skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a person has enough to survive, why would they toil and labour? Just do whatever you like!

It really boils down on how many people need how much resources and how many people produce these resources. You can argue over who should be your bourgeoisie, should it be the political elite or the entrepreneurs or should it be inherited or or should it be the the people from special blood or religion or should no one be bourgeoisie and everyone should be working but you can't really argue over the resources and work done that is need to sustain a society.

You simply cannot have all the population on planet Earth retire on their savings because you cannot eat the numbers on the screen. With automation, robotics and other technologies we can increase the productivity and as a result we can afford to have greater percentage of people in leisure but we are nowhere near total machine labor. In fact, the percentage of non-working people probably is not that different than the past because despite the increase in productivity we also have increased lifespan which results in large number of retirees who consume the resources for much longer than before.

In dominant countries you might have the percentage higher and live off on imports from countries where everyone works much harder but the gap evaporates as these countries catch up.

So, the trick is to be part of a society that is so much advanced than the rest that their produce can buy off the produce of the society that relies on hard work. You can have a lot of bananas from Honduras if your society can make great apps that Hondurans love and willing to trade their bananas but this scheme falls apart when Hondurans start making their own apps and now you need to grow your own bananas.
> Here's hoping. When stocks tank, one can decide if a company is undervalued and decide whether to buy in.

Even those stocks that underwent the SPAC route that also offer no dividends and are beyond loss making to the point at which they will be delisted?

I don't see how SPACs that aren't making any money like $BZFD or $NKLA are any better than Bitcoin.

Let's hope these shady SPACs don't start repeating the ills of other non-SPACs as the tide turns bearish by losing $1B mysteriously like Wirecard or fabricating your financial reports which Luckin Coffee did.
Any recommendations as an alternative to passwords?
Sell now. Buy back when the price goes lower.

I'll be back when the bitcoin show is back in town. The lower, the better.
Can't wait for the day the anti gender neural start referring to mixed groups as "hers and hims", they will be the flat-earthers of language.
> already circulating money that government convinced people to give them in return for a promise in the form of a bond

The money printing part is not the Treasury issuing bonds (and getting money).

The money printing part is the Federal Reserve buying bonds (and giving money).
Thanks for the reply! Regarding corporate lobbying there seems to be a small relatively powerless group within the Democrats that are strongly against it, and I guess parts of the so-called alt-right fall into this category, too, but I agree that the core of both parties is strongly pro-corporate in a way that is anti-democratic. I'm re-reading a great book currently called "Why nations Fail", and looking at the US through their lense is super interesting.

The main thesis of the book is that the success or failure of nations is predicated on institutions working in a predictable way and guruanteeing broad and equal access to these institutions and the economy at large. The US was better than other countries at this for most of its existence (despite the horrible "exclusion" of non-whites and women). Today, the US seems to be slipping, and while I do agree that the Democrats aren't innocent on this either, and things like insider trading, corporate lobbying and political nepotism apply strongly to both parties, the Republicans always seem to be a bit worse (or have worse marketing).

Only having two choices in party certainly makes this way worse, but there's also the constant challenging of political norms that I would think mostly comes from the Republican side. (Although Obama was the first president to largely rule by EO, which itself is a pretty major breach of convention, and an attack on the democratic instituions)
I run a high-risk security and applied cryptography consulting firm so naturally most of my clients are in the crypto-asset industry. Multiple offer payroll in crypto-assets to all staff, and one pays all employees in it exclusively to avoid hires that do not have an interest in the space. I pay most subcontractors in Bitcoin too.

Unlike paying in company stock you do not deal with nonsense like AMT or blackout periods.

I for one am thankful for the regular clients that pay me in crypto-assets, and wish all would. It saves me having to buy from exchanges. Makes for an easy dollar-cost-averaging strategy too.
There is also the mast on the Royal Navy land based training base, HMS Ganges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSuZXlUxwbk
That's not the point. Whether OpenAI is (yet) profiting from its models doesn't change the fact that GP lacks the resources to do what OpenAI is doing.
Maybe a group of people did a thing and Samsung wanted it
It certainly seems like a mind blower - Perhaps causality is not violated if the concept of causality is actually orthogonal to the concept of time. We perceive causality to be time-dependent, but could this be an illusory constraint from our frame of consciousness?
First of all I know what you mean, and I disagree, but this isn't the issue at all. Ontology talkes about being qua being on the largest possible abstraction, so saying that merely making abstraction somehow implies whatever is beyond idiotic.
I've recently come across the haikubox[0] which uses the BirdNET dataset and optionally contributes data back to Cornell.

This is a neat little device perfect for gifts for folks who enjoy birds, but are not technical enough to run a BirdNet Pi or similar. My parents have theirs setup to ping them when certain bird species show up in the yard.

Fun project ran by passionate folks I can't recommend enough.

[0] http://haikubox.com
Unlike locks, can a second instance call the heartbeat api without acquiring the lock?
TLS1.3 removes one roundtrip. HTTP3 (QUIK) remove more by combining the TCP handshake with the TLS handshake.
Your observation is a good example of the perverse incentive. Fortunately, everyone can win in this particular scenario. If the company can pay its employees on time and doesn't care that much about minimizing costs, and managers can spread the wealth by providing jobs, then it's hardly the worst thing in the world.

Employees can also be seen as insurance against bottlenecks created by other employees. The more employees you have on hand, the less likely that a particular employee going AWOL will cause a noticeable interruption. I've seen companies make the mistake of only hiring a minimal number of engineers, for instance, and end up in a sticky situation when one of them leaves.
"[...] where the misuse of AI for spambots, surveillance, propaganda, and other nefarious purposes is already a major societal concern [...]"

I'm curious what he will do and whether for example he approves of the code laundering CoPilot tool. I also hope he'll resist being used as an academic promoter of such tools, explicitly or implicitly (there are many ways, his mere association with the company buys goodwill already).
Taking the cost of the ASIC as a sunk cost, the amount of electricity required to mine a Bitcoin to be 150 kWh, the cost of electricity being 6 cents per kWh, and ignoring overhead such as wages and rent, then the breakeven price for Bitcoin mining is $9,000 USD.

You may consider multiplying that by a factor to add some conservatism (though my estimates themselves may actually be conservative given that a lot of mining happens in country with low energy and labour prices), but it still seems like it's more profitable to keep the ASICs running than to switch them off, which is attested to by the fact the hashrate hasn't been significantly affected by the recent fluctuations in price.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...
Wasn't eve problem with these types of animations that they're good to start. But after 1000 times it's tiresome.
Experts didn’t realize parents will never have leisure time.
Can Fyne be configured/themed to look like macOS Desktop app?
This is true, but depending on how you use the hydrogen, you can fly much higher than you would with kerosene. Hydrogen burning jets would fly at around 70-80k feet, not the usual 35k that we're used to. Not to mention, the weight savings mean you cut down on the amount of fuel you need to carry, so the 'blimp' effect is overstated. One third the energy in LH2 gets you around half the distance as an equivalent volume of kerosene, because the volume of hydrogen only weighs one tenth the mass of the kerosene. So getting the same range means you need more volume, but you need less total energy to get you to the same destination because you're lofting less mass.
Scaffolding also requires certain licenses and insurance that are expensive to get in the UK, not worth it unless you are doing it full time. It is also an extraordinarily physically demanding job, which is not easy to do for someone who does not do it full time. If you look past the tatoos you will see scafolders often posess a very athletic physique, even sporting the neck and shoulder muscles that you normally only see on bodybuilders. Most general builders are happy to outsource such demanding work. It attracts a certain subset of the population, it is not particularly well paid, requires a qualification, is physically hard as stated, all weather. Therefore they don't descriminate against things that are taboo in many jobs, poor English, anger issues, heavy drinking, prison tattoos on hands and face, dyslexia, low IQ, missing employment history etc. You don't have to do a whiteboard interview, but you do have to be able to lift extraordinary weights. A standard scaffold pole is a 21ft long, heavy walled steel tube weighing around 30kg. Just you try and pick that up from one end like they do! You might manage to carry a 13ft (18kg) scaffold plank on your shoulder, but they carry them 5 or more at a time, and then lean them up against the scaffold!

To be clear, Im not saying all scaffolders are dim ex cons. They are all extremely tough though...

Btw Fred Dibnah of the video was in a very different industry of steeplejacking. This required brains and was rather better paid.
Doge's market cap is still at 7B. A lot to go still, but getting to the true value soon!
So your issue is he's doing philosophy and not doing academic philosophy? Its very refreshing having an author that is actually doing philosophy and not just talking about it or making comparative essays.
>arcane, byzantine messes that are out there

.NET MAUI is rather fresh. And it uses native controls on each platform.
Millionaire to millennials: if you want a house stop buying avocado toast (2017)
It is also a massive landmass that only had small amounts of territory in any of the war theatres (despite large populations involved)

There is always potential for that landmass and its vast resources to be stewarded well

The Soviet Union was the closest attempt of that, being able to create similar but parallel advances as the non-communist regime, but ultimately was not able to continue for predictable reasons

I can see how that perspective is worth while to consider
That first article is great! Thanks for sharing. I am on mobile so I haven’t been able to see the hover articles yet.
As a few other commenters pointed out, the perspective of many on the idea of leisure time is that it will lead to one’s destruction. This is an incredibly damaging and blind perspective on the struggles of the working class. There is no leisure time when you work a poor paying physically and emotionally demanding job and spend the other hours of the day preparing for said job (house work, eating, commuting). Work will set you free but wage slavery binds you. There is also a learned helplessness that comes with this soul crushing routine that turns you against your fellow worker and pushes them to comply with a system that only breaks you. For some, this learned helplessness is the only way to cope with the reality that your life is to serve the same 5 oligarchs that rule.
Tyler isn't particularly wealthy is he? Nowhere near a billion, unless I'm missing something.
Are you sure about this?

I think it's more like Google junior L6 SDE is equivalent Uber L4.5, which itself is about the same as senior AA at Oracle (= like a L11 at Twitter).
'OpenAI, of course, has the word “open” right in its name, ... don’t expect me to share any proprietary information'

Yeah, Mr Aaronson just lost quite a bit of respect from my side. Going into AI is a great move, moving to the ClosedAI corporation.......? Why?

(Edit: Removed an outdated reference to Elon Musk, thanks @pilaf !)
> It really seems like it’s just a way for naysayers to rain on peoples parades

Or you know, i’m not going to die to maximise your profit. You go right ahead and circumvent sane and safe working practices as long as it is only your life on the line.
The Wikipedia article [0] has a fairly accessible introduction to non-physicists like me.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_erase...
There is a proverb, may be Italian: it is better to fall from the window sill than the roof.
Large companies were moving to hotel seating and 150% occupancy buildings encouraging folks to work from home a few days a week before the pandemic. The pandemic proved efficiency doesn’t decline with work from home. In a few years once the emotions have cleared accounting will point out to the board how expensive the way the world was built. Why pay for a chair in a rented building and provide air conditioning and janitorial services? Employees already have a home and they clean their own home and pay for their own air conditioner. The boards will agree. “The way things used to be” and “building culture” and whatever other bs people use to justify will matter not at all when profit margins can be juiced a percent.
Why trust self appointed experts with no solid track records?
> I don't think it's possible to say anything definitive like this about human nature

Is itself a theory of human nature, and I think, probably amongst the implausible.

We're a species of greater ape, a vast amount can be said straightforwardly.
>Indeed, in 2006, the top twenty per cent of earners were twice as likely to work more than fifty hours a week than the bottom twenty per cent, a reversal of historic conditions.

>Just why this has happened is both a mystery and a paradox.

No paradox. One way to make more money is to work more.
This reminds me of a job that I had almost a decade ago. Arguably, it's less bullshit than the one you describe, but I think it's close. At the time, it wasn't that uncommon of a job in the animation industry.

The company was a medium-sized animation studio that at the time was doing cut-scenes for a AAA game. My job was to literally stare at a screen with a list of jobs and available computers in the "render farm" and, if any of them turned red or stopped responding, to walk downstairs and press the reset button on the corresponding box. I'd say 80% of my days were just staring at that screen. It felt like the stupidest job ever, even though there was some utility to it, but I was too inexperienced at coding at the time to automate my job.

To kill the boredom, I learned some Python and wrote a Hangman game. That's when I realized I was better off becoming a software engineer and started the career that I have now.
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Add it up as you go up. :)
As a European, that was something that I just couldn't get my head around when living in the States. People always needed to be "busy", and if it was just mowing the damn lawn again for no real reason. Almost like they feel guilty doing nothing.
Unsure why the post is downvoted, this point of view is really interesting.
Could you link some reference materials to explore this more?
"Deisgn"...
> because despite the increase in productivity we also have increased lifespan which results in large number of retirees who consume the resources for much longer than before.

The retirees in your example, with great probability, either have to rely on outside support (be it children or social security), or they will die with lots of wealth left over (aka inheritance). I hate to sound like a crummy communist, but this is a distribution problem, first and foremost.
With your first comment you are already more qualified than most current CB Governors. This current crisis has most Developed Markets going into it at 0%

The best I found was to try to raise rates during the good times so there is wiggle room during downturns.
I find it quite discouraging to see how they basically give up trying to construct code without security flaws, and instead hope for some magic hardware mitigation to rescue them.

Investing in mitigations is not free. The time and effort it takes to develop them is not available for constructing bug-free code. And once you have them, there will be even less reason to construct bug-free code. After all the magic hardware-assisted mitigations will save us now.

We've been through this before multiple times now. Someone will find a way to exploit around your mitigation, and you will then double down and come up with the next mitigation that will also be circumvented eventually.

Personally I believe that "retrofitting" security can never work well. Security must be constructed, not retrofitted. Why is this example code using raw allocations? Construct secure code by using containers, not manual allocations. This has been the recommendation for years now.
Building software that relies on an incorrect assumption sounds dangerous to me.

There's plenty of critical software in the world, some of which has real world consequences if there are bugs.
> There are plenty of opinions which deserve mockery and contempt.

Such as your opinion.
I have several fantastic things that I love doing and work makes it very hard for me to pursue them.

One of them is philosophy. There is a great deal of benefit and pleasure that a person can derive from learning about about and understanding the arguments that have been made across the centuries.

Another is physical activity. It feels great to move your body, it makes you so much happier than sitting at a desk.

Another are video games that stimulate your brain in an amazing way. Another is spending time close to nature. Another is talking and listening to people.

When I come across a person that tells me "But what would you do if you had more free time?", I realize it's like this because people can't imagine a different world. They don't know how to live freely. So they willfully fight to maintain this broken world, insisting that it's the only way.

So I do my work, try to get it done as fast as possible. I earn a lot, but my work makes no difference to anyone's life. If I could get 1/10 of what I earn but without having to perform all this theatre, it would be better for everyone.
From my point of view, the whole experience end to end counts as having a V8 class implementation, and not the bare bones runtime.

ChromeOS isn't only V8 without anything else.
Fwiw C is actually a huge abstraction over modern hardware.

It's a good representation of the PDP-11 and similar-era computers. It's also a good abstraction for modern microcontrollers.

C's view of the world is also a really poor fit for today's larger CPUs. Your computer has to jump through a ton of hoops to make itself seem C-like. C has no concept of vectorization, speculative execution, branch prediction, multiple cores, caches, MMUs, etc.

For basically any desktop/laptop/smartphone CPU, the C runtime is more like a little VM than an accurate model of the hardware underneath.
Easier said than done, whilst paying minimum wage and giving people extreme physical work to do yes...

The other thing to note is that most people who fall from height are 'unskilled workers' (remembered stat, I held a Construction Safety Certification Scheme gold card in the past) . Ie, they shouldn't have been up there in the first place. Typically people plucked out of the pub to become 'roofers'. Iirc falling through skylights was the number one cause. While we value cheap labour, safety will always be second best
> Middle managers are extremely important.

Depends on the company and what those middle managers are doing. By default, middle managers exist to manage risk and distribute blame away from senior management. When middle managers become redundant to the point where an employee has multiple bosses to report to, arguably some of those managers aren't that important. Ever see how, in Office Space, the protagonist has multiple managers bug him when he makes a minor error? That's common in a lot of mediocre companies, and is something I and others I know have experienced at one point or another.
> BLM seems to clearly be a US election phenomena rather than a general desire to fix things.

Being one of the few levers that citizens have to pull, it is unsurprising that elections create stir over issues that are perpetually important.

Nevertheless with respect to the trend chart, correlation ≠ causation. The spring/summer peak in BLM activity was temporally related to the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Were other factors involved? Likely; but it would take more social science to tease out, rather than Google trends.

> I have no horse in this race

Maybe not in a direct political sense. I don’t live in the U.S. either; but the BLM protests in my country pointed to a moral solidarity that transcends political boundaries. “Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
But

1. This technique prevents undefined behaviour, by halting whenever an invalid dereference is detected. While Rc is a garbage collection algorithm. So you are comparing apples and oranges, no?

2. Rc is a bad gc algorithm. How does this compare to a good quality, generational, incremental gc?
I would even say that you need leisure and slacking off to discover what you actually want to do.
>I thought train emergency brakes were capable of fully locking the wheels

They don't. That'd cause drift and derailment.
I think the topic is quite nebulous but I recall some articles on these issues here on HN that reached the front page. I recall something about historical ratio of the non-working elites being about the same and societies crumbling over that threshold.
This is kind of a bizarre take.

I don’t know anyone who would call “painting, writing poetry, playing sports with kids, learning an instrument” slacking off.

And having lived in both wealthy communities and among poor communities in developing countries it amazing the general mood among the poor seems to ve much more positive and less anxious and neurotic.

My interpretation is humans thrive when they have a purpose and for many people work is a purpose either what they produce themselves or what they use their gains for - family, children, building a future.

And when there is no purpose and there is no need to do anything, many people become lost and fall into negative self-harm.

So no, it’s not that work is a requirement, but productivity in whatever does seem a natural fit for humans.
It was a picture book of donuts.
Help me understand time travel debugging. If the code has side effect and/or depend on external dependencies, how does it work? E.g. A cron that parses CSV, move the file to folder Done, and generate PDF and email it.