skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My nephew and his wife had a house, sold it, and moved to a brand new apartment building in our downtown area. This is supposedly an upscale development, with 2BR renting for $1900/mo in a city of 40K where most apartments rent for $800-1200.

I say supposedly, because instead of an upscale living experience, here's what they got:

1. the door to the parking garage is some fancy automated thing with sensors on the headlights. It doesn't work, so they have to keep backing up and re-approaching the door several times before it opens. Other residents have had the same problem.

2. Pets are allowed but are supposed to be leashed. People let their pets run around all the time not on a leash

3. There is a park across the street for people and dogs. People don't pick up their dogs' poop like they're supposed to.

4. People have dogs that bark in the apartment for hours on end. They've left notes on the door (ignored), called management ("We'll take care of it" but they don't), and ended up confronting the person directly. The dog owner acted like she didn't know anything about it.

5. Yesterday my nephew said they arrested a guy who was harassing people at the pool and people sitting on their balconies. He was also threatening the apt staff, so police arrested him.

This apt complex (according to my nephew) has a goal of filling up the building and then selling it, so they have all kinds of rent incentives and allow guarantors for people who don't really have $1900/mo for rent.

Who wants to put up with this kind of shit? This is only a 3-story apt building. I can't even imagine the kinds of problems in a 30-story apt building.

They're moving into a detached single-family house after their first-year lease is up.
There is no law that says you have to be a corrupt politician and enable plutarchy, although it is common.

At any rate, "futarchy" is clearly a step backwards.
Sort of. Not really. spiped operates at the level of individual stream connections, so you can e.g. make one end a local socket in a filesystem and use UNIX permissions to control access to it.

In fact that's exactly why I wrote it -- so I could have a set of daemons designed to communicate via local sockets and transparently (aside from performance) have them running on different systems.
What do you mean by predictions are blind? The issue the parent is describing is (as an extreme case): I go on a prediction market for when someone will die, put all of my money on tomorrow, and then kill the person tomorrow.

You could imagine a lighter version where I ruh for some public office, bet a billion against me winning, and then drop out of the race.
I like reading tutorials on this subject. One of my favorites, albeit six years old, is https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.ht...
TL;DR: zfs send/receive for LVM
As a programmer surely the concept of syntactic sugar is not unfamiliar to you.
This is what I do as well. The article says it's "redundant and ugly" but I don't think it's redundant at all--it's unambiguous that "I refute it thus." is a full sentence quote that happens to come at the end of a sentence. It's consistent and simple, as opposed to a special rule that says you can elide the outer `.` if (1) the quote ends in a `.` and (2) the quote is the final element of a sentence.
In a perfect world, that makes sense. But, wages have been flat since pretty much the 80's for the vast majority of workers (weather tracking inflation and/or productivity) while common long term investments like housing have become out of reach due to supply issues, brought on by... rich people and companies buying up all the properties and seeking rents (both foreign and domestic), and retirement has moved from pensions to whatever mess we have now.

There is also the huge issue of student loans basically setting back a whole class of people more and more over the years. I have friends who have student debt and very nice paying jobs, but the debt still set back plans for home buying and family planning by 5-10+ years for a lot of them.
It’s important to note that these chains that are cheaper to use have to make trade offs to enable that. The trade off they choose is generally to be more centralized. A better approach over using a new “cheap” blockchain is to use a Rollup network on top of a decentralized blockchain.

Rollups inherit the security of the blockchain they are based on, and a user can always leave the rollup network if they become censored.

The downside of current Optimistic Rollup networks is that many still have centralized points of control in place (such as arbitrary contract upgrades), but those are expected to be removed in the next few months for at least one of them.

Zero-Knowledge rollups are also coming out and have key advantages over Optimistic Rollups, including much lower costs.
There's also the definition of baby boomers as those aged 51-69, which would correspond to those born in 1951-1970, off by five years or so from the usual definition.
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My take:

First, depends on definition of "College" and "University" that differs from country to country.

But overall, value of University education to improve your employability and skillset I think is being questioned by both employers and employees.

1. Some "Blue Collar" skills may withstand the test of automation better than many "White Collar" skills - e.g. I anticipate needing an electrician, contractor, plumber for the next few decades; but hopefully accountant, lawyer, travel agent etc less and less.

2. For "White Collar" skills, well... I went to ComSci university and it's not that it brought no value - but given the time, money, effort and commitment, it was very very low value proposition. I spent more time satisfying bureaucratic obligations and navigating the needlessly complex machinery than actually learning. (note I wasn't the one going to university for some "Party / Social Experience" - I found many better, more flexible methods than that:).

Not going to university is not necessarily the same thing as not wanting to learn and educate and acquire skills. And there is a whole spectrum today between free online education (random Youtube videos, manuals, free university courses etc), bootcamps, practically oriented post-secondary education, and then university.

Bottom line: I have two young kids, I want them to succeed, and I want them to be educated - and I don't know if traditional university is something I will encourage them to consider 10 years from now.

I honestly don't know however how that translates into a gender gap discussed in the article though; and article doesn't really provide a satisfying answer either :-/
Maybe they're just doing the ROI math and deciding it isn't worth it.
Remote work could help to alleviate the pressure on housing markets in major cities, but mini mansions are the opposite of dense, affordable housing. Even if the price is cheap to you, the associated costs for the city — more infrastructure and roads — are high. We can’t further sprawl our way out of this.
> iOS was the first major market computing platform that broke this general understanding.

I think the reason this worked, and the reason it’s still sort of confusing to people, is that the iPhone is a phone, and showed up at phone stores. People viewed as a super-powered iPod, not a computer.
> The few neighborhoods where Black and white boys grew up to have similar adult outcomes were low-poverty areas that also had high levels of “father presence.”

Call me surprised. That's the result of racist drug policies intended to go specifically after Black men (and hippies): https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...

The biggest problem - and one that the author conveniently and completely ignores - is that the US justice and incarceration system is set up for biblical an-eye-for-an-eye revenge with ludicrous sentencing ("three strikes", decades for nonviolent drug offenses, people getting summarily executed by police regularly, ...) and not, like in Europe, for real, measurable rehabilitation.

Also, people in the US receive no education during their prison stay that helps them to gain useful employment after their release, they start with significant debts from the prison system and often enough from loan sharks, there is no meaningful assistance system to help them gain housing and jobs after being released, and forget about physical and mental healthcare - often, people will leave prison in a way worse state than when they entered: malnourishment, denial of healthcare, trauma from assaults both by fellow inmates and officers...

And finally: When employers and even landlords are allowed to do routine comprehensive background checks and everything about a person's history is up for a google grab "thanks" to public record laws, it is no surprise that arrests for low level shit like petty theft or smoking weed sets up people for a life in poverty.

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: if the US wants to fix their society, the process has to start with their attitude towards criminals, criminality and healthcare.
Conversely, there are less blue collar, uncredentialed jobs that are typically taken by women that pay well. Construction, plumbing, and extraction all remain low credential, while nursing, care industries, and education all require more credentials than they did before.
Perhaps college abandoned them.
They don't have to be corrupt at all, just the simple fact that media and lobbying power are mostly controlled by capital expended it would be naive to assume that non-corrupt politicians can not be influenced.

If they could not then there would not be a lobby, and media would not be as politicized as they are.
This is a sweet and simple implementation, however I don't think the title "[...] you haven't read yet" is correct. The code caches every comment ID which exists in the page, even ones outside of the viewport. A more accurate title would be "Display a bell emoji on new HN comments".

- Using the JavaScript Intersection Observer may be an interesting addition, as this would explicitly differentiate comments on the thread which you may not have scrolled down to.
Yes you should be cognizant enough to know not to host your shit in a cesspool of nazi trash
In general, yes, but this is a question of magnitude. Compared to when Boomers were the same age, Gen Z have less money and assets. The worry is that this indicates that many of those from Gen Z 40-50 years from now will own assets because they inherited them, which is wildly inequitable.
"Romanes eunt domus" was the original sentence, corrected to "Romani ite domum."
I have no idea what the situation is like in the United States, but in Canada, this "abandoning" (ahem) is a direct function of eroding performance of boys that starts right in elementary school and continues right through high school. This leads to obviously fewer male university students. The trend is clear and has been going on for two decades.

Pointing this out, especially in terms of arguing that targeted interventions for boys may be in order or that the education system in some way may be suboptimal for them, is an absolute political no go zone though. It's not a discussion that can currently be had.
33 currently, not sure how I will ever retire or own a house. Wages in the US have stagnated for the majority of my lifespan. My states infrastructure is completely falling apart while everyone ignores it. Environmental change is hitting us harder every year. If there isn't much of a change in the coming years I don't have much hope for the generations after me.

Currently my future lies in me building out a van to live in eventually while I save up to escape the Southern US.
Could you elaborate on that? I am not personally aware of young men being unwelcome in a higher learning setting.
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It was a well known problem in the 80's when the boomers were adults and starting to get elected to power. Yes, I judge them, and yes, I think we would have done better than to go on a coke fueled binge of unregulated capitalism. Consider me deluded.
What about sentences that end in a period without a quote? That seems like it'd be much more common.
I think Makes it cognitively easier to translate into "60 vs 40 percent".
We just wrote all of the open source shit for boomers in managerial positions. The boomers are still in power, pretend to be woke to keep the power and are now courting millenials and younger.

It's a generation of hypocrites indeed, the millenials got that right.
This is what concerns me when I see entrepreneur in the title. I assume the business model would involve encaging them in zoos, hunting them in safaris, or slaughter them to produce exotic food and derived products.

Bringing back an extinct species in order to exploit it.
I registered an account with Epik in 2017 before any notoriety over Gab or whatever (though I did not ultimately end up using their services). Apparently this justifies doxxing and slandering me as a neo-nazi.

Considering that Epik have been in operation for almost a decade before a pivot to extremist hosting, I would assume that the vast majority of this """noble""" hack concerns innocent people.
Huh? Most console games today aren’t exclusives, developers have the freedom to release them on any platform they want with little restriction, and there is no risk in a console maker refusing to let you sell a game and then they go back and make the game themselves.

Consoles are very different from Apple’s walled garden.
btw about sidewalks, etc. and public areas. They belong to all of us, we paid them through taxes. It is called common property. (Propiedad comunal en español, mi lengua nativa)
I LOVE THIS! I'm going to use it so much
Not everyone knows that you can use MFA with SSH. I’ve successfully used Google authenticator via PAM[1] and YubiKey[2].

You can also setup SSH certificate authorities instead of using self-signed ones [3]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Google_Authenticator

[2] https://developers.yubico.com/SSH/

[3] https://jameshfisher.com/2018/03/16/how-to-create-an-ssh-cer...
From a business perspective: One of the scary things about indemnity is that it is uncapped - but if a client insists on indemnity even after push back, you can often get a clause to have it capped to whatever your business insurance would pay in that situation.

It would still mean a terrible situation to go through - but at least it wouldn't (necessarily) risk your entire business.

Disclosure: I'm not a lawyer, etc.
crossdomain.xml: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4174317/what-is-crossdom...
Colleges and Universities have been used as research churns, using professors, graduates and undergraduates to further influence research through a combination of tuition, good-will, and the promise of a paper after 4 years of hard work that says you can do what you spend 4 years doing. Combined with the ever-increasing costs of college education with ever-decreasing return on investment (have fun getting a job involving the gender studies doctorate (or any other vague, wishywashy, non-practical education) you got that's functionally useless)

You can get the exact same level of education online for 90% of the courses that universities offer. Trades are a different story when there's practical skills to learn however but is the exception to the norm.

Why would men spend the time going to college if it's been ensured that they're going to be in debt for the rest of their life due to the inflated ego of these institutions, thinking they can charge so much for degrees that really have no practical value. But then again, why blame the institution if there's thousands of people still lining up willingly?
On this subject, be sure to read acoup.blog piece on how the Mongol (and other steppe nomads) could raid hundreds of kilometres from their bases by using mares that would provide them both drink and food while travelling light and fast (no chariots, no soldiers on foot). Milk as a strategic military advantage!
> CSS in JS as a good idea (we won’t start from CSS separated from layout, but it’s good to not to repeat HTML’s mistake).

The HTML and CSS separation is great for accessibility. It is also great for machine processing. On the web "content is the king" which might not be true on native apps, but I tend to feel that separation of content and its _visual_ appealing is a good thing in general, only if CSS would have substantially less quirks.
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But the AWS SSM agent doesn't listen on the network [0]. The connection is initiated by the agent towards the cloud API, so any commands that come in aren't new connections established over a possibly insecure network.

Of course, if the agent's verification of who it's talking to is as good as in the case of Azure, all bets are off.

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[0] I've just checked this on an Ubuntu EC2 instance. The SSM agent is running, but it doesn't listen on any interface. No custom configuration was done it.
I work with UK and US people regularly, and despite not being an official name this is the only name for those characters that everyone has automatically understood.
Gen X has less than Boomers, the Silent Generation has less than Boomers. Boomers together have more wealth than the next 3 generations put together.
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From everything is good to oh shit. What's your experience?
Based on the most recent stable release being 2011, I agree. But I found it funny that the article also says "A lot of people think that JScript and JavaScript are different but similar languages. That's not the case. They are just different names for the same language"!
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Seriously, this reminds me of a question I have always being afraid to ask due to morality reasons. Was there any chance for the 911 jumpers to survive in any way, no matter how minimal?
It's interesting to consider whether we are entering a period of time in which young men will "fail" at a higher rate than young women, but we will maintain early-age support structures that prioritize women over men because men continue to dominate in late-age power structures.
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For reddit, this is massively easier to implement, as each comment contains in markup an accurate timestamp.

That way the script only has to store the timestamps on which you visit a comment section, not the comment ids.

Additionally, that way you can select "highlight all comments since visit [...]" with a dropdown from which you can choose out of all recent visits you did.

Sadly, Hacker News does not provide any such metadata in the markup. (Just like the comment formatting is shit, and the markup structure is as well. HN should just copy the nesting markup and formatting 1:1 from reddit, and it'd be massively improved already).
I looked into this for a project a couple of years ago (to boot VMs from minimal customized ISO) and ended up using mfsbsd instead.

https://github.com/mmatuska/mfsbsd
It's not and by the default it's not allowed to talk to the Service Manager. You have to explicitly allow this through an instance role.

You do lose some functionality, though.
Those are the article's examples, not mine.
I wonder if the oversized tech millionaire/billionaire millennials inflate the amount of wealth the majority millennials actually hold. Judging by the number of millennials I know anecdotally living with their parents, I don't think most millennials own a lot of assets.
Thanks Colin! Love all the things you create :)
> I've read about people just being locked out of their account and they've had to use HN or Reddit to get in contact with a person

Not really the same thing. She was an employee, and Apple was already willing to investigate the issue twice. She wasn't facing indifference, and "showing a controversy to the public" involved leaking confidential documents.
Is Crypto a Commodity or Security?
not really, you can run the business on your name and pay personal income taxes.

Avoiding to create a separate entity which will carry additional compliance and tax costs is something else altogether, and some governments just make it too onerous
Those satellites would be operating in higher frequency bands than most radio telescopes care about. If it does turn out to be an issue they can also be programmed to stop transmitting when they’re ‘in view’ of the telescope.
Boys are virtually despised through primary and secondary school.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/articles/20...
There is a large online network of communities that have dedicated themselves to making outcasts out of boys for their own ends. Sometimes it's for clear ends (like Bannon's work on Gamergate) and sometimes it's an intuitive growth instinct. Places like ZH need attention and they're not going to get it if boys grow up to go college. They need them angry, cynical and isolated.

I think HN is one outpost of this network. Imagine a 12-16 year old happening upon HN and becoming a regular. Do you see this person coming away with a positive view of higher education and being encouraged to pursue it? Or are they more likely to develop a cynical, contrarian view?
Judiciary laws are just one of the many incentives present in the real world. Money is a better data point to base models and predictions than laws.

> What if improving society was a reward-in-itself and we trusted competent managers to do the complicated bits?

This is the mental model many citizen seem to adopt to interpret their government. In my opinion it's closer to a religion than reality. People that willingly reject great personal rewards in favor of the common good are a rarity. They do exist, but expecting people in power to naturally adopt that stance, or expecting that elections is a good way of finding those people, is a mistake.
>allowing people to use arbitrary HTML and JS was an intentional choice

Oh, you'll be reversing this choice VERY quickly if your product gets any traction, I assure you...
> Think of Seq as a strongly-typed and statically-compiled Python: all the bells and whistles of Python, boosted with a strong type system, without any performance overhead.

A pitch most people doing applied bioinformatics won’t understand/appreciate.
We most definitely do not know for sure that milk is not a net positive.
Thank you for stating this. I absolutely agree with you, and this is what we are trying to do with the Deuxfleurs collective which is also getting funded by the EU to work on our project Garage [0, 1]. We are working on making self-hosting easier, and also more reliable, by exploiting geographical redundancy [2]. We will use the grant money mostly to develop Garage, our self-hosted data server (an object store implementing the S3 protocol, and soon also an email inbox server with IMAP access). We are also working on automating opening ports on your router to get around NAT (with our project DiploNAT [3]), and on facilitating distributed deployments with the Nomad orchestrator. Our vision is to help technical users set up local self-hosting collectives by setting up servers at three or four geographical locations for redundancy, which can then be used by their friends, neighbors, etc. We are of course very keen on deploying federated protocols such as Matrix to link all of these communities together.

[0] https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr

[1] https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/infrastructure

[2] https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage/src/branch/main/...

[3] https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/diplonat

Not linking our main website because it's in French.