skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I follow your cynicism: I celebrate ICs making 500k or 1M working for a company in the US instead of making “the same with a PhD in physics as an assembly line worker at Volkswagen”.

If an IC delivers 100MM in cost savings for a company because his software scales almost arbitrarily and gets paid highly: that’s a win for the working class population.
Twitter ordered to properly label bedrooms in SF HQ as sleeping areas
This will vary greatly with age, location, culture, ethnicity, etc. But generally, the Western world, particularly the heavily industrialized corridors such as the US and Europe, are going through a tribalization phase. This is one of Marshall McLuhan's theories. In this phase, conformity is rewarded, because communications have "shrunk" the world, allowing almost anyone to reach other to other's as if they were in the same village. He called the networks formed by international speed-of-light communications the "global village." Since a village can be a harsh physical environment, it requires a strict social environment to survive. Therefore anyone branching out is own their own....

...unless of course, they're so far out that they're successful (e.g. Elon Musk), in which case they become the new center to rally around. You might call it the Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer Effect[0]

But that's exactly what the author concluded: "It takes unusual art, allies, and energy, in a word “eliteness”, to survive while choosing lively."

Freud also discussed this balance between the individual and society in _Society and Its Discontents_. I personally feel the pull all the time. I want to be weird in certain ways I won't discuss here... But presently, deviation has an accepted form and that's not me.

[0] https://miro.medium.com/max/720/1*nLHfkNG67b6fi-ccF_G4yA.web...
Does this change affect all access? Like, I have half a dozen bots that only write (post rss items).

At first I assumed this was only impacting read access (apps that mimic the twitter app), but now I’m not so sure.
>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.

Some people have more energy naturally (some, for explanaible reasons: e.g. obese people have less energy to be that kinetic, same for depressed people, but some people also due to their genetics). And, of course, some people have easier jobs, or like their jobs more, or don't have to deal with BS at their jobs or family life as much. Or have small commutes, enough salary not to have money stress, and several other factors.

Some or all of which might include you, and place you I'd say in an outlier category. I'd bet the more universal "35 with job and kids" experience is not much energy and doing fun stuff around town.

>Life is too short to spend it on a job that leaves you lifeless

Yes, but is still long enough to risk spending it homeless, divorced, or with hungry kids. Especially as not all industries and skills are in high demand, and not all locations have jobs easy to come by. And not everybody has a cushion of money to spend months looking for a new job they'd like more, especially with rent, kids, and bills running...
> the stagnation in some measure spells its doom

I'm not sure where you learned about "Eternal September", but it's the exact opposite of what you're describing: not stagnation of culture, but degradation to a pre-existing, high-quality culture due to the rapid influx of new individuals who don't give a shit about maintaining it.

Amazon is going down with Americans precisely because the (predominantly) Chinese sellers on there now couldn't care less about the "nice online garden" Americans created and are instead using up the pre-existing cultural capital Americans had built up for their own selfish advancement—destroying the garden in the process.

But yeah, sure, maybe after the garden has been burned to the ground, something new will replace it. Sounds great.
A company is a voluntary association. It is nothing at all like a government.
How many packages are on Microsoft's official repository? Where can I see a list?
I do several hobbies that require a significant time investment. I heard a lot of “you’ll have to give that up when you have kids” when I was younger.

Then I actually had kids. It’s true that I can’t go do these hobbies every single weekend or wait until the last second to plan a spontaneous outing without preparing. However, it’s not true that they simply stop and become impossible. It takes a different approach to planning and prep, but it can be done.

It’s also interesting to learn how many of the other hobbyists also have kids. Before kids I just assumed everyone else was childless like myself, but it turns out a lot of people who do these hobbies also have kids at home once you talk to them.
This works great! I like the way it finds resonances between genres and am one of the folks that see that as a feature :-) Very well done!
Also, here's the paper on it: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf
Just imagine how many people that this happens to who don't know enough to post online on a forum that lots of people read.

For the CloudFlare people here, this is an upsell opportunity that's being missed. The whole point of the cheap plan is to hook people so they move up. But if you cut them off you can't move them up, duh. You need to rework the sales pipeline for this scenario, obviously.
A ship isn't exactly a small target. You could probably track it just fine with a satellite and update the target GPS coordinate of the drones manually. An aircraft carrier only moves at 55 km/h maximum.
> Techs don't shy away from things they don't yet have experience with, and as long as the machines bind to the directory without hassle, that's all the administration they should need.

lol what? how many IT support orgs have you been in? how many have you had to run? Most of my (local) techs had room temperature IQs, and many of the outsourced help, be it in India or NYC, wouldn't do jack until you told them exactly what to do. IT lends itself extremely well to specialization because many fields are so deep that you almost have to specialize; no way I'm trusting a random Linux admin to handle BGP, nor my Network guy to fix my deep-in-the-DB SAN problems.

Plus there is an entire galaxy of software that would have to be ported, made to work, and made to work in ways that satisfy compliance requirements.

Then there is maintenance, updates, RMAs, and training.

It's a big, demanding, ruthless market, and Apple knows this -- and is why they haven't bothered to enter it.
That might make it boring, but I'll make that trade every time

I was just musing below that evolutionary pressures have very likely conditioned all humankind to make that trade every time.

The great advantage of "boring" social groupings is stability. Humans have discovered over the millennia that "lively" or "outraged" groupings find lots of adventure, but don't last very long.
Better question: What's a good podcast downloader these days?

All the ones which seem to be current and still function require an account, or have stupid limitations like only downloading files in batches.

I was so displeased last time I wanted to scrape a full podcast, I banged out something in powershell which I've been using since.
I wrote something on this topic a while ago: https://jmmv.dev/2020/11/wsl-lost-potential.html
"And any opinion can only hurt me if they look me up."

You answered your own question.
Iran responsible for Charlie Hebdo [cyber] attacks
Is there an existing service I can pay to curate YouTube?

Is it allowed to sell a YouTube app that only offers curated content?
> - It's impossible to describe a type that "implements trait A and may or may not implement trait B"

So, specialization? Or something else? I haven't found a need for specialization. I remember when I came from C++ I had a hard time adjusting to "no specialization, no variadics" but idk I haven't missed it in years.

> - It's impossible to be generic over a trait (not a type that implements a trait, the trait itself)

Not sure I understand.
If I recall the Matt Levine newsletter correctly the banks have already discounted the debt so I would think they'd be happy to sell it for less than the original $ value, either to Musk or Musk associates.
Actually, higher inflation doesn’t necessarily correspond to higher variable interest rates. Indirectly, yea, but only because the fed is raising the benchmark rate to “fight inflation”.
Isn't Montana sparsely populated? If the Air Force can't shoot it down there good luck trying to do so over New England.
You're being prudent. I keep all my political, spiritual, and philosophical opinions to myself, only sharing with my inner circle.

It seems to work well, I get along with all sorts of people with wildly different, often cooky, views. In my opinion that's more important than signaling my political leanings.
> the side effects of the resulting inflation are deemed worse

Deemed worse by whom?

People complain about inflation in the 1970s, but just like now a significant part of that was caused the supply chain (OPEC then, Covid now), and in any case US income and wealth inequality are actually much worse now than in the 1970s.
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy just signed a landmark contract to construct a small reactor. NuScale and Holtec also aim to deploy small light-water reactors by 2030.
Logic Snake Game – Snake Go (Android)
Solve the logic snake game! Find a way, eat the coins, and reach the exit... Can you make it in as few moves as possible?
It works surprisingly well. Good job. It confuses bluegrass and latino music but they share tempo and instruments so I get it. Impressive.
Way to jump in with a quick retort, when GP already conceded that Opera wasn't the first browser with tabs. But it was arguably the first browser that popularized tabs.

Besides, their point was refuting the "Firefox invented tabs" statement, which is valid.
Did everyone forget Jeff Bezos semi-famous shareholder letter about "Day 1"?

Seems clear to me that Amazon has entered "Day 2".

u/lostoldsession's comment comparing Amazon Prime to a flea market is spot on. And demonstrates that Amazon has abandoned "Day 1" ethos wrt "customer obsession".
Not pointing fingers (it's not my money they're spending keeping the other team in business), just saying that if the logic is "actually, our cloud spend looks better than ever, maybe we can lay off the people whose job it is to do that?" then they are not looking at me because I have a different title. My big saves are all in the category of "I was in there anyway and noticed that X was enabled. Do we need that on?" so I look like a thoughtful engineer who is alert for waste.

Anyway all of this is a bit of a joke obviously. I know that layoff decisions aren't going to be made based on looking at individual people, or even teams. Still, it can't really hurt me to save my employer money (as long as it isn't my own salary, or my colleagues' salary), especially in a tough macro environment.

Perhaps I'm even saving some significant amount of emissions and therefore marginally delaying the end of all human life, or marginally reducing demand for energy at a time when it's tight. Thousands of engineers doing the same all at once can probably significantly hurt the hyperscalers' business though.
As much as it's biased take, OP isn't wrong. Yes, the proximate motivating factor is interest rates, but it does show how economic incentives have gotten misaligned. So long as investors fear something that is a positive for workers, there will be conflict. An educated observer will know this is an emergent conflict and not a conspiracy, but it's still a problem.
I feel lost reading articles like this. Then I realize people still use Google search. I switched six years ago to Duck.com and I’m never looking back.
> Why is that a bad thing?

> I mean I’d rather they were...

> They should be oriented towards rehabilitation.

You said it yourself. It's a bad thing because they should be oriented towards rehabilitation.

These systems steal life and the opportunity to have a life beyond prison walls. Like you also said yourself, the world isn't perfect. As such, people aren't either – we make mistakes. Sometimes we make mistakes due to influences more powerful than ourselves. Slavery doesn't seem like a sound correction to this reality.

I do believe we need consequences to help us feel guilt and the overall gravity of our errors in order to begin to recognize what went wrong and what we need to do differently. But exploitation of another human being doesn't teach them to be more human, but rather, it will tend to dehumanize them. This is why this system perpetuates problems more than it corrects them.
It's unwise to post political opinions, period, as any type of worker. I feel most people who do so are virtue signaling anyway
With respect to fighting wars? No. The military has a couple stand out statistics, first being that most enlisted are of generational servitude while most officers are from opportunity (college recruitment). That means most people enlisted have a relative that served first. Second is that most enlistments come from the poorer part of the country, specifically the South and Midwest. The diversity of the military largely tracks those geographies. Officers similarly reflect where their volunteer pool comes from. That said, the modern upper echelon of US society have a pretty quiet yet thick disdain for military service. They'd probably never let their kids do it.
Murder rate counts victims not killers, one of these guys killed 9 people. Also, only including people who got caught very likely under reports the numbers.
Location. They will be ignored in backwater towns, but easily noticed in tech hubs
Caring parents aren't in an impossible situation. The problem is that we have given up on the old adage that it takes a village to raise a child. Corporations have, intentionally or not, contributed heavily to the destruction of our villages, physical and online. I think with just five sets of parents sharing a similar worldview, it would very practical for them to curate enough good educational content for all their kids. Having four other families on the same program in their own community will reinforce to the kids that the parents aren't antagonists, but that this is what their mini-"society" just does regularly, and so mitigate resentment.
I’m using Edge because it’s like Chrome but has the vertical tabs which is a killer feature for me

Does Firefox have vertical tabs? If yes, I am switching
I have a discord bot that pulls a twitter feed into Discord & embeds it (server of 10k members). Pretty sure we can't do that anymore, starting next week.
A lot of public schools in the UK have their own war memorials, though the Eton one sounds considerably larger than the ones I've seen.
Both of the first two are on Wikipedia.

Prom dress controversy: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kassycho/keziah-daum-pr...

Geisha party: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mom-called-apos-racist-apos-...

Professor suspended for using a Chinese word: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/08/professor-sus...

Asian fusion restaurant incident: https://www.dailywire.com/news/asian-restaurant-in-nyc-force...

These links are just the first things that came up on Google to help you find what you’re looking for. I’m not claiming these links are the best sources.

Man fired for cracking knuckles: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/502975-cal...
Show HN: Little Betsy, curating the margins of Etsy
Howdy! I'm building out a curation service called Little Betsy (https://lilbetsy.com/). Little Betsy curates the margins of Etsy, finding unique and thoughtful creators worth your attention.

Right now I'm running an open application program for onboarding interesting sellers. There will be a cutoff for the entries but I'm not entirely sure yet when that will be.
I also like Spaces a lot. I think my main issue is that I don't like the vertical sidebar, and doing cmd+s to hide and show it all the time is not that great (also because some web apps hijack cmd+s).
This is going to keep happening because the underlying issues of why the labor market is tight still haven't been internalized by managers. Baby boomers are retiring and there comparatively aren't many zoomers entering the labor market. Aggregate supply of labor is shrinking every year.

I don't think rate hikes are going to be able to solve this problem because it's not an issue of "there's too much money" but rather an issue of "there's just not enough labor."
This is a project I've always dreamed of building! Already pretty excited about some of the recommendations I'm getting in some niche genres.

Feature request: allow me to auth Spotify and click a button next to each track to add a track to a "Maroofy Recs" playlist
Layoffs Are Cruel and Don't Work
No, no it doesn't work on Chromecast or Apple TV. OP is wrong.
Even your antique Mac can use Mastodon
It's gotten so bad that there's now an ad blocker filter list that removes the StackOverflow clones from search results.
Yes, while some murderers go to Eton, the vast majority go to school somewhere else.
>This seems like more management by manchild.

Whaaaaaa but Elon is the god king who will deliver us from evil tech giants!! Are you saying he might be a greater conman then PT Barnum?
> 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? So, are you assuming/applying everyone more or less has the same contribution or do you want everyone to be paid the same irrespective?

Sure, the heirs from Rich Kids of Instagram are living off their rentier expropriation as a "reflection of people’s contribution to a economy", while the people doing the work and creating the wealth are contributing less to the economy, in your view.

The fruits of the economy are swallowed up by these parasitic heirs expropriating surplus labor time from those who work and create wealth, but your view is parasitism is somehow the greater contribution to the economy.
> I think DB in the name is a little misleading due to there being no persistence (I assume?) but that is a small nitpick!

Yes, I feel a bit guilty about that part. When I started it the design looked more like a traditional key/value or durable stream database with real-time capabilities, but over time I realized that the use cases I had in mind usually didn’t actually need long-term persistence. The DB stuck, partly because it turns out if you add “db” as a suffix it’s a lot easier to find available package names and domains :). If it’s any consolation, I still do intend to support persistence eventually.
Also anecdotally: We went to $CASUAL_DINING_MEGACHAIN recently. The food was much better than I remembered, but they were so understaffed the greeter was also working the kitchen. It took 20 minutes to be seated (due to the greeter stand being unmanned; there were plenty of tables), and about 2 hours to eat and pay.

I suspect people are still being very picky about where they work.
A really good example of a smart person reasoning from completely made up assumptions to a punchy-sounding but almost-certainly wildly wrong conclusion.

Just because our DNA can be efficiently encoded doesn't mean that our brain is a tiny proportion of that encoding. Your DNA doesn't change much from when you're born to when you die (random degredation aside) and yet your cognative abilities change beyond all recognition. Why is that? Well maybe there's more to what's in the brain than just what's encoded in your DNA.

Secondly, how does he get to the 40Mb number? I don't think we know anywhere near enough to know how much information it would take to encode a brain, but 40Mb seems just made up. For starters, consider the amount of random stuff you can remember from your entire life. Are you saying that all can be encoded in just 40Mb? Seems very unlikely.
And now we've dragged Rock forwards, kicking and screaming, as we animated it and are earnestly teaching it to think.

(Silicon and derived semiconductors)
Take this nonsense elsewhere.
The Okonite Company
Yes to all of the above. I like EVs and am kind of a nerd about them, but realistically it doesn't help the adoption of a technology to push it before it's ready. We just don't have the manufacturing capacity for batteries, they're still quite expensive and finicky (try charging your EV in sub-zero temperatures) and heavy (so no gross capacity limited vehicles like F350 and no sports cars).

It's just like with wind and solar. Why can't we just be honest about what these are good at, use them appropriately, and let the tech develop and improve organically?
On this topic, I would highly recommend Nick Lane's Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World. Interesting learning about how life worked different when oxygen was much lower, and much higher than today.
There is a huge left bias and you will actively be ousted from the FAANGs if you admit any conservative or $non_mainstream opinion. One place I know of – people wanted you dead if you were not vaccinated. It was pure hatred and this was ok with leadership.

Another place where we had significant reach to a large audience we actively curated anti-conservative content.
Same exact thing has happened to us. Real company, real customers. Locked out of account entirely for 4 days with no response from the team, no apology, no explanation. Buyer beware. We’re planning on migrating to AWS once we can get a confirmed allocation of H100 GPUs (springtime) for our DL stack.
The people who don't see the value in generating language that has a purpose outside of narrow niche of communicating facts will be let down for some time. This feels very Wittgenstein's Tractatus. There are so many other ways that we use language.
Its probably a case of crab in bucket mentality
Nope, not getting any of that. If it ever existed, it's another casualty in the war on configurability. There's an option to add more space between the icons, but they're still as tiny as they ever were.
I agree with most of the other comments. As a staunch conservative, I have found it better to just keep my thoughts to myself. Additionally, there is usually little to be gained from sharing your opinions. Past a certain age, most be are so set in their opinions that arguing with them achieves nothing. Personally, I enjoy a thoughtful, respectful, and in-depth discussion (maybe even debate), but most people would rather just regurgitate the media talking points or, worse, jump straight to calling you racist, homophobic, a bigot, a religious zealot, or whatever else they think will quickly shut you up. In short, it's better to just keep your thoughts to yourself.
I don't think the point of any great books program is to finish and say "You have now read everything of relevance, no need to read anymore." The curricula are broad and general so that if you have particular interests in a field you are now equipped to read all of the texts you mentioned on your own. If there was a specific "Great Mathematics Books" curriculum perhaps all the ones you mentioned would indeed be required.
I think I would argue inflation benefited those who were wealthy the most in the past. But keep in mind that the increase in asset value was not factored into that inflation math. So: assets got more expensive because of inflation; net wages went down because of inflation that wasn’t recognized as such; the rich paid the same for labor but benefited from an increase in their asset prices.

Bonds were a really bad investment in that respect…
It was me, and thanks for the details. I missed the multi threaded compilation in the second part, I thought it was 46sec with -jx