skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once again, if your statement was true, people wouldn't be moving to NYC, or SF, for the highly paid jobs.

If they could get highly paid jobs, elsewhere, they wouldn't pay the high cost of living, to be near the high paying jobs.

I am not sure what theory you could invent, that would cause people to move to a high cost of living area, if not for the high paying opportunities in those areas.

If, instead they could get better opportunities elsewhere, why pay the high cost of living?

> People are sacrificing earning potential to be in a more fun area

Hey, if you know of any jobs that pay 500k a year, for a sofware eng position, not in SF or NYC, please let me know then!

I'm going to say, that actually its the salaries though.
I have this problem too! I have been trained to roll away from my desk before I stand up. I assumed it was static, and my hat's off to you who tracked this down.

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Debian/ubuntu use dash for sh, instead of bash, which breaks a lot of scripts lazily assuming bash is sh.

Scripts that specify bash will work, assuming its installed though.
Ok I actually thought about this a fair bit a few days ago and I think I have a good answer for this.

You’ve probably heard of the cheap bar trick that goes something like: “And what does a cow drink? Milk!”.

Irrespective of intelligence, humans tend to make silly cognitive errors like this because we are fundamentally pattern marchers.

In order to become a forerunner in a field, you necessarily have to be good at abstract pattern matching.

What happens as you age is that you no longer have the need to question assumptions because you know what’s real and what’s not. There’s also the decrease of white matter and an increase of grey matter which doesn’t help this.

As time goes on, certain assumptions change, essentially deprecating certain chunks of your crystallized learnings.

Some chunks of your thinking are still valid, so when you think something can be done, it most likely can be done.

However, if something falls outside your crystallized learning, you get a strong sense it’s wrong, when it might be because of your outdated assumptions.

You can try to hotswap the assumptions you have, but it becomes like Jenga the more years of experience you have in your field.

You either have to start from scratch and rebuild your lifetimes worth of learnings from the ground up or be super careful in reassessing everything you know
I find AI responses to be fatuous, shallow and uncritical. It is uncreative (writes doggerel verse; doddles out prose that sounds like the requested style but only superficially resembles it), it chooses middle ground answers even when asked to do more.

If you need a 6th-grader to write some copy for you, then go ahead. But I'd choose an actual 6th-grader instead. They could use the practice, and they will get better with time.
Hey can I ask a question about Ben Goertzel? It's sort of hard to figure out how seriously to take anything he says. Which is maybe a mean thing to say. But his recent crypto venture sort of seems scammy and cash grabby, and the thing he's most well known for (Sophia) seems like sort of a gimmick, so I'm not really sure what to think.
Divide your data into smaller chunks, then use some kind of initial vector similarity check to choose only the relevant bits.
Why does it matter if it looks like a human brain? The GNU C compiler has written more code than every AI on earth combined, but it doesn't resemble a human mind. It's code. The definite opposite of a black-box.

It sounds like you're conflating multiple different things here which makes it hard to respond to your question as-written.
> Once again, if your statement was true, people wouldn't be moving to NYC, or SF, for the highly paid jobs.

adjusted wages for rent is not the only consideration. cities have far more amenities, which are beyond the scope of the discussion.

it's simply a fact, however, that if you're simply looking at square footage, rent, and wage, the densest cities in the united states do not give you the highest wages. there's really no point in arguing about it, you can go look for yourself.
Absolutely enlightening, but be prepared to be made very sad by the truth about how many people actually live in illiberal countries.

Also unless you make a very concerted effort to get to know what is going on, you often will be blissfully ignorant because tourist areas are abnormally nice, and the workers in the tourist areas can be very motivated to present a happy face, and usually a language barrier.

You do get a slight feel, but what you don’t get to see is usually the part that matters e.g. why uncle Bob is dead or in jail; the difficulty in getting healthcare in Cuba; police abuse; the hidden constraints on “normal” freedoms.
Building market rate housing will lower prices in the long term (decades) as older housing stock becomes out of date and affordable, but in the short term it only helps the most wealthy. The market rate in most places is very expensive. I don’t think we have enough housing, but we need affordable
housing, and at this rate I think the only solution is state intervention.
It's not just a funny joke that attempting to define LDS doctrine is akin to trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. For almost every doctrinal position there are either other doctrinal positions or historical events that go against it (or sometimes both). Even on something as traditionally Christian as the Atonement of Jesus Christ and grace vs. works, the LDS doctrine and previous LDS leadership authorities can be read to support penal substitution theory or satisfaction theory, and you'll find plenty supporting both the supremacy of grace AND the supremacy of works.

Honestly, the best approximation of LDS doctrine is probably not found in any form of text but is best found through the practices of the majority of the active membership. Oh, and the Wikipedia pages are also probably a good place to start, since they can be changed to keep things current with changing emphasis and practice.

Of course, that's not to say that you can't find attempts by LDS individuals and academics to create what you're asking for, it's just that as time moves on each attempt has fallen out of favor as the culture of the organization shifts away on certain items:

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_Doctrine_(book)

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Mormonism

3: https://deseretbook.com/p/lds-beliefs-doctrinal-reference-ro...

4: https://gregkofford.com/products/this-is-my-doctrine
You and I must have different definitions of “unfair” if being one-sided isn’t at odds with fairness.
I was paid a local salary while living in Japan. The total cost of living in Tokyo blows NYC and the Bay out of the water in terms of affordability and I’ve lived multiple years in all three. CPI with rent in NYC is nearly 90% higher.

Median household in New York is 120k; it’s 87k in Japan. Rent is over 200% higher than in Japan. Even adjusting for square footage and the earning differential, I assure you it is much easier to get an affordable place (and pay less per square foot accounting for income differentials) in Japan than in New York. Because of the Japanese transit system and the lack of household appreciation, there is a much broader range of rental prices and that range increases the further outside the city center you go.
Octopamine reprograms astrocytes to confer neuroprotection against α-synuclein
Which health outcomes would we expect to change wrt your concern?
Have you considered some people might not conflate "success" with "net worth"? Wealth = success is a very tired trope, I thought everybody realised what a sham that way of thinking is.

Who cares if they make more or less than a techbro? If they're happy with their job and they earn enough to pay for things they want (house, vacations, whatever), then they should chase the rat-race of the "ladder of success" because...?
> Chatgpt is a tool, if you dont know how to use the tool, stop complaining that you don't like it.

It's a tool that can be opaquely configured to be used in a million different ways, and when using it does not bring about the desired result, its acolytes sneer, and suggest that you're using it wrong.

It's like a multi-tool, that only works when you're blindfolded. Sure, it can be used to hammer nails and tighten screws and strip wires and measure a tire's pressure, but it makes it quite difficult to find the magical incantation that will apply the right end to the job.

(And most of the time, it quietly leaves the screw untightened, the wire clipped, and the tire with a hole in it. It's the user who's wrong, of course.)
> Today, chatbots like ChatGPT tend to complement human workers, but they could replace paralegals, personal assistants, translators and others who handle rote tasks. “It takes away the drudge work,” he said. “It might take away more than that.”

It might replace VCs and the C-suite. There’s a lot of fat at the top that could be trimmed, especially in the US where executives and financiers are extremely well-compensated.
The church does not want you to leave, so they want to make it difficult. The government also has no interest to make that easier.

It has very little to do with bureaucracy. It's about supporting the large churches.

In some regions there is a lot of additional (social) pressure to prevent people from leaving the church.
Density doesn't drive price. Nobody pays more for "density".

Density and price are both simply measures that track other desirable factors like jobs. It is correlation, not causation.
How ironic would it be if we doomed ourselves to a bad AI overlord by feeding it dark sci-fi that causes the AI to self identify with the AI in those stories
>"Modesty is the responsibility of the viewer."

This reminds me of what my father - from a very rural, poor, small community - told about my grandparents and his upbringing.
Tiny house, not many bedrooms but many kids (in the end 10 children), so it was common for many of the youngest ones to sleep in the same bed as my grandparents. And yet they still conceived new babies (they're all 2 or 3 years apart from each other)!
Sounds a bit crazy in these modern times.
Too bad the New Horizons probe can't make an L-turn to go visit one of these.
Only in absolute numbers. But e.g. Mongol conquests wiped out >10% of the entire world population over the course of about a century. All of our 20th century wars don't add up to that.
Yes. Thin disposable bags are easily degraded mechanically, resulting in lots of microparticles.

For clothes it's even worse, they produce microparticles at all times, especially during laundry.
Also nodejs is deprecating versions at an impressive rate. Todays LTS will be out of date soon. AWS and thus Vercel have to follow along. So you can’t run a node based serverless app for more than a year or two before you either put the work in to upgrade or just cross your fingers that the forced upgrade won’t break your app.
I fail to see how being on that list implies anything. Imagine for example if you are a person with some status which implies that you are socially/politically active, and some rich folk calls you and invites you to have a talk at a dinner, would you instantly decline it? For example even if you dislike this class of people, don't you at least feel curious how will this meeting pass? Isn't it an interesting, even useful experience even if you know that you are going to decline any offer he will propose there anyway?
Why is it that many of the same people who argue against more roads and more parking lots on the basis of induced demand preventing more roads from meaningfully solving congestion seem to think that in the densest and most competitive cities that adding units will necessarily make hosing affordable?
I'm not talking about total cost of living, I'm talking about the rent. meals along with other things, in tokyo are substantially cheaper than in New York, agreed.
This depends on your filter bubble.
Actually, it's complicated, and there really isn't consensus one way or another.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5949415/

"Seventeen meta-analyses of these studies have been performed and have similarly shown conflicting results with some demonstrating a survival advantage (4-6) while other have not (7-10). Consequently, true equipoise exists with regards to the clinical benefit of corticosteroids in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock.

...

In summary, the use of corticosteroids in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock is not associated with improved patient centered outcomes, however this treatment is safe and without an increased risk of complications. Corticosteroids appear to have synergistic biological effects when combined with intravenous vitamin C and thiamine and may be associated with improved patient centered outcomes (21)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8604467/

"In this review article, we reviewed a total of eight different articles being done in last 10 years, relevant to the clinical outcome and eﬀects of corticosteroids. Among those, two demonstrated improved clinical outcomes, two showed both improved clinical outcomes and decreased mortality, three showed increased adverse eﬀects, and the remaining one showed unequivocal results."
> This is a failure of a country's healthcare system.

The problem is wider than the healthcare system.

Given current mental health needs in the US it's doubtful that we have enough therapists to meet those needs (note that most people cannot make appointments in the 9-5 time slots so most people are competing for 6-9 or 5-7).

If you look at how some of the nordic countries have approached mental healthcare it becomes clear that making mental healthcare available is dependent on a widespread social safety net that really gets in people's business in a way many in the US would oppose.

Many people's health problems really come down to things like "I have to work 70 hours a week to make ends meet" or "I'm broke because no one will hire me because I'm a felon". Therapy can help a little for these people, but in practice reducing load on the healthcare system means solving their problems which is politically harder than just healthcare reform.
Absolutely! Unfortunately, they are all mutually dependent and mutually reinforcing, so you can't opt out of some without opting out of the rest.
> But Tokyo has accommodated growth without rent increasing significantly. No US city can say the same.

Isn't Tokyo famous for stuff like tiny, tiny microapartments? Are the rent increases comparisons you allude to measured per apartment or per square foot?
This is the result of a system without any value judgment or morals, that’s the scary part. If these items are from existing lists it picked lists from authoritarian and totalitarian playbooks.
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> where does that leave humans?

Perhaps nowhere. This might be unavoidable anyway.

The last to starve will be the first to suffocate.
"We don't know" in this case means "It's hard to trace the particular model parameters resulting in any particular result".

When scientists say "We don't know" they mean "It would take more time than I care to spend, to investigate the particulars to answer that question." The public jumps straight to "It's magic, Jesus or aliens!"

It's a parrot. That's not in question.
Ask HN: If you fear AI now, were you likely afraid of the Y2K bug & vice versa?
Or are these two things quite separate in people's minds?
There's always training as a good excuse for running silent. Apart from that ... well, I'm not quite sure what these fast attack submarines are doing out and about at all. Maybe looking for other subs in the area? But whatever they are doing probably benefits from being hard to detect. If you are comfortable with announcing yourself with active sonar and are not just on the way to somewhere else, why not just use a surface ship in the first place?
Both sides are the same is such a tired line.
Credit unions are not-for-profit companies that operate like a co-op or a mutual insurance company. The depositors are the owners. S&Ls were for-profit businesses.
A battery bank at your house and that same battery bank at the power station are effectively equivalent. There's no benefit to distributing batteries here since transmission costs are relatively small.

So while yes water storage systems need lots of space, that's really only a problem if you're trying to distribute it. But you don't need to, you can centralize power storage to alleviate time of day spikes. Which many power grids already do.
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When I was in high school 30 years ago I switched to low top cross trainer sneakers (Bo Jackson was big then) because high tops seemed to cause me sprained ankles constantly. High tops never gave me any stability, and in my opinion acted as a lever on my ankle, the way you'd put something tall under a long board if you wanted to step on it and snap it in half. With low tops, my ankle would bend/roll naturally and though it might hurt, it didn't sprain my tendon. I've always assumed my ankles were just weird.
The privacyguides team killed a 200k subreddit for privacy (privacytoolsio) out of spite. I'll never forget that. Their replacement subreddit has yet to reach anywhere near the same number of people (50k) or activity.
I am sorry that you feel that way. I know this is a widespread opinion. My own experience is different.

I am at now a point as a researcher where I am financially secure, work on interesting problems, and have time for my wife and children. My colleagues, junior as well as senior, seem to be in similar situations.

To be clear, in my case "focus and neglect" meant working weekends and evenings and lots of travel for some years before we had children. I see successful people in other careers doing the same.

My current situation does not involve anything remotely like "pushing shit" or "abusing junior labor". I have no "hard constraints" and I see no "financial abuse" at my university.
> Not sure what link you mean. <https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/Overview.html> seems fine to me.

That's not the book. That's just a (scant) page about the book (with a few broken outbound links).

> The book itself isn't on the web

So you do understand what I mean.

> I don't think TBL has ever said that _all_ information/text would be on the Web

So you don't understand what TBL meant.

The Web includes everything. Whether it's "on" the Web in the sense of being readily served up by a functioning piece of software that responds to requests with the full contents or not is another matter (but it is supposed to have a URL even if the answer is "not"—as in "not currently available").
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My first thought was, no way! No sane, honest, rational politician would ever allow the U.S. government to default on its debt due to an accounting technicality. My second thought was a more pessimistic: A remarkable number of U.S. senators and representatives today act in ways that seem neither sane, nor honest, nor rational to me. I hope those politicians don't carry the day.
agreed that it's correlation. however that's all you're going to get. no one is going to run a city wide experiment in this way. however if you look at the trend it's clear that cities have seen higher median price increases than suburbs. you can search yourself.
I hadn't thought of it like this before, but I think he's arguing that there is a network effect. High density is more convenient, which induces demand.
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If you are going to make up your own definition of "facts" and "data" to suit your argument; I dont think there is a point for me continuing to engage! Have good day
^^ you're correct on average, this is why it's good to establish in the interview what is common, how much is taken by higher ups etc.

If they push back you can literally say to the manager "You told me that 6 weeks was normal"
> but you’ll have to spend a lot of time to (legally) procure your own test sources.

As @api mentioned elsethread, you can just buy isotopes from United Nuclear: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2_...

You can also buy isotopes from other online scientific supply stores, but they're more of a hassle as they cater to business and institutional customers. In the U.S. I think most (all?) of them, including United Nuclear, are resellers for Spectrum Techniques (https://www.spectrumtechniques.com/about/), which is the commercial outfit working with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to manufacturer and sell so-called exempt quantity isotopes. For most isotopes, including some really nasty ones like Polonium, Federal regulations permit unlicensed possession and sale under a certain quantity. A sample of Polonium for example (I have one on my desk right now), comes on the head of a pin.

Building or even just buying and setting up an experimentation or display rig, like a cloud chamber, is much more of a hassle than acquiring the actual isotopes. I never did get around to building a cloud chamber; that sample of Polonium has never left my desk.
what's the average income? Affordable isn't $.
Being wrong once on a date 5 years away isn't necessarily lying. Being many years wrong on frequent "by the end of the year" predictions in a way that happens to help you sell products is lying.
> now my defacto playbook for building lasting bottom up disruptive cloud companies

What companies have you built (or played a role in building) using this "playbook" that fit your description?
If you aren't careful you'll find yourself making an argument against maternity leave, like you just did.
> So I think from a VS Code user perspective there will be no name clash.

That went well :)
What are you talking about. Bitcoins has been working as a digital value exchange system for 10 years, and has a market cap of 539B USD right now.
Any suggestions for a semi usable track system for moving small items around the house or office?

Most such systems are made for industry and very expensive.

Would be fun to make a railway that could move soft drinks around the building or pick items from the shed and deliver to the workshop.
When its Americans, its 'reputation' when its anyone else its 'stereotyping'.
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I'd disagree about the 6th-grade level note; would argue freshman in college, maybe.

But that's beside the point:

How do people not extend the timeline a bit? It often feels like the release of the internet, but instead of people going, "Holy crap, this is going to be huge!" we have a majority saying, "meh, it only connects like 12 different universities."

As though progress somehow deadstops right where we are.