skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we both had very different lifestyle/priorities/hobbies in our 20s and 30s - I did rock climbing, rally racing, flying lessons, professional and art photography, Karate, skiing, guitar, video games, rollerblading and kangoo boots and dragon boating and myriad other activities plus constant little experiments and fun things

What you describe isn’t common for people who haven’t “settled” or who don’t have 40 hour per week jobs.

That extreme level of hobbies and activity, some of which aren’t cheap, would be an outlier for people in your position.

> This is not to say we don't, theoretically, have power to still change some of our lifestyle; but the constraints on time, energy and money are one or two orders of magnitude different.

As a counter example, I watched a number of my friends slide into complacency in their lates 20s and early 30s despite having very easy jobs. I can think of several people who worked remote or for family businesses and did little more than a couple of hours of “work” per day from their phones, yet that didn’t automatically translate into a diverse and outgoing lifestyle. It seems to translate more often to a complacency and inactivity.

Having kids was the catalyst for forcing these people to be active again. They now go out and do things, whether it’s going outside to go to the park or going on a mini-adventure somewhere because their kids are bored

The idea that “kids make you boring” hasn’t been true in the people I know. It’s true that kids change what you can do with your time, but it’s anything but boring. Getting out of the house and doing social activities with other kids/parents really opens a whole new world of activity and engagement, even if it doesn’t mean dragon boat racing every weekend.
My Mac does the same.
The authors book "The Elephant in the brain" argues that virtually all adult behavior is unconsciously about status seeking, while pretending and convincing ourselves that it is not.

In that sense, it's not that this goes away as you get older, but it becomes more psychologically sophisticated, and less transparent.
The Fed did raise rates during the good years before this. And that was with a certain president threatening to fire the Fed chair for raising rates.
As a parent of an almost 2 year old (tomorrow!), I feel a bit worried of what is yet to come. I notice kids around me (family, kids of friends) ranging 3 to 10+ mostly consume YouTube, TikTok, ... on a daily basis and when they do, they're totally isolated from what happens around them. They get feeded ad after ad, watching teenagers doing odd dances, minecraft video's, ... Rarely something of pedagogical value. Hope I can do better, time will tell. Tips are welcome though.
It describes perfectly what users use Google for. Look at your non-IT colleagues over the shoulder while asking them "hey, can you log in to Netflix?"... 60% chance, 90% for older folks, they'll type "Netflix" into the browser bar and click on the first link because they don't realize "Netflix" is not a domain name. Or ask them to "download VLC" - they'll type "download vlc" into the bar and click on the first link, which is what led to a ton of malware in the past [1] (at the moment, at least for me, the top result is clear though).

[1] https://www.chip.de/news/Vorsicht-bei-Windows-11-und-VLC-Fak...
More Data Back Guillain-Barré Risk with Janssen Covid Shot
I was going to make a joke about being born in the right place but he's from Kansas.
Your biggest mistake is building a service that depends on a single vendor. Where's your redundancy? Where's your failover?

Creating a HN post is not a proper failover strategy.

All vendors do crap like this. They often have automated systems that sometimes make mistakes. It's your responsibility to build a system that takes these failure points as a reality and build working redundancies and failovers to keep your service online while you sort them out.
The search results are not the problem. The ads are. Ads are placed above search results, so users are more likely to be mislead by them. Installing an ad blocker removes the misleading ads, leaving only the legitimate search results.
Articles about their logistics business make it sound like it is all about exotic performance on the last mile but that seems silly to me.

A UPS truck comes out to my rural neighborhood every day, 2-day shipping from the Northeast is straightforward in an efficient ground network. 3-day shipping from Texas to Upstate NY is straightforward.

The difference matters because 2-day shipping competes strongly with going to the store. It is faster to drop everything and go to store than buy something online. Even finding time to go the store in the next 2 days can seem a hassle but in 5 days I can batch the trip with something else and with less pressure it seems fun to having an outing rather than a hassle.

It's a change that makes AMZN go from being the first place you go to shop for something to the last.

Now maybe it is different in urban areas, you really do appreciate the saved time when AMZN zips out three motorcyclists to deliver you three separate packages in one day. If that's what it is Amazon will really have the largest logistics network but the least cost-effective and that's not good for profits.
> The new somewhat-god-like A.I.s that have recently joined our world are also designed to seem boring.

If there was a paid plan for ChatGPT that eliminated the lame content filters, it would sell like hot cakes.
I remember commercials about the new bigger mouth. One where someone was choking on food and the it was like, "don't you sometimes wish you had a bigger mouth?".

Some quick googling found an old beer commercial [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHXNtb27IY8
I am pretty sure Hanson is talking about a subset of people and organizations that are vocal: i.e. they have something to say, or have to say something (e.g. issue a press release or they are journalists etc), and positions they have to take.

As for UBI - you might be right, but that depends on how truly "universal" it is. If UBI is made conditional on "good behavior" or "social score", it is going to further amplify the social "dark forest".
We had a case where Chrome was choking on really large Google Sheets when you tried to use filter views, it would freeze for 10-20 seconds. With Firefox there was no freezing, which is strange considering Sheets should be optimized for Chrome.
I believe that reducing the uncertainty window from 1-2 weeks to a single day is entirely for the purposes of treating workers with respect. I think it's fundamentally disrespectful to send people to sleep multiple nights and perhaps over a weekend while in a state of grave uncertainty for their near-term economic future. The greater respect is respecting their psychological needs rather than the performative respect of whether the notice was delivered by email or in person.

I'd much rather get fired by email [or "all clear" by email] on the first day layoffs begin than to get fired in person 10 calendar days after layoffs begin. I don't think I'm an outlier here.
I should have been more specific, said "violent crime".

For example Germany has no speed limits on highways, so I suppose they must have very few speeding tickets—but that's not very informative
Also switched to Walmart+, and will never look back.

After Amazon decided that the way the webstore would make money is not by selling things, but instead by selling ads - the quality of search and overall usability of the webstore has become terrible.

You need to use it longer (thus see more ads) to find what you want.

This is part of the plan.
Unify log data in Parquet for efficient storage and fast query
If you have a way of reducing inflation without hitting wages or jobs, please share that with world.
The lesson here isn't that you can or cannot trust Cloudflare.

You can't trust any vendor. Build your system with redundancies and failovers so no 1 vendor can take your system offline.
Wow.

This one got me thinking too.

What if "boring" social groupings have proven more stable over time than "lively and outraged" social groupings? Would evolutionary pressures start shaping our social structures over the millennia?

I mean, I think probably they would right?
I was on a student Prime subscription and forgot about it since 2015.

Mid 2022 they emailed me to let me know that I need to pay the full price or lose my Prime access. They gave me a moment and enough friction to think about my subscription and I ended-up deciding that it wasn't worth it.

I would have probably spent close to 1k on Amazon in that period, but instead it went to local/alternative shops.

I feel the same about the friction Netflix is introducing with their IP address check, it will be enough friction for people to start asking "do i really need this?"
> Do you think that inflation doesn't affect the poor?

Yes, it affects the poor, but the only way out of poverty is employment and wage growth.

> Or do you think the Fed has some tool which can reduce inflation without reducing wages

No.

> Or some third option?

Wage inflation is not necessarily a bad thing, as long it outpaces the inflation of other products. Of course it all depends on whose wages are rising the fastest, the wages of the poor or the wages of the wealthy. What corporations don't like is when wage inflation cuts corporate profits.
Good thing they will continue to support the original protocol. I don't like downloading things on demand like that, not good for privacy.
me too, but I think the article could go into more specific vivid detail? maybe it suffers from what it proposes.
That's the point. The user didn't (willingly) opt in to 2fa for new logins!

That Google can't imagine a scenario like the one above is maddening.
"56 per hundred k is higher than _any country on earth_, "

Plenty of locations have rates around that. That's why it's important to compare similar sized areas.
I guess this is news if you study at Harvard Business School, not so much if you've had a job in industry anytime in the past 30 years.
> Isn’t income equality (government interventions in some aspects aside) a mere reflection of people’s contribution to a economy and their ability to negotiate?

Watch the elision between this and the next sentence:

> So, are you assuming/applying everyone more or less has the same contribution or do you want everyone to be paid the same irrespective?

The bit that's gone is "their ability to negotiate", which depends to a great extent on how wealthy you are already. BATNA, and so on.

Also, conflating income from labour with income from capital confuses the issue further.
> So knock-offs are a problem but you can actually avoid those

I do wish that was easier though. Sometimes I add 'but not crap from nonsense brand' to my search, hoping someone will notice.

Some ideas: verified list for the brands filter (often it's some bizarre subset anyway, and there are clearly genuine respected names missing?), search that respects literal quotes and not/-, price sort/filter that isn't comically wrong and that operates on Amazon price only or else includes shipping.

Ideally (I know Amazon would never do this, seller-hostile) just roll up all the duplicates into one, so the 'from' price is the cheapest seller from all sellers of the supposedly different products, and the results list is much cleaner.

I suppose an extension could fairly easily have some heuristics (all-caps 4-6 letter brand name) to hide these results. Sometimes I do want them, and then could just toggle the extension off. Is there anything like that?
This, except it's the MBA+5 talking to the MBA+2
I have a tongue-in-cheek assertion that a single human can be smart — perhaps even intelligent. But, what we're experiencing in our society, right now, is an emergent superintelligence that is the culmination of the interaction of 8 billion "merely smart" monkeys. When I'm feeling especially dark, I just assume that most humans aren't even conscious or usefully sapient most of the time, and that continuity of consciousness & sapience is only possible due to the density of our daily interactions.

Humans are simple in this model (just like Carmack asserts) because they aren't properly intelligent, sapient, or conscious 100% of the time.
Conservative opinions are unwelcome in most places now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/evidence-c...

https://archive.is/I7xFz

https://www.realcleareducation.com/speech/

https://archive.is/b5UII
It would go out of sync and switch to single player.
Yeah it's not so much social predators as ostracism by normal people. With loneliness on the sharp rise and people having fewer and fewer social groups it won't have as much of an affect in the future though.
It's the latter. In a large enterprise, the backup configuration can be wildly complicated, a matrix of systems, schedules, slas, etc. Just reconfigure your backup software to use this new virtual tape device and you're on your way.
This is one of those moments where I realize other folks on HN have almost exactly the same Firefox setup as me. Nice list of add-on recommendations!

I would add in a couple more, for anyone tempted to switch away from Chrome or Safari:

- Redirector: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/ Very helpful for redirecting "new" reddit to old.reddit.com, AMP links to normal links, Twitter to Nitter, etc.

- RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhanc... Provides built-in image preview and lots of other subtle goodies for old.reddit.com. I have a very hard time browsing reddit without it!

- Sponsorblock for Youtube: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ If you watch any amount of YouTube on channels with lots of sponsors, this is a great way to keep your sanity. Works just like sponsor skipping in the Overcast podcast client.
While not all papers, this list contains a lot of important papers, writings, and conversations currently in AI: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bEQM1W-1fzSVWNbS4ne5PopB...
I tried to do this a while back. People just don't want that kind of search in a standalone site, needs to be a feature on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
so much irrelevant stuff is on the front page now that i'm pretty sure they did it on purpose. and they are right, such things cause more comments and more discussion.
> I need to add "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to half my searches these days

It feels truly absurd how many queries I need to append "reddit" to get something useful. The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.
The gateway appliance is fairly compatible with legacy backup solutions, which makes it a great drop-in replacement for physical tape library systems. There are certainly better backup methods available these days (though it's hard to beat the durability and cost of LTO tape for long-term archival), but I've seen AWS's virtual tape used as a good stopgap while other backup/recovery solutions are still a ways out an org's infrastructure roadmap.
I found having the address bar at the bottom of the screen odd, but within a few minutes I realised it was the right way and now having it anywhere else feels wrong on mobile.
Those are some really interesting extensions you've suggested.

I'll be sure to keep Relay in the back of my mind, I haven't had need of it yet.

Though I do have requirement for SponsorBlock avid watcher of YT that I am, I am a little hesitant to add SponsorBlock as I am not quite sure how it would work flawlessly without some really complicated algorithms potentially involving ML work. I am curious to know if in your experience it has ever erred and automatically skipped portions it wasn't supposed to ? Or any other type of errors ?
It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
following charges: "Conspiracy to possess unregistered firearms, receive firearms and explosives shipped in interstate commerce while a fugitive, and unlawfully use false identification documents ...; possession of unregistered destructive devices, possession of unregistered firearm (two counts) ...; carrying explosives during commission of a felony ... ; possession with intent to unlawfully use false identification documents...; false representation of Social Security number, possession of counterfeit Social Security cards."

Why a terrorist, looks like a run of the mill armed robber, further down the article a few references to armed robberies

I fact checked you using the article you provided. I’m confused.
> The Instagram thing is evidence in the opposite direction from what you want it to be.

I don't find your argument persuasive.

If there was an ROI to building a better Android experience, don't you think major corporations would do it? You're right that Meta has the resources to do better. It's a pretty searing indictment of the Android ecosystem that they don't.

> If they aren't doing that, it's evidence that nobody actually cares about this kind of app quality.

Maybe it's evidence that the people who do care went and bought an iPhone already. Isn't this a problem for Android? Do they only want to cater to people who are willing to suffer substandard app experiences?

Developers are by and large doing the work you say nobody cares about on iOS. It's apparently worth it there. Why aren't developers willing to put in the same level of effort on Android? If nobody actually cared I'd expect the user experience to be equally subpar across platforms but that's repeatedly proven to not be the case.
I am “above 35-ish” and have kids, and I disagree. Yes, jobs are stressful and demand energy, but they shouldn’t demand so much energy that a person is unable to do anything enjoyable on the weekends or pick a night each week to go out with friends.

If a job becomes so draining that it leaves no energy for anything other than work and chores, you might be describing more of a burn out scenario. Either than or you have a toxic 70-hour per week job. Either way, I’d encourage you to reject this experience as “normal” and take a deep, hard look at what you can change or other jobs that might be better.

Life is too short to spend it on a job that leaves you lifeless.
Isn't that saying the same thing using different words? It is not like the "social predator" is some kind of distinct monster that only has to be slain and then all is right with the world. It is fundamentally just people being people and the observation therefore. Even if in some hypothetical way the "social predator" was something that was to be attacked, that would merely make the attacker a "social predator" too, rendering the whole notion an impossibility.
> It's impossible to describe a type that "implements trait A and may or may not implement trait B"

How is this different from just describing a type that only "implements trait A" ?
> can't wait for an UBI-based + social welfare future

I have some spicy spicy takes about that future. If you peruse my other comments on my profile you’ll see them.

I’d expect the most likely outcome to be competiting welfare systems. The largest will be public and be extensions of the existing welfare systems. Private entities— corporations, nonprofits and billionaires- will run combined housing and UBI projects. You get to live with other people who have declared loyalty to the same entity. It will be like serfdom in the middle ages, but without the work.

Depending on who you live under, it could either be really good or really bad. In the suckier places it can be like a prison or a cult.

Here’s some food for thought. The State already runs living spaces for people who usually aren’t economically productive. Those spaces are called prisons and housing projects.

If communist societies could give everyone an apartment we can do the same with all the productivity unleashed by AGI. The tougher question is how we do that without abusing the tenants.

Maybe we can tame the dragons.
I didn't say there can't more to the story, but I'm not going to just assume they always have a good reason either. It's not a simplistic judgment, it's simply working with the information I have on hand. If they have a good reason for not giving me the resources I need to do my job better than I'm all ears. I sincerely mean that. Maybe they can't get me the $3000 thing I want, but a $1500 one instead that is a suitable compromise. That being said I'm not just going to hear "no" and then buy what I think I need for the company.
Inflation benefits people in debt and light labor markets benefit people who earn a wage. It hurts people who already have accumulated capital in the form of bonds and stocks. The Fed acts to protect the interests of the very rich, at the expense of the lower and middle class.

It is a balance. The government is a democracy and corporations need customers, but the wealth gap must be maintained, lest you lose the support of the wealthy who fund politics and buy newspapers to shape public opinion. This tension between the rich and everyone else has existed in every society since the shift to agriculture.
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

- Upton Sinclair

Google doesn't exactly care about this because they still get paid for the click. The malware companies are willing to bid extremely high for that single click (since they end up pwning your computer).
The Good Fellows: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKruweaZqDNetb7uwJF1v...

The Debate: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCUKIeZnrIUlLhXw4GoHF... (each year is a different playlist)

Both are subgroups on a larger channel
On the other hand, old people are also famous for speaking their minds about things the modern world considered taboo — the trope of "racist granpa at Thanksgiving" was something I was aware of decades ago despite not being American and therefore not doing Thanksgiving (and not just because my British grandmother matched a similar pattern by using the word "Irish" as a synonym for "stupid" at a family dinner).
I wonder about the framing of the title here. Rust is great but realistically a lot of software with memory safety bugs doesn't need to be written in C in the first place.

For example Java has a perfectly serviceable TLS stack written entirely in a memory safe language. Although you could try to make OpenSSL memory safe by rewriting it in Rust - which realistically means yet another fork not many people use - you could also do the same thing by implementing the OpenSSL API on top of JSSE and Bouncy Castle. The GraalVM native image project allows you to export Java symbols as C APIs and to compile libraries to standalone native code, so this is technically feasible now.

There's also some other approaches. GraalVM can also run many C/C++ programs in a way that makes them automatically memory safe, by JIT compiling LLVM bitcode and replacing allocation/free calls with garbage collected allocations. Pointer dereferences are also replaced with safe member accesses. It works as long as the C is fairly strictly C compliant and doesn't rely on undefined behavior. This functionality is unfortunately an enterprise feature but the core LLVM execution engine is open source, so if you're at the level of major upgrades to Rust you could also reimplement the memory safety aspect on top of the open source code. Then again you can compile the result down to a shared native library that doesn't rely on any external JVM.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying don't improve Rust compile times. Faster Rust compiles would be great. I'm just pointing out that, well, it's not the only memory safe language in the world, and actually using a GC isn't a major problem these days for many real world tasks that are still done with C.
Thank you for providing an excellent example of how this support works.
I appreciate the space saving. Not everyone has a 4K 30 inch display