skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an aside, I consider this a strength of Stephen King's best stories. The boys, their friendship and the kid-logic they employ in stories like The Body and It. By the time he wrote Dreamcatcher it had become a little hackneyed, but still.
Which is why proper nutrition needs to be taught as a mandatory class in high-school.

Hell, even medical students "on average only received 23.9 contact hours of nutrition instruction during medical school" [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430660/
Massive, built-in selection bias.

People who have time for (or need the distraction of) surveys like these tend to be, of course... the already burnt out.
True for me, 1 year+ of no fb or insta. Feel so much better than before and I didn’t even realize I had anxiety until it disappeared
It turns out that in may cases, that thing was actually people.
I also deliberately slow down certain sites! It's wonderful.

https://github.com/jtolds/twitoderm
I can't speak for others...but Facebook was my social media gateway drug in 2006. Maybe unsurprisingly, it was also the catalyst which led to me quitting most social media platforms (Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others). Soon after, I made a commitment to only consume news on Saturday mornings. The combination of all of these things has helped immensely, and I honestly feel like I'm missing very little.
The book "Tribal Leadership" summarizes that scale nicely.
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to see this. Usenet is still very much alive. It's not what it once was, but I regularly participate on several technical newsgroups that are still fairly active. The signal-to-noise ratio is not great, but killfiles (filters) can help with that.

I use the https://www.eternal-september.org/ free NNTP server. There are others.
2007: Breakthrough Internet Communicator

2011: Black Mirror

2020: Nightmare Rectangle
I like the site! Question, any reason why your internal hyperlinks (<a name>) jump to beneath the header of the section instead of showing the header of the section?
Kaggle Challenge for Francois Chollet's Arc Dataset
I haven't hard quit anything but vastly reduced all of these things. Yes, I have vastly reduced my visits to news websites, Twitter, etc. I have increased my consumption of monthly periodicals, books, and movies.
You get downvoted, but you actually have a point.

The problem with GP's statement isn't "unionization". It's "tech workers". What does that even mean? It's such a general term that can be applied to vast swathes of the workforce. Is someone who maintains complex VB scripted excel sheets a tech worker, for instance? Or is that label only reserved for those who work at a FAANG company?

Many who have a so-called "technical" or "digital" role do so in industries whose main primary focus isn't producing digital software or services. Banks, Automotive, Health, Education, Food, Retail, Mining, Construction, Transport, Tourism,... And many of those industries do have long traditions of unionization and defending laborer rights.

Many of those workers are already organized and do have many provisions for a sane workplace culture provided by their employers. Because the latter already went through the pain of worker conflicts.

The trouble with the "Valley" is that it originates in that wild idea of bootstrapping your own company from your garage or kitchen table, taking the same mythical roads pioneers of computing took some 40 years ago.

While many found unprecedented freedom in being able to bootstrap or work for a fledgling company, doing so was - and still is - a very risky proposition. You will work outrageous amounts of time without knowing if you ever will be able to cash out. You have to be okay with that.

Today's FAANG companies originate from that narrative, and VC capital backed start up culture heavily projects that narrative. But Silicon Valley isn't a small community of computing enthousiast anymore. The Wild West doesn't exist anymore. It's a particular industry in it's own right and most sizable companies compare to well-established corporations who are just like any other traditional corporation.

Yet, somehow, everyone still perceives these companies as pioneers and give them a free pass as to the ethical choices they make in how they treat the users of their products, and the workers who make those products.

Breaking off from this tangent about Valley corporatism, it should be clear that the plight of workers in that setting isn't really comparable to all workers in other industries and fields that may provide better working conditions.

Just recently, someone argued to me that working on "boring" technology is what gives you the most job stability (which isn't the same as security!). Like, doing Perl or Cobol for social security institutions, banks, transport, etc. With age, I've come to find that this person is likely right.
I open facebook for 2 minutes a week and scroll through my relatives' baby and pet pictures. I don't get how the site is such a specter of misery for some people

Twitter I would understand a little better. It's such a tar pit of negative energy, insults, rage bait, etc
Is there any way to get access to the beta on Android? I use GitHub quite heavily, and would be really interested in having an app and giving you feedback.
One thing I hope will come out of a more code literate society (looks like a lot of high schools are teaching it now) is that, all software will be written assuming every user knows at least some scripting.

Often I clone a piece of software because I want to change just one thing, or even if it's open source I often need to set up a build environment etc... and I just wanna change like one integer!
IRS quietly deletes guideline that Fortnite virtual currency must be reported
I was very interested in their growth trajectory, so I wrote some notes a while back. It is a factor of product decisions and attracting clients effectively.

Their attempt to provide another solution for emails, while trying to introduce gamification appeared to have become quite popular.
What is the link? Because I could not find it. Html5+js promised a lot and some people just blocked out the bad memories. Blaming it on the iphone is simple but not accurate.
'in fact' the ice mass is shrinking: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/4/1095

The ice extend increases.

"The total mass loss from Antarctica increased from 40 ± 9 Gt/y in the 11-y time period 1979–1990 to 50 ± 14 Gt/y in 1989–2000, 166 ± 18 Gt/y in 1999–2009, and 252 ± 26 Gt/y in 2009–2017, that is, by a factor 6 (Fig. 2, Table 1, and SI Appendix, Fig. S1). This change in mass loss reflects an acceleration of 94 Gt/y per decade in 1979–2017, increasing from 48 Gt/y per decade in 1979–2001 to 134 Gt/y per decade in 2001–2017, or 280%. "
It is most definitely not a fallacy to argue that EM radiation below a certain energy threshold has no proven mechanism other than heating to damage DNA.

Maybe we haven't found it yet, and we should always keep looking, but it is no more likely to be caused by microwave or visible light at this point.

The images you posted are to a paper done by Martin L. Pall who is a known scaremonger for EMF and has been met with skepticism [1]. It certainly is not proof of microwave being dangerous to the human body at power levels emitted by cellphones, its a theory that has yet do be proven of a possible pathway that is non thermal.

1. https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/int...
I caught that too. Good thing the test still worked with the trackers blocked.
> We make a shitload of money, we actually do have good health insurance, and we punch keyboards in a heated office at a desk.

What's the point of any of that if you're miserable the whole time? Burning through the prime years of your life, no less.

There are valid answers to that question, but I think a lot of people haven't even asked it. In the words of a particularly edgy Radiohead song: "A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics."
Researchers find a way to 3D print whole objects in seconds
150~ engineers are let go

source: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Wayfair-550-Layoff-RUwGt5QC
Wait.... "apathy" is rare?

I thought that is the step where most of us have been hanging out.

I have been waiting for the "real burnout" to kick in when I dropped another level or two.
I’ve never seen anyone complain about that with with regard to MacOS.

All I’ve seen is people carelessly dismissing legitimate threats and ignoring the evidence about the environment we operate in now.

It is bad that user freedom is being impacted. But just because it is, doesn’t mean there is a conspiracy.
Thank you! ... it was driving my subconscious brain crazy but your last sentence made me realize that I was thinking of BP.
> Weird, was comment edited?

Yes, I removed part of it, because the arguments about point #2 are, in my opinion, more nuanced than "low cost index funds solve all our problems". There's advantages and disadvantages to non-fully-funded pensions, because of the time value of money, and it depends on the economic climate in which it operates, and on the worker pool that participates. It can work just fine on a national level, but is a mistake for smaller pensions.

> Anyway, the best thing to mitigate risk of living until 92 and running out of funds is raising kids with the right values or another form of support network.

So, you'd burden your retirement-age children with supporting you in your old age? That's going to do great for their own retirements...

The point is that the money is there - but instead of pooling risk between people who can afford it (Other people in your pension cohort, who die earlier), you pool it with people who can't (your aging children), with a backup plan of suicide.

... Or we could just mitigate the risk, with a more diverse pool. With a group fund.

You don't self-insure your car[1], you don't self-insure your house, and you don't self-insure your health. That's because the costs of statistically unlikely events are catastrophic in all three of those cases. Don't self-insure your retirement.

[1] I actually do self-insure my car, but that's because it's worth less than what I make in a paycheque. I don't self-insure liability insurance, though, and I wouldn't want to, even if I could.
The article indicates that that problem did not really exist. If you don't have to barter, you don't need a mutual coincidence of wants. If economic activity is to a greater extent a group activity, than there's a community of wants. etc. If anything, the discreteness of wants is an engineered phenomenon, or at least the result of developments of different social orders with a different position of the individual.
One nightmare / conspiracy theory scenario is they sell it to potential employers, recruiters, job search web sites, etc. and send them the signal "don't hire this person; they're burnt out".
This is a common issue when using links to jump to page headings, when the top bar has fixed positioning: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4086107/fixed-page-heade...
Ask HN: Co-founders living in different countries
Let's say I have an idea for a startup and that I want to find a co-founder to help me with developing and launching it to the market. Let's also assume that I live in a developing country (e.g., Brazil) and that I want to register the company in the US. Is it too inconvenient for co-founders to live in different countries? If anyone has experience with this or has done something similar, your thoughts and opinions are more than welcome!
Nope, some obscure embedded or toy stuff doesn't count as real software that matters to people. Even Haskell, bless its academic ivory-tower soul, has real-time video games, IDEs and neural networks, not to mention tons of websites, written in it. And Forth has what, some device drivers and hobby/learning stuff? Point amply proven, thank you.
Nor is shooting.
It's certainly a similar concept to an ad blocker. We have over half a million mailing list emails on record, and the scores and details of each are being updated daily.

I think that the data we have is really useful for individuals who want to protect their inbox from noise, but we definitely need to find the right way to offer that information in an affordable & sustainable way.
Not for me, because there is zero chance that I'd be willing to live in a place that does this.
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The constraint that no one in tech wants to consider is on full-text search.

If you want to regain the pseudo-privacy of physical spaces online, put your community’s conversations behind an authentication barrier and disable full text search of conversations.

Search engine indexing is what turns a pseudo-private space into a humiliating-public one.

It’s okay to let search engines index your forum’s existence, the sub forums it contains, and their descriptions. But do not let them index participants or conversations - either by subject, by participants, or by content. And do not offer full text search of post content to authenticated members. It’s okay to index keyword tags, but that’s it.

If you do this, you will regain the semi-anonymity that made the early Internet possible to enjoy. If you don’t, you will continue to suffer the trolls and abuse that full-text search enabled in the mid-90s (see also DejaNews, X-No-Archive: Yes, and Google’s purchase of DejaNews).

EDIT: If you truly feel that full-text search is so valuable that it must not be withheld, you have to do a lot of things to defend against abuse attackers - for example: charge money for search credits, deduct credits when they choose to reveal the text of results, warn users that their searches will be monitored for abuse, require users to be in good standing with paid membership and posting activity for at least 90 days, etc. Otherwise trolls will just use stolen cards to perform full content searches to identify users to harass and then report their findings back to a central forum. They may still do that after all the above criteria, but they’ll have to work excruciatingly hard at it. Yeah, they could manually scrape the site, but you can defend against that too (“you’ve participated on 12 days, so you’re allowed to view 12 days of old content” is a good simple test).
Rather than going cold turkey on Social Media, I’ve found it more effective to reduce the amount of content I’m exposed to e.g. for Facebook unfollowing all groups, turning off all notifications, reducing friends; for Instagram unfollowing almost all accounts And turning off all notifications etc.

This has the effect that when I DO inevitably visit these sites, I spend far less time there and it’s much less entertaining since I reach the “bottom” much quicker.

Over time I’ve been able to wean myself off.
The US needs an agency that helps businesses and citizens with security. If China is attacking our citizens we need a national style defense of our business and IP. For example, right now lots of decisions are left up to each company to decide how to best secure data. Equifax is a great example. They were leaving servers unpatched and I think not removing access for former employees.

There also needs to be a licensing system for any company or person that is going to have access to PII data for more than 25k people. People in this position need extra training, especially developers. Many developers learn about information security on the job but it should be a formalized training system. We keep seeing the same dumb mistakes being made at companies like leaving databases unsecured or S3 buckets public.
I go for video only, maybe that's why my view is skewed. Many of the books are very Udemy-like quality (full of useless fluff), and I generally try to avoid books.
Yeah I'm really confused by the whole "my life got so much better when I got off FB" trope. I don't spend a lot of time on Facebook, but my time spent there is generally pretty positive - I really enjoy getting updates from my friends and family and seeing their photos.
Wow. I honestly can't tell; is this satire? The sad thing is that this remains many people's view of computers. The first thing this person is missing is the ingenuity of people who want to get around stuff; some crummy filter or lower-powered hardware won't dissuade anyone who's curious.
I don't buy it. With a very low score--hey I like what I'm doing--I'm still at a high-risk of burnout. I Don't Think So.
Is it impossible? Of course not.
Is it going to foster the "app" revolution the iPhone did? Also no.
Yes I’ve seen that but in practice it’s not that easy to set up. I might sound lazy but for electron being a simple way to distribute cross platform apps it is harder than I thought. That might be the OS”s fault as much as anything. WiX and all that are tricky to use too which I think this would ultimately use for Windows.
I didn't know this. I thank you both.
> I don't get how the site is such a specter of misery for some people

That's fine, great even, but do you believe those people are reporting their own experiences accurately?
Good question, similarly how do you know the right encryption key was given, maybe there's a hidden volume that you can only see if you have the right key.
But in this scenario A did receive 4, so it can assume B received 3. And in this scenario B received 3.

Presumably A will keep sending 3 over and over using a timeout until it receives 4.
I quit Facebook about 2.5 years ago but was still on Twitter and Instagram for awhile. About six months later I dropped Twitter, and then about a year ago I dropped Instagram. I found that having any of them just added to my anxiety, depression, and overall feeling of being dissatisfied with my life. I don’t currently miss any of them, and I find myself having a lot more time to read books and work on things I’m passionate about. I’ve also found that the people who actually care still keep in contact with me on at least a weekly basis, and it’s a lot more personal and rewarding because we communicate directly rather than through “the void” of social media.

I've also found other benefits of quitting such as spending less money because I'm not seeing as many ads for things I don't need, and not feeling influenced to visit/participate in some activity just because other people are doing it. Maybe it's my own lack of willpower, but I found myself doing and buying a lot of things that ultimately did nothing for me because of the constant flood of information from social media.

Obviously other experiences will vary and I don't judge anyone who feels like they need social media and gain something from it, but for me it added very little to my life and I feel a lot better without it.
And the answer is: yes, absolutely. Mercurial is a whole level better. Unfortunately git won - because of GitHub, not on technical merit.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html
Yeah, they could at least point it out more obviously to newcomers. Colin Wright's comment below suggests https://hnnotify.xyz/
So you want to be a plumber? Here take this graduate course in fluid dynamics.
That sounds ridiculously more complex than clicking "new project" and just going with it.
I agree that "it should work perpetually so long as a nation doesn't see massive population decline and employment remains reasonably consistent".

But the same thing is true for a ponzi scheme, right? The idea is a never-ending growth from which new people pay the existing. The requirement that the US population must continue to grow - not just stagnate and contain the same number of people, but grow, indicates a ponzi-esque scheme to me. There is a finite amount of resources on the planet. Therefore there is a finite number of people that can be living on this planet. But such systems mathematically require that the number of new people constantly goes up over time. This is indicative of an unsustainable system.

If it were altered in a way such that, for example, there was a 1:1 (payers:recipients) relationship (or less) between the number of payers and the number of recipients, than I'd say that's sustainable because it doesn't require growth. Currently we have ~130M payers and 64M recipients, which means there's a roughly 2:1 ratio. On the surface it looks fine because you think hey people work for 40-45 years and then retire for 20 so 2:1 sounds about right. And it is, but only if you can continue to produce that larger base forever.
Is this article about PornTube?
For those that believe access to Facebook is a human right, does the idea that Facebook might be physiologically unhealthy factor into that reasoning?
Any evidence of this large majority?
Deepwater Horizon disaster had much worse impact than believed, study finds
From the title I initially wasn't sure if this would be about people who quit using Facebook becoming happier, or people who quit working there. Anecdotally both are true among my peer group :)
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One data point: I deleted my Facebook some time in late 2012 or early 2013. I have since deleted all my social media accounts / not join in on the rush to get new ones, with the exception of Mastodon (which I use very rarely) and HN. I don't go to news websites and just accept that I will find out about some things later than people who are more plugged in than me. When I need to know more about something in particular I will look that thing up, allowing myself to read about it on whatever source has a good piece on it, so I still consume some news but never passively.

I think even HN can be too reward-driven for me personally (I enjoy getting upvoted, etc). I've found that my relationship with all online information platforms was kind of destructive while I was doing it (things like autopilot opening Reddit in an elevator, not seeing anything and then opening another Reddit tab immediately). I've come to view information, especially on sites with an infinite feed, kind of like sugar: it's very good and can be okay in moderation, but if left to my own devices I would go overboard, so I have to specifically police myself.

I thought sticking to my "information diet" would be much harder than it is. I miss very little of what I used to consume: I reach out to the friends I want to keep up with, I look up the news I want to read, and I get to be relatively insulated from the constant torrent of negativity/targeted advertising/etc that happens on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc.
It's an impressive sign of the times that a traditional bank publishes free & open source software. Banks are extremely risk averse by nature, and publishing open source is risky in all kinds of ways.

What if a developer copies&pastes some GPL code? What is some open source dev work gets done on a big project billed to a client? What if an external contributor contributes some code that gets merged, but it turns out to contain an obfuscated backdoor and this ends up inside our online banking apps? What if a company uses our open source code and it's broken and they sue us? (they'll have no leg to stand on, but it's still a worry for management not used to open source).

Really there are all kinds of complicated stories (sensible and not) about ownership and responsibility that need answering before an organisation like this will give off the green light to publish open source. I bet this was not a few developers asking the boss and the boss going "oh yeah sure, go ahead". Hats off.
Personally I’ve changed to leveraging social media to pursue my work and some specific interests. No friends or family.

HN for stay current in my industry.

A very curated Twitter via a third party client for following specific tech creators.

No FB, IG or Reddit. No keeping up with the Jones’s or lusting after others lives.

If I want to talk to someone I make a habit of doing it regularly. I text friends and family at least once a week just to say hi. I attempt to maintain my relationships actively instead of the passive “likes” you can send through social media.