skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing you left out is your personal life. Are you seeing anyone or have a group of close friends? From my experience, professional stuff can only take you so far. It's enough to get you through you early/mid 20s but by the time you approach 30, its woefully inadequate to provide meaning to your life. The most meaningful things in my life revolve around my significant other and family. I don't there is any job, project or hobby you can pick up to life you from your rut. But I think taking a personal inventory of your meaningful relationships in life would be a first step to getting to a better place. Then figure out where you want to be and how to get there.
Can't imagine this is a practical solution.
“Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Rust lacking some of these makes it a somewhat unfriendly language to write libraries in.
Low interest rates are good for housing developers too, so the question is why it hasn't resulted in more new homes being built?

Perhaps one reason is that they did build a lot of housing in 2008 and got burned? (At least, in less fashionable places.)
Plenty of observations and suggestions in the comments, but most missing the core issue: we turned housing into a retirement scheme, and encouraged investment, which of course inflated prices.

We then concocted a lot of policies to sustain demand, and hamper supply, the keep this scheme afloat.

Housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment.
Why none of my [Cory Doctorow's] books are on Audible
There's a large body of economic literature arguing that competition breeds efficiency and better service. Granted it's only starting to grapple with the question of how to regulate the new economy - c.f. Lina Khan's paper on Amazon which made quite an impression [1]

So it's not clear that breaking up a digital marketplace monopoly would result in shittier products, tho I agree that the theory is less clear cut than in the case of more traditional businesses.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170405144903/http://www.yalela...
Because it's Americans doing stuff in America, where everyone has, in theory, the same
economic opportunities so they can do what they want with their money independent from their state. It's the same country.

It's where they live, make their money and pay their taxes so they're free to spend it there as they please, so the housing
and societal issues high earners cause stays internal instead of exporting it to others countries with lower purchasing power where the locals have fewer economic opportunities than Americans.

People from Florida can also easily go and work top paying jobs in CA, while foreigners outside of the US can't just walz in and get high paying CA jobs whenever they want due to visa issues and other barriers put in place. That's the difference.
It's not that expensive to build housing in the middle of nowhere. The issue is that people want to live where close to their job, close to good schools etc.
Weird, I came to a different conclusion after reading the article. There's already a graceful solution to non-monotonic time, which mitigates most of the problems: smear, don't leap. Only, it's not a universal solution, so various systems are out of sync during the smear. Solution: petition for a standardized smearing strategy. But yeah, leave "leap" seconds in the past.

And, maybe, don't run sub-second benchmarks with a wallclock.
1) Think about getting a new job. If your current job isn't bringing you satisfaction, find another. There are many other there and you can get one that is better than your current job. Don't doubt yourself - you can do it.

2) It's ok to not work on a game on the side. Do you have a clear vision for it? does that vision excite you? if no, either work on the vision, or find a vision that does. Or do something else entirely - maybe that's not the right side project for you.

3) What do you do for fun? I'd recommend not doing things like playing video games or watching tv too much - as relaxing as it can be, its ultimately not productive use of time. Is there a skill you can teach yourself? I've been doing drawing/painting, and amateur music production. I suck at both still, but I'm getting better, and making progress feels good.

4) How are your relationships in life? How are your finances? It might be that your negative feelings aren't due to work, or your video game, or seinfeld reruns - those might be a side effect of the real things impacting your mood and behaviour.

5) cut back on the weed for a while nad see how you feel. the weed is a coping mechanism - when it becomes whata you look forward to, it becomes problematic. take 2-4 weeks break. find a way to exist without being high and still emotionally stable. After a month you might find you dont really miss it.
Setting aside geographical variation, I'd like to understand better is how much of this problem is due to:

a) Not enough housing supply to meet population demand (in a purely physical people-in-homes allocation sense)

vs.

b) Too much housing wealth tied up in boomer ownership (e.g. overly large houses with just 2, 1, or even 0 people living in them most of the time)

In other words, to what extent does the solution correspond to:

a) We absolutely need to build more, there's no other way

vs.

b) Significantly higher redistributive taxes (e.g. land/property taxes, wealth taxes) to incentive people to both "right-size" their living situation as well as compensate for how lucky the boomer generation happened to be in terms of housing

I'm sure the answer is "both" to some extent, but I'm just wondering if there's hard data that actually compares the two rather than just opinion.
Since you mention it McDonalds kiosks specifically, here's my UX observation.

It takes 10 touch screen presses to order and pay for a single item, also having to locate touchpoints (not always buttons?) which move up and down by several ft.
And this is, in fact, the realized effect of the squeezing of the entire middle class over the past decades.
The main problem with visible light is it's absorbed and scattered by dust. It's Webb's ability to see through all that dust in the IR spectrum that reveals a huge amount of information and images Hubble and our eyes would never be able to see.
>What's to be Done with a Fleeting Note?

Is there a good way to share fleeting notes in a social network? It would be nice if good thoughts could live on their own and spread across the boundaries of minds and recombine themselves without having to be put into a solid form first.

Twitter seems to be a good start but with the focus on followers and trending tags, it seems like tweets are lost in time if they are not immediately getting attention.
There's also the difference in transmissibility between the original virus and the later variants. Contact tracing something with an R0 of 5 is a different matter than tracing one of 15.
Seems that the free market is determining that securing an open financial network benefits society more.
How's your at home aluminum refining going? I unfortunately haven't had much luck monetizing my at home hydrogen electrolysis plant :(
I'll try a simple analogy: imagine that your goal is to consume as much corn as possible. (A silly goal for many reasons, but that's a different discussion.) You have all of the corn that you've grown to eat, and then there's the seed corn you would need to plant in order to eat more corn in the future. If you decide to eat the seed corn as well, you will eat more corn in the immediate future, and then much less corn after that. Clearly limits to consumption are sometimes necessary in order to maximize consumption over the long term, even if you grant the premise that maximizing consumption is desirable.
I hope you're not thinking about forcing people into this - and if not, what's stopping you from just starting the initiative right now?
Today I learned about the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen fusion cycle:

https://www.britannica.com/science/CNO-cycle

Apparently you don't create oxygen in stars by smashing two beryllium together.

Edit: interestingly, this article provides a different path, claiming C + He = O

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1727-how-elements-...
That's a very funny take. Have you looked for example at the mobile gaming industry?

Diablo Immortal recently made hundreds of millions of dollars by using every psychological trick in the book in terms of marketing in-game.

Do you think Activision-Blizzard considers this a loss just because some games journalists and annoyed gamers are complaining?

Or do you think people really needed to literally spend thousands of dollars on in-game items?
Unfortunately this is far from new. I tried fighting it for years and just gave up. Save yourself the grief. We already lost.
How about an exponential land tax? Own one property: no tax. Own two: 1 percent tax on each. Own three: 2 percent on each. Own four: 4 percent on each. Own five: 8 percent on each. Still allows for genuine homeownership, a home in a place convenient for work and a holiday home an achievable aspiration for high performers whilst making mass property ownership uneconomical.
Yes. It's the exact same business model, even though Nintendo did have to contend with retail partners instead of an online store.
FCC fines Charter, LTD Broadband more than $3M for RDOF defaults
I think it’s a technological challenge. Getting the information you need, when you need it. It’s semantic search, squared. A whole sequence of challenges:

1) Understanding what the user wants and needs without him needing to type out the full context.

2) Having a database of all the world’s information extracted from sources.

3) A search algorithm that brings query and data together in the way the user expects, including ranking the results.

We have marketing because such a system does not exist. (We also have it because most people do not know what they want, and do not care to formulate a proper question, and instead want somebody else to tell them what they should desire.)
>This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think that decentralized DNS, and decentralized naming in general, is one of the few use cases that can be neatly solved by a blockchain, but is extremely hard to solve any other way.

It's an unpopular opinion because it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Here, let's go through it piece by piece:

>A major problem when designing a decentralized naming system, or any naming system at all really, is preventing malicious users from grabbing all the cool names for themselves.

This has nothing to do with malicious users. Any system that allows users to exclusively claim names permanently (or semi-permanently) will have this problem. Even if you invented a way to define and eject all malicious users out of DNS, domain names like facebook.com and youtube.com would still be highly contended and expensive, because of the inherent demand of those names in the current market.

>The only way to do this is to make acquiring domains costly

No, that wouldn't exclude malicious customers, it would only exclude customers who don't have a lot of money. You'd just select for the customers who are both malicious and wealthy.

>and blockchains are a perfect way to enforce that in a decentralized manner.

In practice, blockchains aren't decentralized at all. This much was obvious to anyone involved, since the first bitcoin mining pool formed in 2010. By making the system costly to join, you're only accelerating the process of centralization.

>Other problems include accurately tracking domain ownership and letting the owners transfer domains to others, which cryptocurrencies have solved long ago.

Cryptocurrencies didn't solve this and never will. A blockchain isn't legally binding, so tracking ownership just can't be done there. At best, you can have something that's an approximation of ownership, but still requires a trusted authority (i.e. an oracle) to make the final say on what the ownership actually is.

>As an added benefit, because all domains in such a system are owned by a public key, we suddenly no longer need a root of trust for TLS, instead, we accept any TLS certificate signed by that public key.

This is just shifting the problem. Now instead of worrying about trusting the root, you have to worry about trusting every single key out there, and make an individual decision for each of them.
I think Python's original take on kitchen sink was relatively small language with large "batteries included" standard library.
Sturgeon's Law applies in every endeavor.

Once you work with good marketing people, it becomes clear that most are terrible, or worse.

I once worked with a "marcom" (marketing communications) person who was absolutely gifted. Completely remade the company's image with branding, copy, and misc materials. They some how created tasteful, engaging stuff with a very small budget.

I once worked with a genius "bizdev" (business development) marketing person who worked magic. Surveys, determined market size, competitive analysis, turned some cranks to magically determine price points, budgeting, etc. All the stuff that feeds into sound (quantifiable) strategy and product planning.

Older me tries (struggles) to not denigrate other professions, just because most of the practitioners are bozos.
I only skimmed the article, but many sections, with the glaring exception being diet and epilepsy, mentioned a Mediterranean style diet, and looking closer at the studies cited it seems like the Mediterranean diet proposed by Low-Carb Satan Ancel Keys.

But I didn't read it too closely. One of my favourite YouTubers just released a video on the subject: https://youtu.be/FleMtTEEYlc
Not all monopolists are equally efficient at managing their monopolies. Especially monopolies that can bail themselves out by forcing people to subsidize their losses.
> empowered NIMBYISM and nonsense “environmental impact” rules

dangerously oversimplified

source: professional urban planners

we AMPLIFY the rhetoric because, yes, you (and I) want to be heard. UrbanPlanning is not new! as well as ugly and counter-productive tactics on all sides of this debate.
You can certainly repay those loans. Corporations do that all the time, they're called "buybacks".
Agreed. The very existence of the IDEA of marketing has depressing implications -- you are always going to see what the top bidder or the person with the best SEO wants you to see, rather than what you want to see, at least as long as players like google are king. I remember the pre-marketing internet economy of the late 90s and early 00s and oh boy was it nicer than this shiny turd.

What's worse is the pages with the best ROI tend to be scams, so you're basically guaranteed to see scams because they can always afford to out-bid on their relevant keywords.
Socialist hands types this
I sort of get it. Looking back, I had 6 friends who were adamant that they would absolutely 100% never have kids. A decade later 3 are happy parents and a 4th is expecting.

Now from a 22 year old's perspective, this is a terrible argument, and I understand they would be upset.
There are variants of STM32 that are 90nm. A 90nm foundry was just announced. Not sure if they’re planning on making STM32s, probably not, but there are non-leading edge foundries being run and more are being made.

Here is an announcement from this month

https://www.eetimes.com/skywater-to-build-1-8-billion-fab-in...
One of my favorite tricks (from CPU designers I worked with) was to "poison" requests or pieces of data and pass them on, instead of trying to return them immediately after an error. At first it seems like it's just wasting cycles, but often "turning around" the control flow at a particular point can require all sorts of code contortions especially when locking is involved. Letting things flow to a point where it's easier to turn around - like turning around in a parking lot instead of in the middle of the street - has drastically simplified error handling in several codebases I've worked on. It's like soft deletes, but for data in flight instead of data at rest.
Capital will do it, no problemo

The main thing that impedes is is regulatory/zoning limitations

And while I'm mostly in favour of code limits (so, minimum size, insulation requirements, fire-proof requirements, etc) most of the impeding regulations are things like maximum height size, blocking developments based on the "character of the area" (read: NIMBYS complaining) etc
>Imagine each consumer having to maintain relationships with ... tens of farmers

Farmers' markets are great.
So there is not enough land for all? Have you considered building a new town and you couldn't find land?
The reason most young engineers think this way is 1) they think their work is self-evident and doesn't require demand creation, 2) their management does not engage with marketing and therefore can't convey the value down, and 3) confuses "growth hacking" and "advertising" with the broader work that marketing supports.

...and for the records, they're completely justified here. They have a lot on their plate as a new engineer and this is not an area that has immediate value to them.
> Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven't quite figured out how.

Yeah, ditto but having been through these ruts many times in the past I can offer some advice

ADHD makes you incapable of settling into easy

You have work to do but it's easy.
You have a side project but you've figured out the hard parts
and so it's just the implementation grind, which is easy.

Find a challenge

switch your side project to a whole new tech stack.
find a new job that you're not quite qualified for.
take on job responsibilities at your job that you don't know how to do.
mentor someone.

I also find going to meetups and conferences gets the spark back sometimes
The Dealer Markup Package maybe?

I don't know how true this is today, but as recently as a few months ago I knew of some people that were paying $10,000 dealer markups on Kia Telluride, but that particular vehicle seems to be especially notorious for shenanigans like this.
I think trying to define class by income isn't possible. It should be defined by quality of life I think. That allows for relative lower middle and upper classes. Being a land owner and employer in a tiny town makes you relative upper class even if you're making 75k a year. While as someone else pointed out 127k a year in NYC qualifies you for rent-stabilized apartments, obviously not upper class.
light EVs are massive improvement https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/planet/are...
Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
The US is nowhere near the point where population density/pressure is an explanation for the affordability problem. Outside of NYC and Chicago there are very few parts of the country as dense as anything in Europe.
I dunno, this just makes me think of all the "where did the soda go?" infomercial memes.
While you're right in part, I think you're missing how today everyone want to move in only a few cities and small town economies are dying in many countries.

This doesn't address in this global ponzi scheme how banks are fueling the competition between home buyers by dumping toxic credit, and how wage stagnation makes it impossible to escape this trap.

No solution is possible that doesn't wipe hundreds of billions of asset value from banks and homeowners, and we need to accept that.
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How are people going to find someone to mow their lawn at 40$ a month or raise their children with under-the-table tax free payments without immigration? How do we drive down tech salaries without immigration? How do we subsidize fast food and farmers without immigration?

No thank you.
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Idempotent, in which way? Do you perhaps mean immutable?
> Also, I have ADHD. This is probably relevant, but I haven't quite figured out how.

Are you medicated for this? I got diagnosed with AHDH last year. The doctor I'm seeing specializes in ADHD and OCD and they have found in their experience that there are kind of two forms of ADHD. One is the hyper active part giving struggles to focus. The other is a motivation side of it where it's difficult to even get started on tasks. For me it was certainly the latter and the techniques + the medication I have now have really helped me feel productive and motivated again (inside of work and in my free time).

Would really suggest seeking help with the ADHD.
The issue is that a freedom is only a freedom for those who can afford it, afford escaping from the consequences of it in the case of freedom of speech. A person of color from the deepest recesses of the Bible belt can go to Harvard, can...

Academic freedom does matter, yes, but Academia isn't an ivory tower of neutrality. It shouldn't be. First because it should not be shielded from the consequences of its output, second because it should help advance mankind -- a political aim in more than a few regards.

Economics for instance has shown in multiple occasions that it is biased, toxic, and lacking diversity, pushing on towards ideology [1]. Academic Freedom does matter, but freedom appears vacuous when it only grants -- quite literally in terms of research -- the same ideas, the same people, the same social groups the whole spotlight.

[1] https://youtu.be/mwojD0iHS4U
"It’s tempting to stop the story here and conclude that the problem is that lawmakers are either clueless or evil, or possibly evilly clueless. This is not a very satisfying place to go, because it’s fundamentally a counsel of despair; it suggests that our problems cannot be solved for so long as stupidity and evilness are present in the halls of power, which is to say they will never be solved."

Sadly I think occam's razor applies here past this statement.
So you don't bleed money and could find yourself out on the street with 2 months' notice.
The solution is to get medicated with the right medicine for you if you truely have adhd
We're not talking about skyscrapers, which have serious infrastructure requirements and need to be planned.

We're talking about low-rise apartment buildings.

Perhaps if I rephrased your statement as "If the community doesn't want poor people and minorities - you can't have poor people and minorities" you'd better understand why this is a morally bankrupt argument. Given the price of housing, it's effectively the same thing.
Yeah because car accidents didn't exist until Musk came along. Get real. Show stats of accidents per 100k miles or gtfo
I think bullshit is technically the correct term for that "make people feel superior" nonsense. Bullshit being "statements produced without particular concern for truth, to distinguish from a deliberate, manipulative lie intended to subvert the truth".

What if we just trusted people to decide for themselves when the 10% improvement is good enough for them to switch? Rather than, say, manipulating them via cognitive flaws so that we can fill our own pockets.
In the article Doctorow talks about both surveillance and regulatory concerns, like vehicle safety and the ability to create weapons with 3D printers. If there was a law requiring surveillance backdoors in operating systems (as he speculated repressive governments would enforce with UEFI) then both are about law-breaking programs.
The first ten minutes or so of Apocalypse Now. Take your pick.
Only one drug has been even provisionally approved--Aduhelm--and that approval is so mired in controversy that everyone is refusing to pay for it, so I doubt its company has made even a million dollars in revenue off of it.

No, Alzheimer's has been a multibillion dollar sinkhole for drug development cash with absolutely nothing to show for it.
Great thoughts.

But I think the distinction between push and pull is not so clear. When I want to pull information, at some point I have to query the world (because I don't have direct indexing into the world's knowledge). The response to that query is bound to be a powerful push of some sort, purely evolutionarily speaking.