skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally disagree and I am rather dismayed by people conflating their bad experiences with people over-engineering with these principles.

They are like anything else a good they are good rules of thumb when scaffolding your projects.

Understanding IoC with DI has cleaned up my code soo much and I know it works as I can Unit Test easily.
The millennials in my social circle unanimously believe that they are far behind where their parents were in life at their age. In fact, that's exactly what I heard from my best friend a couple nights ago. Both of us make six figures, and all of my friends in my generation are well educated.

My parents were married in their 20s. I'm single and the majority of my friends are unmarried. In less than a couple years from now, I should own a single family home if I want to catch up to where my parents were. Myself and all my millennial friends rent apartments. (Ok, I know one millennial who has a house, but he lives in the middle of nowhere and he's a douchebag) Only one of my American friends is currently pregnant, and whilst more of the people I went to high school with when I lived in New Zealand have already had kids for years. None of my millennial friends are in leadership or management positions, or at least ones where they actually have any clout.

My dad got into the career he has today by hard work, but also from having opportunities being thrown at him left and right. When he was my age, his current field of work was still being pioneered, and the industry was taking anyone they could get. He happened to work in a slightly related field, his company opened up a new department, and they offered him an opportunity there. He was hardly qualified and had no formal training or college degree.

I know his industry intimately, and there's no chance in hell that his younger self would get his foot in the door today without extreme talent. To get in today, you need above-average talent, you have to attend school, and you need connections.

The same can be said for parents of many of my friends parents.

Keep in mind that the gap between wage growth and buying power was already in acceleration, but it seems like there were more opportunities for people to hit the ground running without too much personal overhead. Now there are Gen Xer and some Boomer bosses who expect younger people to hit the ground running in the same way that they did, yet hold those young people to a different set of standards because of market saturation.

I don't view life as some sort of race to the finish line, but I can see how most millennials are demoralized and even embittered that they seem to be struggling more for less than what their parents and their friend's parents got. The best thing that Gen Y and Gen X can do is experience ego death, realize that their parents lifestyles are flawed and come with other hidden prices, move out on their own if they haven't already, and learn to appreciate the relatively good cards that have been dealt to them.
My 5 year old loves this and wants more!
Design: "A bridge that can deploy itself on any river, in any city, any climate, safe in any whether, handle any vehicle (even ones designed after the bridge was deployed), with guaranteed time to cross (99th percentile under 5s), and regularly replace itself with newer version (while people are using it). It also has to be nuclear-attack resistant, and prevent 99% suicides. All built from readily available, standard components. On $100k budget, in 3 months."
The hitch in this whole thing is that down payments have gotten ridiculous, it's gotten harder to save in desirable areas because rents and many expenses have grown out of pace with income for normal folks. Even as the percentage necessary for down payments has dropped, house prices have gone into orbit so much that it hasn't kept parity.

My girlfriend and I had to buy a house for $520k, at 5% down, just for the privilege of dumping $100K into it to make it livable. And we are the fortunate ones who can do that; we're both 31 and I'd say maybe a quarter of my friends are in the same boat.
As someone with a car from 2015 that lacks both touchscreens and infotainment options due to going for the "value edition" I dread the day I have to move on from it. Of course it still has a terribly slow bluetooth connection time but I'm gonna miss real gauges and physical controls when it comes time to replace it. I also fear that it will be the last manual transmission car I've owned if those vanish from the market.
I did this a year ago, and it considerably improved my Fb feed’s signal/noise ratio.

Specific procedure I’d recommend is to make this a regular process: open fb feed, read until you find a thing which does not improves your life, click on owner (author / group) -click “friend” -> unfollow. Iterate until sanity is restored.

And one moral of this story (hi Facebook, please understand this) is that people are multidimensional. Just because you know someone once, in one context in real life, does not, actually, imply positive relationship on informational ecologies for all time in the future. “Authentic self” as defined by Facebook as a single coherent identity is a lie.
I believe there is zero doubt that somewhere the text has been saved. Not only the original text, but also various results of analysis. Since they store edit history, too, replacing it with other text would simply be an indication that you’re trying to cover it up.
I would guess that this has been demonstrated in court.
If I've tried to turn if off once, and either it hasn't worked or it later reverted, I'm not wasting any more time on it. I can press the spam button without even leaving my mail client. I don't work for these spammers, and I don't owe them anything.
>>you can't fuck your employees over with low wages like you can elsewhere

Not all Nordic countries even have minimum wage laws (Sweden, Norway). I'm not sure how you were able to construct that observation.
Ya, visit 5 states because the rest wouldn't matter. Right back to the real Tea Party.
Show HN: SaaS Blogging Platform with personal resume website
Notes on Weight Initialization for Deep Neural Networks
2D + depth. We can tell how far away the car in front of us is, but it occludes our view of cars in front of it. That’s good enough to drive, but suboptimal. If you were designing a user interface meant to show someone the positions of cars on roads – i.e. a map – you would use a bird’s-eye view, since roads are mostly 2D from that perspective.
They're not making any more land in high-demand areas.
> Is this at -2 because I'm wrong or because people lose the capacity for critical thought when the orange man is involved?

I didn't downvote, but I suspect it's at -2 because Trump is chiseling away at our rule of law and societal norms for a president. That's a big net loss for our democratic system of government, which for many of us is what matters most, far more than any D or R after a name.
I just posted similarly about down payments, but 20% seems to not generally be the case anymore. FHA loans are as low as 3.5%. I paid 5% down for a non-FHA loan.

PMI is then a thing, of course, but you can get in the door.

(This is not to say that down payments, as well as initial habilitability outlay, might not crushing. Our small, train-accessible single-family in the Boston area cost half a million dollars and we had to immediately gut the place for remodeling and for asbestos remediation, to the tune of $100K.)
The panic about the ozone layer was the correct response. It lead to the Montreal protocol which banned CFCs. Quote from a NASA page[1] about what would have happened without that CFC ban:

> By 2040, the ozone hole is global. The UV index in mid-latitude cities reaches 15 around noon on a clear summer day (10 is considered extreme today).

[1] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/38685/the-ozone-lay...
That has nothing to do with respect. On the other hand, if you "respect" organization's spelling choices, you end up with abominations like "macOS". It's better to make a habit to ignore them.
Yeah, I get enough of this as is - outside of HN.

It still blows me away how having a kid is used both as a "meaning of life" play and a "look at how much money I have" play (akin to humble bragging about a $70k BMW in the driveway). During my time living in Los Altos with three other Google engineers (in the same house) this was common place in our neighborhood.
As a GenXer, I'd like to say...

Welcome to the party.

Now what took you so long?
This might be the dumbest, most unnecessarily pedantic comment I've ever read on HN.
We all know the cliches - that millennials are lazy, entitled etc.

Whether true or not (there is definitely some degree of truth in any cliche), one thing is for sure - they didn't vote and as a result we have Trump and Brexit, and all the whining and moaning on social media, which is also what they excel at, isn't going to do squat.
That domain name looks like a phishing attack waiting to happen.
Our minds aren't really that special as engineers, we were typically shown a path to engineering from our parents or environment that lead us here. It was a real privilege to receive that pathway. That isn't so say there wasn't hard work, but the path provided ample motivation. Not so for many of our contemporaries who have the same very capable bundles of neurons in their brains but no pathway to elicit motivation to do the things we do.

There are dozens of homeless people who live in encampments right outside my window. I hate this place sometimes.
Skilled workers and safe practices. There are people all over the DIY and HGTV networks that make me wonder how they they still have all of their digits.
A less-good-than-it-would-have-been-30-years-ago life can still be a good life, easily.

Would you rather be born in the year 2050 or never exist at all?
Related to this; is not that the world is that bad (even tho it really is in bad shape), the thing is that the massive hyper-load of information is only growing and know we instantly know more about the shit that is happening worldwide when decades ago it would take even days for you to know about the war on the other side of the globe.
Google isn't following you, they're just in every store you walk into no matter what.

Imagine almost every store in your city installed something facial recognition (a la Amazon Go). This system, given to owners literally for free, was created by one company - Google - and allowed them to automatically see what products most people were looking at, what time they were doing so, and their demographic. As payment, Google also gets this data and is able to use it for their means.

Note: i'm just making this analogy. Google Analytics (probably) isn't being used for ad targeting.
I see this canned response all the time. But it's a gross oversimplification of the issue designed to keep the ignorant happy.

The cheap things from china, all your amazon crap, your iPhones and all the rest of the so called "nice things" of today's society are only gained through (near) slavery conditions elsewhere.

This delayed effect on how bad things are that is now reaching rich countries like the US, but it has been around on every other "developing" nation in the world for a long time.

I don't think we're talking about the local grocer. We're talking about multi-billion corps that can do anything. Banks that are literally "too big to fail". Industries that control entire sections of governments.

This is the endgame of capitalism and nobody ever wants to face. It's an unsustainable system that will likely end in a dystopian-like world with mega corporations controlling everything and everyone (even your salary through UBI). The theory that corporations get too big then break down resetting the cycle no longer applies because the technology evolved.

I mean, the sole purpose of a business is to generate profit.

It's not to improve human kind, to cure diseases, end the world hunger or make everyone's lives better. It was always, and always will be, in the name of profit. When we realize that profit is literally ripping people off from their work, maybe some might change their views.
When my partner needed an outpatient MRI, we got it done the next day by accepting the 11pm time slot. This was at a private hospital in Australia in 2006. We were super impressed by everything that department did to maximise utilisation. It was like a production line!
Yup, eBay was founded in 1995.
That, plus the ability to rotate, pan and zoom while you're in the middle of a selection. That's a huge win. In 3D work, you often need to select 2 or more things, and those things may be small and need precise selection. Precision multiple selection is hard.

Before this was worked out, most 3D programs offered four panes, with three axial projections, usually wireframe, plus a solid perspective view. Just so you could select. Now we only need one big 3D pane.
Yea I was disappointed when I saw it was talking about houses. I've seen a lot of cookie-cutter houses have very open plans just to give the illusion of having more space. I actually like them (if they're setup like a tri-level). Open plan offices are garbage. You have totally different goals/requirements for each.
Thanks, this is very interesting! Wish there were more details on how they achieved this...
It's because the browser disables certain features (I believe FileSystem API) which makes it easier to fingerprint.

One workaround is to clear storage in devtools (Application tab) whenever visiting NYTimes and smile that you're messing with their analytics and tracking data.
The article makes the point that first world gen-z’s and millenials are less satisfied than those in the developing world.
I feel like Hackers probably don't really care about this topic, but they are excited to see a few get punked by the unexpected subject matter.
"While I agree that there are some downsides to an open floor plan (sound, cleaning, etc)"

Sound could be mitigated at least somewhat if these rooms weren't so often hardwood floors, windows, and drywall on every surface. I'll cop to being at least somewhat above average on sensitivity to such things, but while a big space will always have a certain big space-y sound to it, it doesn't have to be a booming echo where the high-frequency sounds bounce around for seconds at a time.
It may just be a matter of data disparity - who really has more info to correlate multiple data points and triangulate you? Big G or one offline data provider?

That said, I've actually (anecdotally, I guess) seen an improvement in the speed with which my device can locate me with LineageOS + microG. I've been using Unified NLP with the GSM location backend that you can find on F-Droid.
Not sure how well this would work out if I, say, road tripped through an area without cell service - not sure if it uses ANY carrier's tower it can find (that your baseband supports) or just your carrier's towers. Waze finds me much faster on launch, though.
Am I the only one here who doesn't prefer self-service?

Although I definitely appreciate the idea of having options for people who do not share my mentality, my ideal shopping experience is where I have to do the least amount work.

I don't want to have to put my cart up. I don't want to do self-checkout. I'm not going to tell a robot what kind of vegetable I want. I appreciate being able to call a store to resolve an outlier issue.

As a consumer, I will always be willing to pay extra $$ for what I suppose is now becoming a premium perk.
You might need to explain what "Anglo" culture means in this context - is it just "British", or short for "Anglo-American"? In my personal experience, Americans can come off (to non-Americans) pretty much as you described your Dutch boss.
Gen X, having already been born at maximum pessimism, had no room for improvement.

I actually felt my needle jump off the pin for a moment on reading the headline, because it means that the Millennials aren't as stupid as the Boomers have been saying all along.

Now excuse me as I try and fail to revive the fashion and pop trends of the 1990s--a time when my purchasing power and disposable income was slightly higher than it is now, and I hadn't yet shot myself in the kneecap by having doomed Gen Z kids with another doomed Gen X.

Stirring up generational conflict is a distraction, and everyone that is alive today is responsible for what happens on this planet tomorrow... but in proportion to their wealth and influence. If you have been hoarding those for yourself, responsibility for the future is a bit more on you than on me.
A less cross-platform version of Chrome. Just what the world was waiting for.
I don't think he was complaining about the election as much as he was saying that the election system which selected the minority over the majority is just one reason people are becoming increasingly pessimistic.
The assumption is that you’re getting into the space because you’re interested and have some sort of knowledge/know-how/tech that the preexisting competitors don’t in order to you an edge/differentiator, however incremental. Otherwise, you’re right, you’re just another version of a different company.
You sound like a cheerleader. But science isn't done by seeing which side cheers loudest...
So who creates the content that goes on the screen? Who sells the devices? Who repairs them? Cars replaced horses, but created entirely new industries. How many tire companies were there before cars? I bet there are more people selling tires today than ever sold horseshoes.
> both of those rely on feeling a 3D object with your hands, which partially bypasses the 2D limitation of vision, but isn’t yet possible to emulate in VR.

That's the entire point of the comment you're responding to and the reason for Dynamicland.
It shouldn't weigh so heavily that people give up on their future, never settle down, and never own a home. The article says these generations' primary aspiration was to travel. That is naive and wasteful. It isn't a choice between greed and saving the planet, it is a choice between making responsible financial decisions and having fun. You can make responsible financial decisions while making responsible environmental decisions.
Easier for members of Gen X and Baby Boomers (note that young people in the workforce during the Recession are generally classified as the older end of the Millenials).

From the Federal Reserve Board:

> Millennials are less well off than members of earlier generations when they were young, with lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth. For debt, millennials hold levels similar to those of Generation X and more than those of the baby boomers. Conditional on their age and other factors, millennials do not appear to have preferences for consumption that differ significantly from those of earlier generations.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2018080pap...
I've been pointing out that people do this, for some time.

* https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00547.html

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14171389
This post needs to be higher up.
We are all connected.
That is not unambiguously a good thing. That's a bad thing. Think about it.

Housing is considered a good investment because it consistently has gone up in cost faster than the rest of the economy.

As this continues housing becomes more expensive relative to median purchasing power.

Unless housing becomes a bad investment, it will by definition continue to be something that a smaller percentage of people can afford over time.

We would be better off if housing became a consumption good/commodity that by default stayed roughly the same price in real dollars forever, since that's the only way housing can stay accessible to average people indefinitely.
> There are strong forces that need people to be in a constant state of worry. Power is derived from it.

Who is "deriving power" from sounding the climate change alarm? The people with the most power (the wealthy) seem to be trying to silence/defund/disempower the entire scientific community over it.
Labor is only one of many sources of value. Some other sources are technology, machinery, relationships, capital, education, experience, reputation, and efficient organization of resources. A business, by necessity, brings much more to table than the mere sum of the labor.

The managerial class is paid to efficiently organize human resources (hiring, motivating, growing, conflict resolution, scheduling, removing obstacles to labor) and non-human resources (budgeting, purchasing, etc).

The owner is paid for making sure a company is aligned with a vision, investing resources, securing funding, assuming liability, and taking risks.

Labor is worth very little without the above mentioned things. This is why people often work for others rather than themselves.
You can scroll up and down in cylinder of infinite height content, like you can scroll up and down an infinite height web page with a smartphone.

Mathematically speaking, the inside of a cylinder has an infinite area, while the inside of a sphere has a fixed area. So there's room for more stuff!
It doesn't do everything. But it does enough to be very useful.

Most people in the world are happy to call that self driving, even if it doesn't work in the snow, or park itself.

It does not solve everything, but it solves enough of the problem space that most people consider that to fulfill the MVP of "self driving car".
Maybe I'm too forgiving but I'll generally just snooze a person unless they're genuinely consistently horrible.

People change. I had friends who would post tireless political rants that just post memes now.
> "to the ones who actually do the work"

who gets to define what constitutes work?
I was born in 91 and am very happy with my life. Few things that differentiate me from my generational peers is I do not have any social media accounts outside of HN, I get all my news through podcasts of people who I trust to filter through the trash, and I am married with kids and a house.

I think the last I checked I make less than the average person of my generation so money isn't the reason I am happy. I believe that this social media phenomenon has done a great deal to steal people's joy, and society doesn't help things either.

I think having family goes a long way to contributing to my happiness. I don't worry about dating, I have next to no drama in my life from the dating game, I have three really good reasons to wake up everyday, and I have a few hobbies that keep me busy when I am not working.
Great list. Also really good - Mustie1 who does a lot of old VW "rustoration", and South Main Auto, who's a whiz with electronic diagnosis tools. I've learned a lot from these channels.
Influencers mostly succeed at influencing themselves to act like bourgeois cunts.
Your voice is of rare quality reasoning these days. It's admirable.

I see the West disintegrating now. Genuinely serious issues were snowballing for the last quarter century for it, without any sight of resolution on the horizon.

I was asked recently "What the hell has happened to the West?" And the answer I gave for that was "the West has happened... to itself"

I have no better words for that:

Whatever were the worst traits of the system, once reserved for "territorials", "colonials", and other lesser subject, they are now being turned on the Western society itself.

Whatever the West did to "the third world" it now does to itself.
When you raise venture funding based on exploiting your workforce, then you're creating the problem.