skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Crypto was never anything else than a grift.

>Ah, alright then, I guess it's not useful for anything.

No. It's a simple English sentence: it means it's not useful for anything else other than grifting. The grifters find it particularly useful, just like MLMs, traditional ponzi schemes, HYIPs etc. But that doesn't mean any of those grifts are "useful".

> Nice contradiction.

Only for the monkey jpeg brigade, who feel that the artificial demand from criminals laundering money and posing as legitimate crypto investors is a feature, not an unacceptable bug.

If the only ones using it are criminals, then it's no longer useful even for them, because the whole point is to claim legitimate crypto profits.
That's not the exercise. The exercise is "make it if and only if it will generate more revenue than it costs[1]". That doesn't have to be because people watch it. A prestige show (Succession, say) can bring people to a platform where they end up watching something less demanding (Friends, say). Even if nobody watches the prestige show, therefore, it can still be worth it. That makes it hard to know what is profitable.

[1] where "cost" includes "opportunity cost"
Guessing ... because of appreciating real estate and concentration of jobs, living in certain cities/areas became culturally synonymous with "being a winner" while staying in rural/industrial towns meant "being a loser". So the big cities became the bottle neck through which all young people need to funnel before they deem each other worthy of starting families. And that's a bottle neck on population growth.

The same mechanism exists elsewhere but the contrasts between "stagnant vs vital" would be more pronounced in SK, probably because of the rate and scale of the economy over the last 40-50 years. Maybe?

The government needs to stop fuelling the bubble. Instead, raise mortgage rates (so that "time in market" stops being a factor) and force industry to spread out offices and jobs (of all ranks) evenly throughout the country.
Back then children were viewed as a source of cheap labor that could contribute to the household. Developed countries have changed their expectations as you have noted. You can't produce a farm hand that can contribute cheap labor directly to the household at an early age. Now we have to produce skilled workers that can contribute to the society. Skilled workers that may not even do their own laundry before 18.

As a result, the household just sees children as a large expense, where the benefits go to the society. There's a significant incentive to defect from this arrangement.

Not to say the experience of raising a child isn't intrinsically valuable. But, the value of that experience is only enough to incentivize some people to have 1-2 children, and as we are learning now, not enough of an incentive to keep birth rates above replacement in advanced economies.

We probably don't need to make children a net economic positive again, as the intrinsic rewards of the experience are enough of an incentive, it could be net neutral or slightly net negative and still get us above replacement. But, advanced economies will need to change the math if they want to fix this.
> Oh, my conditions, you ask? They don't bother me, don't get in the way of a normal everyday life.

If the disorder doesn't lower you QoL then you dont suffer from it, so you don't need meds.

> When I do have an episode, there's not a drug invented that could prevent it.

Maybe, maybe not. But showing the disorder can explain a lot of stuff.
Expensive societies with the always concomitant class stratification will always run into reproduction issues.

In short, unsubsidized poor and even middle class people begin to rationalize that, even if they could somehow manage the financial stress of reproduction, their lives are too miserable to justify damning their kids to the same fate.

That said: climate doomerism, as an excuse for not having kids, is for intellectual children.

Climate arguments aside, such views ironically ignore that man is subsumed under nature. If and when the climate is actually a problem in regard to reproduction, the human population will decline directly due to climate pressure. Then the climate and else will recover, and the population will again recover. In other words, the climate's ecosystem with humans is self limiting and correcting if it is an issue at all. Refusing to have kids due to climate is the exact same as saying that someone else deserves children more than you do. And that's it.
Twitter is some sort of weird ad and social influencing company.

Apple’s whole business model requires people placing an immense amount of trust in them.

But sure maybe they’ll burn down their trillion dollar company so that they can steal peoples biometric data and get into their twitters.
Kanban shows you where you are (how you use this info is up to you).

Scrum shows you where you are and tries to predict where you'll be in 2 weeks.

Where Scrum goes horribly wrong is when management tries to treat the 2 week prediction as a guarantee rather than a guess ... and to compound the problem imposes tougher predictions/deadlines to squeeze out more work.

Whatever the stated intentions, in practice Scrum almost always goes bad in this way.
Not quite true, epigenes have conclusively been shown, at least for a few generations, to be innate, inheritable, heavily modifiable by extreme enough environmental factors (such as starvation, violent crime, war, etc.), and even capable of skipping a generation and re-expressing later on like normal genes

Whether or not such changes lasts through several dozen generations is still undecided though.
Pretend to be the parent of the US based 11 year old who created the account and you want it closed and everything deleted. Fastest way to get any unwanted account removed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_...
Your comment is very atypical in this thread. It is the only one that puts the impact of the visa in perspective. The displacement of risk from company to employee.
This is my main concern of H1B's impact, lack of training or opportunity for existing candidates. It is telling how a few other comments mention the skills gap but all of them focus on it being a employees problem and to solve it they just need more college or training. While I can't argue with the positive impacts of H1B's creating value there is a continuing cost imposed on society to make the individual take the risk of training instead of the company cultivating a workforce. I think individuals do need to have some skin in the game when they receive a investment from a company but by completely displacing the cost on to workers and making up for lack of investment by allowing more H1B's seems to be a shortsighted solution.
Worked in wealth management (and am now building something similar to the OP but from a totally different direction), it is a complete scam.

The original comment says that no-one is using apps...what do you think wealth managers use? Wealth managers are usually the same products that are re-skinned for professional use with a few added features that most advisors should know how to do themselves...but usually don't (I worked for someone managing nine figures who didn't understand that you could use Excel to do calculations, so he would sit there with a calculator and hardcode every number...this man is worth $10m+ himself).

If you have the ability, I appreciate that some people have neither the time or inclination, do it yourself. At medium levels of wealth (more than $1m and under $50m), you are likely unable to access good advice so this is really the sweet spot for doing it yourself (if you prefer simple financial products, financial advice largely exists as a service in this bracket because people choose to invest in extremely complex products that are designed to give financial advisors something to charge money for...if you have a DC pension and are investing in ETFs, 99% of financial advisors cannot do anything for you).
But he can get the government he likes into power... and then, he's golden, baby.

Hah, owning Twitter, if was competent, he could've gotten a Rupert Murdoch level of kingmaker powers. Too bad his shrewedness is as great as his level of wit: thinking that dragging in a kitchen sink into the offices is a clever pun.
Life was good when Unison was still being maintained

https://blog.panic.com/unison-2/
https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-unison/

https://www.astraweb.com is the best provider I know
I'm humbled to hear that you have announced the LinkedIn has replaced Twitter as your firehose of nonsense. That is a significant shift that realigns your media consumption with strategic goals.
Cool. Did anyone ask them "how do we decide what's offensive to minorities?" Or "what is a just process for determining how an entire race of people become offended?"

It's such a pitched question it's ridiculous. It's even worse that you're pretending it says anything about attitudes towards freedom of speech.
The organization of Fediverse is different, and availability of historical discussions is spotty.

Also, some quirky usenet groups aren't available elsewhere, such as alt.binaries.*
To my knowledge there's no historic precedent for what's happening. Times of regrowth in the past after catastrophic decline (such as major war) was generally already in the context of extremely high fertility rates. What we do have is increasing evidence, across multiple nations such as Iran and China, that it's relatively easy to lower fertility rates and extremely difficult to bring them back up.

So I don't think there's any reason to expect a bullwhip type effect. It could simply be that we've created a system which does remarkably well up front, and then catastrophically collapses in the tail-end. If one wants to be especially fatalistic, we could even be looking at the Great Filter of the Fermi Paradox, but I think that's improbable - there still remain many high fertility cultures and they will simply inherit the world as low fertility cultures die off.
Did they sell off mainframes too?
In the famous words of Bugs Bunny: No.

The only reason I use things like HN, reddit, twitter is relative anonymity without a lot of effort. I've used the past few months to set up my own mastodon, password server, matrix server for my friends group. I'm just waiting for everyone to start demanding ID and that will be the final nail in the coffin for this stuff and end of an era for me. I don't need anyone telling me to "end it now!", that's impractical until they force my hand, I'm a pragmatist.
this is a good thing to do in a team.
I feel like the decentralization of things like Twitter and reddit makes me wish RSS could make a comeback. Has it? (or did it never leave?)
I don't know if I am an outlier, but even though I love the idea of decentralized social media and dislike a lot about Twitter, my Twitter experience is better than my Mastodon experience.

I use both as a log of interesting stuff I want to preserve and maybe review in the future.

Both work fine for this purpose.

But when I see "529 Views, 7 likes, One Reply" on Twitter, it gives me an additional sense of community:

https://twitter.com/marekgibney

On Mastodon, I have never seen any reaction whatsoever:

https://masto.ai/@mg

It might be just because my Twitter account is older. I don't know. But somehow I have the feeling it will stay this way.
Telecoms shot themselves in the foot by not going full swing on something with great interop and iMessage features. They should have totally dominated video / multi-media messaging etc.

But they all wanted their own proprietary thing, even today. Blackberry came really close to getting major telecoms onboard for adopting BBM as their over the top replacement, but it never closed (iirc they argued about price).

I feel that if telecoms realized what they are, which is infrastructure dumb pipes, things like interoperable standards would be easier for them to adopt. Look at the failure of Verizon trying to diversify, they just shut down BlueJeans (a zoom competitor) and haven't really done much with Yahoo since acquisition.
> sell services to government agencies

This is SpaceX's entire business model, at this point. He's definitely not against it if the money is right.
Yes. This helps build the type of organization YOU WANT TO WORK FOR.

Reinforce it. You can't provide material motivation to the business (unless you're also the company's biggest customer .. heh.) You CAN provide reinforcing feedback to management.

Quantify why XYZ coworker helped.

And if Management does NOT listen, f'em. Notice when mgmt responds in a truly incorrect manner. And vote next with your feet.
I never used the zoom web version, but for the client: it simply worked. Getting videocalls with WebEx always was a pain, where it was noisy, video hat issues ... switching to Zoom was day and night. Suddenly doing a video call was a click and it worked.
Every time? There’s like 10 props each election. Go on Ballotpedia, there’s tons of “liberal” props that pass.
> The suppression of the laptop story was trying to tamp down a political ops maneuver (an October surprise). I can understand the frustration in seeing that happen, as it worked so well when they did the same thing to HRC in the prior election.

It's also worth noting that Joe Biden was not President during the 2020 election season.
And what is the point of "arms"? Why would the second most important right enumerated, be only placed there merely for keeping weapon-shaped trinkets in the household?
Is he going to make an "X" account required to operate a Tesla? Sort of like what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows 11, or Facebook did with the Oculus.
How does the government using Twitter as a means of communication infringe anyone's freedom of speech?

Just because the government uses the services of a corporation does not make that corporation a government agency. Twitter doesn't suddenly lose its right to moderate speech on its platform just because the government uses that platform.
It’s almost as though he’s using that money to bully smaller people because they can’t afford to sue him. Which, in a shocking coincidence, is how Trump ran his companies.
>Ask if it’s ok first…

This is very astute. Not everyone likes getting praise in public settings or they might not want their micromanaging manager to know they helped you outside the scope of their work. You should be cognizant of when praise should be given (i.e. when is it appropriate) and in what context as mentioned in the article.

That said, if you aren’t thanking and praising your colleagues for doing good work - YTA of the team. If you are calling out your colleagues for doing bad work, or not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w/ direction. “I really liked how you tackled this, have you thought about this approach?” Instead of “Why didn’t you do it this way?”

*edit*
There’s a whole bunch of interesting information on why behavioral praise is better than outcome praise. Here’s a video about it I find sums it up perfectly (though it’s geared towards how it relates to children) https://youtu.be/59gx55bNunU
Are we sure that there's nothing else going on with fertility rates? It seems odd to me that one of the primary drives of humanity has fallen off of a cliff so quickly. Sure, it mostly manifests as a drive to have sex and we can get around that with birth control, but that's not the only thing it does to us. There's a reason the concept of the "biological clock ticking" is a thing.

We know testosterone levels are dropping: "After controlling for confounders—including year of study, age, race, BMI, comorbidity status, alcohol and smoking use, and level of physical activity—total testosterone was lower among men in the later (2011-2016) versus earlier (1999-2000) cycles (P < 0.001). Mean total testosterone decreased from 1999-2000 (605.39 ng/dL), 2003-2004 (567.44 ng/dL), 2011-2012 (424.96 ng/dL), 2013-2014 (431.76 ng/dL), and 2015-2016 (451.22 ng/dL; all P < .0001)."

https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-s...

Setting aside that semen quality is also affected... Maybe testosterone, or other hormones that might be affected by the same thing, also affect the drive to have children? It seems the more urban a civilization, the lower the birth rate.

When I just tried to look up if anyone has looked into that I couldn't find anything, but here's a nice overview of different theories on fertility rates dropping as a whole: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8977063/
I've seen this with family members as well. We've had terrific results by having open communication with health providers. Tell them if meds are working or not, if side effects cause problems or not. Most providers start with the standard answers for what meds should be tried, but there are other answers. You'll only hear those other answers, though, if you tell your provider that the first-line answers aren't right for you. Tell them all your complaints, big or small, and they can get you on a path that works.
Google brings more security features to its password manager
Most of the wealthiest people in the world actually manage their own wealth as their primary occupation (which can take many facets). There are places to hire professionals to assist, but until you are in the tens of millions or more in net worth it's usually a better deal to self-manage because professionals expect a percentage of assets under management as a fee. Once you have a high enough net worth you operate a family office / self-organized finance company and hire people directly.

You don't get wealthy by giving someone else 1% of AUM for performing on-par with a passive investment in index funds you could self-manage. So, sure, this is "wanna be wealthy", but what even is "wealthy"? I have a plan using spreadsheets and other tools that is on track to take me into low-mid double digit millions prior to retirement, I can't imagine giving someone 1%, which can be six-figures or more, every year for clicking some buttons. At some point managing my own wealth is worth more investment of my time than any other occupation.
REPLs and notebooks and all the rest are great.

NuShell might be a great REPL, I don't know, don't really care.

The fact no one uses a REPL as a shell, and there's no demand to add direct exec() to REPLs, demonstrate they're different categories.

Let programming languages do what programming languages are good at. Let shells do what shells are good at. Please do not write programs in a shell. Do not create a half-assed programming language in a shell to encourage people to write programs in said shell.
I think disk space is cheap as well.

Radiation hard electronics are not.

And you don't have to send everything high quality. But at least some shiny pictures would be nice.
Funny, some people in the Arab world are fighting required Hijab use. In the US and Europe, with this happening, I could see many people outside wearing Hijabs that cover your full face in the future.
Living matter is a chemical system too.
Maybe connecting through MS RDP tool would offer a better UX
I don't know what is with companies who pretend that the work environment should be more than an exchange of skills for compensation. Even ignoring these kinds of egregious examples, I find the rah-rah-rah of companies where people are excited to hear the CEO speak to be creepy and weird.
I ran a small company for 10 years (I just closed it during the pandemic) and we bought lots of stuff on Amazon.

The latest scam I ran into was that I would get a tracking number that matched my city and state. USPS doesn't usually put any other information on the tracking number, so Amazon would claim it was delivered.

The scammer would order a very small package (less than a lb) to a random address in our city and then use that tracking number to scam me out of hundreds of dollars.

I was only ever able to get my money back by going to my USPS office and getting a manager to sign and date a form that said that the package was not delivered to my address. Due to privacy concerns, I could never see the destination address.

It's a huge inconvenience and most people won't go through this (or even know they need to get this info from a manger).
Usenet was also censored. Like Reddit, much of it was a free-for-all, but not all of it.

But also: message boards don't exist on a simple spectrum of "free" to "censored". There are lots of other considerations. I gave one downthread to someone who suggested newsreaders had a better UX than Reddit: that's taking for granted really basic things, like search, that were space alien tech on Usenet.

Another thing people who never used Usenet but idealize it are missing as a feature is "all the messages showing up for everybody", which is not nearly as straightforward a feature as Reddit and HN make it seem. This is something Mastodon users are discovering right now, and however annoying it is to run a single-user Mastodon server and deal with message threading, it was 10x worse on Usenet.
If you make less than $55K, the Labor Department wants you to get overtime pay
> I would also like to point out that every time there is a referendum in California, the people go with the conservative position, but every time there is an election, it goes to a liberal candidate. How is this possible?

In a lot of the broad topics most people align with conservative positions, liberal ideology for many is a product of propaganda and the natural desire to fit in. It's much easier to put money behind a candidate and have it equal results than a specific policy. The burden to change people's default opinion on a specific issue is much tougher.

You can easily see the vastly larger amount of money spent on liberal candidates vs conservative.

As well this is why liberal candidates tend to struggle in rural areas. In rural areas people typically have larger and stronger social connections so the effectiveness of in group propaganda is greatly diminished.
All the power to anyone that wants to do that! My biking needs are extremely utilitarian: I have a cargo e-bike I take my kids to and from school in. I don’t trust myself with (or, rather, I know I don’t have the time to be expert at) e-bike motor installation/repair/etc and in my experience very few bike shops will want to do something like that for you given the higher risks involved. Given I’m taking my kids on the thing every day I don’t feel like taking risks either.
Better Gzip Language Model from Beam Search
Sure, there are other places to get recommendations - but what is the point of Goodreads, my collected reading library and my ratings if I can't get recommendations from the site?
Unintended consequences. It's one reason why you can't trust carbon credits.
Terraform's License Change: A Deep Dive into the Controversy
Without a Cisco device WebEx was such a nightmare. I don't think video worked in any call I ever joined that didn't use Cisco equipment. Somehow computer audio was usually unavailable for reasons I don't understand. This was before bluetooth audio was omnipresent due to AirPods and I had to use the shit phone speakers and microphone. For me it always was the worst experience of any conferencing tool by a wide margin.
Ah, OK, you're one of those people.

So, to rephrase things: because of you, Usenet is dead. And BitTorrent is dead. And any future technology anything like it will be dead-on-arrival, because you simply don't grok how the world works.

And I'm very well aware that "the way the world works" is in direct conflict with "the way you think the world should be working", but that's the exact issue here.

You are Eternal September, personified. Good luck with that!
tbf, I think that most new technology has been the most expensive and impractical thing ever around its inception.
> using derived words with the listener expected to do live backwards derivation

This sounds very interesting. Any examples?
Believe me, there can be life saving/altering constructing feedback on internet forums even from non-professionals. I know I've got it myself.

Maybe they can get it too. But not today. Today is for complaining.