skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that since this is an executive-branch "court," the theoretical recourse would be something like the Administrative Procedure Act's general provision for challenging "agency action." Or otherwise, directly filing suit as before.

Regardless of the theoretical vehicle, you'd have the same problems in the way of success as prior attempts in the courts have had, where you can't get the information needed to have your claim survive in the first place.
The problem I have with extreme, gratuitous wealth, and the inequality that creates it, is that it is fundamentally anti-democratic. It is well known by anyone with a pulse that money = political power, which means those with the most money, have the most political power, and given how just how much wealth so few people in the world have now, an infinitesimally tiny fraction of the population of most democratic countries have essentially entirely captured the political apparatuses of the countries in which they reside. Meaning the interests of the majority of the people in most countries are no longer being represented by their elected officials, instead the people being elected solely represent the interest of wealthy elites who can afford to make huge political "Donations" and pay lobbyist's salaries.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, but one of the most effective changes we could make in the world is to get money out of politics, as its the only real way democracy can be put back in the hands of the people.
What's the deal with Michael Phelps hogging all those medals?

Or with Taylor Swift hogging the charts? I sing in the shower - I want a record deal too!

On a smaller scale, these damn farmers are making too much money. I'm sure I can grow an orange just as well - they should be made to hand over part of their farms to me.

Same goes for all the software startups and those coders hogging the SaaS startups!
People start out to create something awesome. People continue when they have the motivation. When you hard cap them in any measurable way, they stop.
People of my opinion/disposition already know that CEOs make too much. You don’t have to indirectly tell me.
you really think that every credit card reader in the country, every ATM, every computer and piece of electronics at every branch of every bank, and all of Wall Street and everything, adds up to less than the sum total of Bitcoin mining in the country, in terms of energy usage? how could this possibly be the case? I'm not even a Bitcoin guy and this is absurd on its face.
> I've been reading a lot of commentary saying that most of the posted job openings are fake (which I also experience anecdotally as true)

+1. I saw a couple of ads this morning where they clearly state that they're only soliciting resumes to grow their "talent pool."
I can't see Farscape discussed without reminiscing on the episode of Community where Abed "really likes talking about Farscape". [0]

It still makes me laugh after all these years.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT1QPFr6qPI
My color cycling efforts at Datastorm (2021)
It would be great if you could find the machine that is closest to 2 or more different locations, like if I want to challenge several friends across the country to post our high scores in a group message, and we needed to know what the shortest drive each of us would need to take in order to play the same make and model machine. Maybe it’s in the app, or I missed it.
I have it to be honest, at first I thought it was a good idea, but then having y history in a software I wasn't using that's just not it.. they should remove that feature....
The linked deleted thread was 90 minutes older than the thread that 'survived'.

Also, it was removed within a minute of hitting the front page (if I'm reading the graphs right). Doesn't quite line up with your presumption.

Any theories on why the Guardian's visual exploration of Gaza's destruction was flagged, despite positive upvotes and comments?

Besides - the point is this: Not all the stories that are in OP's list are spam, or unsuitable. Some topics hit a third rail.

They are easily removed by a small group of users, and then Daniel can come by months later and say, well, users flagged it [ie, 0]. It even happens to PG [1]. This isn't ideal, and pretending it isn't happening is uncool.

I'm not saying Dang doesn't do a great job. But there are some topics that are verboten, despite their impact/relevance on the tech community and our general interest. And this particular topic is too important to allow for such narrative control by a tiny group of flaggers.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38311933

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144931
And if you get an inverter [1], you could use a mobile rig to mine while you drive!

[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/power-inverters-for-...
> She makes herself psychotic trying to self-treat her Vitamin B9 deficiency with alcohol and other substances.

Normal people don't become psychotic because they drink.
Ehm, iPhones do support this just fine: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/05/14/how-to-make-a-qr-...

I have used this many times without a problem.
Are they not updating the minimum required version of glibc? I'm already using it instead of the "official" release for other reasons.

I do wonder what features of newer glibc it's using now, I assume it's something in the underlying electron layer.
You're right that he's rich because he owns part of Amazon. You're not right that a stock price fall would make him not-rich.

The textbook way to price stocks is at the present value of future cash flows. That is, the company does make money, or will in the future, that can be returned to shareholders. Amazon takes in a ton of money, turns a profit, and could return some of that money to Bezos for him to spend. (Whether or not they actually do is a tax law triviality.) It wouldn't matter if the shares were priced at $1 or $1000, they would theoretically return the same cash to Bezos for him to spend, which is why he would still be rich.
I wish they could come up with a solution to this that made sense. The things I find particularly troubling about gerrymandering in the US isn’t only that one party gets a few more representatives either way. The reason it’s absolutely terrible in the United States is that it creates uncompetitive districts on both sides and we get extreme candidates that don’t appeal to people in the middle at all and seem to have no ability to compromise and get basic things done. I’m not sure that proportional representation addresses this issue.
The End of the Social Network
Neat. Does this ensure there's no 50/50 guesses needed then? That seems easier when you can split a square in two.
We ask them politely yet firmly to leave[1]

1. https://youtu.be/42GaHU4txpc
Didn't work for me. Fixed? Or did I fail or is it different on different Android phones?
Then why not both? Shouldn’t all parties here suffer the consequences?
Why? I don't use (Neo)Vim the editor specifically for anything except code, but I do use Vim bindings pretty much everywhere where I have to write text, because it's much more convenient. If I wanted to write an email and my email client didn't support vim keys, it would make sense to just write the email in vim and copy it to the mail client.
Update: Neuralink's Human Tests Progress; Critics Persist
Logical quantum processor based on reconfigurable atom arrays – Nature
Would you please explain more?
If you're a parent in a family of 6-7, you should probably have two cars.
With declining birthrates it's going to be not only "correct" but essential for people to continue in the work force. Instead of early retirement being the expectation it should become an option. For people who get no fulfillment from their work or have aspirations for volunteer work by all means that should be able to save and construct that kind of life. The social safety net for folks that retire needs to be continues and improved. Personally I enjoy traveling and dancing with my partner, but I wouldn't want to do it full time.
When you’ve got however many billions Zuck has, an extra 25 billion in paper wealth is going to make no difference whatsoever to his life. None.

The problems he faces at work are the same. He will be treated the same by the people he interacts with (and by all reports this can be one of the least fun things about being a billionaire). There aren’t any new toys he can buy with his extra paper billions. His wife and kids - one of the most normal things about Zuckerberg - aren’t going to care.

Taking a broader perspective, at least some of the ultra wealthy don’t seem to be terribly happy people. Would you like Elon Musk’s life as of 2024? What about Jeff Bezos? Or, for that matter, Vladimir Putin?
Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil makes his prediction
Where will the blue bubblism end?
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231229

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39216622
Your home page is apparently a "welcome back" screen. I can't sign in with Github, get the error "Unable to process request due to missing initial state. This may happen if browser sessionStorage is inaccessible or accidentally cleared. Some specific scenarios are - 1) Using IDP-Initiated SAML SSO. 2) Using signInWithRedirect in a storage-partitioned browser environment."

Would be nice to be able to see the product without having to sign in.
Unless you’re dependent on one of the many many AWS services that don’t support IPv6-only access.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ipv6-su...
What I meant by option objects is a dictionary object holding all parameters.

doStuff({userId: foo, itemId: bar});

This allows the order of key/val pairs to move around, making it more robust to mistakes than doStuff: (string,string) => void.
No. No. And Maybe. Like most EPA regulations they will be enforced on the manufacturing/commercial side first. I'm not sure if you're being facetious or just disengenuously attacking regulatory agencies. If you're legitimately concerned, I apologize. On the bright side, you can rest easy.
Trolled by a Flat Earther – Objectivity 280 [video]
Oh. Are you sure there aren't stone tables with block chain?
Amazon is AliExpress crap marked way up. Temu is AliExpress crap marked up just a little.

The real question is: why don't people just use AliExpress?
As long as what fulfill you is helping others, you’ll find enough things to do for at least 100k years.
This assumes the price of Bitcoin doesn't keep going up.
Yeah, the blurb does literally say, "No-one deserves to be a millionaire." That threshold is the wrong choice, at least with prices where they are today.

If you do the math, millionaire is just about where your assets start to balance your liabilities. By liabilities, I mean the cost of a modest and frugal life. In that fuller accounting, the millionaire is merely the freedman, the person who has climbed out of the debt-hole into which almost all of us are born.

Let's do the math.

1. A millennial can get a decent Gold PPO plan on the health insurance marketplace, including basic dental and vision, for about $500/month. Anything below Gold merely coinsures ER visits and does not actually protect against catastrophic loss.

2. If you move to a cheap city and shop around, you can rent a decent one-bedroom apartment for $1,300/month. Even in a cheaper city, it will not be new and it will not be downtown.

3. Now consider utilities. Say $30 for a cheap cell phone plan, $50 for Internet, $100 for electricity (if you have electric heat), $20 for water. That's $200/month total

4. Allow another $80/week for groceries and $100/month very-occasional minor luxuries (get lunch out, get Starbucks).

5. Finally, let's say you really hit the jackpot with apartment and job location and are able to get by with a monthly bus pass costing $50/month.

We're at $2,230/month, or $26,760/yr.

Now assume you can get a 3% real yield. To finance your $26,760 annual costs, you need $892k invested -- nearly $900k.

This analysis has assumed unusually cheap rent and lifestyle. Add in car payments for a Corolla, or a less optimistic rent, and you're quickly at $1M needed. Yet I'm still talking about living frugally. I'm also assuming no childcare expenses.

So, for those reasons, and because $1M is a nice round number, I simply summarize that $1M is actually zero.

And it's only zero in a cheap place. If you're in California with only $1M you're still in the hole.

...

Yes, there is a problem. The natural world was expropriated from us before we were born, we were born into a system we didn't choose, and we must work off an indenture we never signed up for. So I agree with much of the spirit of what the author says.

But, quantitatively, if everything else about the current system remains as it is and we are only talking about where the cap is, then $1M is too low. Because $1M is merely where assets begin to balance a single person's liabilities.
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You have provided, perhaps unintentionally, a wonderful concretization on the difference between political power and economic power. In even simpler terms, its the difference between the gun and the dollar.
If they would, they could easily recover the money from the data transfer they charge on the Load Balancer.

"Elastic Load Balancing pricing" - https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/pricing/
This post has a lot of ageist statements.

I find it hard to believe that video games are a more fulfilling past time than something creative like woodworking or knitting.

I find it hard to believe video games are fulfilling. They're a past time, not an achievement.
>Additionally, this is survivorship bias.

The applicability of survialship bias depends on if you are assessing government investment success in general, or SpaceX success.

Time has shown that a few research contracts for spaceX were objectively a good bet.

>You can find lots of very risky investments that will pay 10x if they mature.

yes, but it is harder to find investments that do mature and pay 10X.
Users are privatizing the 'public square'. We come to HN by choice. I'm sure others use Twitter by choice. And users subject themselves to the TOS by choice.

This is definitely one of those 'if you don't like it, build (or buy) it'. It has worked out disastrously in the conservative realm so far, but perhaps you have better ideas.
> people need to let go of ego and realize that they can't take birds, mountains, highways, high schools or military bases with them

It's not about taking, it's literally about giving.

If I posthumously donate all of my wealth to building housing for the homeless, I want my goddamn name associated with the project. Not out of any sense of vanity (while alive, I'm only ever anonymously charitable) but because I want to set a example for future generations to follow. At some point people will ask "who the hell was this guy that I see his name every day" perhaps and see that this was testament to what I wanted to give back to the world, and why.

Taking my name away from it and calling it "Bird House for Humans" means nothing to anyone. Birds didn't build the fucking thing. It didn't just grow from seeds they shat while flying by either. Birds are assholes who give nothing, shit everywhere and steal everything. They would never build anybody a house, least of all one for you.

It's just more anti-meritocratic nonsense. There's no point in doing anything nice if you're just going to get written out of history books by shills for Big Bird. Nobody forgets Hitler, Pol Pot or Jeffrey Dahmer and what they stood for, but it's my name and values at risk of being deliberately forgotten because someone was on a power trip.

It's existentially insulting.
EU states approve landmark AI rules
That’s a cool aside but Attila rampaged many centuries before the Mongols.
Aerc – a pretty good email client
Yeah, pinside is a great resource. Surprisingly, the pinside map was created four years after pinball map (source: wayback machine; disclosure: I'm a pinball map dev).
Upvoted for your first sentence. I wish I could split your comment in two and downvote the rest of it: the "gem", as you ironically call it, is absolutely correct.
Yeah, and for a while (perhaps still?) grapqhl solved some of these issues as well. People did (do?) "schema stitching" to essentially have a BFF without really writing that much code.
The entire system is just so incredibly stupid and inelegant. If you really wanted to build something like this, you could at least have designed it in a way were the work done serves an actual purpose.
Its hardly a nitpick, you're being so vauge that its impossible to understand what you are actually proposing.

Why not just use more specific language? If indeed everyone is acting in bad faith, using clear language would shut them up. If instead they are being ernest and cannot understand you because of the "colloquial" language, then being rigorous would further your stated goal of ernest participation. Either way seems like a win-win for you.
This is really cool. Fascinating how the intuition maps neatly onto this grid

As a notorious Minesweeper speedrunner I find the animation uncover animation when middle clicking to be a little slow as I find myself waiting it for it to finish for a second or so.
There's a bit of a difference between "cranky old person" and one letter away from "fuck".
The basic metric this site optimizes for is: "interesting discussion". So yes, sometimes there can be interesting discussion about political topics. But most of the times - not so much. And what you apparently want is activism, not discussion. Not to say your activism is bad - but this site is simply not made for activism of any kind. Activism is controversial. Which means flame war.
More discussion at: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data...
What's an "every day user"?

Maybe some P2P applications will magically start working or have lower startup time because of no need for STUN/TURN/ICE for NAT traversal.
Having a hobby seems pointless and embarrassing? I think by "driven" they meant "money-obsessed".
You wouldn't have those items without that compensation. This should be more traumatic than people make it out to be. You wouldn't have your iphones, twitters, facebooks, vr goggles, steams, ikea tables, etc.
> It seems to me that the quality of any public discussion tends to increase when it’s relevant to the expertise in the room, and decrease when it involves people’s casual reads of complicated stuff about which they have vague but emotionally-charged impressions. HN folks have great, nuanced discussions about a wide range of technical questions, but we’re much less likely to collectively know what we’re talking about in questions of the latest hot-button political mudslinging.

The expertise on HN is indeed unrivaled.

If I want to learn about the quirks of a variational autoencoder in some neural network, I read the discussion between experts here on HN [1].

If I want to learn about protein folding, I can find relevant domain experts answering questions here on HN [2].

But why do you and so many others think that there is a covid-shaped hole in the expertise on HN? Do you really believe that out of all domain experts, the covid ones decided to stay away from here?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215242

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32262856
That's possible, but you also seem to have missed mine, which is libvirt is not great time investment if you want to learn how qemu works, or have the most flexibility and control in its deployment.
I think they just need more than half?
You can technically route through one if you can tolerate that. But I agree. They just got more expensive.
Most people in this thread aren't making 6-7 figures. The boogeyman you're railing against isn't here.
All the examples are insane too "this billionaire didn't retire, so sacrifice your golden years to them" is essentially all the examples
Maybe it's because these kinds of articles are not for us plebs.
It might just be me, but every Temu ad I see is a normalish product, but the image is designed to look like something sexy or illicit when viewed as a small thumbnail.
> ...talk about it like a sporting event ('win' and 'lose' (my bad) should be banned from the discussion of warfare)...

To be fair, the Army's own foundational doctrinal publication - ADP 1 - uses the word "win" very prominently. The second-to-last line of the Foreword by Chief of Staff says, "The fundamental role of the American Soldier today is the same as it was over 244 years ago—to win." It goes on from there. So don't feel bad.

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN1800...

As someone who deployed to combat myself, and who has known many who died there and since that time from suicide, my biggest complaint is that it didn't feel like we (as a nation) were really trying to "win." We were just going back again and again to "do our time," which made dying there seem especially pointless.

I agree with everything else said.
Production line (which is not synonymous with automation) is suspected to be the transitional stage until we can make everything customized for cheap.
(See developments such as in 3D printing, of so many things. We cannot 3d print microchip fabs or high vacuum tech... yet.)
Then it's the design where a bit more time is required.
Given sufficient development artisanship and variety in design would be the actual rule.

I raise you decentralized/federated democratic resource control.

A bunch of items can be also made from interesting abundant materials, ultimately making them available is the challenge.
(Gimme that glass and carbon nanotube 3D printer. And a home EUV lithography machine. We can already make a sputtering chamber almost on the cheap...)

Anything else you want to add before you prematurely condemn technology?
If I understand correctly, the computational expense of Bitcoin mining is increased periodically to track any improvements in hardware or software.

The value of Bitcoin is thus supposed to be tied to some underlying measure of value.

We used to have gold-backed currency. Then we went to fiat currency. It seems like with Bitcoin we are going to coal-backed currency.

If nuclear fusion became a thing and energy prices went to near zero, would Bitcoin expand to the point that it was using 99.9% of all electricity?

Personally I think this is a ghastly waste of energy.
How do you know that interpretation isn't biased by the HN audience? I would be careful overgeneralizing from the opinions on this forum.

I read that initial comment as "Meh, the fix isn't a big deal," which is different than "the recall is a non-issue." Just because it's an easy fix doesn't negate the need for the fix.
Why would your bank information be involved?
I like Daisy, and I tried a lot of component libraries before deciding on https://daisyui.com.

https://chakra-ui.com, https://ripple-ui.com, https://flowbite.com, https://tailblocks.cc, https://ui.shadcn.com, https://headlessui.com
This seems like a new front on propaganda against EV's. "Ohhh, we can't handle all the EV charging. Our infrastructure would implode".