skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The impression I get from parts of the Internet that skew towards younger demographics (e.g. Reddit) is that the 30-something crowd realize that they've been given a raw deal and many of them do know that things were better for the median person in the past. They are divided on what the cause of the problem is, however, and far too many of them have latched onto the idea that solution to the cause of quality of life problems caused by the neoliberal revolution (i.e. Reaganism in the US) is to take society even further right into neoliberalism or into blood and soil white nationalism.

Looking younger, the 20-something crowd doesn't seem to have much of a clue about socioeconomic issues and only sees politics through the lens of racial/gender/sexual orientation/gender identity politics. Their indifference to economic issues may be driven by the fact that they aren't yet old enough to have real adult financial responsibilities. The side-effect, however, is that the idea that socioeconomic conditions for the median person were better in the past is outside their scope of understanding.

Sadly, I don't see a solution for either incorrect blame targeting by 30 year olds or indifferent ignorance by 20 year olds. How these people are educated and what they are exposed to by mass culture is determined by the billionaires, and the billionaires are very happy with a status quo that deflects blame for social decay to anyone and everyone but themselves.
> I'm often getting some form of "you're rate limited", "not allowed to perform this action" etc. until I hard-reload the full page.

I thought I was the only person dealing with this.. It happens for pretty much every tweet that I open in a browser. After a refresh, everything loads fine, but it's quite annoying.
Another issue I can think of is that spectrogram view inherently looses temporal resolution the more precise you make it in the frequency space.
Both Chrome and FF have plugins to add vim key bindings - at least for navigating around the UI and the page. Which would support the argument to learn them. I guess your argument would be stronger if there were other $editor_of_choice key bindings for browser textboxes?
Researchers demonstrate the ability to fuse atoms inside room-temperature metals
No, it doesn't. I haven't had a chance to really critically review the studies that are cited in that article, so I can't give an in-depth answer as to why that article is wrong. But I know that my recommendations are based on patients I have treated. And I have treated thousands of patients with parathyroid, calcium, and Vitamin D problems. That is all that I have done for the last 6 years, in fact. I've never had a patient require 8000 units of Vit D daily to get to a normal level - never. Yet this article would have me believe that 98% of people require over 8000 units to get Vit D in the normal range?! That is absurd. Anyone who has prescribed Vitamin D and watched levels knows that this isn't true. Many things published in medical literature are not valid, and not reproducible.
That seems illegal in some places if true. The premise is that it proves we are not robots, and that's all.
> Once a social platform is around long enough, it becomes the thing that old people use (since its original users grow older with it)

I think this is true, but it's worth also considering the factor of how well a platform is able to keep its users segregated into their own echo chambers wherein they feel as though the platform as a whole meets their standard of what is hip and cool

Take Instagram for example. Ten years on from its inception, it's still very, very popular with 18-24 year olds isn't it? Simultaneously though, as I'm sure many Americans with a ~45 year old mother will be able to attest to, it somehow maintains very strong popularity with middle aged women too.

My idea as to how it maintains its general appeal while catering to these two disparate audiences is that its software mechanisms are carefully designed to keep both audiences separated from each other. Consequently both feel as though it's 'their' platform.

It seems that when a social media platform fails to build an intergenerational iron curtain like this, you end up with something like Facebook, where both generations gravitate away from the platform.

I admit I could be completely off the mark here though, and applying my personal experience more broadly than I should.
The part about the algorithm might be referring to when you first join TikTok. THEN it shows you the most popular videos at the moment, adjusting quickly to a more personalized feed based on viewing/interaction behaviors.
I was going to say "I can't wait to have a second row of crap across the top of my Instagram feed that I don't care about" ... and I open the IG app, and now "stories" takes up two rows. haha.
I agree with what you’re saying and I’ll add another point in your favour.

At points, SAR teams have to make really difficult choices. Consider rescue operations in mountain ranges. Search and rescue teams have to contend with the same kinds of conditions that often lead extremely experienced, skilled teams to disaster. Ground teams, for example, have to deal with avalanche risks. Air teams have to deal with constantly shifting weather patterns. There’s a point when they have to call off searches as it’s often not worth sacrificing their own lives to find people who went into ranges on their own volition, got lost, ran into bad weather or got diverted, stranded (or worse) due to avalanches.

A drone based rescue operation takes that extra risk of death away.

Programmatically though, that leads to all sorts of other problems. One sad fact of mountain ranges is that while most climbers practice excellent hygiene and etiquette, there are others who leave ropes, gear and debris behind.

But combined with education on good disaster beacons and ways to make your team highly visible to computers, I think you’re onto something.

This is an excellent idea and if I had solved the money problem, I’d take it and run. Alas, I haven’t so I hope someone else sees this idea and goes with it. It sounds like something that SAR communities would be interested in. Depending on how interested you are in a follow up, it might be worth putting this concept forward to groups like the Alpine Club of Canada or any of the communities where SAR technicians hang out.

Good idea friend and I like how you articulated it!! Good luck!!!
I use Visual Studio 99% for my coding, and Visual Studio Code for 1%.
I would prefer to use VIM for editing code or any text because it's a 1000% better than Visual Studio. The problem is, there's 50 other things you do with Visual Studio that is not editing code, and for those things VIM is not that much better, or better at all.

It's not even good at dealing with more than one file. Yeah, I have nerd-tree and have tried explore. meh.

I'll think about it when ReSharper comes up with an add-in for VIM.

Yes, I know Visual Studio Code has VIM mode. . and Visual Studio used to (or maybe still does), but then you're outside the norm of that environment. Ever Visual Studio Code extension is tested with Visual Studio Code. But they're not all tested with Visual Studio Code in VIM mode. That's why I like to stick with defaults and the base-case.

What's needed is for VIM itself to have features beyond just editing text files. It's never going to compete with Visual Studio or Visual Studio code until VIM itself adds those features that make a viable IDE replacement. Today, it ain't.
Almost 3 years of VS code usage, I can not remember which meta key.

Doesn't help that I use a Windows keyboard on Mac some days, and a Windows machine on others.

Also mice suck (but are orders of magnitude better than track pads), I always find selecting columns this way to be super finicky and I often have to do it twice to get it just right.
...but then it costs you a thousand dollars if you lose or damage the set top box.
> Starting to work -- particularly at irregular times -- is much more fluid with vim. I usually need to take a deep breath before opening an IDE.

I can't even count the times I've accidentally written :w into a document while using an editor without vim bindings.
If there is a serious societal collapse, gold is going to be the last thing on your mind. Bullets, fuel, tools... trust relationships with other people... all infinitely more valuable than gold in a crisis. People who own physical gold are preparing for an extremely unlikely event, where society has collapsed in a very specific way.

A HAM radio and the skills to operate it would be worth more than its weight in gold in many disaster scenarios.
To be clear, your choices are:

Build system,
Language,
Spring version,
Java packaging,
Java version

The rest is naming.

That is not complex to me.

As for the dependency options... well, they are dependency options. I'm sure you have no problem with adding gems to a rails project, even though there are thousands of them that may be mutually exclusive! A non-ruby dev might not know which gem they want and would have no way of knowing what they want or why!

rails new myapp is exactly the same as doing this with no dependencies.
EC2 originally allocated a public and private address to each VM, so clearly they do have enough addresses to go around.
I guess you mean "bother".

If so, I do not bother to decline such a meeting, I just do not show up.
I said more.

I posit it's susceptible to both, and that it is susceptible to any manipulation. Not just overt or malicious. Even in good faith. And even the article is a form of manipulation. And I am saying the "manipulated" and the "educated" are often one in the same especially in hindsight when wrong becomes clear.
Good! I made more troll posts in usenet days.
Which is nonsense. Hyperinflation can occur without the financial system crumbling. And in that scenario you’ll be glad you had a position in gold, even just digitally.
The inflation adjusted price of gold is still below 2008 and 1980 peaks.
I feel similarly. Liberal ideals would say that everyone having a global voice is a good thing, but we haven't really seen things play out that way since social media became so dominant. At least not in the US.

Though it doesn't help, of course, that TwitFaceTube are designed to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else, which encourages inflammatory content. Maybe if they didn't, we wouldn't have this problem.
There’s just a certain amount of effort that you can spend in a certain amount of time. And discipline takes effort. If you need less discipline you can spend your effort somewhere else. For instance you can put effort into fitting your code into an ownership model like in Rust or proof the code with Coq. The difference is that with C you can never know if there was enough discipline (usually there isn’t).
Synonymous for the intended audience, and close enough for anyone else.
The Caucasian's Guide to Black Barbecues (2015)
The impression I formed is that the author has an agenda to troll HN or game its automations to get their content to the top of the first page. In any case the above article seems to me to be entirely about bragging that they punked HN. I don't find it funny, just boring, trolly and childish (and not in the good kind of "childish", a-la Calvin and Hobbes, more like Cartman nasty childish).
Patients do not demand insurers cover anything, they plead, usually in futility. Insurers in the US are goaled on how little care they can provide for the premiums paid, not how much.
Patient-Led Research for Covid-19
No insurance hassles - I did medical billing for a bit. The insurance co's basically just run around doctors because they KNOW folks give up. You could absolutely force the $40 extra payment if dr + patient etc proved it out / appealed it - but often not worth it. Also govt billing into central county system for the poor - ugh - the bureaucracy / overhead was a nightmare (always having to recertify to financial need / paperwork this and that - 50% of time was on stuff I'd consider no value add).

For a while I had individual insurance (prior to obamacare). Because it had pretty high deductibles, I would just do a private pay / cash doctor for primary care etc.

Some big wins:

NO discussion about whether something was covered or not! You want to get service, just call.

No crazy surprise bills - yes - I once tried to go to urgent care for something at the main hospital, but NO ONE would tell me what I would be charged as a cash pay client. Yes, it can be expensive to do cash pay, but with a doctor billing by the time you can basically predict / know your cost.

Service - you are paying by the hour. I never felt pressured out the door (no surprise). The service is good to great.

Convenience - I got someone close who used his downstairs as his office. Have a problem, go in and get checked out. Because you don't need the huge billing infrastructure I think you can get away with smaller office sizes. To pay for a full time biller you need a few doctors, who then need a receptionist etc etc.
I suppose that's fair--funding bias is surely a thing, and may be valid in this case, although I disagree about the actual authors "highly biased" credentials. If someone was interested in education, those are the kind of credentials one would have. It would be like dismissing a civil engineer's opinion about the stability of a bridge, simply because other civil engineers might make money off the repair.

>> "would likely be a multi-generational effort can be seen as an admission that the funding won't actually work.

I squinted pretty hard, and failed to see that admission. I do see an honest acknowledgement that lack of funding builds systemic issues in areas with poor educational systems, which takes time to resolve. "Give all the money overnight and that will fix everything immediately" is completely different from "some extra money to make sure kids actually have pens and paper".

Also, describing "widespread agreement" isn't a logical fallacy in this case, it's a necessary precursor to public policy. Can you imagine setting policy based on the reverse? "Very few experts agree about this topic, so lets do...." It's as important in education policy as it is for choosing the next large particle physics experiment. The article is largely a meta-analysis anyway--describing the current consensus is sort of the point.

>> I see a repeated claim that schools serving students with poverty need more money per student. If true, this proves that money is not the problem. Bad students are the problem.

This sentence and the following paragraph comes uncomfortably close to being a dog-whistle about poor people (and let's be honest, many of whom are people of color) being fundamentally bad students and not worth spending money on because they don't care about learning anyway. I think your logic about what proves what is shallow and flawed, and the sentiment harmful.

I can't prove or disprove your anecdote about kids destroying computers, or how widespread that is, but it's sort of a sidetrack here anyway. There's a spectrum between "every family must pay for private tutors and materials out of pocket for the their children's entire education" and "let's have public schools give free laptops to students to destroy with no consequences". My point is that having thousands of kids in the "go to school but can't be successful because they lack access to the basic materials" part of that spectrum is the wrong answer, and one that is easily fixed by increasing funding for that purpose.
Pure conjecture as I don't know how they're collecting the location data, but I imagine all Google traffic from China is going through a VPN. So maybe the vast majority of VPNs used by Chinese users are IPv4 only?
The point of my comment was to focus on the harm which the OP did by posting the faked content in the first place. And my comment explicitly says to forget about Person 1 and Person 2.
I recommend Forget Me Not as an alternative.

https://github.com/Lusito/forget-me-not/
True, but that makes it a good place to raise technical literacy a little bit.
I can also use gold to barter in person.

The point is that Bitcoin reach as a medium of exchange is limited. I would argue on a global scale, it's as limited as gold.
What is Jio, and why are tech’s biggest players suddenly obsessed with it?
That's right, in FBs case user != customer
The article is so wrong. This is part of the reason why I do not take main stream journalists very seriously. I wish same issue was taken up by some hard core economist.

What is wrong with the article :

- So one small Psychiatrist is losing business to other Psychiatrists.

It is perfectly possible that Ross is an inefficient Psychiatrist here and patients are better served by other Psychiatrists. This is a loss for Ross but barely a "complication". Also it is not clear to me if the market was divided 50-50 between say Google and Bing why would it be any difference. From over 10 years of experience in ad industry I have realized that it is a ruthlessly free market system where the inefficient player will get punished very quickly.

What Google has done here is that opened up a lager pool of customers for the suppliers and that has resulted into fierce competition among suppliers. The customers invariably will benefit here as they have more options.

- The rant about smart campaigns

This is one of the real bad arguments. A couple's councilor is upset that Google is unable to differentiate between a PTSD councilor and couple's Councillor. Will the world be better served if a couple's councilor has to compete with a florist or a nanny ? [That it what yellow pages were].

The article laments that customers have more choice and it is not easy for the suppliers to rely on information asymmetry to make profit. They take some fictional futuristic scenario and compare google against it and blame those problems on Google. But in reality it is a good problem to have.

PS. This is by no means to claim that Google's ad algorithms are perfect, but it is without dispute that they are better than all available alternatives.
I also miss the old FTPs, and the days when you could list all website directory contents. I miss the early days when BBSes tried to migrate to telnet online. I miss P2P sharing apps that had chat rooms and communities build around them (anyone reading this remember VNN2000?).

alt.tasteless, principa discordia, and I remember reading about was the 3rd (or 4th) burning man long before it was "a thing".

Back when "The New Hacker's Dictionary" used to provide a common lexicon and even people who didn't read 1960s Sci-Fi knew what "grok" meant.
Why would people be expected to leave their bias at home when they move?
Born, raised and still living in silicon valley and can easily say there are biases here the same as everywhere, yet can seem more magnified by being in a small pond with too many others and people cutting necks to get ahead to nowhere.
Not quite everywhere. At my current job, I have gotten somewhat proficient with sed, which is the most advanced editor installed on our production systems.

Also, for some reason, many modern systems still only install vi by default. If you know vim, you know vi; but it is missing enough features to be annoying.
Not everybody holds gold as a hedge against complete and utter collapse. It can be a sensible hedge against a weakening dollar, such as is currently happening.
Modern collaborative terminal...so, tmux running in hyper (for electron goodness)? :)
In what scenario would anyone get to skip medical school? Or are you saying they can't get a job with a Harvard degree? Or maybe they don't get promoted?
The "search" part of search and rescue is a solved problem. There's no reason to go into the wilderness without a PLB in 2020.

PLBs cost around $300 [1], they have five+ year batteries, and they don't require a subscription. If you need to use it, you turn it on, it grabs a GPS lock and transmits your coordinates for about a day, during which at least one satellite will see your signal and downlinks all over the planet will log your location. It may still take some time for rescue services to get to you, but finding you will no longer be the primary concern.

If $300 is still too much, you can usually rent or borrow one for the duration of your trip. Just throw one in your backpack and consider yourself lucky if you never end up needing it.

The nature of emergencies means you don't know what you're going to run into. You could be lost, you could have a broken leg, you could have been bitten by something lethal, you could be treading water 100 miles offshore. You could have provisions for a month, or you could need a medevac ASAP.

If you actually have an emergency, do you want to sit around for a week and hope that you get noticed, or do you want rescue services all over the planet to have your exact coordinates within the hour?

Ten years ago these might have been newfangled novelty gadgets, but today they really should be considered required safety equipment if you're going into an area that's remote, or where there's a real possibility of veering off course. If you're sailing a boat or flying an airplane, they're usually legally required now too. They may not be mandated for hikers or backpackers, but don't be an idiot -- you need to have one.

Rescue services don't look for lines in the sand or messages in bottles anymore. The world spent over a billion dollars to get the Cospas-Sarsat program up and running, and the expected method for signaling distress in 2020 is by satellite. You should have the equipment to make a distress call if you're going to be in a position where it may be necessary.

Don't needlessly make things harder on yourself and on rescue workers by thinking that it's manlier to flash a mirror at an airplane. That can be your backup method, but not your primary.

[1] https://www.acrartex.com/products/resqlink-400
Hi Anand and Raghav - great showcase!

Just for curiosity, is the # of forecasts due to SKU/locations, or due to granularity of series (i.e. let's forecast absolutely every KPI driver, as well as on different time scales).

Apologies if that's an low level question, the Walmart blog was relatively large in use case.

Best of luck!
Get to peer a little deeper
I mean, you would still be touching chrome, as Chromecast devices are well, running Chrome... but your point is taken
> Happy to get back to that original subject if you are.

Original point is:

- RedHat has nothing to do with Silicon Valley - geographically nor culturally

- RedHat isn't representative of typical Silicon Valley companies

- IBM is more of a 'Silicon Valley' company than Red Hat, because it's an old traditional government contractor

Therefore the original comment had it backwards, which is confusing.

If you mean 'liberal young open-source company' then say that! Because that absolutely isn't what 'Silicon Valley' means.
There are key bindings for other editors, they're called CUA :-)

I can Ctrl-C/Ctrl-X/Ctrl-V to copy/cut/paste, Ctrl-arrows to move around one word at a time, Ctrl-shift-arrows to select words, Home and End to go to the start and end of the line, etc, Ctrl-Home/Ctrl-End to move to the start and end of the text input, etc.
I feel like C is like the old joke where a man goes to the doctor and says, doc I got broken bones in a dozen places. And the doctor says, well stay out of them places.
True, but there are some things that we observe minds tending to value consistently.
Thanks Steve - no need to say sorry. I was keen to post this as chat bubbles have been grating on me for some time and I am glad someone did some analysis on it!
Plus if they have something currently implementable as opposed to far theoretical why not go into the private practice to actually do it and learn more?