skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat ironically, I think the important thing here is to learn to be more comfortable spending time alone.

The pandemic has surprised me with both how much people are unable to just be alone for awhile, and related to this, how much they have a difficult time being with partners and family without larger social distractions.

Being able to be alone, at least in my experience, helps you to be with other people in a sincerely intimate way. People that struggle the most with their partners during the pandemic seem to be people who need socialization to distract from their own relationship problems.

If two people can be "alone together" in a room for awhile, they can still refresh, and restore their energy. This allows them to be more supportive and close when they need socialization because they aren't exhausted.

Loneliness is being forced to deal with your fear of being alone, without every taking the time to be comfortable being alone.
It would be great if we could transition to actually discussing GnuCOBOL specifically.
You can also have long-term durability issues. But this is long-term as in probably decades which isn't really generally relevant for consumer electronics. I have a few older kitchen appliances that have started spontaneously developing cracks. I've patched things up and bought a couple of (ill-fitting) replacement parts. But I'll probably end up having to replace them even though they're otherwise functional. (Of course, the materials may well have improved by now.)
Loneliness is a feeling, not a state of being alone. It tends to go alongside feelings of not being understood, not having anyone that you can relate to, and feeling ignored: It is also a sign of depression. This is why so many folks will be lonely while surrounded by people, yet not so much when physically alone.

I've generally been at my most lonely when my life was unhappy. I went through a short spout of it again after I moved countries, but in all reality, that one was different and I had some knowledge it'd pass (and it was more positive: I chose this, unlike when I was younger).

I have hobbies and such, and this should serve me well into my old age, so long as I'm able to do things. I vary myself and try to keep decent mental health. (Oddly, age itself has helped with this: I'm 42 now).
My initial reaction is to agree with you re: "fucking awful world", but I wanted to explore that a bit more. Would it actually be terrible if we had to allow people space to say what they want on a digital platform?

What would the side effects be of not being able to remove people from your store because they're behaving in a way you don't like? What if YouTube could not, legally, remove content that was "abusive" or "hateful"?

(Again, not saying I think this is how things should be, just trying to entertain the idea a bit.)
35 seconds is still kinda ridiculous when you consider the ludicrous speed of modern computers. If every cycle of a single core of a 3Ghz processor were a subjective second, then in that 35 seconds the core experiences a subjective 3327 years.
>the reason the state epidemilogist wanted the data removed was to stop journalists from asking about covid confirmation dates

No, that is just your assumption, but is not supported by the facts. According to the article, the data disappeared for an hour, and then came back again. That is hardly censorship.

> then removed Rebekah the following morning, alleging a "pattern" of insubordination though they could only ever document the 1 instance.

Given that she has been booked on police battery, and has 3 felonies (one for sexual cyberstalking, and another for robbery), it wouldn't really be surprising.

https://tallahasseereports.com/2020/05/20/rebekah-jones-firi...

https://www.lsureveille.com/daily/crime-briefs-student-charg...
To listen to music. Duh
They are there:

cplusplus_top_200.csv:llvm-project,https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project,C++,48,0,2573,5,652.3,2...

c_top_200.csv:postgres,https://github.com/postgres/postgres,C,124,0,50,5,41.1,52,1,...

sqlite sorry since it is not hosted on github, and we do plan to add non-github repos in future.
Losers gonna loser.

Also, you miss my point. While you might expect different rules for national flags, you wouldn't apply those rules to the flags of a defunct uprising. Even if some people have some beliefs about what the defunct uprising was.
Have fun and don't bet the farm on it because making a hit game is really slim odds.
The best thing for the people would be to re-assert control over what we see and how. That means a new level of control over the interface, filters and ranking of our feeds and search results.

Of course that would be the worst thing for Google, FB and Twitter (and their advertising clients) because they desire our attention more than anything.
Completely disagree.

If no developer complained about anything nothing would change and the project would be slippery slope to oblivion.

Usually any project needs some kind of feedback loop to correct any problems and most of the time an important link in the loop is developers complaining.

It just needs to be done in a productive way. For example, retrospective is an attempt to direct complaining to be productive element in the process.

Also, it is a good starting point to be very cautious abut any radical opinions like that.
The thing that seems crazy to me is how much time alone increases with age. There are many many reasons for it, but one thing I think is especially sad is how much this is a consequence of our built environment. If you live in a village with multiple generations of a family around, it’s much easier for grandparents to be involved day too day in helping with little things in the village, especially keeping an eye on the kids roaming around. This is also true in the more traditional urban neighborhoods with walking-oriented life (safety from cars) and a wide mix of housing types etc.

But (to varying degrees) most of the new construction around the world since WW2 has been oriented around driving and separation of land uses, and as a result when you age you end up living in a nice little garden home far removed from any day to day life going on. And once it gets hard for you to drive... then you really end up spending a ton of time alone.

I don’t think there’s an easy fix for this, and that makes me sad.
Interview with a Hacker; “Gummo”
That's not how statistics work. You said significant market share "of apple products" and there it is.

Don't say

"the issue being discussed here are Apple computers with M1"

when your comment said

"Please list tier 2 and tier 3 countries where there is a significant market share of Apple hardware."
PolitHype, identifying trending political / conservative / liberal tweets
Not "historic association".

"Current association".
I'd care more about sweat resistant to be honest.

Sweat corrodes stuff.
So much better than Google Business ever was!
Or even nicotine?

I can tell you that getting off social networks was a hell of a lot easier than getting off nicotine (i still haven't succeeded with the latter, to be honest).

Like, the hyperbole associated with social networks just astounds me. They are just websites. They have been carefully engineered to be addictive, like many other services, but there's nobody at Facebook coming round to people's houses and forcing them to open the app.

I actually think that social media is addictive because people like talking to other people, and these tools facilitate this.

Is HN addictive? Is it more like heroin than the NYT?
Filter bubbles existed before, but they were nowhere near as narrow as they are today. Only fifteen years ago it was normal for most people to either watch or at least be aware of the same shows (including nightly news) as their neighbours, work colleagues, and school friends. That is no longer the case at all.

I think a lot more attention needs to be paid to the ML recommenders that companies like Facebook are deploying, and the assumptions going into these algorithms, and the externalities they are creating. In my opinion they are playing a similar role in our social crises as the Gaussian copula played in the financial crisis.
What's also endemic is people not bothering to participate in the lawmaking process and then throwing a tantrum that laws are bad.

If you don't bother and the other side does: guess whose suggestions end up in the law. Democracy is not a spectator sport. If you don't show up it has consequences.
For what it’s worth, I’m with him, for pretty much the exact same reasons.

You knew what you were getting into when you bought the iPhone. Trying to change it after the fact just seems like trying to profit off other people’s hard work and investments. Screw that.
We have to start somewhere. It is understandable that this is not complete, so welcome your ideas to discover such projects. Please think of any metrics/ways to find such projects.
Have you tried looking for a better employer? The teams I've worked with wouldn't have had any problems accommodating you.
Tldr; the guy has purchased a new computer, it is better than his previous one.
I'm expecting them to follow suit with bespoke silicon. They are already doing this in a limited sense with the Surface X. I bet Apple has now really lit a fire under them
Are you willing to comment on any theoretically security-threatening features you see in ungoogled-chromium in the case that one's threat model is Google itself?
I would be willing to bet that most parents first and last thoughts in a day is about their children, the idea of it working out to roughly a TV episode a day is absolutely bizarre.
How do you define "mainstream"?
This is it right here. Most people are comfortable using the Times as a high quality news source, in spite of it's role in manufacturing consent for the Iraq war under false pretenses.

The bad behavior isn't the problem, the problem is that the current power players in media are now having to compete with Hungarian content farms and it's cutting into their market, with the added industry wide damage that the content farmers don't give a damn about covering their bad actions with good PR.
Sounds like you don't know how to work and tackle complex thing and you get overwhelmed. Find perhaps a partner to work with together or an accountability partner to keep each other in check if you prefer solo projects.
Oh fair enough, I misread you! Still, hope my comment helps someone out there.
Yea that one is better. A snarky one liner is funny, but doesn't communicate any value to your customers. "Your future self will thank you" is a good way of saying "invest in yourself" I like it much more.
Seconded, even if you don't later use Haskell, it's a great language to learn if you want to see some interesting programming concepts that are tried and true but not well known. You could also try something like Purescript if you want your code to compile to CommonJS and could try Idris 2 if you also want to try out linear types, which is cool.
"Buying it twice" doesn't mean what he intends it to, considering he always had the intention of returning one.
Very true. I would never wear these things outside given that their overpriced and, currently, many young people in a year like this are unemployed. It's like begging to get robbed.
Sounds like OP might be a DJ -- they usually wear headphones while mixing so they can actually hear the music over the noise of a party or club.
New Hampshire has all of that. As a bonus, you can actually buy a house and people don't defecate on the sidewalk
I don't know if this is the sort of thing most people can use mental jiu jitsu to dodge out of. Social connection is a drive most might not be able to satisfy without actual social connection.
I think it'd be interesting to see this data split by gender as well as by age cohort. I think we'd find that men juncture towards spending time alone sooner than women, and that they start out with a higher level of being alone. Those are just my assumptions though.
> I don't know why the 'time spent with one's children' line hurts so much, but it does. It sharply rises, before plummeting at age 40.

I don't see anything wrong with this line. It's not because you don't see your kids often when they're adult that it wasn't worth having them, or that you don't appreciate the little time you still spend with them.

Personally, I didn't want kids but now it's something that I regret somewhat. Being a man, I wrongly assumed the option would always be there.
See through walls technology for military operations
Think of the people you really like, respect, or care about. Now think about the people you actually spend time with.
With the ability to run iOS apps, the lack of a touch screen leaves me scratching my head. The only reason I have resisted buying one is that the lack of a touch screen is, in my view, going to make it feel like I missed the boat once that's inevitably added.
No, it was during lunchbreak at the office in my own house, reputable ISP, cabled network, clean PC.
Alphabet made 38bn dollars in revenue in Q2 2020.

$25mn is probably a small(er) advertising client. And note that the Stadia revenue mostly gets sent to game developers, and developers only build for Stadia because they are paid a lot of money by Google.

I actually think the purpose of Stadia is to demonstrate that this can be done, and it will be dropped by the end of 2023.

Come back and prove me wrong then :)
for the second I have no idea whats common there, it surprised me a bit too, but the first that seems normal. The judge is not going to say "actually, that doesn't look like a valid log entry" (that'd be trivial to fake too).
You can't be free without limits either. Unless you're the only free man in your society.
Fwiw, it's the only way to post something on Youtube/Instagram/Facebook/etc. that: doesn't have a like count, has no comments, it's ephemeral, and anyone who responds to it basically is just sending you a private message than writing something everyone can see.

It's much better than posting the content normally and having to feel somewhat like a loser when nobody even likes/comments on it.

On Instagram I have like 6 photos uploaded the normal way. For years I've only used the "stories" system to engage with friends. It's far more personal. Don't knock it too quickly, you may find it's a step in the right direction.

I don't want it at the top of Google search as a marketing apparatus, though.
I don't think there is any reasonable interpretation of history in which South was betrayed by the North. You might claim that they should have been allowed to leave the union, you might make statements on which way territories should have gone, but it is really hard to see betrayal there.

Second, actual breaking point between the states at the time was slavery. The "states right" in question was the one that allowed or disallowed slavery on new territories.
What you are talking has nothing to do with a futures market, in fact is exactly the opposite, since what you are talking is a monopoly on water.

By the way, the reason the US has a prohibition for onion futures is that someone did actually corner the market for onions. Off course that would be very hard to reproduce nowadays.
Covid. For really important things we cannot mix teams. If we were living together and someone tested possitive, the entire team would be useless. So we are all on base but still issolating. Even contact with the food delivery people is a whole big thing. Our christmas dinners will be in paper boxes disinfected and left outside our biuldings. It's only for a couple weeks until holiday leave is over.
Why not use existing free software solution from https://yacy.net?
Any specific subs you’d recommend? I enjoy /r/drugs occasionally because of the interesting stories that I can live vicariously through, but I’m interested in learning more.
In case people don't understand the dead cobras comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

It pertains to perverse incentives.
Filed https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score/issues/20, we will fix this, have an idea on the issue.
A perfect laptop would also be waterproof, user upgradable hardware (eg add more memory), user serviceable, hardware buttons for camera & bluetooth, more travel for keyboard (I know that's hard when its thin but I can ask).
> "Read operations assume a data size of 4K or less; each additional 4K costs an additional operation. Write operations assume a data size of 1K or less. Notably, index writes count as entirely separate write operations; they are not included in the document’s 1K."

So many customers don't account for this and it up costing $$$ if your data model isn't a good fit. Cosmos even takes it further w. 1kb units (I have spent hours on Cosmos pricing and am still baffled on how to price a workload.) Although... it does incentivize decent data modeling practices which often lead to more performant apps.
I highly doubt this, it's far more likely they want to know the makeup of their demographic for marketing purposes (ie., approach company with detailed statistics about who will see their convention ads, or modify their own in-house ads). Usually that's what such surveys are used for if I'm not mistaken. It seems a little warped to me to jump straight to minimum diversity quotas.
We had that in the form of Windows CE based smartphones. As open as a PC, no walled garden, no app stores, just load your app and launch it. The market spoke decisively in rejecting it in favor of the iPhone and Android devices.
I wish that someone made headphones built with BPA-free plastic like my Aeropress (https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/aeropress/aeropress) or even my Lido 3 coffee grinder (https://prima-coffee.com/equipment/orphan-espresso/lido-3), which also uses stainless steel and aluminum. Considering how durable both of these tools are (and how good they feel in hand) I wonder why they haven't caught on in the tech industry.
I mean this in all seriousness: it amazes me that people still pay for pornography these days.
Interactive Chord Diagrams with Python
Run your OS of choice
The ‘Warrior Gene’ and the Mãori: The Responsibility of the Geneticists (2013)
F-secure
Nature doesn't care about us. Natural is not inherently better than synthetic. Maybe you have a better point to support your position?
Gonna have to disagree with Sabotage being included – Bill Ward looks iconic in those red pants!
> I made two separate claims: one that MacOS is slow and one that iOS is slow.

No. That’s a new statement you are making now.

You made this claim:

“The software adds a 30% performance penalty on top.”

Which is false, regardless of which platform you are talking about, and not supported by the links you shared, which in both cases were corner cases that cannot support a general claim like this.

As I have said before, if this claim were true, you’d be able to find a reputable source, e.g. Ars or Anandtech.
I agree with your general point, but much of the growth in life expectancy is driven by the massive drops in infant mortality.

In general, modern advances have maybe added 10+ years to an average adult lifespan. The quality of the added lifespan is harder to assess though.
I'm glad you were able to move all of your contacts to Signal! That hasn't worked for me, though many people have joined me on Discord. My siblings are sort of straddling between Messenger and Discord, just like me, but they tend to be more responsive on Messenger. Perhaps they only use Discord to appease me.

I've never enjoyed the chat heads and always disabled them right away. I don't notice ads in Messenger, though I mostly use it from a desktop browser with uBlock Origin enabled!

But as a I said, I only use Messenger because I have to, as it is the primary messaging service family members tend to stick to.
I imagine it may be hard to audit, and that some people will complain about “protectionism”.

As the majority of what I think I know about international trade comes from reading journalists explaining why the UK is doing Brexit wrong, I don’t actually think I know how big these issues really are — “this molehill is close, those mountains are far away”, to paraphrase Father Ted.
How to promote ethical business when you have biased data
It is pretty ironic how much time is wasted on trying measure developer productivity.
Yes, the prospect of an "empty nest" is not one I am looking forward to. And that's not even figuring in the bits about how old I'll be then (and presumably less good looking).

I do obsess on how to make that slope more gradual (i.e. offer higher utility to my adult off-spring) without impeding their growth and maturation.

Older folks definitely get a second wind when they are once again in need to help care for the grandchildren. But when these grandchildren get older, the grand parents are needed less and/or are less interesting to tweens. Another empty nest situation to navigation, ahem.
I think "RISC" was, for a stretch of time, "superior", but it was always in very expensive and very niche workstations and servers.

x86 was itself a kind of underdog in that space, losing out in sheer performance and bandwidth to the high-end RISC market, but making up for it by, you know, being cheap enough that "regular people" could go and buy a family computer with an x86 processor.

Intel managed to slowly improve the various deficiencies over time, and produced a processor not only affordable, but also superior to the incumbent RISC chips in all but niche areas.

I think more than the ISA, Apple's M1 manages to be so good at its job for similar reasons to the old RISC chips -- it's built from the ground-up with a pretty specific target application, rather unlike x86, which has to be all things to all people, with legacy support and scaling from laptops to quad socket 3U servers.
It would be wonderful if epistemology was taught in schools and universities. But it would need to be embedded into every subject and focused on practical exercises. Whenever I've seen this sort of thing taught, the students learn about good reasoning methods, but they don't really internalise them.
Can't be doing that now!
It’s so popular it seems out of stock everywhere in the Bay Area. Mail order places are in back order. I suspect a really good Mac quarter for Apple.
For some reason, I just feel this price is too high for them and that it will fall in the coming 2-3 months. Then again, I think about their business model and there’s a lot to like: the don’t own any real estate and if they really wanted to, they could likely let go most of their staff and have a team of maybe 60 - 100 people run the bussiness as it mostly revolves around simply managing the app and keeping it running. I’m curious how “Moated” their bussiness will turn out to be. I don’t really see competition will cut in that much as Airbnb has such an head start and established brand. The only big question I have left is legality. My family works in the hotel bussiness and is required to do fire alarm checks and all sorts of other checks to prove that he is safe to customers. Will Airbnb one day be required to do this? Only time will tell.
Blind person here. Another related issue is when to tell people about your disability (when you're just exchanging texts/emails, but you expect to meet up physically at some point). This very often comes up when job-seeking. I had to deal with this a couple weeks ago (not job-related) and it was extremely hard for me. In this case, it was a group of approx. 30 people that I interacted with for a few weeks before coming out, and that made the situation even harder.