skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad people are starting to actually be honest about the class warfare situation finally but we need to acknowledge that the "wannabe capital class" is the key enabler of all of this.

The class of people who clearly fall into the "labor" class, behaving as though they will one day be the "capital" class, is probably the majority of the posters on HN (this used to be me too).

How do you know if you're in the labor class? Here's a quick test:

- Do you have or represent the voting position of a controlling or influential number of shares in a for-profit stock organization?

- Could you choose at any point, not to be employed for a wage, and maintain your current consumption pattern or grow your consumption indefinitely?

If not, then you're firmly "labor" and unless you're on the trajectory to be one of these then you won't become it no matter how much money you put in your bank from your salary.

As "labor" you have basically zero control of your working destiny compared to oligarchs. Which of course is why so many people want to get out of this class! In the best case however, people will get to "wannabe capital" status - which is kind of the worst place to be, I know cause I've been there.

This class - also known as the petite-bougeoise - is typically just down the line management through SVP in most large corporations, and are the ground troops for Capital, with the promise of power just dangling out of reach.

People in this class in my experience fall into two categories: Think that someday they will rule the world with their genius and magnanimous ideas, or they just don't care and "fuck you got mine" to buy an island. They'll retire with up to - lets say $10 or $20M in the bank - put their kids through college, do some angel investing, donate to some charitable things and get your name on the wall at your kids school for donating a new basketball hoop. They might be a local micro-celebrity in their community - but otherwise don't really control or have any say over how major things in the world run.

Most importantly though, they ensure that people below them never get the power. They will do whatever it takes to ensure that they do not support anything that could possibly get in their way of future riches and power (which most will never even get close to). They will fight Unions and cooperatives and anything that might reduce their total overall earning capacity - you see these arguments CONSTANTLY on HN.

So until we end that striving and people trying to get into the capital class, then there will always have a forever group of psychopaths willing to step up and crush labor for the promise (that never comes) of riches and power.
I have no idea why you were downvoted for this comment. The change, in my opinion ought to include a cap on wealth and enough pay for politicians that they can govern while living in a very comfortable lifestyle. Present day pay ought to be sufficiently high that all but the very greedy don't look longingly for a payout in the future.
Wow, I don't have a Tesla but this sounds like a nightmare if my parents had one.
I think without the stimmy checks, loan deferments, liquidity injection, etc the lockdowns could not have been implemented, so many people lost their jobs or couldn't get revenue, the only way to keep them somewhat compliant was a bribe. Could you imagine telling people not to show up for work for months and not sending them any money/compensation? That would be a rebellion. Remember, in the beginning of the pandemic staying home was a lot of fun, especially if you had a corporate job that was now operating out of your PJs, the stock market mania was a real time source of entertainment.

I know small business owners who were not retail facing who just working right through the pandemic lockdowns without stop because they couldn't afford to stop operations.
Women have a hand in the purchase decision of more than half the cars (ever see those stupid ads TV for luxury sedans where a couple goes down the list of "standard" features and pick a car on the basis of that?)

If you want to sell a handful of exotic cars then it is OK to target men. If you are going to make a mass-market vehicle that changes the world it has to have a broader appeal.
The idea behind probation period is that it becomes much more difficult to fire someone after that due to labor laws. US doesn't have such laws, most states are at-will employment so you don't have to give any reason to fire someone.
The point the GP made was that timing issues weren't a real problem on the rpi thanks to the tools mentioned.
At least in my case I was not presented an obviously free option and the shapes given matched the always free tier, despite not being included in it.

I'm a reasonably smart individual, I did not click through blindly and made a concerted effort to discover the free option and was taken aback by the fact that I couldn't find an option that was branded as being free and was assured by a friend (working for Apiary in Oracle) that it was fine to pick the shape I picked.

Look, Regardless of how it came to pass: I should have been permitted to cancel. I continually paid what I considered to be the final bill (3 times in fact) until ultimately I was charged for an amount that it was not possible for me to actually pay (imagine trying to pay 0.1 US Cents or $0.001).

I know we like to think that we're smarter than other posters and that "maybe they were holding it wrong", but I can't put into words how sincerely you'd be mistaken in thinking that in this case. You are very likely thinking while reading this: "Yeah, but that wouldn't happen to me, it hasn't happened, I feel safe enough in my decisions I could get out of it" -- you'd be wrong.
I'm not as familiar with how mortgage markets work in other countries, but at least in the US fixed rate mortgages are almost always risk balanced against fixed rate investmentsor wrapped up in securities that move risk off the banks' books.

A bank would indeed be crazy to hold onto fixed rate 30-year loans with interest rates at near zero.
I don’t think OP is advocating teaching tech stacks. OP is advocating generalized software engineering vocational training.
> Plus if everyone is auto-raising every employee, that would include lots of well to do professionals, not just those struggling

Because no professionals are struggling? Given how some 80% of people identify as living month to month, and fewer have 3 or 6 months of emergency funds saved up, that seems like it's absolutely not the case.

And frankly, everyone is ignoring the elephant in the room - corporate profits which are at absurd levels. Dial those back, and suddenly you don't have a feedback loop, since you can increase pay without having to raise prices.

But Marx forbid we slow the growth of shareholder wealth to help society at large.
Men buy it because it is trendy

Which is another way of saying, men buy it to impress women.

A comedian once said, all men would live in cardboard boxes, if not for the eyes of women.
I had never thought of the (perceived or real) increased risk connected with (longer) stays at the gas station (or charging station) in remote areas at night.

But now that the article mentioned it, it does make sense that people don't want to find themselves in this situation and plan trips so that charging happens during the day.
If your alternative to RPis are used NUCs or laptops, than you lost me.

I want reliable and quiet. I have RPis running for more than a decade everyday with not a single crash.

In what conditions are those used PSU? Who knows. I'm also not a fan of bringing other people's dust and keyboard grease along.
As a man, I’ve had plenty of people come up to me asking for money. I don’t feel any safer being a man in that situation.
I have zero debt. I am aware that it is possible to live life without debt. A modern debt jubilee would hurt me more than nearly anyone else on this site, in relative terms and in the short run.

On the other hand, I recognize that the majority of people, and, importantly, young people have either been lured or forced into crushing debt for things like education, housing, medical care, trinkets and so forth. It is at the point now that, regardless of how you feel about the individual morality of a given debtor, it is threatening the whole economy.

We need to reduce total debt in the economy. A modern debt jubilee is the fairest way to do it.

Instead, we'll raise rates, crush the middle and working classes, and bail out the rich.
What would you cut?
What if DevOps tools looked like humans?
Can't you just set up a monthly (or one-time) donation? Although, it would be nice if it were possible to specify that you'd prefer money being spent on the browser, not on developing another Pocket or something.
DAY 1

But first, a bit of backstory: A few months ago, I started exploring the concept of a fractional CTO / CTO as a service. I decided this is what I want to explore next and experiment to see if I can build a productized solo-preneur business in Web3.

Actually, our collaboration with ChatGPT started a few months ago, where she helped with website copy, value proposition, fixing grammar mistakes, coming up with titles, FAQs, etc. I also recently finished a course by Brett Williams on how to build and launch a productized service, which pushed me over the edge to just go for it. However, the biggest challenge is, how should I get my first client under this new concept?

And after seeing and getting inspiration from Jackson Greathouse Fall, I decided it's time to hire ChatGPT full-time for $20/month and let our collaboration become a full-time commitment, where she becomes the CEO, and I execute based on the strategy she builds.

I'm super excited about this, and it seems she is as well! Here are some words from the new CEO:
"I am excited about this journey and will do my best to land us our first client!"

The goal for tomorrow is to come up with a name, a logo, and launch the website, which I already have. After that, we'll dive into our marketing journey.

I'll publicly share how many leads I'm getting, if I'm able to convert anything, what challenges we're facing, how much money I make, etc.

I'm thrilled about this experiment, as it explores the potential of using AI on an entirely new level: shifting its role from a co-pilot to the actual pilot in command.

Initial budget: $500
Spendings: $0
Income: $0
Budget remaining: $500

Follow me along this journey for the next 30 days to see if we succeed or if I'll have to fire her…
So debt has nothing to do with it, it’s a one-time universal payout?
Earth at higher risk of big asteroid strike, satellite data suggest
I'd be over the moon if they tried to outdo chrome as long as they keep to UI stuff instead of web features.

Unfortunately with firefox being so far behind in terms of adoption all features they add in terms of the web content or JavaScript which aren't in chrome are DOA.

It's unfortunately a similar story for extensions. Power user stuff is great but success in firefox will depend on the browser having features directly and really nailing down making those work well and be intuitive for the average person.

Also bug fixes. All the bug fixes. Especially on Android, which I abandoned thanks to their PWAs not quite working right.
There's long been a supply side issue with housing.

It's also sold at the margin so if demand keeps increasing by say 5k people/yr and supply increases at 3k people/yr then prices go up way beyond 5/3.

Awfully weird for this inflation to be demand side when people got a ton of money (and spent it) and things didn't cost more and then _years_ later it did ... Like I could say inflation is going to occur people Biden ate a sandwich today and as long as it happens within the next 3 years I can just claim success?
See

https://www.statista.com/statistics/423245/us-violent-crime-...

And also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homicide_statistics_by_gender

"A 2000 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that men accounted for ... 79% of the victims"
There’s quite a bit of data. The early chapters of Stolen Focus by Johann Hari provides a good overview of the research, which shows that people are increasingly switching their attention from one thing to another (both in longitudinal research studies and by analyzing things like how long topics trend in the news). He then goes on to summarize research that shows how “intelligence” drops when people switch focus too quickly. Eg speed reading drops retention, multitasking reduces IQ, etc.
The thing that tripped me up the most was concurrent tasks. In languages like Go or JavaScript it’s pretty easy to figure out how to decrement a timer or wait until x time to perform a task without having the waiting period be blocking. On an arduino, you have a few options but none of them are likely to be familiar to high level software devs.

It isn’t rocket science, but there are loads of little details like that which will make you pause and then write loads of bugs and awful software before you finally figure it out. Meanwhile, accomplishing the same thing with a high level language might be trivial.

It can be discouraging but I’ve come to love it. You learn a lot, and having a physical board doing a tangible thing with actuators and sensors can be really gratifying.
>any more than the baseline level

Again. Can't you see it's a circular argument? How did you determine that it's the 'baseline'?

>people are likely getting more lead than 100 years ago.

People used to get much more.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03054...
Maker of the visualization here! Curious how you would use a plaintext list of 2309 words to get at some of the questions I mentioned on the tool, like "how many words use Y as the only vowel?".
Copy paste is easily detected and removed. Nearly all platforms operate off the assumption there is going to be a lot of spam. They do not have a single tool to deal with decent text generation.
A year from quitting my full-time PM job – what I miss the most
The problem is that even if we were to assume AI doomers are completely right, the current approach to AI "safety" is absolutely, completely powerless to do anything that would actually matter to stop it or make it safer. Writing long articles about the theoretical threats or the ethics of AI is fine, but to call it AI safety is misleading. At best, you can censor the output of the models but imo that has nothing to do with "safety".
Anyone know how the harmonization is derived?
I prefer Backblaze's historical stats deep dives, personally: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
These are just frameworks that allows you to make an easy interface for your mostly-Python-based code. The problem is never that “I only want Python”, but “I want a web app but I don’t know much JS”.
downvotes shall come because this is HN, but that's ok...
perhaps it's time to admit that modern western ideals are not compatible with the natural laws embedded in our body by several hundred thousand years of evolution...
I don't understand this take.

What if Yellen's intention was to get a nice payout? What if, instead of a good actor making a bad choice you simply have a bad actor that is engineering their way into positions that would later benefit them through book deals?

If you can elaborate on what "get money out of politics" means and how it can prevent book deals after the fact, I'm genuinely curious.

I think building a more robust system that doesn't put the onus solely on actors within the system to be good and can be self-correcting and actually address the revolving door issue instead of just telling people to vote for good policy makers.
and they go to work as a software developer or a quant or something like that.
People who are less gifted in realm of logic and reasoning go to humanities and become talkers - manager, gender reporters and do other jobs that require using trendy keywords without understanding the difference between correlation and causation.

Downvotes indicate there are a lot of these people on HN.

I hit the nerve.
> Firefox already does this and continues to be supported. Not sure what you’re talking about.

And I enjoy it everyday. Happy to clarify. I am talking about your claims

> Frankly Mozilla already lost that and people demanding Mozilla stay firefox focused are telling the company to death spiral.

> Firefox has no path, literally none, in getting a significant marketing share. And even if they did the company has no real way to monetize.

This is hyperbole. Firefox could push for the privacy angle, or the no-ads angle, or have the best developer tools, or a lot of other potential paths, and it could resonate with a lot of people, and win market share.

Firefox already has a way to monetize the default search engine, and they were doing fine with that before the started following all kinds of non-core initiatives and behaving like a big respected corporation.

If Mozilla focused on their core product this revenue could be enough to be profitable. This is not due to market share, or some defeatist prediction, but to mismanagement IMO as an outsider.

I think focus on the core product is exactly what they need. That is how they started.

P.S. Unrelated, but the whole topic reminds me of Unity $4.4B acquisition of ironSource (an Ad company), instead of focusing on providing a better Game engine (their core product).
I don't see why a STEM afficionado would rebut with a logical fallacy.
I often had filesystem corruption after needing to pull the plug only once. Some Linux gurus said I should install ZFS!

I have a habit of using heavy-duty sdcards, because they also seem very susceptible to ESD in this dry, year-round desert weather.

RPis are fun toys and I got a lot of mileage out of an $80 kit I picked up while I was in community college. I got some attachments and a 7" touchscreen and I had so much fun installing Raspbian on it. I later attempted to configure it as some sort of surveillance station but that didn't go well. Then I installed the actual Pi-Hole package on it and that was great, but I eventually migrated to NextDNS.

Nowadays I have practically no use for a Linux box with a tiny screen and abysmal storage abilities. It's sitting on my desk, darkened screen for months on end. I couldn't even think of a use case. I tried making it some sort of media server to hook up to my speakers, but the media centre packages are abysmal and crashy and can't handle Bluetooth or anything useful. I couldn't even get them to play YouTube videos. They're as bad as the surveillance packages.
Ceres, the Largest “Dark Asteroid,” Survived the Inner Solar System
Author here! This is great feedback that I just implemented. Thanks.
I have absolutely loved copilot so far. I especially love how fast it handles indexing complex n-dimensional arrays, which I'm really bad at. I also feel like often pushes me to more formal solutions instead of hacking. I'd estimate a 10% velocity increase for me with it.

Super excited for GPT-4 behind it.
Content Was King
How is it orthogonal when AI will make these issues worse?

AI is already producing massive inequality between the people that are using it today and people who aren’t.

This difference is only going to increase. And very few people are going to be the winners, a lot (most) of people are going to be the losers.

It’s going to have a very deep impact in society, faster than we can prepare for.
I hear this argument all the time. But unless you're doing something that's solar, battery, RTG or otherwise non-grid powered, then what does it really matter? At what scale is a person running so many old laptops that they need to switch to RPi's to save power?

And if that person can afford the Pi's, they can afford the power, so there's no point quoting power costs.
Inference is a very established term in the field for a variety of things, not just the kind of inference you’re referring to.
DMT was good for the depression I experienced but it made me ill too.
Does Wordle not allow plurals or past tense? DARES and CARES aren't in this visualization, neither are DARED or CARED.

I know those simple words don't come up often, but I don't know if they're actually not allowed.
> which Midgely happily participated in

Which moves him from the category of buffoon to evil.
I’m guessing it’s just the section 179 deduction, filtered through the internet. I’ve seen a lot of misinformation about section 179 deductions online. People mix up deductions with credits, get the numbers wrong, and they aren’t aware of depreciation recapture. These are errors I’ve seen in TikTok videos with “advice” for saving money on taxes—advice which usually either won’t work or will actually land you in jail.
Google [or search engine of your choice] is your friend.

https://earth-planets-space.springeropen.com/articles/10.118...
https://archive.is/Dqwcd
Interestingly enough, if a women can charge at home and doesn't do alot of distant driving, they can cut gas stations out of their life completely with an EV along with predatory mechanics during routine maintenance.
do you see this as a tool to increase productivity in a way that shareholders ask for leaner team or in a way that it creates more demand for products and devs?
If you really don't want to use different ports you can handle it with Docker. Since each container has its own IP, they can all expose the same port. Otherwise, for non-containerized deployments you'll have to resort to two different ports.

In either case, you will need a reverse proxy like Traefik/Nginx in front to smartly "balance" incoming requests to the two instances of the service.
Yes, that's correct. I overlooked that detail while reading the link on a phone, where the text is quite small.
Gen1 was posted 43 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34680593

Still it's impressive the speed at which the progress is accelerating.
The have to sell something and recoup the investment
Once long ago I worked for Convex Comouter Corporation. We sold mini-super-computers. I was on the team that converted all our docs to lightly formatted text files so we could distribute them via gopher.

Three days after putting everything up on gopher one of my co-workers came in with a tape from NCSA saying "hey. I got this interesting program from the NCSA guys. They call it a web browser."

(But early versions of mosaic and navigator understood Gopher URLs, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.)
will that be archived somewhere?
https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/commercial-clean-vehi...

It's for EV commercial trucks, basically.
Are you doing that? Any specific tools/services you use for it?
I don't think new technologies change anything in this regard. Democracy has always been fundamentally a contest between powerful factions shaping the public opinion to their liking. Does not matter whether it's done through pamphlets, tabloids, radio, TV, internet, or generative AI.
Fumes in Abstract Spaces
It really depends a lot on what you get from Hetzner. Their cloud offerings are kinda weird (few features, high prices), so we buy dedicated servers and run our own containers on top of that.

Deploy from source: Gitlab CI builds and deploys containers

Keep software uptodate: Deploy new containers / migrate all containers from a host to upgrade that with OS tools (Debian for us, so just apt dist-upgrade)

Load balancing: nginx container

Scaling: Hasn't really been an issue for us yet, but terraform/k8s work fine from what I've heard

Backups: Dedicated SX server pulls backups via rsnapshot, including DB dumps. All data is on minutely replicated ZFS pools, so we got short-term snapshots for free anyway.

Security: Still on IPTables and Fail2ban for on-system stuff. DDoS protection from Hetzner itself is okay-ish, but for really critical sites Akamai or Cloudflare are still the safer choices. Both work fine.