skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends how you define "downtown"...

Most US cities have a central business district that is majority commercial office space, with just enough retail/dining to let workers take lunch breaks. These are the areas that are dying. No workers, so the surrounding retail/dining is failing.

Back in the 50s/60s, white flight was a problem for cities - most of the middle class, white families moved to the suburbs. Most cities didn't have a large tax base that lived inside the city. That started to change over the last 20 years or so. Couple that with off-shoring or moving of heavy industry out of city cores and cities will struggle financially without white-collar/knowledge workers commuting in and spending money.

Western Europe doesn't have the same level of suburban sprawl.

Edit - the white flight I mention is closely related to the inner-city highways mentioned in the sibling comment. Suburban workers needed to get downtown, so (usually minority) neighborhoods were split in two or destroyed to built highways from the outskirts into the CBD.
The article may be answering it's own question.

What could be causing it? Well, there are quite a few candidates: there’s evidence for correlations with obesity, diabetes, smoking, drinking, and lack of exercise, anxiety, and more; and the evidence for any of these is a lot stronger and a lot clearer than that for pornography consumption.

Based on my limited understanding of biology, CVD, downstream effects of insulin resistance, I would lean more towards environmental inputs rather than visual stimulation and psychosomatic effects. I significantly changed my environmental inputs 15 years ago and just speaking anecdotally, I've seen all the porn and do not have these described physical limitations.
Wait wait wait, portal update?? What's that about?
That is a really useful insight! I share your fear about human-conducted debugging of AI-generated code
Unless they’re a poor sleeper then you’ll still suffer plenty
lol no. Give everyone UBI.
I would feel tortured if a team of people were to purposefully drill a hole in my head and install a device into my brain to see how I responded.

Seems deliberate enough?
According to the last poll [1] only about 3/5 HN users are in the Anglosphere, so equating "we" on this website with "Anglosphere" seems a bit of a stretch.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
I have as a general principle that it is difficult to understand a solution until you have the problem.

You will need to attain a certain degree of fluency in Haskell before you have the problem that deep access into structures or any of the other problems lens can solve [1] is a clearly-separated problem that rates among your biggest.

Until you reach that point, I advise not to touch lens. By the time that is your biggest problem, it is likely that your other Haskell experiences will make it not too frightening, but it's not a very good gateway into Haskell.

[1]: One of my favorite uses, though not a common one, is that you can use it to abstract a pair (thing to operate on, how to operate on it) in a way where both the elements are still fully composable, where the lens is sitting in the second spot of that tuple, and whatever is operating on that only needs the type of the "how to operate on it" part, it is oblivious to the type of the "thing to operate on". I used it to build a game engine where the engine did not have a hard-coded concept of "player 1 goes, then player 2 goes, then player 1 goes", etc.; instead, the game logic itself decided that and all the engine got was a combination of what structs to manipulate and what to perform on that struct. (The engine itself did networking and converted things to and from JSON, while letting the pluggable game logic do everything else.) An interesting use for lenses beyond just "better record syntax" as I started passing the lenses themselves around in my code as first-class values. But probably ultimately an even worse way to get into Haskell than using lenses as record syntax improvements.... my point here is just that lenses do have uses beyond record accessing, that's just their headline usage.
Or erotic fiction.
The transfer of the NFT, and the associated payments to multiple counterparts, are the method by which the underlying legal contracts are executed.

This is "Code is Law" in the real world. That's why it works.
I've played it probably more than any other game over the last 10 years. I'm really just buying it out of a sense of decency to pay back the guys who made it. I know I should have donated before, but I just didn't have time to figure it out. I may not even play it, just buying it to help those guys out.
I think Sweden might be worse in all of Europe though. 90k€ is unheard of here for developers, unless you are managing a team or a middle manager or something. Well ok, maybe its a thing in Stockholm actually. Living in a slightly smaller city, now way Jose.

I am applying currently, don't know how that will turn out, but he manager even said that Swedish developers are cheaper for the company than people from Germany, Switzerland and I think even Poland was getting bigger wages.

So Sweden has this low-wage aura apparently.
And assuming wealth and poverty do NOT correlate with test scores and professional success is equally problematic.
Does the government have a role in trying to ensure the actors are capable of legally consenting? I.E. they were not under the influence, posessed their own passport vs it being held, there was no implicit threat used, they were of age, etc.?
Bitwarden password manager software and a refurbished Kindle (10th gen, basic model).
Even within that stratum, I'd argue that it's more "acceptable" than specifically "cool". Or if it is "cool", it's in a superficial sort of way that doesn't relay any real benefits or privilege.
If it's within the normal course of this type of business, why would the feds be investigating it?
In my current employer "architect" are people that do (exclusively) drawing. The preferred tool is IBM Rhapsody. Once somebody suggested to use PlantUML, he was directly laugh at his face; and they explained how much better Rhapsody is. To be fair, they had some good points...

But once I suggested they should do some back and forth with the people actually writing code... they told me "I cannot understand code, and it is all right so. I do not need to. I'm the architect, not the carpenter"

Another time I asked the chief architect --we were working in an embedded system-- "I have to program this function, what is my RAM, ROM and CPU budget for it?" His reply shocked me: "I'm architect here, I do not care about that little things, I do only the architecture, look here" and he proceeded to show me lots of boxes connected with lines. Then he added "that here is what is important, the real architecture is here".

Needless to say, those projects failed miserably, with no hope for recovery...
Maybe it wasn't clear but I was referring to low-touch SaaS as well with "self-service type of software app". There are low-touch SaaS apps and offerings serving the developer and some "enterprise" market segments. The problem with certain enterprise SaaS is that they are high-touch by the very nature of the sales process involving big-ticket items. Once you are in the territory of high ACV there are many sales "gatekeepers" ranging from pay-to-play analyst coverage, Vegas conferences and outings, tickets to NFL games, to compliance and regulatory hurdles.

I should have also mentioned hedge funds who manage billions with relatively few head count and they use automation tools extensively starting with the spreadsheet in the 1980s.
IIRC, research also shows that those who identify as trans in middle age are much more likely to be happy when they do choose to transition, compared to the younger folks.
Have they figured out how to do it properly yet?

Go to play.google.com try and use the navigation links at the bottom of the page.
Unlikely? Because ED is treatable , so people are likely to seek help to a professional. Talking to pollsters is inconsequential
>> Unless you don’t wanna see it, that he’s a sociopathic personality with too much capital fueling his god complex and a brittle long-termism agenda?

> So, he’s your standard CEO, then. Got it.

He's definitely not "your standard CEO." How could you even say something like that with a straight face? Those aren't binary qualities and he seems to have them to a far larger degree than other CEOs. Alternatively, for someone in his position, he is unusually lacking the social skills or self-control needed to mask them.
There is a pattern at work similar to Crypto, Quantum Computers and other hype topics: Non-tech people getting very excited about it and constantly babbling about how this is a great revolution and everything will done by AI starting tomorrow.

Oh, by the way: anyone remember Autonomous Driving or IoT?
I don't think this deserves a smiley face. I'm hoping for a rapid crackdown on ML-generated comments either via explicit rules or cultural norms.
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> any critique towards pornography and you're treated like you're Amish.

If you're finding that people react poorly towards your criticisms of pornography, you might want to do a little introspection about the bad faith engagement on display in this sentence.

There are plenty of people who identify themselves in ways that would certainly distinguish them from a devout/peculiar religious community... and still have their own critiques of pornography or concerns about access, and will engage thoughtful discussion about how it should be treated.

But if you come at it from a conservative religious position ("it's bad because it violates my purity culture norms but I'm gonna dress it up using terms I don't understand like 'dopaminergic reward system' because I know that bestows a hint of modern legitimacy"), you might get treated like a conservative religionist.
Same perspective here. Even as a rural-boy-turned-inveterate-urbanite, I'm happy that people who don't want to live in the city are decreasingly forced to live in the city due to their jobs. There are plenty of people out there like me who were looking to escape to the city but who were stymied by all the people living in the city who wanted to escape to the country. I just prefer density and walkability/bikeability.
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You're confusing felonies, misdemeanors, and non-criminal infractions.
There is nothing about what you said that suggests that this requires more animal testing in a shorter timeframe. If anything a single animal test should provide so much more data that it should take much longer to process and analyze the results, slowing down the speed at which animal tests occur.
>> There’s nothing close to chasing a toddler in a circle for an hour.

> I hope this is your toddler.

I hope it's your toddler who wrote this comment.
> The low-sleep phase is temporary. It’s such a short duration relative to the rest of your life as a parent that it really doesn’t matter much in the long run. Same goes for changing diapers and dealing with baby vomit.

The weird thing is that I miss this phase. They're little for such a short amount of time and there's just nothing else like this pre-toddler phase. Maybe it's the oxytocin that just wipes your memory clean of all the fatigue and sleep deprivation.
UNIVERSAL

You keep using that world.

I don't think it means what you think it means.
No, negating “employees created all the value” does not mean, “founders create all the value”. It means employees didn’t.
Can you explain how Founders are employees in this context?

I read this as pg being focused on justifying post-acquisition wealth. It seemed to be a justification for the founders receiving 100s if not 1,000s of times the level of compensation as the workers.

I would be curious to hear more justifications from him for this. Founders really take far less risk than employees. I say this as someone who missed out on about $75 million from a YC start-up when an unnamed higher-up told them to fire me two weeks before my first vesting, because I had the most amount of non-founder stock in the company (a compensation for which I took a 66% salary cut).

(edit, typos and turned 100s into 1,00s)
> Neuralink is playing catch up in a sense.

Yes, in areas like testing discipline. I don't accept the argument that you can skip past the fundamentals and it'll all just work out because you may be able to help some people quicker. That's everyone's goal in that space - to get implants onto the market as fast as possible.
Holy shit, I guess we were both living under a rock! Looks like there's been a graphical update with raytracing support
The lightning network is not a good example of an L2, it's extremely basic state channels and won't scale because of routing / liquidity issues.

Look into Optimism and Arbitrum for current technology, or zkSync, Starknet, Polygon zkEVM for next gen L2's coming soon. There's a big list of all the current L2's and their tradeoffs at https://l2beat.com
Less than an hour to go, I can't wait to get my hands on it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2012840/Portal_with_RTX/
The quote I see says, "staff accidentally implanted Neuralink’s device on the wrong vertebra of two different pigs during two separate surgeries".

The other issue mentioned in the Reuters article apparently has to do with testing different sizes/generations of their devices. Whether it's appropriate to sacrifice more animals to make sure the FDA is not confused by a submission is arguably not an ethical issue you can blame Neuralink for.
Well, if you grow up with abusive parents who were miserable and constantly depressed, you likely don't want kids to avoid going down the same route. But that sort of upbringing likely means you are miserable as well.

Happy people ought to have kids, since likely they will have happy kids. Unhappy kids ought to not have kids, since they will likely have unhappy kids, and would make themselves unhappier for it. How is this strange? Do you think that miserable people shouldn't be able to express their misery? do you think that hating those miserable people will help in any way?
Want more geniuses? Challenge kids to solve real and useful problems. If we can teach kids to code, and play in Chopin competitions, we can teach them surgery, higher math, engineering, and to be research assistants.

Are geniuses having trouble solving the problem of acquiring a basic income? The people behind this proposal can't be included, because the incentives of welfare traps and maintaining genius status to keep the payments coming is a perverse incentive. Look what publish or perish did to academia. It just created garbage factories. Also, the best way to get their ideas resented and ignored is to grant them privileges, and not necessarily because it's unjust, but because there is a basic human instinct to find irresponsibility and dependency in adults disgusting.

What we absolutely do know is that if you want to destroy group, give it welfare. Just like feeding wild animals who become dependent and get wiped out by scarcity, the most universally reliable way to create a failure to thrive is to substitute taking care of themselves with adapting to dependency. The best thing about this idea is that it we know whatever the right thing is, it's going to be the opposite of this.
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That just reinforces my point, since everything you’re describing is just ‘get-rich-quick’.

Very few people thought they were legitimately doing something that created actual value, just getting on the train to getting rich without having to do anything.
This is fine as long as this type of automation and less dependence opens up more founders making more products doing more for humanity.
Sergey Nazarov. Here's a recent talk he gave: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=lMHaQGB1Wdc

In case the above doesn't work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMHaQGB1Wdc
I keep wondering if this is different than when Foxconn announced a $10b investment in Wisconsin but carried through less than 10% of that?
Well good news, there'll be a new thing that replaces it in three weeks!
FWIW the normalization of gambling has hit a similarly aggressive pitch, at least in sports-fan circles
Sorry to say but 8 weeks is way too early to celebrate. They tend to reset their sleep as they gain major milestones and sometimes can completely flip their sleeping habits once they have one of their huge eureka moments about the world.. or just start teething
Same here. My wife likes to sleep in, I like to wake up early.

Our typical Saturday involves me and my son spending 7A-nap time together outside the house while my wife sleeps in, lounges around and does her hobbies.

When we get home, she’s totally refreshed.

Another thing we do sometimes is drop him at daycare and we take an afternoon off to do something together.

Works great for us. We don’t have any family within 3000 miles of us, so solutions were needed.
What happens to transaction cost when (if) any of these irreversible decentralized crypto based payment methods hit the real world at any anything approaching mass adoption for things other than a darknet marketplace where the transactions are typically illegal in the first place and obviously don't have any concept of "fraud protection"?

What I'm getting at here is the reality of the real world - fraud. Visa, MC, etc have had zero liability for fraudulent transactions since forever at this point. I understand that chargebacks can be an issue for sellers but the fact remains that most of the fraud in the space is by sellers, stolen cards/credentials, etc. Consumer fraud liability was initially legislated by the US and capped at $50 (max) way back in 1978. Consumers (who have significantly more exposure, numbers, political capital, sway, etc) have benefited from these protections for decades and they simply won't accept going back to the days of "sorry the merchant ripped you off, sorry your card/credentials/etc were stolen, etc - you're SOL, your money is gone, and you have no recourse". On twitter, crypto forums, etc (the only place to go when these realities hit with crypto) these victims get a very helpful "hope you learned your lesson"!

These costs are baked in to the merchant fees, transaction fees, etc. For merchants, the occasional chargeback (valid or not) is also baked into the "cost of doing business" just like all other forms of shrinkage (employee theft/fraud, shoplifting at physical locations, etc). Many of them (like Amazon, I believe) have terms that essentially say "Ok we're bound by law/Visa/MC/etc and you can do a chargeback but we have an internal process for these kinds of things and if you bring the hammer of a chargeback we'll ban you from our marketplace". The (potential) issues surrounding that approach are left for another discussion...

I'm not advocating for Visa, MC, etc and there absolutely are very real problems with them. However, this goes back to an observed issue with crypto - that the crypto ecosystem is running towards replacing our current imperfect system with one (that appears) to be even worse right out of the gates.
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You're getting downvoted, but you're simply correct in pointing out the hypocrisy in those who claim to value animal wellbeing while also funding animal agriculture.
I'm just confused. I mean, I suppose one could argue that - "you cannot whether you will like something unless and until you try it" - if one was in the mood for a stupid argument: people can and do have opinions on, say, not losing their limbs without having someone chop them off.

They can listen to third parties which had the same experience, have experiences which are similar but less intense, or just use their imagination and figure out whether the person they are - whose values and goals they hopefully know - could possibly enjoy whatever is being discussed.

I still have no idea how someone saying "I won't pursue that because that's not what I want for myself" could possibly be "patronizing", even assuming it could be false.
The scientists likely have exact records in their lab books etc. But there is no animal-accountant running a single, company wide, exactly accurate MI dashboard...
The kneejerk responses you're getting from other commenters appalled at the thought of anyone taking away their precious wank sites and jazz mags rather illustrates your point.
I guess you might be right.

It is just me noticing my own behavior patterns and extending it to the greater populace which is not correct.

I had a pleasure to live in village, small city and big city.

I feel I use much more resources in bigger city. Distance to the mall is similar, but all the free-time activities in the city consume energy. While in the village I mostly just walked the forest and worked on the garden.

It is also much more easier to manage waste. Food waste goes to the garden. Cardbox goes to fire place. Also, water travels only few meters from the well before it is used.
Probably not, but it does redirect the mating impulse "harmlessly" away from actually interacting with other people. It probably also reduces the attractiveness of getting with ugly people, relative to pointing your browser to some tube site.

That's a problem that extends beyond pornography and the sex impulse. Watching people have a life on YouTube even displaces having a life.
Where do you think all of that automation comes from? I promise you, every single start-up you know of is violating somebody's copyrights on their open source. I've seen this in every company I've worked with for the past 30 years. There is always code inside of private applications which was copied and pasted from GPL'd code.
IoTs application in the home is neat and flashy but kind of a head scratcher. Everyone trying to get a lock on it and get that sweet sweet recurring monthly revenue. IoT application in the home looks cool, until you realize you are going to be replacing light switches every few years. My parents have light switches from the house they bought in the 70s, that was built in the 40s that have never been replaced and still work. Raise your hand if you think any of this zigbee/wifi enabled junk will still work in 70+ years much less 20 with no replacement? IoT works good in an industrial case where getting at something is a real pain. Such as monitoring a piece of equipment 3 miles up some rando dirt road and the people that maintain it cost 200 dollars an hour just to drive for 6 hours to look at it or worse have to go get a part and wait another 2-3 days. Rather pay them 200 an hour to fix something than 200 an hour to plug in a computer to read some outputs then drive home.

my new house has all zigbee enabled stuff. I had zero say in it. I will use them for awhile. But I know eventually I am going to get extremely angry at them and will just go buy a pile of eaton and ge light toggle switches and basically not worry about it again. Also someone in this thread suggested a separate network. Good idea. Guess I am going to be buying a decent router at some point.
> Worse problems than a dying population? I don’t think so.

What worth is it to have a population who don't feel they're valued?

Forcing others to have children just because you're concerned about population ignores the truly human element. You should instead focus on wanting to help people be happy and feel secure in their economy and self such that they want to have children. Abolishing contraceptives is not the right way to do that. It is utterly disrespectful to the people.
I'm not looking for anything right now but just out of curiosity you'd care to share a name? Even privately?
Eth isn't scalable (thus cheap) enough to work for a coffee shop transaction yet.

Transferring stablecoins is already a better experience than SWIFT though.
I'm willing to bet the vast majority of those are of far more benefit to humanity than an implant that lets you use a device hands free.
Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps.