My first few white collar jobs were miserable experiences - stress, temperamental bosses, lack of agency, etc. It got better but that took years of effort, at which point I was already thinking about leanFIRE, compelled by AI (this back in 2018) and climate concerns.
note this is only the case for those with early-stage cognitive decline. for healthy individuals, it actually has neuroprotective effects.
> Glucosamine mimicked the effects of a low-carbohydrate diet in a prior animal research, resulting in increased lifespan [21], and studies consistently showed that a low-carbohydrate diet protects against dementia [22, 23]. An animal study suggested that glucosamine may promote cognitive function by impacting energy metabolism [20]; other animal models have indicated the neuroprotective and anti-neuroinflammatory effects of glucosamine
it's the Prisoner's Dilemma - AC helps the individual at the expense of those outside, for whom it is now hotter (can raise ambient air temp by 2-4C). It worsens global warming in how it is powered (on hot days might have to fire up peaker plants using gas) and leaks of refrigerants.
I can't agree with you given candidate evaluation is arbitrary, badly targeted, and privilege centered (school/company pedigree). The latter drives ability to get exposure to disciplines and tooling and often a specific stack could be picked up easily by others with a little time/training. HR looks for safe signals and is happy to ignore good talent that doesn't check all the boxes, especially in a market like this.
It's a tough spot - I thought about using the site to capitalize on some 5000+ careers pages I've curated. I want to help people in their job searches but don't want to give it away for free since I've put innumerable hours into maintaining it and would lose my edge in the jobsearch. The alternative is to meter it, do a bunch more work to scrape and standardize all the results, who knows whether the juice is worth the squeeze - so I've just sat on it.
it's kind of a weird headline, the issue is about the power wielded by the old, not necessarily the share of the population that is (though this comes with its own problems like fiscal solvency and after all, power follows from representation)
why should the asset prices matter in OER? the aim is understanding cost. BLS no longer questions homeowners but samples local rents to estimate OER since homeowners could've been wrong in their guess. of course, someone may have locked in a low interest rate so their expense is overstated. counterargument is that you are consuming a more valuable service by occupying the unit even though market rent exceeds your costs so it doesn't matter if your cost is assumed to be the market rent. note there is a 6-month sampling lag of rents, which doesn't help the perception gap in the inflation figures.
If the labor -> wealth pipeline is weakening, then the present won't behave like the past, i.e. you would need assets to success since you won't be able to work your way up.
High housing prices will kill a good economy but having moderate rents will not somehow jumpstart a bad economy. JP's slump isn't evidence against housing theory of everything.
There's no rule that a phenomenon needs 1 cause - the decline could've been junior cuts to start after '22 since they have less seniority and impact, followed by a substitution effect after broad LLM adoption. I don't doubt that remote had an additive effect on productivity via mentoring etc as well.
I've been buying spices from Diaspora, Burlap & Barrel, Curio - not cheap but I definitely feel some validated after eyeing the report. The potency is top notch too. Tea I buy loose leaf from a trusted purveyor. Among yerba mate brands there are a few organic brands to choose from.
I do something similar with Kokoro, Cloudscraper, and Trafilatura but just share the output to my phone with Airdrop. I use it for articles, PDFs, and HN threads.
I just do chores while I'm listening so I'm not fussed but you could probably use Kokoro or some other TTS with a speed parameter to make it suite you. Or just up the speed in your pod/audio player.
It's always invoked as if that makes life shallow - if avoiding pain (raising kids) is hedonism, then yeah I'm a hedonist. I'm not going to self-flagellate to appease society's desire for workers. Bad assumptions about demographics aren't a good reason for people to procreate, just to prolong a scheme that can't hold.
Why do people have such emotional reactions to peoples' preferences? Some of us get along perfectly well without kids, legacy, etc and aren't lonely at all. Feels like projection. Climate change need not be existential, being horrible is enough to ward most people off the notion and I'm certainly not interested in subjecting a kid to this mess.
I'd imagine nearly all here are positive about technology itself, what they're against is: hype, 'progress' at all costs regardless of collateral damage, consolidation, anti-consumer practices - tech as wielded for power. If you pay attention long enough, it's hard not to become wary.
Are they guiding policy and making decisions at corporations or just living within the existing framework? He's talking about the people shaping the world and future.
I agree that policy would most likely backfire since people misdiagnose the problem all the time. High rents are a function of the market not being free as the piece mentions (zoning, permits & overhead, resistance from homeowners and public input), while many come away with simple impressions that the issue is the greed of builders - i.e. too much market involvement. I don't trust the public to understand 2nd and 3rd order effects well enough to evaluate solutions, though the rise of YIMBYism among the public and state apparatus is an encouraging sign. Cities have plenty of ways to thwart change unfortunately.
That thought came to me early but it feels like a pyrrhic victory - if society is dumbed down, increasingly unstable what kind of win is that? is the excellence you've maintained even valued at that point? standards even within tech, both technical and moral, have withered. this is a function of its popularity and openness but still
> According to Berkeleytime, 35.3% of CS 10 students and 10.6% of CS 61A students received F’s in spring 2026. In spring 2025 and spring 2024, the percentage of F’s did not exceed 10% for either class.
I don't think instruction would've changed drastically in the last year though.