right idea and all the gumption to do it, but might not be at that stage yet.

I used to work with a guy who was so hung up on business plans he always wrote me off when I scoffed at his obviously made-up numbers. "Kevin, you're just not going to be making a million dollars by the end of your first fiscal year." and he would arrogantly reply "Of course not, but you need the goal!" This is when one needs to understand the difference between "goal" and "dream" because his so-called business plans didn't support those numbers.

Paul has mentioned before that sometimes an idea is early and so there is no real competition to speak of, and very few metrics by which to measure the value. Just a hunch that this will take off to unknown lofty heights and therefore might be worth investing in.
That's where my grandparents are right now. They retired in their early 60s, and they have a solid income between ss, pension, and 401k, but their healthcare takes up more-and-more of that money and they still struggle with their health. And just what have they done with their 30-odd years since they retired? They didn’t travel, pick up new hobbies, or finish their educations.

Retirement isn’t my goal. I want to work full-time until my late 70s, and die in my early-to-mid-80s at the latest. In the meantime, I’ll spend my money flying, traveling, and on my apartment and a fast car.
Organization that pumps out numerous videos about how adblockers are “technically” pirating is caught partaking in real software piracy.
The problem is not rescuing the original photos. That's easy. The problem is that we have put a lot of effort into editing the photos, curating them into albums, and adding captions.
The downside with most phones too, is even if rooted, the radio firmware is not in control, along with a bootloader, meaning no real trust.
It is true that exchanges are a pressure point, and that anonymised transactions are a compliance risk-factor. While the article is notably lacking evidence for the claim that we are "now" seeing this "increasingly", assuming it is not yet the case, it may well be an increasing problem going forward.

Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to
encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should we fight to maintain our existing rights to financial privacy.
That's not really how it works either?

If I bought BTC at $50,000 and still own some, I've "lost" money but not actually since I haven't sold it. This is the reality for 100% of owned Bitcoins. There is $800B worth of USD in Bitcoin that has no "loss" side to it because at any given moment they are owned by people who have clearly not sold their share.

When the market cap goes down there is of course loss, but in Bitcoin's 13 year history it has gone from a $0 market cap to an $800B market cap, which means it is massively a net gain for people who have held Bitcoin.

Of course this changes if Bitcoin is revealed as the massive Ponzi scheme that so many HNers say it is / want it to be, but until that actually happens and BTC goes to 0, then as long as the market cap is above the cost of mining hardware it is a net gain for people who have held / continue to hold Bitcoin, not "negative sum". Negative sum would be:

(market cap - mining hardware) < 0

As pointed out by the other poster it is a bit more complicated than just market cap as market cap can be "gamed", but not really in the case of something with a healthily circulating supply, which is true of BTC at the moment.
A high end Snapdragon CPU is maybe 70$. It's unlikely they're making more than a dollar or two on a 1000$ phone.
If you want to meta-learn, there are theories about how to learn out there; for example, https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2015.18
But I didn't bring up aggressive negotiations at all: I said that withholding any information about my private, personal valuation of a prospective trade constitutes "manipulation" according to the definition given.

It's true that withholding of information can be manipulative. Either this definition left out how we are to judge this (and so failed to establish that it's "actually very clear") or you think you have a right to the private contents of my mind and 100% of the gains from trade.

> Would their definition forbid it

Our context is a discussion of good or bad norms. Technically you could want to live under bad norms.
Ask HN: How to make an extra $50k+ per year without changing jobs?
Curious if anyone here has either built a side project or started something with the explicit goal of making $50k+?

This would be in addition to holding down a 40 hour work week full-time job.
Really cool to see Saurik posting here casually. You’re work on Cydia when I was 12 years old is what got me into programming in the first place. Nice work!
Cells are self-replacing under the control of their own DNA; not pumped out of a factory. Slowly accumulating errors in the DNA can compromise the ability of cells to make good copies of themselves, potentially leading to cancer calls instead.
For off-ramps, can't you just put up a bunch of orders on something like Bisq? Slightly more work involved, but it is a totally decentralized way to do it.
Would this be suitable for mountain bike wheels?

I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be, just asking the dumb question. Plus this seems really valuable for mountain bikers, especially if you’re into downhill or enduro style riding where knocking a wheel out of true is a regular occurrence.
Positive and negative consequences are not the same thing in ethics.

Compare “kill this person to save your son’s life” with “kill this person to earn $1 million.” They’re not equivalent, even if both might be metaphorically referred to as a price.
A good notebook and pen.
It isn't rare at all for the origins of successful products to be claimed by multiple parties. I've had a first row seat to some people making off with my work and taking credit for it. Somewhat entertaining when they are asked pointed questions about how it all works and the fall right through the floor into the basement.
> You can pretty much live off of bitcoin tbh. Or at least you can spend it in a lot of places.

> - https://www.bitrefill.com/

Buying gift cards is the same as cashing out but worse in every way. Pre-converting to a limited-use intermediate currency and then spending that intermediate currency isn't the same as spending bitcoin.

> - https://crypto.com/cards

I notice that their "stake" requirements are listed in USD, not CRO, and that this runs through both Visa and Metropolitan Commercial Bank to do centralized back-end conversions into and out of their bespoke coin. It sounds a lot like the blockchain aspect adds literally nothing to the equation and is just there to ride the buzzword FOMO zeitgeist.

> - https://foldapp.com/

Same as ^ but with a different centralized backend bank and a different bespoke coin that adds literally nothing to the equation.
> Dense traffic is less safe than loose traffic.

It's not that simple. According to [1] the relationship is U-shaped, with the least accidents per million miles driven occurring at about 1500 vehicles per hour. Less traffic increased accidents number, more traffic decreased accidents number but increased average number of cars in each accident. The sweet spot was in the middle.

Additionally after a certain traffic threshold accidents stop being deadly (because of slow speed).

But the results varied depending on road types, countries, time resolution of data and weather conditions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6766193/
I Finally Installed an Ad Blocker
> it's literally as simple as closing the tab

It’s literally as simple as not putting a cigarette in your mouth and smoking it.

> I never found it so addicting that I couldn't go without it for awhile

Crazy thought but what if we had a sample size bigger than you.
Thanks for the recommendation on Bivo. I like the concept of stainless steel water bottles, but finding a good one is hard. The largest one I've had became unusable after it's stainless steel coating wore off at the mouthpiece and started imparting a rusty metallic flavor into every sip of water. The best one I've had, which did not have that problem, became unusable after it dropped on the ground and it's bottom became so bent it could no longer stand properly. I have to acknowledge that plastic bottles either don't have these problems or overcome these problems much more effectively.
Unfortunately, Swift is a completely different language with the completely different runtime. I wish they took the Java/Kotlin approach and used the same runtime.

However, it is far easier to read and learn than objective-c. All of our new software is written in Swift and we will never go back to objective-c.
You want contrarian views? I'll just give you one. I see LOTs of job listings for "full stack developers." I believe this is another way of saying, "We're too cheap to hire a good team. We just want one person who can hot dog their way through the work FAST. Screw quality. Just give us some crap that sort of works."

I've known lots of people who called themselves full stack developers. I've only known one person who I would trust to do full stack development well. And he calls himself a mobile developer.
My friend makes videos and her shorts are getting 15x the views her regular videos are getting. I think YouTube is promoting shorts hard.
...gently, for about a month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis#Treatment
So ideally this would be resolved with Instagram being convicted of aiding identity theft, right?
I think this is part of the issue. Subreddits ban people who have never participated in that sub, simply for having even a single old comment on some sub they decide is now "bad." This seems to me like something you'd want to prevent at the site level, but whatever. Where this gets tricky though is Reddit's on-the-surface-reasonable rule that if you use multiple accounts to evade a ban, even a temporary sub-level ban as opposed to a site ban, you can get banned from the site altogether. There absolutely exists a possibility that someone uses multiple accounts to access different types of content (one for tech, one for memes, one for porn), one of these accounts gets banned by a sub they've never visited, and now they trip some Reddit algorithm for evading that ban they may not even know about.

All that being said, implying that Reddit carries any sort of "societal risk" is a ridiculous statement.
I couldn’t quite get behind the initial assertion but I agree with this one, that Swift results in more complicated, clever code. Objective-C though had more convoluted, “unsafe” code (think swizzling and nil checks). I think in the end Swift requires less unit testing and is (usually) easier to read and make assumptions which increases velocity, doubly so if you can avoid being fancy (looking at you Generics).
Most people are bad at saving and investing, so housing acts like a forced savings account.

People won't be investing the difference between rent and their mortgage, they'll be using it for other expenses. Especially for anyone that's at the median or below, you're not making enough to actually save much, so the mechanism here is effective.

The most important thing is that a mortgaged house is a hedge against rent inflation, as it locks in a flat housing payment for the next 30 years. Then when you're paid off and you retire , you only have to worry about maintenance + property tax, which is cheaper than the mortgage ever was.
If you believe everyone has a price shouldn't your goal be to not find your own?

(Like, work to avoid creating the situation where you have to compromise, if possible)
> Managers must also be programmers

Probably one of the biggest factors I’ve seen in predicting the success of a software team.
This can be done without the need for a blockchain.

Adding a new technology + blockchain + a coin still makes it ponzi scheme scam, even worse when the price of this coin comes crashing down.
I think it's a bit pointless to argue about whether cryptocurrencies are Ponzi schemes or not.

What I would say is that most cryptocurrencies have no fundamental value, and are therefore bubbles. I don't know what the term is for when someone deliberately creates an asset bubble with the intention of profiting from it. It's something like a very long-form, deliberative pump-and-dump.
I just spent 8 years totally off the grid. No tech. The biggest thing I missed was Wikipedia.

Tech is what you make of it. It was depressing to tune back in and see what a mess the Web was with advertising destroying most sites. Support has gone to the birds. You used to be able to get hold of humans who could help you. Now, you're just fucked, there is no way out.

AI is starting to get scary, like we might actually make an AGI that destroys us. Even now you can do some fucked up shit using GANS to create fake videos. Take this for instance - we know Tom Cruise is fake, but is Paris a deepfake or real? I cannot tell, and I've worked in CG:

https://www.tiktok.com/@deeptomcruise/video/7060950433082182...

This shit gets better, not yearly, but monthly. Soon it'll be possible to fake anything of anybody. So AI is already taking us towards destruction. Perhaps we can turn it around and AI can be used to save us. I hope that's the end game.

Without tech though I couldn't do some awesome things, like see my loved ones on video chat half a world away. So, it's not all bad...!
I've been browsing for some tile art for a hobby project. OpenGameArt.org is a great resource with a variety of liberally licensed works by some great artists. They now have a big banner up on the site, presumably due to need:

> WARNING: Taking art from OpenGameArt.org to be sold as NFTs? You may be committing FRAUD.

https://opengameart.org/content/warning-taking-art-from-open...

https://opengameart.org/content/note-of-caution-to-nft-purch...