skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It boils down to a common mistake: knowledge != habits

You can teach people things, but if they don't actually apply them and make them habits, then no benefit is gained from that knowledge.

What's worse is we now have a body positivity movement now de-emphasizing classes like physical education that helps form those habits and is part of having a balanced life. Besides physical education, we have de-emphasized home economics as well, which is also a class where one learns how to prepare meals at home, which is another key component of being able to make healthy affordable meals.

Coursework needs to move on from theory and into the realm of practice. Maybe we should require students to maintain a budget as part of passing each grade. What did you earn? How did you spend it? What did you do to increase the amount you earn and what did you do to increase the amount you spend. It wouldn't be a bad idea to have students maintain bank accounts and finances as part of their basic education. It's not that you can't spend it or make unwise investments, but doing so should require thoughtful reflection put down into words on paper and the idea that you need to demonstrate that you've learned something when you make a mistake of spending money on something you shouldn't have or when you make an unwise investment that doesn't produce returns.
Or compare it to something like Lazarus, where you install the environment (sadly it is not at all portable) and can construct GUI applications with a WYSIWYG editor that compile directly to native binaries for multiple platforms.
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Nordics are not overtaxed?
Don't discount anecdotes. World views, even if found to be supported by studies, are often rationalizations of inner state.
I'm a sucker for questionnaires, but this just seemed to simplistic. I'd say you might as well replace the questions with a single "how burnt out do you feel" input.

Would love to see how different industries compare on some of these scores.
I very much disagree with the fads vs. revolutions division in this article, or rather - I find it unfair. A certain technology succeeding often has a lot to do with its quality, but it's impossible to ignore all the complex social processes happening around it.

Sometimes great solutions simply arrive at a bad time, or don't have proper funding, or marketing, etc. It definitely makes sense to be on the lookout and try to improve your chances of identifying the winner early on for business reasons, but that doesn't mean the winner is always the best.

Once you're as big as Slack, you might even be actively harming others by doing that - i.e. a better but less popular technology might have won in the end, had they backed it.
I also ran the quiz several times and can reproduce your results. Science! I’m going to say the quiz is overtuned.
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I would fall into the category of kids who did not do well with this. I was moved a double-digit number of times when I was in single digits of age. Eventually, my parents thought to take me to a psychologist to solve the puzzling issue of why I wasn't making friends. The notes I requested from the psychologist decades later included a line from me that went something to the effect of that I didn't get to enjoy having friends, I just got to miss them.

I absolutely missed some social developmental windows, somewhat like the kittens who, never exposed to horizontal lines during a critical point in the Blakemore and Cooper experiment, were unable to perceive them later on. Nothing I have been able to do in terms of reading, groups, exercises, and the like has been able to grant me the easy camaraderie that comes readily to others. Instead I am typically watchful and quiet, on the periphery of any group. Carnegie, Toastmasters, and all of the glad-handing can provide at best a kind of thin simulation that never takes root for me. I have faked it and been unable to make it, leaving me with a somewhat guilty fear that any charm I may have would be greasily like that of any garden variety psychopath.

Perhaps the most "positive" thing to come out of it would be near-schizoid levels of self-reliance and an ability to acquire local accents to better fit in.

Some kids get over it, some ... do not.
For some time I thought the symbol on the NM flag was too small. Then I realized that the tiny size symbolized a few people huddled together in the vast empty desert, which is certainly appropriate.
Works fine for me. Great little tool this.
How do you maintain your security and privacy?
The Something Awful forums is the obvious candidate here. It costs a flat 10$ to create an account. This generally makes trolling, spamming and scamming a losing proposition and broadly helps with the signal to noise ratio.
throttle uses debounce, which uses a timer + setTimeout and clearTimeout :)
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As a newsletter publisher, I really want to know my score. There may be some way to monetize my desire; e.g. how Return Path has their Sender Score.
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the ad industry doesn't pay for shit. they extract value from users and give (some of) it to creators. the users (involuntarily) pay. so if the argument is "whoever pays for it gets a say" -- we do. ads don't.
The crazy thing about addiction-forming parts on websites is, that even stack overflow has it, with their hot networks box. Great (/s), when your metric as a provider is not how helpful you've been but user engagement...

Luckily they're easily blocked with uBlock Origin.
Hm. Is 300 dpi sufficient? Sounds a little low to me but I could be wrong. And then I guess one has to ”clean” the scanned image quite a bit in order to get good results.

It also would be really cool if one could ”carve” the lines to the paper. Might be possible with a plotter and the right kind of stylus.

A while a go I bought an artwork that actually was cut out from an issue of Harpers’ Magazine c:a 1860 or so. One thing that’s really cool about that line art is that the printing technique made the lines embossed to the paper. Beautiful!
Giant indeed! Will be fixed.
Cool idea, but honestly not something I would ever pay for.

We have adblockers with open sources lists of bad domains, and I could see something like that in this area being super powerful. But not sure I could every justify paying for it. What is the actual value proposition here? Am I missing a part of it?

Edit: However I am interested in your main service and might give that a try. This service for free could lead to more paying users there. I think that price model makes more sense than $6 / month. I think I could stay pretty clean with a couple dollars on occasion with it. And then no need to spend the $6. The models seem at odds with eachother almost.
You are correct. I've been there. But these circumstances don't last forever. Life is constantly changing. Sometimes you can make the change. Sometimes you just have to wait.
Are you suggesting that the US government use social security taxes to purchase equities and real estate?

The purpose of the current system is to make the benefits one receives sort of proportional to the income they earn. Of course it's the government taking in money and spending it, and it's all one government if you zoom out, but it's still useful to categorize certain funds.
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No signup, no way to try (other than fill a form to request access); may even be just an idea.

If you aren't one of the founders, you're blowing their chances to be on HN when they are actually ready to launch.
It's equally annoying that to sign into discord you need to disable your ad blocker and solve a series of google captchas.
We just released eris v0.3.0 with improved error formatting (options for error/stack inversion) in addition to several fixes and performance improvements (changelog: https://github.com/rotisserie/eris/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md). We're always looking for feedback from users so feel free to submit an issue or feature request to us or chat with us on Discord. Thanks!!
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>but usually constant factors don't matter that much experimentally and pi is approximately equal to one for any large n

Not sure if you're joking, but this is not pi+n, in which case it doesn't matter as much, but pi/n, limiting the the edge of knowability of mutually measurable non-commuting observables by a factor of 3 in a direction against what we would like.

And as the article mentions, experiments are within 56% of this, so they are about to hit hard limits if the math is correct.

So it most certainly matters experimentally. There are many places this will affect the current edge (and future) of technology (also, as mentioned in the article).

Basically it put behind an impossibility theorem things people had expected to use in technology.
Ad for what?
Doesn't "suck it up" mean to bear it and ignore it? That seems at odds with the rest of your post's advice which is to stand up for yourself.
I can figure out how to unblock Youtube videos unavailable in my region, I can probably figure out how to access this site again.
HFT Latency Arbitrage is pretty much dead
I'm 33% insane myself. I believe that's part of what makes me human.
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I don't mean to suggest that moving is never the right decision, but yes those results personally give me pause in whether it'd a good idea to move. Also it seems in general more thought is needed around what can be done to help kids with the transition when moving.
I got 0.6 / 6, and it said the same. Is it possible to not be at high risk of burnout according to this survey?
I found a single origin espresso that I really like.

One time I bought a bag of beans it occurred to me that requiring coffee beans from a specific farm in Rhuanda sounds like something a king might do.

Even my bog standard middle class luxury feels wildly excessive sometimes.
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Are TAG programs a big thing in middle school? At the schools I went to TAG programs in elementary school automatically tracked you into the honors classes in middle school and then high school, but a lot of kids who weren't in TAG funneled into honors any way.
overleaf.coma? overleaf.com you mean?
Why? The editor needs a frontend in javascript anyways, so why mot handle this all in real time on the client?

Now they rewrote in PHP, thats probably one of the worst languages out there, and why not rewrite in something compiled if speed was the main reason for a rewrite?

For me PHP sits in the middle as a poor language, and still slow compared to any compiled languages. Also i would want to see some wasm vs php benchmarks they did before starting with php.

Lots of poor decisions from the wiki team.
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Archery is not nearly as easy as movies make it seem
I think using the incognito method works? I wont bother with that though, i'd just pick up my phone. I suppose it depends on what you're here for. I just come for the links and discussions.
What effect does resizing your window have?
Not to mention the ever increasing stack of tools and tech you need to keep up with.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that first link shows that, for people who get pensions, the pension is in the same ballpark as Social Security. (Private pensions tend to be on the lower side but they're still close to $1,000 month which is about 2/3 of the Social Security payment in that table.)
what was the total population of users on usenet before 2000? any community turns to a mob above a certain level and rapidly becomes useless. If you wish to revive usenet style community, build something that is only technically capable people get to use and aim to gather approximately the same number of users. some of the new decentralized media are probably heading for this point .
> And that is completely ridiculous; a technical solution to an invented problem.

Congratulations, you’ve just described most software projects by libraries and archives.

It’s funny, because back in the 60s-80s, libraries were leaders in building shared data systems and networked infrastructure. The history of OCLC describes this well.

But once the web came around, they had an identity crisis, were unable to react to technology trends, and largely got conned into predatory and restrictive arrangements by service providers (Elsevier, ProQuest, etc). The same thing actually happened in the past with microfiche and led to libraries destroying huge, valuable portions of their collections, that could have been better preserved with the advent of scanning technologies.
My experience with HathiTrust is that I search for something through my university library's site, I click on a link to something that takes me to Hathi and it says I can't access it. Thanks for nothing HathiTrust. I guess it might be useful for people that want to do some quantitative work but for those of us who want to actually read the works it is just digital blue balls.
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Not agreeing with the parent commenter, but the differences are much less trivial than you’re making them out to be. I used to live with a Scottish guy, and he had to make a considerable effort to be understood at all in America. If we were out and he wanted to say something to me privately, he’d just say it in his normal Scottish English, and nobody else would have a clue what he said. “Singlish” is also very different. I’ve travelled with friends to Singapore who absolutely could not communicate with Singlish speakers.
Read from Career pages of all companies, big and small, from Universities as well and soon from government sites.
The article explains the danger of this approach, with reasonable science. It seems to have worked in your case but is more risky than other strategies.
Wayfair ~550 Layoff
Successful actors are lottery winners.

Millions of people are affected by problems in childhood. There are 500 people, tops, on the planet who have monetized the resulting personality disorder into some kind of mass-media fame.
Will get to that too.
For me bullying stopped when I started martial arts. I still wasn’t popular but people knew they shouldn’t mess with me (I never had to fight but the bullies knew I could) and left me alone. If I had kids I would definitely try to get them into jiu Jitsu class or similar.

This physical confidence still carries me until today even in professional circumstances.
Agreed.

I am a "Software Engineer". I hold a Professional Engineer designation by APEGS, my schooling was for Software Engineering. I advocate for regulation in the industry but also don't think it needs to be sweeping and catch-all.

My job has me working within Industrial Control environments. Programming mistakes can kill people or damage equipment worth millions. When I receive a software package from someone I want to have some trust in a system that this person wasn't hired off the street for lowest wage. My employer has a good reputation in our industry and is asked to come clean up messes from programmers overseas who provide a bad system and walk away from it.

If your job doesn't have you playing with lives of people or holding the wellbeing of a company in your hands then regulation shouldn't be as stringent. But to say that every project of that magnitude has an Engineer overseeing and holding responsibility over it isn't overreaching imo.
What’s the deal with Michael Bloomberg paying meme pages?
Sure, modern JS tooling is complex, but a 14-year-old just looking to play around with programming isn't going to build a Facebook clone as their first project. You can always create a barebones HTML file and drop some JS into a `<script>` tag and be up-and-running in two minutes. If you don't want to use modern tooling that was designed for large-scale SPAs, then don't.
How does your daughter feel about it? It's probably good to involve her in the conversation too
They are not doing it for free

* They build it for internal use, primarily

* They use it for advertisment (hey ING bank would never be mentioned here otherwise)

* They can eventually use it for recruiting (send high quality PRs, they might like you)

* If they are lucky they get cheap bug fixes (not free, as review and community work costs time)
It was the best thing I ever did.
Parts are. Parts are pretty stagnant, and parts increase.

Security costs are increasing, for example, as are wages for tech people to run the stack.
Relevant discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22309310
This might not be a fair comparison. One of the risks of moving during vulnerable age is being seen as an outsider and excluded from groups at every new place. But army brats tend to cluster as parents get deployed to a large base, and having other somewhat friendly kids in a similar state can be a big help with avoiding exclusion.
One of their old mottoes was "Oklahoma is OK"...which has that same non-aspirational quality you're highlighting in your last sentence.

Here's some OK branding history:

http://www.15q.net/ok.html
Make a "mistake" with BGP. China, just a big example, has a lot of incidents where a Chinese ISP advertises routes to addresses nowhere near China and no doubt if it needed to it can explain every single one of those incidents as an understandable human error of some kind. No real harm done, right?
You did not address either point.

An index fund doesn't mitigate the risk of living until you're 92, when life expectancy tables say that you should have died at 84.

Group funds pool this risk. Because when life expectancy is 84, for every person that lives to 92, eight people die at 83.

Outliving your savings is a catastrophic event in your old age. Group funds act as insurance for this catastrophe.
Depression is common among highly successful and/or popular figures. I read that depression was common among astronauts after they completed their missions. Virtually nothing that they (can) do later in life compares with the scope of their past missions, and that leads to depression or worse.
These days, part of the astronaut training includes planning for their post-mission goals.
the new is interesting however the article is just a quote from another article and a study. It ends up not pointing out any valuable information, like what are the underlying mechanisms. Basically a copycat to get free visitors traffic.

Questions I wish there were answered: is it about anxious browsing? anxious goshipping? compare oneself to others? compulsive procrastination? does it apply to other social networks, is it related to general screen time or just mindless consuming? would movies and stronger leisure activities have a similar effect or just compulsive social network browsing and the mental drain of feeling like comparing to others?

EDIT: spell and formating
I hope they don’t crater. Amazon needs some competition. Way fair may not be perfect, but they offer the magical experience of receiving giant furniture pieces within days, which you can painlessly return if you’re not happy. That should exist in the market, yet I fear it won’t if they go away and Amazon fills the space.
> I'm too young to have been a part of Usenet

Indeed you are[0]

[0]: https://timeline.com/flame-wars-early-cyberbullying-1c509aa5...
Beautiful stuff!

I commented elsewhere on this thread about reproductions: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cpach

Just out of curiosity, have you considered making print reproductions?
That would work if I had a passport...
I get the sentiment, but I do not agree at all... similar to putting fences around all the coastlines of the world, I would rather just teach my children to swim.

I had to go back and make sure what was being said was actually the case which now makes me question what one does with all that latency time... just sit and breath and try not to totally freak out? I don't want to come off as too crass on this, but this type of self-regulation is just totally missing the mark (unless I'm missing something here).
I'm predisposed to believe this is true... But I can't find a link to any evidence or research in the OP, which is a fluffy piece with little actual content. I'm flagging the OP unless someone posts a link to either evidence or higher quality content.
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Employees, through their unions, /demanded/ and obtained defined-benefit pension plans from large employers in the 60s and 70s.

One problem, in the United States, is that Ronald Reagan passed a law that allowed companies to fall behind on their pension liabilities--i.e. shortchange their employees' pension plans. Add 20 years, and suddenly GM, among others, had a bankruptcy-inducing pension shortfall in 2008.

Banks being CIDC-backed just protects the first $100K of one's holdings, so far from the full retirement savings...
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One can absolutely feel immersed even with subtitles. After a while reading the text happens subconsciously in a fraction of a second. Given hiw slowly people usually speak, there is plenty if time to read subtitles and look for subtleties of the shots.

Yes, there's a bit of a learning curve, but it is pretty easy afterwards.
It doesn't make sense when thought of as a pension. You are right to point out that it doesn't function as an investment fund. Money is transferred directly from the young to the old.

When Social Security is envisioned simply as a welfare program for people who are too old to support themselves, its structure becomes entirely reasonable.
You should update your knowledge of modern operating systems.

My mom and my wife parents are extremely happy with Ubuntu computers. They do browsing, email, Skype, print stuff and whatever else they need just fine. That are way more happy with Ubuntu than they were with Windows, and I am, too, cause in the last three years I have spent exactly zero minutes maintaining their computers. If that's not a consumer-market OS, I don't know, what is? Windows? When mom used it, she always had one problem after another with it. I'm truly sorry for anyone who has to deal with it every day.
I think the cut content is pretty obvious. It's almost all the second half of the game. You spend something like 15 hours getting the first four magical macguffins in the game and then suddenly the last four arrive within 45 minutes. I remember the "dungeons" where you get the last two are just empty towers with a room or two and no enemies.

I don't know why I seem to be the only one who notices how the second half of the game is obviously missing.
(1) This article is pretty low-quality, and provides no sources for anything. It certainly sounds plausible enough, but still...

(2) Assuming that this is true for Facebook, I'm pretty sure the same result would hold true for any other social media site for short-form content (e.g. Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc).

(3) I'm LESS sure about sites for sharing longer-form writing, such as Reddit and HN. I suspect that the effect is not as stark, but that it does hold true to SOME extent whenever you have the gamification of upvotes and downvotes.
err, so a rich kids club?
> Microkernels; EPIC architectures like IA-64; object request brokers; and 1990s’-style neural nets are gone

As someone who uses #1 and #3 every day, I wonder what it is like coding in the 21st century :/
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This might also be a difficult concept for HN'ers, but ads aren't only for selling shiny baubles, one's mother, and SaaS apps.