skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of startups, most of which fail anyway, I think you’ll find a lot more stay in the 5-10+ year range than you give credit for. Certainly 20+ is unusual these days. I’ve had multiple 10ish year jobs and don’t expect to hit that number.
> The Bush administration’s post-9/11 policies have done immeasurable harm to the U.S. and the world.

True.

> Even a lot of the domestic political polarization and social crackup we see in America today can be traced back to the divisions that be Iraq War created.

Less true,IMO. There's a line through divisions over post-9/11 policy, but it doesn't really start there and there's not much specially about it; its pretty consistent with the trend of crystallization of the polar positions after the end of the long realignment period of the overlapping New Deal and Civil Rights partisan realignements in the early-mid-1990s.

If you look right around the gearing up for the Iraq War it may look like a big acceleration of divisions, but that's mostly unleashing what was deferred in the rally-around-the-flag effect in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Once you factor in long contracts, the people who are desperate to go back to the office, and greater space requirements for proper social distancing - they pretty much do need to pay for those existing offices. Hopefully things will re-equilibriate, but I'd guess that will take another 2 years at least.
Jay and Lynne had the remit to make a show about Whitehall. Skewering private enterprise was/is very much doable (Scott Adams has been doing that daily, for decades), but that doesn’t negate the premise of YM.

And actually yes, we should be less cynical of civil servants and politicians

Donald Trump appreciates the support.

A pathological disregard of them has, for example, significantly worsened one of the worst public health crisis in decades.

Please let us all know which ones to pay attention to-I’d like to heed only the ones that can make testable predictions, and agree to quit if they get enough of those wrong.
The patients in the article have dementia, which requires all day care, often by a professional. Where else would the elderly receive such care?
Apart from Blender, what tools/libraries should I learn to use to do this?
>"Your use-case of running a web service that is written in a very efficient language like C++ is not something you see too much these days"

In some place including big ones it is very much being used.

>"our industry isn't doing things that way for a reason"

I think the real reason is - the slower your stack the more money you will pay to Amazon, Azure, Google or whoever else. And by way of advertising, trickling down to education and lots of other means they make sure that this is what everybody (well most) uses.

>"using low-level languages."

Since when modern C++ is "low level". It is rather "any level". I compared my C++ server code with the similar ones written in JS, Python, PHP etc and frankly if you skip standard libraries C++ code can end up being actually smaller.
Why does it cost so much to get a taxi license? 100k EUR seems pretty steep.
In my experience, the main difference is that people not comfortable with English will spend more time on naming things and code reviews.
But it tends to get better with experience.

Companies with a poor engineering culture often name things in their own language, which makes an awkward and confusing mix because everything else is in English.

I have noticed interesting regional differences too.
In France it is hard to get people to use English, but otherwise the grammar is mostly fine.
But in Asia it's easy to get people to use English, but it's not easy to get the grammar right. For example they have a hard time with plurals when naming variables.

Of course it's just my data point and a broad generalization, because there are also very skilled developers everywhere.
> I'm terrified of growing old in this country.

Have kids, raise them right, and you’ll be fine. It’s worked out pretty well for a couple thousand years.
Okay, let's assume we do exactly what you outlined there.
In 2031, do you not expect to read an exposé on how many "care home" residents are being pressured into signing euthanasia papers without understanding what they're doing? How do we avoid that world?
Who decides that though? I would bet the vast majority of players would be very happy to be monitored if it meant less cheaters. Look at Valorant, that anti cheat is way beyond what HN would deem acceptable and the game is very popular.
> Which do you have more of on your anti-regret list?

遺憾 yí hàn type items, my `don't do` list would be a better area for 後悔 hòu huǐ item.

The anti-regret list is forward looking, as in if I did not do these things I will/may regret it.

The don't do list is backwards looking, if I do these things then I will/may regret it.
Same. I use linux for work but windows for gaming. The linux gaming experience is 90% the way there, but that 10% of the time where you have to scour forums, bug reports, install custom versions of mesa to work with your gpu, etc… is not worth the effort.

I will probably give linux gaming another try in a few years but if it doesn’t “just work” I’m going back to windows for gaming.
Nature is correcting for our artificially enhanced lifespans thanks to modern medicine.

Life, uh, finds a way.
> Agreed. I believe (still) that GWB jr is and was a good person at heart.

Who is GWB jr?

George Walker Bush, the 43rd President, is not a junior, and has no son of the same name.

His father, the 41st President, was George Herbert Walker Bush.
Are there any inflation protected CD's ? I know of TIPS from my time on a trading desk that was a few rows away from the inflation desk, but curious if there are any retail products like a CD with some level of inflation protection
Put a generator on a stationary bike and plug your phone or a usb battery into it.

Besides, we all know the best use for human fat is soap.
The article points out that many nursing homes are just as understaffed though, that's why this practice is so widespread in the first place. If our elderly are going to be badly cared for either way, it might be best to keep them in a family environment where at least they won't be kept constantly on drugs.
This is really cool, https://github.com/oppia/oppia

Reminds me a bit of HyperCard. What is your interest in Oppia? I dabble in these things, but was thinking of working on some shared "decks" with my kid.
Phony Diagnoses not just at nursing homes, also in mental facilities. Was really surprised (better word-traumatized) that one flippant casual mention of not valuing my life in a private text message was enough to to get me detained by police in a facility for a night. "Doctor" threatened me with drugging just because I refused to answer some of their questions and instead insisted on a lawyer. Funny how freedoms can be taken away so dubiously even when not charged of a crime nor arrested in a system that exists outside the criminal system. I'm surprised and not surprised similar behavior happens in nursing homes.
That's pretty good considering some of these titles don't run properly on Windows.
Is Nature considered an unreliable, unacceptable source for Hacker News?
It's the EFAIL thing. Which was an actual issue but was wildly misrepresented in the media[1].

[1] https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:efail
The author makes quite a few leaps in logic that I am unable to follow. Maybe they are right but their reading of the judgement is contrary to how most in and out of the media are reading it and I’d expect a clearer explanation than this.
> The illnesses they treat are ones of terror and loneliness. I will note however that there’s no purpose in them here except to force submission, and that’s abuse and spits on the good that can be done.

Modern antipsychotics are useful for conditions beyond schizophrenia. Seroquel is commonly prescribed for insomnia at doses lower than those used for Schizophrenia. Adding Abilify is a common second-line strategy when first-line antidepressants aren't giving proper results. Certain patients with bipolar disorder benefit from antipsychotic medications, particularly in the therapeutic delay before traditional mood stabilizers can kick in.

Like you said, the drugs themselves shouldn't be demonized. They're not perfect, but when used appropriately they're often far better than the underlying conditions being treated.

However, if doctors are simply making up diagnoses in order to prescribe the drugs, that's obviously not appropriate treatment.
This strongly reminds me of Kornhauser’s three levels of social relations (Politics of Mass Society, 1959):

> We can conceive of all but the simplest societies as comprising three levels of social relations. The first level consists of highly personal or primary relations, notably the family. The third level contains relations inclusive of the whole population, notably the state. The second level comprises all intermediate relations, notably the local community, voluntary association, and occupational group.

Etc., the argument being that much of the socially important parts and ills of industrialization, urbanization, and the ensuing mass society are reducible to the dissolution of the second level and the transferral of its customary characteristics and behaviours (strong attachment, group identity, and so on) to the third.

But that’s mostly me channelling my history teachers, not original thought, so maybe someone who actually knows this stuff can say more.

Lest this be perceived as doomsaying, let me mention that Russian-language LiveJournal seemed to retain that small-town feel up until the very end (early 2010s) despite the considerable number of readers and commenters (thousands of readers for the most popular post on a slow day—much less than on Facebook, much more than you could ever possibly know). Possibly that’s because the number of writers (worth following) was much smaller, due to the higher effort required for long-form posts.

Again, people with more experience in older online communities should know more about this, as that was the only thriving one I experienced personally.
They have, it's called mixmaster/mixminion. It hasn't seen much use since it was introduced.
I really feel this. I've been working remotely for a few years, and will probably continue doing so for the foreseeable future, but there is no such thing as informal conversation in that setting.

My company encourages everybody to set up "salon" meetings with random people to just chat, but these conversations end up being awkward and forced (though that could just be me).

The result of this is that I feel completely disconnected from my co-workers and my company. I have plenty of other things going on in my life, so that doesn't bother me too much, but it's certainly not ideal.
There were definitely a few curious anomolies that day. I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy, because I'm not sure I undertand the motive.

But certainly the Israeli nationals that were caught celebrating as the first planes hit [1] is very, very strange. Especially considering that at least two of them had ties back to Israeli intelligence [2].

I try to be charitable, but the logic is all screwy.

• So there's a Mossad operation, as Israel claimed when sprung by NYPD/FBI, looking for terror cells in greater NYC at the time? Fine.

• This Mossad operation took the form of setting up removalist companies that were a front? Okay, weird, but sure.

• On the morning of the attacks, these removalists/agents are positioned on top of a building in Jersey to see the first plane hit and are witnessed celebrating, taking footage of it. Right.

• The agents are busted with passports and plane tickets leaving the country that day. The guy running the company 'Urban Moving Systems', ditches flees the country back to Israel [3].

Draw your own conclusions. This is the aspect of this tragedy that always seemed under-reported and also hints that there was likely a far larger narrative at play.

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/409691150/FOIA-Release-of-9-...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20030413184526/http://www.forwar...

[3] https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321316.html
Of course it's a little more complicated than that, because decay heat is the concern in a loss of cooling scenario. Having said that, I can't speak to the Indian Point design at all.
I have no idea why you think you are smarter than anyone else.

You are calling people who are left uninformed dumb because information that is relevant to them is being withheld and they don't have inside information or corporate experience like you.

People work with the information and experiences they have. If a lack of information leads to wild misunderstandings, that is why corporations should communicate better.
This is typically true for the elderly who can take care of themselves or require minimal help.

Once you need round the clock dementia care, it is more than extended family can provide — unless one or more adults take themselves out of the workforce for years.
I think it can be similar to having your company support slack channel open.. not necessarily subscribed but seeing the issues that customers come to your support staff with… that can provide surprising clarity… maybe product owners should be focused on that sort of thing and maybe this highlights issues with where I am…
Not every person you meet is on drugs and has nothing to lose
The trade off is that then the old drag down the kids in terms of careers, where they can live, time that might be otherwise invested in children, etc.

One side of my family is Chinese/Jamaican and the other White, so both cultural sets of values exist in my family and both sets of grandparents are worried about being a burden later on and while the polite thing to say is that they aren't, they genuinely are, especially if you don't have a lot of kids or they don't live nearby.

My Chinese/Jamaican grandfather had to leave his mother behind in Jamaica to build a life here in Canada and she supported that decision as it meant breaking the cycle of poverty for good. None of her descendants (at least for a while) would own nothing but two old dining chairs.
Sorry, but that ignores about 99% of the context when that decision was done.

Postgres started in early 90s (1996 is the first open source release). We may have fast threading libraries now, but that was not the case when the decision was made. Moreover, Postgres aims to support a wide range of Unix-like platforms, and the maturity of threading varies quite a lot.

Plus the processes are often easier to develop with, exactly because they share less state, are easier to debug, etc. They may be more expensive to create, but that's mostly irrelevant for long-running connections. Threads may allow sharing more state, but that requires more locking which is not great either. And debugging with threads ... ewwww.

And it's not like switching to threads magically makes things cheaper. There are benchmarks comparing Postgres with databases using threads, and it's not like Postgres loses. See for example https://www.percona.com/blog/2017/01/06/millions-queries-per...

Now, I'm certainly not claiming processes are perfect, but presenting them as obviously "poor decision" is just wrong.

There's a bunch of reasons why processes vs. threads is ultimately not the main issue. For a general purpose database (like Postgres), the big challenge of supporting large number of connections is pretty much resource management - how do you distribute memory/CPU/IO between the connections? You only have X cores and it does not matter all that much if you have Y processes or Y threads, that won't make a huge difference. Similarly, if you have 100GB of RAM, it'll make a huge difference whether you have to divide that between 100 or 10000 connections, but not if those are threads or processes.
Jurisdictions that allow euthanasia or assisted suicide usually require that the patient be of sound mind as confirmed by a physician. But many nursing home patients are suffering from a significant level of cognitive decline and thus no longer meet the criteria. It's kind of a Catch-22.
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The movie “I care a lot” (fiction) does a good job of showing the incentives issue in elder care.

I hope this NYT report will trigger some more oversight and maybe blow a few cases open because the trend it highlights is very concerning.
You can simply return promise from constructor \m/
Most of the media has gotten it wrong, which is why epic is appealing the decision.

The judge ruled 9/10 claims in apples favor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senicide
Probability is fundamentally all we have in science. The only distinction is in the level of confidence use in inference of the data. 95% is fairly typical though particle physics requires and impressive level >99.9999%
This documentary really helped me understand and appreciate Go way more. Started my new found love of the game. Wish more people in the US played!
Well, if you take into consideration how crappy the locks are on those old cars then maybe I had a very cheap security guard ;) He really was a nice old man and super embarrassed about the whole thing.

The funniest bit about this is how I discovered he did this, one day I got up too early thinking I was late, rushed out and drove off without my usual morning routine and when I heard a voice behind me asking if he could please get out of the car, my heart nearly stopped :)
> Take small steps to make the world a better place, helping your neighbors, and you can take a stand against entropy.

A different way to think about it: what if individuals independently taking small steps in only sufficient to maintain the status quo? What if the true state of reality is that something larger is needed, and is possible, but will never come to be because we never even tried to find it?
Shop for labor in Austin right now. If it's work requiring a permit, the backlogs are long. If it's not, prices are inflated AND backlogs are long. I've been trying to find contactors to finish my outbuilding for over a year. I ended up doing a lot of it myself or paying friends because not being new construction in a subdivision puts me at the back of every line and at rates I'm not willing to pay. If you want to build a new house in a subdivision, picked from a catalog and you're willing to pay top dollar though, you're fine. (I can't even call in ga it's from GCs I know because they're just too busy building the thousands of new houses already delayed in Austin metro.)
The tragedy of the articles situation is that someone in a nursing home or assisted living has little or no agency to improve their lives, so the meds seem forced upon them. The common man has the perception of having agency to improve his own situation, so it's not as tragic to have to be on antidepressants.
> Then you need to update your database version. Gotta read the changelog and make sure you did everything right, and do it in a reaonsable change window.

What, as opposed to needing to read the RDS patch notes, and schedule the maintenance widow?
Just the numbers in the last election show it’s not a conspiracy.
>He told me to never forget, and I never will.

Genuinely curious: How do you think these experiences have influenced you and your outlook on world?
And what if the payment is outside of the app through Safari? And then takes the user back to the app?
>Every modern OS has a secure RNG

A strong statement, without much in the way of supporting evidence.
There was the guy who dug a secret underground bunker under Hampstead heath: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-...
Minor quibble, OpenPGP uses an authentication method called the modification detection code (MDC). It's kind of a checksum that is protected by the overlaying encryption. Very simple. It turned out to be more secure than anticipated and as a result is still in use.
> as the number of messages in the network rises, the quality of those which propagate falls

The job of technology here should be to reduce noise, both on open platforms like twtr and closed platforms like slack channels and forums.

Computers are good at categorization -- now just use it to restrict what I see rather than recommend extra stuff.

Spam detection for things not traditionally considered spam.
You have a reading comprehension problem. The one situation is where a phone is in very close proximity or even mounted on the bike, the other where there is multiple 10's of meters between my seat the motorcycle, as well as me being inside a house.
That study literally just attributes all carbon emissions to the firms that pull it from the ground.

i.e. if a Norwegian oil company pulls oil out of the ground and I buy it from them to put in a private jet that flies around in circles while I party in it, rather than the CO2 emissions being attributed to me, they are attributed to the Norwegian oil company that pulled it from the ground.

Obviously, this is a completely useless study which only exists to shift blame. There is nothing insightful about it.

(And most of the firms listed are government run, Saudi Aramco, China Coal, etc...)
My memory says yes. When you did manage to scroll all the way down and find the replies amid the clutter, the actual answers were pretty good.
Indeed. The household has a full time employee/manager there so to speak.
> I don't think I've seen any improvements since the first day I started using it

At some point they hid the new topic/thread input behind a button, and that really improved my life, since people stopped creating new threads when responding to other ones.

The discoverability in teams is horrible though. And something about it makes everyone want to create a new team for every thing.
I guess you just do not understand what EDNS is, and why it is optional and why its optional-ness is not a pro-CloudFlare argument.

It is very simple:

Query(source IP is an ISP in Paris, no EDNS): gimme IP of "website.com"

WebsiteComDNS: IP of the server closest to Paris

Query(source IP is Google, no-EDNS): gimme IP of "website.com"

WebsiteComDNS: Hm, it is likely Google Cloud, or GoogleBot, answer with IP of own server on Google Cloud

Query(source IP is Google, EDNS: I am acting on behave of an user in Paris): gimme IP of "website.com"

WebsiteComDNS: IP of the server closest to Paris

Query(source IP is Cloudflare, no-EDNS): gimme IP of "website.com"

WebsiteComDNS: where the fuck is CloudFlare? Africa? answer with something random
That ignores the case of feedback loops where the person who got money out of the market then turns around and re-invests at the increased price (iterating several times). Your double-entry accounting is technically correct, but that metric easily misses any “mania” where people’s expectations are highly asymmetric, and they make repeated speculative bets on that basis.
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