skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you look in the wrong places on the internet, media, or daily life, all you see is negativity towards masculinity.

In my eyes it is just that masculinity that often is the problem. The problem is not that kids live in an environment that doesn't like it if they e.g. resort to violent and/or foreceful behaviour to assure themselves of their masculinity — the problem is, that the kids think their worth as a human being depends on fulfilling these outdated male ideals. And who can blame them? It is all a matter of having the right role models in your life.

Having worked with teens from troubled social backgrounds I can assure you that the behaviour and expectations of the parents feed into this in a powerful (and often very destructive!) way.

Your task as a parent is to prepare your kids for the world they will live in. If the world changed and males are expected to be more empathetic, less aggressive, etc. then don't scold your boy for crying, playing with puppets or other things you perceive as "unmanly". Be critical about the way you as a parent deal with your own feelings of sadness, anger, etc in front of your kids.

I had the luck to have had a very caring father, and I never had the feeling that my masculinity was endangered. If anything I felt sorry for all the guys in my surrounding who tried so hard to hide their feelings that they started to forget they had any.

So in short: the problem with masculinity is that many boys learn from their surroundings that the self worth of a man is connected how masculine he acts and can be reduced if he acts feminine. This is utter bullshit. Your kid should be allwoed to explore their feelings without constant judgment about them.
Some of them by chance vaguely resemble something, which could be mildly interesting. If an artist explored these permutations and selected some, they could be construed as art through intent.
Unfortunately this comment, which has nothing to do with the article linked, has been voted to the top. HN seems to take every article having anything to do crypto as an opportunity to share their unrelated and repetitive opinions about how crypto is bad. Why not just flag the article instead to get it off the front page? That would at least be less boring.
> where not only do their tech companies have massive integration across so many products

Why can't tech products have integration across each other, without tech giants buying up every small startup that comes across their way?
> If your technology can’t emulate typography produced on a daily basis – often in a hurry – 150 years ago then your tech is rather limited.

Just wait until Alex hears about illuminated manuscripts from the 13th century. Gemini's inability to depict historiated initials is an even bigger tragedy.
Because of a bug in a bunch of Intel chips, something like the following is probably better.

asm(
"mov\t%1,%0\n"
"popcnt\t%1,%1"
: "=r"(Res) : "r"(Pop) : "cc");

(assuming intel syntax)
They are being serious.

Crypto financial services are a huge step forward in environments with broken banking systems. The US is one such place.

You're living in comfort and wealth in a civilized nation with modern regulated banks, so your perspective is narrow.
No, they don't say that they it is safe and appropriate for all stages of life. They say it can be. That comes with a long list of caveats related to common nutritional deficiencies...some of which are far more serious for some people (such as pregnant women and children) than others. Addressing those deficiencies is hard to do for all people for a multitude of reasons, some of which have already been listed.

Again, speak for yourself about morality. I feel no moral obligation to not be an omnivore. I do feel a moral obligation to pass down my culture to my children.
It feels like there is a kernel of something realllly cool here but I can't quite tell what it is.
> the problem with “breaking up big tech” is it only breaks up american companies.

I understood it as targeting companies whose products are used by Americans.
I’ll have a new job. They can do what they want. Hiring fresh H1B employees to replace seasoned engineers rarely ends well. It’s part of the reason we get paid as much as we do.

If I end up leaving because the company refuses to offer WFH, it won’t be getting a 2-week notice or any form of knowledge transfer from me.
I loved my ZIP drive. At home, we had a flaky 56k6 connection. Since my dad worked at the university where he had a 100MBit connection, I would sometimes tag along with him, bring a stack of ZIP disks, and download a Linux distribution and a bunch of other new stuff.

Put this on a Zip disk, send it to your lawyer

File me under "Funky" - Beastie Boys
If the premise is it makes the companies stronger through competition, this isn't a concern, right?
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Ironically, the only times I've wired money internationally was so I could deposit fiat to a crypto exchange.

Canada to Japan, Canada to Poland. Each time it takes more than 2 weeks to arrive or be accessible in my account.

Whenever I "wire" crypto, it shows up in my account and is accessible in hours.
The early internet did #3 much better than today. I'm still a member of a ~50 member forum that's been going for 20 years, and the ability to discuss nuanced topics is much better than it is here, even if the average quality of the persons themselves are much better here.

A key reason this is because of "weirdness budgets". If I independently arrive at a solution and try to communicate that to you, the more work it takes to verify(so I can easily tell you some prime factors, but not say uhh.. UFOs exist) the result and the more different it is from your prior, the less likely it is to succeed.

This is magnified by the n ( n - 1) / 2 cost of communications, where n is the number of people. We all have different norms, and it's nearly impossible to work out where another persons norm is within a single comment, so mostly people surpass your weirdness budget and you ignore them.

This means that we can only meaningfully talk about things that the general public are on the same phase of. This is just another way to state the Overton window. But now that we understand what creates the Overton window, we can attempt to evaluate what we can do to mitigate it.

Now when we evaluate Facebook, reddit, YouTube comments, HN, message boards, BBS, and 1720 Venice coffee shops we can see them for what they are. The more you bump into the same people, the more nuance you can find. Nuance is where the insights really come from. No one can work it out themselves.

Another depressing reality is that when you do find a tight-nit community that is able to create these insights, all you have done is segmented yourself from the general public's Overton window. Now your just another weird LISPer, and the Java programmers that have libraries and drivers behind their projects will run circles around you even though you are correct. Correctness isn't enough.
> Libraries are curated.

Generally, yes. But does Library of Alexandria count as such if officials were confiscating all the books on ships arriving to Alexandria, putting them in the library, and only returning copies to the ship crews and passengers (once these were furnished)? To me, Library of Alexandria in a way was the Internet Archive of the ancient world.
Getting candidates for you company is a big headache. We simplified it
I wish the English language had two different “they” words for when it’s referring to the subject vs. object of the preceding sentence. The ambiguity of pronouns is so annoying.
From where? Not Europe, where they don't have any of these companies, and have even more stringent regulations.

China or Russia then? Easy, just ban their services like they do for ours.
Cash is instant. Venmo is instant. You can pay for goods with a credit card and know it was approved instantly.

In the very rare case you need to make a domestic wire transfer, yes it's currently slow, but that's not a technological problem, it's a political/institutional one. Plenty of countries have instant bank transfers as well.

AND -- instant bank transfers should be coming to the US in 2023, when FedACH is supplemented with FedNow (settles in seconds) [1].

So the slowness of wire transfers is just a temporary problem that's already been solved or is being solved. Crypto isn't necessary here at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedACH
Because they make more money if the government caves and subsidizes low-income broadband instead.
Eh I don’t think so. If it comes to that Americans will just stop letting people come here to work and dismantle these programs. It’s actually something that has been unifying the Sanders/AOC and Trump camps for some time. I don’t know if he has but if not I don’t see Biden really changing much in terms of opening up/increasing H1B visas or any others in the foreseeable future. Maybe more refugees or asylum seekers though.
That’s good, it’ll naturally lead to companies that are either WFH only or office only and people will have their pick. Everyone wins.
I won't comment on your first point but I will say it's weird you argue for private companies' rights and then use a country where most of our tech companies are de facto banned(Twitter, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, Pinterest, Youtube, Twitch, etc), where anonymous internet usage isn't possible(must show ID for even an internet cafe), and where mass topical censorship is legally required. What we had in the US/Europe is debate over what extreme edge cases and fringe ideologies meet the minimal threshold to be considered dangerous enough to society to stamp out, and even then every instance is met with great debate and pushback. Some people make "careers" out of making hateful replies to politicians we're objectively much freer here and better off for it.
Good to know, what does it do?

Too bad it's not bound to the Print Screen key but I guess it would break many people's workflow.
I agree with you, when it's not so often. Having a certain rate of calls is worth it, even if you don't like calls much, and it can even be enjoyable with the subset of recruiters who behave like empathic human beings.

It can become too much when it's several call requests a day, and some of them can become rather pushy, e.g. demanding references up front before you've even applied for something. I don't get many approaches at the moment, but last year the number ramped up to a point where I had to be selective about phone calls.

Part of it is that a 15 minute call isn't just 15 minutes. If you want good outcomes, there's some preparation involved. A bit of research on the company helps. Refreshing what you recall about $X that they mentioned. And just getting into a good frame of mind to have a productive call. Maybe get a nice drink ready. Even finding somewhere quiet to take a call, if you aren't normally in a suitable place. And there's stopping what else you were doing.

Personally I've enjoyed chatting with many recruiters over the last couple of years, and it has led to some pleasant relationships, and a much better understanding of what's realistically out there. It's also been an opportunity for me to share with recruiters things they didn't know but were interested in, mostly technology areas and terminology.

My current role came from taking a long call with a recruiter more than a year earlier about a different role in a different company. I enjoyed the chat, we talked about the industry in general, technology trends, different skill areas, how to manage projects and so on, as they tried to figure out how to pitch me to the company. That one didn't work out. But a year later I came to their mind for a role somewhere else, I remembered them as well so the new call started out well, and the role turned out to be a great fit for me. They also ended up negotiating for me, undoubtedly helped by the chat from a year before, and I'm pleased with how it turned out. As a result of all the positive interactions I ended up enthusiastic about the new job too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumous_execution (with several historical examples, among which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod: “the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. The trial was conducted by Pope Stephen VI, the successor to Formosus' successor, Pope Boniface VI. Stephen had Formosus' corpse exhumed and brought to the papal court for judgment”. I guess the judgment was “this case stinks”))
I'll give my opinion as a consumer.

Sometime in early 2019, I bought an iPad (pre ipad OS). I went to a website and downloaded a journal PDF. I had no idea where the file was physically located. Safari didn't provide an indication, and there didn't appear to be a File Manager of any kind built in. So I had to search online for an app, just to locate a a file I had downloaded through the browser.

I returned the iPad and went back to Android, which has had file explorers built in since forever (both stock Android or OEM skin). "It just works".
It was the hospitalization rate, as cited, and the rest of your comment is unsupported conjecture...
Settlement of Antarctica has been basically prohibited by international treaty since 1957.

Plenty of desert cities in the US: Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Scottsdale, etc. For more extreme deserts, lots of middle eastern cities.
“When you help others, they often help you.”
But also “Stop keeping score” … “Never keep score.”.

You can’t ever know if the first statement is true without keeping score.

In other words: to get the things you want, convince yourself and others you are being selfless then ask them for stuff.

Anyone who is interested in helping people out truly selflessly can secretly send me money on a regular basis, and I’ll make sure it goes to people who need it and take credit for it. You can be helping and not keeping score just like the book suggested.

Wait… to get the book or a course or coaching I need to pay first? Oh I see… it’s “give me exactly this much stuff first, so I can tell you how you should never do that.”
After you've fired the whole university, who does the hiring? What are their goals, and are they trustworthy?
Do you have a particular example in mind or is it a theoretical concern?

I can definitely see how it could benefit foreign competitors, but at the same time the American tech giants are so largely ahead of the competition that it's hard for me to imagine a foreign competitor managing to overtake them. It might level the playing field a little bit, but it's not necessarily a bad thing, even from a US-centric point of view.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99982

Just one of many analyses that have showed how the right in the US has majorly gained from being able to share misinformation and live in filter bubbles by platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The idea that Twitter/FB have political enemies is not supported by how they’ve been used, and is inviting an over-politicization of American life. They’re private businesses… not political affiliates.
The problem with the hype around microservices was that it's the web app deployment equivalent of writing device drivers in C. Sure, some people can do it. Some people have to do it. Yet most people shouldn't even make the attempt.

I've been on teams where we can't even reliably deploy code over time to one service. The idea of our team maintaining multiple services is madness. That's not a knock on any individual's technical merits. Deploying code to the cloud is just hard, period—and that's even when talking about a traditional monolith!

I'm glad the pendulum is swinging back. The microservices pattern is useful for the areas in which it's useful…it just so happens that problem space is way smaller than the hype cycle cared to admit a few years ago.
Why would a publisher narrow its target purchasing demographic preemptively?

At the end of the day, the point is book sales, not to actually make you successful (even if that’s the effect for some small slice of the people who actually buy it).
No, because if you look at data, there has been clear inflection point around Memorial Day last year that shifted us to new regime of higher violence that seems to persist instead of subsiding.
Historically, breaking up monopolies has been very good for the end consumer. Bell Labs and Standard Oil both ended up being good things.

Instead of breaking them up though, we should simply be more stringent with anti trust hearings and merger approvals. There have been a few mergers recently that absolutely shouldn’t have been approved.
And you couldn't be bothered to do a cursory search?

> There's no place to find out what they are.

Google worked fine for me. YMMV.
An interesting look at the logistic map [video]
What’s amazing is the wrongdoers blame a 70s law, when GDPR is place, and well know. The only legitimate entity to receive such information was PSP(the police responsible) no one else, not even the government.

For me this is the tip of the iceberg, privacy violations in city councils can be used for personal gains and organized crime.
Art requires intent.
I think this is the key point. My take on this situation is completely colored by my anti-religious views. I view her sacrifice as completely idiotic and worthless. But it’s clear she needed to do this. I can fake a lot of stuff for some amount of time for whatever particular reason- think along the lines of showing support for my wife. But I can’t sacrifice what she did for 3 decades without having that flame deep inside.
Speculations are always about cherry picked timelines. Which is why crypto isn’t an investment nor a hedge.
How did you acquire the belief that it is better to consider and weigh evidence? And on what scale are you weighing the evidence? And where did you acquire that scale?
I wish all these were part of academic curriculum - may be in High School that taught kids - how to establish genuine connections with people.
That isn’t the premise at all. It makes the market stronger through competition. Typically it makes the company itself weaker since it no longer can leverage power in one market to corner another.
The hybrid model is such a joke. For most, working in the office might as well be the 21st century business suit: an antiquated formality designed to demonstrate your obedience to authority. The hybrid model is a suit on a t-shirt. And forcing employees to be in the office X days a week means productivity on those WFH days will be nonexistent, especially if they butt against a weekend.

But of course while the WFH life will be sweet for the next 5 or so years, increasingly invasive productivity/monitoring/presence tools will make us long for the days when we could walk away from the computer and not worry about triggering some inactivity alarm.
I think convenience and price are the largest factors. Netflix costs less than a Blu-Ray for 'all you can eat' and you do not have to think about logistics (find/purchase a disk).

Blu-rays do have copy protection, but AFAIK MakeMKV rips most Blu-rays without any issues.
Everything you touch or use has a component going through china
Somehow I don't think they're going to pull a Snapchat and find their way out.
Or text that is preceded by pages of phony life-stories.
And they'll be held to those statements during cross-examination. That's how the truth comes out.
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I'll be distressed if we don't have at least optional work-from-office after the pandemic. I'm vaccinated. You're vaccinated. We're all adults. The company remains in possession of empty office space. Yet most firms seem to think the best thing to do is lead from behind, wait and see, until they can protect themselves by saying "i guess everyone is doing it".
I just bought a new android smartphone, and I have the current one since 2012 I never really needed to update the system: all the apps that I wanted just worked, and I didn't really needed new features from more recent versions of android.

It works still fine: performance is ok (maps is the only app that is a little laggy), the battery still last a full day.

But now the version of android on that phone is no longer supported by one of the app I use (banking app), so I'm forced to change it. I would have wanted it to last a few more years, but 9 years is still a long run.

I hope my new phone will last as long, and I choose it with that goal in mind (modern processor, 5G so I have it if I need, no samsung galaxy flagship that will be deprecated in a year, the possibility to install a custom OS instead of android if I need to, ...)
>There is a stark difference in the people I know in NYC who moved in later than early/mid 2000s which aligns roughly with your 40s cutoff.

>The before people all have stories of being robbed/mugged/assaulted and/or having friends who experienced the same.

I moved to NYC in early 2000s and I can vouch for not having stories of being robbed/mugged/assaulted. Even after many very late nights out, I do not recall even seeing a fight in Manhattan. It was basically Disneyworld and I had no idea why an older person would be impressed when I would suggest walking around at night alone in NYC. I left a few years ago, and it was still pretty safe, although over the years, the homeless population had started to grow in Manhattan, especially after Bloomberg's reign in my opinion.
Interesting. Performancewise not having to call a separate executable is of course a good thing. Securitywise process boundaries are better.
New Strategy for the Schengen Area – Commision calls for expansion [pdf]
Magneto-Optical drives were also available at that time, and were designed for data storage. The problem was they were very expensive, and needed a SCSI interface at the time when personal computers mostly had IDE.

There really was no good solution to the interface problem until USB and SATA came along.
Ways to Build Your Self Esteem
There are many reasons for why a library might not be sufficient. The most common one is that what you’re doing is stateful and requires some sort of data store.

That has a huge impact because now you need to set up the data store and potentially perform migrations, which means you may need to change how you do deployments. It may introduce a bottleneck such as number of connections to that store, so you now have limitations to think about when scaling.
>you can quickly end up in a situation where fixing the problem requires everyone to stop feature work so that a significant rewrite or at least refactoring can take place.

But that's normal and expected on any non-trivial codebase that has been evolving over some amount of time. We call that 'maintenance'. You'll never have 100% of your development resources pushing new features out. And if you do, well... we call that 'incurring technical debt'. You should be investing in this kind of maintenance continuously, because as your product evolves, new problem areas will emerge.

>In most cases, the business cannot afford to stop all feature work in this way, and so the problem will persist forever, becoming a permanent drop in productivity.

Yes.. That's called 'technical debt'. If your business does not invest in maintenance today, then it'll will cost them in the future. This isn't limited to software. If you're maintaining physical infrastructure, same deal. You're always fixing things. Microservices are not a solution to this.

>In a microservices architecture, a single mistake can only grow to the size of a single service.

Not necessarily. Microservices tend to be tightly coupled to other microservices. I've worked on a system that suffered from sporadic 'failure storms' where a failure in one service propagated across the entire system. It took days for us to track down the root cause. Microservices aren't a panacea. In fact, everything is easier with monolithic systems.
You call screenshots framebuffers?
Also Java in 1996; remember RMI?