skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a totally unsubstantiated theory that a big chunk of the stress of modern life comes from this sort of thing.

People own more appliances and gadgets than ever, but for each one you're expected to worry about planned obsolescence, often high maintenance, and treat them as fragile. A world where everything is always threatening to fall apart around us. Compare with life 100 years ago. It wasn't like this.

The maintenance instructions alone are often ridiculous - you'd probably be spending 100% of your free time on maintenance alone if you followed what every manual actually recommends for everything in your home. And it's impossible to know what's actually important and what's just covering their ass legally. Like, my garage door manual says to wipe it down every two weeks - what? No-one's doing that. But the idea that you should be doing all this stuff still contributes to stress, even if you try to ignore and it just get on with life until your stuff finally breaks or explodes.

Or things require more work due to fragility, like non-stick pans you can't scrub clean. Or things are just cheaper or fashionable but they don't work as well, like touch buttons instead of knobs on cooktops. Or things just get broken because they're made of cheap plastic.

Warranties are a joke. Two years on a fridge? It should be 15. 10 years on aluminum window frames for your house? It should be 50. And the waste from all these obsoleted appliances is ridiculous on its own. There is a case for not overengineering things that users will want to throw away and replace anyway, but larger appliances rarely advance so far that you can't at least sell your old working one to someone (the most recent true obsolescence I can think of is CRT TVs).

I'd vote for a law that says all major appliances must have a 10+ year warranty, with minimal maintenance performed. And maintenance recommendations should be displayed alongside the product.
Although I am not a college student, something that causes worry for me is the difficulty of knowing what is going on and what to believe, even though I consume news from many sources. The battle for readers/viewers' attention has escalated to manipulative tactics like clickbait or pandering. The slow demise of old media has created a sense of desperation in their reportage. New media RARELY seeks a footing of disinterested journalism. This adds a struggle to the experience of "adulting" for college kids.

Another issue is the change in the number of people living here. 1990 had 250MM. 2018 had 327MM. That 30% increase is bound to add stress and conflict.

Another: the pace of change has been overwhelming in the last 25 years. That might create self-doubt about one's capacity to keep skills updated.

Another: the decrease in life expectancy of white middle class people due to overdose and suicide. The plague of suicide is the message of futility and nihilism for survivors to absorb.

Prosperity cures a multitude of ills. Widespread under-employment brings every bruise, boil, laceration, and trauma to the forefront. College students see the employment landscape. They face competition from citizens and non-citizens, and thus a pie that gets divided among a bigger denominator.

The economic reality is that college is necessary for skilled occupations. Parents steer their kids into college, even though some of those kids don't have the self-management skills to succeed in college. If they do have these skills, they commonly are allowed to take coursework that is bound to result in a minimum wage job. This mortgages the first 20 working years of their adult lives with student loan debt service. I would certainly be discouraged by this prospect.

Lastly, the disconnect in authentic relationships that social media fostered took away a piece of the fundamental human safety net.
Police are humans too. They have emotions, and consciences, and, yes, a sense of shame.

For some of them, these are weaker than their obedience to superiors and/or adherence to fascist principles. However, that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Comments like yours dehumanize the police. They make them into a faceless Other that cannot be truly understood or engaged with by any means save violence. Worse, they do the same thing that the dehumanization of Nazis has done in the US: they sow the feeling that it could never happen to us. That these are monsters, not people. That they're somehow fundamentally different from Real Humans.

The idea that no one has ever (or has recently) joined the police force because of a real belief in justice and a desire to help people is just as dangerous as the idea that every police officer is a fascist pig who wants nothing more than to put their boot on the face of humanity forever.

The problems our country, and more broadly, our civilization has with the police in this age can be solved, and they can be solved without resorting to massive violence, but in order to do so, we cannot rely on the same kind of black-and-white thinking the worst of them use. We have to see them as people, and find the ways to reach their humanity.
We need to do something about this. If I buy a washing machine, I have NO idea how much cost cutting has gotten into it - in fact, companies spend way too much money in marketing, shiny stickers, features and IoT bullshit than things like oil bushings that this video is talking about.

We need a review website that hires these experts that take things apart, and expose the shitty practices and cost cutting that has taken place so that the consumers are more informed. Kind of like a more formal version of AvE (Youtube fame). And that kind of review methodology needs to get so popular that no manufacturer can escape it. What's capitalism when every one is cheating, lying and depending on the ROI of their marketing budget? Competition disappears, innovation stops and shiny things propel.

If you go and buy an dishwasher from Miele, you bet your bottom dollar they are not gonna cut corners like this - because industrial grade equipment needs to last and live up to the daily abuse or its credibility is lost. In consumer market, there is way too much marketing noise than objectivity.

Watching this video makes me livid and angry.
Twenty years ago I was entering 5th grade (damn, time flies). In my mind manufacturing quality hasn't changed significantly since then. Has it? I though that's when the offshoring of all manufacturing was already in full swing?
The problem is they've just run out of ideas.

Just being gauche and gaudy isn't enough to qualify; typically there's either enhanced utility or extravagance and an old-ass version of Android running on my fridge is neither.
In particular, time and mental energy are more valuable than money for many people. It's more optimal for them to let some things go bad than to spend the time and energy to monitor tightly enough that nothing ever spoils before it's used.
Seriously, this is not an issue.
That’s what you assume, but entry commercial appliances are garbage just as much as consumer devices.

Your best bet is to look for used stuff older than circa-2005. That’s when the efficiency standards increased and manufacturers started undersizing motors in earnest and using all electronic controls that fail. This is especially relevant for refrigerators and washing machines.

Our current washing machine is a speed queen laundromat model (sans cash box) that was manufactured in 1988 and that I pulled out of the garbage in 2006 for $0, and put a new clutch in for about $50. There is literally not a better machine made on the market, and the efficiency claims made by modern devices are both questionably accurate and overtaken by the expected lifespan of 5-7 years.
If you run a terminal multiplexer like byobu you may want to run it only for the ssh connection, not for every sub-shell (otherwise you may get a warning about running a multiplexer inside another multiplexer session).
You would need to substantiate that

- A greater number of people took psychedelics because they could now order them via the mail and pay in crypto

- Psychedelics change people's lives meaningfully

- the kind of people who buy drugs on the internet are the kind that are demographically likely to experience positive life changes from psychedelics.

I'm not saying your wrong. I'm more saying send me the link to the book when you write it.
The "weird deal" is this:

> told they needed to return to China, that they needed to pay for their own airline ticket to do so or face a ban from re-entering the U.S. for five years

It is not normal for a re-entry ban to made contingent on the traveler paying for the return ticket. Usually airlines are required by the government to pay for the return ticket and it is left up to the airlines to recover that cost from their passengers.

My guess would be either that

1) government officials are trying to avoid any legal conflict with airlines about the grounds on which entry was denied.

or

2) Airline lobby groups got this policy implemented to reduce their costs.
I recently moved into a new place with a Samsung fridge that had an unbearably loud compressor. I had a repairman over to see if anything could be done to salvage it, but he said it would take replacing the entire compressor. Replacing the compressor is the same cost as an entirely new refrigerator.

But if I have the same risk of a super loud compressor on a replacement, I definitely don't want the repair. Ideally I'd be able to find a place that needs a fridge but is noise tolerant. That I can donate an otherwise working product to, so it just doesn't go to waste.

But until then, I can't in good conscience just toss this thing, so my family has gotten used to it, and it's only guests that suffer.

Never going to buy Samsung again, I guess.
I think you have your answer already. If you want reliability you pay for it by buying the commercial/industrial version that commits to specs upfront and outlines the cost of maintenance for the life cycle of the device.

Not saying what the consumer focused side of these businesses is doing is right but there is a work around with defined costs out there.
Wow: It was redenominated three times (in 2006, 2008 and 2009), with denominations up to a $100 trillion banknote issued.
The final redenomination produced the "fourth dollar" (ZWL), which was worth 10^25 ZWD (first dollars).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_dollar
This has a HUGE sampling bias of only 13-year-olds that end up in a military recruitment program while still being the age of a child.
Minor quibble: a doctor would write "Patient reported no thc use" not "Patient did not use thc".

Patients are notorious liars
Good old stable-valued bitcoin.
Two women from St. Petersburg like to hunt pythons in the Everglades
He is wrong. It is not “quite bad”.

I appreciate your generosity to him but I am sad to see that is the top comment.
THC oil doesn't mix with glycerine. You can mix it with propylene glycol if you are using other diluents as well.
This discussion pertains to entry into the US

Most of the students will have been in the US before, they are continuing their degree and just went home for the summer. If the FBI or whoever has something on them they can apply for a warrant and have them arrested. But the government instead chose not to admit them at the border.

It goes the opposite way as well, if the student chooses not to leave the government has to find something of substance and convince a judge, just saying "I want you out" doesn't cover it. Nothing of this makes sense, and as far as national security goes, I find it hard to believe that students are permitted near classified data.
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About 10 years ago my parents gave us a Sears horizontal freezer they'd had in their garage, and had no further use for. It's now around 55 years old and still running with all the original parts. I don't know what the thing would cost in current dollars if built today to the same standards. I don't even know if you could build it today to those standards, or that it would make sense for anyone to pay for a freezer that will last a half-century. But I would like to think so.
allows you to use vi on the command line for anyone else who was wondering.
I would love for more things like this. We do have this for phones at least with their teardowns. However appliances aren't so "hot". Might be more difficult to make a business out of it, particularly because "information wants to be free". That makes being a primary producer of information risky, and if it's not something that brings frequent eyeballs on it, then it might not go so well. As Appliances are something we only want to deal with no more often than once a year, the eyeballs won't come, and you have to deal with people absconding with your information and making it free.

Edit: and yes, this is the same issue that journalists face. This wouldn't be much different from journalism. The function of journalism is supposed to be the independent watchers, for example, in government so that we can keep them honest. Same sort of deal.
You're probably spending much more money and time doing it this way. There's a middle ground between just-in-time purchasing and stocking up for a zombie apocalypse. It's not that hard to estimate how much you use in a week, and buy a week's worth of groceries at a time. Saves time, saves money, and the amount of food isn't so large you can't keep track of it anymore.
For heat pumps the noise rating is often published, and I would hope air conditioners are similar.

Purchase of consumer products is so difficult, especially with the huge variety of model numbers. Though I'm fairly unsatisfied with the latest iteration of Apple laptops, I do appreciated the very limited number of models, which at least allows fuller evaluation.
Yes, but you need to have a location where to copy them to. They can’t be on the stack, since the logging task runs asynchronously. So each captured argument must be in some form heap allocated. Eg passing 2 strings as arguments and one integer might require 3 additional heap allocation - where the malloc/free overhead might outweigh the string formatting costs. You can try to optimize here with specialized allocators (eg Arenas) or trying to generate dedicated structures for each logging callsite where all arguments can be carried inside a single heap allocated struct (instead of 3 here). But that might lead to other disadvantages - eg code bloat.
The vast majority of vapers are unaffected.

From the article:

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> The patient’s older brother, a police officer, was suspicious. He rummaged through the youth’s room and found hidden vials of marijuana for vaping.

> Health investigators are now trying to determine ... whether the risk stems from a broader behavior, like heavy e-cigarette use, vaping marijuana or a combination

> Many vaping ingredients are not listed on the products. Vitamin E oil appears to have been a common substance associated with the severe and sudden respiratory problems in some of the New York cases, according to state health officials. It is not known how it was used. Vitamin E is sometimes advertised as a supplement in cannabidiol oil, which is not designed for vaping but has been used that way.

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Nicotine is typically in a base of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerine (I think I got those right). I believe both are cheaper than the "adulterants" such as vitamin e oil being used to cut the THC oils, so it is unlikely that people vaping exclusively nicotine products are being affected.

There's been some concern around certain flavorings being much riskier than others (i.e. popcorn lung) though I suspect it'll be some years yet before the effects from those start playing out.
I doubt the PLA will march into Hong Kong. 1989 was seen as an existential threat to the CCP. The HK protests are not.
Did you mean the Nile? I can't think of any method that would get silt from the Sahara in Africa to the Amazon in South America.
They have an interest in Juul... I think it was 30%. Their interest in their own products is 100% of a bigger, more profitable, market.

Just because they've hedged their bets doesn't mean they aren't interested in preserving existing markets.
It also can't be used for commerce because crypto networks can't scale.
The "quote" was always about getting a commission.

When I used to shop at Fry's, if I knew the product I wanted I made it a game to avoid getting a time-wasting "quote". I would avoid making eye contact with any salesperson, grab the product I wanted, and make a mad dash out of that aisle.

Of course even if you got a "quote" you could crumple it up and just go to the register with your product. It would be the same price to you either way.

One time I picked out a $20 camera case without any help from a salesperson - I didn't need a discussion of the features of each case, I had my camera with me and just wanted to try them out to see which one I liked that fit the camera!

When I started to walk away with my choice, the salesperson flagged me down and insisted that I needed a quote. And then they wrapped it around the case and taped it down on all sides!

At that point I didn't have the heart to tear the quote off the case and deny them their fifty cent commission.
Meaning the prose is literally purple, because you've obsessively clicked all the links?
Reader mode on browsers is the easiest way to make news websites usable
Such a website would be awesome !

I am not sure how it is going to happen, where more and more content on the web is an ad nowadays.

From bought amazon reviews to blogs pretending to test products but actually just chasing referral bonuses, hard to find real reviews.
>we should at least wait to see why exactly they were denied entry.

Is there any obligation for them to tell us that? Unless Arizona State continues bringing this up, we may not hear anything else.
Ask HN: Is anyone here visually disabled?
I have a visual disability that is causing me to slowly lose my sight. I would like to talk with someone working in industry that is blind or visually disabled about how I can enter the field myself. I have a family to take care of and limited time to make something happen. I'm willing to learn whatever I need to, move wherever I have to, and do whatever has to be done to ensure that they are cared for. I'm fairly competent with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but would like some direction as to where to continue my education as far as real world skills are concerned.
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/City-Government/Parking-Violat...

That's 11.7M violations for fiscal 2018.
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Yes, but these people are on box 3/4 and 4/4 does not exist for them (barring some serious foreign intervention). I am not hopeful but I hope I am wrong.
Just watch AvE BOLTR videos instead. At least you'll be able to laugh about it.
Yes. I agree. HN speed and simplicity is probably a big reason it's one of the sites I go to first when procrastinating.
These companies do predictive reliability engineering that targets 5-7 years. That aligns with how long people own homes and their liability for repairs.

There’s no waste associated with putting an electric motor in a durable good that would potentially last 25-50 years. If that were the engineering goal, they would be able to achieve it while adding a very marginal cost to the bom.

The goal is to produce consistent, known failure rates that maximize revenue for new sales and high margin service plans. The appliance maker does not pay for disposal, recycling or any other indirect cost that isn’t imposed by regulatory requirements.
I wasn't aware of any similarity between Turings Machines and the enigma machines. That's actually interesting thanks.

Did the original post say "his enigma machine" implying turings enigma machine? or did it say Enigma-"like" machine.

I certainly make enough typographical mistakes myself no particular shame in that.
Good thing 80% of the population is concentrated into cities and not spread across the country...
Have you compared its power efficiency with equivalent recent hardware? Watts turn into dollars quickly—even as little as 1 W more all the time is 8.76 kW over the course of a year, which, picking an arbitrary electricity price of 20¢/kW, is $1.75 a year.
Anything under 700k USD for a 4 bedroom sounds super cheap to me :/
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> If you want reliability you pay for it by buying the commercial/industrial version

It is frequently very difficult to find the commercial/industrial version, even when you're in the know and actually want it. I'm typing this on a "Pro" laptop.

Marketing sticks "commercial grade" on pretty much everything. You have to know which brands service commercial and what their commercial lines are. That's not information that's always easy to find.
The question revolves around how do we ensure that companies that optimize to maximize long term customer value do not get undercut and out-competed by companies that optimize to maximize short term customer value.

And it's a very challenging thing to do, since most human's natural instincts are to apply hyperbolic discounting models, while companies have to operating on... non-hyperbolic discounting.
Some time ago I read that there was a time when the Amazon wasn’t all jungle. I don’t know the veracity nor timeframe but I’m guessing within the last few thousand years.
Windows NT has been around since what, 1993 or 94?

Why is this even news? Doesn't Microsoft document this stuff? How does anybody use a system that doesn't have this documented?

PS
http://stratigery.com/nt.sekrits.html
A siege buys time for international sanctions to be felt at home. If they go all in with the violence that would inflame the situation and possibly unite Hong Kong against them. It's really, really, really hard to rule over millions of people who don't want you there. There's fine line they have to walk between inflaming the situation and acting too slowly.
End users don't care. When they see a slow website they think "Awesome, now I have a reason to buy that new iPhone Jessica has because this one is getting slow"
Wow, so either you are climate change denier or you love Tesla ?

That must be one the biggest strawmen I have ever seen.
No, I don't. There's some talk about neem oil(azadirachtin) being the cause of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome.

People have been consuming large quantities of cannabis oil that were saturated in pesticides for over a decade without this kind of crisis.

I run a cannabis copacking company and one of my clients was the first to go pesticide free back in 2016. It was near impossible to source material for them. Prior to 2018 about 95% of material was sprayed with pesticides. Because black market distillate is typically made from mixed batches of oil there was higher contamination rates than that.

I think it's questionable to consume cannabis in general and especially concentrates. The safest method is likely oral consumption. I have seen contaminants in concentrates, such as fire retardant, that pass all screening tests. Neem oil, for example, is an approved pesticide for CA but is really nasty stuff to be smoking.
What specific things make you livid and angry?
Yeah, our house came with a Viking commercial cabinet depth refrigerator, and it has been warming up on us semi-regularly for no apparent reason and, after a bit of research, I discovered that this isn’t all that that uncommon for these units.