skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happened for Millennials and Baby Boomers.

But not so much for the Greats, the Silents, and Generation X. My theory is that the Greats, the Silents, and Gen X were all wartime generations. The Silents and Gen X were also relatively small generations, there really aren't that many of them. Add to that the fact that all of those generations had some level of dispossession coupled with an even more impressive level of productive wealth creation, and you can kind of see why no one really picked on them as much as what we see today. The Greats were, well, the Greatest Generation. 'Nuff said there. The Silents were a wartime generation, born in the depths of the depression, who never really whined about their lot and because there really weren't many of them, they were, person for person, likely the most productive generation in our history. Generation X was given the name because they were the black spot. They were the first generation that would grow up to have less than their parents. They kind of just ran with it, and despite having war after war to deal with, ushered in one of the most transformative eras of wealth creation in mankind's history.

All that said, actual leadership of the country seems to skip over those kinds of generations. (With the exception of the Greats.) Not many leaders from the Silents or Gen X, but a large number of well known leaders from the Baby Boomers and even the Millennials. From Mayor Pete to AOC, the Millennials seem to outshine Gen X as far as leaders are concerned, for better or worse. In the same way, the Baby Boomers outshone the Silents to the point where the Silents are almost forgotten to history. Generation X might have been forgotten were it not for their technological innovations and achievements.

Anyway, that's my theory. So Millennials shouldn't take all the ribbing too hard, because if history is any indication, in the end, you'll likely be the ones in charge. Again, for better or worse.
I know - I worked for Big Tech for 5.5 years. I was making a lot more than $200K/year at the end of it, and saving more than $100K/year.

The problem is that so is everyone else - or maybe not "everyone", but a significant enough fraction of the Bay Area to have a measurable impact on prices. So while I saved up a whole lot, most of it will get eaten up if we choose to buy a house in the area. The competition among homebuyers isn't your average middle-class professional, it's couples where both of them work at FAANG companies, making over half a million combined a year. When all buyers have the same means, prices rise to match, and you get inflation, you don't get wealth creation. The only way to get wealth creation is to build more wealth (in this case housing, but it also refers to other social services like childcare, healthcare, transportation infrastructure, etc.).

Right now, we're doing standard-of-living arbitrage: we live like people who don't (and didn't) work in tech, rent an apartment, and bank the rest, which gives me time to work on my startup idea (going for #1) and my wife a decent cushion to advance her career. That only works until what's left of the middle-class is entirely priced out of Silicon Valley, though. While immigrants and service workers can still find apartments, rents will remain priced at what they can afford, but if the housing crunch becomes severe enough that all of them move over the hill to Pleasanton or Davis (which is already happening to a lot of them), rents will jump to the maximum that a tech salary can afford.
Ooh, thanks for the link! Yeah I would love to do SSH/Mosh over packet radio but I can't do that with my ham license :(
There are some O&G tech companies in Colorado if you want a lower cost of living. There is generally a large industry presence here.
Even though many startups use convertible notes... it's not real debt that will haunt you for years to come and compound. It's selling equity.
Linux basics: Prerequisites to learning about containers
I've wondered for a long time whether the US (and Europe) would get into so many conflicts if their own civilians were put at risk as well. The US was fighting a war in the Middle East, but back home it was business as usual.
I dunno. For example, common advice for software engineers is that they should blog. As a result I've come across a lot of blogs that totally lack engaging content. Presumably the authors followed this advice but forgot to actually try to make their writing interesting, useful and fun - that's what the motivational articles don't tell you, presumably to avoid discouraging you from publishing your stuff if you find it not worthy. Is the world a better place as a result?

Besides, if you go into this world expecting that there will always be someone who wants you to succeed (besides your mom), you are in for some harsh disappointment. But with the opposite mindset each additional reader/user is an unexpected delight.
Okular is also wonderful for epubs if you documents ever move to that format.
My god, you A Clockwork Oranged yourself.
Chronic procrastinator here. Procrastinating feels like an addiction for me because it offers instant pleasure. Right now I am procrastinating instead of trying to fix a dumb JavaScript bug. When it comes to "bad mood," I've noticed a pattern from my self-centered ego: 1). The work is "beneath" me, and/or 2). The work threatens my ego.
> You’re assuming that a publisher would be willing to put enough money into a prediction market to make a profit from the market machinations rather than advertising or subscriptions.

The publisher doesn't (need to) interact with the prediction market at all. The idea isn't that the publisher isn't directly financially punished for inaccurate reporting. That doesn't happen in the RT analogue, isn't what's proposed by the OP service, and can't really happen in any constitutional system (plus, subscribers may be looking for content that isn't factual but feeds their biases).

The conversation is about a third party for those who want to know about the factual accuracy of a publication.

That being said, I agree with you that prediction markets aren't quite a good fit. When the NYT publishes some clearly inaccurate nonsense and leans on its reputation as "the paper of record", the issue generally isn't predictive analysis which is later uncontroversially falsified. The issue is usually lying about statistics in ways that are clear with close attention but that escape the attention of the casual reader and thus shape the conversation. Prediction markets wouldn't really help much here: if the outcome the market was predicting was uncontroversial, then you wouldn't need a system for checking the article in the first place.
As a person who accidentally posted sensitive info on chats, I welcome this feature. I do wish they implemented an indication "message deleted" in the chat to show that the editing took place.
When i was younger I had a summer job of working in a paper recycling plant. It was soul crushing boring work. I'm talking pick up a spent roll of newsprint, saw it length wise, put the paper in the paper feed, the roll in the cardboard feed. Good job that was ~30 seconds. Repeat for 8 hours.

We had a bunch of mentally disabled people on our team (think low IQ / down syndrome). These guys loved their job. They felt like they were doing cool shit all day. They cheered and smiled when the food truck would roll around 11AM and they'd spend what seemed like 1/2 their earnings on snacks and drinks. They smiled nearly every moment of that job.

Good for them and good for the plant manager understanding this reality and making a good for society out of a relatively bad situation (boring ass work, people having a disability few of us could handle).
I believe that it's not up to individual consumers to fix that problem.

Manufacturers made plastic bags, plastic cutlery, plastic packaging and then push the responsibility to the consumers to recycle. Also this lobby would prevent any efforts that would ban any of this, or even less likely -- factor in environmental impact into the price of goods.

Individuals are culpable, but industry is a villain in this story.
That is very cool, how is this accomplished??
While i'm not well versed in politics and democracies around the world, i have seen a common person protest against the government, get over whelming public support, start his own party and go on to become the chief minister of Delhi all within a span of 5-7 years. I know for sure that isn't possible in the US.
"Client’s Disease" is an interesting thing. I think 9 times out of 10 I work with a client on their website or landing page there's either far, far too much copy (and nobody really wants to read it all) or the copy is written with the assumption that everyone already "gets" it.

It's always interesting asking them to take a step back, or to get someone else that's never seen the product in the room and asking "look at this website - what does this company do?" It's _really_ easy to assume that everyone else understands your product just because you look at it every day and it's clear to you.
The Foundation for Economic Education is listed as a partner organization of the Charles Koch Institute.
Is this website biased towards any political ideology? A pop up had some political verbiage but I closed it before reading. Seems like a charged article.
Can you give more details on how the encryption is weak?
I feel like this for most sensational news stories that I hear on news. Too much agenda in every news pisses me off. I wish there was a way to filter out such agenda.
This really sums up my opinion too. I feel like, even for many folks that end up liking the keyboards, it takes a couple of weeks to learn not to push so hard on the keys. That's certainly what it was like for me. But I like it now.
When my mom’s small business would receive a chargeback from her merchant bank, they would send her the ENTIRE customer’s card statement for the month in question. By email.
Yes, those were wiggle words for the pedantic crowd. There are very minor differences/additions that were included in JScript. But almost enough not to be relevant.
> But on the other, if you believe that no one cares about X, then you are less likely to begin creating X. You are also less likely to get emotionally involved in the first place which might do more harm.

"Nobody cares about X" is not the message. The message is, to paraphrase, nobody wants to spent time reading all the shit you have to say about X that isn't important to them. So if your ad (or blog post, whatever) doesn't cut out all the non-essential crap, they will move on.
No mention of 5-HTP. I was surprised too.
> if you need to shift the language to extremes to persuade people you are doing so by "borrowing" from those extremes

As in what, calling an economic system the "free market"? Which has nothing to do with markets as one could buy potatos with rubles in Soviet markets just as one could buy them with dollars in US markets. So it is a misdirection - the commanding heights of the economy - production, not the market - controlled by the government (or in Yugoslavia or China, other mechanisms), not by heirs and the Vanderbilt type aristocracy. I don't have to go into the propaganda term of "free" for the system (versus a presumably "unfree" system where government or workers control the means of production).

Or let us look at the word economics. The field was called political economy - until it became political and supporting the status quo. Then the word political is dropped and the word changed more to like physics. The bank of Sweden even drudged up that old dynamite maker Nobel's prize and started granting it to economic commissars in the 1960s, which I'm sure has Nobel rolling in his grave.

There are innumerable other examples. A "right to work" law does not mean a right to work, it means the government can interfere in a union/business agreement, that a union not be able to get an agreement for a workplace monopoly (of course, companies like Verizon have no such monopoly restrictions). Or "earnings" are what the money, the expropriated dividends of worker's surplus labor time, is called as it is sent to the heirs controlling the corporation.

The flip side of this is what was once called wage slavery is now called career opportunities. The heirs expropriating surplus labor time from the workers who create wealth at as joint stock company are called "job creators". Even the AFL used to call for industrial democracy.

Chomsky isn't shifting the language, he just remembers the language of the Depression before the language shifted.
Yes, this means it's not worthwhile in most cases. Kitchen garbage, for instance is not worth while.

Reuse and reduce still matter
What is really odd is that we are alive to see both. At billions of light-years even a slight extension of the travel time, say a few hundred years, would exceed human perception and probably go unnoticed. For a short-lived object like a nova, we may only ever have one of the two images visible at any one time.
A little frustrated here: I was just trying to get background on how fast int-multiplication is and what the fastest algorithms are (and whether this is an advancement), but the Wikipedia article on this topic barely mentions Big-O.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplication_algorithm
While I am a fan of this line of argument I don't think it applies in this case. European countries and Japan, which were smashed to bits in WWII, still participate, sometimes eagerly, in trade restriction sanctions.
> The CIA aligned itself with already existing groups within Iran to lend assistance in the coup.

No, it (and the British who actually started trying to pull off a coup first) paid people and deployed propaganda from multiple different angles, and including false flag operations, to energize multiple, mutually antagonistic factions in order to destabilize the Mossadegh regime; a lot of the anti-Mossadegh opposition was organized crime groups paid by the CIA to put up a front as political opposition. They didn't care about the politics; they did care about the money.

Heck, even the Shah—the monarch who superficially seized total power in the coup—was opposed until the CIA threatened to depose him as well if he didn't go along.
Are you sure you are not conflating the meaning of the word "democracy" to different issues, including quality of life, climate, infrastructure etc?

There's no way you can evaluate how good/bad democracy is in any country, in 3 weeks.
Tbh greeters seemed almost like a waste, as they were not directly creating any output.
Can you rely on that as your only internet coverage though? Most of the "unlimited" plans start to degrade the service once you go over 20 GB/month. Of course, depending on what you are using it for it could work (such as ssh over vpn tunnel, which is low bandwidth usage, however OS updates can blow away your monthly data allowance in a short period).
There have been improvements for sure, but have you used a good Java or C# IDE? C++ support is still far behind in terms of performance and accuracy.

(I work on a C++ IDE.)
I recently watched an independent film called “Newton” [1] about Indian democracy and voting process. It was amazing and I highly recommend it.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6484982/
If you owned a house in 2008, I assure you, you'd feel that your mortgage was real debt.

Or if you ever got laid off.

Or if you ever got injured or severely sick and found yourself with shocking hospital bills.

When life hits you with something like that, suddenly that monthly payment, and the risk of foreclosure, bankruptcy, and severely damaged credit, all looms large over your head like the Sword of Damocles.

Yes a mortgage is real debt.
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Bar chart race: the most populous cities in the world
A company taking on debt and yourself as a person are wildly different things.
Oh you haven't heard two flushes followed by the sound of someone dipping their hands into the bowl, followed by splashing and rubbing. And then a manager walks out and makes suspicious hand movements towards you before you skedaddle
A Twin Inside a Twin: In Colombia, an Extraordinary Birth
In our case, we travel frequently so it isn't completely unjustified. However, in practice, everyone just started working remotely after the change so now there's rows of empty desks.
The vast, vast majority does, but there may be some missing bits. Printed out, it's about 170 sheets of paper, so there's a lot there.
India’s Ban on Imports of Recyclables Exacerbates a Global Crisis
Elections are a recurring event. I cannot prove it but it's behavioral training. People seem to vote for whoever gives them the best "incentive". I hesitate to call it a bribe because in other countries they call it "tax relief", "student loan forgiveness" etc.,
40 years old. It probably has a lot to do with not liking change, if I start and its an open office plan, it is what it is. If they transition to open office after I start then I think it depends on how the open office plan is pitched. If its pitched as making everyone more productive then I would expect all of the executives to also be out in the open. If they are all still in offices I know it was just to cut costs. Worked at a very large company where this happened and all the executives (200+ of them) kept their offices.

I worked at a small company with 5 total devs and we all sat back to back in a large office and it was pretty good. So I guess the answer is it depends.

I work from home now and this is the best office plan. Slack and other communication tools seem to render the point of having a brick and mortar office moot for a lot of programming work. My team is spread all over the world. Mileage is of course going to vary based on the job.
This is so dang funny. I don't even get what the message is supposed to be exactly but I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
Mom and Pop used a rigged machine to cheat customers out of their money.
That's what I find so disgusting about this tendency of many people. If I don't care enough about an issue to be rigorous about it, then by definition I don't care enough about it to 1) vote based off of it or 2) spread my uninformed opinion about it (when I do talk about it, I'm clear that I have only a tentative, uninformed model of the situation).

People have often defended the average voter with "people have busy lives and don't have time to think about this stuff" (and as you point out, don't really have the will to), but I've never understood how it's defensible to treat policies that affect other people's lives as idle fun.
It's worth considering the source of this article.
But what about the candidates?! Try to top those and then we'll talk.
Offtopic: PayPal shares more than we think it does. I've had issues where certain merchants asked me to confirm identity by sending copy of utility bill for address I had on PayPal account. I thought my address is private so sent a bill for my siblings house where I also paid the bills for internet, but they reported that address is not same with PayPal, so I argued a bit but eventually had to send one for correct address. I think that, PayPal doesn't share CVV but merchants can view all personal info attached to my PayPal account.
It is Koch bros funded, so make of that what you will.
Yes, it's basically about what you mean by "guarantee". Very few things are formally guaranteed. People tend to use "guarantee" to mean "I believe this is true with a very high level of confidence."
In the 1980s, recycling of compostables ("GFT", for vegetables, fruit and garden waste) become common in Netherland. Amsterdam abandoned it again during the 1990s, I think, mostly because the quality of the GFT waste was too low.

We're recycling plenty of other stuff, though: paper, glass, and plastic, mostly. Plastic is fairly recent, but the others are old, so I assume they work.
1- Be born rich
2- ? Whatever
3- Profit
Debt and investment are two very different things.
Selling equity in a startup is very different from taking on debt, with debt your committing the business to a strategy, if it doesn't work the business will probably fold.

While this makes sense for capex intensive businesses. It's an irrational choice for a tech startup that may need to pivot, partner or be acquired. For those choices you need a source of capital with similar incentives as the founders.
Why does understanding an evildoer's tools bother you?
You're going to need a data transformation step to turn your data into a consistent format that your ML can read. AWS's ML, for example, can read CSV files from S3, among other choices.

Logs are messy. To extract clean data from them, you'll need some messy logic/code. You'll want to pull that out into one unit that can be reasoned about in isolation.
> Why do candidates need to "spread the message" and "go on tour" and "win people over" when we as citizens are supposed to, at the root, be voting on what policies they believe in (which seems concrete + fact, instead of something like leaving a wooing/lasting impression with a speech/appearance)

That assumes that citizens are supposed to be voting on policies. In our representative democracy, we vote on the people we want, not policies. The specific policies will be unrecognizable after they get through the process of political compromise. What people are really voting for is the person whose hand they want on the wheel.
So the rifle went from initial acceptance, including these kinds of stupid last-minute design changes that are common in any project, to large-scale combat deployment within a year; normally, there would have been years of incremental usage to catch these bugs

Large organization needs to roll out a new model on an accelerated timescale. Cost cutting and time saving decisions are made, which have disastrous synergistic effects in the field.

Sounds very familiar.

EDIT: In order to understand the design genius of the AR-15/M-16 rifle, hold 50 rounds of 9mm pistol ammunition in your hand, then 50 rounds of 5.56 ammo. It varies by the particular kinds of ammunition, but on average, they weigh around the same. Yet the rifle is many times more powerful. How is this so?

1) More propellant weighs a lot less than more lead. 2) Energy goes up by the square of velocity.
The person that writes your list of descriptions of the candidates is now in control of who gets elected.

Also, people vote for politicians based on how the politician makes the voter feel about themselves. Many many many people vote against their economic self interest with full understanding that they are doing so. There is a lot more to who someone votes for than their list of policy proposals.