skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
young adult here (23m) with a normal salary (not FAANG, definitely underpaid but still above the american average). sometimes, i'll find that i'm willing to save costs at the expense of sacrificing my health. among other doubts, i've reconciled with the idea that i'll likely never own property of my own. there's too much debt to take care of and over time, things continue to get more expensive.

i grew up in a modest home. when my parents bought it, it was worth ~100k. not much has changed, we added some stone to the porch and an outdoor kitchen. it's worth nearly a million now. anecdotal? possibly, but certainly not a rare case. on average, how am i supposed to afford a home if the trajectory for a normal suburban life is that prices more than 2x every 20 years? [0]

even so, i find that year after year, i'm losing trust in the future of this country. 23 and entirely jaded. i cannot find it in myself to invest any energy in building a future here. mostly, i'm cynical and scared. i find that most of my friends are the same. was it always like this? is losing faith in your country a rite of passage into adulthood? does it get better over time? will i ever make enough to feel safe? etc.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS
I’ve yet to hear a really compelling use case for cryptocurrency that doesn’t seem like it’d be better solved in some other way.

It’s incredibly obvious how AI tools can be applied to many different problems.

So even if it’s the same people “pushing” both, that doesn’t mean they are the same. These people are tech enthusiasts who want to make money, and they will be excited by any promising new tech.
You can lie about anything people ask you. That's lying's whole thing.
If these early '00 bridge builder games have taught me anything, you want to go as fast as possible, as you might reach the other side as the bridge is still in the process of collapsing ;)
That scammers who pushed the former are now pushing the latter, doesn't tell you much about the future.

ChatGPT is, IMO, about the same value as a freshly graduated programmer — it would be a mistake to let it loose unsupervised, but on the other hand, what do junior devs cost to hire these days?
Isn't there Wolfram plugin for ChatGPT?
Since each function is independently versioned, how does ScrapScript deal with functions that need to upgrade together?

For instance, suppose "foo" produces a structure and "bar" consumes it - what happens if the user passes the output of "foo version 10" to "bar version 1"?
That will take an evening to assemble
What are you invoking Kipling for? Cuz it sounds like something profoundly sex negative, and makes me think of Glen Beck (who used to love to flog the poem).
A college degree is a signaling mechanism that you are willing to stick it out until the end in a large bureaucratic environment and not quit.

An Ivy League degree is a signal that “you’re one of us”.
Fixing Licence Compatibility Problems in Open Source (GPL-2.0 vs Apache-2.0)
The devs can change anything, it's just software. As long as miners, which are extremely centralized, agree it's the new chain.

I was a part of the bitcointalk forums in 2010 when the dev team created a soft fork that modified the blockchain to change consensus rules. THink about it, devs changed the consensus mechanism, that goes against everything bitcoin is supposed to be. They can do it again

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident
Could you elaborate on what externalities and how they are not internalized? Am curious.
Don't worry about blocking it via firewall; just log traffic, make it against the rules, and punish kids when they're caught?
NFTs are still happening, but the insane multi-million dollar monkey jpegs are not really happening anymore. At GDC this year web3 had a big presence, most firms are investigating or starting it in some way.

Like all tech there is hype then trough of disillusionment. NFTs are in the trough and AI chat tools will get there soon, just like self driving cars are in it right now.
Vlang is worked on by a large group of different developers, not just the creator. It seems this gets lost in a lot of narratives, as if it's a one man show. If you check V's GitHub, it's clear to see they have many contributors and developers who are professional programmers or have extensive backgrounds.
Hoovervilles aren't a story of a lack of infrastructure, housing or regulation. They're the outcome of an economic depression. You're not going to anti-immigrate out of recessions or depressions.

Modern immigration controls grew out of racist impulse. That's not all they are today. But many of them fail the Chesterton's fence test.
that's definitely not true. Unstoppable raised like 70 million and that was a single company.
Yes, and something bad happened does not make another bad thing good.
But most of us don't live in rural areas, that's why they're rural. 80% of Americans live in urban areas (https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...)

Why do you think an expanded train system would suck? That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Does it really take a 1 hour commute to avoid $6,000 rent?

There's of course lots of room to argue about what the likely take home pay on $250k is, but many of the arguments involve choices that sort of undermine the claim that someone is living paycheck to paycheck.
> Obviously this was ripe to be gamed by shady staffing companies taking money from applicants for filing a petition and THEN finding a job later based on whichever staffing agency gets picked. It's not even illegal for multiple companies to submit a petition for the same person.

Here you go. There's a real position at FAANG for every petition they file (and if the petition doesn't get selected, there's a position at a subsidiary). Keep in mind that If I want to hire:

A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup OR

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop [0]

my only path forward is H1! They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that make any sense to anyone?

Of course, my odds of getting a lottery spot for the former are dramatically lower, since we all know body shops and consulting firms won't hesitate to file 4-5 applications per seat they plan to fill out (so one can hopefully get a spot in the lottery and not get any RFE).

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valleys-body-s...
Should we also pledge not to use word processors or spell check?

AI and ChatGPT is a tool. When used appropriately, it can be used to produce good content. For me, I have used it to make my content more engaging and to do things like avoid using the same passive verbs over and over again as I sometimes have a tendency to do. At worst, it produces shallow or wrong or misleading writing, but people also do that.

It will not replace humans providing insightful writing. I think it is getting a lot of negative attention in the press because the advertising, click driven press is predicated on producing lots of words with minimal insight.
It is one of those crystal ball moments, nobody really knows what impact it’s going to have and at what speed. Will my job (frontend dev) be gone by years end? Maybe, maybe not.

But if the numbers do get scary, I think we do need to have a collective sit down as societies come under stress of job loss.
My friends. Algebraic effects in ocaml 5! I did protohackers and AOC with effects and it was a blast! Im not a daily ocaml driver so my code can be a bit clunky, but i love the patterns effects unlock, especially around module coupling.
The Fed can't raise taxes.
I don't think there's anything sane about the Police reducing their job requirements when we see how ripe for abuse the position is and how unstable it has become in the US based on similar reductions.

I also don't really understand how university education is "almost ubiquitous"; I see that the prevalence of Bachelor's degrees amongst adults is under 40%. Is the claim that the demographic of 21-32 would have a percentage like 70% or what?
I just cloned it, seems fine.
I saw this post, checked their stock price, and its up 5% since yesterday?
And are very likely living in high CoL areas where a large chunk of that is swallowed by housing, transportation, etc. It's functionally similar to a much lower salary in a lower CoL area.

That said even if someone in a low CoL area is pulling 250k, it's not "horseriding lessons eight kids and a yacht" money, not unless the individual/couple in question is drowning in debt.

Don't get me wrong, $250k isn't a "struggling" salary anywhere but it's also not past the threshold where one can stop being responsible with money and blow it on wealthy people things on the regular, especially if that's joint income from a couple with kids.
Dupont, although I think it might be closed now. They tore down some of the buildings four or five years ago.
I'm 44 and have only achieved savings within the past year and a half. I live a very modest life and have always TRIED to live below my means, but living off of my government salary was challenging. I received a ~18k raise 2 years ago and I'm finally able to live "comfortably".
Survey-based research is unrepresentative since it's exclusively completed by people who actually complete surveys (an idiosyncratic minority).
Some ways to make recipients feel more comfortable:

- You can suggest some other contribution. "Would you mind bringing snacks? / Would you mind handling music on the drive? / Would you mind giving X a ride?"

- You can allow them to reciprocate in less expensive situations, like taking the check when you are at a cheaper place.
Sorry, good point - worldwide it's only ~90% that are factory farmed

https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/global-animal-farming-est...
> They don't think they'll ever own a house or retire, so why would they attempt to save?

That’s exactly what the winners of our class war want you to think. War of attrition. They want everyone to give up and stop trying. Spend all your money, stay dependent on their crumbs, perfection.
I think JUXT are primarily a consultancy?

But they are also offering paid support plans for xtdb: https://www.xtdb.com/support/production
Only the marketers are saying it's a panacea.

Vertical farming (defined as the inefficient use of indoor farming, versus greenhouses which are an efficient use of indoor farming) is not a good replacement for most sorts of food production. It's a potentially competitive way of producing the most delicate and high-value items as close to the customer as possible.

It could make it possible to sell some foods, like apricots, in the city which are otherwise impossible to ship because they have to be picked soft.

Often though, there is roof space available where high-value crops could currently be grown efficiently in greenhouses and it's not being looked at because of the VC focus on tech and growth.
Even better, this device class also covers things like cheap digital "microscopes" and external USB video capture devices. It really simplifies working with those kind of tools.
Not the real script, if it exists at all. For one thing it's not in Russian (nor are any of the other scripts that send text messages to his boss/wife), and the password and commands are much too simplistic - in the story it says it's sending binary gibberish.

The 17 second delay before sending the command also makes no sense if this were run automatically every hour.

edit: also there's a bunch of versions in different languages :)
University education has a been a "baseline" to determine qualified candidates. It also sorta implies broadened horizons, overall mature thought process, and several other qualities that are desirable the advisors/staffers.

What other alternatives exists to University education that impart the same level of knowledge and understanding to an individual that can be consistently measured?

If education is expensive, then making it less expensive seems to be the natural solution than eliminating its requirement. Seems this is another virtue signaling in the name of equity that is taking the country back than forward. Reminds me of UCs' eliminating SAT in the name of equity, or how Palo Alto and Culver City (both in California) eliminated AP (Advanced Placement) courses because not everyone can take those.
This is a poor attempt at getting the point because that can be a problem with disruptive technology that is immediately deployed to a mass market without any care or concern for lasting consequences as long as someone gets rich
> there are a lot bad things that can happen in 15 year

IMO, Our species has thrived because of our ability to communicate and work together, not because our gender roles somehow make us specially equipped for survival. The atomic family is a relatively recent development, and for much of history children were raised by a community. If your natural parents died or became unable to raise you, you weren't left out to starve. you were taken in by relatives or neighbors.

If our gender roles were different (and there are many cultures and places in history where humans had unique social structures) it would not "break evolution by natural selection". Plenty of species have gender roles that don't fit traditional western models and they continue to be subject to evolution.
Sure. Throughout the world, especially hospitals and healthcare seem to be particularly bad at infosec. But regarding this case, I think something like passport data is (or should be) fairly well-protected, which prompts further questions about the hypothetical breaches. Of course, it could as well be an insider case or something similar.

Another point is that Telegram was again involved.
maybe if you went to college you could come up with one
That's pretty cool actually, going to steal it.
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This is also a silly solution. There is no shortage of people with college degrees. The only result will be lower wages.

I am speaking as a SWE who only recently received a degree late in life, purely to assist in my next job search, which I don't expect to be soon. I am not defending such accreditation nonsense.
This depends on so many variables, including complexity of the average problem, the obscurity of the average problem, having documentation or a knowledgebase with a known solution.

ChatGPT hallucinates so many things that don't exist, e.g., buttons or menu options in programs that don't exist, not considering file compatibility issues etc. I could go on for hours.

If the average problem is "I got locked out of my account" or basic and common stuff like this that just warrants giving someone a link or telling them to reboot their router, sure, maybe it'll be better than dealing with a human being in x out of y occurrences, hallucination not withstanding.

If it's something more complex like needing an NGINX configuration when a company has only ever considered Apache htaccess in the past, the customer is probably seven kinds of fucked. I wasted days trying to get something other than nonsense out of ChatGPT for an NGINX config, even going so far as to feed it documentation and the lines it would need for implementing URL rewrites. It kept hallucinating things that didn't exist in the documentation, and was a complete waste of time. Even after correcting it umpteen times, it still gave the same response. There's no reasoning applied.

Is there potential? Sure. But it isn't replacing human beings in a lot of cases. And for even more cases, just using a search function on a knowledgebase or search engine will yield more accurate information than trusting it isn't hallucinating. I have wasted far more time than I've saved due to hallucinations.

If all customer support does is search the problem on a knowledgebase, sure, it makes sense, because the support agent is already just doing what the LLM does if they can't apply logic and reasoning to the query. But why not just access the knowledgebase directly and not risk hallucinations?
If you have take home pay of $120k per year, half of that going to rent would be $5k. Spending that much on rent would only be normal in SF if you were renting a 5 bedroom. Normally people renting a 5 bedroom would be housing a family of four - or more.

I posit that it is not normal for a young adult in SF to have a family of four.
libquic should support it, but I'm not sure about how widely this is supported on servers. It should be supported on nginx at least.
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I don't believe it's cost from reading the Tweets and replies.

MTA: "For the MTA, Twitter is no longer reliable for providing the consistent updates riders expect."

NYCTSubway: "Our access to publish service alerts was suspended last week and again this week. ^JLZ" and "Good evening, Our access to publish service alerts was suspended last week and again this week. We'd like to continue providing you with the most current real-time information but we can’t do it consistently on an unreliable platform. ^GES"

It sounds like Twitter is cutting off access somehow. I don't know if this is API access, or what. But if there are thousands of people checking the Twitter feed for updates, and they're unable to post updates, that seems like an issue of reliability. Not necessarily that Twitter's servers are going down or delaying delivery.
Was there credible doubt that would have been alleviated with proof?
> median income for 25-34 year olds is ~70-80k

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/the-average-salary-by-age-in...

No, it's not $70-80k. Median in that age range is $52k (numbers are from 2022 Q3).
Wow an n of 5. Great sample size. I love anecdotal data, so reliable
Skilled labor isn't more productive than unskilled?
Which society it would improve? No extradition offshores, with Giancarlo, Czao, Paolo, Machinski, Sun, Bankrun-Fraud and many others? Maybe so. The problem is that I belong to a different society.
What sort of "vetting" and acceptance testing does Ubuntu/RedHat do given their delayed cycle?
Twitter's Verification Problems
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Loki and Mimir seems like just a complete skip compared to respective competitors when it comes to storing data/logs. Grafana itself is great and Kibana could certainly use some competition
I would have thought young adults living paycheck to paycheck was the expected historical norm?
One of the main reasons for permissive immigration policies is economic growth. More people -> more consumption and possibly more production.
Basically people are able to choose 2 flavors of the same thing. Pretty much like in China Communism is the established system and people can't vote it away (nor they seem to want to), the same happens in the US with Capitalism, with the difference that dissent in the US is much much higher.
Exxon, Chevron Profits Are Booming as If Oil Was $145 a Barrel
But this commenter has an n of 5! That's better than 80,000
Does it really matter? Microsoft owns GitHub, and unofficially owns OpenAI, so
MS can do whatever they want with their toys.
I build my personnal search engine which record things I like on twitter, blog posts etc.. It automatically calls those APIs using Github Action and store them in an open source database (json file)

I actualy use it at least twice a week to retrieve content I bookmarked, so I'm happy to have created such a tool.

The app:
https://raphaelsty.github.io/knowledge/?query=bayesian

The Github:
https://github.com/raphaelsty/knowledge
Yes there is demand, and it's something we paid special attention to. With this specific building, we have 11 foot ceilings, oversized historic windows into the living space much larger than typical multifamily, and then barn door openings to maximize light penetration into the space. Also, we enlarged the center courtyard to improve light, we have a huge rooftop amenity package including a rooftop dog park and pickle ball court, indoor secure parking; basically we are going overboard on every other aspect of urban living.

It's funny, people may insist on windows in the bedroom, but then put up black out curtains...

Regarding code items, we have operable windows and mechanical makeup air. Also at 8 stories we are considered high-rise by St. Louis city code (its a tall 8 stories) so we have to have complete sprinkler coverage, automated fire control and notifier systems, etc.