skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick annotation here:

> There are things that matter more, like anything surrounding the fact that running concentration camps is outsourced to for-profit corporations[0], never mind the camps themselves. How about Amazon paying anti-union astroturfers to post on Twitter[1], or Walmart firing everyone they can who's pro-union[2]. How about serious issues over climate change denial at the highest levels?[3][4][5]

All of these examples were found by searching just one site.

The issues you mention are covered in mainstream media. You don't even need to look hard to find them. Even CBS is covering this stuff. You can argue that by percentage we're spending too much time talking about dumb stuff, and I'd agree with that. But its not hard to find reporting that's more substantial. Check out the NYT's politics section, just as an example.

So I'm not sure I understand this point of view, at all, because none of these issues are fringe debates, they're all mainstream issues that are commonly referenced in popular media. We did have large amounts of coverage about stuff like family separation, and we've continued to have major coverage of it since. Even Fox covered family separation at the border (although they obviously weren't as critical as most other news sources)[6].

If the point of the media moguls is to get us to forget that climate change is happening; again, they're doing a really bad job, given that climate change and the Green New Deal has become one of the biggest talking points of the entire Democratic party.

The difference between how the US News and Chinese news covers institutional problems and rights-abuses is a really strong argument in favor of establishing a universally free press. Free press talks about internal problems. State press does not.

[0]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbjq4n/the-immigrant-crac...

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59npad/amazons-creepy-twi...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb8y9a/the-walmart-subred...

[3]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzp7ag/louisianas-climate...

[4]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bmev9a/kentuckys-climate-...

[5]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/53vd7n/maines-climate-cha...

[6]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/what-trumps-zero-tolerance-...
What does being white have to do with predominant parenting practices? If you would like to point out differences in parenting practices by race/wealth/class and possible causes for said discrepancies, then please do so.
When you read The Guardian, you know that every question they ask about the current ills of the world, will have the blame directed toward "Thatcher and neoliberalism", except occasionally when it is the fault of "neoliberalism and Thatcher".

The Guardian has good journalism, but it is not a useful place to get interesting or insightful discussions of such topics. You are either already in the choir it is preaching to, or outside the church and completely bewildered that people can believe in such a strange world view.

As to whether Britain has been socialist, my preferred measure is the fraction of govt 'control' to GDP. The 'control' means normal govt spending plus the production of nationalized (hence often also unionized) industries. Just looking at govt spending to GDP shows the chaotic socialist 1970s, the Blair-Brown escalation early this century, and the inexorable growth of welfare spending:

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/5326/economics/government...

Any country where the govt controls ~40% of national production is certainly socialist. Obviously countries like France are much worse, where direct govt spending is >55% plus all their ownership shares in industries, including railways, utilities, banks, engineering and newspapers:

https://tradingeconomics.com/france/government-spending-to-g...
I think Racket is probably a good bet for a 'batteries included' Scheme dialect (and I think rather than Racket2, including more batteries would attract more people to Racket, but I digress...) - it has good crossplatform GUI options, for instance.
I have three school age kids and I'd put the difficulties of modern parenting into two bins:

1. Increasingly, both parents work full time and don't/can't rely on family for child care. The "and" is critical here, because in the past you might have had a single parent or dual income parents, but also had grandmothers and aunties as support. An increasingly mobile workforce, and smaller families mean that familial support structures are dwindling.

2. "Being a kid" is illegal. If you're under 12 in most of Virginia, you can't be unsupervised by an adult for more than three hours and can't be unsupervised overnight until you're 16. States have been turning schools into prison-lite since at least the 90s [1]

2.a. Other parents are your worst enemy in this case. I can't tell you how many times a "concerned" parent has approached one of my kids - while I could see them - about if they were lost, because there wasn't a parent literally hovering over them.

That doesn't even get to all the insane competitiveness of everything that keeps everyone on edge.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/how-ame...
I don't know enough about We. Aren't they a real estate company?
>> I'm so glad I was able to grow up in the (sadly last) "be home for dinner, be back by dark" generation.

My grandfather collected bells - the ones they had in the old schoolhouses 100 years ago (he'd get them when the schools closed). I grew up in the suburbs but we had a steel bell about 1m diameter on our front porch. For grins mom would ring it occasionally at dinner time. You could hear it 3 streets over. She didn't always know where we were. Sometimes other kids would ring it at night and run away - if you thought ringing doorbells was annoying....
This is far far too heavyweight. All you need is nsnotifyd and a script to automatically do an AXFR and commit the zones to your source control of choice.
There was recently a video posted of Interslavic being used with a Bulgarian, a Polish and a Croatian.

https://youtu.be/NztgXMLwv4A
Also astounding is the number of programmers who program over the phone. Approximately zero.
You can't compare starting up a statically-typed, compiled Swift repl to those other dynamic, interpreted languages -- it's doing a lot of things that running a normal, compiled Swift program wouldn't do, and that dynamically-typed Clojure repl doesn't do (even though it's slower).

The Swift repl is essentially a debugger running a compile-run cycle on each entered expression. Some statically-compiled languages have slow compilers but extremely fast runtime execution (Rust, and to a lesser extent C++, come to mind).
Are you aware this is a retrograde sect?
Yeah, I've been using racket/gui a lot and it would be a real drag to use GTK ffi bullshit or whatever instead.
It's the danger of building your entire business on someone else's platform.

Now Android is a bit more open than Apple's App store since on can install third party apps outside Google Play, but I personally always got an answer from Apple, even if it took 3/4 weeks, every-time there was an issue with a deployed application.

Google? Unless you know somebody there or you are a big shot it's impossible to contact them, and they don't want to talk to you anyway. And one can only go so far with Twitter shaming...

Good luck to the OP, because he's going to wait a long time for an answer...
Like a flock of birds? I get it!
I'm unsure but I think 6502's are available as cores for semi and full custom IC's. Where the the processor core and memory is fully laidout. Bonus runs with a GHZ clock which gives you the ability to twiddle bits like mad.

So outside of retro computing you won't see a 6502 IC in the wild. But they likely are buried deep in nondescript IC's
Did anyone see the strange disclaimer at the bottom? It reminds one of ancient BBS or online flamewars.
Liane Russell, Who Studied Radiation’s Effects on Embryos, Dies at 95
I only know 6502 in the Atari 2600 programming context. It's such a great pair because the 2600 hardware is very unique, so it gives you fun problems in that domain as well.
So just add a record separator at the end of each line?
And yet there was "danger, scare the crap out of people" then too.

Don't take candy from a stranger. Razor blades in apples…

Unless it's a difference in degree, that alone is not what has changed.

To be sure we seem to be a more fearful society then we were then.
2O21: A Spacex Odyssey [DeepFake]
FWIW, that is almost exactly the opposite of what any careers advisor I've ever met would tell a new graduate applying for their first job. Particularly things like lying on the application are big no-nos. That's potential grounds for dismissal if it ever comes out and it will damage your credibility later on if word gets around.
That’s a hell of a clickbait headline for a supposed paper of record. I don’t even disagree with the premise. It doesn’t make it less disgusting though.

That aside, the weight of this sits on the parents, not society. Parents dump their children into scholastic programs and extra curriculars not because of the results, they do so because they’re lazy and refuse to do the tasks themselves. They think it’s difficult to discipline children and would rather pay someone to watch their child scribble with crayons while they sip a latte then spend an hour actually reading to them.

This also leads to them feeling like the time a child spends “doing nothing” is a bad thing. Far from it. That’s when a child learns to be bored. Show me a child that’s never been bored and I’ll show you one that’s never going to be independent. The first step of independence is occupying the space between your ears.
It also means "Resulting in good fortune; lucky" in which sense the word fits perfectly. https://www.wordnik.com/words/fortuitous
I mean, considering the era they quoted, I would say that black people might've had a bit more trouble raising kids than white people in the 1950s-1970s for reasons I hope would be incredibly obvious.
I’ve known many smart IT folks that say they don’t or won’t code more than a batch script.
Columbine, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe, and Red Lake are the mass shootings of my lifetime to take place in schools. Virginia Tech and another community college also saw mass shootings, if you want to include tertiary education.

Note that three of these are in the top 10 (and 2 in the top 5) if you rank them by deaths.
Exactly. I've been arguing this for awhile.

I'd go more specific than startups, to narrow in on those who are doing something unusual, such that they know they'll have to implement nontrivial stuff from scratch, no matter what language and off-the-shelf libraries/frameworks they use. That's one of the places that Racket can be a win.

Related to that, I've also been trying to get people to stop saying "batteries included", because that's misleading, and sends the wrong message about what the actual relative strengths are.

In practice, I suspect the initial startup adoption will largely be chance/serendipity, until there's at least one great startup success story, to interest and inspire confidence in other startup efforts. (I have one great success story, which was due to such serendipity, but it's a non-public system, and I've been milking that one way too long already in promoting Racket.)
At least childhood runs well into your 30’s today.
You raise a good point, and I want to be clear, I fully understand that everything involves tradeoffs. Synthetic fibers from washing fleece blankets and clothing are a major source of plastic pollution. With current sewage treatment systems, some of this waste is caught, but not enough. Having cleanable filters on a washing machine's discharge water would be an inexpensive, easy fix, but as far as I know, none currently exist in the consumer space.

But before we throw the baby out with the bathwater, we also have to remember that synthetic clothing keeps people clothed and warm for less environmental impact than most natural fibers- cotton is a resource-intensive crop that has its own waste and pesticide problems, for example. There are a lot of optimizations to be made.
Why Hong Kong’s airport was a good target for protesters
Capital flight is easily challenged if you have the cojones.

Paper assets require a supportive legal framework to transfer them usefully. Imagine creating a blacklist of tax evaders with the sort of teeth we see with, say, the sanctions on Iran/Venezuela/the DPRK. Shut down their economic life until they'll yield a useful cut.

Physical assets can't easily be schlepped across national borders without anyone noticing.
Simplicity? - it has some many addressing modes. Pretty much forced into zero page+Y, but zero page is so limited.
Direct code modification, i.e. counters within the code was the next most common.

Of course division was an art. That being said I enjoyed it alot and still know quite of the opcodes (hex) by heart + the clock count of many instructions.
Enormous amounts of furniture are made of plastic. Not just outdoor patio furniture.

Storage containers of all kinds.

Fabrics. From clothes to sofas to window shades to backpacks to fake "pleather". Less and less natural materials are used in fabrics these days.

Signage such as large vinyl billboards or building-covering ads.

Big electric appliances such as vacuum cleaners are mostly plastic these days.

Cables and pipes of all kinds, both indoor and outdoor and under ground. Not big objects, but there are many of them.

Composite materials. Things like Corian (a kind of silica-plastic composite) is popular in kitchens.

You mentioned coatings. So much furniture is industrially coated with polyurethane or similar plastic polymers.

Plastic is absolutely everywhere.

Plexiglass and other brands of acrylic glass.
> It does - in Google Cloud.

More than that, I suspect.

I, personally, will NOT allow my team to use any Google service, API, etc. for business purposes as it can be summarily revoked. Microsoft and Amazon can do this too, but it seems like the probability is much lower.

I imagine I am not alone.
Kudos to you -- much respect. I was an adult leader when my son was a Scout and I went on a number of weekend campouts and 1 week of Scout summer camp. One of the big challenges I saw was to get the boys to leave their electronics behind. Nevertheless, we had some really fun outings and the boys were able to enjoy the outdoors.
I agree, a better title might be something like, "We Have Ruined Life". But I guess that's a tiny bit melodramatic.

Still, start with the subtitle - I'd be surprised if you don't relate to it:

"[A]an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. Of course they’re miserable."

With just those sentences, there's nothing to indicate that the author is talking about children, and the article continues as it started. It says that children are more depressed than before, but who isn't? It says that suicidal ideation and attempts have increased among children since 2007, but that also sounds like something that adults have shared.

It points to the lack of a safety net and a lack of help for parents, but is that lack of stability really unique to parenting? Doesn't it suffuse every part of our lives, including our families?

I'm curious - does anyone here feel like you could actually rely on communal structures for anything in a time of need? Anyone in the States?

On a personal note, this sort of lack of a shared community is why I'm moving soon, although I don't seriously expect anything to be better in a different location. People are people everywhere, and maybe that's our problem - when our reward systems get hijacked to divert more and more of our time to the highest bidder, we end up collectively helpless and anesthetized.

Didn't Marx once say that "religion is the opium of the people"? Well, religious participation has been dropping like a stone lately - maybe twitter has supplanted that role. And to think that we used to use the term 'holy war' as an ironic way to talk about how people wasted their time with ideological internet arguments - it's not so funny now, is it?
Some of the examples shown were obviously bad, but others I (as a non-recruiter) thought were pretty tasteful and honestly would be pretty good at getting the candidate hired.

e.g. Valentino Bogliacino Bueno's highlights on his resume: recruiters are going to skim through his resume and he's catering to that behavior by putting the highlights of his resume prominently up front and center
I have high hopes for a constructed language to someday become the dominant language. But I think it would need to be heavily modelled along multiple dimensions, serious computational power would need to be brought to bear on it to make it accessible and useful, and it would need to be tested on multiple focus groups with wildly different first languages, etc.

I think there would be huge gains if a language was designed right. It could give us the tools to communicate complex ideas effectively for example, and perhaps make it easier to reduce ambiguity. Numbers 1-10 could be single syllables (or even shorter?) to take advantage of our auditory memory. etc etc
What would you say your typical response is to 2.a.? I'm anticipating this a bit when I do eventually have kids.

Also, please elaborate on the insane competitiveness. This entire subject fascinates me (and others?) greatly, as I really want to have the best grasp I can of what I'm in for.
Line-clamp: multiple-line text truncation
Working with Clojure: Learning Functional Design
"Unless it's a difference in degree"

Let your kids play outside by themselves or walk to school, and get reported to Child Protective Services. It is very much a different world these days.
Show HN: Drogon becomes one of the fastest web frameworks
With five kids of my own, I can certainly say that an hour of play would reduce the perfectly groomed worlds of most people to rubble while leaving them in tears. That’s not to argue against play it’s just that you have to accept that it’s not quite something you can post to Instagram.
That works at deeper levels of the game. But in level one, it's not always advisable to hold too hard on this move.

Better to assume that most players on Tinder want Criterion, but pick Netflix.
At least it's still in the ballpark! Compare with 'gift' or 'worry'.
Am I the only one who read the title of this article and immediately thought of https://media.tenor.com/images/3bc06466fab83db4d2192334e877e... ?
It is sometimes used like “lucky” because people who have no idea what it means get it confused with “fortunate” and use the two interchangeably.

If you want to use it to mean “lucky” it should be in the sense of “a purely accidental thing that happened to be good”, not just any good thing that happened.

If I travel to a foreign city on a whim and meet my future spouse there, that might be fortuitous. (It would also be fortuitous if I travel on a whim to a foreign city, get hit by a truck, and end up paraplegic.) If I train for years and finally manage to achieve my dream of running a marathon, that is not fortuitous.

Your link offers the definition “Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.”
A real cost that can be mitigated by breaking work into smaller chunks at first, and firing quickly.
A few years ago I (jokingly) argued that the way to make a killer app today is to take something good and make it bad.

Take YouTube and allow people to only upload videos of a few seconds: Vine

Create a blogging platform where people can write only 2-3 sentences per blog post: Twitter

The "Yo!" and "Die With Me" apps seem to fit right in.
Do you know what the composition of the other 98% looks like? i.e. accidental firings at home, murders, suicides, etc?
What I've observed: they don't want any type of failure for their kids.

I'm a Scoutmaster, and I have one parent who lashed out at me because I asked him not to interfere when the Scouts were trying to do something for themselves.

I didn't let that affect me, I just thanked him for his feedback. Thankfully, I have the support of everyone else in the troop.

What saddens me, is seeing first-hand how bad these parents are for their kids. I feel bad for them. Those kids are going to grow up broken.

This parent's kid only has fun when his parent isn't there. I've never seen him with a smile when his parent is around.
> controlled remotely from the cloud sounds to me like shadow-workers.

<shrug>

One worker can drive dozens of scooters to chargers over the course of a day. China has lots of people and low labor costs.
Fwiw, you can enjoy the author's work in the upcoming Dark Crystal series.
Could you tell us more about Detroit Beyond Human ?
Yeah, it's about control. I tend to prefer approaches where I control the underlying platform. Unfortunately that's not always practical. Certainly not if you're marketing mobile apps to a large audience.
Google is starting to look like a case study in how not to do customer service.
Yes they did. They are also a tiny drop in the bucket of child gun homicides, an even smaller drop for child gun deaths, and an incredibly small bump in child deaths overall.
I have long envisioned vended self balancing scooters, they would be summoned and appear like magic.
> Kids need time with their friends away from parents. I'm so glad I was able to grow up in the (sadly last) "be home for dinner, be back by dark" generation.

Completely agree with your comment, but "sadly last" here is not accurate unless you're talking about North America and maybe Europe.

I live in Japan and it's quite normal, even in a big city like Tokyo, to let kids play on their own until it gets dark. I feel quite lucky to be in a country not yet afflicted by this disease that has hit all of North America and (I hear) Europe as well - a disease of over-protecting kids to the point of suffocation.

People need to call this trend for what it is. They're not doing the next generation any good, and probably lots of harm.
2.b the number of parents who feel it’s important to tell me my kids shoes are on the wrong feet. Yeah I know... how many times do you want me to put them back correctly only to have my kid switch them around?
Wearable sensors detect what's in your sweat
Although I am starting to get out of my depth, my impression was that ZFC itself is (per Godel's results) inconsistent or incomplete. Here is some research to this effect:

If this is indeed the case (as it seems to my unprofessional first glance to be) then mathematics does not in fact have a solid foundation, despite its appeal to ZFC.

I'd love to hear a professional logician weigh in on this, if there are any on here.

[1] - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Costas_Drossos/post/Is_...

[2] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0494
I find it off-putting when political candidates submit an unprofessional picture for the Voters Pamphlet. By unprofessional, I mean not wearing a decent shirt, for example.
If we burn, you burn with us
The one I have now, when it finishes will always do its six loud beeps. Even opening the door or pressing stop doesn't prevent the beeps.

I try to open the door when there's one second left to avoid the beeps.
I restricted my comparison to homicides only. They're basically statistically insignificant compared to the other much more common causes of child firearm death.
This seems to also be fear mongering as for example teen suicide is still down from the early 90’s. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm

Things are different, but that does not always mean they are worse.
As far as I know, there’s also no evidence that active shooter drills make students safer.