skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adjacent point based on your comment: I want to emphasize that this is not a difference in understanding between the rich in the traditional sense and the poor in the traditional sense, at least in the US. I know people with significant multi-generational family assets that don't call themselves rich. This crowd is largely (obviously not exclusively) white, US-born, and from the upper end of the middle class going up. Based on my interactions, very few seem to have experienced significant portions of their life without basic food, housing and medicinal security.

A whole lot of people within all striations of the middle class assume that they kind of "get it" through osmosis because they're not rich and they were probably friends with poorer people growing up. But barring stereotypes, we always assume other people's lives, problems, decisions, challenges, and affordances are more similar to our own that others. People from the upper end of the middle class are often blind to the difficult realities of growing up lower-middle-class in meaningful ways that create similar cultural discrepancies.
That headline is kinda funny because in any other context it says "A promised B the world, A lied."

Everyone in society needs basic IT training, everyone, from journalists to doctors. Among other things they need to understand that there is no such thing as unlimited.

And of course, lesson #2, it's always just someone's computer.

Last lesson for today, redundancy, redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
Which provider, if you don’t mind me asking?
If it’s cheap and easy to fill the night sky with satellites, the obvious implication is that it will also be cheap and easy to do astronomy from space, and your “extremely precious and expensive” telescope time could be on a satellite outside the atmosphere in the first place. This is an entirely transitory issue and instead of trying to deprive people of internet access, astronomers should be working together on launching their own satellite megaconstellation.
Because this is unique to America and (mostly) restaurant service?

And because it’s ridiculous. I want to eat, not figure out how much to pay your employees. Part of a business’ job is to abstract the business-y stuff away from me so I can just enjoy a meal.

Otherwise, if it’s a hassle, I’ll just cook more at home. I can cook just as well, I eat out for the experience and to not deal with hassles.
linears.art

they wouldn't be the first
Review of the Search Engine Kagi
Yeah it's weird that it doesn't have a progress indicator or anything. But if you keep reloading the trash page in your browser, you'll see that files keep disappearing over the course of minutes.
they all ride bikes to work on bike to work day so they can get their pictures in the papers and be on the news.
No I’m looking at flows. Look at the change in % of fossil fuels to other energy sources over time. When Nuclear goes up, fossil fuels goes down, when it goes down fossil fuels go up. When solar/wind go up, fossil fuels are untouched.

https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix

Also, again - PVs can only replace grid energy (well not even then because we don’t have an answer for storage & there’s nothing being built anytime soon & we don’t really have anything realistic in the R&D pipeline). Plenty of energy use in the production of PVs is off-grid and we’re doing terribly on replacing that. PVs manufacturing isn’t going to be net-0 for a very very very long time.
It's just unreliable using any of Google products, or their empire starts to crumbling
Multimodal AI in Beta on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses
Increased revenue != increased profits (or any profit at all)

See: Uber
The obvious solution is to permit corporations the same free speech as natural persons, but revoke their limited liability protections if they tell lies. AFAIK there's no constitutional requirement to let natural persons escape the harm they do by blaming it on a fictitious person. Limited liability is a privilege.
Better at sports .. but I bet there's a fairly even distribution between people who have money and don't.

> In the future, we may view enormous disparities in wealth as evil as we do racism today.

A lot of people already do.
What were your predictions about AI generating arbitrary photorealistic videos within seconds from any free-form text? Like say just 3 years ago, if I may ask?

You may have retroactively altered your memories to think "I always expected this will happen soon". But yeah. No you didn't. You'd laugh if someone told you this 3 years ago.

You'll have to constantly adjust what's "absurd" from now on. Also "optimistic" is not the word I'd use to describe what's happening.
Damn, even for run of the mill, retail labor I've seen courtesy extended as wait until January
God I hope to one day have enough to see this as a feelgood story and not a summary of my last couple of years (the pre-book deal bit) lmao

Recklessly spending is a symptom of poverty (also, ADHD, which she mentions) - spend it before it runs out. Comes from a life of having plans (No not those life kind of plans - plans to buy food, pay rent) then something urgent happens and takes away the money.

I'll be the first to agree it's stupid, but I can't blame her too harshly on that point. Seen it play out too many times. Also been there done that after a broken hip settlement (saving my other one for retirement!) - I got so fat lol

See also: lottery winners that go broke inside a few years
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There are dated messages in the article showing this going back to at least July 2023. So yes, your second case is closer to what appears to have been the sequence of events.
R.A.Heinlein novella, The Man Who Sold The Moon.
Effective tax rate is not the same as total receipts and talking about total receipts when discussing insufficient taxation of the wealthy is falling into the "all taxes are paid by the poor indirectly" trap.
In my city there's a major road with no billboards, and I drive on it whenever it's a reasonable option. It's not exactly lovely, but it's only as bad as driving on a busy road has to be, no worse. It's also a lot safer.

Whenever I tell people I prefer this road, they balk. When I tell them there's no billboards, they stop and think and realize that it's actually one of the nicest roads in the city. Parts of it are actually quite beautiful and forested.

I've seen a handful of billboards that were mildly entertaining. I've never seen a billboard that made me [edit to add: consciously] want to buy something, in my entire life, as far as I can recall. I've seen countless billboards that manipulated my emotions, showing me food or sex while I'm just trying to drive, purposefully distracting me. And countless more that just suck and are pointless. Among my many grievances with car-dependency, billboards aren't at the top of the list, but they're a very easy target because most people actually hate them as soon as they stop to think about it in my experience.
It's obvious to anyone who actually used the service or lives in a rural area how much good the service is doing. In many rural places there are literally no other options, or the options are so bad that it is laughable. This is one of those letter of the law vs spirit of the law things. Yes technically the speeds you currently get are not exactly at the promised level yet, but the service is a monumental success and is providing service that is definitely in line with the intent behind the subsidy.

I could see this making sense if there was any real competition or someone else who was realistically going to provide the service. But the only competition for this money are companies with a poor track records and that are notoriously bad.
I wasn't aware that rclone could create a direct connections and had a quick skim through the documentation where I found this in the FAQ (https://rclone.org/faq/)

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Can rclone sync directly from drive to s3
Rclone can sync between two remote cloud storage systems just fine.

Note that it effectively downloads the file and uploads it again, so the node running rclone would need to have lots of bandwidth.
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Coming from the middle class, I've never met anybody talented coming from a shitty school who didn't also get filtered into a gifted program at a good school. Maybe your school system just wasn't competent at filtering people?

Those that I know who have made bad life decisions (kids too early, dropping out of college, leaving extremely supportive parents) could totally have been expected to based off looking at GPA/SAT signals.
> Google clearly communicated that he needed to address the issue and he chose to do nothing during that time.

That's not clear at all.

> If he continues to do nothing

What is he supposed to to with 277TB of data in 7 days? Google can't even serve him all of his data in that timeframe. He's being treated like his account is doing some undesirable activity that he can just stop doing at a moment's notice, not a technical data migration.
They've been emailing me saying I have access for quite some time as part of the Trusted Tester program., yet, I still do not. I can caption images but nothing else. So disappointed.
The correlation of IQ with income is 0.30[0]. Educational attainment is 0.32. So if you are intelligent (talented) or educated then you are statistically likely to have above average income. If you have both even more so.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602... (https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2007.02....)
page 5 table 1.
Prohibition reduced the rate of alcohol related deaths:

1. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...

2. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088683/death-rate-rate-...

3. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42705455?typeAccessWorkflow=log...

Your article only counts alcohol-caused deaths. Indeed, it fails to account for domestic violence deaths. Although it's true that hundreds of alcoholics died, their children were spared their violent tendencies. One could argue that prohibition pushed the consequence of death on the guilty instead of the innocent, which, if we have to choose between the two, seems the appropriate direction.

So while a few hundred alcoholics died, many more children and women lived. Why is this even a debate? The data are so abundantly clear.
That was not the terms, there were buildout requirements attached that started when the bid was accepted. https://www.usac.org/high-cost/funds/rural-digital-opportuni...

Looks like Starlink was supposed to be 40% built with their participation starting in 2020, that are consistent with their winning bid (in this case 100/20). It seems they clearly failed by that metric.
I never actually started tipping on Uber or Lyft after they introduced that feature, which seemed like a real step backward.
I don’t think the OP was saying that most people are the same, he was saying that most people have talent. In your sports analogy think about the kid who might be good at wrestling but terrible at track. And vice versa. The worry is that more affluent people sub-consciously see themselves as “better” in a universal way. That is not too different then European aristocracies used to see themselves.
> You should actually read it instead of making retarded statements like "hurr durr you can't sell wine as cola"

Please take a look at the HN guidelines. Calling other people's statements "retarded" and being otherwise insulting is very much against them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The imbalance of power is simply too great. Even for high-value positions, and even in times of high job availability, employers can always afford (by every conceivable definition of "afford") to harm employees more than employees can afford to harm employers.

Edit: A healthy society is a high-trust society where the employee-employer relationship is more balanced due to the regular old humanity that you would expect by default from humans, rather than pure economics. You can't regulate the fundamentals of societal health. When people have less and less cultural attachment to each other and to the societies in which they operate; and less and less respect for the idea of plain humanity; this is the result. The US seems to have been historically above average in this regard, but is coming down fast. A few European countries seem to be at the top of this (highly subjective) ranking.
Developmental impairment in children exposed during pregnancy to SARS-COV2
I bet the fine print on the sales contract is pretty darn small.
Well if it's true we should be getting something to collaborate on it shortly. Plenty of people at Netflix on this site.
#1 is about ads in the content itself, not ads that are designed to look like the posts around it
Pretty sure the devil's in the distribution.

Nuts also take enormous amounts of water, which is a pretty big problem where they're grown.
We used to have a reasonable welfare state in the UK, where the government took that duty upon itself.

It's been wrecked by the current right-wing government.
Polite disagree.
> meant scale == grows (mostly independently) of human hours.

This is a pernicious usage of "scale" that has crept into tech-speak, because it makes the term strictly less useful.
Neither are the majority , is my bet.
The alternative is to not have a cheap popular bikeshare system.

Also with monopolist it is really easy to keep some standards, quality of the ads.
She gave a political response. A lot of people in such a position would do this.
Black cats are the best. Our last one was like a dog more than cat but also liked to sit on my Mac's keyboard :)
Inflation is easing, market is going up. But more fucking layoffs... great.
I did for a short while. Then I realised I don't own anything of sufficient value to be worth it long term.
“Greenwashing is a CRIME” disgusted me and soured me on the whole thing, despite the concept itself being quite appealing and also being generally opposed to greenwashing.
I_Am_Nous wrote:

"Starlink reportedly argued that once they can properly launch Starship, they can surely hit the required speeds. As of yet Starship hasn't had a successful launch."

From one of the dissenting opinions:

> the majority points to delays in the development of SpaceX’s Starship launch platform—the largest, most powerful rocket ever built—as evidence that SpaceX would be unable to launch enough Starlink satellites to meet its 2025 commitments. The trouble with this argument is that SpaceX never indicated that it was relying on the Starship platform to meet its RDOF obligations, and in fact it repeatedly stated that it was not.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf
It's not a very good analogy. In your hypothetical, at that point, the other party would obviously say no deal and not provide you with what you want. The browser ad equivalent would be not serving up their content to you.

I am entitled to decide what runs on my computer and how. They only option another party has is whether or not they will provide service to me.
That's an interesting observation!
Where the money is going I'm more confused by.

Like, Etsy is based on a well-understood, popular business model - provide a digitasl storefront to sell physical goods. There are no hard or unique problems - their main advantage is name recognition in the indie-maker community.

So where is that money going?
Thank you a lot for your valuable feedback!

Your examples of those quirky Swedish words and phrases are very insightful, and they show the fascinating intricacies of the language.

I'll make those updates and corrections you suggested.

Thank you again. And feel free to submit any other word using the "Make Suggestion" button
Are there? Do you see any message from July 2023 explicitly saying that his data will be deleted with a deadline for such deletion?
That document doesn't make any claims about censorship nor have any relationship to the conspiracy theory you are saying it states.
> Does anyone really question that growth over the past 10 years

How many people have increased their salaries significantly over that time? Do you think they put it down to their own achievement or do you think they believed that they were merely riding an economic wave?
How come you're readily willing to accept that managers will coast, but not that engineers will coast?
Germany – Insane or Just Plain Stupid?
Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would check the site every five or ten minutes and then ping me as soon as the result changed to something besides PENDING.

In the course of that I stumbled on https://ntfy.sh/ which solved the notification problem without needing Twitter, and I've used it since then to let me know when long-running scripts complete.
I'm glad there's a spiritual successor to Apollo, but it's not entirely about comparing one cost to one cost.

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Spotify: $10.99/mo ($132/yr)

YouTube: $13.99/mo ($168/yr)

Twitch: $11.99/mo ($144/yr)

Narwhal: $6/mo ($72/yr)

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You'd be right, the $72/yr for Narwhal is less than the $100/yr developer certificate, but with all of the other sideloading opportunities it's no contest w.r.t cost.
What kind of evidence would this involve?

Would you have agreed this was the case at Twitter for a while?
Not so long ago, I was traveling around Switzerland. During my time in the country, there was always something just a little off, and I couldn’t place what it was.

Was it cleaner? Was the architecture just very modernist? Did it have something to do with the season?

Eventually, I realized that the difference I was noticing between Switzerland and California (my home state) was that there was simply much less advertising in the physical spaces of cities.

I am not sure if this is a result of some legislature there or if it is just a result of the way the Swiss think about visual design and advertising.

But I absolutely loved it. It was so refreshing to see the beauty of a city block without being bombarded by advertisements.

It really lets the character of a city shine through.

LA, SF and Sac seem to be on the opposite end of the spectrum… practically the only thing you notice are the billboards.
Mathematics of Parking Tickets
Because they would be able to sell some rejects.

And because I don't want a software limit that may or may not work.
>Wouldn't that fusion system be more complex, less performant, and more fallible that just choosing a single model (vision/LIDAR) and optimising around that?

No, the whole point about sensor fusion is that it can be greater than the sum of it's parts.
Because compression implementations generally have overhead, the output can actually be larger (similar to how compressing already-compressed data can produce a larger result.)
Makima: Linux daemon to remap and create macros (autohotkey equivalent)
To be fair, holiday season is the busiest time for retail labor so it makes sense to keep employees around until after. Netflix (and other tech companies) usually don't get much work done during December so it makes the most sense for the company to do layoffs in December. It's incredibly brutal though. I wonder if there are any tax implications for doing it this quarter vs waiting till next year/quarter.
Unless employees unionize.
This reminds me of my uncle who can quote Shakespeare verbatim and seems to have a photographic memory, but he cannot comprehend Windows' desktop and how to use virtual folders and files.
> and trying to write off the whole thing upfront

Looking back, it does sound like that, doesn't it?

But I'm not strictly anti-capitalist. I think capitalism is a necessity to reward innovation.

> We probably both agree that the implementation around us sucks big time. But it doesn't have to be that bad, and also needs to be compared with actual real alternatives.

I'm not sure there's anything that can be done to prevent the shortermism, but I don't even think that's capitalism's greatest problem, which I think is growing wealth inequality. The poor get poorer while the rich get richer, while so many poor vote against their own interests because they think they're just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.

I'm not even sure subsidies are the answer. If you give everybody $1,000/month to help them pay the rent, the landlords will just raise rents by $1,000. But if government owns the housing, then it'll be underfunded, not to save money, but as a tactic to show the project is failing and as a reason to get rid of it and reduce government spending. But before that even happens, the construction of the project will be given to whichever contractor promises the greatest kickback to the campaigns of the politicians making the choice.

Maybe I'm just horrendously jaded.
Consciousness and sentience are just poorly defined vocabulary that delude people into thinking it's meaningful categorizations.

There's just a bunch of traits related to intelligence and we categorize that if something has enough of those traits then it's "alive". But the words "consciousness" and "sentience" are so poorly defined that we can't pinpoint the formal grouping of what these traits actually are. So for a person to be conscious one can say the person must have feelings, another definition could be no emotions needed but the ability to reason is required... Etc.. etc.

First up these definitions are just arbitrary categorizations. We each individually choose the traits that define the word consciousness, and second we don't even formalize the choice we sort leave the words impartially defined and all debates on whether LLMs are conscious are simply debating about this impartiality. It's a debate about a vocabulary issue for a word that isn't fully defined and people don't realize there's nothing profound or meaningful about the debate at all.

These words are everywhere in the English language and causes us to debate certain concepts as if it's meaningful without us realizing we are just debating a vocabulary problem.

Take for instance a car and a boat. These words are less fuzzy and more rigorously defined so debates on whether something is a car or a boat don't seem that profound. But the words are fuzzy enough that I can generate an example to help you see my point. Let's say I built something that can both drive and sail on the water. Is that thing a car or a boat? Is that question meaningful or is it just a categorization problem with inadequate vocabulary leaving me unable to specify exactly when an object classification transitions from boat to car? From this example it becomes evident that the debate is ludicrous that it's all an illusion. You are debating vocabulary.

For words that are more fuzzy the same problem exists. But it's harder to see that it's just a vocabulary problem because the words are so fuzzy.

Take for example, what is life? Is a bug alive? Is a plant? Or what is philosophy and what is not philosophy? Or what is good and what is evil? The discussion around all these issues are not profound. They are simply a discussion around vocabulary and categorization. We are too deluded by language to move past it.

Many concepts exist as a gradient and we are simply trying to discretize this gradient into fixed categories and then spending an endless amount of time debating on where the lines of demarcation goes.

So are LLMs conscious? It's loaded question. Let's not talk about vocabulary.
I can tell you that I absolutely do remember which of the restaurants I visit have no-tipping/tipping-included policies, because it leaves me with a feeling of relief. I feel some extra loyalty to those businesses.
Fuckin greed everywhere.
The holidays coincide with the end of the year.