skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started chatting with a guy at the airport about work / careers. Within 5 minutes he started ripping on millennials and their work ethic. I am a millennial!

Sucks to be saddled with debt after college, have lower paying jobs, and still be shit on by the older generations. And I have things relatively good.
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Is it that you can't afford to buy a house or that you can't afford to buy a house in the Bay Area?
Millenial here, and I just don't understand why my generation is so pessimistic. Things are simply better than when we were children. Perhaps it's having immigrants for parents, but my life just seems great compared to my parents and my aunts and uncles.
Most people think of "self-driving" as allowing them not to pay attention to what the car is doing. Autopilot is emphatically not that, even in the limited highway settings where you can actually use it.
But death to the open-office floor plan, too.
you decided not to have kids simply because you thought they would not be able to afford to buy a house on their own? Was that really the major reason?
If a cubicle drone is making twice as much money in adjusted terms but has to pay three or four times as much for housing, they could well be coming out behind in the equation.
You mean the right-click radial context menus? Yes, those are really nice. They require much less of a feedback loop and often don't require any visual processing at all. They are also more gesture based not buttons. The affordance is very generous compared to buttons and icons.

I use a 3DConnexion Space Navigator (6 DOF) in my left hand and mouse in my right for selection when using Fusion 360 and often use the gestures on the mouse.

I guess that brings up an exception. The context switching cost. Moving from pointer to keyboard is very slow so gestures really help out in that regard. If my hand is already on the keyboard then I have less reason to want to use the gestures.
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Driverless cars could speed up traffic flow and journeys by one third
What did I say that is even remotely misinformation?

Nuclear power is safe "with proper precautions", I completely agree. The problem is that it hasn't even been a week since we've proven proper precautions are not being taken.

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-school-closed-enriched-uranium...

And anti-nuclear sentiment isn't something new, don't pretend like it's some kind of worrying trend.
This "losing the popular vote" narrative would be a lot more compelling (at least to me) if the elections were less close. It looks bad to win the Presidency and lose the popular vote, but I don't think it actually matters. In a nation of 300 something million, close enough to half want either candidate. The problems lie elsewhere. (The fact that I can say "either candidate" is part of it.)

[Edit: I should have said "Close to half the voters in a nation of 300 million want either candidate."]
Rackspace email? Why not gsuite?
> You seem to have abandoned your claim "every other country that uses nuclear power reprocesses the spent fuel".

No, I'm simply distinguishing it from the obviously false claim that every single bit of spent fuel gets reprocessed immediately on removal from the reactor. There is plenty of reprocessing actually happening now; it just isn't happening to every single bit of spent fuel that exists now.

> Why do you think that's going to happen, when nuclear is so grossly uncompetitive?

Nuclear is only "grossly uncompetitive" because it is penalized while other energy sources are subsidized. No other energy source is held to a standard of essentially zero risk. Every other energy source has killed many more people per unit of energy generated than nuclear has, yet people still insist on tying up nuclear plants in lawsuits while doing nothing at all about the harms done by other energy sources.

On a fair and level playing field, nuclear does have a signficant economic difference as compared to coal, oil, or natural gas: fuel costs are a much smaller fraction of operating costs, and amortization of the initial capital investment of building the plant is a much larger fraction of operating costs. Nuclear shares this property with solar and wind power, but it has a key advantage over those two: it can supply reliable base load power at all times.

> if cheap uranium is running out, then nuclear is in even worse trouble

Not much, because, as noted above, fuel costs are a much smaller fraction of operating costs than for oil, coal, or natural gas plants. That means profitability is much less sensitive to fuel costs.
A few 'glimpses' give A.I. agent a 360 degree view – Futurity
Why is pivoting something to be criticized? They tried something out, it failed, and found that this other use case is far more compelling.

For most startups, people would call that a success. Why is it something that's being criticized here? Just because it's Google (or Apple, or Microsoft, or any other big company) doesn't mean they know the right answer from the get-go. They're allowed to fail just as much as anyone else.
At least in my sphere of influence, the word "poor" has changed from "has nothing to lose" to "is in a position in which they have already lost quite a bit".

For example, I and many of my colleagues are battling large amounts of student loan debt; if we were truly starting from 0 and had absolutely nothing, pursuing entrepreneurship would be at worst 0 gain and wasted time, but at best a successful endeavor.

Realistically, however, many of the young and poor are starting from a disadvantaged state where in reality, taking a large risk is dissuaded by the risk of defaulting on student loan payments or shredded credit scores.

What I'm getting at is, many people would love to be truly poor rather than in the pit, and being in the pit brings a lot more risk to the average person (who otherwise might have the drive or skills to really make something worthwhile)
I am in the same boat. It should be a lot easier to scrub your FB with the default tools.
> it could have exploded making a huge portion of the continent uninhabitable

Some details and references for this would be nice. I find it hard to believe, though of course sometimes things I find hard to believe turn out to be true :-).
>Because scans are not booked wall to wall every hour of every day. //

I had a scan in the UK, and this is exactly how it was done. Mine was actually in a mobile unit set up in a car park (for several months).

It took about 20mins and I was in the ante-room getting prepped as someone else was in the scanner, someone else was in the waiting room waiting to go next. At least a couple an hour and there were a couple of shifts of workers too (I asked).

As an aside the workers were all foreign, how fortunate we were/are and how sad for those countries to lose their talent to us.
Newport class makes astronomy accessible to visually impaired
Ye, the reevaluation of prior result is a sign of good science and should be of greater prestige (i.e. more grant money) among researchers. There is a science wide bias for interesting results.

The same article also writes "Then came an unexpected turn of events" when another researcher disagrees to some degree, which is in no way unexpected.
> I'd be slightly more confident (slightly) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated

I'd be much less confident, considering that they explicitly save and make public post's edit history.
Hmm, I never thought about that - I love being in the kitchen by myself, I usually close the door to the family room, but I can see that at other times it would be nice to not be alone. Big sliding doors might be a good compromise.
Nobody is forcing a company to provide a service. You have fundamentally misunderstood this. Regulation requires that if a company does offer a service, then it is not permissible to require mandatory data collection. The company is free to stop offering that service if it cannot offer it in a legal manner.
It's surely not "some ´ether´ background radiation" but CMB:

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

And it gives us extremely precise information about the earliest times of the Universe, as well as about the whole structure of it. The scientific results from its models and results are indisputable for decades already:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Background_Explorer#Bla...

What's happening now is much more complicated story: there are two basic approaches to measure how old the Universe is, we know anyway that it's more than 12 billions of years, but they differ and the difference is less than 10 percent (i.e. around a billion years). One of these approaches depends on the CMB measurements. The other is this one from the article to which we all comment. The scientists hope that they can learn something new even from that less than 10 percent difference. But that won't invalidate the existing measurements, or make anything "completely wrong" it can only lead to some adjustments of the existing models:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/03/cosm...

Edit: re "how the scientists know it's not noise" -- CMB was estimated some 70 years ago and measured 60 years ago, for 60 years all the scientists of the world were able to check and recheck and effectively nobody can seriously dispute it. Different careful measurements by the satellites only improved the picture, and confirmed the predictions beyond any doubt (one of those I've already given). There's an article about CMB's discovery in Wikipedia, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_...

The most interesting point is: CMB doesn't behave like noise would. It has so called "blackbody spectrum" which in common speak means its spectrum has very specific shape, that nothing that is not thermal by nature would have.

https://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_cmb.html

So we know that the Universe was around 270 millions degrees hot at the moment this radiation was produced! Then the Universe expanded for billions of years which lowered the temperature of the CMB and now its temperature is only 2.7 degrees above absolute zero! The "noise" would not have such curve, and COBE mission was the first to measure and confirm it, it was amazingly good fit to the predictions, all following satellites produced even better results. It's one of the most impressive fits to the scientific predictions ever.
South Korea’s Embrace of 5G May Usher in an Era of Robot Friends
I've never seen systemd users make t-shirts against the others, send death threats, hijack any conversation where systemd might come up to advocate their side… non-systemd advocates on the other hand…
If I had known the response this would get I wouldn't have launched without it! I'll look into it over the next couple weeks. :)
I was hoping that you had a paper that didn't appear there, as the authoritative ones I see there seem to indicate that there is a minor correlation at best.
Agreed. Currently, the only way seems to be to go to each page and click the button.
Comparison with their parents' lives too, so often that seems to be the complaint.
I am also a millennial.

The work ethic problem seems to actually exist (from my limited but numerous experiences, including my own), however I am convinced that it is due to learned helplessness.

Just imagine hearing your entire life that the world is just about to end any minute now, the icebergs are melting, everything is polluted, everything is so very bad, financial depression, no jobs for you, etc etc.

Seems like these generations are under massive assault of negative information every second of their lives.

Is it any surprise suicide deaths are a leading cause of death for younger adults? Sort of difficult to have good work ethic with chronic depression.
John Carmack:

> Last year, I argued that cylindrical panels were surprisingly effective, and we should embrace them for VR Shell UI. There was a lot of push back about giving up the flexibility of putting UI wherever you want in 3D, and curtailing the imagined future world of even more 3D interfaces, but the argument for objectively higher quality with the native TimeWarp layer projection kept it from being a completely abstract design question.

Perhaps something similar to this in 2D interfaces: I miss the original iOS’ embossed buttons with highlights and shadows that made their clickable-ness clear, and find the text links we have now inferior. Older people I know who have used iOS from the beginning also lament this change.
I think it would be good for you to speak with TVCs from disadvantaged groups and ask them if they have been subject to mistreatment. I did when I worked there, and a lot of people are subtly and not so subtly mistreated by other employees. A female TVC I know was subject to unwanted sexual comments, and when she complained she was subject to retaliation by her FTE manager. TVC is just a different employment agreement yet many TVCs are treated as lesser than FTEs.
Once you account for self employment tax, gas, wear and tear on the car, and a total lack of job benefits, an Uber driving being paid $50/hour probably makes less than someone getting paid $25/hour in a steady job. For sure they would be making wayyy less than the top %5 of Americans.
In elementary (late 80's) were constantly propagandized that the whales were going to be extinct, the ozone layer was going to be gone, and killer bees were going to get us all.

Not a peep of optimism that we could solve problems. It was presented as inevitable.

There are strong forces that need people to be in a constant state of worry. Power is derived from it.
Show HN: A set of decorators for debugging Python code
At this point, while I carry a Medium account, I refuse to log into it out of principle.
And some languages did even stranger things.

For example COBOL's ALTER statement allowed you to modify the target of a given GO TO. The result is that any given GO TO could theoretically transfer control anywhere in the program, based on a statement that could have appeared anywhere else in the program.

Yes, this was used in production. In code that handled real financial transactions.
I don't think your anecdote is reflective at all.

On Youtube, Daily Driven Exotics is one of the largest automotive channels and I would suppose you would consider all the antics you see on that channel to be quite obnoxious. Plenty of Americans consider everything they see of that channel as "wow what a cool guy/car".
First-past-the-post voting makes "either candidate" inevitable. The only real way to fix it is to switch to instant runoff voting, proportional voting with parliamentary coalitions, or other systems that represent voter desires in a proportional or ranked way.
If you let sensationalized news stories dominate your worldview, you will give in to apathy. If your strongest moral convictions are about events you cannot influence, redirect those convictions to something that is inside your locus of control.

What I urge people is: be conscientious in your day-to-day tasks. If you can see your efforts contributing to people's happiness, the apathy will disappear. Society is built of individuals; if these bricks do not care for the health of the structure, it will sag or collapse.
This is the best approach to bookmarking I've seen yet.

I manage a multi-author blog, and I've tried lots of different ways to share story ideas with the authors. This provides an easy way to send out the day's reading.

Whatever revenue model you need to make this viable long-term, I hope it works out. I'd gladly pay a subscription price for this service.
> shrinking CO2

[citation needed]

Global CO2 emissions are nowhere near peaking, let alone shrinking.
What a funny coincidence! Lawyer and MBAs are the 2 highest paid careers by an order of magnitude according to another link on HN[0]

[0]https://www.zippia.com/research/dead-end-careers/
Client-side prediction, interpolation and lag compensation for multiplayer games
Both Rowling nor Winfrey took routes to financial success that are more open to poor people than starting a startup is, but it's true that in 1998, 23 years into her career, when Winfrey was already world-famous, she co-founded Oxygen Media, which was eventually acquired by NBC for almost an Instagram. So I don't think that fulfills the stated goal of "a startup that exited successfully(IPO or Acquisition) by now and that the founder(s) were living below poverty line or on social welfare".
People's homes were much less luxurious, as their lifestyle. A lot of the things we take for granted the people at the time they only dreamed about.
I work in a lab that has a large variety of printers from hobby grade to Stratasys FDM and resin SLA, polyjet.

You're right that the stratasys machines are unimpressive in their quality and precision; I can get a better end part in many cases with a $300 Prusa clone than a $25k F370.

However you're also right that their consistency is their main strength, and in my opinion this is why they are worth the money (if you need high throughput and low failure rate). The Stratasys printers we have are easily the most reliably machines we run, and have a close to 100% success rate while being completely hands off. The calibration routines, heated build chamber, and disposable build plates are key here.

The other area where Stratasys leads is with soluble support. I haven't found any generic material that comes close to SR-30. PVA is an absolute nightmare for reliability. If anyone has found something that they are happy with, please let me know.
FreeBSD developers are actually looking at something like systemd themselves. The fact that systemd itself doesn't run on it is just the consequence of POSIX being inadequate for its implementation, since it relies on a bunch of Linux specific features, like cgroups etc.

I am personally in the camp that doesn't mind that, Linux users should get the best possible software given their system capabilities, not the lowest common denominator one just for the sake of it. (Free)BSD developers are also not looking to make sure their stuff works with Linux, which I think it's a valid approach.

GNOME itself does exist on the BSDs, by the way knocking down the argument of systemd being a hard dependency of GNOME along the way.
The RattlesnakeOS instructions for unlocking my Pixel 1 were pretty straight-forward to me... except for figuring out that the "Zip: unable to allocate space for file to ...: No space left on device" error message from flash-all.sh/`fastboot flash` wasn't referring to anything on the phone, but to $TMPDIR on my laptop. I gave my $TMPDIR more space, and the whole process went smoothly.
Formal verification is the future, and always will be.

The gap between what's doable and writing all software that way is epic, and it's not at all clear to me that its the best way forward.

Software is (potentially) about creating what didn't exist before, nailing everything to the floor based on past experience isn't going to lead anywhere worth going.

Maybe part of the solution is writing software that's not verifiable or rejected. Probably, since it has to be something we didn't try yet.
The point is that those who own the channel and/or server can enforce E2EE. They own the data. Its also possible someone on an IRC client is running a compromised server. Then you're also back to square one.

Given we're talking in circles I'll withdraw from this discussion.
Toponyms often survive after a new language fully replaces the language of a people.

BTW Serbia is not really "north" in the Balkans. But still, it's pretty far away: on the opposite side of the Adriatic see and of the entire Italian peninsula (etruria is on the tyrrhenian coast)
>For example you mention rising sea levels. Do you own ocean front property or did you just list that for some abstract reason?

I agree that we need balance in everything, but it's not too far fetched to think climate change will lead to mass refugee movements and result in a pretty turbulent world.
Can't give you solid numbers, but I'll tell you what it feels like: Housing costs everything I've got, Medicine is going to cost everything I'm going to have, and the proceeds of any advanced education I get will belong to a bank, not to me.
submit a pull request :-)
China is the future. Your kids would have no chance. It's the correct choice to forfeit now.
This is a great idea! Any plans for a bookmarklet to get multi-browser support?
I love our 1989 built open great room plan.

Though we never use the "formal" dining room or formal living room as intended. They are/were used for craft rooms, playrooms, exercise rooms, temp storage, office space, and so on over the years.
The utilization could also be much lower. If not enough people need to sign up for each and every day, then it will not be full. It's extremely unlikely the needs in a region match the capacity anywhere near 100%. Such a tight capacity would result in many problems, so reasonable planning would have excess capacity to deal with busy seasons/holidays/weekends/etc.

Just like the hospital case, things like this likely follow a Poisson distribution, and it is therefore reasonable to assume similar usage patterns.

Have a link with data for your claim? I looked and found none.
I don't think the future is going to be a better place either, but I don't buy for an instant that it's a good reason for you to not have kids, or the actual reason you don't have any. Firstly, life is pointless and meaningless without children, or as a fallback without taking care of others. And secondly, why should you, who are aware of this, be the ones ending up not reproducing, essentially mimicking the storyline behind Idiocracy on steroids?

IMHO you've other reasons to work out, and the reasons you put forward are only an excuse.
Not sure where I heard it (probably some podcast), but Basecamp is rewritten every few years from scratch.
True although I've been having traditional Korean meals (mostly rice and lightly cooked vegetables) in America for decades. Having Korean supermarkets within driving distance is one of the hidden benefits of living in California.
I'm not the OP, and they may be overstating statistics (happy to be shown otherwise). At the same time, wage stagnation is no myth:

"From 1973 to 2013, hourly compensation of a typical (production/nonsupervisory) worker rose just 9 percent while productivity increased 74 percent. This breakdown of pay growth has been especially evident in the last decade, affecting both college- and non-college-educated workers as well as blue- and white-collar workers. This means that workers have been producing far more than they receive in their paychecks and benefit packages from their employers."[0]

"The minimum wage peaked in inflation-adjusted value in 1968, when it was equal to $10.15 in 2018 dollars. [...] As of 2018, the federal minimum wage was worth 28.6 percent less than in 1968" [1]

"While the cost of a four-year degree exploded to $104,480 [from $52,892 adjusted for inflation], real median wages only went from $54,042 to $59,039 between 1989 and 2016." [2]

Heavy childcare costs [3]

"In U.S., wage growth is being wiped out entirely by inflation" [4]

[0]https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/raising-the-federal-minimum-...

[2]https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2018/07/24/pric...

[3]https://data.oecd.org/benwage/net-childcare-costs.htm

[4]https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/10/america-w...
If you find a DEC Alpha do the world a favor and just set it on fire.
It’s not a literal civil war. But as a TVC for two years, I felt like the treatment of TVCs was an important issue that was not fully appreciated by management. It felt kind of like a class war inside the company.
Wow! Thanks for the tip. I've been using it every day at work since you posted this. Makes it much easier to compartmentalize things.
That sounds so ridiculous compared to Germany, where grocery stores aren’t even open 7 days a week.