skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can second that anecdote. I took up weightlifting (Strong Lifts 5x5) about two years ago. I used to have pretty regular back pain, but weightlifting 3x a week and it went away. I've also noticed that my standing posture improved on it's own as well.

As anyone whose done squats near their max can tell you, it's far from effortless, but over time a few co-workers have joined me and they've had similar benefits.

For anyone looking to get started, I'd actually recommend Starting Strength (by Mark RippleToe)over Strong Lifts, but really any of the common programs (Ice Cream Fitness, GreySkull, etc) are good.
You're just articulating the problem for 90% of people comes down to muscles. Whether it's weakness in their entire hip flexor core or general tightness. A lot people over look how much that entire chain impacts the entire lower lumbar. Any good PT will explain this to their client.
I mean this is all what I’m considering. I hate working day in and day out in the Bay Area. I grew up in the Santa Cruz mountains in the forest and now I commute through an asphalt jungle to a concrete building where I’m pampered every day like a fragile snowflake. I’m constantly working to figure out how I could afford a home in the outskirts of this region. I’ve already moved from an Audi to a Honda although it’s kind of an expensive Honda, so I’m considering switching to something cheaper. And I’m dreaming of finding land in pescadero.

So to answer your question... some of us?
They're only speaking of a service to keep food and beverages at a certain temperature. No delivery. That's another service.

And another line item on your revolving monthly expenses.
Nervous because we might wreck the planet with overconsumptiona little later than thought?
I disagree and don't think the author knows what is going on in "the real world" today.

I still read books that I buy from the bookstore and would NEVER own a kindle. In fact I don't know many people who do own a kindle. My grandma owns one, she doesn't even use it anymore.

I still own and buy DVD's. I watch more videos on prime, netflix, and get movies from various other sources. However, when you don't have internet (or a TV with a USB), DVD's are still there.

Owning a car is still necessary in most places, and is still sought after by teenagers and adults alike.

I don't use a cell phone. I have one but its been dead in a drawer for over two years. I don't feel the need to have people be able to reach me 24 hours a day, it's a nuisance, and people are relying on it way to much these days.

The article is just a rant, an opinion of people (because there is an editor AND an author for some reason..) who don't know how to adapt and can't even see how to adapt to a changing world full of technology.
> The disadvantage is that most people don't know how to use crypto.

To expand on this, it's hard to turn crypto into rent. You mentioned the friendly online wallets - they're almost a necessity if you want to accept bitcoin, and then turn it into fiat currency.

The idea of directly paying content producers is great (mumble mumble some middlemen do add value), but it doesn't do them much good if they can't buy a gallon of milk or a pair of shoes.
Let's assume ebooks are 20% (I know that's the upper bound you're positing, but let's start with that). If my salary were reduced by 20%, I would definitely say that I was making "much less". Would I say the same if my salary were reduced by, say, 10% rather than 20%? Maybe, maybe not, but I doubt I'd go so far as to say that characterization was simply "not accurate".
Ask HN: Resources for teenager who likes to build games
My 14 year old son loves making games. He builds a lot in Scratch, he designs lots of models in Blender. He knows a bit of Python. But he is building lots of bits of games, and not really making rewarding progress. It feels like he could do with some kind of 'how to' to join it together. There are so many books and video courses out there, I wonder what people have found effective? Would something on Unity be the next best step or something else? It's a bit of a vague question, but it is a very broad subject and outside of my sphere of experience.
Or it might not have been built to specification.

I know of an instance of contractors having the rebar inspected by the engineer and then moving the reinforcement to the next part in the sequence to be constructed. The engineer caught them at it because he got up very early to go sea fishing and happened to walk past the site. Incidentally this anecdote happened in Italy in the 1960's, maybe it was a widespread practice.
>Facebook telling its "moral police" not to moderate posts from pro-government posters.

Would be it more OK if it was about Venezuelan pro-government mafia?
The 'idea of private property' is about private ownership of means of production, which is what definition of capitalism is. Basically it is about idea of owning capital privately and start your own business employing that capital, with a goal to increase that capital. It is not about owning 'stuff'. And in that sense, it is not going anywhere. So i think it is an empty reason to worry.
> Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.

I'm finding it difficult to believe this given that it's known that pornography is known to be an industry riddled with violence, hard drugs, human trafficking and so on and so forth.

Edit: As soon as I posted this I see the other commenter outed you as having an inherent benefit from tricking people into believing pornography is a reputable industry.
Selective choice of inaction and complaints about that all play into the same tune, that facebook is the one doing the policing (sometimes). That's the root problem. If facebook were not the ultimate arbiter this article wouldn't have to exist in the first place.
Exiftool is great and has all kinds of functionality that might be little-known. For example, I often use exiftool to automatically geotag pictures taken on my camera while I travel, by using the GPX trail I save from my phone or Garmin.
We saw a similar situation when AMD released the Bulldozer line of CPUs and it took a minute for Microsoft to release a Hot Fix to address the issue.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/5448/the-bulldozer-scheduling...

The reality is that Windows doesn't recognize the new CPU and so it's not using a scheduler optimized for it. Where as AMD could have upstreamed any necessary changes for Linux to fully support it months ago.
Are there any resources explaining the FOIA process? I'm not sure what types of information is available, what it can be used for, etc and am always amazed with the type of information people are able to get the government to hand over.
I suspect that the gunship was simply programmed to shoot the closest hostile entity, which happened to be the player's rockets. This kind of emergent behavior is actually quite common in gameplay programming. In any case, machine learning was not involved in the development of Half-Life.
> Why would you expect it to continue existing just because it's popular now?

I'd like to turn this on its head: why are you particularly worried about Social Security? Any government program could disappear in the next 30 years. So why is your focus on Social Security? Why is this subthread so predictable?

It's because of a deliberate, targeted, FUD-campaign against Social Security by people who are ideologically opposed to it. Their fears are not genuine. They oppose the program in principle and benefit by sowing doubt. That's why you're making this comment in this thread and not in some other thread about some other government program.

> It's like global warming. If you wait to find out what happens, it's too late.

I don't think it's generally useful to pick holes in analogies, but this one is too big to ignore. Social Security is a man-made program. If we want to change it, we can just change it. At any time. For any reason. I'm not sure it could actually be any less like climate.
>I'm not a structural engineer and I am in no position to judge, but there definitely was the suspicion that the design of the bridge was flawed, even before today.

The bridge was - at the time - a bleeding edge of concrete technology, designed by the greatest expert in concrete (and pre-compression) in Italy (and probably in the world), Riccardo Morandi.

He designed also the Maracaibo Bridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Rafael_Urdaneta_Bridge

Allow me to doubt that the design had structural flaws, though it is true that at the time some aspects of long span pre-stressed concrete structures were not yet fully undestood, namely creep and shrinkage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creep_and_shrinkage_of_concret...

Which have definitely increased the need for maintenance, shortening the expected working life of similar structures.

However from the little it can be seen from the photos that have been posted here and there, it seems like the initial point of failure was not the bridge (meaning the deck) but rather the pier, causing the two adjoining spans to collapse.
1.) How does the market (in the most basic sense) make any meaningful distinction between "owning" a rack of DVDs and "owning" a Netflix subscription? Both are transactions where resources are being traded for "goods".

2.)The idea of spending more resources on experiences rather than goods has become more pervasive over the years so the trend of people owning less stuff would make sense.

3.)This is a little more in the weeds but it's funny to think about how a society's definition of wealth changes over time and how that might affect consumer behavior.
This article makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims and is very light on actual data. For example a blatant assertion like "Amazon’s Kindle and other methods of online reading have revolutionized how Americans consume text." has no support in the article itself. For what it's worth I know only a few people that use e-books; the majority purchases and reads plain old paper books. Likewise, "...now viewers stream movies or TV shows with Netflix...now Spotify and YouTube are more commonly used to hear our favorite tunes....". This is unsubstantiated. Nearly all of the video content I want to watch is not available on Netflix; and anything that is is liable to disappear at any time. Just last month I purchased VHS tapes, DVDs, and Blu-rays to get content I wanted, so if the writer isn't going to go to the effort of researching and presenting information, then my anecdotal experience completely contradicts this thinkpiece.
Oh goody, another article telling me why everything I do as a Millennial is wrong.

Here's what we were told as children:
"My gosh, you always want more toys, more comics, more videogames. Don't you ever get enough? What's wrong with you!"

As teenagers/young adults:
"Look at all this crap you've collected over the years, taking up all this room, and you're barely an adult! You'll never have space for all this when you move out into a tiny apartment. What's wrong with you!"

As adults:
"Why aren't you buying physical things and hoarding crap anymore? What's wrong with you!"
>I don't know why every time a discussion about work or employment comes up we feel the need to have these tautological discussions about how some people have it easier than others.

the same reason that this thread is posted and re-posted at all. both of these things are cultural memes: the people complaining about work and the people relishing work. nothing in any of these threads is ever novel.
Both points of view have something to them. Sounds like ab annoying decision to make because you will either offend some strangers, or risk people questioning your personal life.
Needing to make a fridge open sources screams at me that we really need to be simplifying the operation of a fridge.

I think component complication for planned obsolescence is much more of a thing than programming something in X years to kill itself.
> because many companies still want their reputation to be built upon longevity

History shows otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
So we can watch more ads
How much money have I spent? In over a decade, I've never put my credit card to buy any content.

Sure I looked at ads, but I never used any except an accidental click.

This is borderline a free/voluntary to create content with almost no barrier to entry. Hosting it is the only cost IMO, and that sound expensive.
Lower zoom-levels are cached for a longer period than higher ones for performance reasons.
The sooner all this nonsense ends the better, too many people have already been scammed for waayyyyy too much money.

And I personally know five or six people who are trying to start their own coins around <insert any noun> and "make billions". They all seem to think their coin will replace all currencies and commodities forever.

It's the perfect fictional scam for our fictional times.
Lifespan, not age. Most bridges where built after 1945 with a life expectancy between 70-75 years.

https://www.nde-ed.org/AboutNDT/SelectedApplications/Bridge_...
It's like a dense suburbish area. There are both plazas/malls/grocery stores with normal parking and areas set up like small imitation city blocks with parallel parking or no immediate parking. I don't like having to deal with street parking either unless it's a nice clear zone.
1991: SGI 4D/340 with VGX gfx, 4x MIPS R3000, 64MB RAM, 700MB disk: $180,000.

I sometimes laugh to myself when people complain about the price of GPUs. Yes, $10,000 is a lot, but in historical context, it's pretty reasonable for top of the line technology.
But such an anonymous prepaid card would ALSO be very useful for money laundering. Because of that, no regulated financial institution will provide such a product. We used to have some (like prepaid debit cards purchased in person with cash) but the few that existed have nearly all been eliminated (in the US).

I am sure that if someone were to propose using specially printed pieces of paper as a way of exchanging value that the government would prohibit it. The FBI would testify about "the financial system going dark", the banking regulators would complain about money laundering, and the whole scheme to invent "cash" would be denounced more vigorously than Bitcoin has been.
I am sorry but this kind of cult behavior is a major part of political polarization and occurs on both side. After the DNC leak and people started to accuse Clinton of not playing fair a lot of Clinton support rejected that criticism and accused those that did of being unscrupulous in their conviction. It would not be called polarization and extreme-right and extreme-left if those voters accepted criticism based on its merits.

What is left is the wast majority in the middle and both left and right depend on their support to win elections. Those voters are usually receptive when politicians are criticized and may swing. The 2016 election had both side accusing the other of committing crimes worthy of jail time, which is when criticism in politics took a very dark turn. When you ask the public to conduct criminal trials through public debate and voting it should come as no surprise that criticism based on merits will fall on deaf ears at both camps, and anyone suggesting any validity in the criticism are labeled a traitor to the cause.
I had thought it was a North American thing, if not a worldwide thing. Canadian speaking. Goes to show that it's easy to assume the world is the same everywhere.
This list reminds me that employment simply a trade off, and a fair deal that most are willing to accept with eyes wide open.

You want a steady paycheck immediately, so you sign up for what you hope will be a sort of friendly "master-slave" relationship where you do a good enough job to not get fired, accept the office politics, accept that someone else gets all the upside, and give up a large chunk of life instead of pursuing your own business, hobbies, spending more time with family, etc.

This should not be a surprise to anyone, but I suppose its easy to be overly optimistic as a young person and become frustrated when reality sinks in.
>If facebook were not the ultimate arbiter

If people would stop using FB, rather than complaining about it, perhaps this would not be an issue?
The RPi Zero W does (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w/). I haven't tried the Zero W yet, but I have tested the Pi 3.
The leasing cost is buying land (ammortized over 30 years) + maintaining land and then compare it against buying specialized equipment, hardware, and maintenance staff for underwater projects.

I guess with scale, the price goes down.
I'm exactly the opposite. I'm happy that all my media is digital. If it's gone one day, I'll find new media to love and enjoy. If it's something I can't live without, I might hang on to it for a while, but I've been around long enough now that I know something I "can't live without" today is just another thing that will be forgotten and replaced eventually.

I've found that every physical thing I own has an ongoing cost. Firs there is the obvious cost of physically storing the thing. Then there is the labor cost of cleaning it and keeping it nice. Then there is the mental cost of remembering where it is. And finally there is a cost of worrying about it. What if the house burns down? You spend a lot of time and money and effort preventing and planning for such an event that may never occur at all. And for those of us who have lost everything that way, coming to the realization that it's all just stuff feels like anti-gravity. It's like living on Jupiter your entire life and then moving to the Moon.
It's only a single example but vinyl record ownership has continuously increased dramatically over the last few years and continues to do so. Maybe if you make an object worth possessing against the digital version, they'll be an audience for it?

The important discussion should be not about American's losing their idea of private ownership but about American's learning the idea of owning their information and data about them. I don't care that I stream media, use SaaS for email or don't own a car but rather rely on ride share and public transit. But what I do care about is the companies that provide these services are brokerages for data about me.

I'm not aware of a single American politician who has as a prime issue the idea of private data ownership. That we can make laws that ensure that any data gathered about you belong to you and that companies are privileged to use it and do not get to dictate terms around it. That if you want to do business in a way that includes personal data of any kind then there are laws you have to follow that greatly restrict what you can do with that data. That upon request every single data point about a person can be disclosed to that person and how you've used that data and an audit trail with regards to that information.

Civil Rights for private data could be a thing.
Also GPU prices going down would be great.
Leasing an apartment, and it being filled with all of your possessions, is a quite different situation than a short-term rental of a hotel room, and I'd wager the legal system sees them as different.
How to find and delete where Google knows you’ve been
As long as it's mostly just flowing text, I much prefer ebooks. A lot of my long form reading happens when I travel and a tablet or a Kindle Paperwhite works much better than a book in poorly-lit planes or hotel rooms.

Sure, there's an aesthetic to certain books but that doesn't apply to the random paperback or even popular hardcover novel. And I appreciate the decrease in clutter. I recently donated a bunch of older "classic" paperbacks that are works I can download for free or near-free anytime I want.
If how+mortgage is even slightly more than rent you still end up doing well as soon as you are able to clear the agent and closing costs in recouping. Renting is easier to move for sure. But stay there 3 years and the story may be different. Stay there 8 years and you're making out well over rent. But being statitioned I can see why you might not. Then again I have friends with rentals in 5 cities for the same reason.

Still not as easy as a truck. I drive mine into the ground too. Not just to figure out if selling a used one or getting the trade-in is the most effective use. Buying new car way less effective than buying a good in shape 16 year old accurately for $1700 currently. I value more varied vehicles over one nice one. it's also nice to say well this one didn't start today oh well how bout this one.
This "Defining the Corporate Hierarchy" is a re-hash of the (acknowledged) original, the "Gervais Principle" by Venkatesh Rao. The Gervais Principle is brilliant.

"The Gervais Principle" series home: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
Let him try Godot. It's a great step forward without having to learn everything that Unity requires.
You aren't going to gain the skills gained by a four year education in a week. And if you try it will likely be obvious. Interviewers (at least the good ones) aren't looking for someone who knows a particular algorithm by memory, they are looking for someone who is familiar with the concepts. And familiarity is easy to distinguish from rote memorization.

The good news though is that unless you lied on your resume, they already know that and are still interested in you. So you likely have other characteristics they are interested in.

I would concentrate instead on learning about the company you are interested in. That's something you can do in the course of a week.
Tenant’s rights laws control when and how an apartment owner can enter the residence.

Those laws don’t really exist for hotels in the USA as far as I know. Hotels are categorized as temporary dwellings and are regulated much differently.
Counter-anecdata: I have purchased and read far more ebooks than I have paper books in the last decade. I currently use a Kindle Paperwhite at a somewhat large type size which has completely relieved my eye strain.

Also after having moved my books between four apartments and our current house, the next time we move I’m prepared to just toss the lot of them.
Err it depends on your outlook. I’m such a hacker at heart I literally want everything I own to be open source.
I did exactly this. I gave up my $3500 apartment in SF and moved to the central valley. People in SF and the Bay shit all over the central valley, but I've never been happier.
slightly, yes (rude).

Offering 2 things (access to one service, then a second service as 'free') does not strike me as automatically 'wire fraud'; we'd need more information to make that determination.
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“With 10 lines of Ruby replace most of the command line tools that you use to process text inside of the terminal.”

Well, it’s these 10 lines, plus an unlimited amount of Ruby that you have to compose on the fly for each operation.