skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would treat it as a lottery if I thought it was a lottery.

But it isn't a lottery. If a startup _chooses_ not to go public then it I cannot realize any compensation from that valuation - given the founders always seem to be able to, why isn't that option available to the rank-and-file employees? Similarly there have been multiple start ups that sold the controlling class of stock off and rendered all other stock worthless.

A startup equity based compensation is only a lottery if the startup allows every employee who is being compensated with "equity" the opportunity to sell their "equity" back to the company at the current market valuation, or as part of the equity exchange in a funding round. Otherwise the value of the equity is determined by the company - what we're seeing here is that Stripe has realized that their scam compensation is running the risk of now actively harming their employees rather than just ripping them off. Stripe doesn't need to do any tax funding BS to "help" its employees: it just has to buy back the RSUs that are scheduled to expire at their apparent face value. The tax problem that employees are being faced with is entirely a result of stripe refusing to actually pay employees what they have earned.
The core dump of this systems must have been heavy.
This is summed up nicely.

To add, simply take a look at the % of USA federal spending that goes to Medicare and Social Security, which are benefits for the over 65 population. It's 1/3rd.

1/3rd of Americans are also over the age of 55, which will push that number higher.

We are consuming our young. As a 29 year old, unless technology advances radically and I have positions in the companies controlling it, I will not get what I put in.

There are many advanced economies in worse positions. France for example spends ~15% of it's total GDP on pensions alone.

We can all blame whatever severely rich people exist, however the death by a thousand cuts brought on by too few supporting too many is the root of the issue.

The worst part is, many of these supported elderly aren't even able to live decent lives.
His terminology makes sense and it hits directly to the core of the problem: It's a ponzi scheme. These people were not saving into "retirements". They were giving their money, freely, for other people in the expectation that the next generation will do the same.
All Comcast has to do is block the ports that Web 3 blockchain tech uses and it's done.
Ask HN: Should I follow the herd and implement AI or
Hey all, I'm currently building an OKR platform called Distilled atm and I'm trying to figure out a few things. I've been brainstorming a "Marketplace" that would host community driven OKR templates that are deployable with a single click to the app. This pros to this are:

- Network effects
- Community
- More focused OKRs

With all the hype around AI however, I'm wondering if we should implement some Chat GPT type features to allow people to develop their OKRs that way. I don't see many pros to this, but it might be a cool marketing gimmick. Some points I've considered:

- May be more seamless
- Expensive
- Not as community driven
I'm in my 40s and I have a long string of complete side projects.

The key is to have a project you know is worthwhile and will tickle your curiosity for long periods of time... So even if you burn out, you come back to it.

I go through intense weeks of productive work followed, sometimes, by months of dust covers.

Also it's important to understand that creative energy is hormonal. Some weeks you can't look at a youtube video because you have to do X; some weeks you can't open a code editor if you're not paid for it and just want to netflix and chill. It's normal.

But if the problem at hand is worth your while, if it's interesting to you personally, you'll go back to it and resume intense focus work; maybe with a different approach.

If you totally gave up and you don't want to look at it anymore, it's probably because your inner-senses tell you it's not worthwhile. So you might need some re-convincing or maybe it's just a dead fish, move on. Money is a great motivator, so when the work is unpaid, the value has to come from somewhere else, and that's usually the importance of the project to you personally.
> It's a problem that needs to be dealt with at the state, or ideally federal level.

You mean the levels that produced all the sweetheart deals the ISPs currently have? The ISP monopolies are products of state and federal (mostly state) intervention in the name of supposedly necessary things like "enabling internet access".
> Most Americans want to live in detached homes that they own, and they prefer cars to public transit.

Most people just want what they're already accustomed to.

We quite literally have the power to influence that instead of just throwing our hands up and saying "well gosh Americans want terribly designed communities whose long-term costs are completely unsustainable, so I guess there's nothing we can do about it."

This isn't some immutable law of the damned universe.
I've created a big system with only SQL in the past like you just said. I wouldn't do it again because of these two pain points that I had to deal with:

1. it's really hard to debug SQL queries and stored procedures (at least it was in Postgres 11)

2. when you hit a performance bottleneck, you don't have much control over it - parallelizing is hard and you have to trick the query planner to do what you want (and it doesn't work sometimes)
Watch or read The Hidden Life of Trees and you may have to rethink your imagery. It would appear trees may be "agreeable" with each other.
All these software-that's-easier-in-hardware things Just Work™ until they don't. Bluetooth also works 99% of the time, the remaining 1% makes you want to yeet the damn thing at a wall in frustration. That's why I have trust issues with this stuff.
The only issue with the math example would be that we don't do complex math in English. Of course it can learn other "languages" but as you said there is less "written" complex math

It probably also contains true generalizations that humanity hasn't thought of before, as well as specializations of those generalizations that could be immensely useful.

I thought this is quite exciting, I actually think this will become a field of research in itself, and that might spur completely novel new industries and field of technology, research etc.

I'm being optimistic here but I hope we're on the cusp of a greater future, rather than a dystopian one brought on by terminators and AI that replaces all work :)
There was a flagged post on EcoTank yesterday, that was basically an ad with no news. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35040214

My comment is currently I believe the top comment there, talking about how these things have a designed-to-fail Ink Waste Tank or Ink Waste Pad, and an internal Ink Counter that locks up the printer after a certain amount of printing. I'm not 100% absolutely certain, but I've ran into numerous semi-trustworthy reports & videos while searching for printers. (Amid many glowing reviews of people who've had theirs for 1 week to a couple of months.)

I seriously lusted after the EcoTank L1800 for a while, after @leashless posted about them being a super interesting "10x" product back in 2015 then 2018. But by then they were already only available in a couple secondary markets (ex: Brazil). For a while though they had been sold widely. It feels quite likely to me that Epson knew they built a deliberately designed-to-fail product, sold it for a bit, realized they were going to get in trouble, sold it only to a couple assorted countries, didn't change the product, & now is trying again. https://twitter.com/leashless/status/630192409293508609 https://twitter.com/leashless/status/630192409293508609

(The cheap Moonman M2 fountain pens leashless linked were/are indeed pretty sweet though.)
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It's not just the US, Europe saw a need for net neutrality rules and has them. The problems of infrastructure monopolies and the problems of ISPs messing with certain service providers are not completely the same sets of problems.
Alleviating Symptoms, Causing Problems
The internal team was crippled by ineffective executives, so they acquired a new team... that got crippled by the same executives.

Also there's no evidence that it was $100M.
Not to start an unholy flame war, but if you were to start a new project and didn’t need to worry about the ecosystem or workforce, what framework would you choose? Vue? Svelte? Something else?
People are holding up the typical American example.

Of course there are exceptions. They are not common, and they are not the norm. The examples given are endemic.
HAHAHAHA CODE.

800A 120/208Y service entrance conductors live in the same raceway as 20A branch circuits. I got shocked off a lighting circuit with the main open once.

This is a former The Power Company building. I always heard it joked they could only use leftovers from customer jobs on their own stuff.
Mine is gone too. I wonder if /when we will get it back?
Note that "large scale" is pulling a heavy weight here.

Also, living at the HEAD of your language standard is quite a bit different from living at the HEAD of other dependencies.
I’m looking at it now and not seeing that it has.
From what I've seen that's like saying you need to use salt to be a good cook while pouring a bucketful on a salad. Perhaps it's technically true but from what I've seen you can build pretty complex UI without useEffect if you follow the rules.
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Politico says the Germans are fingering the Ukranians and the Russians say the Germans are blaming the Ukranians to protect the Americans.

German prosecutors have found "traces" of evidence indicating that Ukrainians may have been involved in the explosions that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022, according to German media reports Tuesday.

https://www.politico.eu/article/nord-stream-pipeline-blasts-...

original (German): https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/nord-stream-explosion...
The point of producing dramatically more urban housing would be to stop having to ration our consumption of it so stringently.
Maybe :) but to show compelling reasons would still take time and space, and also, I suspect, an effort to unlatch from a formed opinion. We're all just humans.

In a more lightweight form - what would you, as somebody interested in the matter, consider good criteria for "being the intellectual capital of the world" and what place would fit them?
Science is not a sentient being. Scientists have all kinds of beliefs, a lot of them are thiests though or at least have been historically.
I'm also learning about marketing and while I can't comment on that, I can share an alternative.

I have been trying to do "marketing as engineer" (not sure where I read the term). In short, let's make cool engineering stuff where you can place your own ads.

For example, I was able to get one of my toy projects at the hn frontpage, I have been speaking at some tech events where I could have mentioned my project.

Related to the product I'm working on, it took me a considerable time but I think I finally figured out a nice strategy to do marketing as engineer (I have high hopes but we'll see how it goes).

Overall, I feel this is considerably more engaging than doing traditional marketing.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? You've unfortunately been doing that more than once recently. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thicknet stuff's just another day at work here:

https://imgur.com/a/GDUR36j
Yes, but I am speaking on the highest level.

The true scientist seeks to understand the deep truth. The fundamental pattern. The deep function and meaning.

At some point, this deep desire to understand is in itself a religious thing. Why bother understanding anything if it's all just random and and accidental? Why seek meaning and order in a universe if it's all just happenstance?

The very assumption of meaning and truth and order and the scientific pursuit of it, subtly implies that the scientist believes they are present, which (whether he sees it that way or not) implies something of intent.
Assuming that kiwifarms isn't seditious, and isn't complicit in perpetrating hate crimes...

I mean you can also just send a TCP Reset packet to both sides. I've seen this done inside corporate firewalls.
In order to pay $1M into social security you would need to make the maximum contribution for 45 years.

In order to pay $1M into social security and see less than $200k back you would need to die less than three years after starting to collect social security (assuming you don't retire early, which you probably didn't with a 45 year long career).

This is an extreme example.
I do it pretty much on my own for https://ossia.io ; it takes me roughly a day every other month to update my mac, linux and windows SDKs to the new LLVM / Qt / FFMPEG / {... other large dependency I use ...}.

Definitely not the end of the world. Said SDKs & build scripts are available here: https://github.com/ossia/sdk for anyone interested (I'll be honest though: the scripts are a mess!)
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You can call it both a transformation or a translation, but that doesn't make 'translation' more appropriate of a term. It is a procedural transformation that can be expressed entirely in a one line function of pseudo-code.

translation from one real language to another is so complex that it cannot even be represented in a hash table. Notably, the elements of grammar and syntax are not present in this naive form of translation. It is also lacking the element of bridging understanding, the root of the word translate.

I would even posit that many CS words that are more appropriate here: encoding, compiling, cyphering, mutating, obfuscating,

Thus insisting on a word where critical elements of that word are lacking and despite the existence of more precise language is itself a poor translation.
I don’t know about GP. But my issue with ChatGpt is that it always has an answer. Even if the answer is factually incorrect. It’s impressive no doubt. But this notion that there is some intelligence behind it is just baffling to me.
Most people I know buy coffee every day and are middle class, almost all of them are buying machiattos, flat whites, lattes or capuchinos. Most of them could save money - especially in the morning and on the weeknds - with an espresso machine and a decent grinder. Many of them have found the easy in between solution of a pod machine.
That's not how it works. And Comcast has no reason to care about Web 3. Web 3 isn't a threat to big ISPs. It is a threat to some aspects of ad revenue business models though.

And it will be competition for cloud service providers. Consider it a public web-scale cloud provider that is eventually just going to be a really cheap public compute layer for anyone who wants to deploy some random little utility or concept without having to go through private interests to do it.
And Houston has more diversity and better affordability than most other top tier American cities.
Borges, of course, kind of skewered your hopes about 80 years ago.
There seem to be a lot of Aussies here who do so and a lot of Yanks who don't (assumedly because they don't understand what good coffee is).
I was a net neutrality supporter, but as the article mentions the feared changes haven't materialized. Also, I moved into a condo in a large city where I have three options for gigabit speeds. If one provider decides to implement a customer hostile policy, I will switch.
> what now?

Build each one as a separate shared library and wrap each one with a C interface?
What shows did they cancel?
'5 Seasons of Revolution' – Syrian Civil War – Changed Perspective on Journalism
Full Title;

‘5 Seasons of Revolution’ Director on Documenting Syrian Civil War, How It Changed Her Perspective on Journalism

>Lina not only used several aliases and the Tor Project during the experience,

but she also resorted to the deepfake technology in order to ensure her and her friends’ safety.

The inspiration for the aliases came from the Tor Project.

It’s a project to help people surf the internet without being censored by regimes such as the Syrian regime.
I mean if you want to be precise than maybe make the retirement age based on the health conditions of the individual in question? In good shape. Work more. Bad shape? Retire.

I'd like you to read about the Cobra effect first, though.
Pretty sure its just a bug that will be resolved soon
"If the worker would be funding their own retirements then they have to pay in a whole lot more."

What? That doesn't make any sense. If my social security contributions went into a bank account that was invested, I'd be way ahead of what social security will pay me.
Regular guitar pedals are cheap and abundant.
And if I remember correctly, the primary motive for the Prussian pension system when it was introduced was to reduce youth unemployment by getting the elderly out of the way.

I think still today that is a deciding factor, as some economies have high unemployment and there retirement can be cheaper and better than caring for unemployed people at all ages. And other economies have high employment and would even benefit economically from a larger workforce.
I mean, having the government own the infrastructure is the ultimate extent of regulation, and strictly a superset of regulating net neutrality specifically. Surely the infrastructure is by far the most expensive part of an ISP, so this is basically just saying “because internet infrastructure is a natural monopoly, we’ll have the government be the only ISP.” I guess other countries set it up so that private companies are technically “the ISPs,” but what do they actually do?
Live viewership for everything is way down ("spread out" is probably much more accurate, there's just more options).

The Sopranos started with 2+M 18-49 viewers per episode in season 1 and was doing 4+M by its second season, and then went up to 6-7 for a few. http://www.ratingsryan.com/2020/12/the-sopranos-hbo-ratings-...

Looks like their newer shows do a lot of cumulative views over time with streaming, but a lot less live (that's that 1M/ep number you linked, it seems like).

5+M live viewers weekly 20-25 years ago was a LOT for a premium-premium-cable network. Friends was in the 20Ms, broadcast, for comparison.

But in the streaming model era, the cumulative viewership is probably more important to the total revenue and sustainability, with one big caveat: if people sign up one or two months at a time to binge (like I do!) you're spending a LOT to make a show to get just 20 bucks or so.
>If we removed the electoral college in the US, or if voting day were a national holiday, all those issues would automatically be addressed.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

>The old and conservative make too powerful a voting block, and it perpetuates every corporate, oligarchic, xenophobic greed cycle one could point to as a rot in our system. I don't think old people are bad because they're just taking government money and have big fancy houses, but largely they do vote the same way and that way they are voting is causing problems.

Please refrain from toxic Othering.
> We quite literally have the power to influence that instead of just throwing our hands up and saying "well gosh Americans want terribly designed communities whose long-term costs are completely unsustainable, so I guess there's nothing we can do about it."

That's quite a strawman there.

Suburbs are not inherently unsustainable or terribly designed. Some are, but some cities are too.

I'm seeing a ton of strawman arguments, totally inaccurate descriptions of suburbs, unsourced hyperbole about "subsidies" and "externalities", and conflation of "suburb" and "rural" in this thread which certainly does not apply to any suburbs I've ever lived in.
> DNS is still decentralized unless you’re running something illegal in so many places that you can’t get a stable entry from one of thousands of choices around the world.

The infrastructure is decentralized, but it's one of the most centralized systems in the world, in terms of what's available/what you'll find.

> people seem to have started by saying everyone needs to adopt a particular technology but it’s like pulling teeth to get a proponent to give a concrete example of a real problem experienced by non-hypothetical people which is competitively solved by using it.

I think a lot of it is a pretty simple desire: we want to chat with each other, and be able to have access to the data. Literally no social media system on the planet actually lets you take your conservations out. You're limited to 24 hours of caching at most. If you quit or get banned, your words vanish. If someone else quits or gets banned, their words vanish. Memories up in smoke. With Nostr, the data is yours to do with.

In general I think there's a pretty obvious calling here, for people to have something/anything. Right now we literally have no option to start from, no ability to do anything or try other things, on any of the major incumbent systems. Your criticism seems very "no one can explain what it's for" conservative, but the progressives don't care about what it's for. We want something where we can figure out what it's for, we want a way to start to figure out what progress might look like. We need a starting place to explore what is possible.

There's already a ton of really neat & interesting NIPS. There's already social networks forming. We already can archive and relay our data, over any available medium including offline. There are interesting capabilities here which are unmirrored. I don't think anyone here is concerned about the normies right now: the alpha geeks want to serve themselves, want to build freedom & possibility, which is what's denied right now. They are building possible starting places we can adapt and adopt to many uses.
And they're doing an excellent job, doing new things, that no one else can, in part because no one else can do anything at all (because giant megacorporations own all the other mediums)_and in part because they have good technical underpinnings with potentiate a much wider space of possibility than the limited centralized site-based hosting systems we have today.

Contrary to your shade, I don't think the Nostr people are fanatics about their tech. It's a starting place, that techies find to be a reasonably good place to start building exploring from. There's not a lot of contenders, to be honest. We need something, and very little else right now fits.
I like the show but

> deals mostly with things that would occur between human in the context of apocalypse

Is a trope that has been played out. The walking dead (a show I did not like) had a dozen seasons of it.
Net neutrality is one of those peacetime aspirations that simply does not matter as much as the ongoing culture war, climate crisis, political stability crisis, economic crisis, pandemic aftermath, and the literal (hot/shooting) war in Ukraine.

The center has eroded to the point where net neutrality only matters to many people if it has an impact on one of the above.

Yet any appeal to one side of the above issues will serve to alienate the other. This means that you can't really get enough oxygen in the room to shout over the shouty people already shouting about the above.

I bet you dimes to dollars that other center/administrative issues are similarly affected.
I am not a home owner or at all in the market for DIY solar, but your documentation is a real treat. A true labor of love.
Have you tried twisting them to break them?
Get them floating pop ups
> Let me know if the government decides to absolve you of all taxes if you don't think at the end of your year that you've been given money.

I... wouldn't? It just wouldn't have been taken from me.

Why would I think it would have been given to me? I'm perfectly aware it's money I earned in the first place.

In contrast with stimulus checks, for example, which were given, because even if you earned no money at all you still got them.