skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As a case in point, the CDC has reported that the suicide rate has risen by 30% since 1999. That to me indicates a clear drop in happiness.

How so? "Unhappiness" isn't what causes suicide, so using it as a guage for happiness is a stretch. Even still, why assume it is a drop in happiness and not a rise in something like access to guns?

And isn't Pinker's larger point that people have been preaching the upcoming "CATASTROPHE" for the past three hundred years and yet largely things keep getting better?
We fly in my wife’s retired parents for a week in the winter and go off to someplace warm as a couple.

We take the whole family to a four-generation, ~20 person in one large house lake vacation a week in the summer. With enough people, you get some downtime (and some doubled-up-upon time).

We really like the winter week away, but the summer vacation with the large family is more fun and differently semi-relaxing.

Things also get easier and more interesting as they become self-cleaning, self-loading, and self-entertaining (when they can read). Until age 5 and especially 3 and younger is intense. It lightens up some.

Your life as a parent needs to be only partially about your kids. You need to keep and nurture your adult relationship as well. It’s not ALL about the kids.

We also make it a point to split housework and give each other “time off” to do hobbies, go to the gym, go out with friends, play sports, etc while the other adult has the kids. Keep a shared Google calendar to coordinate things.

It’s a series of small things, integrated over a long time.
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Unless the programmer specifically decouples graphics from the rest of the program, anything that renders to the screen will have to wait for that command to finish drawing. It will effectively govern the throughput of any program that both prints lots of text to screen and is not appropriately multithreaded.
On top of that, I too have noticed that parents often talk down to people that haven't experienced parenthood.

Almost as if becoming a parent is very difficult and gives you enlightenment that can be found in no other way.
It probably has something to do with the on-going saga of his relationship with the "Sad Puppies" crowd, though I think the Sad Puppies didn't actually form until years later. And yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it were an oblique response to something someone tweeted at him.

Getting more specific than that would probably require doing some Twitter archaeology, and I doubt that would be a particularly edifying enterprise. As entertainment options go, watching Scalzi get into minor spats with people who don't like leftist SF/F figures is right up there with reading YouTube comments.
Oracle claimed to be providing a team of software engineers who were coding Oregon's state exchange. Oracle was much more than a vendor, it was a service provider.

Oracle executives flew out to Oregon 3 times, and on each occassion, made presentations that said the exchange was "72% done" and that if they would just wire them 53 million USD, everything would be done on time.

These were clear and deliberate lies, and as taxpayers, one should feel personally robbed by Oracle, regardless of the State of Oregon's overseeing the project.
Legal consenting adults do have a constitutional right to engage in consensual relationships, regardless of laws and moral codes otherwise. And history amply shows they will do so regardless.

Case in point - Clinton/Lewinski. That was a textbook case of sexual harassment according to Federal regulations, except that Lewinski maintains to this day that the only abuse she suffered was from the media.
then they'll use some company like luminati to provide them with residential IPs instead.
It gets better in a year or two when they spend all their time on a phone.
I think optimism is not be best word. Optimism is to expect the more favorable outcome.

Steven seems much more like a realist who with a basis in fact predicts that things will be okay, if we keep working on the problems..
We saw a Pinker-like optimism before- at the beginning of the 20th century. We had gone nearly a century since Waterloo without a major war. (Plenty of smaller conflicts however to create national republics out of monarchies or fragmented city states.) People said interlocking global trade made countries too dependent on each other to fight each other.

Then what happened? The 75-year great 20th century war from 1914 to 1989. It had three or four phases: WWI, WWII, the cold war, the wars of southeast Asia.

I would not get too confident again.
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> I finish all house work in less than an hour

Teach me.
You're many years from that kind of relaxation. The closest you will get is taking time to yourself, but within a day or two you'll likely start missing your kid. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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It seems like hotels are work for you. Likewise, I don't expect a forest ranger would relax in a cabin.

The point of hotel or airbnb is same town is to have staycation but avoid seeing the stuff that requires chores in your home environment.
My blog post?

Sorry. I cannot claim credit for the author.

I’m not sure why you’re mentioning women historically being keepers of the house It’s not relevant to the topic, people in general don’t value that role anymore.

Should they value the role? I’m not sure, it has historically been a thankless task, probably soul crushing too. Having cleaning services and cooks would be better but I’m not sure if it would scale.
This is stupid. You can always find riskier investments with bigger payoffs, and there is nothing to suggest that that is not what is happening. No one is arguing that we aren't all better off. We're arguing that we're all better off at the expense of the very real possibility that we will all be much worse off in the future.
How many years of experience do you have? And is there anywhere I can checkout the product or learn more about it?

Sounds interesting.
I miss my O2...
It depends on your idea of "your town". My family lives, works, and plays in the 'burbs. We never have any reason to go in town. Staying in town is a change of scenery. We don't have to drive (take Uber) and we don't have to go through the expense and hassle of an airport.
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The IRC client XiRCON did that back in 90’s. Regardless how slow your machine is you always got the output instantly, albeit with less FPS.
I used this some time ago when I was messing with databases. My favourite feature was the ease that you can connect it up to statsd. It makes things insanely convenient.
If it’s commercial software, then BTF = bought the farm
I have 2 primary or lower school aged kids and do upkeep my own house, I also have relatives nearby though I am not sure how that is relevant. I love stay at home holidays and am on one now. We do take non stay at home vacations but I don't find them as relaxing. This week I am looking forward to walking the kids to school (something too time prohibitive normally) hiking, reading, playing in the shed and if I feel like it some home maintenance too. Horses for courses I guess :)
this webpage design is horrific.
I did a quick project around this idea a while ago:

http://oakmac.com/lisp-3d-1.gif

http://oakmac.com/lisp-3d-2.gif
Was satire...
Is decentralization cheaper or more expensive than centralization?

I cannot come to a conclusion on that question.
> Then what happened? The 75-year great 20th century war from 1914 to 1989

The 20th century was the least violent century in human history on a per capita basis. We know this, in part, thanks to Pinker's research.
oh-my-zsh is effectively unmaintained. That is not the worst thing in the world, but one may wish to consider prezto as an alternative:

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Oh, I'm sorry, I misread. Your nyms both start with 'd' and... that's about the end of my excuses for that mistake.

> I’m not sure why you’re mentioning women historically being keepers of the house It’s not relevant to the topic, people in general don’t value that role anymore.

My point was in the asymmetry -- so I found it odd that the blog author (not you!) would point to this as somehow being evidence of "loss of meaning".
Typically this is some combination of:

1. Make enough money to never cook

2. Never cook

3. Live in a tiny Bay Area apartment

4. Have no pets

5. Live alone
I bet it's just one big echo chamber of people copy/pasting each other, just like every trend on social media (memes, etc).

Yep, groupthink runs rampant on social media, just as it does on HN and other fora.

This thread will generate the usual boilerplate blathering about "Faux News" and "Wapo" and on and on and on, when the total news output of Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WP, and the rest of the outlets that get people all frothing at the mouth and picking up their tribal pitchforks and torches is less than 1% of the actual news published in America on any given day.

The people who seem the most upset by the state of news today are the people who consume only from a few national sources, but never think to pick up their local newspaper where there are actual stories about the actual places they live that affect them in ways they don't even know because they can't be bothered with dead tree editions.

They use a lot of lame echo-chamber excuses about "portability this" and "digital future that" to explain away their laziness. Plus 20- and 30-somethings these days are unwilling to pay 50¢ for some factual information to accompany their $8.00 coffee and their $1,000 phones.

It may be hard for some people to grip, but 99.99999% of the news stories published in an average day have nothing to do with Donald Trump or Nancy Pelosi. But you'd never know it if the internet is the only way you consume information.

What happens in the White House or Congress or the United Nations or North Korea affects people infinitely less than the new water main going in down the street, or how a local politician is spending their money, or whether it was their neighbor's kid who got killed in that bad rollover crash you saw on your way home from work.

For the record, I subscribe to five newspapers and one magazine. Three of the newspapers are in printed form. Of those, one newspaper is local, the others come by mail from other cities where I have interests. The magazine is also in print form, and comes weekly. The remaining two newspapers are digital. My wife subscribes to an industry journal which arrives in printed form DAILY as a broadsheet, six days a week, and has a supplemental app for breaking news.

The printed articles she pulls from her newspaper and leaves on my desk for me to read are generally a week to 10 days ahead of the internet.

When my newspapers arrive, the first thing I do is pull out the Opinion sections and toss them in the blue bin. America would be better off if newspapers didn't have opinion sections to reinforce all of society's divisiveness. It was OK back when cities had six or seven daily newspapers. But today, it's a disservice to the public.

I also pull out the comics section/page and read that first. If I don't manage to get past that much of a particular paper, it's still time well spent.
Do you mean the readline bindings (in bash shell) or do you mean when you run emacs?

I usually enable the readline style keybindings system wide (move character forward/backward, move word forward/backward) using a custom DefaultKeyBinding.dict — but then typically have to figure out workarounds for programmer type applications which try to resupply these shortcuts expecting the keys to be bound to random Unicode characters rather than already rebound to the actions ... as I recall — with my customization the keybindings don’t work by default in iterm2 and I had to go in and change something to get the correct behavior (fortunately there is an option). Many programmery type applications have the same issue (fortunately it’s mkstly possible to customize them all).

So it’s stjll possible to get the emacs keybindings at all text inswertion points systemwide — but it’s a hassle... In the glory days of OS X — pre 10.5, none of this was necessary — option-f option-b etc were just bound to the right thing by default rather than printing pointless Unicode characters ... I’m still annoyed by that change and by the fact that a bunch of complicated configurations are required to get the right behavior nowadays ...
> I treated the men on my teams exactly the same way. There was no discrimination. They were all treated equally.

Did you also refuse to meet with men privately?
I use iTerm 2 daily. What are y'all doing in your terminals that this kind of thing would matter at all or even be perceptible?
Buy a house on the beach? :)
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Just don't give me advice about kids (if you don't have kids) and we'll get along just fine ;)

Please do give me advice about other things that you know about and have experience with when I need it.
Is this based on Brian Burg's work? His dissertation work was Timelapse [1] which looks like it was pushed to Webkit [2] for Safari.

[1] https://github.com/burg/timelapse/

[2] https://github.com/burg/replay-staging
It doesn't matter what they can do. It only matters what they can convince you they can do.
"Dismissing the perspective of any and all non-<insert group>" is a generalisation and not unique to parents. Though as a parent I have noticed it too.
your point is orthogonal to Pinkers. Though from TFA I can understand where you're coming from.

I think you would be very interested to read the book, given the understanding you've demonstrated here.
That's an iTerm2 specific feature.
Not meeting alone or socializing with female coworkers is a pretty intelligent move these days for men, and will probably become the norm until we have cameras watching and recording our every move as proof nothing happened.

The problem is that most are guilty until proven innocent....and even when proven innocent many still lost their careers and livelihood in the process and companies just don't want the bad press.
Thank you. I'll do my best.
if you're able to get an ssh tunnel going to the machine...i think you already have control over the server
Dwarf fortress.
That's a hell of a way to say it wasn't as common back then.
So... a baseless assumption that war is cyclic, despite this being disproven with data in Stevens previous works.

The world 200 years ago and the world today is different.. politics are different and out global community is VERY different.

In fact UN has been pointed to as one of the reasons why we have less war..
If you maximize on a 4K monitor and use tmux on a remote server there is a pretty significant amount of latency. I never noticed until I tried alacritty, the difference is astonishing.

That being said, iTerm2 is plenty fast enough for my purposes as it is today.
I find it very worrying that people want to force young people who are learning to form their own opinion to choose "correctly". For whatever value of correctly.

By contrast, what these kids are doing, trying to pressure and misinform each other, is exactly what I'd want them to do : they're learning. Maybe, God forbid, they'll learn how that works and when it's being done to them.

And that, I'm sure, a decent fraction of them will disagree with you ... that's a very good thing indeed.
Let's hope so!
Take it in turns to look after kids or hire a baby sitter for some of the time. Maybe one day of the holiday
Most of the replies to this comment don't seem to understand that "/s" indicates sarcasm.
From the link, this is an absolutely fascinating discussion on Juggling notation.

Most notably it's "quantum mechanics" analogous interpretation about 2/3rd of the way through.

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/JugglingTalkSummary.html#toc_n...
Bitcoin is presently used for illegal activity, remittances, currency in countries undergoing hyperinflation (Zimbabwe, Venezuela), as a way to make oneself feel wealthy, and of course price speculation.

Ethereum is currently used for startup fundraising via ICO, for tokens in collectible games (Cryptokitties), to distribute ad revenue from browsing the web (Brave), to incentivize participation on curated social news sites (Steemit), for decentralized prediction markets (Augur), to get paid for donating computing power (Golem), and of course for speculation. Possibly others I'm not aware of too.
oh-my-zsh has more than six hundred open pull requests, and can be considered unmaintained. It is perfectly usable in most respects, and I would not expect that to change in the near future. However, some competing projects have started because of that, and may be worth consideration.

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen
See also:
https://github.com/unixorn/awesome-zsh-plugins
I see the problem here: you don't know what a right is.
My only advice is to try not to be self-righteous, but this has nothing to do with parenthood.
Do you work at Google or is that an assumption?
Or given their budget, why not operate their own cloud? Why not build a tech/infrastructure team and run their own datacenter/cloud? You would think something so important as data and the cloud would be something the pentagon wants to keep in-house.
And until we discover and universally [0] implement that "new approach," public space will be avoided at all costs by those who can help it.

[0] San Francisco welcomes the downtrodden from everywhere in the world; it's not enough to solve poverty in the US to clean up SF's streets; you must eradicate it from every inch of the Earth.
The difference between a trip and a vacation is you don’t take your kids on vacation.
> seems like someone from a position of privlidge [sic] explaining why we shouldn't be too worried about all the people in shitty opressive circumstances

You'll be pleasantly surprised by his work. It suggests that if there is a natural arc to history, it involves the expansion of our "circle of empathy". Progress, in Pinker's definition, involves improving living standards for everyone. His is a counter to the "things are getting worse so we should keep more for ourselves" argument.
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> They also stopped cracking down on turnstile jumpers, they became more lax with the homeless by policy (you can read DeBlasio's quotes on that too).

I am still waiting on Germany to make mass transit "free of cost" or paid for completely by tax payers. I think we can learn a lot from their experiment. What worries me here in the US is that everything costs so much more. I think I will be salty until the day I die about the WTC Path terminal being 100% over budget. I mean those FOUR BILLION DOLLARS I think would be better spent toward the second avenue train for the MTA or the signal problem on the Newark WTC Path bridge at Harrison (Disclaimer: I use neither of those two services but I still think either of those would have been a better choice.) I don't know the details but I think we ought to walk away from a bad deal at some point. If we are sure we can control costs, I am all for a fully taxpayer funded MTA subway and buses as well as a fully taxpayer funded Path train. I hope people understand that $2.75 does not fully cover the cost of a bus ride. I don't have any numbers but as someone mentioned here some time ago there is a lot of taxpayer money already going into building and maintaining the roads.

> Back to the cameras. There's a terrible irony here: the police union was instrumental in pressuring to not renew them. Fear of being automated out of a job? That's a strong HN topic if I ever saw one.

The main thing is we have to be willing to cut costs. Everything I say is a pipe dream until we can cut costs. This means automating as much as possible. This includes train conductors, bus drivers, and yes, the police (and the administrative staff at all these places).

Feels like a chicken and egg problem, right?
Yes, I love that feature! I found out about it some weeks ago, on the very last leg of a brutal two day hike where I could really have used it XD
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Eh, I think it’s healthy for both parents and children to spend some time apart. I have loads of friends who have kids ages 3-5 who have never spent a night away from them. And not because they don’t have the option.

My wife and I both travel regularly for work and fun, sometimes with our daughter, sometimes just the two of us, sometimes on our own. Anything longer than a few days does result in us missing her, but really, it’s fine and probably healthy.
Can we make “makes X great again” not great again?
Yep. My favorite vacations were just staying in a guest house in a residential neighborhood in Kyoto or an Airbnb above a bakery in Paris and not really doing much but living life.
I've read most of the audio book by now.. and along with Pinkers previous book ok violence I can honestly say my mind have been changed.

I was never a pessimist. But it have changed the narrative I often take in a discussion on a subject.
I have exactly the same experience with Fedora.

And frankly, it seems to me like the issue is the OS being unoptimized or apps being leaky on it, because my Windows 7 machine with worse specs almost never has such issues, under any kind of similar load (and exactly the same apps).
This only works for iTerm, and only when using Metal.
I don't see these two books as being at odds with each other. I think Pinker's book is a statement about two things:

1.) We need to take a step back and look at what we have and really appreciate how departed our current luxuries are from the entire history of humanity. Many of the issues described in Yang's book are about how menial repetitive jobs are disappearing from the market. There is an obvious downside in that these are lost jobs that might not be replaceable to the people of those capabilities, but the upside of this is that we have removed the need for people to do menial repetitive jobs; by no means a minor upside. A human's whole life used to be consumed by the necessity to do this work, the problem we have to deal with now is simply going to be in terms of how we handle the surplus of time we've freed from the human workforce. This is a much better problem to have, strategies like UBI are generally well received even by the staunchest libertarian types in recognition of technological advancement.

2.) We need to acknowledge what got us to where we are. Enlightenment values; justice, science, rationality, and most importantly, liberty. There was an ideological battle last century that resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people, and I tend to agree with Pinker's ilk that the recognition of this being a consequence of deviating from Enlightenment values is extremely important, and not nearly as accepted only a few decades later is a cause for concern.

I don't think that Yang's arguments for the need to consider UBI is something that Pinker would disagree with at all. I don't think that Pinker's assertion that rationality and liberty have gotten us to where we are now, and the last centuries of human innovation have objectively lifted humans worldwide across many dimensions is something incompatible with Yang's message.
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Evan knows that. His question is why isn't it normal for the graphics to be explicitly decoupled in terminal emulators that care about draw performance.
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No, but it’s hard on a level you can’t understand until you do it.
I think nukes contributed a lot more than the UN. Western Europe would have been invaded by the Soviet Union twice otherwise.