skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live a few blocks from a highly rated high school. The elementary school is next door. The middle school isn't far, either. Point being, this is an excellent place to raise a family. That being said, with one or two exceptions all my neighbors are retired with adult children or grandchildren. (Not living with them, to be clear.)

I can't fault my neighbors for deciding to stick around in their nice, large homes with bedrooms to spare -- especially if they've paid off their mortgages or renegotiated during the pandemic. That said, I can't help but feel something is wrong with this picture.

Why isn't the neighborhood filled with young families? And when these older folks do finally move, will young families be able to afford the increasingly expensive mortgages? Looking at the Case-Shiller index, it's scary -- almost double the pre-2008 peak![1]

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA
I would agree but [1] is likely one of the top 3 biggest exiatential issues facing mankind right now. We live in an age of increasingly weaker connections between people.

So while in paper these 3 items look easy, they're likely not.
The name Remotestorage is already used for a protocol for portable user-controlled storage. See e.g. Remotestorage.io.
My observation has been that as long as basic human needs are easily obtained there is a natural tendency to become complacent and go with the flow.

Another perspective could be: what’s so bad about people taking longer to mature? In a way it points to the possibility that we have evolved to a society that allows children to be children for longer. The real problem is that biologically their bodies are screaming for reproduction which becomes confusing and stressful. Perhaps in the future we will deal with this in creative and healthy new ways
> The US government has much stronger checks and balances than most parliamentary systems where the prime minister is elected by the parliament. This means that there's no split possible between the executive and legislative branch. I think the result of this in the US is that the government tends to deadlock, and has a lot of difficulty compromising, which leads to dissatisfaction and instability.

The problem in the US is actually the opposite -- the checks and balances were intended to be stronger but have been substantially weakened, in a way that creates instability.

In the original constitutional framework the federal government was meant to be extremely limited. Senators were appointed by state legislators so that they would limit expansion of federal power at the expense of state power, but that was changed and deprived the states of their primary representation in the federal government. Which not coincidentally was immediately followed by a massive expansion of federal control.

Which was itself meant to be much more limited. The original intention of the interstate commerce clause was for the federal government to handle things like mail fraud, where you have a perpetrator and a victim in different states and the victims have no representation in the perpetrator's jurisdiction. It has since been interpreted to allow the federal government to regulate essentially anything, infamously including non-commerce that occurs solely within a single state.

In the intended frameworks the deadlocks were fully intentional. If you couldn't reach widespread consensus then you couldn't do something at the federal level, doing things at the federal level was disfavored in general, and that was fine because anything outside the scope of federal power or without widespread consensus could be handled by the states. Laboratories of democracy.

But then we made it too easy to do things at the federal level, and of course power-hungry sociopaths are attracted to centralized power. So instead of the federal government being weak and uninteresting because strong checks and balances limited it from being abused, it became the battleground for winner-take-all popularity contests.
I seem to remember a certain Christmas movie starring Bruce Willis where this was a plot point.
Espressif is usually very good with both pricing and availability if you wish to buy in bulk.

I bought 1000 ESP32-S2 chips (not modules) for a project, it cost me a grand total of 1200 bucks as a nobody. During the height of the shortage from most western manufacturers too!
I still don't see how this is relevant to the question at hand, where someone is trying to convince you of something. They either convince you or they don't; refusing to decide is equivalent to the latter. Not taking the vitamins because I'm "so gripped by ignorance that you can't act" and not taking the vitamins because I'm "not afraid to come to no conclusions at all" are not alternatives, they're the same answer!
> And it's very proprietary and very expensive

get free kernel and wljs notebook
> How would federation solve this problem?

I'm not saying that federation solves the anonymity problem, I'm just saying that the current implementation includes Apple as a trust anchor for email address and phone number verification and issuance of corresponding certificates. My point is that in order to enable an open cross-platform solution, there would have to be some alternative mechanism to that.

What they could add is a sender-side option that makes sending completely anonymously. This would be possible without any change on the receiver side, but would require recipients to enable "allow all senders" mode.
A pathological sort of comparison is much more common now. They assume that what their parents have (with 20+ years of work), or what they see on social media, is what they should have too. That they don't is perceived as a great injustice.

You can see someone that has what you want and either a) work towards it, or b) complain.

There's always a mix of both, but b) is very loud right now.
Everyone can search things on the Internet. However when I state something on HN, I usually try to add some good links, which are not top Google results. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725734.
If they stopped paying, then why they'd stop showing them ads either.
I’m a fairly new customer, but I’m really enjoying Kagi. It brought me back to using a search engine instead of defaulting to GPT.

I too appreciate the transparent communication!
Google is a giant squid wearing Mickey Mouse gloves
> I don't really know why you're so fixated on the Google books metaphor.

It's an example we have a court ruling for and is a more literal case of internally storing a huge number of copyrighted works, without permission of the copyright holders, then allowing users to query for snippets.

> Google books is also an actual bookstore as well as some place for users to upload their library. I can upload pirated content for private use becsuse Google isn't scanning all its customers 24/7.

Google Books is a search tool for millions of books that Google have scanned and OCR'd. As far as I'm aware it doesn't itself sell books and I don't believe there's a way for regular users to upload content.

Are you thinking of books on Google Play?

> It's technically not legal [...] You can DMCA a book from Google just as easily as a YouTube video

Google Books has been found to be legal due to Fair Use. You could send a DMCA takedown notice, but they wouldn't have to comply with it.
You are assuming ads as a default. Assume no ads as a default, then ask "What is the downside of targeted ads versus no ads".
Annoying but at least Walmart still has the option to filter out third party sellers (under Filters, select Retailer and then Walmart). IIRC Amazon used to support this, but not anymore. I guess it wouldn't even do you much good with the commingling issue.
Here's Thomas Jefferson writing to James Madison in the early 1790s:

"The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water… (But) between society and society, or generation and generation there is no municipal obligation, no umpire but the law of nature. We seem not to have perceived that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independant nation to another…

On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation…

Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19. years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right."

That's one founding father to another. Funny how the "originalists" never bring this quote up. It's one founding father, later our 3rd president, writing to another founder who would later be our 4th.

Edit: Here's the full letter, and it's actually from late 1789: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-024...
Playing around with video game ROMs using a hex editor to edit strings and sprites was one of my first forays into programming.
I've been missing Dash so much since I moved back to Linux, on my todo list is to create a Web based clone, that supports custom packages which was Dash's killer feature. And with top class Emacs integration, instead of having to context switch to a browser.

Currently focused on launching another project and I will have to get back to it, my productivity has tanked now that I constantly need to have a browser tab or three open on hexdocs.pm and MDN
Housing has had a real appreciation at a rate that far outpaces real median wage increases. This is fueled partially by incentives to buy homes, but largely by speculative real estate purchases by older generations. People over the age of 35 own nearly 85% of real estate in the U.S., with people over the age of 55 owning nearly 45%. In both of these categories, ownership is extremely overrepresented and trending up.

We need to stop bailing out the housing market and incentivizing home purchases — this is the only reason that it’s rational for people to do this.
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It is impossible to predict what effects technological developments will have.

Claiming that effort in one field is "wasted" or "misallocated" is the height of hubris.

I make satellites that are being used to scan the earth to determine the impacts of climate change, quantify coastal erosion, monitor foliage coverage and crop health, locate buried ancient ruins, predict the weather, and create high-resolution 3d maps of urban areas.

The production of these spacecraft is very low volume, and therefore very expensive.

Research into new lithography techniques for longer-lasting battery-powered consumer devices led to low-power electronics that allow the spacecraft I make to have greater processing power for a given energy budget.

Advancements in more powerful graphics chips for gaming have led to affordable (and yes, despite what you think they are affordable) GPUs used to process and rasterize the data the satellites I build gather.

Unreal Engine is used to build tools needed visualize the results.

The low-profile RF connectors that we use were invented for the specific purpose of shoving Bluetooth and Wi-Fi into thin consumer devices like laptops and tablets and they save us (noticeable and significant) weight.

I can't predict what will happen but I think I can predict what will not happen and given the size of the market I work in I assert that there is an exact and precise 0.0% chance that the resources needed to develop the technology I rely on every day would have been allocated in service of my market. It is too small.

Instead they were handed to me on a silver platter by the consumer electronics market. People playing smartphone games-- and militaries trying to destroy each other have directly led to what I do being possible.

>but I had to admit to myself at one point that, long-term, playing video games for any extended period makes me physically miserable and dumber.

I do not play video games, at least nothing newer than SNES games, but I know people who do and that sounds like a personal problem.
Hmmm... Yeah I setup open telemetry for a couple personal projects this year was pleased with the ease of setup, but by and large I knew what I was doing specifically I had my application, and I had Grafana and I wanted to get traces from A to B.

Relooking at the docs from the eyes of a newcomers if you don't already have a destination in mind they don't really help you. It's a little tricky because my setup with Grafana will be somewhat different (but similar) from someone using honeycomb or signoz or what have you, but even just having a "want to visualize your data? Check out the list of compatible vendors", with a link that direction would probably go a long way.
> In your experience how much time off was enough time off to recover from burnout?

I'm only speaking of myself and the people I personally know who have suffered burnout. The first thing is that time off all by itself isn't sufficient. You have to actively do things to fix the problem.

That said, amongst myself and my burned-out friends, the amount of time between beginning to address the problem and when we could work effectively again ranged from 1-5 years.
I thought this explained well why decentralised systems are useful for people
You're making your (our) cause look bad. There are a lot of issues with cars but this isn't one of them. Cars essentially work as intended, and when they don't there are recalls, lawsuits, and NHTSA investigations.
> And most humans struggle with multiplying numbers with even quite few digits.

most of the humans can learn the algorithm, and do many iterations reliably if you give pen and paper, current LLMs struggle with this.

So, if we define reasoning as learning and executing algorithm of complexity N, than humans can learn more complex algorithms for higher N.
The Wine/DXVK stack has been fantastic for older games too. Skifree, Windows Solitaire, Space Cadet Pinball and Desktop Destroyer all work fine on non-native systems, which is probably one of the prerequisites for world peace. Kudos to everyone for keeping our boomer shooters and pointless timewasters working on modern machines!
Were the engineering cuts were due to pullback in the primary business?
It would seem like there is a constant tug-of-war between supply and demand. Demand grows to meet supply. There is a finite amount of housing in desirable locations. What makes certain areas desirable also makes them expensive.
Recall when anyone could page you? Now they can text you. And by "text", I mean, any media.
The claims he's addressing are, boiled down:

1) That leftist movements inevitably become more prone to violence (purges, genocide, violent repression of opponents in general, "reigns of terror") over time, and

2) Democracies have a strong-bordering-on-inescapable tendency to incubate such leftist movements, and to grow more leftist over time.

What we should expect to see, then:

1) Radical, violent leftist movements that gain power get ever-more violent over time.

2) Democracies become more unstable and prone to those specific sorts of violence, over time, and this unabated increase pushes ever closer to crisis points .

What we see instead is:

1) The worst leftist violence tends to be immediately preceded by authoritarian governments (which is what these fringe folks Scott's responding to want more of—this is a very specific and out-there movement making very specific and out-there claims, not the entire field of criticism of leftism or democracy), rather than to be preceded by democracy; to reach their fever-pitch very quickly; and to cool off over time rather than doing what we'd expect based on what was claimed to be true, which would be for them to typically get worse the more time passed.

2) Meanwhile, democracies seem... fairly stable, actually, without a clear, inevitably-trending-upward trend line on leftist-induced violence and chaos, or what have you. Fluctuating, sure, but where's the trend line for specifically that? Where are the ones ending in leftist reigns of terror? All of them are supposed to be heading toward a fever-pitch of leftist purges and genocide. Like, that specific thing is what was claimed. Does it look that way? LOL no.

I think what's key to following this is that the thing he's arguing against is a pretty fringe political view. He's not addressing some more-tame, more-mainstream criticism or model-for-the-development of either the left, or democracies, that might be stronger. He's trying to suss out whether the above, specifically, appears to describe actual, observable tendencies of leftism and democracies in the real world.
Thanks for this comment. Clearly in my original comment I made I failed to articulate how useful failure analysis is for even highly mundane things. So if we take this as a post mortum then I think we can see the failure mode of my language. The big question though is if this is within reasonable bounds of noise as over emphasizing mundane examples may result in the concept not making an adequate impression on the importance of the topic. I did have a large number of points with no responses prior to receiving misinterpretations but that's a noisy metric itself so now I'm asking a third party consultant if they have any thoughts on how I can improve my communication.

And not to say there aren't plenty of software engineers that do failure analysis. I mean we do have exceptions, exit codes, traces, and even QA (though many hate them). But I'm not under the impression that the idea is as ingrained in the average software engineer as it is in the average engineer. Having taught CS I've been surprised at how much less time is spent on this topic and how less explicit it is usually discussed when compared to other engineering disciples. The same goes for ethics which I think go hand in hand here. My impression is that this is because when software harms it is often less tangible and less direct than in other engineering disciplines where it's obvious how a bridge failing causes substantial harm and economic impact but where a failure to protect against injection in your not mainstream platform also causes large damage because people reuse passwords and that passing the buck to user error is unacceptable given that it's expected behavior from the user (work on expected behavior and account for unexpected behavior but never rely on domain knowledge unless under special circumstances). We all know everyone reuses their Gmail and bank password on websites like Netflix or fucking neopets.

We wouldn't have as frequent front page posts about users getting accounts unlocked only due to the fact that they were able to go viral if software engineers better planned for failures in the system. Do Gmail devs really deeply think about what happens when someone loses access to their account? If there's a means of recovery if they're devices are also taken or destroyed? That this solution works in practice, not just theory? Do they audit and dogfood this process to ensure it's working properly and understand how it fails and the consequences of that? I'm assuming no because we see people locked out of these systems ("these" because I'm generalizing beyond Gmail)
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I recently talked to a bay area parent whose child graduated with an engineering degree from a top liberal arts college and has a job as a research scientist. The parent said that thanks to the housing crunch, they get to have him at home for a while longer. It is a silver lining for these parents, but of course it's not so great for families that don't have the extra room, or who live in an area where jobs are not available.
With apps it should be very easy to find a room to rent in a shared unit, but there is no good way to do that. I've tried, and the system for long term rentals isn't as polished or usable as something like AirBNB.
Maasai herders in East Africa use misdials to make connections
> The later one starts in life to have children the fewer, if any, they will have.

How do you know this?

> That might be true if it was a choice made to save money but instead it's not a choice and there isn't any money.

I’m betting savings rates will go up.
Aurelius was an emperor who was fighting a war. You just don’t know what you’re talking about.
The network state concept reminds me of the sci fi novel “Hopeland” by Ian McDonald.
Could this be used with MDX or something to embed interactive examples in documentation? That is an underserved use case.
I used to think this, but it's not true. While obviously the majority of use, it is not the concerning one. We could already have fantasies, but now they have some small amount of agency. The plot of 'wishes coming to life only to be revealed as curses' is as old as storytelling. The small but important number of people who will become attached beyond what is healthy is a concern, but we will for have to watch it evolve.
GPT is trained on my shitposts. Am I included in this collective responsibility?
Hope this was a good exercise in extension building because I don't think its advisable to work on personal projects involving Twitter at this point
Frequent run-ins with listings like this will definitely build (even more of) a reputation in some users' minds that Amazon is a spam-filled and unproductive place to look for things, but yes—it would take a lot to actually threaten their market position.
These moves are the heart behind Sam's firing and rehiring. OpenAI was originally born out of a "don't be evil" ethos and is now trending towards a traditional 10x unicorn sass product.
> If something is killing birds, even a lot of birds [..] then there generally isn't a lot of concern over it.

...from cat owners.

There's plenty of concern from wildlife-lovers:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/14/cats-kil...

I watched our neighbour's cat take a bird from a feeder in our garden earlier this month, I was pretty unimpressed :(

Cats are cute, I get that ... I'm just not sure that's enough of an excuse.
They have a lot of things (excluding books) but they are only interesting in switzerland: Galaxus.ch (their site is available in english, german, italian and french). They have the best speed and filters i have tried. And the ui is relatively compact compare to other online retailers i have access to. Reichlt in Germany has good filters but they are very slow where i am accessing them from.

Unfortunately every retailer are also starting to be a platform for other shops as well, inflating their numbers and polluting their search results.

Amazon really has terrible filters and search.
I was able to kick Windows, but because I chose a game with multiplayer and anti-cheat, it was still problematic. It's still not perfect because to avoid stuttering in wayland I have to launch gamescope in the TTY. The steam overlay also doesn't work.

Finding this out over the course of a few evenings though wouldn't have been possible without my extensive previous linux experience.

It's very very very quickly getting there and soon these things will be ironed out.

Let's not declare victory too soon and have tons of people angry they deleted their windows and now can't get linux to work for playing their multiplayer games with DRM/anti-cheat though.
What they failed to recognize is that factions (i.e. political parties) will inevitably form so they should be regulated. There is nothing in the Constitution about political parties. They found the time to mention the Post office but not political parties.

> Ambition must be made to counteract ambition

Sounds nice but it’s fundamental a recipe for getting nothing done. And just because the government doesn’t do it doesn’t mean it won’t be done. Private entities, with far fewer restraints (any ambitions to restrain them are of course counteracted) will naturally fill in the gaps. It’s why the US has private companies selling expensive tax software rather than a simple system which would benefit everyone.
> saying "the claim that these are lies are just as disingenuous as the claims themselves"

I didn't say that, but I do think that providing links is helpful.
I'm going to have to try that out, my whole apartment is mostly Google Home-based.

That said, we are building a Home Assistant integration at Tidbyt as well.