skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One would think people would have more freedom and will explore life far more than today and get into philosophical stuff. But the reality is messy. Imagine a single individual who leads quite a busy life and yearns to have some free time to be more "free" and do things that matter. You know what happens when that person gets whole lot of free time? They are not sure about what to do and it takes a lot to start doing something new. If this happens on a large scale, I'm really not sure that it'll make the world a better place to live. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but people would have ample lot of time to do more useless political stuff like manipulate, influence others for their own gain.

There's this anime called Log Horizon which kind of plays this scenario out. Everyone gets stuck in this metaverse sort of game where people generally come for fun. Once stuck, people start killing each other and doing random things because they don't know what to do. There's no purpose in their "life".
> But not your right to ensure that nobody can hear.

Exactly. On social networks, the block button is there for anyone to use if you don't want to hear it.
> Crusader Kings III doesn’t actually feature any states in the narrow sense of the word; none of these rulers have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force

I find this kind of adaptations incredible interesting. Most games look at the past with modern eyes and create duplicates of all institutions from Judges to teachers. But it is not as simple as that.

I hope to see more this kind of approach in more movies and other mass media, even if it could be more historical accurate.
The US already spends more per Capita for healthcare. I truly believe a tax increase won't be necessary, it's a matter of creating a sound plan that offers coverage to everyone using what we already spend on Healthcare.

Regulate pharma pricing, cut the insurance companies as middlemen (they make $10's of billion in profit and their CEOs get paid millions), and make medical school affordable, even subsidize it if necessary.

All of these issues we can sit here and discuss for hours have solutions, change will only happen when we all agree that healthcare is a human right, and shouldn't be tied to a job.
This isn’t an answer, but another question. Is there anything that you would consider to be “a company taking advantage of workers” short of direct physical coercion?
Some passengers got this wrong, but the Titanic did broke in two. It's hull girder couldn't tolerate much bending, as the water filled the front of the ship, it started to break after the stern was up 15 degrees. One passenger claims that he even heard when it first snapped. Many witnessed the ship breaking in two and sinking. Later we found the wreckage that also confirmed it.
Might I suggest you kill the stronger person forcing you to be raped in their sleep to escape and then having to pay $150000 to their estate.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/iowa-teen-ordered-to-pay-her-alle...
Someone here's going to need to explain "safe" and "laters" to this Yank
I Sold Baremetrics (2020)
It takes a few seconds (haven't timed it), but I suggest doing it online at dreamstudio.ai. Paying about one cent per image isn't so bad.
"Please shrink width of browser to use the app!"

Say what?
The phenomenon is better explained by:
much higher arrest rates -> fewer people doing it -> fewer people to arrest -> lower arrest rates.
I think the first misnomer is calling it employment, calling Uber driving a job. It is self-employment at the moment, it is running a business. People starting their own business should be doing the math ahead of time, understanding costs and income. Uber attempts to obscure information around pay where you do not always know what you are being paid, and makes it hard to tell when you are running at a loss. By controlling pricing and access Uber takes business decisions away from drivers while at the same time calling them independent.
Ubuntu's Zsys for OpenZFS Linux Installs Sees First Update in a Year
Excellent list. Another thing I'd add is size asymmetry. Markets and negotiations work best when deal participants are of roughly equal power. That's rare with labor; people tend to have 1, maybe 2 jobs, while companies tend to have a lot more employees. Bad-actor companies can devote a lot more attention and effort to screwing people over than workers can to figuring out the situation.

That means if we want optimal outcomes, we need things like labor regulation and unions to balance the asymmetries.
Interventions should be focused on dampening the spring action - less rich "rich people" and less poor "poor people". I think there is an argument that could be made to consider these policies from an overall "growing of the pie" perspective. IE, do these policies inhibit total growth and make everyone worse off? However, my limited understanding is this is essentially trickle down economics and the evidence this occurs (versus rich people hoarding wealth) is limited. So I'm open to the argument but it would need quite a bit of rigor.
Rust is absolutely an alternative to C. The fact that Rust currently depends on C libc on some platforms is a pure implementation detail, and I believe there is ongoing work to remove that dependency.
> But there are always pressure to reduce public "costs" to reduce taxes.

You are right for some definition of this; but in Sweden people are very happy to pay tax even if it's a lot, because they see themselves as getting a lot back for it.

That's not true when everything is mismanaged and underfunded though; which is the current case. Healthcare is in the grips of private hands for other reasons in Sweden, and that's that the healthcare system doesn't pay well for directly employed doctors- this leads to everyone working for the private health services and since there is a dearth of doctors working for the government: they must hire these companies.
You’re right - perhaps it’s normal for people who can read and listen to music at the same time.
> industry of employee Uber drivers prior to Uber

Wow, you really did a good job of accounting for the aggregate labor supply/demand dynamics right there. There was no Uber before Uber therefore Uber is great! You heard it here first, people!

> These positions fall apart under even the most cursory examination.

Right back atcha.
The industrial revolution and the beginnings of a global liberal trade order pretty substantially changed the shape of the world's economic system, even if sometimes people call predecessor systems like mercantilism a kind of capitalism.

But if you want to extend the time horizon to 400 years (ie. to the beginning of the end of feudalism) that's still not that long in the grand scheme of things.

That said I don't really know if I buy that we're in that system anymore either; I think history books will probably eventually recognize a shift starting around the collapse of Breton Woods and that we're currently in a long and increasingly painful transitionary period that we're in denial about to something we can't yet describe.

But I Am Not An Economist (nor do I want to be one), so who knows.
But that is a different argument. People can have an irrational fear against something new and protest purely from those fears not with logic.
That might be the case for nuclear power too. I don't know all the factors but I would also rather see nuclear power instead of burning coal.
It is just that I do not buy that people protest against it because conciously or subconsciously they know it is the answer to the problem and fear of becoming irrelevant.
This is luddites that fear that progress would stop their livelihood.
And then you have the costs incurred by forced pregnancy and forced child birth and forced child rearing. None of which are covered by the states forcing it.
China presence is significant in emerging markets
Two reasons from my perspective, other than my ears are getting older:

1. The sound mix has a huge dynamic range now, and lots of action scenes are mixed in with quiet conversation. Set the volume down, and you miss the dialogue. Set the volume up, and you wake up the neighbors.

2. Dialects and accents seem to be more prevalent in content, and CC helps to cut down the cognitive load of “translation” while being entertained. Frankly, I enjoy the diversity of content, but I don’t want to have to work hard to watch TV.
Any employer who pays less than the cost of living is effectively transitioning that cost to the state and should pay the difference to the state (or, easier, to the worker). Otherwise we're effectively subsidizing these companies and food delivery isn't something the state should subsidize.
I didn’t read this as a rebuttal, it’s pointing out the logical fallacies in the structure of the GP’s argument, so criticising it for not offering a rebuttal is slightly missing the point. They certainly aren’t saying that Uber drivers are in an identical situation to slaves.
Chat that allows you to find people near you
Global Cryptocurrency Adoption Index
I don't think the Affordable Care Act made things worse overall. People without jobs can get health insurance (how they afford it, nobody knows), and people with preexisting conditions can get coverage, which is actually a really big deal. (As an aside, there is an interesting Vice documentary about how people in red states hate Obamacare but love the Affordable Care Act. Many people getting medical attention for the first time in their lives. That's a win. We just need to get over the "us vs them" mentality around healthcare.)

Being extremely selfish for a moment, I can see the argument for how it got worse. For ultra-rich software engineers like us, yup, it got worse. There are basically the same number of doctors as there was before the ACA, but now more people can see them. This means you have to wait for appointments. I also think that medicine got ultra-industrialized What insurance covers and how much also decreased for us ("Cadillac tax" or something). I don't have many medical needs but I can tell you my insurance company tends to deny everything and you have to file 300 appeals if you even walk past a medical complex. It didn't used to be like that. But in the end, it doesn't really matter. You get paid a shit ton of money, sometimes you spend it on medical treatment.
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Herb is great. Glad he's thinking about this.
C++ syntax is garbage and needs help, but why deviate so much from existing syntax? Why drop curly braces?
The decision to allow mixing new/old C++ syntax in the same file seems like a gross mistake that prevents a more incremental fix of the language.
Why the heck doesn't it support defining classes yet? Is it because of the aforementioned requirement to intermix new/old syntax?

I hope efforts like this continue, as we all know something is broken in C++ syntax. I think it can be fixed with tweaks and some breaking of backwards compatibility in the same source module.
> If you want to argue that it's fair that some people are rich while some people are poor, there has to be some natural inherent difference between the rich and the poor.

Would you consider it immoral if a thousand people of equal economic status chose to participate in a lottery where they each paid in 1% of their money, and then one person, selected at random, won all of it?

Does your answer change if it's a chess tournament instead of a lottery?
I had Stable Diffusion running on m1 and intel macbooks vein the first few days, but the original repo would have done people some favors if they either created proper conda lock files for several platforms or just used conda-forge instead of mixing conda and unnecessarily (I think there was one dep which actually wasn’t on conda-forge, besides their own things)

(and actually made the code independent of cuda)
I just read his post; thanks for sharing!
Ask HN: How to deal with side-project fatigue, incl. hobbies, etc.?
Currently I am in somewhat of a predicament, in that I have so many things I want to do in a day, after work, but once I finally have the time, I'm unable to choose and just start to aimlessly surf or go to bed early. These things include gaming, learning specific things like a new language, creating a blog post, working on personal website, woodworking, more sports, list goes on and on. This has become more and more severe as time goes on for me, and leads to a form of regret that I've again wasted time.

How do you deal with this? How can I focus on one specific think after work?
>memory safety would just be another type of bug

A bug that can be costly to reproduce and fix and has the affect of terrible UX and losing unsaved progress. If I had to choose a category of bugs to tolerate memory safety bugs would be near the bottom of the list.
It's not a helpful description of the situation when obama was elected with all that, because similar to today there were needed democrats who were against those policies. Just like today Manchin or Sinema can block anything they want even thought they are "democrats". Remember one of the required senators for obamacare was from Nebraska and he personally blocked a national health insurance plan, and he still lost office in the next election - he was using the fact he killed it as a "reason to vote for him".

So saying dems had a supermajority and they could do anything they want is wrong, just like the dems have 50 + 1 and they can do things with majority votes - no they can't.

I don't think healthcare is worse now than then. My mom was very ill when obama was president, and she couldn't get health care. She got free healthcare from the hospital. She died of cancer a few year later. Yeah, I was helping her, but she would have been better off if obama care had been available for her.

The dems cannot fix it because they don't have a sufficient number of votes in congress. Even if they got to 60 in the senate to vote over the filibuster, they'd still need a few more because of Sinema and Manchin.

The dems have a majority now, and they are going to having trouble passing a budget funding gap fix in december. Let me repeat that - they have a majority and they will struggle to avoid a govt shutdown. https://rollcall.com/2022/09/16/conservatives-ire-over-stopg...

Let
This quote is indeed the heart of the argument and is indeed dumb. Citation or no, calling Twitter a monopolist of the public square is absurd, when it is used by less than 1/4 of American adults and occupies only a fraction of their attention. And if it is a monopoly, the antitrust solution is to break it up, not to solve one specific complaint about it by forcing it (and it's employees) into specific performance they disagree with.

Twitter's not special, it's just a useful platform that a few people would love to force into broadcast their messages.
My point is that for large important financial amounts, irrevocable transactions are terrible UX.

For instance, my retirement now such as it is, remains pretty safe. I would have to read some financial meme (in the old sense of reproductive ideas) online and go thru a number of complex paper work steps to remove it from the boring fiat place it is now and send it to a much riskier place. The massive too big to fail institution could fail and not have 401ks bailed out, or society could collapse.

If it were some digital wallet, I could loose it just by signing something unrelated to “take all my money” with my private key and boom my wife and my self and my kids and other dependents are SOL.

Given that I have to trust society not to fail anyways to enjoy “stored value” where all value is embodied in and protected by society, i can’t find a way in which the irrevocable transactions benefit me more than the risk of my own laxness and occasional errors endangers the well being of my loved ones.
> C++ is (I'm guessing) currently holding up an order of magnitude more applications than whatever you think is better than it.

So what. No one's going to rewrite all of those million lines of code in New C++, or whatever they call this incompatible syntax. It's just a distraction from more relevant efforts.
Wow. May I ask what country and what bank? Do you know why they do this?
Just to be clear, your argument is basically that no employer can ever take advantage of any employee/worker, by definition?
Tell that to the fish, buddy, tell it to the fish.

Oh, wait, you can’t because they’re all dead now!

Now stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Mmmm. Smoked salmon.
If it's a natural person, then they can do it with their own time and money. This is not what we've seen in the post-CU political financing world: we've increasingly seen opaque corporate structures where unknown individuals ply unknown amounts of money (collected from the labor of people who almost certainly wouldn't approve it directly) into races.

CU does nothing to protect the free expression of individuals; it has markedly diminished the expressive power of individuals in the political sphere in favor of opaque and legally established (rather than natural) entities.

> So you are only against Citizens United as applied to big and powerful corporations, but are totally fine with it with less powerful corporations? Say, you totally support the actual plaintiff, the Citizens United organization, in its right to publish the movie that was the subject matter in the case?

I don't know if this is intentional on your part, but you're dropping a key piece of context: Citizens United (the organization) is a PAC, with extraordinarily wealthy corporate financiers. It's not some kind of scrappy outfit with a handful of unpaid undergraduate interns, and it would not exist independent of the corporate interests that use it as a more palatable front for political influence ("Koch Interests Action Campaign" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it, I think).

> Should government also have a right to restrict speech of individuals if they are rich and powerful enough?

Frankly, there should be no private financing of elections at all. But that's not realistic.

Realistically: rich and powerful people have the exact same right to engage in electoral politics as everyone else, and there is no immediately feasible way to stop them from dominating those politics via their wealth and power. What we can do is make those attempts at domination as transparent as possible. Rulings like CU directly stand in the way of electoral transparency.
That's good to know as I just got a good deal on one and was wondering if the AMD GPU would be useful or if I needed to start planning for an eGPU with some NVidia silicon. Thanks!
"The ultimate decider of policy in a democracy is the average citizen. The people who decide our government policy don't have access to the primary source material of science."

Often they do - quite a lot of stuff is open access. The biggest issue with getting people to read scientific papers is the demonization of those who actually do it. A lot of papers are terribly misleading so the moment outsiders start engaging with the literature they conclude a lot of science is junk, and when they act on that they're immediately attacked as "science deniers" ... by the sort of people who don't read papers, because they are convinced they don't need to.

Getting more stuff as open access will only accelerate the decline in trust in science, by allowing more people to see what's going on behind the curtain. That is not necessarily an issue, but just so you're aware of that - it isn't going to lead to lots of people suddenly basing policy on scientific papers. It's going to lead to a lot of scientists getting defunded.
The consequences of this law aren’t very clear, especially in the post Citizens United world where scotus has established that corporations have first amendment rights that are protected by constitution. Now, if a corporation is in some sense required to carry someone’s message due to some law, that gets into (arguably) the realm of forced speech.

Don’t get me wrong, I think Citzens United is a horrible ruling, and this whole fiasco just further shows the “rules for thee but not for me” doctrine the Republican Party has been operating for the past 25 odd years.
> Why this reticence to opening the project and have others play with it

I heard this recently: open projects are like Good Will Hunting but in reverse. You start as a respected genius, and end up as a janitor getting into fights.
I'd like to discuss whose responsibility it should be to ensure citizens have access to basic income (to purchase food and shelter) and healthcare. Is it: 1) the government 2) corporations or 3) nobody?

Currently, it's the government's responsibility if you're unemployed. And, it's the corporations' responsibility if you're employed. As a result, you have corporations that are trying to skirt the responsibility by claiming that their workers are not actually employees.

But, why do we rely on corporations to provide basic income and healthcare to BEGIN with? Isn't it better if the government provides a social safety net to ANYONE (employed or unemployed)?
All it took was the Eu telling those companies that those were employees, not contract workers and the companies had to give them full rights. ~6 months later, the US regulators 'just' see the light...
The article says:

>The largely 2-1 ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

And at the end:

>(This story corrects to largely 2-1 ruling in second paragraph)

I don't understand this. What does "largely" mean here? Was it a 2-1 decision or not? Why the qualifier?
>these analogies don't map well to the gig worker's economic position.

They do though. Gig workers are almost always in a very economically precarious position which Uber takes advantage of in precisely the same way that employers of indentured servitude do.

If the US had full employment and decent unemployment benefits (like it used to) jobs like these wouldnt exist.
> While you can indeed re-grow wood, combusting it at scale maintains an equilibrium level of CO₂ in the atmosphere (which causes climate change.

True but meaningless.

Sitting in my deck chair also maintains an equilibrium level of CO2, but it doesn't provide any heat or benefit to anyone.

We can't look unfavorably on energy approaches just because they fail to actually reduce CO2. That's some kind of unrealistic purity test.
Battery production capacity is becoming more decentralized, as countries with large production capabilities stay somewhat stagnant but other countries build factories. China's percentage of world battery production is expected to drop over the next few years while most other countries are expected to increase production capacity.[1] See Tesla's investment in the gigafactory or Panasonic's investment in battery manufacturing in Kansas for examples of this happening. Germany specifically, since you mention it, is expected to surge quite a bit in the global battery market.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1249871/share-of-the-glo...

P.S. I suggest opening the statista link in a private tab, I just noticed the second time you visit it you are paywall blocked.
There are places where asymmetric power is fine, and there are places where it's too much and laws need to step in.
They don't make them like this anymore.
So can I hire someone from a low cost-of-living jurisdiction and get them to behave like a bot for me?
That would be an example of people making something political out of a non-political issue. Both people and companies can be guilty of this.

"Oh, I ran into Lucy at the supermarket today"

"Awesome, did they have that new brand of ice cream?"

"I didn't see it, but they did have a massive sale on strawberries."

"Darn, I guess I'll check Market Cart next time I go."

---

"Oh, I ran into Lucy at the supermarket today"

"Did you hear she voted for Tom?"

"Oh... uh, no?"

"I dont know how people can enable such evil. Did they have that new ice cream?"

"No, but they did have a massive sale on strawberries"

"Oh, I heard they donated to Tom, so I don't want it in my house anyways."