skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I’ve been thinking about is whether the current technological landscape, through positive and negative pressures, can enable a revival of small-scale production. Basically, making more of what you consume at home, in your neighborhood, etc.

I think “human scale” technologies can help mitigate some of the more nightmarish horizons of the technological society we inhabit, though, obviously, neither completely, nor on their own.

My background is in networks, so I tend to think about things from that perspective (e.g., a private U-LTE network for communication with neighbors, mesh nets of sensors to make home food production more manageable and efficient). It’s a very fruitful area for anyone interested in a more communal and family-oriented future.

Obvious difficulties are:
Is the efficiency hit one gets from decentralization practically viable, long term? In which cases? How do you get your silicon? Other materials? Are those suppliers going to let you do this? How do you do this in the existing regulatory and political climate? Can this work for the poor? Does it open, unintentionally, new frontiers of technological domination?

All interesting questions; only some have technical solution.

EDIT: Adding also that I am interested in new or revived applications for “low-tech,” if that’s something anybody else knows about and wants to share.
Things I Learned from Dealing with Anxiety
Since today is World Mental Health Day, I thought I'd share some things I've learned over the past few years from dealing with anxiety issues. Perhaps it will be helpful to others.
All taxation is double taxation. I pay income taxes, and then when I spend my money someone else pays income taxes on their profit.

Similarly, the rich person paid taxes and then their rich kids pay taxes on their inheritance.
Other countries have unions that will handle those cases for the laid-off employee. Doesn't work perfectly but it's another idea worth considering.
I'd like to thank the author of the site for the entertainment (indirectly) provided in the HN comments. The rage is completely understandable.

Man it's 21 (direct) dependencies plus six services. Great for demonstration but please don't hang yourself with the dependency rope so easily (in real projects).
Game developer Eidos-Montréal is switching to a four-day workweek
Oh, yeah, if we never had any economic crisis, the GDP would be much higher.

Whatever that phrase means... Because linking it directly with technology or happiness doesn't make any sense. It either means "if we use a less meaningful number that always got up, it would be higher" or "if people improved things faster, they would be better now, but let's not focus on what could improve faster or how".
So the assumption is that currently, without instagram for kids, kids are not using social media at all and are not exposed to adult content on the internet? Are we living on the same planet?

I dont understand this, instagram for kids is supposed to give parents more control over what kids do on the internet. How could this make things worse?

To me it looks like, blind oposition to insta kids is largely due to irrational hatred towards facebook (partialy because it is cool to hate facebook now, and partially due to political conformism. As both D and R have found reasons why Facebook is bad to them)
Millions across the central US are under threat of severe storms today
Addendum: also need to ban children playing outside. They make so much damned noise.
It is genius. But also since the "action on objects" is based on executing files, should not be the first command a `chroot` - just to put the learner in the right mindset?
Ivermectin works just like the vaccines, just 2 more weeks until the flu and common cold go extinct...
I doubt that in any realistic metric C popularity can go down by 6% in only one year. It’s simply too big.
Berkeley was getting pretty aggressive with their ICE leaf blower enforcement last time I visited, which led me to wonder what happens when gardeners start buying ICE generators and plugging AC electric equipment into those. AFAICT these laws don't affect that.
Incandescents are engineered to have a short life. Abandoning them is a no brainier. Gas power equipment still has endurance and power that eclipses electric alternatives.
This is a category error.
Great article. This is what I come to HN to find.
So anecdotes it is.
Just use something like react-virtualized. Problem solved
I don’t think a smart phone in your pocket all day with a GPS and microphone that you use as a central hub for all your communications, notes, research and appointments and so forth, can really be considered for its privacy - and it appears thru researching apps on these smartphones the authors have the same conclusion.
Yes! LIFO is a fantastic improvement. This suggestion is buried in the article a bit. Maybe I should have elevated it, or maybe broken it into more pieces. There’s so much to talk about on this topic. But yeah, LIFO is totally “This one weird trick that will make your service bulletproof to overload! Chaos Monkeys hate it!”
Disaster looms as managers refuse to listen
Primality tests for Mersenne numbers are highly specialized. It's possible that they could advance factorization of general numbers, but extremely unlikely.
I’m not sure you’re correct that nothing is different. I saw a lecture recently by someone whose organization does mediation between student groups and universities with regards to free speech. He was saying that a few years ago for the first time his organization was starting to mediate in the opposite direction.

Was a very interesting talk. The speaker had tried to commit suicide and in the process of recovering from that realized that the speech patterns that are associated with sucidal tendencies, extreme consequences to minor events, were being used by student groups. Things like “if so and so comes to campus, people will die”. And they weren’t being hyperbolic, like they were honestly afraid someone would die if a speaker were allowed to speak. So the mediations required finding ways to bring nuance back to the conversation.

I honestly don’t know how different these objections to speakers are than in the past, but I thought it was interesting that there was a shift in the balance of power between university administrations and student groups in the US.

Edit:
Thanks to mrosett for pointing out this was Greg Lukianoff who is with FIRE. Please take care researching this topic, it is a large lightning rod for alt-right and heavily conservative view points. Some cursory searches show that FIRE might not be as neutral as I thought they were.
Surfing the web, while constantly checking FB and Twitter.
Biodiversity loss risks 'ecological meltdown' – scientists
Will citizens ever be comfortable with police drones?
> Isn't BTC actually meant for digital p2p payments?

yes.

Or that is what it is 'supposed' to be for.

> If you can't send your bitcoins to someone else, or pay for something using it; then what's the point?

Exactly. Which is why you should never put your coins on an exchange for long term storage.

Not your keys, definitely not your coins.
I'd rather not pay $500+ for a push mower with enough batteries to so my lawn. It seems like the negative impact is much higher than the marginal benefits. Why not focus on vehicles (especially planes) and the grid instead?
Leaf blowers are used by firms and public agencies because it lets the work get done with fewer labor-hours, reducing labor costs and overall labor demand. By number of firms that may mostly be small independent gardeners, but weighted by CO2 output its probably not.

(Pigovian taxes would be better, ignoring implementation and administration costs, than a straight ban, but simple gas taxes either overcharge cars or undercharge tools like this, which are vastly worse per gallon of gas consumed.)
> - You're giving the government (more specifically the party in power at the time) control over a highly effective form of propaganda, which won't have a good outcome.

> - The US government would only regulate FB as it relates to US citizens, leaving FB free to operate as now in the rest of the world.

The article acknowledges both points and partly addresses the first. Also, it's not clear to me why you'd prefer a private corp wield this power than the government, when the latter is at least ostensibly accountable to citizens/voters and the former is not whatsoever.

> - In Japan where a similar addictive product aimed at minors (tobacco) is mostly under public ownership, the Japanese government has dragged its feet at regulation to reduce harm from cigarettes - eg it only banned smoking in bars last year. In the Japanese case they don't want to imperil the profits from JTI (Japan Tobacco).

Meanwhile, smoking in bars is still not banned in much of the US...
All new car and truck sales in the state must be electric by 2035. San Jose had already mandated new residential construction to be electric only. There are solar incentives. It’s not just “wind blowers”.
No, the real problem is no one wants to corral the chief contributors, so people try to go after the little people first who can't hire lobbyists to babysit legislators.
So 10,000 years ago is approximately the start of the agricultural revolution. So the start of cities and I believe I can get away with saying the beginning of modern civilization. So 8000 years in the future is when they expect to encounter these issues with 4-digit dates. 8000 years in the past, no one had invented the alphabet. Someone double check me, but I believe that's before proto-Indo-European is believed to have developed. So the language that became the languages that became the languages that we speak today in Europe and various parts of the world isn't believed to have become distinct from its own progenitor yet.

It just seems kind of cocky to think that we can forsee what sorts of problems are going to need to be solved in the year 10k. At least as far as technology is concerned. I can see arguing for a long-term outlook on social issues. Of course we need to be looking well down the road on environmental issues. But technology? They really think that we're going to have a problem with the number of digits in the date in the year 10k? It wasn't even really a problem in 2000.

Thinking about the future is important. I have the feeling they're not literally worried about the number of digits in the date. I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to get you thinking. But nothing they're doing makes logical sense. Yes we should be thinking about the future, but trying to shoehorn it into our modern framework is misguided in my opinion. The idea itself isn't bad, but I'm not sure they actually understand how to use it constructively.

I haven't read much about this group in 10 years. If someone has more recent experience with the concepts, please let me know where I'm wrong here. I honestly want this to be a useful group, but nothing I've seen them do actually helps accomplish anything useful.
Per the post, if you click the button right in the browser menu bar, it spawns a chat window that’s outside the page DOM
doesn't that...worry you?
Thanks, glad to hear that before I bother trying it.

Have heard astronomer is too expensive.

Step Functions doesn't look great either.
Are we allowed to have an opinion about which company is better for our privacy?
yah, this is the type of thing that i’d nominally support (hate the twice weekly immersion in unburnt pollution wafting into my apartment), but it’s so far down the list of things that can meaningfully reduce pollution, it’s farcical. but lawmakers are going to pat themselves on the back and toot their own horns like they’d saved the world once again.

this kind of law is straight up distraction. energy production and transportation (and industry after that) are where we’ll have actual, material impact, and where our sole focus should be in this regard.
> Imagine how far you'd get creating your own private currency that only you used.

Coinbase and other places seem to facilitate private currencies.
I can see it now. Some dude sitting around drinking coffee waiting for his gear to charge plugged into a gas powered generator.
Better is useless, I need good.
Of course they can, the paper just did.

Security (which privacy is one subset of) is not binary. Just because it can never be perfect does not mean that it's all equal.
Coltrane's New “Love Supreme”
But we are getting the drop in living standards before any significant effort is spent on the environmental crisis you are alluding to.

And handling that crisis will require even higher productivity and technological growth. Instead we see decline after decline.
It also had a cracked vent pipe. Sickness was correlated with floor level (the higher the floor level, the higher the infection rate).

The important takeaway is SARS 1 had significant fecal-oral transmission and not just respiratory.

And yet I'm supposed to believe that SARS 2 is respiratory only despite the fact that the government has detected SARS 2 in sewer systems, one of the early Covid symptoms is diarrhea, and SARS 1 had significant number of infections by fecal matter.
Difference between “Argument“ and “Parameter“ in programming
Among other things, Virtual Reality... specifically 3D stereoscopic interactive imagery makes things very life-like and I am stroked by its possibilities for recreation as well as for training.

The present day headsets are still bulky, but am sure they will become lighter and even more better.

The interface will also improve. In oculus we can already use fingers to navigate and interface with the OS. This will only improve.
How will non-hydrocarbon engines polute less when you produce electricity by burning hydrocarbons, 47% for California according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California

Then, are you considering power converting inefficiencies, relying in a distribution matrix, burdening the local power production, maybe making prices go up, and adding toxic batteries that end up in a land fill ?

But for people money and beautiful grass is more important than the environment

Edit: Spelling
TypeScript Tricks I wish I knew when I learned TypeScript
sure, if they only make as much as what the leaf blowers make!
If both are bad, does it matter which is less bad?
https://www.mersenne.org/various/math.php

If you scroll to the very bottom there's some stuff on recent use of probable prime proofs, as well as a fairly detailed explanation of how the whole thing operates.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
Localstack – Local AWS Emulator
If you think death only takes away the ability to spend money, I have some bad news for you.

In any case, in the US the estate tax and the gift tax are basically the same thing, so rich people can give the same millions to their kids either before or after they die and pay basically the same taxes: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57272
Its about socialising and shifting blame onto the consumer rather than resolving the problem at source, ie with the corporations.

Corporations have lobbists to ensure that they will not be out of pocket as people transition to 'green energy' - in fact they hope that this will be a new growth opportunity.
>In this paper, we present a study of 24k Android and iOS apps from 2020 along several dimensions relating to user privacy.

>We find that third-party tracking and the sharing of unique user identifiers was widespread in apps from both ecosystems, even in apps aimed at children. In the children's category, iOS apps used much fewer advertising-related tracking than their Android counterparts, but could more often access children's location (by a factor of 7).

>Overall, we find that neither platform is clearly better than the other for privacy across the dimensions we studied.

Well, here's a novel idea: don't get children their own smartphones, uninstall/disable all apps bar the essentials, and keep your own usage to the bare minimum.
China corrupts any global organization it touches.
I hadn't heard about that. Is it widely recognized? I just remember that once upon a time I would see single parentheses used as hugs.
Landscaping companies will pass their transition costs on to their (generally rich-ish and/or corporate) customers, who have been benefiting disproportionately from what is essentially a commons, for a long time. The majority of people meanwhile, mow their own lawns, and will find the typical battery-powered mower cost-effective, adequate to the task, quieter, and more convenient because there's no need to bring fuel from off site.
I think you're confused as to who the trustee is, they are the one who legally owns the money but has no legal right to use it. The people who can receive/use the money are the beneficiaries, and the people putting money into a trust are the grantors.
I think there's an analogous point to be made about programming languages, which (if Turing-complete) are computationally indistinguishable, but which lead people to have different ideas when writing in them, and therefore lead to different sorts of programs.
Probably wrong to correlate GDP/productivity with "the future" (whatever that means). The author seems to imply that if the 2008 financial crisis didn't happen then we'd have flying cars or something today, but I fail to see the connection.
Thanks. Requirement at this stage is to coordinate the running of a few singer.io or airbyte taps.

I may consider Prefect over Airflow, generally my experience so far resonates with this blog post:
https://towardsdatascience.com/tired-of-airflow-try-this-c51...
I see all these posts and comments talking about productivity and the problem being the growth of productivity. Productivity wasn't ever a problem. Productivity has definitely increased. The problem is who or what benefits from it. My layman hypothesis is that a lot of created value has been thesaurized.
Control vs. Leverage
"Its last release was in November 2008 and since then the project was stopped."
This is like how German has the words "Bürste" and "Pinsel".

Bürste is a brush that one might use for scrubbing, while Pinsel is a paintbrush, usually with a pointed tip.
The battery issue is why I’ll only consider companies that make the OPE (outdoor power equipment) as a side part of their main battery powered tool business.

Milwaukee’s M18 mower is coming out next year and I’ll be getting that.
You can control the behavior manually, like:

first = [0,1,2]
second = [*a,3] # first is unchanged, second = [0,1,2,3]

Or second=itertools.chain(first, [3]), which avoids the copy.

Though, to me, it's asking for trouble later.
notice people don’t actually want to limit the power of fb, they just want to co-opt that power for the government
And you think that a piece of equiptment that uses a quart of gas every other week is a significant contributor? Why not focus on where the real progress can be made (or the real cost contributors) instead of forcing a scenario with poor cost benefit tradeoff.
That would have been more possible a decade ago when the web browsers were less compatible and sites relied on the lowest common denominator feature set. With the increase in compatibility sites now rely on libraries that each depend on a different 90% of the feature set. Breaking interactions between those dependencies has a cascade effect that leads to really, really, really frustrating experiences today. e.g. a UI that looks perfect and has interaction effects working but a background interaction fails silently. A decade ago compatibility issues were more common but IME they were less frustrating because there was usually a rendering artifact or foreground error that made it clear the author just didn't support your browser.
Analysis and explanation (from 2020, but the issues are unchanged): https://qz.com/1908836/china-blocks-wikimedia-from-un-agency...

Creative Commons comment on the most recent blocking: "As in 2020, China’s statement falsely suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was spreading disinformation via the independent, volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter"[0]

[0] https://creativecommons.org/2021/10/06/creative-commons-resp...
I think if modern life was a boardgame, no one would want to play because the system is too rigged.

To me it's silly to see how much unused land there is in the USA but people aren't allowed to use it because a few people showed up 150 years ago and claimed it for themselves. And when they did they stole it from other people. Now people are just supposed to respect that forever?
> There could be a ton of reasons why your friend's Show HN got demoted, ranging from setting off the flamewar detector, the voting ring detector, getting flagged by users for some reason, getting downweighted because it broke the Show HN guidelines, getting downweighted because it broke the HN guidelines, various kinds of spam or abuse behavior (the worst of which is buying upvotes from spammers, which people unfortunately do but which typically causes their post to get buried immediately, and their account and site banned on HN).

"We have half a dozen opaque excuses" isn't the argument you think it is. The fact is this site shouldn't even exist due to the crystal clear conflict of interest between running a vc firm and a startup "news" site. That's not just journalism 101, it's common sense 101. It's not defensible.

> Not only do we not lie to the community, we try never to do anything that isn't clearly defensible to the community.

If you take one step outside the HN/YC echo chamber, you'll find that most people know that this site is a scam and heavily weighted toward promoting YC companies as that's the only reason it exists. Only a very, very foolish person would believe otherwise.

Also LOL that you hid this reply! It's because there is no defense for a vc firm pretending to run a "news" service and you know it.
It's all a total myth. On paper I am doing 2x better than my parents. We both have the same degrees in the same field.

In reality my wife also works as an engineer. (my mom was a stay at home mom), our house is smaller, I work longer hours, and the house will be paid off later in life (after 60). The reason? Fake government inflation numbers. www.shadowstats.org .
If you’re not a professional landscaper, consider getting a plug-in lawnmower. I used them throughout the 2000s and 2010s when one of my childhood chores was lawn mowing. I never encountered any of these problems.
If more than one person is using a currency, it's definitionally a social activity then, and pretty clearly not what I mean by "your own private currency that only you used".
It makes it illegal for the corporations to sell those products. Not sure how that’s not “resolving the problem at source”.
Honestly nothing I’ve seen lately sadly. There have been a few more recent technologies that piqued my interest, but sadly I can never get involved with them. Im also pretty young and missed / was too young for most of the revolutionary developments in tech.
Doesn't this consideration involve a lot of survivorship bias?