skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The takeaways are terrible - encouraging people to double down on workplace friendships, rather than, for example, notifying people about local events in the city or whatever, so that they build stable friendships outside of work.

The root of a lot of this is the virtualisation of lots of stuff of course.
>> In the past 50 years, despite overall economic growth, the quality of life for most Americans has declined

> I would like to see some citations for this because there are many things that make up quality of life, and many ways to measure them.

There's that famous graph that shows flat real wages from the 70s onward for most people, and very well-known problems with extremely important goods like healthcare access and housing.

Sure, most Americans (even poor ones) have gotten significantly larger and higher-resolution televisions and gizmos like cell phones during that time, but I think those things are actually pretty marginal (and perhaps even negative), from a quality of life perspective.
This endlessly parroted argument argument is so tired and lazy already. How big do these companies have to get before you turn your brain back on?
What do you mean? Are the informants euthanized after they’re no longer useful?
I'm on the opposite spectrum. I don't like socializing with my coworkers. I keep a respectful and professionally-friendly relationship with them.

I have college friends (not many, just 3 who I call close), and a family. That and life's chores/errands are enough to keep me busy when off work.

To me, relying on coworkers for companionship is not a sustainable approach because like it or not, we need to switch jobs every 2-4 years (esp. when you are junior or esp. when you are not working at a big tech company for a cushiony/chill role, which might be rare), and there is never enough time to build strong bond with anyone you work. This is also disregarding the office politics, bullcrap/hypocritical things that you see some of your coworkers do once in a while.
You're being overly optimistic because you work in real estate and people are blowing rainbows up your ass. If there's a crash, JPow lowering the rate would prevent the housing value correction from taking effect and nothing good would come of it.

There MUST be a crash. Look at all the people who are sitting in homes worth many times more than they bought it. Significantly higher value than a few years ago. Do you think these people are doing well as a result? No! They can barely afford their insurance!

People want the house values high and their insurance dirt cheap, but it's not possible. The housing values have to drop a good 80% for people to be able to afford their homes long term again and for the insurance companies to stop pulling out.
You haven’t been part of a startup acquisition lately. The optics are intentional.

The Musk management style is common in this type of acquisition.
Deductions and credits: I posit, they could know based on how interlinked everything is.

You have 3 kids registered in school? It’s in a db.

Buy an EV? It’s in a db.

But yeah- fair point. There are lots of “quiet” transactions for sure, but that’s likely no different in any other nation with better tax cycles.
Twitter blocks Bing in intriguing strategic maneuver
i just did and almost missed it. it looks like ads for albums except there is a small "feature" string. i'm honestly not sure i ever visited this page before. always went directly to the band site.

to understand my POV better, my usecase is:
- band that i like and follow (mostly newsletter, some social media, rarely friends that mention it drecty) sends an update "hey new stuff, click here"
- i click the link, listen a bit, buy and download
AMD Introduces New AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000/Pro 7000 WX
From AMD: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1162/am...
I think both the author and through him The Culture are aware of that risk, it's why he created `Special Circumstances` to provide an outlet (and useful outcomes) for the people (including the AI's and drones here) who really don't want to be a space communist hippy in a post-scarcity economy.

Asher has a similar thing with the rogue AI's but his Polity is more centrally directed and unified because of Earth Central been the dominant AI (though some of the rogues do approach EC in terms of raw computing power).

Both are my favourite series in sci-fi and it's fascinating that two plausible (within the rules of their own universes) can emerge from fairly similar starting points.

That and the Prador are truly horrific protagonists well written, one of the best realisations of what genuinely alien thought processes might be like.

From the Contact Wiki

> Banks has noted that the perfect society of the Culture creates well-adjusted, content people — who are (for story purposes) rather boring.[2] Therefore, many of the Culture novels deal with outside agents or mercenaries in the employ of Special Circumstances.
Come on, let’s not stir the pot. Probably the hospital thing.
Everyone that reported the bombing in Gaza of the hospital with 500 dead.
You want to leave it all to lawyers?
Ok, so explain this then https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...

Israel has been doing what you're saying for decades. Yet they now got even bigger attack.
I WANT for bandcamp to work for me. But……

For the few albums that are there sure, it works. Unfortunately the vast majority of the time there isn’t anything there. Most artists just aren’t on bandcamp. Or the artist is on there but only a subset of their albums are. Even if I started using it more, it would be so rare, as I’d need to go use Spotify or my own physical/digital collection most of the time, which means when the album ends I’m more likely to keep listening on the current platform, not think to switch back to bandcamp to see once again if the newest Metric album is suddenly there, or if any albums apart from one are there etc.
Also the amount of similarly named artist/albums that are tributes or fan “sequels” or straight up just the same named artist a a little bit of friction to make search.

Bandcamp exists in an odd space where unless I’m willing to have my music choices heavily restricted it then it loses out to traditional a-la-carte purchasing of albums whether physically or on digital storefronts, or to just using a streaming service. If I was a young kid in primary school again, it would still lose out to pirating music as well I think.
I'm taking notes, yes it feels like SCORM is a must-have in the industry.

Also we always felt like no one really knows how to use Moodle & co, our teachers always struggled with the software and we did too!
It is theoretically illegal in the US. It's just plausible that Rentseekr have managed to either stay within the letter of the law while violating its spirit, or have produced enough plausible deniability to deter a legal challenge.
Thanks for the kind words :). I didn't necessarily mean "useless" in a self-deprecating way. I only meant it in the sense of the linked article called "Write More 'Useless Software'"-- i.e. that it doesn't directly have a production use.

I'm curious what you mean about greasemonkey and noscript. Do you just mean you're astounded that such cool add-ons were made, or something else?
That's why you determine it by their name and where they live.
Heh cute. But usually it is used in privilege escalation style attacks. Get the program that has enough permission to do one thing on your behalf that calls something else to get you more privilege. Depending on what level these programs are running at they could do some interesting things that maybe most programs can not do at all just because the code is not there. These style of programs are going to be a wild time for awhile. I called the same thing when I saw people fuzzing cpus and the different instructions they could generate. We ended up with a whole class of attacks out of that which crippled CPUs for a decade.
Well that's one way to get (a very specific type of) people back in the movie theaters!
Sounds like he might be a decent physicist.

The vast majority of comments on this website are from smart people that studied computer science, discussing many topics, talking completely out of their butt and often times being totally wrong about subjects outside of their field.

Being educated in one field doesn't always translate into other fields.
This is the same failed strategy that caused Google Video to lose to YouTube. GV bet hard that people would only want to watch video from big legacy content houses like Disney and barely cared about "UGC" as they called it back then (user generated content, now just known as content). They thought it was a joke. YouTube smoked them by embracing the UGC but somehow Susan Wojcicki never learns. It's incredible that Google put her in charge after the GV fiasco and left her there so long, given she seems psychologically incapable of embracing the bazaar-like nature of what made YouTube successful in the first place. If it were up to her, internet video would be a recreation of the 1970s TV environment. A handful of channels broadcasting worthy and civilized (but incorrect) things.
a) they can always go work for another company, that is the main point here
b) who the fuck are you to tell people how much their work is worth? commie much? how about you mind your own business and let other people make their own decisions.
Is that contact form the best way to get in touch with you about getting involved?As a programmer and amateur DJ it breaks my heart to see the best website for buying tracks go down in flames.
> insistence on general education requirements.

> step directly into their major field of study

These need not be mutually exclusive! My (US) alma mater required a specific number of unspecific non-major classes, the only stipulation being that a certain number come from the broad categories of STEM, social science, and the humanities. Unlike other colleges, we could take them whenever we wanted to and could pick from basically the entire college's catalog. Some freshmen jumped into their first term with onky major classes (although they later regretted that).

> The classes add to the cost of the education but amount to little more than memorization for tests, and students forget most of it afterwards. I question their value.

They sound poorly designed and/or poorly aught. My non-major classes were some of the most fun and interesting ones I ever took!

As a CS major, I got to write and produce an EP, and research & write a report on the safety of campus nightlife, both for credit. I'm really glad I wasn't able to just fast-track myself through only CS classes and get out of there without any creative work or serious writing experience.
Pygame is a good library to generate multimedia. I'm sure you could come up with some exercises with it.

Also, convert data in a PDF to a CSV file. I have needed to do that many times over the years and learned a lot of Python by improving my approaches.
I don't think this is a misunderstanding. There is a lot of plain antisemitism coming to the surface in recent days and it is not restricted to Hamas. The reporting about the hospital attack a few days ago lead to synagogues over the world being under attack.

And no, this is not something that came into existence at the same time as Israel, the hatred predates that.

This is not enough to condemn Palestinians as a whole, but this is a war for survival and in any war there will be casualties. This is something the attacker has to take into account. And they know that fully well, it is part of their strategy.

Contrary to common wisdom that you should never negotiate with terrorists, Israel actually does that. That behavior has kept casualties to a minimum. Expecting more is unrealistic and very few countries would take the long road here.

To keep casualties to a minimum in any future conflict, there needs to be a push by Palestinians to condemn terrorist attacks or similar reactions will be a necessity.
> Presumably such a person wouldn't need tax-return software?

Correct. Part of the tax prep scam is convincing people that they will get the death penalty if they screw up their taxes, so they need an accountant or all these fancy software gizmos to do it right. If you can use a calculator, and aren't a SBO or have a massively complicated investment scheme, then you can do your own taxes in an hour or two. The IRS will send you a polite letter letting you know if you screwed up.
Origin Policy Status
Just plug into the Matrix ;)
The nearest star is ~4 light years, and it is of a type that we think unlikely to have life. Even at 150 light years there isn't a whole lot out there, though I guess it is no longer in the impossible realm, it also isn't really enough stars to think of the Fermi paradox applying yet.
Official announcement: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1162/am...
Ain't got no time for discussing the obvious. Low fertility rates are a result, not like anyone is doing anything reasonable to address it. Doctors? Why bother when they can charge EUR 2k for "birth experience" in private clinic. Politicians? At this stage they only care about the real estate they hoarded.
Is it "abusive" for employers to fire/not pay you if you're away for weeks, or underperforming for months? The terms of the exchange is your time for money. The company isn't a charity.

Even if you think there should be a social safety net for these types of circumstances, it makes little sense for employers to provide it. For one, it has the usual problems of tying important services to employment, similar to how healthcare is in the US. It also puts an undue burden on small businesses. You run a 10 person startup and one of your employees got a long term disability? Congratulations, you have to now find a replacement AND continue paying them. Large companies have law of large numbers on their side, but as an unlucky small business that's 10% of your payroll.

>Edited to add: this is not the mention your employer might just pull some crap like nepotizing a promotion over you, where a union would come in handy handy!

1. has there been a good track record of unions being able to successfully prevent cases like these?

2. Given the level of corruption associated with unions, at least in the US, you're just replacing one problem with another.
It's must be serendipitous that the article just above this in my feed is about an AI banning someone for life from advertising on Meta because the AI thought they were trafficking animals for advertising python courses.

And my guess is, absolutely nothing will be done, accountability wise, in either case.
And yet there are so many ways to enjoy it without minmaxing to X spm. Try e.g. to beat the game without using belts (hint: use train cars), surviving the longest in a cranked-up deathworld, beating a 9-tall ribbon world (rocket silo is 9x9), and that's before you even add any mods.
This might help: https://untested.sonnet.io/Cat+Printer+–+tools+and+resources

Easier to set up if you're using a PC/Linux/Intel Mac as there are some issues with ARM/Apple SoC. Start with the repo in bold.
Nice work!

Love to see you've used python for the backend.

Generally good to see some activity in the LMS world.

It would be really interesting if you could share what sort of segment from the online learning market/needs you've been thinking about while building the product
100%.

When stuff looked a bit iffy, he bought citizenship in New Zealand as a bolt hole. The free market dictates that such things are possible.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/indepth/national/how-peter-thiel-...
Interesting. Here in UK there are usually literally no costs to remortgaging, we've remortgaged couple years ago and only cost was paying £500 for a solicitor to look throught he paperwork(which we convinced the bank to pay for in the end, so it cost us nothing overall).
Obviously not all of this is true. I chatted to Amazon driver for my apartment about some local Chicago sports and he talked to me forever. Ironically I had to end the conversation by saying I needed to use the bathroom. He’s definitely not timed.

Can’t wait for Season 2 where he chronicles how to game the ratings system.

I feel 99% of the people on HN understand it but on the other hand there’s people like my 70 yr old mom who look at that and think, oh what a fantastic product. She is very susceptible to dark patterns, has no concept of sold by Amazon vs 3rd party sellers, etc.
Because the longer they're working at a company the higher chance of being found out and terminated, the higher the chance of their accounts being frozen, and the lower the chance they actually are able to get money to their handlers.
Ha! As if anyone would even need to do a hit piece on Thiel.
> Evading in-person meetings or requests for drug tests

Why would they evade drug tests and meeting in person? Do the "techies" claim they are not Korean at all? Surely, a North Korean would pass as a South Korean to (at least) any non-Korean colleague?
> How can they charge such a large percentage on money transfer that is mostly bits.

Because they provide a platform (making content more visible), payment processing (which can be 3% or more for some payment methods), customer support etc.

If content producers don't need any of that, they can always have a self-hosted website with their own donation button (or physical mailing address for checks and banknotes, cryptocurrency address etc).

> I think all authors and other content producers should have sort of a tip jar

That tip jar would cut out everybody else involved in the production of a book and in getting you to even find out about it existing.

Every author has the option to self-publish and set their own price (including a "pay-as-you-wish" option), but on the other hand, if they prefer the (relatively) lower risk of going with a traditional publisher, you should also respect that decision and not sidestep that by unilaterally deciding that "oh, I'd prefer you would have made this DRM-free and pay-as-you-wish, here's a check for $20!".
Easiest source I can find right now is that Bandcamp had 76 employees in 2020: https://www.inquirer.com/business/bandcamp-spotify-covid-art...

And it was 118 at the time of layoffs, as you'd see in pretty much every article (and Wikipedia) talking about the topic. I can't exactly pinpoint how much they had when Epic swooped in, but even Bandcamp had a modest growth over the pandemic.

And my condolences for the editorial. I didn't even know Bandcamp had articles before reading this comment.
On the other hand I never understood why foreign state propaganda is allowed on Youtube? What's the appeal allowing the chinese state channels (CGTN, Global Times, CCTV) to broadcast there?
Similar to neocities, but novel choice to allow the user to upload file(s) as part of the sign up process.

https://neocities.org
Suppose you’re building a feature that requires $newlib as a dependency. How is that handled? Do you request the addition of $newlib and wait for a new remote image to be deployed for everyone before you can work on your feature branch?
> The Democrats seem to be the single party that is capable of governing. It’s not selfish to want to replace dysfunction with function.

Not really. The Democrats take deliberate action to cultivate and perpetuate that dysfunction for partisan advantage. They scream about the danger of "Ultra MAGA" Republicans while supporting those very same people in primaries, and they refuse to take very easy actions to stabilize the system (e.g. not siding with Matt Gaetz's antics). That shows they're not interested in "replac[ing] dysfunction with function" but rather with acquiring power.

And the idea that the Democrats are the only party "capable of governing," is just propaganda or marketing. If you think about it carefully, "governing" is subtly redefined as being in relative harmony with Democratic party priorities.
Many of these will be written down to zero. Of course, it will still have been a cheaper education in self-aggrandizement than your typical Ivy League.
Agreed. Back during the Dave chappel Netflix protest, an AP photographer got caught writing false defamatory captions on some of the photos.

They didn't issue a correction, but they did edit the photo caption to reflect reality.

I would definitely prefer the AP over many other sources.
According to the inflation calculator[1] I consulted, and the fact that the program had its first round of applicants in May 2011[2], their $100,000 would be about $135.6k now.

1. https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100%2C000.00&y...

2. https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/25/young-entrepreneurs-rule-m...
I’m 18 now and I got started with Scratch when I was 8. It teaches you to think logically without requiring you to learn about editors, the command line, interpreters/compilers, syntax, libraries, or the file system. As an eight-year-old I understood some but not much of that. The ability to open Scratch and create 2d games or other programs is probably why I’m successful today.
Illegal siege is a misfire? Thousands of bombs killing thousands of civilians are misfired? Or what are you reacting to?
I don't see why they can't present it as a simple list of blog articles with a link to the repository.

It achieves the same thing without anyone knowing who I am.
>For example, if you make one extra payment per year, you will shorten a 30 year fixed rate mortgage by about 4.5 years.

This doesn't sound right. If I make 5 extra payments (either in 1 year or over 4 years), the mortgage will be shortened by 5 x 4.5 years = 22 years. I'm sure everyone would do this, 5 extra payments is super easy!
Windows is not POSIX compliant anymore. Claiming that it is and linking to an article about WSL is just confusing, as most Linux distributions are not POSIX compliant either. I assume this is based on Windows NT's historical status with SfU and UNIX compliance. But Windows doesn't need POSIX compliance today. I'm pretty sure that only ever happened because the U.S. government was pushing for POSIX in an era where UNIX operating systems were far more relevant.
> Thiel is more complicated or nuanced

Or maybe, simply, just more impulsive.
Wasn't that 20 years ago? Do they maintain the same integrity and diligence in the modern click-oriented age?
OpenAI stopped development of its new AI model
It is an ARM chip.
Well, for one, in a mobile screen I can understand the difference between line wraps and new lines.
That’s been my experience, too. I feel like I’m in some cargo cult suggesting it to others.

“We’ll just do these steps and poof it will be on your machine! One second… Hang on… let’s try again…”
It has gotten simpler in recent years. For people who just have regular jobs and families, you probably just have a wages statement from your employer (w-2). Most taxes are taken out already at payroll time. You add up all your w-2's and report on how many children you have and based on that you can calculate your taxes.

The forms used to calculate this are quite complicated because they are designed to be very versatile. For instance, in years gone by you could reduce your taxable income by noting stuff like healthcare expenses, childcare expenses, home mortgage interest etc. This is all now covered (for most people) by a standard income exemption that everyone gets.

The forms have not been simplified to match.
> for long term effects of this practice see the Gaza v. Israel fiasco

Isn't the core of the Gaza conflict rather that Isrealis and Muslims aren't related, but both want the same piece of land
Exactly why I’d like to get a Stripe account up and running again, while also keeping PayPal.

I was very happy with Stripe all these years… but having a least two payment processors is probably safer.