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Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by Herring »

Schiendelman wrote: post #100
Herring wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spend a lot of time here: https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart Housing/medical/college etc are outpacing incomes. Loneliness has skyrocketed. People are voting for fascism and starting wars. Americans like to pretend with their big houses and fancy iphones, but things are NOT ok. Also note on that chart: younger demographics in the US are reporting significantly lower life evaluations compared to older demograp…

I'm unconvinced that younger people have a harder time than the last couple of generations at the same ages, and would like to see evidence that this is not simply them overwhelming themselves with social media comparisons with others. Yes, housing, medical, and college are outpacing incomes. Which item would you want to work on if you only got to pick ONE thing?

They have social media in Finland too. Go talk it out with your favorite "pro" LLM.

You can't just pick one. The main problem is inequality is rising, which means those without serious capital (which includes the young) are much less likely to see anything from their efforts. It just pops up in different ways. All my money goes to [rent, inflation, student loans, hospital bills, .. etc].

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

chadgpt3 wrote: post #103
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #79

The death of HTTP/1.1. I posted a link to an article on an HTTP-only website a few days ago, and it was flagged within half an hour because browsers want HTTPS. I know all about JS injection into unencrypted HTTP trafic, but this is beyond the point. The point is, I can not just spawn a website and make it available to the world from anywhere having only a network connection.

Sure you can, just have to install certbot.

I would rather use acme.sh and ZeroSSL for CA, but that's exactly the problem.

Why do I have to beg someone for a proof of nothing just to share a random thought?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by swat535 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #97
swat535 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Higher level of comfort in what sense? Most people on the planet can't afford a home or start families. They can barely pay their rents to avoid ending on up the street.

Do you believe that across the planet, that is worse or better than it was 20 years ago? 40 years ago?

Do you believe the housing crisis, living wages and affordability is better than it was 20 years ago? 40 years ago? If so, where ?

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by thedevilslawyer »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #112
chadgpt3 wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure you can, just have to install certbot.

I would rather use acme.sh and ZeroSSL for CA, but that's exactly the problem. Why do I have to beg someone for a proof of nothing just to share a random thought?

This isn't the thread for it. But setting up a simple protocol or using one of the free dozen CDN static hosting isn't begging.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by juancn »

I'm trying to figure out exactly how to best use AI, but not just as a chatbot user.

How to integrate it to solve useful problems. Make delightful products.

So many things that used to be intractable now are probabilistically solvable and that needs some things to be changed fundamentally and a lot of assumptions dropped.

The randomness that AI introduces poses a plethora of challenges.

I think local models will be a big thing eventually, not everything needs a frontier model and a lot of useful work can be done with surprisingly little hardware.

I also want to get back to non-LLM models.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by citadel_melon »

Schiendelman wrote: post #98
citadel_melon wrote: post #89

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There are many more economic distortions that happen from having massive wealth inequality — too many to list in one comment — but the biggest one is that democracy isn’t possible with a certain level of wealth inequality. In such models where individuals in a market system can influence public/private institutions for their own interest (news organizations, private think tanks, lobbyists, public/private colleges, co…

I mean, this is measurable with the gini coefficient, yes. But if you generally handwave "people with lots of money", you don't have a story to tell, and then you don't convince nearly enough people of any one thing to accomplish it. You have to pick a problem. Right now, quality of life basically keeps going up, so it's pretty hard to act on anything you might care about here.

Conjecturing standards of living is going up is overly reductive. Essential costs — housing, groceries, education, etc — have been going up for most people and hit everyday people the hardest.

Re: Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

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Post by sph »

chadgpt3 wrote: post #105

My life is completely meaningless, I am now 30, I lost my job, nobody is hiring (only ghost jobs), I could be deported at any moment because my visa is linked to my employment, also I am 30 and I have never had a girlfriend or sex, so is it just a slow decline from here until death or what? Also everything fun is illegal, people who make cool software inconvenient to the government (like anonymous social media) seem…

I don't have an easy solution to your problem, so knowing that someone might have sensible words for you, I'll be the one to suggest to do something drastic.

No, not that. If you have your back against the wall, why not completely change your life? Move to another country. Spend a month in Thailand to get over your obsession with sex. Go pick avocadoes in Australia. Take heavy psychedelics. Start smoking and drinking and read some philosophy.

None of these are gonna solve your problem, but moping isn't gonna solve them either. You are 30, you are young, and you'll get over whatever stupid choice you do today. Perhaps that's what you need, rather than hoping for society to unfuck itself or you to become someone you probably are not. The grave will always be waiting for you at the end anyway.

EDIT: Fine, I'll also give you the serious answer which will get you out of your existential dilemma. You're might be going through a midlife crisis. You are not the first. It always hits one in their 30s. Figure out what it is, what it means, what meaning is for you, what the hell you are supposed to do with your time on Earth. You have done all society told you to do, and you're at the "now what? Is that it?" phase. Start with Carl Jung. It's gonna get worse before it's gonna get better, but if you take this seriously you'll grow into a more comfortable you by the end.

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