skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Americans have higher disposable income at all income levels than Europeans

Most of this is eaten up by higher healthcare and university education costs, combined with a much worse social safety net compared to other G7-like nations. So really, are middle class Americans more financially stable than Europeans from G7-like nations? I doubt it.
> Offices didn't have them until the late 60s or 70s which is what matters.

Yes, which goes to the point of the book: the major innovation and mainstreaming of technology occurred "until the late 60s or 70s". You're making the same point as the book is.

Also: photocopiers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerography

Edit: the authors of the book do say that the mainstreaming of computers and the Internet is one of the post-1970s innovations.
Perverse incentives need to be stopped. Providers should be firewalled from finances, not in on the action. If one were to dig deeper into more doctors I have no doubt the same kinds of behavior would be discovered along with that form of compensation.
Costco apparently sells one of the few olive oils that aren't adulterated. So their honey might also be real.
They say that "media literacy is poor" in Pakistan but it's not at all clear that education would solve the problem. We've seen in more "media-literate" countries a free-floating distrust of media of all kinds that is exacerbated by the keener awareness of deceptive techniques. Niklas Luhmann has written about this "suspicion of manipulation:" https://monoskop.org/images/6/6c/Luhmann_Niklas_The_Reality_...
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We all need to face the fact that plastic is not recyclable. All these companies want to make us feel good about using one-time use plastic cups so they at least make it look like they are being responsible for the waste they help us create. The fix is to demand reusable cups or cups made out of a true recyclable material. Investigating and shaming them because they are failing at recycling plastic does nothing.
But after you point out he's secretly a lottery winner, then what? it's not like he's trying to sell you a course on how to live like he is, or saying that you should live this way. he's just documenting his life out in the open, journaling for future generations to read how we lived during the dawn of the Internet and the rise of AI. Hopefully we don't have to read he gets thrown out on the streets and is living in a tent. Maybe he'll move back in with his mom or stay with friends if he can't find a job. or maybe he will and the story will be about corporate life. it's not a particular ostentatious "hey look at my private jet and 7 Ferraris and luxury estates in 7 countries with staff" lifestyles of the rich and famous either. He's not bragging "I went to Dubai and spent $10,000s for a hotel room". it's, "I quit my job to write software to try and make my own company so I don't have to be a corporate drone with a boss."
N100 is not more expensive. It’s about the same price.

8GB pi5 is $80
Power brick around $15
Decent cooled case $20
Heat sink $8
SD $15-20
And this is all excluding NVMe hat with NVMe drive, ie you’re stuck with absolutely miserable storage I/O.

Or you can N100, 8GB (replaceable and expandable RAM, 256GB NVMe (also replaceable) for $140.

https://a.co/d/fIu6l2k

Pi5 does not make any sense in this day and age, unless you specifically need GPIO for your tinkering.
You can save $30 by going with the 2GB pi5 option but that seems the wrong direction to go.
N100 is more than 50% better performance with similar or lower cost and better support for off the shelf ram and ssd.
the garbage that is yaml "builds" is essentially impossible to secure

untyped strings, untyped strings everywhere

and they're directly executed, with untrusted user input templated in, with full release privileges

the entire thing is insane

to think pypa deprecated pgp offline signing for this...
If the world were flat, cats would’ve knocked everything off the edge by now.
> it’s good to be informed about these things

That's an interesting assumption. Is it really?

I suspect that informed citizens are better for society, but it might be worse for the the individuals.
It’s fans all the way down.
And generally cheaper too if you factor in the case, SSD, SSD HAT, power adapter, HDMI converters.

You can get an intel N100 box with 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD for just over $100 now. Faster and cheaper than a comparable Pi 5. Uses a bit more power though.
We didn't hide "adware", probably you are thinking of this:

https://brave.com/blog/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/

We made $0 off it, it was a blunder, we fixed it right away. But if you mean something else, please let me know.
I challenge you to automatically tell the difference between an encrypted file with a fake header and a jpeg.

A human could see it's not a real image, a tool would not. And that's not even getting into steganography - just literally add a jpeg header to the encrypted file and it will fool most things.

Or any kind of streaming upload. The thing about media compression is that the compression process leads to a file that looks 100% random, an encrypted file also looks that way.
> How come countries without a huge military-industrial complex also have LGBTQ+ rights - often even stronger ones than the US?

I'm guessing these countries already have existing ties to the 'west' and would be militarily protected by them. How many countries have both strong LGBTQ+ rights and also categorically wouldn't be militarily aided by the US/the west in case of war?

There are many small progressive countries without a strong MIC, but rely on others for protection and use their existing MIC. For example most NATO countries.
What experience do you have and what job are you looking for?

You might want to reach out to your mortgage provider and see if they can help. Often they will.

Where in Canada are you?
A controversial view is a view that has been held by a majority of humans that have lived in the last few thousand years? Ok, I guess that checks out.
I notice a lot of tabloid news websites surface negative local content from across the globe. They make headlines out of "YOUNG/OLD PERSON ASSAULTED IN RISING TENSIONS" and it takes a few paragraphs for me to realise it's in a different country. Every societal imbalance is being trumpeted into every suburb, until it becomes a reality there.
There’s some subtle differences. The minimum wage is a hard floor, bumping it to 10$/hour isn’t going to destroy a significant number of jobs, but 25$/hour might.

If you set the minimum wage at say 10$/hour and the livable wage at say 20$/hour then you might tax the company 30% of the difference between your livable wage and the actual wage. (Effectively minimum wage becomes 13$/h, but that doesn’t all go to the worker.)

It’s still adds upward wage pressure because higher pay attracts better workers and your out a significant percentage of the difference either way but it reduces the risk of a big spike in unemployment when you raise the livable wage. It also means systemic wage theft more strongly attracts the attention of the IRS.
While the main fact of this story (that deepfakes were created) is true, the article overall seems like a propaganda piece by a highly unpopular government to create a soft image. Ignore the other stuff in the article.
It's not digital illiteracy: Why older adults are drawn to dubious news
Never been to any kind of party, but the last thing I want is people taking my photo and tagging me all online. I get the idea or want to grab a selfie with friends, but if I'm doing something like that I'd rather not put strangers in the photo.

I try to respect peoples privacy when, on the very rare ocassion I decide to take a photo in public, and try to avoid people in a shot.

If their was one thing great about covid, it normalized the rare few people who wear a mask in public for privacy.

Wish their was a more effective way to stop all those creepy cameras from recording your face, as they are used to track you and your location and activity and makes it harder to stay offline.

The traffic cameras got your plates, the CCTV is in many stores and outside, and unless you walk around covered in IR lights to blind cameras and wear a mask, you basically leave a digital footprint even if you leave all devices at home.
Huh i never realised that Steam link was also for 2D. Thought it was VR streaming only. I mostly game in VR so I guess I'm a bit too focused on that with the news
There's also safety. Planes can take off at a higher maximum weight than that at which they can safely land. In an emergency shortly after takeoff (when most emergencies occur), fuel may have to be dumped to reduce landing weight. So that's a double-whammy for battery-electric planes; they can't safely take off over their landing weight, which limits their already-short range.
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They seem (both the article and the press release) to conspicuously avoid mentioning any details about important open problem with sodium-ion: Cycle life/longevity.

> On November 22, China’s Huawei announced a new patent for sodium-ion batteries named “Electrolyte Additives and Preparation Methods, Electrolytes and Sodium-ion Batteries.” The company’s latest work has focused on improving the shortcomings of sodium batteries – such as low coulombic efficiency and poor cycle life – by optimizing the electrolyte formula.

Yes, you've "improved the shortcoming." By how much? The lack of numbers is concerning.

Sodium ion has been in the labs for a while, but at least as of last I saw, they weren't managing more than a couple hundred cycles to 80% capacity. Lithium-ion is now typically thousands of cycles to 80% capacity (and associated higher internal resistance - 80% is just the standard benchmark for "lifespan" given the range of issues you see by that capacity loss). That they're "fluffy" batteries in terms of density isn't a huge problem for a lot of cases, but that their cycle life is "a few hundred cycles" has been a serious issue for any significant application of them.

That they don't mention this in the slightest implies, rather strongly, that they've not fixed that particular problem with it...

For a 70kWh battery pack, 300 cycles at 3 mi/kWh (a midrange average for year round driving) gets you 21MWh cycled through the pack, or 63k miles. Not exactly a stellar lifespan for a car battery pack.

That same pack at a lithium-ion standard 1500 cycles gets you about 315k miles.
In regards to things like microplastics, knowing which products to avoid may be useful to the individual.
For a business site, seven minutes can be devastatingly long.

For a personal site, seven hours is usually nothing unless it’s happening daily or weekly.

Yes, going offline sucks. But seven minutes once a year is a small price to pay for self-hosting private services and keeping costs down to the absolute minimum. It’s not something that would bug me unless it’s happening at a high frequency (say, monthly).
Seems that I'm the only one who opened up the website and didn't know what was going on. At least two sentences what the "just" is, otherwise it's "if you, you know" and that isn't inviting page.
When the released it they specifically focused on the accurate recall across the context window. There are a bunch of demos of things like giving it a whole movie as input (frame every N seconds plus script or something) and asking for highly specific facts).

Anecdotally, I use NotebookLM a bit, and while that’s probably RAG plus large contexts (to be clear, this is a guess not based on inside knowledge), it seems very accurate.
The $1,000 available on the CC is not debt either, so the person does not currently have -$1,800. If the information we have is that the person has an $800 overdraft and a $1,000 line of credit that they’re not using, they’re $800 in debt, not $1,800.
Any articles or blog posts about the digg reboot?
I've come to a similar conclusion. I'm reconsidering the relative importance of different kinds of info I consume(timely and otherwise). I've concluded I've become way too passive in that decision, and that's clearly unhealthy.

It's not that I want to be completely ignorant of e.g. US politics, but maybe I try a 30 minutes summary of concrete facts per week, rather than what I used to get when I would drop onto national news sites as a distraction or focus break.

If I could just figure out a browser extension that intercepts search result links to reddit and gives me a quick LLM summary of the post and discussion instead, I will have cut out most of these sources of distraction.
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On the flip side I’m often horrified by what people think “positive” content is.
You can always close and open a Delaware company later.
https://www.delawareinc.com/blog/convert-foreign-llc-corpora...

For most people, incorporation in their home state is the best choice. I had a DE company once. Currently, I have an LLC in my home state. I may in the future open a DE LLC for another project. But there is not one-size-fits all solution. But if you want to open out of state, for a start-up DE might be the best option. I vaguely remember that Wyoming is good for trusts but I am not an expert in this field.
Everything is designed to invoke negative emotions because negative emotions are engaging and engagement is money. Be less informed on international affairs and more involved in your own communities.
> our brains have a tendency to think about what we consume

True, and I use this to my advantage for constructive things. I bias my consumption towards things I aspire to. You can't always change yourself, but you can change your environment, which in turn changes you.
For a long time after reading "A Nation-Sized Battery"[1] I thought there was no way we could run a grid on wind/solar/battery without plenty of hydro/geothermal/nuclear for the windless nights, just due to the raw material requirement of that much battery.

Cheap batteries from earth-abundant materials change that completely. Iron-air is another possibility, though I think it's less efficient.

[1] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/08/nation-sized-battery/
There's worrying about things, then there's seeing the truth and reacting appropriately, whether you worry or not about it. It's a common refrain to criticize people who spend time on nutrition and health are obsessive or orthorexic or whatever, then subsequently spend 4 hours digging into game of thrones lore or how to host Plex while eating doritos. Health is only the foundation of everything, that's all.
Indeed! Even though people who've never had to do manual labor for a living will downvote you. It doesn't make it untrue.
And what about all those murder movies, the horror movies, the gun shooting movies, the extortion murder rape kidnapping etc, crime in general, intrigue, blackmail, scheming?
We have a subscription to a package that has a lot of US content. HBO, Fox aka Star Channels.
80s & 90s movies were better, happier.
The mood is mostly dark and dire nowadays.

And then there's "news", if you can even call it that anymore.
Mostly political propaganda, hate mongering and FUD.
I'm in a good mood, then I read "the news".
I had a time where I completely ignored them, that was after 9/11 and my mental health was superb.
But nowadays the planet is on fire and everyone in power is just starting more fires.
But "the news" are also pushing a certain mindset, at least in Germany, although there isn't much difference between the outlets.
They all just more or less copy paste the same sources.
Paranoid schizophrenic mindset mixed with some Russian hate and foreign hate and radical right normalization.
It a US-centric dumbass nostaligia bullshit thing. I don't know where all these "good jobs that easily supported a family on a single wage earner" existed but I sure as hell didn't know anybody who had one.

Yeah, my grandfather worked in the mill. He was one of those "good jobs" everybody blathers about (overhead welder). Our family still grew a garden and raised fowl, and it wasn't because we were "healthy". It was because we were poor.

My other grandfather worked in the mines. Also one of those "good jobs"--until he got into an accident, and it shattered his arm. Still needed a garden to make the budget work even before the accident. Yeah, still poor.

My Dad was the first generation of college grads in the family and worked as a schoolteacher. He had to work the mill in summers to make ends meet until mandatory minimum salary came online in the state for teachers. He was constantly worred about how he was going to send me to a decent college--especially after the mills went down. Yeah, still poor.

Farms are an exception where everybody in the family always got worked like hell. There is a reason why all the farms in the US are dependent upon illegal immigrant labor--the work super sucks shit and you have to pay a lot of money before a legal citizen will take the job. Yeah, super poor.

TV wasn't reality. Here's reality:
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/Rs8AAOSw4URhO9dk/s-l50...

Men striking in the early 1950s, Truman seizing the mills, and the Supreme Court ruling that unconstitutional. Very "Leave It To Beaver", no?

Here's probably one of the better jobs in the mill, a set of machinists. Still a crappy job:
https://www.google.com/imgres?q=image%20us%20steel%20mill%20...

Steel Strike of 1919:
https://www.history.com/news/steel-strike-of-1919-defeat

Money quote: "Mike Connolly had a dream: an eight-hour day. A Pennsylvania steel worker for 41 years, he toiled for 12 or more hours a day behind the locked doors of a steel mill with no days off and little hope for the future.

If he worked eight hours a day, he imagined, “I could have a garden, a couple of hundred chickens and know my family…This way one doesn’t want to live long. What is the use of living, since one doesn’t enjoy life?”"

I desperately wish I could send people from this time back to work one of those "good jobs" they so extol. We'll see how long it takes you before you become a functional alcoholic like the rest of the men working those "good jobs".
The government is the only entity that is responsible for the loopholes and that can close the loopholes.

If we want fewer loopholes then we should prioritize that when selecting our government.

The law does not define ethics. Ethics does not define the law. It is folly to pretend there is more than a tenuous bidirectional link.

For example, any father ethically owes his children more than child support. And any child ethically owes his father more than refraining from stealing from or killing him.
> will the weather support an outdoor bbq event this late in fall next year?

Sure, but there could be a disease outbreak, or a pork meat recall that prevents it anyways. The weather, as a factor, is generally insignificant with respect to loss of life events. To the extent they are we can see those events far enough in advance at 7 to 14 days to compensate correctly.

A better example would be "can we launch a space craft from this launch site next year." Even then, we never pick a launch day, we establish a launch window, because we already know, the weather changes fast enough that it's unlikely to remain identical for several days in a row. So conditions on a single day are effectively meaningless.

The Space Shuttle program got even better with this by feeding in wind data from high atmosphere probes back into the launch vehicle software so it could plan it's maneuvers ahead of the wind so it could reduce vehicle stresses to within tolerable parameters. They went from a 20% launch probability to an 80% launch probability with this system.

I mean.. enjoy your BBQ either way just bring some popup tents.
So then raise the minimum wage by 30%. I can't see how adding the government as an expensive middleman only to transfer the same amount of money from a company to a worker makes any sense.
> Moving both partners in a domestic life into the workforce also creates strong downward pressure on wages, since it supplies an extra 30% or so employees into the workforce.

By this argument, wouldn't having children and thereby increasing the population also supply extra employees and drive down wages?
If the AI interviewer knows all the answers a human candidate is expected to know, then why doesn't it just hire itself for the job, for almost no cost and paid benefits, and fork(2) itself to do even more jobs?
> They're the ones who tank the economy every time they're in power and have down so for decades now.

Huh? Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
I'm a late Gen X guy. Things were not easy, but I had a way to succeed through education. I was just grateful my life was easier because my parents had done a lot of suffering and heavy lifting to make sure I had a chance at a better future.

I would hate to be a kid today. The majority are going to have it tougher than the last 3-4 generations. No job security, not enough jobs, housing out of reach, Uni too expensive without loans and if you graduate, corporations game IT contract work / H1B's at the expense of kids getting out of Uni.

People want change but, I'm afraid they're going to get, the kind of change they don't need.

Need to make sure every kid who wants an education can get an affordable one and that there are no 3 million H1B's and their spouses working in the USA. India needs to stop exporting its poverty to the USA but, I doubt the politicians will go against their corporate overlords.
>Why is there such a difference between men and women on this?

Biological answer: women had to hold on to resources to care for their ofspring, so it's hardwired.

Politically incorrect answer: they are self entitled nutcases. If you think you are spending significantly more than what you think you can afford, dump your wife if she doesn't agree to downgrade on the lifestyle to save on expenses
What local LLM? What kind of prompt? That seems like a lot for what sounds like sentiment analysis?
Idk what the point of research like is. I mean like, duh? I would be surprised if they claimed negative news DIDNT affect mental health struggles.

Instead the far more interesting questions seems to be: in a world where negative news is becoming more common and prevalent, how do we face the reality of the world without destroying our own mental health in the process.

The naive takeaway from this article would be "just stay away from negative news" which is even reinforced by this little plugin they made. But this simply accelerates the fragmentation we have seen in society, for how can you ever have empathy with others if you refuse to appreciate the suffering of anybody but yourself and what immediately affects you?

Maybe instead of sticking our heads in the sand, we should be taking this as a wakeup call that us trying to solve these problems will help not just our planet, but our own mental health and will be necessary to have a healthy populace going into the future.
>Is it so hard for you to respond with empathy instead of scorn?

When someone compares programing to manual labor implying that programming is more tiring or at least as tiring, yes, absolutely, 100%, it's incredibly difficult for me to respond with empathy. Impossible, even. It's clear that person has had an incredibly sheltered life.

Thanks for asking? I guess???
Because 13$/hour isn’t a livable wage and there’s little incentive to increase it beyond exactly what you set the minimum wage to.

We’ve decided it’s ok to pay low enough wages that the government is subsidizing low wage workers working a full time job. 40 * 52 * 7.25$/hour is well below the threshold for 100% free health insurance for single people and families get major subsidies well past 13$/hour. Effectively forcing you to set it at ~20$ or subsidize companies.