skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think another way of framing this is that many people rely on extrinsic motivation and are lost without institutional structure[1]. The question is whether there are other ways to channel that energy without our more traditional work institutions. I don't have the answer. In the past the church was another institution that could serve this need but for both better and worse church institutions are dying rapidly and nothing has really filled the void.

[1] to be clear, this isn't about intelligence. I know a billionaire who couldn't bear more than a few weeks without structured work and almost immediately started a new company after already making ~100MM which is why he is now a billionaire.
Any case law for shooting a bullet across state lines and hitting someone?
Your numbers are way off - that’s only for the initial income tax. You also need to account for the sales tax (impacting cities and counties) and then the circulation of that wealth and the tax on that as well.

Ultimately, all money in circulation eventually goes into taxes. Put another way, if I trade something and receive $100 and 10% of that must be sent to the gov. I now have $90. I take that $90 and buy something, that person now has to pay $9 to gov and they have $81.. and so on.

Hopefully, people also use that money to generate new goods and thus generate more capital inflows to the state. When that happens, the state gains more wealth via taxes.

That loss is likely closer to $11.25B ($150k * 75k) than $1.38B. (Note I’m not using exact numbers, just pointing out the $11.25B upper bound)

That said, I do think the article is conflating. In reality: job loss, migration out of the state and generally sluggish economy is going to lead to the deficit, not just the migration.
Wow, three kids! Developer here with a software side project/business I’m passionate about, going to be a first-time dad soon. Any high impact advice to maximize both productivity and family quality of life during the early years?
Ok. I get that The Metaverse from Snow Crash is not quite a Torment Nexus.

However, the concept still holds weight. If you want a less obnoxious motivating example, there's actually a very, very old Torment Nexus that we've been trying to build for over a hundred years: humanoid robots. The play that literally coined the term robot - R.U.R.[0] - very much made them the central problem of the story. Building humanoid robots IRL is a very bad idea, and yet people still do it, resulting in all sorts of creepy robots with awful problems that could have been built as far more useful machines had they not been forcibly anthropomorphized.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

Yes, I am aware that the robots in this story were more grown-in-a-vat than built-from-parts, but still.
The "built-in support for SOA data types" on the homepage is a really cool data-oriented feature.

This is what i imagine Go would look like with that: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64926
That doesn't seem like a relevant statement to me.
Yeah, ideally I suppose we'd have both and perhaps other sorts of measurements, the server logs can still have error because of eg bots scraping porn sites, the uncertainty of attribution, and people who consume porn offline (by downloading it, by ordering DVDs or magazines, etc).

There's also the matter that, from what I've observed, women often prefer erotic literature. That seems very difficult to parse out from traffic.

For what it's worth, I did come across one article where researchers were using data from an analytics company to probe porn use[1], but it wasn't measuring what I was looking for, so I didn't look too closely.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2023.2...
Are you serious? I can see people say explicitly in replies to you what they actually disagree with. Are you not capable of distinguishing between the claims "this stat is false" and "it's bad that this stat is true", or "this stat doesn't imply what you think it does"?
Gov.uk has a max sentence length of 25 words
Surprisingly, this is one of the value propositions of Costco!

Of course, the first thing they're known for is letting you buy comically huge volumes of everyday items.

But one of the reasons that they actually have a cult following is that their corporate buyers are actually incredibly good at finding interesting items and offering them at a good price.

Browsing Costco essentially becomes a curated tour of what's new in the land of food, gadgets, etc. All backed by an extremely consumer friendly set of policies allowing returns etc, which minimizes your risk.
Frank Howarth is my guy, but admittedly I watch him to fall asleep (while marveling at how good he is)
I have said this before, will say it again. This can be fully achieved with uBlock and custom filters like the one maintained by quenhus[1] that can block websites across multiple search engines. You don't need to increase the vulnerability surface by installing yet another extension on your browser.

[1] https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
I must drive on a state highway to bike to where the company bus picks me up, despite being about 2 miles away. It's extremely hilly around here, so ebike is virtually mandatory. The "bike lanes" are a foot away from 30+ mph traffic on poorly-lit roads. Via public transit, my nearest friends are over an hour away in one direction. My family just bought a second car and it's freeing to be able to divide our kids and do things separately, instead of one parent being trapped near home.
Need more data to be sure of what the customers needs are in order to provide the right solution.

And I’ll get it.
The article tries to articulate the value add through attention to detail in manufacturing "so the bags survive 6 years of rough and tumble", but I'm not really getting it. What am I missing?

I had a $60-in-1995 northface backpack that lasted through hauling 5+ periods of textbooks every day, walking and biking to middle school and highschool. It worked fine, in fact my dad still uses it (30 years later) to hold and transport teaching materials for a college course he teaches. Lots of kids got by with a single basic $25 Jansport.

Today, kids in the U.S. don't even tote many (or any) books, most of the content and schoolwork takes place on a lightweight Chromebook that stays in the classroom.
It's not a surprising trend, there's been a steady build up of tax reasons that have made California a worse deal:

- removing the SALT deduction hurts Californians (and NY most) with their high taxes and high wages

- Capping the mortgage deduction to $750k only matters in places where houses are over $1MM (like California)

- Because even federal taxes are progressive, if you can work remote make half as much money in a place that costs half as much, you'll take home proportionally more
lol thanks
It’s all good, we’re still small and ill get the information I need to write the best solution for the customer.
Honestly, we have so many repositories and such high communication between work cells that merge conflicts are exceedingly rare.

If someone did change something out from under me, I could very well see myself doing my work over on top of theirs, and a rebase may help with that, but I would certainly try to merge first.

I tend to use rebase solely when I specifically want to rewrite history so as to pretend it was different than it was.

Thanks for engaging and discussing!
>While the forever purge buttresses Xi’s authority, it also has instilled a constant apprehension and reluctance to act decisively among party members as challenges mount. The economy is struggling to shake its Covid hangover. Youth unemployment has skyrocketed, and the property market and consumer sentiment have tanked. Meanwhile, debt is piling up and foreign investors are increasingly turning their backs on the Chinese market.

Not exactly a recipe for economic growth but keeps Xi in power. Guess wrong on who to please and off to jail. And the answer always changes. Mao was a master of this type of chaos to keep himself wealthy and in control to the detriment of China. Curious if it will be as effective in the 21st century.

>>>But whereas Mao roused ordinary Chinese into purging class enemies and assaulting what he saw as a decaying party from the outside, Xi has shaken up the party from within, using fear to enforce virtuous behavior. Even the party’s discipline inspectors themselves have become targets, under a rectification campaign launched in February that aims to “turn the blade inward and cut out decaying flesh.”
I’ve been leaning more towards a dual language approach recently. A language with tight integration with C like Lua, or Gambit, that makes it easy to drop down to C. C gets treated like a block of unsafe Rust code, and you keep as little of the code base in C as is necessary
That's this: https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/

Home paged here: https://nongnu.org/txr
The obvious theory would point out that female clothing isn't supposed to have pockets at all. This means that anything carried in any pocket is likely to be carried in a "hidden pocket" - that's the only kind of pocket.
Really excellent work on this.

I also like the RP2040 (even with the ADC issues; you can always use an IC if it's really an issue) but regardless of what mcu you're using, one thing I strongly recommend as you progress in your PCB design journey is that you skip the off-the-shelf board and implement your own mcu on the same board as the rest of your components.

The amount you'll learn and the flexibility you'll gain from not having to think about the limitations of commercial boards is dramatic. At the end of the day, all I need to get an RP2040 working is an LDO, some flash memory, a 12Mhz crystal and some decoupling capacitors. I recommend looking at the PCB designs that Adafruit publishes for inspiration, eg. https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-qt-py-2040/downloads

For me, there's a very real liberation in not having to worry if I can get enough mcu boards in time.

I am genuinely intrigued by the 14bit CC scheme you mentioned. I accept at face value that 128 steps might not be enough when you have such a smooth pot to work with, even though I admit that it's always felt fine to me. I might just be a hack musician. :)

That said, I really wonder if and how it can be as simple as sending two values in rapid succession. MIDI messages can and do get lost or dropped due to congestion. So, how does it know which one comes first or second? Or are they sent on different CC numbers? Is there some kind of shadow spec which defines this, in terms of timeouts etc?

One thing that you'll find when you move to a PCB is that the connections will be much better, and the amount of noise and oscillating values will drop significantly. I've tried to implement "dead zone" schemes for projects in the past as you describe; I found that the longer I used the device, the closer I'd get to a 100% chance of a false positive, even at values which seem impossible. So I'd bump up the gate value and suddenly it takes a lot more movement than I'd planned on day one before the values start to move.

You can lose a lot of time chasing your tail on things like that.

Doing this stuff will really make you gain respect for the hours people spent designing devices like the OP-1, with its knobs and buttons that never bounce and only feel bounded by your manual dexterity.
Songs of Syx is a very performant game that uses 1. I believe, not 100% sure though. It's like Dwarf Fortress but with 100 of times more amount of map actors.
1. Plenty of non-workers have purpose in life. Ask a retiree.

2. This assumes we can never make machines that maintain themselves. Opinions on how likely AI vary, but being unable to imagine it at all is odd.

3. We already deal with these folks today.

4. No one's proposing banning work. Just that it'd be nice not to require it to live.
Many societies did not have a concept of owning land. If we're imagining a world without work, perhaps we should also try to imagine a world in which an individual cannot claim land as their private property. Especially is such claim rests on something arbitrary such as heredity.
ChatGPT is a low quality intense marketing product. Are they sure they dont want to do better?
I no longer have a Kindle to compare, but I'm very happy with build and lighting on my Kobo Libra 2. I've used Kindles since the Kindle 1, and there are some Kobo things that I don't like as well as Kindle, but it's a better-than-decent e-reader and I'm glad to be out from under Amazon's thumb.
I can't imagine the boredom of not producing anything -- I love to build. I consider this work. I would consider pure leisure to be defined as doing something with no obviously productive output.

There are certainly people out there who can be happy just watching TV and playing tennis, and that's fine, but the correlation of (voluntary) late retirement and longevity suggests that for most people, when we stop producing / having purpose, we just start to decompose [0]. I saw this contrast firsthand between some of my grandparents.

[0] https://hbr.org/2016/10/youre-likely-to-live-longer-if-you-r....
20 years later, the Y2K bug seems like a joke–because some took it seriously (2019)
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You are correct and I have considered this because in general I, too, dislike the trend of profits being focused on ever fewer owners.

However, what is the better option here?

A. I digitise their primitive tasks like paper forms and a few low-paid employees get fired but the company overall remains competitive and most employees retain their jobs.

B. They get crushed by foreign competition because they are too slow and too inflexible to justify the higher prices. The company goes belly up and everyone loses their job. And/or parts of the company get outsourced to China to reduce costs.

My conclusion is that sacrificing a few office workers to keep the technology research and manufacturing in the west is, yes, cruel, but still better than the alternative.
May I ask, how does this information help you(trying to understand the specific use case here). If you can provide more details of this use case, maybe I can work on something like this.
Interestingly, I actually did the opposite. I started with GitHub Issues as my note taking place, used that for several years. And then eventually moved away from it to Org Notes as a centralized system for all projects. Some of my reasons were:

- it's centralized; sometimes projects are related and being able to search for "all project notes involving LEDs" is useful across repos

- sometimes project work is not solely related to code, and in that case your notes are split between repo-notes and non-repo-notes

- Git issues build up and become huge threads over time, lack hierarchical organization or advanced state/dependency tracking, rely on arbitrary tags, etc.

- Git issues are non-personal, often public-facing - and even on personal repos there is sometimes the thought that you might publish the git repo one day, and now it's littered with your private thoughts.

- During dev, the process often is a bit experimental in nature - this amounts to tons of failed ideas or dead notes that clutter issue db

- Not a lot of support for the note-type distinction between "moonshot"-style rough ideas and actual concrete projects. If you use GitHub Issues for all your notes, you'll have all your wacky ideas mixed in with your actual issues. You'll subconsciously avoid posting the wild ones which means you'll subconsciously damper your creativity.

All of these lead me to suggest sticking with a well-designed centralized project note-taking system, use GitHub Issues to track /issues/ and then /link/ to the issue in your note-taking system (ideally with a little automation glue) or simply avoid GH Issues entirely for your personal issue tracking and work directly off of your notes system.
I ran with the same Jansport bag from 1989-2000. I wonder if they still offer that awesome warranty? As a kid my family really didn't know about it and it was pre-internet. My grandma was amazing repairing it. These bags do look pretty cool IMO but I feel there's more to the price that is essentially the generational guilt-trip of a custom that makes it that price.
I think it's doing well. I've been paying for it since June and I haven't looked back. For me, it's been either equivalent or better than Google for work-related (programming) searches.
Breaking down work so it can be delivered incrementally is an underrated skill.

Simplifies communication about progress, builds confidence in ability to deliver, and makes it easier to avoid getting lost in rabbit holes. Especially in situations where there are lots of unknowns - unknown programming language, multiple tools to choose from, etc.
These numbers seem kind of low to me, even when I think of people in my life anecdotally. I wonder what is going on there.
Does this require users trust several parties? Any one of which could sell out, get a court order, be tapped en mass by the NSA?
But we’re talking about an article where 100% of the notices were bogus. That’s a long way away from this hypothetical 90%…
I admit it is odd at first glance, but I can think of a few possible explanations:

1) they cannot actually afford it, and will find this out in a few years

2) they are being bought as investments by REIT's and such, not by real people

3) they are being bought by foreign money as a way of parking wealth in the US, because it is perceived as a safer place to have your money than the home country

There could be other explanations, as well, but these are three that come to mind.
I had a 97 Saab 900 turbo with an “airplane mode” button that turned off all the dash lights except for the speedometer. It was actually pretty damn useful.
I don't normally ask about the book itself so much as the context of the book (eg more info about this battle in the Napoleonic wars, more info about this historical figure, how much money would £X be worth today?)

These kinds of questions (usually more factual rather than about motives etc) can help me connect what I'm reading to other things I've read in a way that I would otherwise need additional books/encyclopedia entries/etc to help cover
I dont see the "Look there a three headed monkey" type of tribalism distraction to be a future proof plan.

The attention economy overdid it. And corruption bloomed as a result. Which is typical for a totalitarian rise. Kleptocracies without checks and balances dont work and its quite visible to the outside.

Its just not a sensible path to go down on. Even looking past ethical and human perspective, totalitarianism is at its core dysfunctional.
I think a reasonable analogy would be putting
TV's playing porn outside of a school and covered
them with a cloth and sign that said adults only.

Well, no. Anybody entering or leaving the school would have no choice but to see the covered TVs. Whereas porn is generally not showing up online unless you are looking for it.

Strongly suggest dropping the analogies entirely.

Like many digital concepts this just will never map cleanly to a real-world analogue.

This is like the millions of bad analogies related to music downloads back in the Napster days. Please, stop. This is an issue worth discussing, but every analogy is bad and every analogy pollutes and enshittifies the discussion.
Thank you for this. Very helpful and UI is clean too.
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The coolest thing I've learned from this article is that road signs have a retroreflective coating on them. In hind sight, it makes sense: you always notice the signs light up as your drive by but don't necessarily notice the signs light up as others drive by. But it's not something I've ever really thought about.
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I always thought the telltale would be a thin layer of mixed metals in the geological record. Assuming the civilisation lasts a few thousand years then that's a very thin layer 60m years later. And it would contain a lot of iron, copper, tin, lead, etc all mixed together in that thin layer. It would look very weird from a geological point of view.
1. I disagree. Who says what is morally permissible or not? Why shouldn’t authors keep the fruits of their labor?

2. Why did morality even come here?
One thing that made this worse for me is that it actually worked for the first 18 years or so of my life. School work was easy enough that I could be a perfectionist and actually get rewarded for it. But now that the work piles up it's a recipe for anxiety and failure.
US is a good place to be a good artist. France is a good place to be a subsidized artist
I desperatly wish my parents taught me GTD as a child, haha. I'm sure I'd not have been to enthusiastic about it as a youngin', but man, my early projects would have been so much more inmpactful and it'd have given me a great self-confidence boost to get those projects done at a young age.
The moment you add an aspect of culture and social pressure all economics goes out of the window. The bags cost $450 because it is the expectation that grandparents will buy an expensive school bag for their grandkids, that's it. Everything else ("it's handcrafted!", "it has 200 parts!", "it's durable") is reverse justification from there.

It's the same as trying to figure out why a tiny piece of abundant rock costs thousands of dollars when sold as an "engagement ring".
I _love_ Japanese dedication to craft; really any hyper-focused efforts, but i digress.

The problem that I have with this of course is families who cannot afford these really well made pieces of gear (touched on at the end of the article) and where children who can't afford it are ostracized because of it.

Growing up I was on meal plans due to our financial status and paying in physical tickets, made me and the others like me a small target of ridicule. Personally I don't think it was a lot, but naturally we banded together and became friends simply because we paid for lunches a particular way.

The social pressure is crazy and unnecessary and feel terrible for the kids who can't have it as well as the families who literally sacrifice for it.
The article doesn’t try to do that at all.

It just points out that these bags do need to last 6 years so they aren’t throwaway items.

In fact, towards the end it points to how some schools are managing to achieve the same with $60 bags “ran-bags”.

I think you’re reading too much into it if you think the article is trying to justify the cost.

It’s trying to explain the cost, which is driven by the fact that these are hand made and have a ton of parts and also need to last many years.
If it's so expensive and durable, where does that bag go after school? Why does each generation have to buy new bags, why are they not passed down from parents to children?
One way to escape the grind is to be exceptional and exceptionally rewarded.

Another way is to be good and be diligent on how you spend your income. For most of us, the easiest way to escape the grind is to save our way out of it.
The article seems to be aware of the fact that plastic backpacks can be durable too: "Some schools in Shimane prefecture have moved to city-provided lightweight nylon backpacks called ran-bags (yeah, don’t ask me how they name things in Japan). Unlike the randoseru, these cost a much more affordable 8,000 yen (57 USD), are lighter, and just as durable."