skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the late boomer side, which seems to be typical for my generation: my parents were average working class but had zero trouble affording a nice-enough-but-not-special home on a single salary earned by my father, with a little extra contributed by my mother. [1]

I went to university on a full grant that covered living expenses and fees - which were much smaller than they are now, so if I'd been in a position to pay my way it would have required a relatively small investment instead of a huge life-changing outlay.

I left university with no debt, in a fairly active job market.

I had a girlfriend who didn't do well enough at school to get into university from school, but paid pocket money for an access course that got her onto a degree - which she also graduated from with no debt.

Some time later my parents died with no debt, a house that had been fully paid off well before their retirement, and some savings.

Millennials today are expected to intern for nothing. Many leave college with absolutely crippling personal debt, and work insanely long hours. Unless they're 10%ers - at least - most have almost zero chance of affording a home with two salaries, never mind one.

In the UK people are literally starving and freezing to death. Some of them are working full time and still can't afford food.

In the US, people are literally starving and freezing to death, and also being bankrupted by health insurance.

That will probably do for metrics. If you need more, let me know.

[1] The property value of the house I grew up in is now trending towards £1,000,000.
The idea that lots of full body MRIs will necessarily lead to better discrimination of malignant vs benign anomalies assumes that the imaging is able to detect differences at all, which often is not true. Some benign and malignant abnormalities can look _exactly_ the same on imaging, particularly at an early stage, when you could make a difference, for example lung nodules. Nevermind the fact that many benign entities can undergo malignant transformation at some point in the future. Or that MRI is only a good test for a subset of cancers, CT is better for others. All these issues help explain why doctors are averse to full-body scanning everybody. It is neither cost-effective nor medically sensible.
You can do pip install git+https://github_repo_url if you want
Last I remember it was supposed to be a good software engineering practice to never actually delete data from database but just mark it as deleted.
Have some context - you are better off living in this time/place than any other time and your future children would probably be too.
I'm very interested in the first version you wrote.

It just seems like a good example of an MVP. You got the site up in Wordpress fairly quickly, modified it using PHP to your liking (did you have to in order to implement features), and then some python to actually do some work on the back end?

Very unclear, but I think that would be of interest to this audience.

edit: Apparently the rest of his blog is dedicated to this info so in case you are reading this, are as curious as I was, and didn't think to click around:

https://medium.com/@reillychase
Agree. the really great 3D interfaces we create will be 3D first and not a clumsy adaption of 2D ones.
> Firstly, life is pointless and meaningless without children

That seems like a very personal opinion you should be stating with much less certainty about other people's lives.
I imagine GP was referring to US emissions, considering that his other points were US-centric. You are correct globally.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Millennials and Gen Z are having greater difficulty achieving basic levels of economic stability that were somewhat easier for previous generations

Easier than what? Their great grandparents who lived through the Great Depression? Their grandparents who lived through Stagflation of the 1970's? Or their parents who lived through the Great Recession?
Is there a “Marie Kondo” for the digital world? Seems like something or someone that could be just as relevant if not more than organizing your physical world.
Depending on your lifestyle, some areas are just a waste of space. It's just my wife, me, and two cats (children weren't in the cards) in a ~1000 sq/ft 2br/2ba condo. It's open concept built in the late 90's and when we look around on housing/remodel shows on TV or look at floor plans for our dream home (a whole 200 sq/ft larger with a pool) the #1 thing we kill off is the damn dining room. We eat in front of the TV or at the dining counter in the kitchen like normal 'Mericans. We don't need a whole separate room wasted w/ no door and a low hanging light fixture that we might make use of a few days a year.
Why rent? You are paying that money anyway. Get a FHA loan. You could be on the other side of that equation.

Sure it seems bad for you, but in actual fact, the place you are living has gone up in value. That's unambiguously a good thing.
LOL. Even this comment reflects part of the generation. Probably you are writing this from a first world country. The selfish gene makes people blind.
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GP was not making this a US versus EU thing at all. Why are you?
> I never wanted a startup that burned money just to get acquired. I wanted one that could make me real money from the very beginning.

I agree!

Although many years back my preferred business model became developing a business so that I can sell it whole-hog to somebody else, that has never meant that I was OK with burning money (or even using other people's money in the first place).

Coming from a place of poverty is probably why I am extremely reluctant to actually go into debt for a business. My preferred method is to live lean and bootstrap up.

Before I consider selling a business, I want it to be a real, profitable business that is standing on its own. If it's not that, then I don't have anything to sell.
Thank you for putting all of that info together in a very easy way to read and to follow the sources.
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We love Matt's work. We just watched his series on ICF construction as part of getting ready for a project we have.

We also like Anna White's construction videos since she and her husband build in cold environments whereas Matt is often talking about Texas projects.
Real estate prices are getting out of control in many of the US cities with healthy job markets, it's not just the Bay Area.

Home prices in my old neighborhood in Louisville, KY have skyrocketed in the last several years as "shotgun" style homes have become trendy in the area. Last time I visited, I saw a one such home on the market for about $350K, which would've gone for roughly a 3rd of that about 15 years ago.

The housing affordability is being felt in a lot of places, not just the west coast.
I think that idea is based on how Reddit stores (or stored) comment edits, and how they would overwrite the original value.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ICZHPPTtY
And it's terrifying (or should be) to even those who are only self interested. Displacement of millions means mass migration and destabilization of larger parts of the world. The climate change and warming that cause it mean crop failures, novel diseases, and weather changes that will have the potential of affecting everyone.
> why not have both and also allow remote ? let the employee decide which one they prefer.

The article is about home floor plans, not business offices.
Best I could find... apologies for any mistakes below.

Purchasing power in the U.S. has stayed roughly the same since 1964. [0]

The median annual income for single women with children in the U.S. in 1985 was $16,431 [1]. Couldn't find information on just waiters/waitresses. I believe these are 1985 dollars? If so, that income is nearly $40,000 in 2018 dollars.

The median annual income for waiters/waitresses in the U.S. in 2018 was $21,780. [2]

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/waiters...
Part of the problem is that the economic changes have been very uneven, and I don't mean in the "social inequality" sense, I mean, the price increases are very uneven: https://www.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/...

If you want to buy a big TV and a phone, now is the best time in history. If you want a college degree, some childcare, and some medical care, it's going to cost you a lot more than it did your parents.

The other problem is that even putting sarcasm about TVs vs. health care aside, things that increase in price by 125% loom a lot larger in your budget than things that decreased by 80%, just by the sheer numerical weight. Saving $9500 on a TV (not to mention you wouldn't have even bought such a large one if they weren't so cheap to begin with) doesn't make up for the house you want costing $100,000 more.
There is actually a third way to bound the age of the universe. And that is to say that it must be older than the oldest known stars. In particular, older than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_140283.

This star is (barely) compatible with the Plank readings. It is nowhere near a fit with the new figures. So while a lot of science has to be done to reconcile the methodologies, I'm betting that the universe doesn't wind up being a billion years younger than we thought.
So is this essentially HTTP/3?
Found the guy who didn't read the article, not even the first paragraph.
If anyone is looking for a good introduction to using (FDM) 3d printing for production, this is a great video of how super-car manufacturer Koenigsegg approaches them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw6cs7opvzA

The key to making FDM parts work for your use-case is generally not buying the most expensive printer - it comes down to material selection, print orientation (others have mentioned anisotropicity which is incredibly important to understand), and designing for manufacturability.

I've spent the last three years running a 3D printing / rapid prototyping lab and love to teach people about the subject, so if anyone is interested in getting into the subject please feel free to get in touch.
I am writing from a first world country but the news source cited(Bloomberg) is from a 1st world country too, so...
Lots of reasons: risk in the new job, different benefits, different job tasks and promotion opportunities.
New installs of Debian use systemd by default. Systems which were upgraded from older releases may be grandfathered in to SysV init.
Well this should be no surprise. A lot of office workers do really dumb tasks that can be easily automated.

In order to maximize profits you cut your workforce. We will see this happen more frequently as automation continues and it will probably be different from industrial revolution.
This fails to address parent's view, and is untrue for plenty of people besides. It is not uncommon for humans to use something that turns out suboptimal in the long term.
“Over 75% drive less than 10 hours a week to supplement existing jobs. On average, Lyft drivers earn over $20 per hour.”

These statistics could be very misleading. For example let’s say one driver works 4 hours, another 6 hours, another 10 hours with all three making making $25/hr and the final one works 80 hours making $10/hour. In this scenario 75% of drivers are driving 10 or less hours a week and the mean driver hourly rate is over $20. However 80% of the hours driven are by one driver making $10/hour. This one driver is clearly the workhorse of the ride-sharing company making the bulk of the profit.
Can anyone comment on Dutch attitudes in this respect? The Dutch I have worked with could come across as very confident - even when very obviously wrong. I’ve found it a little confusing: they sound like they’re right, but what they’re saying is incorrect! In Anglo culture people tend to be a little more circumspect when there is the potential to be wrong.

I had a Dutch boss, who once said, “you never put forward something as your opinion, you always state a secondary source. Why?”. I said it was to give credence to what I was saying, because I myself am only one data source. His answer was, “oh, that is very honest”. I never really understood that.
This is worth a read. It's unusual in a statement from a politician in that it doesn't propose some action. It's just to get people to think along different lines, to prepare for action later.
Even if we can't reliably compare a time series of images today, wouldn't it be useful to start scanning now, for use as baselines in several years once the state of the art improves?

In the same way astronomers can make new discoveries by digitizing photographic plates from a century ago.
I kinda like half-height bookshelves and the like to create partitions without losing that sense of openness. In our new place I'm putting a set of half-height cabinets behind the couch to partition off the "living area" from the kitchen/dining area.
The idea that we only have 2D input doesn't make sense to me. If that were the case, how would we drive a car or ride a bike? You don't need to jump between focusing on things that are far away and up close, as Carmack says. It's totally natural.

I would argue that humans, like most mammals, are actually most at ease in an immersive 3D medium.

And in theory, the only thing stopping us from implementing something like Bret Victor's Dynamicland (https://dynamicland.org) in VR is the lack of good 3D input methods, like say a pair of sensor-ridden smart gloves.

John Carmack's argument reminds me of the early criticisms of the point-and-click interface (2D), and how at its inception it was much less efficient than the well developed command line interface (1D).

Plus, the most designers are trained in 2D interfaces so they're probably applying the wrong assumptions for 3D.
> I would have a hard time imagining an argument that rejects these claims and also demonstrates that wealth and competence do not correlate positively.

The line of reasoning makes sense. My only doubt comes from my own personal observations: I've never personally noticed a correlation between income and IQ.
> It's pretty exciting stuff, and while what NASA is using is obviously more advanced than a $300 3d printer you can get online today, it's still using a lot of the same stuff and is pretty close to what you or I could print in our house if we wanted to.

Everything is correct except for this statement! From the video it looks like they are using an Ultimaker for some of these parts, which means you can get similar results even on a $200 Ender-3 (my go-to recommendation).
It’s also an opinion piece so they can claim “it was just an opinion, not a statement of fact”
Do you feel your buying power is less than that of your parents? Other than real-estate in a popular city, has your buying power really gone down?

Also would you rather live in a society where:

A) GDP (or general productivity and availability of goods) increases by 3%. However this society has wealth inequality

B) GDP stays approximately flat or increases by only 0.1% / year but the society has perfect wealth equality.
In this dystopian future, corporate employees will all be lawyers because the only people necessary at that point are for acquisitions contracts.
The area under the reactor core was filled with water, and if the corium (molten core material) had contacted that water it would have caused a steam explosion and launched additional material outside of the reactor building.

There's an interesting StackOverflow post relating to this here: [0] That just deals with the size of the steam explosion though, not the potential effects. (And for reference, I've seen the largest explosion that did occur listed as ~10T equivalent)

0: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/480113/how-large...
Never mind that, how on earth is GDPR a bad law? Is making the bare minimum effort to safeguard customer data such a high cost of doing business?
Only if I add an item in the middle. If I'm always appending, then only the last line will show a diff, and said diff will be for the added entry.

Even in a case where I need to add an item in the middle, the diff will - again - only start where I actually added an item, and any human can readily see that the rest of the downstream diffs were from the reflow.

Of course, it'd be even better if diff tools were more aware of the format/language of the code being diff'd, at which point it'd be able to say "new element added to foo" instead of reporting on a bunch of reflowed lines.
I don’t think it is fair to compare climate change to those previous issues and conflicts you mentioned.

The fact that our society is dependent on destroying the environment and all of the related politics is a much more difficult set problems to solve than a overblown disease scare, war, or geopolitical struggle.
I second that. It’s a fantastic day out
Ideas are easy to be good. Implementation and upkeep is where Google usually struggles.
Amazing project!

For what it's worth, the Github page references to the GPU Gems book for this effect: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/books/HTML/gpugems/gpug...
I find it funny when the ad tech clearly doesn't have enough data points. I get weird ads now (on platforms where I can't block them, of course). Usually it's a drop shipped aliexpress product from a forgettably named shopify front, recently a lot of eczema treatment ads (I don't have eczema), and today I got a bayer aspirin ad. The last time I bought aspirin was 3 years ago when I had a headache and bought the biggest strongest bottle they had at CVS, generic of course.

Who even clicks on internet ads? Grandma? Kids? People who weren't on the internet when clicking a banner ad gave you malware? My family has been blocking ads since 2005, I wonder if advertisers even know if their ads are being blocked? If I were Zuckerberg, I'd lie all day about my engagement numbers, because why wouldn't you? Hire a Russian click farm to get your numbers, your board of trustees probably isn't tech literate enough to tell the difference and that's good enough to keep the stock afloat.
Incidentally, that compromise is one of the reasons why triple-deckers in the Northeast often have double doors between the large rooms in the house. (It's really nice when they're pocket doors, too, and they just slide into the wall.)
I have no idea what my plan is after I hit 30.
This is a really well laid out comment, thanks for just spelling it out.
Those are mostly native ads which is the main weakness of the post-Abram series.
There have been 4 or 5 (one is a bit ambiguous) elections where the winner lost the popular vote. [0] So no, this isn't more than any other time in US history combined. But more importantly, who cares? They lost the popular vote in an election in which the popular vote didn't count for anything. If the popular vote had counted for something in these elections, you would have gotten a different result. The candidates would have campaigned differently, and people would have voted differently. Just look at the difference in turnout between swing-states and safely red or blue states [1]. We wouldn't see this disparity if the popular vote counted for something. Complaining that the winning candidate lost the popular vote is like complaining that the team that won the superbowl had a lower free throw shooting percentage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_United_States_elect...
About a two years ago my friends and I used to scroll back into each other’s posts from the early days and ‘like’ some of the most cringeworthy posts and photos we could find. It would cause them to bubble up into everyone’s newsfeeds again. Was a fun game.

This script would have saved me some manual labour back then.

(Edit: we also used to endorse each other on LinkedIn for the most bizarre skills we could find. Toilets, divorce and animal husbandry to recall a few)
It's currently possible to view previous versions of posts, just click "# edits" in the bottom-right by the "# comments" button (neither of which look like a link)
Having seen boomers at work I think millennials are about par for the course. People in general are lazy and indolent, but I would say the latter is more true of old people who are set in their ways.
As a millennial, at least one thing that is different is that we all grew up in that brief period when the world wasn't ending. We grew up in the 90s and early noughts, when ya, there were problems, but they all seemed containable. It seemed like the adults generally knew what they were doing, and could be counted on the to the right thing.

I'd also argue (with no real basis of course) that the type of dread that climate change and mass extinction invokes is possibly of a different kind than most of the crises that you listed.
Down payments are the monkey wrench here. The requirement to have a down payment means high prices basically lock people out of homeownership, period. That in turn limits ability to build wealth at all, even at a crappy interest rate.
I live in a house with an open plan and the author of that article couldn't be more wrong about my preferences. An open concept is key to making a house usable to me.

Now, I do like it if it's not the case that my dirty dishes are literally the first thing you see from literally everywhere in the non-bedroom, non-bathroom parts of the house. Modern SF remodels often have a kitchen that has no separation of any kind from the living/dining areas, and that's not ideal. I am not a domestic god, I do often have mess in my kitchen.

But going from there to a fully walled-off kitchen, even if it has doorways instead of doors, is even worse. In any social event, someone is going to be in the kitchen some significant amount of time. Some significant amount of the time I spend just hanging out with my family is me cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. I don't want enforced isolation during those times.

Plus, a little nudge to not let mess pile up in your kitchen is a good thing.

In my ideal house, the kitchen is open to the living/dining across a wall or archway, but has its own nook that it retreats back into so that you can at least not have everything in the kitchen be front-and-center all the time.

Dining rooms per se are even worse than closed-off kitchens. They're a big waste of visual space. I am not Victorian, I do not have big formal sit-down dinner parties. Most of the entertaining or hanging-out space is the kitchen and living room, the dining room should be as fungible with that as possible.
I'll take cleaner air and no social score thankyouverymuch.
As a counter point, why should he/she bring another human in this world, fully knowing that the quality of life is going down?

And, there are already 7B+ people in this planet, why add more?
Same here. I always believed that generics were identical until one time the pharmacy gave me a generic for an SSRI. I was suddenly enveloped in physical pain in my chest and neck, so I called my doctor. She told me it happens, generics can cause different side effects and reactions, so she gave me a new prescription specifying the brand and the pain went away...until much later when there was a shortage of the brand name and I had no choice to go to the generic. And the pain came right back.
> In a nation of 300 something million, close enough to half want either candidate.

Neither of the major candidates ever has support from anything close to half of the 300-something-million population; of the total 324.5 million population, the 2016 election was like 20.03% to 19.26%.

Even of the eligible-to-vote population, the vote for the two major party candidates was about 26.84% to 25.68%.
I've been there and recently, I hope you come through at least as well as we have. My understanding is at minimum several radiologists lay eyes on before you hear anything from any of them. P.S. My wife wife says she wishes you and your wife all the best.