skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you've heard of prerequisites, but maybe you haven't encountered any questionable requirements in the classes you took at the schools you attended?

Personally, I had to take classes like "Ancient Eastern Civilizations" while pursuing a degree in Audio Production. So while the term "useless" is a bit strong, I understand where they're coming from.
It’s probably too late, this country is about to fracture. All the indicators point to a coup coming in the next few years which will launch us into an unknown realm of violence. We’re way deep into “the cool zone” now.
Taking the reverse of the article's joke, this is actually a great intro to the value of UX, and how painful it can be when it's bad.
Then:

1. What power do kids have with which to influence adults?

2. Why does the pandemic have anything to do with anything? It's a weird non sequitur if your intent wasn't to suggest bioterrorism.
> The schools are funded with rivers of cash. It's simply squandered. More money won't help (that's been tried many times).

Sigh. This simply isn't true. I'm no fan of the Gates Foundation as I think they helicopter in, muck everything up, and then leave picking up the pieces to the locals after they leave again. However, their transparency was at least useful.

If you want effective education in younger students, it takes 2 adults in the room (both certified), less than 15 kids in the room, and costs about $15K per student (it's been a while since the study so this number has likely gone up).

We spend nowhere near this in education. All initiatives that did this have all been shut down in spite of their documented success.

We know what works. We tried it. We have the data.

It simply costs more than the political will to implement it.
My version always accepts cookies.
They are probably co-crystallized with it in the same way many crystals are with hydroxide - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_of_crystallization#Other...

UV induced fluorescence would have been cooler tho
> There is a clause, it was invoked, and mail rates will be going up over the next 5 years.

There was no such clause. I read the original agreement years ago when I learned of it. Trump wanted to completely exit the agreement. They fought him. The compromise was the progressive increase in rates you mentioned. Better than nothing, of course. However, the damage has already been done.

The businesses they killed with stupid policies such as that agreement and more will never return to the US and Europe. The Chinese got the full benefits and we (I include Europe in this case) will never be able to reverse the damage. This one agreement is almost the foundation of my intense dislike of all politicians and my belief that they are essentially incompetent outside of anything not politics.

I get your points regarding everything else. The thing is, the tax code evolved due to the pushing and pulling of politics and is fully of unintended consequences. Call them loopholes if you must, but they, for the most part, reflect the ugliness of the sausage making that politics represents.

This is why I think a flat tax system without any deductions, subsidies, etc. might be the best idea in the long run. It's almost the only way to push the proverbial reset button and make decades of the mess that tax law has become go away.
Please share some stats on long covid in kids. e.g. effects that persist more than a few months out that can be reasonably expected to be permanent

Surely they exist if you're making a comment like this, right?
Why would it be hopeless? They have the time, energy and resources to address it properly.

Someone with depression who works two jobs without health insurance and is too exhausted outside of work to do anything but watch TV, now that's hopeless.
4.5M Americans quit their jobs in November
This should be higher up. Without any judgement on the author as a person, they live in different circumstances than 99% of the employers, employees or customers in the restaurant business. Knowing this is an important part of understanding their social commentary.
95 years is not even the longest copyright period in the United States: some sound recordings will not enter the public domain until 110 years after their first publication.
Taking a Break in Moss Landing
Crying infant has a quite specific frequency range that makes my wife jump immediately. Our cat has figured out that meowing at that frequency is very effective.

So you may be on to something for high priority / safety alerts...
2 LBs and a VIP/DNS switch.
Hunger Brainz
The solution is to stop testing and quarantining. People don't want to hear it, but that's it. Omicron is a cold. Stop quarantining students and teachers who are around someone who's sick. If you have symptoms stay home, if you don't then go to school. In a few months it'll burn through the population and problem solved.

A lot of the student and teachers being kept home are symptom free.
> then she goes on a rant about how people don't want to work because "unemployment" during A PANDEMIC!

She specifically says "I don't blame them" (emphasis hers) referring to those people on unemployment. she is complaining about the incentives created by the govt program, which I referred to.
Yes, I agree with the general idea. Conceptually I call this an ‘eating house’ rather than a restaurant.

In my neighborhood this need is served by Taquerias.
The clinical picture is still evolving. There is much less information than for adults, but here's the first google link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
Someone already mentioned this but I want to clarify that mAh alone is not a full measure of capacity.

OP mentioned his mAh rating in 12 V but you’re comparing it to Ah ratings in 5 V. OP’s battery should be able to charge a full smartphone fine.

Also, most of those 10-20k battery packs won’t be able to jump start your car because they have greater capacity but cannot provide power quickly. There are high capacity battery packs that do jump start but they’re over $100 from the last time I looked.
Thanks for the story. I was in the hospital yesterday for unfortunate reasons and it stuck in my mind that working in healthcare is one of the few sectors that feels worth spending one's productive years in (to me).
The animatrix was disappointing in some ways, but it's the only sequel we've got.
It happened to me. I am not going to give you a wise answer, but a realistic one from someone with the same fears as yourself.

Like you, I had a really good and genuine relationship with those people, some were also looking up to me for career inspiration and advice (I am a senior technical leader with patents, great professional achievements, …). One IPO that put them in the $20m, out of complete luck (they were hired as simple individual contributors on “plain” projects) changed everything.

One time, after the IPO and a few quarters of the stock rising, I was told by one of them: “why do you work so hard rather than choosing a good pre IPO company and stay at the bottom and chill and retire in a couple years?”

No shit. That was the last straw. I cut all those people off my life because it was too painful to witness their change in lifestyle and attitude, and how they kept subtly rubbing it in my face at every social event, implying that their course of events was all part of a smart master plan, rather than 99% dumb luck.

I am sad for losing those connections and I have wonderful memories of the time together (vacations, “bro” trips, …), but overall I am happy about this choice, to me it’s as if the people they once were effectively died as the IPO happened.

I have done financially very well but it’s not comparable to their level, and the effort and sacrifices required from my side was easily 10X theirs. I know this should be obvious in adulthood, but life is not fair at all. I am also aware of how privileged my position is (for now), compared to the people dying of cancer in their 30s, so I don’t let it affect me too much.
They're really different product lines because each one is a complete rewrite; each has its own patch stream, which, like yours, change wildly without warning, as if the developers are just trying random stuff out. And nothing is ever backported between the products. While our different products have wildly different operational characteristics (and even move into different lifecycle phases at different times), the good news is that our team has gotten better at managing the constant flow of UX inconsistencies and changes.

For example, my advice on sleep mode failures is to use the Erlang method: let it crash. We don't even look at the monitoring dashboards for our newest product anymore.
Signal now with M1 support (stable release)
It's a blood/brain pathogen that is infectious via respiratory means.

A lot of the "varied issues" that long-COVID sufferers deal with are more easily explained by the disruption of the circulatory system (esp. as it affects the brain - when the body's defenses kill COVID-infected brain cells en-masse that results in the "brain fog").
My parents tried that when I was the model in question. They discovered that at best, forcing a reboot triggers unpredictable output from the model's emotional processing unit. At worst, the sneak process starts running with full privileges over the system.
I graduated in 2008. I feel those who graduate during covid.
The good thing about 2008 is that we had the names of all the people that were to be held accountable. the bad news is that no one has been jailed and that we all started our career at the worst time possible in recent history.

Now is same. we definitely sacrified our youth mental health,jobs, starting a family dreams, starting salary, hopes, future retirement, cost of renting an apartment, never ever hopes of buying a place and confined them in small third-rate boomer-owned apartment so that old people don't die from covid. many more healthy young people will die from this than they could have died from covid.

it is our western society and leaders that made this choice for us because our olds own all the power (just look at trump and biden pelosi age).
and western leaders made this decision just like japan elderly people made the choice to go clean fukushima reactor so that their youth doesn't die from doing it.

I guess people need to make a choice. what kind of society do we wish to live in.
which app you use for RSS feed?
Almost certainly not. I suspect we don't even have enough teachers for the old system at this point.

But money can fix the problem given time. Lack of money can, of course, fix nothing over time.
Having dead or sick parents and teachers is also a terrible outcome for children.
A modern fuel tank has two basic connections beyond sensors: fuel line and electrical supply for the fuel pump. When the pump isn't active, the only thing that comes out is a dribble of residual fuel from the fuel line. A full tank is not an intimidating thing on a motorcycle, where you're a lot more likely to remove it, it's not even that heavy.

I'd be more worried about crush injuries working underneath a car.
90% of the time money and belongings are a useless topic.

I think that's the most impactful thing you said- and the rest wasn't trite. You've got good balance.
A scientistic rhetorical/sophist ploy used by intelligence researchers.
Typo: surprisingly ___ (difficult, I think it’s meant to say)
I'm not much of a history buff, but I can't recall a good example of cultures or societal periods with emphasis on optimizing the unquantifiable (Or having no optimization preference at all). The only decent examples that I can think are in laws, and that only seems to be favored because things are difficult to be quantified, not because the unquantifiable was more preferred.
I live just south of Superior outside of Denver. I lived in DC area for 10 years. For 6 of those years, I commuted on the bus to metro to work.

The DC metro deteriorated markedly, and has continued to. A lot of it is a combination of bad initial designs (lack of surplus tunnel capacity to ease maintenance) along with the aggressive, powerful, and corrupt WMATA employees union. (I was on a project to analyze WMATA's staffing issues, and within the first hour, my team identified that there was a huge incentive to understaff the maintenance/technician teams to allow existing employees to collect massive amounts of overtime. Many would simply hide and sleep during the time they claimed to be "working". Hiring more mechanics/techs was foot-dragged, because it reduced the overtime pay for the existing workers who would interview them.). 2 mechanics working normal hours cost the same as 1 mechanic pulling tons of overtime, but the gap in productivity is huge. The WMATA union doesn't care. The rudeness of the staff is pretty legendary amongst locals as well.

Anyway, all of that is a long winded and detailed way of saying that WMATA gradually became a significantly less reliable means of transportation. My brother was on a car that got stuck in a tunnel that started filling with smoke. He stopped riding. And the buses need the metro to be running well. Without that, the buses become far less reliable. It's a shit show. And it's deteriorated markedly since I last lived there.
You forgot to answer question: What do you think they can do when he’ll tell them about his feeling? Hypothetically, what could one say to make OP feel better as his friend? I don’t see anything.
But hey, that must have been what you moved to Cupertino for, right?
"Ecosystem" in tech means usually means vertical integration, which is not what it means in nature.

Anybody looking to build a tech ecosystem is looking to build vendor lock-in. There is no advantage to planning for decentralization, and no laws to force companies to adopt a decentralized approach.
>"is one body that actively works"

Not true. Unless you count invading other countries under false pretenses as one.

If you think Russia is interested in proliferated I have a nice bridge.
>Things not being illegal is the literal definition of them begin legal

I thought I read somewhere that's specific to common-law type jurisdictions.
I think people with those tendencies are simply more likely to use mushrooms. I've used them plenty and I'm still the typical HackerNews cynical nerd that expresses skepticism towards everything.
Nobody in northern Virginia wants to live in Hong Kong, and even if they did that ship sailed long ago. Also, the fertility rate in Hong Kong is less than half the replacement rate. They’re like the Asgard—an impressive civilization, full of marvels, but without a future.
> "For the past two years, Americans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults."

The overall tone and style of this article is just... I don't know.

As a parent of elementary school children, I spent 2020 and 2021 seeing this stuff first-hand. Having arguments with other (non-parent) liberal friends on social media. Once they discovered that I was out of step on this one item of the current moment's orthodoxy, suddenly I was "voted off the island" altogether.

It was surreal. People who I thought were personal friends, a lot of their minds just flipped like a switch, and suddenly I was immediately and completely shifted over into the "right-winger" mental bucket. It wasn't just the "you think of school as free daycare" ignorant assumptions. I had friends assume that my views had changed on abortion, climate change, etc.

I still can't wrap my head around some of those conversations. I have completely abandoned social media, cut myself off from the vast majority of what I thought was my social support system, and discarded any delusions about political or cultural identity fundamentally having any bearing on human nature.

The New York Times was ONE OF THE PRIMARY DRIVERS of my social cohort's orthodoxy, to which I had become a heretic and outcast. To go through all of that, and then read an article from the same New York Times, echoing the same heresy? FUCK YOU. It's just too much.

I've noticed over the past few weeks that this article's main thrust is taking shape and being established all over the place as the new orthodoxy of the current moment. All of these harms were seen and known even at the time, a year and a half ago (my children aren't seeing a therapist for nothing), and were downplayed or dismissed outright. It seems unfathomable that the narrative has flipped around 180-degree so abruptly. I believe that the focus on harms seen in minority children is the loophole, or "new information", that seems to give people mental "permission" to change their viewpoint now.

The brutal truth is that in Year 3, even most progressives are reaching the point of being "over" the pandemic. So they are able to open their eyes and minds a bit. I don't know whether that enough for people to revisit the attitudes and assumptions that they were making back at the time. I don't know whether I even want to reconcile with most of those old friends even if they do. But it makes me sick to my stomach watching the NYT shift and slither from one zeitgeist to the next.
The article actually says it's 233% increase in chance of death for people younger than 65, which is even scarier:

> For people younger than 65 who were hospitalized with COVID-19, the risk of death in the 12 months after the infection was 233% higher than it was for people who did not have the disease, results published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine have shown.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.77843...
As a dev, I'd much rather do my own testing then have to explain extremely basic shit to the average SDET I've worked with. No, Chuck, the 404 for the favicon on page A did not cause the padding to be off on page B.
While the whole world has experienced this pandemic, there is an incredible variety of pandemic experiences out there. Within the United States there are so many variables between states, counties, cities, school districts, and families. A common feature of COVID debate I have noticed is that it often seems like people are not even talking about the same thing.

I live in a state that has had a fairly restrictive approach to COVID - my kids were in remote learning for about a year and we had two periods which could arguably be called "shut downs." But our fortunate circumstances made it so that I do not feel like it was particularly difficult for our children. As a result I have not reacted very strongly to local authorities continuing very cautious policies regarding masks and cohorting in schools. I was initially perplexed by the very strong reactions against the same among my peers, but am coming to understand that, like what this article points out, it has been very difficult for other children.
Snow covered trees fell across the tracks, delaying Amtrak's northbound Auto Train by 12 hours.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Nguyen
Perhaps unsurprisingly, no mention of thermals or battery life. ;-)
pragmatic concerns aside, the US standards you hold so dear would not even be possible without being subsidized by the labor and suffering of those you criticize. Calling them ethical is quite the stretch
Have you actually used a web3 website? Once you have your wallet setup it's the most seamless login experience I've ever had.

Also, I find it funny whenever someone says something like "web3 doesn't actually solve anything that hasn't been solved by other technologies like X". Then why isn't anyone using X? Why is nobody using Persona or Webauthn despite being "superior"?
Where are you seeing this?

I'm seeing the opposite. Most public officials and news articles seem to only care about case numbers, which have very little meaning these days.
Hello pixxel, you are right, thanks.
> 'Econometric models' have so many levers and dials on them that they be tuned to forecast whatever their operator wants them to forecast.

I am going to guess you have never written down an economic model, much less presented one at an economics seminar. If your model can be "tuned to forecast whatever", you are going to be annihilated. You will never be able to get away with presenting a model like that. There is no place for it in the field.

Quite on the contrary, a premium is placed on parsimonious, well-identified models.

> Appendix B, Macroeconomic Simulations of NAFTA

This is a useful piece, but to make exactly the opposite of the point you wanted to make. Right there in the executive summary it says "although the overall effect of NAFTA on the US economy would be positive, some firms would contract. Industries in the US that make intensive use of low-wage labor and are now protected by trade barriers are likely to be put at a disadvantage."

Or see the entirety of Chapter 5 in the same document, where the authors repeatedly note that there will be industries where employment decreases.

Indeed, the worst part for your uninformed initial comment is page 87, wherein the following claim is made: "In sum, despite all of the analyses that have been conducted on various aspects of NAFTA, good information for answering the question 'How many workers would be displaced if NAFTA were implemented?' simply does not exist."

A substantial fraction of their Appendix B is devoted to noting weaknesses in the then-current literature about NAFTA. These users of econometrics are well aware of the limitations of the models.

Forecasting job losses at that time and today is extremely hard, and the authors of this study acknowledge that. This is literally the opposite of what you initially claimed about econometrics.
I highly disagree. It is never too late. I will continue to roll up my sleeves and work for change and I hope you join me.
This is friendship? Meeting with my friend on neutral place because he can’t stand that I have huge house?