skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's reduce economics to its barest rudiments: I'm pretty sure a worker could buy a house and support a family in 1950 on a single, average 40 hour a week salary; this was probably also true even as late as 1970. How many workers in the modern economy can buy a house and support a family on 1/4 of a 40 hour a week salary?

Those "productivity" numbers are obviously cooking the books bullshit. Either that or they're not measuring the right things. If the bare rudiments; food, housing, family creation cost the same or more, but we claim productivity has increased because ... I dunno we can sit on our fat asses and watch netflix instead of going to a movie theater: that's not measuring the right things.

Edit add: even assuming all the productivity gains have only benefitted, say, the top 10%, you'd see more people who could buy a house and make a family working 10 hours a week.
The thieves climbed up to the second floor and smashed a window. I'm not sure what kind of security could have prevented this.
> So I wonder if what you suggest would require some accomodation. E.g. have the 'on-call' parent sleep in the same room as the baby, and the other one can sleep in another room with the door closed.

> Is this what you mean by saying that both parent need not be waken up? or are there some other methods that would help out with this?

That's what I meant by "Assuming you have the space for it...". If the baby is in a separate room and there's space for a bed or mattress, whoever is "on-call" stays there and the other parent gets an uninterrupted nights sleep. Or the reverse and the "resting" parent goes and sleeps on the couch. 7-8 hours uninterrupted on a couch wins over repeated interruptions on a bed.

Same system works if you have a grandma visiting to take over for a night. There's no merit badge given out for everyone being equally sleep deprived. It's just worse for everyone, including the baby.

If the mother is directly breast feeding then likely she's going to be taking the heavier end of this load. If the baby is formula fed or she's pumping, there's more leeway to switch off.
AIM was one of those unique things, it was 'cool' even though it was created by AOL.

AOL was the lamest online service, it was what your grandma used. No self-respecting hacker or power user would use AOL. But everyone used AIM.
You forgot my favorite: senior people leaving for greener/less stressful pastures.
Or technology. If things like renewable energies and lab grown meat become cheaper and of higher quality than the natural/carbon emitting version then that changes the equation dramatically.

But I agree "everyone emit less carbon and hamstring your economy" will not work without literal worldwide fascism.
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Because I don't believe people and businesses can accomplish the individual environmental goals, much less fast enough, on their own. If human contribution to climate change is a result of aggregate behavior, then we're talking about drastically changing the micro behaviors (what you can eat, how you travel, no black markets, etc etc) of everyone on earth. I believe that can only be accomplished through extreme authoritarian control. As people start realizing they can't do it on their own and the various climate deadlines approach and pass, I believe they'll be more pliable to extreme forms of government.

>but devil's advocate - is fascism worse than literal extinction?

That's the question everyone will have to answer, and it probably boils down to the core of that person's philosophy. People who say "no" though should really consider all of the ugly side-effects that result from all-powerful authoritarian entities being able to control lives on a micro level.
>We're there tanks back then?

No, we're here taking potshots at each other on the Internet.
select array_to_json(array_agg(row_to_json(t))) from (select * from name) t

seems to work...
I'd be very interested to know what experts think of Peter Naur's Turing Award lecture (entitled "Computing Versus Human Thinking"), which has a thesis along similar lines to the article. It certainly has plenty of the hallmarks of a crank - a guy working in a field other than the one he's a recognised expert in, can't get anything published, uses his award lecture for the field he is a recognised expert in to sneak his ideas into the CACM, &c.

And yet despite that it seems quite enticing as an idea. I remember being particularly struck by the concept that emotions consist of a closed feedback loop between the nervous system's control over and sensing of the body. Think about this next time you are at the dentist and I think you'll agree that it feels like it could explain a lot.
Apologies I am a Brit, how about Obelisk instead? :)
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This opinion is from a man whose father was one of the procession students that night.
I don't think my opinion about HongKong is absolutely right, but I can say I know much clear about what really happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
And those two things are irrelevant.
Iraq is hardly a US vassal state any more. At this point Iran probably has as much or more influence.
Why are you presenting a false dichotomy?
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Yeah, that's ridiculous. Who actually does that and is capable of sticking to it?

To me the best way of learning stuff is diving head first and playing around with it, making projects with it, and then going back and learning more theory when I start to understand why it's important.
I don't blame you for this because you're probably in the US, and probably not in agriculture, but we are having crop failures. In the US. Massive ones. It's not just heatwaves, but increased thunderstorm sizes (hail) and increase rainfall during vulnerable planting and harvesting periods. A lot of this spring was washed out in parts of the US Midwest.

Globally, it's much worse. People are showing up from Central America because of crop failures. That is climate change induced human migration. Syria collapsed because of climate change based crop failures. The "Arab Sprint" was in large part because of agricultural productivity issues due to climate change. Large cities in Africa and south Asia are running out of water.
1. Even if NPV is a good idea, this is the wrong way to do it. Doing it the wrong way means legal chaos. Doing it the wrong way means it can probably be undone or made worse the wrong way.

2. George Mason vs. Elisabeth Warren. James Madison vs. Jay Inslee. These match-ups aren't even close.

3. I don't think the results will match the intentions.

For point 1 this seems like parts of Obamacare. Whether you support it or not, enforcing/creating parts of it via executive order means it can be unenforced/dismantled via executive order. This isn't a direct comparison, my point, if you base something on legally weak and questionable methods you will end up with weak and questionable outcomes.

Another way I look at point 2, can Justin Beiber rewrite Mozart and improve upon it? There are very few political intellectuals I would put on par with the founding fathers, and sadly most of those are not politicians. The founders' system has worked very well for centuries, the USofA has faults sure, but from ragtag rebel colonies to world super-power, this part is working fine. We have many problems, isolate the variables, I don't think the EC is the cause.

Point 3, this is mostly a party issue, Democrats support it, Republicans do not. Of the 16 states to pass it through legislature 15 had Democrat governors, the single Republican governor vetoed. I think it is safe to say the elections of Bush and Trump, without winning the popular vote, are the big driving factors for the NPV. I don't think NPV will have the intended effect. I think people are wrongly taking new rules and applying old stats but if you change the rules of the game you can't expect players (candidates and voters) to play with old strategies. A lot more Republicans will show up to vote in solidly blue states where currently voting for an R is a waste of time.
When first sentence is a lie, why should you read the rest?
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> "unnecessary code adds to both vulnerability surface & footprint"

I wholeheartedly agree with this. If there is unnecessary code, there's no reason to keep it.

I'm more directing my gripes towards packages that have highly desirable, well-audited add-ons / modules that package maintainers choose not to include in the default distributions (under the reasoning that "users want small binaries").

Take for example nginx, caddy, certbot, or postfix (there are many others too).

All of these require recompiling from source with build flags to enable the inclusion of even their most common add-on modules, e.g. nginx_http_lua_module, nginx_http_perl_module, caddy:http.cache, cerbot dns plugins, etc.

Recompiling from source breaks the ability to use a package manager for install and automated updates, which drastically reduces usability for the majority of users. There are ways around this of course, but for the average user, having to compile a package from source is a major hurdle.

Instead, why not distribute the binary with no add-ons as "apt install packagename-minimal" for the users with bad internet / low-resource requirements, and make the default "apt install packagename" distribution the "batteries included" version?

(If you're interested, here's an old blog post of mine that goes into detail on why I think package manager distributions are worth the effort to maintain in general, even for static binaries or packages with dylibs: https://docs.sweeting.me/s/against-curl-sh)
I did read you post, thanks, and I misunderstood your statement that personalized advertising =/= advertising.

>Without personalization, ads aren't profitable enough to fund free-to-use web services.

I'll take a citation with that, please.
We’re in the process of deprecating the nursery, so they’ll end up in the rust-lang org at some point.
It's hard to take seriously initiatives like this. Google tracks users on a industrial scale that no other online company can match. Their digital fingerprints can be found in every corner of the web. Just why are they so obsessed with tracking users to death? I'm beginning to believe that tracking online behaviour is in the DNA of the company and that it simply can't reign itself back. It escapes serious scrutiny, not least because the tech community would rather rush to it's defence than scrutinise it's practices and behaviour.

It has, in my view, a narrow view of privacy (shared by large swathes of the tech community) which is essentially: privacy = security. Of course, you can't have privacy without security, but security by itself does not equal privacy. Or put another way, Google's attitude is essentially: we'll track you to death, but we guarantee that information will never leak from Google. The response from large swatches of the tech community: that sounds fine.
The people in HK have no training in any form of warfare, guerilla or not. They're just not mentally nor physically equipped to conduct any sort of warfare, especially against a superior power like China.

I doubt China ultimately cares about loss of face.
My bad, I mistook the character transfer with the faction change service. Still, I remember there being a push for it which seems to be confirmed by the wiki: "initially, there was a 6 month cooldown between character transfers. In late February 2008, the cooldown was reduced to 1 month. In July 2009, the cooldown was reduced to 3 days."

Regarding heirlooms, they were introduced in WotLK:

"Heirlooms that increase experience and scale based on character level were introduced in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion."

The line is blurry, but I believe that a trend was definitely noticeable even in late Burning Crusade. In particular, efforts to attract a broader player base. It is unfortunately surprisingly hard to track and timestamp all the controversial changes introduced to the game.
We’ll see; it’s not a simple thing.

In theory they can move into the standard library, but none ever have. The process exists though.
at that rate wouldn't i just use gitlab
I would like to have a cold hard oncologist, a therapist, and hospice care in that situation, personally.
This paper is so popular all over the web but nobody has ever managed to follow the proof of its 'theorem'. This guy is a math professor and quantum physicist and he was unable to extract any sense from it:
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/the-good-reg...
He points out that the proof uses terms that aren't even defined. The fact that the authors of the paper are a psychiatrist and, I think a humanities academic, doesn't fill me with confidence that the 'theorem' and its 'proof' are actually those things. It's disquieting to see so many people taking the paper's claim and running with it because it 'resonates'. I know there is also an 'internal model principle' paper which is technically correct but that applies to a specific set of linear systems under specific conditions.
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”The UK had a coalition government of the two major parties for most of the war.”

This was itself a suspension of normal democratic procedures and conventions. No elections were held in the UK between 1935 and the conclusion of the war in 1945.
One of my favourite books, too. Tangentially, I highly recommend "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It delves a lot more deeply into the life Oppenheimer than Rhodes was able to, for obvious reasons. Beautifully written, and doesn't have a boring moment.
I grew up with AIM and remember, even before AIM, the AOL CDs stockpiled in my house. They were quite handy as coasters and lids to wine glasses in the summer when the fruit flies came out. My parents still have some lying around for those purposes, not at all the classiest solutions but free and better than the landfill? There isn't even a CD drive in that house anymore.

More on topic, AIM as something to grow up with was ehhh. I kind of wish it didn't exist so I would have been more forced to push my parents to drive me to friends houses instead of hogging the family computer. Today I feel like the modern equivalents are probably Discord+Fortnite/Minecraft/whatever on personal machines which from my armchair looks a lot better from a social perspective.
not OP too but I'd love to add an extra case:
I work 3.5 days/week. I asked my boss after 14 years of work there if I could reduce my working time, given the fact that I think family time is more important.
It went well and I suppose it's also thanks to the effort I put into my job daily.

Dunno if you're interested in the whole process, but I documented it on a blog post in case someone is after the same solution (https://givemethechills.com/why-did-i-start-working-part-tim... )

BTW I first got the idea right here on HN and the good thing is that I think, as developers, we have one of the best jobs that allows reducing our working time.

To improve it even further I'd love to do this kind of work entirely remote, thus givin me some extra time to spend with my family and removing the commute. That'd be the max :) I can't ask for this now because we're not a remote company and I know for sure that if the company is not fully remote I'm gonna fail badly (mostly because I'll be the only one doing it ).

In any case, after doing it for many years I can say that it's amazing and I love it
Not in the UK, everyone used msn (or before that yahoo chat or ICQ)
Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well.

The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes.

Yet there is no country and no people, I think, who can look forward to the age of leisure and of abundance without a dread. For we have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy.

-- John Maynard Keynes

http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
I haven't played these games, but I've put hundreds of hours into NetHack with pure ASCII graphics, so I totally get it. I briefly tried using some of the graphical versions but didn't end up liking them so much, so back to the ASCII it was.
No I just gave one counterexample where his theory clearly breaks down and gave a more general explanation based on supply and demand.
Problem 1 with Atlassian is they're using Java.

Problem 2 with Atlassian is that their portfolio is entirely made up out of stuff they bought up over years, with wildly different coding and UI/UX standards/history.
I don't think Google has its customers best interest in any of this. They try to make it seem like it at face value, but to deliver real privacy, they wouldn't get the data they need for their own business.

An example from the article- "First, large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting."

I'm pretty sure fingerprinting can happen either way. It's just easier for Google to control cookies and prevent users from blocking cookies because cookies will provide more exact data on what Google wants.

They'll sell the point that they will keep your data safe from 3rd parties... but they will use it for their purposes however they please.
Exactly. Any time overpopulation isn't mentioned as a (or 'the') primary cause, my nictitating membranes close up and I lose interest in reading.
I used to be off-put by that too, but then I realized online dating isn't "dating". It's like you going to a supermarket to source the ingredients for a good meal you are making. The real deal is making the meal, not how/where you got the ingredients.
Quick reminder that even though we are not fish, it is an important part of the food chain.
I started with a myBlu and ended up going through 6 different devices before finding one that doesn't suck. There is a huge quality problem in the market at the moment. The device I settled on, and which I've had zero problems with, is the "Smok Nord AIO 19". It's about 25GBP. Note that I had also bought a "Smok Novo" and DID have problems with that, it leaked everywhere, so even within the same brand quality varies dramatically.

The reviews on YouTube aren't useful because they don't usually use a device long enough for problems to become apparent. I've been using the Nord AIO 19 for several weeks now and swear by it. And it's not to be confused with the regular Nord... Which looks like the Novo and also has leaking problems.

If you're in the UK, Totally Wicked are a company that, while expensive, can be trusted. They only sell quality devices, but they're all rebranded versions of other manufacturers. They've recently struck a deal with WHSmith who will also be selling their kits (that's how trustworthy they are).
Why would you have to be rich? If something can be supported by ads, it can be supported by a less than a penny from each user. You don't have to be rich to afford a penny.

And I stated this in a separate child content, but the internet has proven repeatedly that services can be provided ad-free. No ads anywhere. They're either supported by donations, a subset of users who pay for advanced features, or run by volunteers on their own dime.

Listing three Google properties supposedly without competitors (which they do) does not prove that it's impossible (in fact, the hundreds and thousands of other web properties actually prove that ad-unsupported services can and do thrive).

EDIT: Reworded a few poorly phrased sentences.
This was a great read. I liked the part about the AIM team 'stealing' the running man logo.

We talk about work-life balance, but these projects had to have been amazing for people to dedicate chunks of their lives to them.

I wonder if we'll ever read stories about building slack and look back it so fondly.
Thanks for the detailed response!

I think I should've added more detail in my original post explaining that I'm very much pro-removing code, my gripes were directed at packages that have optional modules that aren't included by default because maintainers claim "users want small binaries".

I'm of the opinion that most packages should include their optional add-ons in their default distributions, and offer a separate "minimal" version without any add-ons for the users with low-resource requirements.

(See my response to the other comment above too)
The science of what is happening is fact. The method by which we engage our collective powers to act is a people problem. We can come together in action, but that requires connecting with as many of our personalities and psyches as possible.
Fascists use the threat of "literal extinction" (or something like it) to "convince" their audience & opponents.
I'm much more worried by that kind of extremism than by climate change itself.

Climate change could well kill us all, but at least we'll die free.
"Doomsday planning for less crazy folks" is pretty good:

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
What's your supply and demand explanation for the following norms?

- It's considered professional for employees give their employers two weeks notice before leaving. It's considered completely reasonable for employers to terminate employees and not even pay them for the rest of the day.

- It's considered unprofessional to talk about what you're getting paid.

- It's considered normal for potential employers to do background checks, call references, and even run credit checks on potential employees. Ask a potential employer for references or any information on their financials, and that's weird. The latter is particularly strange, because the employer is paying the employee, so the employee has a much larger interest in making sure the employer can pay them.
Google’s annual revenue is $136b (5/6th is from ads) and there are ~2.5 billion active android users. So, google would still be wildly profitable if they charged each user $3.7 a month, and eliminated their ads division.

This ignores revenue from iOS users, and the cost savings from shutting down their ads and tracking businesses.
Kinda wish they would disable comments. Those tend to bring out sides of humanity that rarely show off any benevolence.
> Logically this makes sense but it can be tricky to implement successfully for everyone. For breast-fed infants, it may be the case that mom has to be more frequently involved in the overnight care. It makes sense for dad to get as much sleep as possible in this case, but that can lead to resentment and other issues.

Embracing marriage as a team sport goes a long way to avoiding petty resentment. It's also standard practice for the resting parent to ensure there is plenty of coffee after the non-resting parent's final 37 minute power nap.
What about those of us who want to work more than four days?
It's entirely possible the answer there is "because we're sitting on a quarter trillion dollars worth of cash and want to have some fun with this".