skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was there, too, from a few months after the founding of Frame, to a year after the acquisition by Adobe nine years later. From the Frame side, it seemed like Adobe figured they were doing a kind of mix of an acqui-hire and putting a place-holder on the FrameMaker customer base, with the notion that in short order they'd be able to move them all over to InDesign by just adding a couple of features (kind of like they managed to do with the PageMaker acquisition).

But in the meetings between the engineering teams, we Frame folks couldn't understand how InDesign's planned extensibility scheme could possibly provide for our feature set; while the InDesign folks didn't seem to grasp what we were even talking about, having never dealt with the kind of features our sorts of customer required (which was understandable, given that they were in nose-to-the-grindstone mode for getting their stuff out the door in the much delayed, and wildly more pressing, effort to compete with Quark Express).

Thus, it wasn't surprising that when Adobe management gave a heads-up to some Fortune-500 (and US Government) customers that they'd be canceling the whole Frame product in deference to InDesign, they were met with some powerful push-back. After all, you can't do the bookshelf-sized technical documentation set for a Boing 767 in a product designed to handle advertising brochures and NYT best-sellers. Bowing to customer pressure, Adobe petulantly reversed their decision, and off-shored development. Indeed, the FrameMaker product lives on until today, and as far as I'm aware, InDesign still doesn't supersede it, even a few decades later (not that it particularly ought to).

So, given that Frame Technology was a public company listed on the NASDAQ, and that Adobe bought it for a modest premium over the going market price, and that the price-to-sales ratio was an unremarkable 5 or so, what's your perspective on how Adobe didn't get a reasonable deal? Seems to me that they just failed to understand the new customer base that they hadn't previously served, and subsequently botched it.
>This. These services aren't toxic if you don't follow toxic accounts.

Your ability to moderate your usage of these services doesn’t make them not toxic. Your statement is victim blaming.

These services are still major proprietors of surveillance capitalism. They sell your future behavior to the highest bidder. This is toxic in itself.

Beyond which, your participation in these services is a signal to those who trust you that these services are safe for them to use. They are not, because they are not safe for anyone to use. That you have mitigated the harm through devoting even more of your attention to them doesn’t change that.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31144464 — The operator is picking a "bigger" battery, smaller inverters. This means they're intending to use the stored energy over a longer period of time. There are similar sized batteries with bigger inverters, when a greater need for peak power discharge (or charge) is expected.
"Functioning" is a word for it, I guess.

I really don't think I'd describe a system where 50% of the population has basically zero rights to be "functioning."
Define frivolously.
What really helped me was getting rid of the app and distracting my muscle memory. It was weird to realize how often I was looking at the screen in search for the icon when I was otherwise idle. Once the habit to fill empty time with those was broken life was better. (less "stupid" posts on my mind, more enjoying the outside by looking up instead of the screen etc.)

And once in a while I unfortunately "need" Facebook: Restaurants having current info only there etc. and each time I'm happy not to waste time there anymore
yes you are right. For most of us that's the only career path out of daily drudgery of coding and learning a million js frameworks on the weekends.

Its just the unfortunate reality that people are put into this desperate position. And desperate people do desperate things. For many people Being a sycophant yesman beats having to code another crud app millionth time being bossed around by someone who is a decade younger than them. I don't blame people choosing the way out.

'helping people' :)
They said they were not Christian, but I agree with the rest of your arguments.

Also, apparently it's annoying to "force" representation in shows but it's perfectly fine to have shows whose literal only purpose is to drive demand for various dolls and toys. As if anyone would have created Bob the Builder or whatever without a plan for selling it in Walmart.
"Garbage in garbage out"

Seriously?

This whole article has a pretty offensive view of people. It reads like "nobody dares to say these things because they are unpleasant, but I'm brave enough to say them and therefore they must be true".
> I’m from a rigidly socially conservative immigrant family that professes fashionably liberal values in public

I don't consider believing in matrimony, fidelity, and prioritizing ones' children as socially conservative.

It's just normal.

Just spend some time watching Tiger King to pick up on their lifestyles and politics: They might appear liberal because Joe Exotic is a freewheeling, open homosexual with multiple partners. But on closer inspection, they love Trump and hate Nancy Pelosi.
My inner social psychologist, shameless amateur that he is, is not at all ready to pronounce the syntax to be the problem with nearly as much confidence as you do.

As far as I can tell, the only languages with Haskell-like syntax that have tried for serious industry adoption are Haskell, Scala, and perhaps Elm. (Idris is a borderline case, but it’s young and in any case I think we’re still a couple generations away from viable total languages.) Each of these has unconventional and similar semantics, different but complex type systems, and is trying for general applicability, while Nix has somewhat different semantics and no static type system at all, and is also trying to cover a very limited application area. Even Nix’s syntax, to my eye, is about as ML-like as it is Haskell-like.

How can we be so sure it’s the syntax, specifically, that is the problem? Are we controlling for these differences in any way at all?

It would be another matter if F# or OCaml or even Dylan was a runaway success while Haskell was not; while strict vs lazy is a hell of a difference I could be convinced that the syntax is the problem if people from the industry tried one after the other and consistently backed off in disgust, but that is not happening as far as I can tell.

I really don’t see how the verdict here could be anything but a definite “inconclusive”.

Finally, I’m also not seeing why I want industry acceptance. (I don’t think Xe’s post discusses it at all.) I want to use it, I want other users to discuss it with, I want it not to die a slow unmaintained death in five to ten years, but otherwise... Meh?

Advocating it to a single organization seems like a limited task (which I might fail), but advocating it to “the industry” seems like arguing with a force of nature (and I will fail). There would be some advantages to me if it were adopted, but then again it’s a first-generation system that has already accumulated substantial legacy cruft, so maybe I don’t want it to be adopted as it is now? Exploring the solution space? Definitely. Adoption at this particular stage? Not really sure, hard to get worked up about it.

P.S.

>> even “I don’t think it looks pretty” would afford more respect on my part

> My opinion on Haskell syntax, and whether or not you respect my opinion, is also pretty much irrelevant [...]

Wrong kind of “respect”, sorry: not how much I trust it, but how much concrete information I can expect to squeeze out of it (complete trust helpful, but neither necessary not sufficient). Opinions of large groups of people, even if reliably known, are notoriously hard to turn into actionable insights.
You might want to age-control that:

https://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20200911/suicide-rate-...

> "Suicides among children and young people aged 10 to 24 rose 57% from 2007 to 2018, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... In actual numbers, the suicide rate among 10- to 24-year-olds jumped from about 7 per 100,000 in 2007 to nearly 11 per 100,000 in 2018, according to the National Vital Statistics Report published Sept. 11."

That's called massive societal failure any way you look at it. Oh well, I guess there's the upside that wealthy boomers can ride off into their cruise ship futures on the backs of 401K retirement plans financed by investments in student loan debt, fossil-fueled global warming, price-hiked pharmaceuticals and the war machine. What a wonderful picture, really shows the mentality here.

Jim Morrison was speaking for that class when he said, "I don't know what's gonna happen, man, but I'm gonna get my kicks in before this whole shithouse goes up in flames."
So we are no closer to Thompson's Teeth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzw6nRnaQG0
Aqueduct Veluwemeer
“There is a very easy way for Ukraine to solve the Russia issue”. In the case of Gibraltar, the UK can merely bypass Spain for its energy needs.
How Indoor Air Quality Became the New Wellness Fixation
"If we add features that older browsers don't support, then the overall performance of what works goes up."

Gotta love that very business-centric, pro-Google reasoning.
> This. These services aren't toxic if you don't follow toxic accounts

Well. They do their best with recommendations and popular posts which try to lurk into your feed anyway. The whole TikTok is kinda based in that idea.
Nit: EU residents, not EU citizens.

The reach of the law is concerned with where you are, not what your citizenship is.
It’s not a great slogan, sure, but it’s got staying power, and enough people clearly understand (or are willing to listen to) what it actually means, so maybe we can all get on with enacting some change instead of bike shedding what would have maybe been a better pithy slogan.
Thanks for this. Purelymail looks to tick all the boxes for me and their T&Cs seem reasonable [at least compared to Migadu]. I've never heard of the company though. And they seem to be a one man band, which is a bit of a concern --the old "walks under a bus" scenario.

I shall have to investigate further.
> Over the past half-century, the number of men per capita behind bars has more than quadrupled.

This then talks about poor people dating too much/families being unstable… as if the instability isn’t put on the poor by overpolicing. Is this more blaming poor people for their poverty?
It has one of the highest of the developed countries and has only recently declined. South Korea and Japan have had terminal birth rates since the 80s.
Divorced dad, anecdote. My kids, my ex, and I are much better off now. Having the kids around 50% time is a huge sanity boost and allows me to be there for them more than before. I’m lucky to have remarried to a very engaged stepmom, but even without her we’d probably still be better off.

I also saw my parents become much happier after they split up (when I was an adult.)
It's more like rescinding state aid than punishing them. They're not limiting Disney's ability to express itself.

I'm on Disney's side here, but it's not a free speech issue.
The tentatives to artificially engineer the society to be more just, fair and inclusive only resulted in a less just, less fair and less inclusive society.

The society should be left to evolve on its own, in a natural way. If we don't want to replace small disasters with big disasters.
Some sanctioned countries are financially motivated. But they also tend to sit on zero-day exploits worth billions so they probably don’t want to be detected before evidence is destroyed completely. They will be very careful what to do.
Let’s conveniently forget that Gibraltar is actually territorially part of Spain, most essential facilities are provided by Spain, that a significant proportion of jobs necessary to it are held by Spaniard and that Gibraltar economy is due to it being a tax haven which would stop if it was part of Spain. Oversee territories are a shame on every countries that still hold them be it the UK or France.
i assume with full stack you are talking about web dev. this was for hardware related roles.
Isn't a bug in production more like food poisoning your customers in this analogy? Both take more work to fix than the effort put in. Where a bug caught by automated tests is more akin to noticing you overcooked the steak before sending it out?
Hypothesis Testing with E-Values
Curious what you see as these worse alternatives? Abortion, adoption, abandonment, forced marriage, forced labor for child support?
From your link

"Durkheim explores the differing suicide rates among Protestants and Catholics, arguing that stronger social control among Catholics results in lower suicide rates. According to Durkheim, Catholic society has normal levels of integration while Protestant society has low levels.

This interpretation has been contested. Durkheim may have over-generalized. He took most of his data from earlier researchers, notably Adolph Wagner and Henry Morselli, but they had been more careful in generalizing from their data. Indeed, later researchers found that the Protestant–Catholic differences in suicide seemed to be limited to German-speaking Europe, thus suggesting a need to account for other contributing factors."
What kind of video are you producing that your threat model includes being targeted by multinational federal police operations?
The reason AC is often believed to be more efficient is because higher voltages of either type are more efficient (less loss to electrical resistance), and it's much easier to step voltage up and down using AC.
I think the post fails to make the case that male behavior (or the culture that induces male behavior) is the root cause of divorce rates.

- The rise in imprisonment is basically entirely a result of the War on Drugs, aka carceral slavery.

- The problems with employment are that unions have disappeared, jobs are hyperexploitative (a better measure than the unemployment rate here is the Social Security Disability rate), and real wages have stagnated.

- Middle-class divorce rates (different than what the author references, which is not-getting-married rates) have only started to decline over the last decade or so. The link between middle-class families--where the author writes "Poor and working-class people follow suit"--is totally unsubstantiated by his sources.

- I've not read this book, but looking at a synopsis [0], it's unclear to me how you could take a book clearly about women (162 of them!) and walk away with the conclusion that the root problem is no one expects men to stick around. It feels to me like more of a character study of broken systems (again War on Drugs, income inequality, etc.)

- The paper referenced at the end [1] is junk? Contains a lot of self-cites and no original research? I can't dig into the secondary sources, but the amount of editorializing makes me skeptical of the foundations here. It also seems at odds with the rest of the post: if men will do whatever it takes for sex, it seems like they should be working hard to stay out of prison? Or to hold down a job? Is the argument that women should be more discerning?

I'll also say I keep seeing this weird line from conservative or conservative-ish posts about people on the left not speaking up for marriage. I'm super left and that's not my experience or anyone else's I know? I mean, we're very in favor of gay marriage, and everyone I know acknowledges the research is pretty unequivocal in favor of two-parent households, so I think there's some nuance missing from this conversation.

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Broadly though, I do 100% agree our society is busted, and not just for systemic reasons (though those are big pieces). Many of us have lost a sense of community and place we once had. I don't know what about our culture has done this, but it's bad.

[0]: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13738165

[1]: https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/sites/carlsonschool.umn.edu/fi...
> "like the first raw format that managed to bypass RED's patent stranglehold"

For what it's worth, BRAW is not really "RAW." It is a codec processed in-camera with baked-in profiles for Resolve. ProRes RAW is closer to "real RAW."

That said, it's an awesome codec to use in Resolve (former P4K, P6K, & UMP 4.6K user).
Why not pump the energy into the EU grid at bottom and pull it out in the north?
Office restrooms have a completely different use case - they're not trying to turn over occupancy as quickly and cheaply as possible. And none of the office restrooms I've been in have ever used bar soap. And I have input into my office building's selection - I get to complain to the office manager who can then complain to the building management. The result is, typically, some hypoallergenic liquid or foam that doesn't over-dry most people's skin, so they have little reason to bring their own.
I thought json is fully specified. Or just not in the rfc?
> While the tech giant will likely continue to loom large over our lives, from search to email to our calendars, we can delete inactive or unnecessary Google accounts.

This is a missed opportunity to recommend good alternatives, especially for email and getting people onto their own domains.
Right now (Sunday afternoon) the UK is getting about 1/3rd of the nations power from wind turbines, more than any other single source:

https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live

https://winderful.uk/
If games were designed to target a specific platform, doesn’t that lose some of the benefit of a cross platform runtime?

Of course the iPhone hardware had limitations at the time. The iPhone OS was very optimized around its known limitations and it aggressively killed apps from running that drained battery life or used too much memory (and it still does).

Native iOS apps are very efficient. Now the thought of running apps in a Java virtual machine on a phone in 2008 like Android did wasn’t a great idea. The best thing that Apple did was help rid the world of Flash.
Even better, rotate at random intervals.
I was the opposite. My parents "stayed together" in that they lived in the same house but had separate bedrooms and lives. Most of the time when they were interacting it was some kind of power struggle. By age 13 my sibling became an addict and is to this day unable to sustain a job. I attribute it to the instability in the household growing up.

We're always going to see this through the lens of the experiences we grew up with.
Massively increasing the child tax credit.
Still better to instill expectations even if opportunity currently does not exist. If it arises one day that person will do better.
Are there any domesticated sea plants or animals, akin to (genetically) domesticated plants or animals on land?
> Brexit isn't mentioned anywhere and the physics of it would be the same regardless of the EU existing or not.

The point of mentioning Brexit is to stress that the physics alone makes this sort of project hard to justify on technical grounds, specially when there is a wealth of renewable energy projects right around Britain's corner.

You need to be specially motivated to circumvent any of the low-hanging fruit projects with European nations to head down to Africa to get your electricity.
How did Thiel rob them of their futures? What was their future supposed to look like?
> What really helped me was getting rid of the app and distracting my muscle memory. It was weird to realize how often I was looking at the screen in search for the icon when I was otherwise idle.

This, 100%. I went dry for January and included social media in that. Deleted apps on 1/1 and still find myself occasionally instinctively going to where they were - much less often now, but it was startling at first.
Thanks for posting this.

Societal collapse is probably something most people desire to avoid, and if the large numbers of disaffected men are the 'canary in the coal mine' and symptomatic of a weakened society, then we as a society also want to come up with solutions to ameliorate that particular suffering as a part of strengthening society as a whole
> and can do what is in its own best interests.

If it did that, it wouldn't have gotten out of the common market. The UK is way past sensible choices in its best interests, and is firmly in the "cut its nose to spite the EU".
We have been riding four positive tidal waves in the west: (momentary) end of war, positive population pyramid, rapidly improving technology, extremely cheap resources.

Now that all of those trends are reversing or at least stagnating, we are in for a really rough landing, as our values and systems have eroded as a consequence of those easy times.
Thx; deleted Spotify. Ended up needing a conversation with their chat bot and email confirmation, but was over in 5 minutes.
There were fewer deportations per year under TFG than Obama.

Not sure if you've checked what happened to living costs and housing during that administration, because they sure went up a lot.
Interesting, but does this assume Morocco won’t have a cloudy week or something (I understand that Morocco’s climate is almost always sunny, but even still)? I always assumed the threshold for “reliable renewable energy” began at a week’s worth of storage.
> unless they accept 30% immigration over the next 50 years, the system will be extremely stressed and may fracture.

There’s no reason to expect that not to happen. Countries like Germany already been have a higher immigration rate than the US, and once had a much higher rate when they needed workers post war.

European political decision making is primarily bullshit muddle and and absurd “compromise” yet in the end is surprisingly pragmatic. Unfortunately for the US it’s become high conflict rather than vapid muddle, which makes it harder for people to move their positions.
>Do they mention anywhere that they are actually scanning the content and/or metadata?

No. But they don't say they aren't either. I prefer not to rely on "I thought you meant..." "No, we actually meant..." when it comes to contracts.
I’m not sure if you’re trying to be funny or making a lazy dismissal of the point you quoted. Either way, suggesting men fuck goats isn’t productive.
I think the majority of people don’t copy photos from their iPhone to their laptop at all.

Firstly, they may not have a laptop. Secondly, I expect many more of those who have one will sync photos from their phone to iCloud and from iCloud to their laptop then directly from their phone to their laptop.

Yes, for large archives, that costs money ($10 a month gets you 2TB if iCloud storage), but I guess/think the convenience and having almost direct backups in case you lose your phone are worth it for most people who want to do such copying.

If so, it _is_ an edge case.
> And a lot did use to be expected. There were social norms to work hard, provide, take care of loved ones, and so on. Today, these norms have largely dissolved. Young men have responded accordingly.

I mostly agree, but I think there are more causes than what is implied by OP.

My suspicion is that working hard is still a social norm, but the way wealth has been distributed over the previous decades no longer lets workers climb the social ladder simply by working hard.

I think birth rates are low because having kids is a luxury, particularly when you have no safety net. Certain low/middle subclasses (for instance, those who inherit several properties) tend to have kids eventually, but they increasingly have them at an advanced age (35+).

Some countries economies -mine, at the very least- have been disfigured to the point where there really isn't a clear motivation to have kids unless you are rich.
CA Tech CEO is running for US Senate on one issue banning Tesla's FSD technology
Good luck Dan!