skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the obvious answer is to go back to before these monoliths and build community controlled spaces. We are seeing the beginning of that especially with Lemmy, there's currently a Cambrian explosion of software designed for this going on right now.
It feels like in the US, selling your body to anyone but corporations is seen as taboo. But selling your physical health, your sanity (good luck staying sane with 13 years of grinding and ramen), your young years, and so on to a corp is all above board.
migrated from digitalocean to fly io. huge waste of time. totally unreliable
Transit/biking/walking? Or if that's not feasible where you live, having only one car per household instead of 2+.
For amateurs 90+30 is the same as no time control. They are not used to playing slow and will play much faster than they have to.
If there were sea launch platforms its perfectly acceptable I would thin.

And governments don't need insurance.
It can be useful, it's just you need to keep monitoring it: if the effect seems to shrink or disappear on future tests, it's probably spurious.
“Every country has an army; either its own, or someone else's.”
They never get you for the crime, always for the attempt to hide it.
Neither have my parents - a retired factory worker and a retired school teacher.

But you know what they did? They have been married for 50+ years never seemed to be overly stressed about their jobs, lived in the same house since 1978 (which they expanded in 2006) and retired at 55.
That doesn't mean they're unrelated though - maybe high stress and breathing are a necessary requirement of using your brain a lot.
This isn't out of the blue. During the legislative process there was back and forth among NHTSA and MA sentators and representatives:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/nhtsa_...

That frankly shows this was not unexpected. And there was responsible transparent discussion between relevant parties.

The NHTSA was doing their job.

Maybe the MA senators and representatives were lobbing them a softball, explicitly calling out cybersecurity instead of leaving review topics up to NHTSA, in hopes of this happening. But that is obviously paranoid and an avenue of discussion that is difficult to talk about. So, I'll just let that go.
China's 'sci-fi Nobel Prize' honors industry elites
It's making me wonder about those recent "accidental" forest fires up there..
L4 is terminal at Google since 2019.
Wait, was this an ad for Mormonism?

I say this in jest as a Mormon of sorts.
> but I believe a few places that have moved to a shorter work week haven't seen lower productivity

First, it's hard to measure, I wouldn't believe any of the studies I've seen at the moment (good or bad). (BTW I was the one who pushed for a 4-day week at my previous company.)

Second, lots of companies waste a lot of time with meetings. A shorter work week actually doesn't always translate in less work time, it can translate in useless meetings getting trimmed, and in people still working during time off but now being able to work during these days peacefully and focused.
> luxury building

Fun fact, there are no luxury buildings. There's newer building and older buildings. The term luxury is just slapped onto marketing for new units being sold in new buildings. Why am I being so pedantic? Because people complain that "they only make luxury housing these days, we need affordable housing too!". Guess what, your parents' bungalow in the suburbs was likely marketed as luxury housing 50 years too.

https://marker.medium.com/the-dangerous-myth-of-luxury-housi...
CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2O

Where's the benzene?
This only works if you move out of the expensive areas and live a more simple life in probably a rural area. $2M invested at 4% a year is $80k a year. $2M invested at 7% a year is $120k a year. That's already outside the realm of possible in most top cities.

And if you're taking all of your interest each year, it's not growing. $2M and $80k/yr might sound OK in 2023, but by 2040... it won't be.
That's like 360 eggs.
You can also work for Microsoft in a different country like China, do that for 9 years, in exchange for the lower pay check (but really still quite generous salary), you can have the time of your life, and vacation in Thailand/Bali on holidays. Then afterwards, you come back to the states because you are expecting a kid, and the air pollution is a bit too much in Beijing, and then you get the job at Google because, why not?
Even Elon is struggling to pull this off!
I get your overall point, however it's the reverse: electric cars were around before gas-powered cars. And the first hybrid gas-electric car was made around 1898.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car
Bra användarnamn där...
> The default should be the government doesn't do things

Right, but taking this in the opposite direction then, why for public interest things should the default of 'people who just want to buy the next yacht' run them good?
If that's the sort of thing you want, you might consider a site which features these.

Tildes has a curated selection of topics: <https://tildes.net>

Lobste.rs is far more similar to HN in overall dynamic ... and includes tags: <https://lobste.rs/>

HN has long held out against groups, tags, or topics in the interests of providing a single unified community (see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843220>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716718>, and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098> for example).

HN does have an excellent site search (through Algolia) which may serve some of your interests. There are also curated collections of posts available under the "Lists" link (<https://news.ycombinator.com/lists>) including Best, Invited, and 2nd Chance, which tend to serve threads of better-than-average quality.

When using search, it's often helpful to search recent comments rather than posts as the former tend to be a larger and richer target offering more hits, as compared with the often vague and nondescriptive 80-characters of a post title itself.
They are playing on the same team. The definition of entrapment is narrow enough and they both know it very well so they can dance around it just enough to pad each others stats: "Look how many terrorists Joe discovered, give him a promotion!" and "Look how many terrorists Jenny has successfully prosecuted. She should be running the department!".
Fucking piece of shit you are Mr. Agent and the ones who had let it possible. But it is ok I guess. They have it worse in China.
Past performance is a poor indicator for the future performance of a company - just look at the Top Nasdaq 100 constituents for '00s,'10s and 20s. Google is in maintenance mode and not necessarily the best company for rapid promotions. Even worse, there might be a decade without a rising superstar corporation that could provide such an environment.

Also don't forget the side effects of early retirement: you "age" faster as most of your companions during the day will be actually retired people. You will loose the connection to your working friends etc...
Help make sense of this.

If you work 6 hours a day and produce 10 work units, does working an additional 2 hours really just reduce your previous work output 40%?
I’m using this for an internal ChatGPT UI clone and it’s working great.

The actual biggest pain for me has been the front end handling of it with the fetch api. But that’s likely just due my inexperience with it.
"Known resources" is always a misleading thing. Time and again we used this logic and concluded that the world has only 20 years left of oil, for example.

Finding and proving reserves is costly. People don't just randomly decide to invest money to find new resources of Uranium. If there are 8 million tons of economically recoverable Uranium, and the world consumes less than 80k tons per year, that covers us for 100 years. If we were to double the uranium use for whatever reason, mining companies would invest more money into exploration, and the proven reserves will increase by a factor of 2.

We are not going to run out of Uranium under any scenario in the next few hundred years.
This is bigger than DMVs.

MoveIT Automation / Transfer are used throughout many sensitive industries, such as banking.
I don’t know about other countries, but freezing credit in Australia doesn’t really work.

To freeze your credit, you first have to produce your ID to companies such as Equifax which have been responsible for many data leaks. So you’re putting yourself at additional risk.

Secondly, anyone with a copy of your ID can just unfreeze your credit. So it’s basically useless.
The RCMP in Canada are also not above using disadvantaged people to manufacture terrorism cases: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/new-podcast-exposes-sta...
Middle-aged government worker sought to get promoted by abusing a mentally handicapped teen—probably the same age as his own kids if he had any.
Ok, so it's definitely more complicated then a global flag change. I killed my posts manually and they were gone for at least a day and a half. So, undo deleted posts on any account that axed at least N posts in the last week? Something like that?

Well, if the posts come back again, I guess I'll just get in an edit war with them. Disgusting behavior.

Thanks for the data point!

EDIT: Huh, so now about a dozen have come back. I wonder if they'll trickle back in, and what the thresholds are...

I'm going to have to clear the account in batches of five or something aren't I.
Show HN: AnyLearn – learn anything via OpenAI API
Putler’s cadre of useful idiots spouting this naive bullshit are so tiresome.
This is a popular narrative, that you make money or live, but you can’t do both. That is complete BS - it is equally dumb to be on either extreme, but it is very possible to do both. I have several friends who took the ‘live’ route, only to wake up in their 30s realizing they have an equally empty soul as the guys who worked too hard, and feel boxed out of the future they want with not much nest egg to start a family, or the experiences to have the career they want.

Here is to taking the reasonable middle road, the one no one writes songs about, but (I think) the one that most often leads to happiness for the average person.
I don't think I would create a file like this. It is a lot of sensitive information that I wouldn't want on my computer, and, how would I be sure it was found if when needed?

I would take all of the the things you listed (and what others have listed) and put them in a safe or fire-resistant box then give a sealed envelope to whoever is going to be the executor of your estate with information about how to find and access the box.
There are many ways to retire at 40 that don't require sacrificing your youth to do so. Buying calls in a bull market for instance.
The odd look of the blurring is actually a look people go for with FPV drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JnkyT77AfA&
Makes me think about this song by The Offspring:

I'm always feeling steered away
By someone trying to tell me
What to say and do, I don't want it
I gotta go find my own way
I gotta go make my own mistakes
Sorry man for feeling
Feeling the way I do
I spent the first 13 years of my adult life drinking too much, dating the wrong women, hanging out with friends and getting married (to a former stripper) and divorced once (since remarried), I had a house built in the burbs of Atlanta at 28, and was a part time fitness instructor, bought too much investment property before 2008 and by the end of those 13 years, I was only making $90K

I would not give up those years for anything - especially not an adTech company.

I stumbled into my first BigTech job at 46 and did this in 2022.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966

I have no regrets.
I am happy I traveled a lot in my 20-ies. Goa, India, Thailand. I haven't gotten into FAANG, moreover I rejected Facebook offer 1.5 years ago.

I have 9 year old kiddo, and I'm 40. I don't believe it's worth it - working your ass off for 1-2M, especially when real money is evaporating from your accounts: chicken I was buying a couple of years ago for $8-9 today costs $17-19.

My plan is to make a successful business. I have a couple of ideas, and one of my patents is in progress at the time of writing. A good friend of mine managed to get millions (air conditioners alone at the top of his roof cost 1M), so I believe it's possible when you think outside the box. Working for FAANG is inside the box.

I don't believe being engineer working for someone is a way to go, especially when companies like Google lay you off at the time when you're most vulnerable. Good luck paying off your mortgage on time when you're in 50-60-ies.
> Would you also say it is non-sensical to claim more work gets done in 40 hours compared to 48? Or perhaps 56 hours?

Absolutely. Because all you have to do is not produce negative work beyond 40 hours. You can literally do nothing.

As I said, there is a balance to be struck and diminishing returns are a real thing. But in order for a 4 day work week to be more productive than a 5 day work week then that means your work output on the 5th day is negative.
> some things have changed since it was written; it cannot be your risk manager

this is a fair warning. the book does a better job than the usual pre-crisis interest rate literature discussing credit risk.

a lot of the more advanced treatments were too self-absorbed in their made-up mathematical universe.
> i don’t understand your race to the bottom argument.

Being able to voluntarily work more than 40h/week also means being able to be voluntold to work more than 40h/week.
Castle Game Engine Roadmap
I'm fifty-seven. Is it too late to sign up?
I mean, I certainly didn't want to work for Apple in 1995. And Google didn't exist until 1999, so there's that. Back in 1995 there was Sun, Oracle, HP, and IBM, among others. Working at OpenAI would be cool now, but three years ago?

It's hard not knowing the future. AMD would be a cool place to work if they turned things around, but you don't get the same upside if you join after they've managed to turn things around.
This is why you move somewhere with little rust and buy old classics. So many old mercs and porshes and rolls royces here in socal, among everything else you can imagine. A car like that bottomed out in depreciation 30 years ago. I've seen model A's, those probably bottomed out 90 years ago.
Inflation. $100k/year in 1980 is $350k/year today. So $2M really isn't that much these days like it was for our parents (or at least, my parents, I'm not sure how old yours are/were).
The difference is that while most try to do their hobbies (e.g. game dev) after 8 hours of CRUD/boring/exhausting employment (working for others), Carmack had his hobby (game dev) as his day job, and also, he worked for himself - he never was an employee.
The OP might be making a more subtle point, but my understanding is they absolutely can do work. We can measure the deceleration of binary neutron stars with a rate predicted by the emission of gravitational waves. Deceleration == work.

However, we can also measure things that don’t do work, for example, a static magnetic field does no work on a charged particle (it cannot change its kinetic energy) but look at the swirls in a cloud chamber and it’s clear as day if there’s a magnetic field there.
My humble two cents:

I won't say that a clean ui is not part of the problem. Just in this very thread there's people despising Reddit's redesign. The HN hivemind and others like UIs with information crammed on every pixel (for some reason) so I guess if there were an alternative that offered some "information density" setting, that very thing can do much to attract users.

About how to get said users. The 4 years I've been using Reddit and have seen the popular page, you're left with the sensation that much of it is just a giant aggregator of curated content from TikTok/Twitter/Instagram, in that order (and how almost everything is centered about the USA, but that's another story). I think people would engage to that new platform if there were a way to improve that process of bringing new and trending stuff from those other platforms (and Reddit itself) to a new alternative.
This article is pretty biased, but even so, there is an interesting point where the father admits that 2 years ago the FBI seized the kid’s computer. Later, the kid kept talking to the FBI, and the father complains that the FBI should have just warned him (the father) rather than arresting the kid.

I mean, the FBI showed up at his house and seized a computer. How many warnings did he expect to get?
At the very least it is reasonable to separate out high volume usage versus front end replacement and paywalling the former. Since you don't monetize, my intuition is that alternate front ends shouldn't actually be changing your cost. Though I can understand wanting some sort of revenue or cost sharing if revenue is being generated - or these front ends just being free in the spirit of hn.
Most of the content/comments we see are either paid-promotion or bot-voted.
I never knew that metro Atlanta was “rural”. The median household income in the US is $80K. Yet, people aren’t all living on the street or living in the MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska
I generally fall into the same opinion. If he's so upset about how things turned out, then why did he deliberately structure everything to turn out this way?

Absolutely nothing of reddit has come as a surprise. Not their past dramas and not this current protest. People observing the situation have accurately predicted each stage. The only thing that hasn't been surprising is how willing Spez has been to put his foot in his mouth.

So I'll throw in a few more predictions:

1. Reddit will IPO, despite legitimate concerns about their inability to turn a profit and the very real likelihood that new AI-driven services will render its model redundant. Spez will get the payday that he's so steadfast upon.

2. The IPO will first buoy, then go into a long decline as it becomes clear that the site has no direction, nothing to leverage into new markets and will struggle to maintain dominance and relevance in a world were information is increasingly tailored via AI-driven tools.
Many school shooters were mentally handicapped teens. That’s the exact demographic the law enforcements need to pay a special attention to.
But you can do almost all that while working at Google. And imo, the stability makes it even easier to do so.

It's been my experience that Google is a super chill place to work, especially when you take advantage of the fact that you're just one cog among many.

You get 5 weeks pto plus 4 weeks work from anywhere. This year alone I'm going to the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Carribean.
Including a 40 day stretch without internet. I couldn't imagine doing the latter in a startup.

And all the while getting paid and having the comfort to make plans knowing that I'll (probably) continue to do so in the future.
That is the entire foundation of the economy. It is not dying, but we are all fucked if it does
This entire website is cope. Even Janet Yellen, the treasury secretary of the United States, is warning about de-dollarization.
The truth is that those 13 years with a stupid high salary will change your relation to money.

You will live in a HCOL area, be around people with much more money, start thinking it is normal to spend 3M on a house, buy stupid things because it doesn't really impact your savings, making so much money will become a source of pride and make you feel good about yourself, and suddenly 2M will seem barely enough to keep up with the social circle you are now part of.

You won't quit and keep chasing the next dollar.
Where do you think developers get their money?
I really like the Midjourney generated illustration.
It's probably less than 1% of users that care about these changes at all. An even smaller number will actually dial down their reddit usage as a result of this.

The only consequence Reddit will suffer from this is an increase in ad revenue and maybe the added side effect of reigning in the power of moderators.
Let me be clear: Reddit messed up in their communication and execution of effectively cutting out third-party apps but the underlying strategy remains sound.
That's why you don't let outsiders (third parties) dictate what and how. Later on they will start demanding things and shout about everything. Slowing you down, creating wounds on your company and the like...
To save space. I don’t need a full roll of tape, so I spooled put a few feet and wrapped around a pencil.
Unless I'm missing something, that statement appears to be correct. They don't say their result isn't erroneous. They say there is statistically only a very tiny chance that the correlation is due to chance. If the correlation is caused by an error in their experiment, their statement is still correct, since the correlation was not due to chance.
What if I need to type a note with C++ in it? ;)
> To start, the EU loan deal in late 2012 and the CIA-backed coup d'etat known as "Euromaidan" in 2013,

Still the easiest and most foolproof way to identify a Putler propagandist: They always mislabel the EuroMaidan revolution as a “coup”.

Oh well, I suppose one oughta be grateful to them for making it so easy.
Thank you for sharing that. It's a beautiful set of ideas. I read it aloud to my wife and we're talking about it now the implications for all knowledge levels. Fascinating thing to share.
It depends. I like Steve Albini's style. Raw and live sounding but I'd still put Pixies Doolittle over Surfer Rosa, I do Nevermind for In Utero. Checkout Nina Nastasia whom Steve have worked multiple times.
Love your naming theme (Luna Park, Roller
Coaster)

It sounds ridiculous but good names and branding fonts can make you stand out. Can only get to the technical stuff if people remember who you are!

I don’t use IFTTT etc. But will keep it in mind if I do need it. Having more options than IFTTT, Zapier, NodeRED and just coding is welcome!
I'm starting to reach the view that VC have decided that Reddit must either see a large liquidity event or die trying. Given the present investment environment, it's time to close off taps.

That's not the risk perspective I face, and I'd prefer to see Reddit accede to community demands (though I've long since abandoned much hope they'd do so, my own personal subreddit's been all but dormant for about five years on just that basis, though I've continued to mine it for links on topics I'd posted previously).

I'm not certain what Reddit's end game is should the IPO fail, or fizzle, but it would seem that preparing for an alternative online presence might well be a good idea.
I mean no disrespect, but this is incredibly depressing, and the result is a few million dollars?

I didn't see any mention about doing what you are passionate about. Maybe it was implied by the result: save 2 million dollars, startup with no prior experience of doing so, instant success because $$$, then die of cancer because you ate nothing but ramen for 15 years?

You do you, but there is so much more to life - so many mistakes to be made - than living like Gladiator so you can be "retired", whatever that's supposed to mean.

If you want to make software, do it because you love it. If you want to make coffee, do it because you love it.

Love your family. Love your neighbor. Love yourself. You may die poor (maybe not!), but you will surely die very happy.
Vector Search with a Graph Index
the paycheck calculator site he uses reports semi-monthly amount, so it should be double
Maybe nothing can be an island in a metaphorical sense, but literal islands are possible?
A Huawei bid turned into a hunt for a corporate mole
By encouraging them to act on an ideation, really? It seems pretty counterintuitive to me.
One draw isn't enough to establish a frequency anyways. You want to draw a few times and then pick a strategy. Of course it's important to differentiate with this between worst case urn composition and worst case draws.