skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Child abuse stats are dropping like a stone. It's getting so bad that truly ridiculous things are being treated as child abuse, like for example a not-quite-divorce. Not "a bad divorce". Not "parents fighting".

Not divorced. Separated (meaning living apart for whatever reason, without getting legally divorced). I'd say for what time period, but there is literally no time period given. When kids are asked any time period is taken.

Siblings ... insulting each other ... is now child abuse. Seriously.

Serious medical problems of any caretaker figure ... is child abuse. WITHOUT any further qualification.

And of course, government facilities, whether homeless, or at this point even any hospital, all constitute child abuse. This is apparently not a problem, only parents are problematic ...

https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/

Meanwhile, of course, the reputation of services attempting to address child abuse is atrocious. Violence is a constant everywhere in youth services in pretty much all countries. Both violence by youth services personnel, violence among kids within youth services, violence outside of youth services itself, but directly related (e.g. the police forcibly moving foster kids, or the reverse, drug couriers or prostitution rings "recruiting" in youth services, often with help from officials and/or caretakers)

And we all know their reputations when it comes to raising succesful kids:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article23820....

Child abuse, itself, is dying. Less and less convictions, every year again. But there is ever more interference in the life of children by the government, with demonstrated atrocious results. And they want to be tough on child abuse? This will destroy far more kids' lives than it will save ...
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Neither of these can access the financial services provided by my bank nor the infrastructure provided by my city
Licensed videogames before around 2000 commonly had this problem. They'd get an early script and have to build a game based on it. Sometimes, like with Ghostbusters 2, the script would change significantly over the course of the shooting / edit and there'd be game scenes that are no longer important / removed from the final cut.
It's a bad thing if people feel entitled to things they cannot possibly have, of course. It's not even necessarily about how resources are actually distributed, it's just pointing out that we aren't supposed to be selling people a false bill of goods. Of course people can strive to be upwardly mobile and perhaps fail in these ambitions, but it should be a very clear, voluntary choice.
The EU's behavior during Brexit is at the very least suspect.
Except Jeeves would add "...but is sir sure that investing such a large sum in Cousin Eddie's racehorse is wise? You will recall his "sure thing" at the parish tombola."

And then later when you lose your shirt, you'd find he'd not actually bet on the horse you asked for, because he'd spoken to Captain Aykroyd's man who'd explained that the fix was in, Greased Lightning had had a plate of porridge to slow him down for breakfast; he'd instead put it all on Dreadnought at 8 to 1, which had won by a length.

You know come to think of it that's exactly who I want managing my finances.
Hot (uninformed) take:

The effect system described in the first post immediately reminded me of re-frame, a Clojurescript library that uses React under the hood. I don’t know how similar this flow is to that, but they share the key axiom that “declaring an effect should be orthogonal to running it.”

I kind of hate generators, so I’m deferring the rest of the article/series until I’m not heat-angry and can read it more in the spirit of curiosity =)
> the chance of this happening is zero

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/471/227/dd0...
This is a common type of HN thread where the linked article is pretty bad, but the headline topic is interesting enough that people want to comment on it from their own experience. In this case, every single comment (100% as of this posting) is a riff on the headline topic and says nothing at all about the content of the article.

Well, I will say one thing about the article. It summarily dismisses Stephen Covey's Seven Habits as nothing special, without engaging the content of the book in the slightest, and criticizes Covey for not talking about racism and sexism. If you want this article and its writer in a nutshell, there you go.

There are a ton of articles like this out there, even on this exact topic of ridiculing self-help from the compulsive, perfunctory woke standpoint that dominates our elite media culture. This one was very middle-of-the-fairway. The best I can say about it is that it contained a tiny bit of history, and we were spared the usual exhortations to adopt more collectivist politics. (In their prescriptions for America, the writers always talk exclusively about politics, never even thinking about what people could be doing differently in their own families, friendships, neighborhoods and communities. Slaves to individualism in their own way, they would never imagine that anything but the State can save us.)

Frankly, these dull, robotically woke articles from legacy media are a much more nauseating aspect of this cultural moment than bad self-help books. And Seven Habits is more worth your time than anything this author will ever say.
Are they going to finally fix their HSTS settings?
Godot's head developer admits that if you want to do anything performance-intensive (e.g. thousands of interacting entities, AAA stuff) with Godot, you will likely end up hacking the low-level engine code or even using a separate ECS/DoD implementation. At that point, why not use a proper ECS engine?

https://godotengine.org/article/why-isnt-godot-ecs-based-gam... (see "Optimization" section and below)
I'm not going to continue this thread anymore. One is enough, and I'll try one more time to continue on your other comment. You are insulting me btw. I'm this close to following in your footsteps.
I also was quite sick with covid like symptoms in Europe a month before first official case was announced. Coincidentally I was traveling at a conference a week before getting sick.
> users cannot be relied upon to update software

Their software can be relied on to tell them when its too out of date to be used.

> this isn't a decentralized, trustless solution

It is in fact decentralized. Nothing is trustless, but it is in fact just as trust-minimized as bitcoin is.

> If you're willing to download a checkpoint from a trusted, centralized entity, why even bother with decentralization? Why not just have the US Government sign blocks?

So many false assumptions in there. You know what they say about making assumptions don't you?

What really bothers me is that you just assert that what I'm talking about is broken without even attempting to understand what I'm talking about. You don't seem to care about actually having a conversation, but instead just want to win. I don't appreciate that. If you want to keep talking about this, I'd like you to ask me some questions that clarify your understanding of what I'm talking about and show me you're actually trying to understand me instead of just trying to take the most attackable misunderstanding of my words and attack that. I'm getting very frustrated at you because of your willful misunderstanding, and unless you change your attitude, I'm just going to start ignoring you.

So go ahead, you want to talk about this? Ask me how I'm proposing these checkpoints work. Ask me how they're decentralized. Ask me how they're trust minimized. Instead of asserting things that aren't true based on false assumptions. I'll give you one more chance.
Hm, well, I appreciate you pointing out that you agree with me, I got snippy in another response to you on a different comment chain.

I still don't think I've successfully explained this concept of changing the job-as-endless-labor to job-to-produce-specific-amount.

Have you ever gone out and built something for yourself, like a shed?
I've always read that it's not too many smart people, but too many unemployed middle class people.
It was a crypto exchange during a BTC boom period (2016-2017)
What Are Comp Bands, and Why Do You Need Them?
Torvalds did weigh in on it. It's disabled by default because it apparently breaks some legacy stuff.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/561ec64ae67ef25cac8...
What has been privatised recently? Train operating companies have been nationalised, but I'm not aware of any privatisation taking place. There is talk of Channel 4 but that is it as far as I can tell.
Well, yes, software engineer takes a lot more than 120 hours of training to do that job.

But that's not to say if you gave the backhoe operator the same number of years experience learning programming as the software engineer, they wouldn't be just as good at software development.
> I've come to understand that all climate models are basically useless for predicting anything

I am under the impression that the worst-case scenarios in most models have pretty much all come to pass, often earlier than expected. Seems to me that they’ve been very predictive. It would have been nice had the media more accurately delivered those predictions; perhaps it would have prompted some early action.
Actually, thats in all likelyhood very much on purpose.
The feature that has been lost was actually a property of writing checks. When you use a debit card, or use a website to make an online payment, you're ultimately asking permission and the bank is free to say "no" with little repercussion. Whereas if you write a check on your account, pass it to someone else, who passes it to their bank, who presents it to your bank, your bank wantonly dishonoring the check would result in a much larger fallout.

Push transactions also put the paying bank on the hook for whether the transaction was fraudulent or not. Whereas with a pull transaction, it is up to the receiving bank to clean up the mess from any fraud. This is why banks (especially smaller banks) will put daily limit on the ACH transfers you can initiate, but will process whatever externally-initiated ACHs land on your account.
>Huh, I didn't realize that we didn't have any issues in the US with people having AC in their house or receiving medical care.

It happens, but the asphalt guy probably has coverage, like 92% of Americans. [1] There are a long list of simple solutions that can increase this percent and bring costs down, but people working less isn't on it as far as I'm concerned. I just don't see the connection.

>A comfortable life-shelter, food, clothing, medicine, border security- for you, me, the asphalt guy, and everyone else does not require all of the labor hours that are presently expended in the world

If anything, bringing the costs of goods down and increasing access to them will increase the number of labor hours needed. More and cheaper ultrasounds means more {materials, refinement, assembly, shipping, and operation}, not less.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-27...
> Remote work on either hardware or systems level programming (embedded) is almost non existent. Remote and not full-time is even rarer.

The trick is to do such things as your own business, i.e. freelancing or consulting (t's all in how you present it), doing projects for clients.

This can definitely work for hardware and systems level programming.

Then you set your own schedule and your own rules, and clients don't even expect you to come to their office. They expect you to have your own, and the "home office" engineering consultant is quite common.
"extensive"
It’s the redemption of the real underlying that allows ETFs to work.
I hope your friend can seek another doctor if this is debilitating. Empathy doesn’t always get a fair voice in prescribing guidelines / decisions
Not when scientists were constantly saying "there's so much we don't know" and citing a possible 3% mortality rate.
I would say if you have space faring society and you put them on star ships like the Enterprise, you put those Phds on the super expensive ships.

In the "Star Trek" you don't see broad society, sometimes you see normal people, but series is mostly officers.

You don't want Phds only society because that is a lot of waste. From my point of view bachelors or engineering degree is mostly what will be needed in the future.

Because for me Phds are mostly on thought level of someone who has done bachelor. Staying in academia is a career choice and not that you are chosen to become Phd because you were super smarter than others. It also turns out that to be successful Phd it is more about politics at the university that "beeing ultra smart". True that you still have to be smart to play politics but don't have to point fingers at stupid politicians that handle that as well without having even masters degree.
Did you ever….try the breathing exercise? 90% of people don’t, but it’s actually quite pleasant.

There are some situations of acute stress where one can’t take a 1 min pause, but in most scenarios it helps.
This is really shocking news. He is a very well respected journalist.

The police have arrested three suspects, and it is believed that their car was caught on CCTV near the place of the murder.
These instructions are accurate for 10 but on 11 it'd just be under "Apps" not "Apps and Features" anymore and the only option available in Optional Features now is "Internet Explorer Mode" which is a view mode in Edge and does not bring back iexplore.exe.

Microsoft.com seems to agree with the empirical result above: "Internet Explorer is disabled. Microsoft Edge is the recommended replacement and includes IE Mode which may be useful in certain scenarios." https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...

The backend for app compatibility isn't going anywhere though just the browser frontend.
Yes, I was referring to compilation using emscripten, but I couldn't remember the name, thank you!
Ask HN: What's the compensation ceiling for remote developers?
I've been a remote developer for 11 years, and I'm currently making around a $100k/year. I've interviewed for a few other companies but it seems like the ceiling is at around that level.

Have you encountered better compensations for remote devs or is this really the ceiling?
Why would a company in the US (Signal) decide to comply with the doctrine of another country, especially a doctrine antithetical to their entire business?
70s through 90s wiped the blue collar middle class off the map, there are no other options outside of non-MD healthcare work if you want income that even begins to keep up with inflation. Its gigs and part-time work from there.

Edit: to be clear, I'm agreeing and saying people definitely had time to see the writing on the wall
Agreed. Just last year The Economist had a short article on the popularity of self-help books in China[0]. It's estimated almost a third of all books sold in the country are self-help books.

If anything I would expect self-help to be more popular in less well-off countries, where there is perhaps more incentive to be hyper-competitive to try get ahead.

[0] https://www.economist.com/china/2020/11/12/why-self-help-boo...
The generation growing up today is the first that can broadly learn mathematics from mathematicians rather than from teachers, and we should encourage them to do so.

When I was 12-16, I was interested in physics enough that I would study it in my free time just for fun, solving problems from the Physics Olympiad. I could solve lots of the problems with just intuition, until I stumbled upon the sliding chain problem. I spent about a week pondering over it with no results. I approached my math teacher. He admitted defeat and referred me to the physics teacher. If I remember correctly, the physics teacher avoided admitting he didn't know how to solve it and didn't give me any pointers. That was the last Physics Olympiad problem I tried to solve, after dreaming of attending the competition for years (I should mention that at that time my primary interest already were computers; physics was just a hobby). I wonder whether this could still be a problem today when anything can be found on YouTube. There's a lot of noise, too. How long does it take the average curious kid to find the signal that is 3b1b, MIT OCW, etc?
> society has lost a critical social regulatory mechanism, in the form of being able to physically beat up people who repeatedly exhibit scummy behavior

Wow, that's the most poorly-thought out idea I've read in recent memory.

A few more seconds of consideration should be enough to come up with all the reasons this is such a terrible idea.

But one that I can contribute from a slightly unusual perspective (working adjacent to financial fraud detection):

The aggrieved customer is very often completely wrong about whom to blame for a problem. They are working with incomplete information (we all are), they're in a heightened state of stress (money is at risk), they're grappling with bad models of confusing systems (finance is complicated), and at least half of them are less smart than average (by definition).

I would say that about 10% of customer service requests start out hostile and accusatory. Some are literally threatening violence. And about 99% of the time, the aggressive customer is wrong.

So how many innocent noses do you think should be improperly punched, for your social regulatory mechanism instincts to be satisfied?
> Just file a CFPB complaint: https://www.consumerfinance.gov

"Just <do x>" is considered facile and sometimes rude, if not harmful; it implies that things are easier and/or more effective than they actually are. (The CFPB does not represent you personally, and is not obligated to act on your behalf, unlike an attorney.)

> Hiring an attorney is a good way to not have any money since you used it to pay the attorney

It depends on how much money is on the line. Many small-claims courts don't even let you have an attorney, and the filing fees are small and the effort to file is minimal. On the other hand, if there's a lot of money at stake, having an attorney can pay off.

And there's always somewhere in between: having an attorney send a demand letter can sometimes yield good results, without necessarily breaking the bank. Getting an attorney involved doesn't necessarily imply that you're going all the way to trial and judgment.

> And you have to find one

You also sometimes have to find a plumber when a pipe springs a leak... Life isn't perfect, and that's why these people exist.
that was indeed our theory too
The “lie” (it’s not a lie, it’s just deceiving) is saying that it’s a four times increase. You could also say “6% increase”, but that sounds smaller
Of course it has, it's the calculator on GitHub. It also has a docs/roadmap.md. Thanks for playing.
I never hit 40 hours a week. Thirty seemed like a good balance between work/life. Eventually, working on a CRUD app didn't peak my interest anymore and I moved onto some other projects. Company was sold a few years later.
Which is ironically self defeating after major multiple security product breaches. Laws banning encryption or requiring backdoors as well as the practice of secret court warrants discourage fundamental investment in strong encryption products and standards.
That is exactly why no one should be trading cryptocurrency. Anyone who does so deserves to lose everything. I don't want the SEC wasting my tax money protecting those idiots.
Looks like cryptocurrencies are not very innovative. They keep reinstalling all the features that have been there and improved in the regular markets.
Tether and stablecoins mimicking the USD, now this stuff mimicking stocks, how are the not getting in trouble with government institutions or Apple?
What are the loopholes? No existing laws yet? Or they operate and reside in far away jurisdictions?
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The evidence is that it's happened before so it could again.

It's not like there's a paper trail. The best you can say is that the virus looked very similar between species, so a natural jump is plausible.
As someone sitting kinda on the outside of fintech/finance, it just feels like there's a lot less value add and market oversaturation these days from "hipster app with Bancorp account".

I previously had Simple (rest in peace), and was totally okay with it, but it clearly wasn't worth it to BBVA/PNC. I went to SoFi just because they're making moves to get their own charter, rather than sitting with Bancorp.

Now you've got Robinhood, Credit Karma, Chime, etc etc all running Bancorp backing accounts so really there's no fundamental difference between any of them.
HN’s audience may not be familiar with what a gigantic deal Homestuck was to a particular generation of people at a very particular point in time. This write-up is really interesting, but starting it at the time of the spin-off makes it hard to appreciate the sepulchritudinousness of it all.
The engines used for Ubisoft's FarCry and WatchDogs series are derivatives of CryEngine. The fork was a while back, but as a basis for large open world games, the legacy lives on
I like to follow the fallout from cyrpto/token scams on reddit as they happen and it’s the same thing every time: People who had been touting the benefits of “no regulation” are suddenly angry and outraged that the government hasn’t done more to prevent the scam from happening and isn’t (in their minds) doing enough to get their money back.

It’s a leopards ate my face situation. And it’s beyond frustrating but I can also sympathize with them a bit. Who among us hasn’t stubbornly needed to see something for ourselves in order to learn a lesson we could have (and should have) learned by listening to the people with a bit of experience?
Larry David App Approval (WWDC 2014)
I would imagine both groups would consider themselves equally worthy.

Where would you draw the line? Which classes of society do you deem unworthy of home ownership other than the aforementioned groups and (presumably) every group below them?
Iceland Finds 'Major Success' Moving to Shorter Workweek
If memory serves, this is also why leprosy sufferers often miss extremities. Their nerves are cut by the initial bacterial infection, and repeated (unnoticed) cuts so the rest.