skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically, we (Americans at least, I hear Russians are quite a bit higher) aren't drinking much these days: ~2.25 gallons of pure alcohol a year. Compared to 6.6 gallons in 1770 [1] and 7.1 gallons in 1870 [2] (thus igniting the calls for Prohibition).

[1] http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/moonshine-whiskey-i...

[2] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31741615
This is such bullshit. Right now you can walk into a long haul trucking job with zero years experience and be making $70k minimum with a $10-20k signing bonus after a short month long training. And that's one of myriad trades that are available today. The lie that has been sold to America's youth that everyone has a "right" to go to college and is entitled to a job upon graduation will go down as one of the greatest crimes committed against an entire generation.
He says this in every podcast.
http://gigamonkeys.com/book/
The generation pre-boomers might have defeated genocide but they also, you know, did a genocide.

But true, people don't normally think that.
Those are interesting ideas, but those kinds of techniques would violate the spirit of the deal. By creating such a large search area, he tacitly agrees to not hide the box itself too well.
I got great grades. Didn't matter, no one with enough capital to employ human beings wanted me to do anything for them. So I have to come up with fake things to do. If you don't like it, maximize employment and start hiring people not for profitability but with an aim towards developing people into what you consider maturity to be. Our powerful people like the Uber CEO don't seem to be concerned with whether they are designing a society in which people can have thriving marriages and support children. The Uber CEO apparently believes that he himself is not mature.
DB guy to tune the instance the database runs on + figure out your streaming backups etc.
It's not a full time job, but it's a couple of days a week; and completely taken care of if you use RDS
No, it's very different. Let's say I'm getting $100 worth of benefits a day (makes the math easier) And let's say I could do a days work and make $100, but I'd lose $90 worth of benefits. That extra $10 may not be worth a days work.

With UBI you'd get that same $100, but if you took that days work you'd get an extra $100 (minus tax, let's say 20%). Now you're reward for that days work is $80.

The UBI system taxes higher but also provides more incentive to the worker. Welfare cliffs are an awful demotivator.
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Games, to a degree is escapism of course. When I dropped out of college and sat at the back of a public library, I saw all types of values as I spent so many hours in so many different games. Learnt about communicating only the important details in first person shooters (FPS) and learnt about sacrificing my character to save my carry in MOBA [2] games like leauge of legends and dota 2. Though no one outside gaming communities generally care about such things. I get called lazy and get told that I am wasting my life away fairly often.

A game like dota 2 has roughly 500k player playing at any given time. about 3x more for leauge. Thats 500k * 24 hours a day spent collectively as humans on a game on any given day. So billions of hours a week is not a bad estimation. There is a tedtalk video that talks about the hours as well.[1] I often this about this in the back of my mind when people talk about universal basic income (UBI) and unemployment. I think the future generation will find it natural to put in large hours into games and it won't be seen as negative.

Games are also asylum for some though, i've met some really awesome people but people who were clearly in very bad places mentally. Some have spent years in game collecting and achieving stuff that will have no meaning to anyone outside of the game but means the world to them. (Sadly one killed himself after his account got hacked and all this stuff was gone). Therefore, I wish people approaching from the outside of specific communities trying to talk to these people and talk about issues would sometimes take a little time to look at the culture before going off on stuff like "bikini armor" [3] (female character with `impractical` armor) or video game violence or toxicity[4] in gaming community. Yes these all might be problems and we'd all like to address it, but trying to confront a population who's already withdrawn from reality to varying degree is not the best approach from my point of view.

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[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplayer_online_battle_aren...

[3] https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrC_DI...
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2v9zqf/top_10_most_...
How exactly does increased secularization and "the rise of feminism and demonization of masculinity" contribute to a crisis for this generation?
This is a reminder that the announcement that you should "keep your seat belt fastened at all times when you're in your seat" isn't just something someone made up. It's a small price to pay in case you ever encounter severe turbulence en route, but it might be one of these things that most people don't realize until it happens to them. Hitting your head against the cabin ceiling can seriously put a damper on your trip.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13883961 and marked it off-topic.
I think I see what you're saying here: This story is about young unemployed people who have many hours to spare and use them gaming. There are similar young people who use those hours on the alt-right parts of 4chan, Reddit or other online communities.
Utter and complete rubbish.

The 'boomers' invented most of the 'computer stuff' you use, most 'developers' today are hacks (granted, some are amazing).

Boomers had difficult upbringing, brought real social change, lived through - and ended the Cold War.

Female boomers were expected to be secretaries - and had to fight for the right just to do normal jobs in the workplace.

Even the boys - were expected to do the same jobs their fathers did, mostly boring labour - and only a fraction of them got to go to University.

There was no such thing as 'startups' back in the day - there were zero opportunities for middle class young people to generate wealth or do globally impactful things.

They lived during the draft, and 50 000 of them died in Vietnam.

Millenials are born into massive entitlement, wealth , privilege and opportunity.

You get bored easily, and don't want to do the same job for more than a year - but expect loyalty and long term employment? Yes - boomers had steadier work - but it was also incredibly boring, stagnant - and in real wages, pay was crap.

Boomers could own a small, shoddy home in the suburbs, and were able to have 'a fridge' and 'an oven' and 'a car' - even though they were all crap by today's standards - that was 'The American Dream' and they were generally happy.

If you are born past the fall of the Berlin wall in America - unless you are from a ghetto - you do not know hardship.

As for real estate: the average home price in the US is about $200K. You can afford a home. You just can't be 'Instagram baller'.

As for 'higher positions' - do you think the 'Greatest Generation' just handed over their choice positions to the 'Boomers'? Or do you think it took mostly a lifetime of work and loyalty? If you don't like your job make yourself CEO of your own company. What's stopping you?

American Millenials have more opportunity than any group of people in the entirety of history - enough with your complaining.
I think you're right. Already we have a world in which we may be married, and yet lonely because our spouses are absorbed in their phones. Young people are more and more incapable of even achieving that because they don't know how to communicate in real life. Via text, Snapchat, Instagram, or whatever they're comfortable, but in person?

I think you're right: the society of tomorrow will be lonely indeed.

Wouldn't it be ironic if it's not nuclear war, or environmental catastrophe, which leads to the extinction of the human race, but social media, Netflix, games, and VR?
Appreciating Art with Algorithms
Additionally, the paths don't meet up/join at the trailing edge of the wing. There's no reason air above and below needs to separate and meet up into the same flow.
Good for you. If you want to work at the circus, you've gotta jump through some hoops. It's true that for most jobs, most day-to-day work doesn't involve knowing standard algorithms and data structures. But being willing to crack open a book and learn something new shows you're willing to prepare when it counts, and that you're capable of learning. Plus you get to learn some cool things along the way, some of which may even be useful some day!
The IRS is reasonably good at cracking down on the fraud you suggest.

Existing welfare/disability fraud/etc does allow one to exploit the taxpayer as you suggest, but it requires active work to do so. That too is a disincentive, and to an extent a social stigma. UBI has no such mitigating factors.
I was looking at FlightRadar24 and listening to ATC while an A380 took off from Dulles near DC. Not only did they warn for wake turbulence when the plane was already well away, they held other aircraft for a runway inspection after the plane took off. I'd imagine that kind of wake could kick up some significant debris on the ground as well.
> Why are people paying those workers?

Because in any large organisation they are indistinguishable from the productive ones. Sometimes even in your own team there might be someone that appears very productive but creates long term maintenance costs.
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> In 2001, the Nobel Prize in economics went to people who studied information asymmetries, which lead to market failures.

People might know part of this work better by the paper title / catchphrase "market for lemons" [1]. This inspired "lemon laws" in several countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Fat guys get called fat. Women are threatened with rape and murder.

"Equality." "Political incorrectness." Sure.
is that streaming or YouTube? I can't see how one can make money unless they are a pro gamer
> People actually _are_ sued on a regular basis

Are they? I'm quite happy to be enlightened, but I've never heard of a patent-based attack against users of widely used open-source tools (the example here is Hadoop). Except for the SCO debacle.

For the younger among us, SCO (with Microsoft funding) did try suing all sorts of people over what they considered their ownership of Unix. They got their badly flayed ass handed to them in every case, because IBM spent multi-millions on a legal dream team that totally discredited their arguments (thanks IBM!).

I know Microsoft have had a welcome change of leadership and are starting to engage in open-source, but this program suggests they haven't given up on their old tricks. Instead of indemnifying only their own customers, they should join with IBM, Google, and Facebook and use their patents and legal clout to defeat ALL patent attacks on open-source software. Then I'd start believing the leopard had changed it's spots.
What's the overhead? What are the management fees?
What are the hours and benefits like for long haul trucking? I'd imagine it's not a job widely available in West Virginia or areas where there is mass unemployment. Genuinely asking and I don't think what I said is bullshit. There are definitely people who can't find full-time jobs and spend their time playing video games because it's a cheap hobby/luxury/entertainment. Why else do you think the labor participation rate is so low? Why don't all those people who lost manufacturing or coal jobs just follow your advice? I don't think you should dismiss millions and millions of people making minimum wage, working part-time, or out of the labor force altogether and just assume (without a shred of evidence) that they are simply choosing not to take well paid jobs that you describe as so freely available.
Good idea! HN is a valuable source for management.
> He invited the stripper, JFK, and Hitler.

This is a good example. Thanks.

I think I would probably get around this by writing it as:
He invited the stripper - JFK - and Hitler.

Or more likely:
He invited JFK - the stripper - and Hitler.
Please check the video
This is such a perfect comment! Love it.
Ask HN: Why did you(or do you want to) become a developer?
I did a career change in my mid-thirties from animation and VFX to front-end development.

It's been a wild ride(looking at you, Node) but it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.

My reasons were basically a lack of opportunities, stagnation in income and the endless late hours and unpaid overtime inherent in the animation industry.
I was wondering what brought you here?
Subsection 4.17a$19 in terms: we reserve the right to not license you any patent if you do that thing you just described.

Seriously though, hopefully there's some mechanism covering this sort of abuse. Even if there's not, if I were MS I would simply not comply. It's civil law, and your behavior is completely unreasonable and does not reflect the any reasonable interpretation of our agreement -- come at me. Besides, what are your damages?
Its still really tough to get remote work. You have to compete not just on quality but price. If you live in an expensive city it seems to be extremely tough to get into remote work, been trying for years. It has to be based on price because I have no problem getting work in LA "onsite" it just ruins the quality of my life because I get to spend most of my life stuc in traffic ratther than living.
PicnicHealth CEO here. We did raise prices to keep quality super high as we scale, but here's a nice discount for our HN friends. Enjoy! https://picnichealth.com/friends-of-picnic
a) Red pill? Gamergate? What's that stuff? Certainly nobody should ever google any information and do their own research and make up their own mind.

b) You'll notice that in my responses I didn't say that women weren't being harassed nor did I say that harassment was right. So why the hostility? I'm speaking IMO accurately about gaming culture.

c) Speaking of tired cliches, what would you call the "women are always eternal victims in every walk of life" school of thought?

PS: I love women and want them to have the same rights as men. I think telling the truth about gaming culture is honest and fair and the right thing to do.
You should try ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep) which has the same functionality but with 2 orders of magnitude faster.
That is absolutely correct. I thought about mentioning it, but did not. Flight levels are definitely expressed as "pressure altitudes" rather than absolute altitudes. The air pressure (or rather density) is the more important number when it comes to keeping an aircraft in the air, anyway.
As far as I can tell this is targetted at what I would expect: "antivirus" and compliance tools built into firewalls, not reverse proxies built into load balancers.
Ask HN: Is there a bubble occurring with Ethereum?
> The gulf between being a truck driver and, say, a programmer is vast

It really isn't. AI might not be able to take over 100% of our jobs anytime soon, but if even half of the things we spend time on, things like understanding requirements. If an AI system can coax users/managers to provide better requirements, maybe even create tests for those requirements, then every programmer could be twice as productive. That means half as many of us are needed.
Not all jobs are necessarily done because they are profitable to an employer. Mainstream economic theory supports this idea as my previous post explains.

However, to address your general sentiment: First let's establish the premise that the most important thing to ones survival and welfare in the world today is money.

Without that--and therefore by separating the relationship between survival, social status, welfare and money--it could be argued that we would take a step in the direction of fixing incentive alignment.
I have to disagree. Apart from maybe post WW2 in America, the average person has always had to work much harder than the elite. There were sweatshops, Kings, slavery, and colonialism. If we look at American now, even with all of its issues, it is much better for the middle and lower class than it was 100 years ago.
"It doesn't matter how cheap the land/housing is if you can't get a job while living on it."

B.S.

Unemployment in the US is relatively low even on a long term basis.

The average home prices in the US is $188K. Most people can afford that.

There is more opportunity for mortgages and financial services than at any time in history.

There is more opportunity for mobility than at any time in history.

You have it easier than any generation in history - but all you can do is complain.

If you want to 'have it like the boomers did growing up' - well, you can skip going to college because few of them did - and you can do some crap job pushing paper for most of your life, in boring but steady employment, and buy a small, mediocre home in the burbs and mow your lawn. That was the 'steady, sable American dream'. You have opportunities that they never had - and that most kids in the world would kill for.
It's not. At least, not as long as the "passion between the sexes" remains unbalanced by birth control. Even if it does become balanced, there are finite resources.
The "horribly stacked life" card is, in my experience, most often played by people trying to get by in the overly competitive environments of large cities.

I know a lot of people don't like to hear it, but I'll let you in on a little secret: if you don't feel like you're getting anywhere trying to work and live in a major city, do yourself a favor and move to a less-populated area.

Many cities have become extremely competitive, which naturally selects against all but the few who can manage to work for less (competition in the labor market drives down wages) and pay more to live (that same competitive environment drives the cost of living higher).

Get outside those inflated bubbles and life really does become easier for someone who just wants to earn a decent living.

Stop blaming other people for your choice to live in a place where the cost of living feels "out of reach".
Ask HN: Signal down for anyone else?
Signal Messenger doesn't seem to be sending messages for me for the past hour, and for some of my contacts too. Debug logs show "MessageRetrievalService: Application level read timeout..." and "PushNetworkException: java.io.IOException: unexpected end of stream on Connection[testsecure-service.whispersystems.org:443]" etc
According to Wikipedia, and my memory from school, Nash equilibrium doesn't exist unless all players are aware of the optimal strategy and are seeking it.
just going to leave this here: http://stopwritingramblingcommitmessages.com
I guess this is where it helps that I was the CEO of the company being sued, had a European parent company (where software patents at the time were not valid) and would rather go down fighting than give in to blackmail. I can see the economical argument and I also see your argument with respect to playing with other peoples lives and money. The problem is that that attitude eventually results in more effect on other peoples lives and money, just not the people in your direct vicinity.
I have no idea what the market is like in New Zealand, so my insights there are limited, but a lot of EMR systems in the US have a similar notion of customizability built into the interface. Epic, the largest EHR vendor in the US, for example, doesn't sell a one size fits all solution. Hospitals develop their own GUIs and workflows within Epic, but again, hospital administrators make all the UX/UI decisions while optimizing for documentation that bolsters billing. Again, the doctors lose.

For small practices, this might be a viable solution, but then again, they'd probably rather purchase a complete IT solution than something that handles medical records alone.

Also, have you looked at OpenMRS?[0] They have a module system that allows you to develop extensions to the EHR.[1] If you're looking for your thesis to have a big impact, I'd really recommend getting in touch with an organization like OpenMRS or Partners Healthcare to see how you can extend their platforms. If you want an introduction, drop me a note: faraz dot yashar at the gmail.

[0]: https://openmrs.org

[1]: https://modules.openmrs.org/
Read Heinlein's For Us The Living. Robots make all essential goods, and everyone has a minimum basic income. People only work to get extra income for nice things. That is a societal wide post scarcity society- no one who desires a basic living will ever lack anything they need.

But post scarcity happens all the time. It used to be the domain of nobles, who had easy access to basically anything they could desire. Now it belongs to middle to upper class first world residents, a growing class of people who can lean on mommy if they ever get in trouble and who generally are never more than an Amazon Prime delivery away from any good or service they need.

People will say oh but a feudal lord didn't have an iPhone it's all relative. And sure that's one argument, but I'm sure you can see the point being made.

You can work a lousy job, and play video games, eat pizza, and be basically happy. Or you can take on tens of thousands in student debt to work a much more stressful job, and wish you had enough time to play games, and stop eating pizza because it doesn't fit your lifestyle. A growing number of people can't rationalize the latter option. There's no need to endure that hardship, goods aren't that scarce. Hence, people bring up post scarcity.
And let's think about what the boomers didn't have.

No cell phones.

No GPS.

No soft contact lenses.

No electronic fuel injection (carburetors! yay!)

No Google

I can keep on going with this for a long time

LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL FOR BOOMERS! BE SO HAPPY YOU WERE NOT ONE!
> With the Oxford comma, it may be that the stripper's name is JFK, whereas without it's unambiguous that these are three separate people.

You mean, without it is ambiguous whether they are different than people or a single stripper with the stage name "JFK and Hitler" (which is probably less common than, say, "Peaches and cream", but structurally similar.)
Well, the same Venturi principle applies if you look at it in terms of laminar airflow over the wing. The top of the wing (via curvature and downward deflection) is essentially creating a widening venturi tube, whereas the bottom of the wing is creating a closing venturi tube. (Oh, ok, it is planar rather than a tube, but the principle is essentially the same).

Hence the high pressure under the wing and the low pressure on top of the wing. The very act of 'deflecting' millions of cubic metres of airflow generates high/low pressure points. Hence at the end of the day, we could argue that the pressure differential is what is causing the lift?

Disclaimer: Not an aeronautical engineer, just a former commercial pilot.
Changing _public_ history is bad. I don't see any problem with rewriting your _personal_ history before merging it in.
No, they are not a successful front end developer.

It is possible to have a successful website without having good front development.

It's possible to create a lot of useful things that don't have good design.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that's the first rule that goes out the window when you're on a private jet.
I've said for a long time that millenials have more in common with their grandparents than their parents from a values point of view. (I consider a millenial anyone born early 80's to 18-20 now fwiw).
While you're on point about flat wings, in wind tunnel tests on profiled wings, you do in fact see a velocity difference between top flowing and bottom flowing streams. It's not enough of a difference, however, to cause coincident streams on the leading edge to line back up at the trailing edge.