skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even in locales where workers have strong parental leave rights, school is just a place to dump the children.

The distinction between countries where school is a place to dump children versus countries where school is seen as an institution to further the countrie's standing has been made very obvious in the COVID crisis. The former countries just closed their schools and made a figleaf attempt at covering that (e.g. weekly work assignments). The latter countries dumped resources into offsetting closed schools, e.g. turning public TV into school TV, significant eLearning investments etc.

From this we can learn that school is a place to dump children even - especially - in rich, western countries with strong worker rights; meanwhile countries like Mexico fall into the latter category.
>Do you have any data the counters what I’m saying?

Prove me wrong is bad argumentation.

>I know people in other countries don’t make the same salaries but they are “mostly” doing pretty well for their region.

The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Do you have any data to backup your claim?
Yes zero cost is subjective. It has a cost at least at compile time. But you can see metamap is a like loop unrolling for objects (if you think loop unrolling is zero cost then metamap too).
I don't think this really is limited to liberal arts and big city urban life. I know this group might be highly represented but you have many other types of people who struggle with the exact same problems.
Liberal arts degrees aren’t for everyone, but I sure wish more people understood the teachings of history, sociology, philosophy, and the arts. It’s also telling that in this economy the jobs available to young people are increasingly condensed into unlivable metropolises.

I don’t have any answers to all my questions, but I know something’s not balanced in this equation.
Thanks for your post. I took a look at your other comment too and it was very insightful. I think we're going to look into Big Brothers/Sisters as well when COVID starts to clear up...maybe it will inspire us one way or another, or maybe it will fulfill the parenting need completely.

>Lastly, you absolutely will LOSE your previous life. There isn't a part of it you can retain. It's gone....period.

This is probably the biggest challenge against the idea of having children. We both like our lives and hobbies...a lot (we make work together as well). It's part of our identity, so the thought of giving it up is very difficult to entertain. It feels selfish, but it's who we are.
Study: Lockdowns and Mask Mandates Don't Reduce Covid Transmission Rates
>I often find myself hunting for an archive link to read some article because I'm past my free article limit. It's absurd that I have to sign up for Medium to read some random blogger's article.

Have you tried deleting the site's cookies and refreshing? Clicking on the lock in the address bar > Cookies > Remove.
I definitely am in the same boat as you. My day to day life is great - good job, financially stable, good relationship, even play in a couple bands (when there's not a pandemic inhibiting us from peforming).

But there constantly feels like something is missing. Most days I have 4-6 hours of time that is spent doing near nothing. In the back of my mind is always "I should be doing x project" or "I should be practicing y skill" and then I end up feeling guilty just for relaxing.

I always go back and forth between "It's totally okay to be lazy. You have a life that affords it." and "If you want to be truly great at something, you need to work for it." The challenging part seems to be finding the healthy medium between the two, which is about where the author feels too, I think.
Vets Who Code
People's natural risk aversion is rational. Checks bounce. Companies go bankrupt. Things that sound to good to be true often are. It is entirely reasonable to discount potential returns for that risk.

Or to put it another way, the model doesn't conform to reality in a fundamental way because it mischaracterizes the way money works.
That excuse doesn't work at all, and you even provided the counterexample yourself. If you know the data fits on one screen, which you know very quickly, skip the scrollbar. If you don't know, add one. All you need from API is an indication of whether you're already at the end, which you probably already have so you can know whether you can/should call again. You might not know the precise number of results to size the "thumb" on the scrollbar, but that's OK. Just guess and nobody will be bothered too much. But if you don't know whether you have even one more result then your system is broken.

I'm glad I work in infra, not apps. Infra developers certainly make their own share of dumb decisions, but they're not that lazy and sloppy and user-blaming.
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.” —Kurt Vonnegut
Cool, thanks for expanding on that.
How the French Make Rice
No they are the big scapegoat. Seriously it is a zeitgeisted Big Lie where they streneously insist it is a problem and make impossible ignorant standards while failing to provide evidence just fear mongered bullshit from the losers.

The actual problems with AI ethics are down to "it isn't ready for that morons" and "It would be obviously abusable even if it was jackass."
Show HN: Gatus – Automated Service Health Dashboard Written in Go
I think this is one of those areas where the desire for minimalism in the UI works against the site. This is the only forum I've been to where people have to be reminded that pagination exists because making it obvious would violate the site's design ethos.
Text is not music. Transients don't belong in text.
One key to a good life is low expectations. Most of the people I know who are unhappy thought they were going to be more than they are now, and some of them carried the naive arrogance around with them all their lives until reality smacked them upside the head.
This is probably it. Production timeouts vs developer timeouts. What a shame about Waze. I wanted to try it out but then realized its just owned by Google now so its kinda pointless for me to bother.
Strange, I can find zebra in the filter list, but not in the result list. (ff and chrome on Android).
Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji
> Sometimes people engage in these situations for multiple reasons. They're looking for their anxiety to be validated

In these situations I do everything to not validate the anxiety, but still be understanding of their feelings.

As somebody who had OCD, and sometimes sought out validations from others, I know it is was not beneficial for me to have somebody validate it. For example you wouldn't tell me it is valid that I cannot sleep because I didn't close the door just right (and yes, OCD anxieties are this frivolous); you would tell me I'm wasting my time and energy thinking about that (and yes, that is the advice that worked for me).

My solution to anxiety is to throw the anxious thought out. Like meditation techniques where you try to ignore all your thoughts, here you would just ignore the anxiety inducing ones. You just set your mind on more productive thoughts.
Fortunately ultra-light (sub-pixel stroke width) grey fonts on grey backgrounds as a design trend has been receding again. Rule of thumb: The lighter the font, the bigger the face needs to be! Ultra-light is okay for a hero text that's literally 100 pixels tall, but never for body text.
Take a look at the C standard library. Most of it is string handling. Add a new "safe" version of each function and you just doubled the size of the library. This for the questionable safety that those "safe" functions provide - you still have to keep track and provide the correct parameters yourself most of the time, mess up and at best you get a false sense of security.

Safe and C strings do not belong into the same sentence unless it also includes words like: hazard, dumpster fire or rofl.
I’ve noticed this independently and agree with it (at least for me personally). For some reason, the more fixed and typical my schedule, the slower time goes by in the short term but the quicker it goes by in the long-term. For example, with the pandemic, almost every day is exactly the same and they all feel excruciatingly slow. But when I sit back and think “it’s already almost September”, it seems like the months just flew by and I can’t really remember what I spent all those months doing.

I purposely try to mix up my days as much as I can because it seems to change my perception of time, but it’s been a bit hard to do that this year without really being able to go anywhere.
The malaise of the over-educated median person who has not yet come to terms with what they really are.
At least they're not following Zuckerberg ...
You had to put underwear on your head and drink alcohol until you got sick?
> It is hard to get ahead without cutting corners here and there.

How can someone read a statement like this and immediately decide whether they agree with it or not? The meaning of this sentence is so ambiguous I need to break it down to decide what I actually think about it.

Firstly, what do we mean by "get ahead"? Presumably they're talking in the general sense of "getting ahead in life", which usually refers to career-related goals. In this case, it's probably easiest to assume they mean something along the lines of "out-performing your competitors". So we can reframe the question as "it is hard to out-perform your competitors without cutting corners". But what do they mean by "cutting corners"?

The term cutting corners itself is morally ambiguous. A shady mechanic who uses cheap, low-quality parts could be seen as cutting corners. But a developer who uses a library to take care of some task rather than writing custom code from scratch could also be seen to be cutting corners. In the context of the questionnaire, we should probably assume that they mean cutting corners in the negative sense. So the statement ultimately becomes something like "it is hard to out-perform your competitors without using shortcuts that cause some amount of harm to yourself or others". Notice that they used the word "hard", here; they're not asking whether I think it's possible, only whether I think it's difficult.

I think I would have to say, then, that I agree with the statement, since I often cause harm to myself by cutting corners (not organizing files correctly in the moment, for example) in the interest of saving time and out-pacing my competitors. Choosing not to cut corners would still be doable, but it would be harder.

I look forward to doing this for all the other questions so I can finally discover what a huge jerk I am.
Powerful read of his life story. A man of great conviction, who only sought the truth. he would be ridiculed in our time too
I have mixed opinions about Naval. On one side of the spectrum, he has such a great intellect to say very sensible things and on the other end he is one of the most arrogant people I’ve ever heard. I just wish he was humble and down to earth. Many people would be able to relate to him.
Yet another fight with Redux's boilerplate
Bob was having yet another bad day, and everyone knows Bob drives like he owns the road, and is really just a ticking time bomb. Bob doesn't heed any of the caution his colleagues have, nor care.

That clever rock had many of the brightest geniuses on the planet working around the clock for decades steadily making it less prone to calamity. We entrust our lives and family on that proverbial magic carpet ride made by unseen digital gods. It's almost a religious level of faith and expectation. They thought rock-et science was hard...
Here is what happens after 3 months of using PureVPN services. From speed to security, I reviewed all of it.
Take regular photos of these things, and you’ll find that they’re not black black.

This article is specifically about the blackest black possible on screens.
I turned that blog post into a video

A visual explanation of how someone made 12,000 USD in a single Ethereum transaction with front-running.

https://youtu.be/vP5hVkH_1gs
I highly disagree. Living life on auto pilot seem to be default. Its all over our biology on every level because 'mindfulness' takes a lot of scarce energy.
I'd hypothesize that people are more willing to entertain the profiteering fantasy when they aren't realistically facing the consequences. Also, that people are more willing to be jerks under cloak of anonymity. As you note, perhaps only 1% of people with the drive to find these sploits are going to do something bad with them. That means the extra volume is folks who wish they had such a product to sell on the black market are just jealous wannabes. You can ignore them.
Definitely not. The reward/risk ratio incentive is for answering a poll truthfully is zero.

Even if you paid me, I doubt I'd answer truthfully given the nature of data breaches in recent years.
I think reckless driving options would do poorly, offering the option to casually go over the speedlimit would be quite a burden on the manufacturer.

There also aren't many situations where your safety isn't tied to others around you
It just prints \a - it's up to your Terminal what it does with that.

Does print "\a" work in your terminal?
Do you mean it's emotionally hard? Or hard to understand?
He is refering to the late 19th and early 20th century work on the foundations of mathematics amoung mathematicans and philosophers. They attempted to fully formalise mathematics. Serveral approaches and schools in mathematics all hit various paradoxes, often of the same kind, and this ultimately culminated in Godel's incompleteness theorems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness
The thing is, its expensive to make EV. Most manufacturers make negative money when they sell them, or at least don't have good margin.

Also, the amount of battery capacity that currently exists is nowhere near where it needs to be. Most manufactures now try to expand and secure supply, but supply growth is simply not growing fast enough for large companies to switch to EV fast.

Tesla doesn't have a smaller car because even for them making a smaller car would mean that compared to other smaller cars it would be massively expensive. They have to further improve cost to be able to make a competitive small car. ICE industry had 100+ years to reach the scale it has.
Try holding your mouse* upside-down on the surface of your desk to get the same effect. The point at which the mouse meets the desk will always be the point where the tangent of the curve is horizontal.

*Assuming your mouse is curved on top.
Please finish reading the sentence you’re quoting.
Can you sell part of it?
Does anyone besides OP know if that is definitely allowed or no?
Most people will always follow, its also deep inside our programming.
You’re saying that comparison steals us of the natural energy of curiosity and “just doing it”?
the complaints had been sent to content moderation contractors

Don't outsource a core competency. Facebook has reached a point where moderation is at least as important as engineering.
That's the time when you switch to reading dead authors, who are blessed by the wisdom given to those with us no more.
Humans Take a Step Closer to ‘Flying Cars’
The operative part isn't the fee, it's the deposit.

If it isn't profitable to recycle, you can make it profitable by making the fee reclaimable when it's recycled.
I’m very nostalgic about the countless hours I frittered away on video games and the internet as an adolescent. Part of me thinks it made me the person I am today, who I am proud of. I recently joined a Counter Strike team with work and had some of the most fun times I can think of recently. I compare that with the time I put aside to learn 3D modelling, which was fun in its own way but required more self motivation and the satisfaction took a lot more time to achieve. It made me question what society accepts as a valid way to spend spare time, as well as the purpose of how we spend our spare time.
There's an IRC channel on Freenode: #gleam-lang
With respect, if you leave out the sophisticated games Tesla plays with finance and PR you're missing a big part of what has made the company effective.

In order to qualify for the S&P 500, Tesla needed a cumulative four quarter profit. Q1 and Q2 2019 were "take out the trash" quarters, with $702 million and $408 million in losses respectively, for a cumulative loss of $1.11 billion.

In the four quarters since that time, Tesla has posted profits of $143, $105, $16 and $104 million, for a combined profit of $368 million. The previous two quarters were heavily juiced with credit sales to shore them up to be a slight profit.

This fits the criteria for S&P 500 inclusion, and also solidifies the notion that Tesla can be profitable - it's just taking losses like Amazon, investing in the future.

A company that purely focuses on engineering and ignores the short term would have instead sold credits as they came in, and not structured expenses and income to achieve the result that they did. If Tesla had instead posted 6 losses in a row of ~$125 million they'd be materially worse off, both from an investor perception perspective and by not qualifying for the S&P 500.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with playing these games. The "shorts" point them out to denigrate the company, but I don't think that makes sense. The fact that Musk has such tight control over the company is a major competitive advantage. The CEO of VW could not have done the same thing.
This describes me very well. What the hell was I doing with all that time during my 20s? I wasn't out hiking up a storm, I wasn't making a lot of music, I wasn't out drinking with friends at every chance. I was inside doing nothing, shitposting online, watching trash TV that I can barely remember the plots of now. Work was productive, but when I went home, I left it at work... Relationship was stable, but I didn't max out every minute of it when I could...

Now, as soon as the kids are in bed, virtually every scrap of time is used for something productive. Except, obviously, for lazy Saturday mornings posting on HN ;-)
> We need to warn our young people against falling into similar traps. It’s not victim blaming, it’s just honesty about what’s happening.

It is victim blaming.

Rather than warning young people about the dangers of a solid education, we should make getting that education not dangerous. We fucked up universities with layers of bureaucracy, bizarre funding and compensation schemes, and vocational focus. Admitting and fixing that is being honest about what's happening. Telling people not to get degrees in the fields that might fix this just makes it worse.
Off topic, but what is your native language? Your use of "stand up" suggests German, but "yet lack" sounds vaguely... Scandinavian?
Extraordinary Until Proven Otherwise [video]
Satisfying for Oracle overlords for sure.

Always remember, Oracle doesn't have customers, only hostages!
Don't worry, history is littered with NPC's, maybe you don't know it but you could be one of them.

Also this person daily schedule reads like someone with mild depression.
arf. ok. It's probably the mods who unflagged it.
It is good from an employee perspective. For example, in a country where a lot of people aren't saving enough for retirement, there is logic in saying that employers must make pensions available to their staff as part of their compensation package.

The problem, as always with these things, is that this only helps you if you're employed in the first place. If the burdens of taking on a new employee, particularly the first one, are too high, then that lifestyle business run by its founders will remain a lifestyle business run by its founders, possibly for years or even forever.

Similarly, if you're a customer shopping for clothes online at the moment, it's great that UK consumer protection law requires vendors to give you 14 days after delivery to change your mind and cancel the purchase, and the vendor must accept the return without charge if you do. You can buy multiple sizes or colours to try things on, or just try a few different styles to see what you like, and then send the rest back, and all it costs you is a bit of postage.

It's less good as a merchant, when the reality is that a significant fraction of your returned items will come back unfit for resale and unless you can prove they didn't reach the customer already in that state you'll still be on the hook for the refund. Even for goods that do come back in as-new condition, you'll still have to go through the whole restocking process and you'll be missing that stock for as much as 28 days. Generous return policies didn't matter quite as much a few years ago when the law was introduced, as most people were still shopping for their clothes in bricks and mortar stores and would try things on in-store before buying. Right now, with fashion retailers going bust all over anyway, this surely isn't helping.
Any encryption backdoor would do more harm than good
We recently had a big wind storm. Trees down everywhere, power went out. Fine, whatever, start the generator and it's back to being Tuesday.

Wasn't just the power, also Comcast. Fine, whatever, tether to my phone. Wait, no service. Cell tower was out too.

Had no internet at all for four days. I think I got more done in that time with a flashlight and pen and paper than I do in a typical month.
It’s well deserved! :) Feel to email me directly if you have any question. julien _at_ serpapi.com
To me as an armchair psychologist, this sounds more like that the author should get a check for ADHD with depression as a co-morbitity.
I find browsing hackernews to be one of the more beneficial activities I can do for 5-20 minutes as a break between more mentally taxing activities. Meditation, going for a walk, getting a snack or a drink, and a quick chat with a friend are other activities I consider both beneficial and short duration.
Fantastic! IDGAF whether Comcast and my local CBS affiliate can reach an agreement about rates, and I resent it every time either of them spams customers about their disputes. Same goes for app developers and marketplaces. Put it in your fucking newsletter and leave me out of it.
Another problem is places like Nevada that uses PST/PDT (to align better with California), even though the states to the North and South use MST/MDT, or even a permanent MST with most of Arizona.

If Nevada now has to use permanent PST, then their time will be 2h off in the summer, instead of just 1h off as with PST/PDT. So, basically, they should be allowed to keep PDT (-0700) year-round, or, to put it simply, switch from permanent PDT (-0700) to permanent MST (-0700), which they are not allowed to do without a US DOT approval.

Likewise, if you look at the map, Indiana, Michigan and some other states, might also want to switch from Eastern to Central, once DST is no more.
The Lun was very heavily armed!

NATO considered it a super fast patrol boat, and the soviets really doubled down on missile boats.

The range of the Lun’s missiles out ranged its radar, which was a problem that missile boats of that era also had. Nato imagined that a forward Lun would act as scout for the rest etc with lots of coordination.

The Lun’s problem was that by the time it entered trials the soviet missile boats were being fitted with a over horizon radar that the Lun couldn’t carry.

That, and the end of the Cold War, of course.

http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navy-Ekranoplan-WIG.html
I like to think that gamification will help my kids get "addicted" to useful things like maths homework or exercise.

I worry it is just teaching them to get gamified...

But the idea is nice - banks that enforce aging and budgets, shops that put fresh produce at the checkouts and never sell chocolate bars...
Comments/upvotes ratio feeds into the ranking algorithm - it might have hit a threshold there.