skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FDIC is backed with the full faith and credit of the United States government, so in the event that they run out of money they will pay out of a "line of credit with the U.S. Treasury." - https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/assistance/protection/depacco...
God, as a small-house renter I would love to run little linux servers on old smartphones.
It does seem like we need a term for a civilisation that decides that serving internet is more important than its ability to observe the universe.

Then, in that pursuit, they completely miss an otherwise easily detectable near earth object and become extinct, but the satellites will continue happily beaming internet to a user base that no longer exists.

Then again, it's probably a non-issue. Not because the satellites impede our ability to observe, but because we observe so little to begin with.
That last bar seems way too high.

UBI might become low enough to be practical with a mix of changing attitudes around living “the bare minimum” and motivation to fix absurd expenses when possible.

Living in a dorm room in a rust belt town with a cafeteria and 1940s-level clinic might look less dystopian when it’s the totally free option.

Get that level low enough and you can expect most people can actually succeed in creating about that much in value because it’s absurdly low and any person would struggle to create a hard 0.

Even without UBI, if it were legal, I think an ultra cheap lifestyle option would be a popular niche. Machines can easily support a 19th century living standard for almost nothing.
I gotta say, I realize it's got a lot of historical weight to it, but I've always hated the "leading zero means octal" thing.

The fact that 12 and 012 mean drastically different things in many languages does not ever feel good.
> “50% of consumers who have bought vinyl in the past 12 months own a record player, compared to 15% among music listeners overall.”

No way in hell do 15% music listeners own record players.

Assuming Luminate's numbers are not entirely made up, their sampling method must be deeply flawed, which brings into question their ability to determine how many record buyers own a record player. Maybe they asked the question in some idiotic way that confused the respondents.
I made a vertical mouse for my wrist pain with tons of macro buttons... https://youtu.be/NjJaXvkDHfI
First of all, talking about AI researching experience, I am an AI research who's in the field for over 10 years. Second, this is not the conclusion that's reached by me. There is a survey where 30% of AI researchers think it's likely that AI may be a threat to humans if we don't align it well.

Just give you another example.

"it is "not inconceivable" that AI may develop to the point where it poses a threat to humanity"

There are many other high profile researchers are voicing similar ideas.
Thanks for this pointer.

For a long time I thought there should be a good open-source project that allows some usage of old phones that fall out of daily usage but still have most of the features working -- except for may be battery life or a chipped screen.

For example I have a bunch of tablets and mobile phones that are in this state.

Ideally I would like to be able to mount them to a wall and convert them into simple displays that I can "cast" a screen or video to (other use cases -- simple weather displays, security camera monitors, remote switches for smart devices, etc). I know some of these use cases are possible but last time I played with them it was a little more effort than I had time for. Was hoping to see more general purpose plug-and-play solutions emerge.
The Trello link didn’t really tell me what Lux is.

Is it this one? https://luxlang.github.io/lux/

So it got inspired by Haskell, clojure etc. and is early dev… not sure what the cadence is or how big the community is.

What benefits does this project provide vs the established more battle tested projects, like clojure?
Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science
Bullshit. Space is definitely 3D and has 3D packing. Starlink is at about 550km. That has an orbital period of 1.5917hrs. Satellites are 7m (as suggested above, but this sounds large). So let's space the next group by 10km. Now the orbital period is 1.5952hrs. We have to go to 580km (+30km) to get to 1.6hrs, which is a difference of 37 seconds. So you got 60km (520km-580km) where you have an error rate of under 1% (0.65%). That drift per day is easily accounted for and you're not going to have a destructive resonance event during the lifetime of the satellites.

For comparison, the ISS (~420km orbit) has a natural decay of 2km per year. It's safe to say that you can pack these satellites <1km in orbital height without realistic risk of them running into one another. The real problem is tracking everything and we often have large margins of safety. Sure, you won't pack them like you would oranges, but even several kms apart that can create a pretty dense coverage map. Gravitational orbits aren't electron orbits and don't need to be quantized (at least on the tens of km level).
A long time ago when I was at Basho we had a project with a major storage vendor to basically turn hard disks into individual Riak database nodes, so that all the scaling, redundancy, rebalancing, etc. would be pushed up to the network and database layer.

I don’t think it was ever commercialized though.
Yes it does. Most of the Starlink satellites are in 53-degree inclination orbits, but there is a shell of satellites in polar orbits to ensure polar coverage. (The commercial market for polar internet access is minimal, but the military is willing to pay a lot for it.)
This is very true. Amazon wouldn't enter South Korea because there is this company called Coupang, which does everything that Amazon does (eCommerce, video streaming, food delivery etc )
No it’s not. Sweep accounts reduce systemic risk because your money is at different banks. MMFs are an independent product.

Consider SVB. Bank run aside deposits were poorly diversified and many depositors needed money at the same time because they were burning runway. Even without a bank panic this effect alone could cause losses on banks with large HTM portfolios. Unlimited insurance does not solve this problem, except in paying out, which the FDIC ideally would not have to do.

Deposit diversification does solve this problem, and the only reason it’s incentivized for depositors is because of the insurance cap. The overhead of sweeps is quite low and money markets even lower (MMFs with the fed outperform best bank deposit rates even after management fees).

Honestly retail banking is the real dead weight loss. Sweep accounts often offer better rates than the underlying banks give their customers because the sweep accounts have low overhead for the bank and pass on the savings. Same goes for other banking products like CDs: banks offer better rates on the market than to their own customers.
even better. it only has to heat when it's actively snowing.
Starting the night before was when they had to work alone, this will be the hour before.
Yeah it's annoying. Onus should be on the OP to provide a readable alternative, most don't and it gets left to helpful people like in the sibling comment here.

I think sometimes the OP doesn't realise or has forgotten it can't be seen by others, but in many cases it's maybe laziness.

The guidelines don't help in saying criticism is off limits either, it's too regular an issue.
Thanks. Now I finally get it, but am still no less annoyed that this doesn't "just work."
The reason why I don't think this is going to so far removed from other structural transitions(which means, yes, winners and losers exist, but net benefit is experienced) comes down to this: AI enables bureaucratic services to be mass-produced.

The cost of government programs is often tied to the cost of creating a useful administrative structure. When real humans are involved, they devise fiefdoms, and cost tends to climb. When we try to privatize them, it mostly shuffles around the problem.

When you say, "now the AI will do it", there's no specific limitation stopping "it" being the entire planning stage, down to step-by-step instructions for the team on the ground.

So when we speak of UBI, welfare, etc. - that's already outdated 20th century stuff. Think bigger. Every citizen gets a personal AI agent attending to their material needs, helping them navigate the laws, know their rights and request assistance. Why wouldn't they? That means that the marketplace - for jobs, consumer goods, etc. - becomes more of an abstraction layer interfaced with by agents. They don't need any specific human interface like a job board or a form to request unemployment benefits.

So, the picture of supply and demand rapidly changes away from the blunt instruments of money/wage/tax/investment towards scalpel-like innovations, complex deals that humans could never have negotiated. Among those will be policy programs for issues of poverty and retraining.
It shouldn't be, but it is.

The very act, the very ritual of starting a record playing changes the experience, even if everything else is exactly the same. You don't interact with music the same way.
> How to get myself better at conversing?

I am going to give some conventional, but unconventional advice.

I am being totally serious about this: If you are fat lose weight and if you are skinny gain muscle, get some clothes that look nice (that means that they aren't baggy or shoddy). Make sure your hair looks like someone cared about it.

That might sound like dating advice, but I am serious about it being advice about being better at conversations. People are as interested in talking to you as they are interested in what you have to offer. People who look good have something to offer before you even open your mouth and so people will be more interested in talking to you. Looking good is a form of self respect and people prefer people who respect themselves.

If you don't believe me, do it empirically, I promise you it matters a lot. If you are an absolute cave troll, you can go from being invisible to being a real human.

After that: do stuff. Don't say no to invites. It doesn't matter what you do too much as long as it's not staring into the HN/reddit abyss or jiggling your dopamine switch with computer games (or the bad drugs).

Lastly as far as mindset goes remember: "I did the best I could with the knowledge and resources I had at the time." That is self forgiveness in a nutshell. If you hate on yourself or start feeling sorry for yourself, remember that.

Also remember that "if I am comfortable that means I am not growing." You will not get better at conversing with people without being uncomfortable, so do things that make you uncomfortable. When you take a risk and it doesn't pay off, remember you're paying the price for when it eventually does pay off.

If you want a tactic, work at remembering people's name, and for every person who's name you know, ask them how their day was as soon as you see them and don't accept a 3 word response. As this interaction is repeated, you start to understand who a person is and you can ask them about the current events in their life and more importantly the drama.
These line up somewhat, I think:

https://phonk.app/

https://1-10.github.io/zigsim/getting-started.html#install
Ask HN: What search engine works these days?
Google is pretty much dead. I wasted 20 minutes looking up one of junk products that are on a YouTube video. Three pages in and it was all the same sponsored story on a multitude of sites all over the world. I switched to DuckDuckGo, same exact thing. I used to get different results using DuckDuckGo. I am not aware of a search engine that is worthwhile these days. Is there one? TIA
It's okay. These days I close every website that has a cookies banner, a CAPTCHA or a popup. Do the same and let the market take care of the rest.
I am aware of ECCs purpose but never learned what it’s practical advantage is.. does it matter that badly for a hobby server?
I originally wanted to comment that crimes rate and racism police are different problems, but this reply display gp do not care haha.
Oddly, Safari’s reader mode for this article just displays two copies of Lorem Ipsum
In retrospect, I feel silly for having missed out on the Bitcoin trend in real life given my experience. I didn't see these virtual currencies as having real value. I think maybe because selling in-game items for real money is technically against the rules of most games.
No one could possibly know any of that.
Can a middle-class or poor family afford a brand-new leased Mercedes Benz every two years?
How come there are so many satellites all over the world but so little coverage?

(I'm assuming the green hexagons it's the service coverage)
I think it’s way more likely that being desperate prevents you from innovating. That’s why people support the UBI…

Desperate people get myopic and risk averse. Stress focuses you on the next step at the expense of the long view. If escaping your pattern requires a longer term plan you are stuck. You might not even see the loop you are in anyway.

Isn’t that literally the poverty trap?
Deliberate restriction is the point of still using a lot of analog media. You can't pop open another app on your book, you can't look at the photo you just took on film, and you can't easily skip a song on a record.
Ive also done this for similar purposes . Scrape parse map reduce over garbage web apps. Good on ya
Every year there are new "tax the rich" plans and some become law. Over the long haul, the government just blows the money and asks for more. Theses schemes are easy to sell to the voters but all they really do is let the government spend and waste more.
That and our current ability to detect and do anything about a civilization ending asteroid is pretty nonexistent at the moment.
When Teslas were hot, it was really hard to buy one in my area, it involved using the search function on the Tesla website, inputting my zipcode and waiting every few hours until new cars are out. I basically made a script that texts me if there’s new car with the configuration I want with a link to the buy page so I can buy it immediately.
Would you be willing to share this?
Ask HN: Why were you laid off ?
1. Can you share any insights into why you were laid off from your previous position?

2. How do you believe your performance was evaluated by your superiors before you were let go?

3. What steps have you taken to address any potential concerns that may have led to your dismissal?

4. Can you discuss any experiences you've had with workplace politics and how you navigated them?

5. In your opinion, what are some of the most important qualities for success in a professional setting?
site:reddit.com or Kagi search.

If something off the popular sites, https://search.marginalia.nu/
All of them? I wonder what trends people find to be good.
What the AT protocol got right is that your handle is also a url. Because it is a hostname.

I always thought ActivityPub should have used hostname/username instead of @username@hostname for the handle. Then they would have that advantage too. And one less char in the handle.

What I find a bit cumbersome with the AT protocol is that it uses DNS records to store the metadata of an identity. I wonder if it should have used a simple json file instead. So that the protocol would not look at the DNS records of a hostname for the metadata but at hostname/at_identity.json

That woule make it much easier for owners of a hostname to use it as their AT identity. Building tooling around the AT protocol would also get easier.
My experience was that I was scheduled 12 hours a day, the reality is that we all commuted 1h both ways and turnover often took 30-45 minutes. We were bussed in, and we arrived 15-20 minutes early. To put the final little bit in, we also had to commute to the bus depot. Whatever extraneous time I had was spent in the shower.

While I did manage to eat decently I also had the benefit of years of working in kitchens and I opted for vegetarianism years prior so I had to delve into a novel culinary discipline which served to broaden my horizons both in what I considered a meal, and what I was willing to eat, and how I was willing to eat. Looking at the rest of the cohort: yeah, it was bad. A lot of industries we interfaced with had a lot of very evident cases of poor diet. I expect among the whole the chronically single and childless were the few that could manage their health in the context of that schedule or any modern American regime, really.

Beyond diet it's physically taxing, especially considering that my industry, and every industry touching it worked some variation of swing shifts and if not that, 24/7 on-call. That alone is extremely taxing and has prolific long-term implications. Alcohol and drug abuse are commonplace, whether licit or illicit substances. And there's a huge emotional layer to it as well, if that isn't obvious. Mind you these are the people paid by the companies that keep your lights and heat on, transport all your food and fuel...

But even outside of that extreme edge case the other jobs I've had can have their own sets of challenges. It's not always overeating that gets you, but undereating is a hazard as well. And workplace injuries are not so avoidable as the institutions like to profess. If you're pressured, your peers are pressured, your customers are pressured, etc... the culture itself becomes go fast or die trying — they'll tell you to work safe but God forbid if you do you'll be punished for it, ask me how I know. And that's without factoring in RSIs, which in some occupations are virtually inextricable.
I have used chatgpt, sage, bing exclusively for gettibg code snippets and ideas on how to solve something complicated. They have significantly improved my productivity and enabled me to make many small tools to help me and my friends.

When the ai is wrong, I just move on.

I fear some small portion of people who want to prompt engineer and prove the AI is dumb or wrong or evil will end up winning and make all these companies scale down to avoid the backlash and in the end people like me will have to live without the good things.
I have Judas Priest's "Sad Wings Of Destiny" and Dead Kennedy's "In God We Trust, Inc". I bought them back before vinyl died and have held on to them as keepsakes of years gone by. I haven't had a record player since the 90's so I guess I'm part of the 50% as well!
Lower ranked US universities will grant admission to anyone who can afford their fees. Majority of the people coming to the US are from tier 3/4 colleges in their home country. There are few states in this particular country that have consultancies submitting thousands of student applications. Everything is taken care of - from the application form filling to preparing SOPs and letters of recommendation. Always a good idea to understand the ground reality before jumping to conclusions.
Expensive screens screw it up sometimes too. LG had a $1300 5K Thunderbolt display that didn't work within 5 feet or so of a wifi router.
New York's transit agency quits sharing updates on Twitter
There is a federal law prohibiting tampering of election cycle up to 60-day by federal employees.
I had a family member who couldn’t speak, but could cognitively process, and it was palpably frustrating for them. I wish I thought of something clever like that. Really curious if you ever updated your system?
> it disincentivizes the desperate from becoming innovative

There are plausible positions against UBI[0], but this is not one of them.

The entire history of innovation has come from people with enough resources and time to freely sit and contemplate and tinker and build elaborate contrivances for fun and curiosity. Desperation is not a valuable factor. The extreme contrary is so blatantly clearly true that the authenticity of that train of thought beggars belief.

Someone starving to death in a gutter desperate for shelter and a meal didn't invent calculus, the printing press, electricity, cars, computers, telephones, textiles, airplanes, rockets, antibiotics, vaccines, anesthesia, mechanical refrigeration, cameras, soap, pre-sliced bread, salt iodization, next day delivery, dynamite, microwave ovens, organ transplants, weather balloons, satellites, lasers, submarines, and factory canned beans.

Those things were developed by people who had comfortable lives with room for curiosity and exploration and a clear financial runway. Comfort is demonstrably more relevant to invention than desperation will ever be.

[0] - One could argue, for instance, that it will be very difficult for UBI to not just make rent increases in desirable areas soak up the entirety of the surrounding outlay without a slew of other policies, as property owners would just see more milkshake available to suck up through their very long straws. (A common counterargument is that people would suddenly be free to move to undesirable areas with lower cost of living, which is true but ignores the whole "desirable" vs "undesirable" part.)
the problem is it's too easy to make a botnet attack a sure by having each computer try a password for a unique account once per day. this wouls let you get a few million chances per day or website at guessing user passwords without detection.
In the late 80s and early 90s the way I got punk was at local stores that sold vinyl - usually punk rock only, or in the 90s both punk and ska. It was inconvenient because as a teen I'd want to listen to my music on cassette with a Walkman but not every band could afford a cassette release - especially local punk bands. So intentional listening became a part of my music culture.

I still have a record player I bought years ago and I listen to vinyl records on it from time to time. I will usually buy a record of an album that's particularly special to me. I've fought enough with jammed CD players to probably never consider the same approach with compact discs.
I call this “Type 2 Fun”. As in it’s more fun to tell the story than be experiencing it.

As an example: many backpacking trip stories are type 2 fun.
Also see making coffee versus Nespresso.

Although I like to tell myself that the old fashioned way is objectively better with coffee.
> However, due to garbage copyright law, was not turned on by default.

I don't understand, what is not turned on by default? Do you know which setting can be used to turn it on?
I’ve been listening to a lot of Spotify the last 5 years for a few different reasons.

I actually unarchived my mp3s yesterday because there is some stuff not on there. I have a lot of random things that never showed up on Spotify, and even more random cds I never ripped from bands in Salt Lake City during the ‘00 which probably nobody will ever care about.

If it was a decade earlier or later it would have been tape or vinyl+download, but DIY releases from 2000-2010 was all CD.
While I don’t think it would fix the problem, the fact that I’ve yet to hear a single source in the media take the Biden administration to task for this is absolutely ludicrous. Feeding gas the the fire for votes is absolutely appalling.
Can duct tape programmers survive at companies? Seems like everything would be a force against them.

On the other hand, it’s not uncommon if you browse some of the more stellar GitHub repos.
I wrote a very good spam filter using chat gpt that was way better for whatever excuse big tech is using for their “spam filters”.

We need to stop buying the narrative that they are doing this to fight spam and are doing it as a gate keeping exercise.
To avoid this outcome I started a family tradition where we play a record every time we sit down at the dinner table to eat. We take turns picking an album and let guests pick when we have guests.
That was actually season 2! The final episode, I just watched it last week on a rewatch of the show. A lot of it feels pretty prescient right now, although not quite as intense as when the Snowden leaks happened and confirmed all of the government illegality of the show but none of the AI lol.