skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't definitively say, but I think the Internet and gaming culture has changed much, and it seems to be the only thing some of the people I am educating seem to really care for, or get excited about.

It used to be that you had a limited set of people controlling the messaging that went into your mind, often limiting negative messages for the majority of people. The Internet has made it far too easy to stumble upon, or seek out, negative messaging. I could definitely see where if you have been conditioned to feel that you don't need to try, or shouldn't even try, then you will believe a life without accomplishment is acceptable and sustainable.

They used to say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but now that tree is a forest. If you are a parent, a mentor, or similar, you are competing for airtime with billions of other voices on the Internet. You really have to make sure your voice stands out amongst the rest. I try to offer that in my classroom, but I only get them for a short period, then they're onward to their next training in the pipeline.
Same thing happened to Australia where I'm from originally, and it doesn't seemed to have changed a thing anecdotally except of course the aforementioned escape velocity equation, and still not nearly enough to be competitive with the leaving option.

Would be interested to see any studies that indicate conclusively that any of this stuff does any good, rather than just making those who are politically aligned with it feel good, for anybody reading this that knows, not necessarily just the respondent.
I apologize if this just comes off as "jaded old man", but I have gotten warier as I've gotten older of the real harms of first world countries dumping all this "aid" on the third world and calling it charity. It's not hard to see how tons of free food, 2nd hand clothing, and even things like recycled soap could undercut any native producers in these third world countries, making them perpetually dependent on aid.
I like the diversity of accents and cuisine, but the difference in maternal mortality not so much.
In small offices if someone has a preference on soap they can usually get the office to stock theirs or at least bring it in.

And based on what I’ve seen, the numbers are about right.

Add in those who basically never use the hotel room but to sleep and you can get the one in seven.
Link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3614. The underlying reason for this seems to be that Eucalyptus roots are unusually deep and aggressive (something I have personally witnessed), and any gold they pick up is toxic and gets transported to the leaves, where it can’t do as much harm.
Most volunteers are probably doing an hour or two at a time, and probably slower/worse than this guy's four close friends that were grinding through it. I would think some volunteers are doing other stuff as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIQQvxSXLhI
Yes and No. There is "family planning" as a euphemism for contraception and abortion, but there is also a long history of using the term in a literal sense that includes financial planning, counseling, ect.

Hence, "Birth control and family planning"
Agreed, Like any social program there is a constituency that supports policing. They experience far less violence and use the service an outsized amount.
Do you have any example issues of more complex problems you’ve worked on, to show it in more detail? I like the premise of the idea - especially in remote-first teams it’s a great way to share information, just wondering what it ends up looking like :)
It seems there is a difference between "fast-neutron" reactors and breeder reactors: the article states that russian BN-600 and BN-800 are "fast-neutron" reactors but not in "breeder" mode.

Since I am garbage in nuclear physics, I am wondering if those "fast-neutron" reactors "but not breeders" can reuse a significant part of current nuclear waste?
4 hours is solidly in the middle of what is needed for the daily peak load management tier of the energy storage problem [1], which is how we experience electricity "reliability" on a day to day basis, and it is the upper end of what is economical for lithium ion batteries.

Beyond that, other technologies (pumped hydro, perhaps hydrogen electrolysis) are more economical.

1. https://storagewiki.epri.com/index.php/Energy_Storage_101/Te...
That's what the air is for, you pull the CO2 right out of the air and use it for carbon.
Are you on AWS?

For your 10 messages a day, how about something even simpler, just throw them into an s3 bucket and trigger a lambda on save?

It would cost nothing, would be durable.
My feeling is that the 'undermining' the author refers to is not a conscious attempt to keep the lower classes down. It's just middle/upper class people spouting fashionable political views, going along with the 'right message', and not really thinking about it. When it comes to their own personal behavioural decisions that will affect their kids, they take it more seriously, basing their decisions on their deep-down sense of 'how things really are', and then they come up with some kind of rationalisation of how this conservative behaviour actually fits in with their anti-conservative political views. This rationalising process has become second nature and they don't notice they are doing it at all.
Okay... the thing is that you can't give the state the ability to enforce property rights and simultaneously not give the state the ability to confiscate assets arbitrarily, because it's the same ability in both instances. If you restrict the state's ability to confiscate assets, then you're also restricting its ability to enforce property rights. And that's precisely what blockchains do, they make it very difficult for any authority to be able to confiscate assets, but this also means property rights are largely unenforceable. Which has been my point all along—blockchains do not allow its users to exert "genuine ownership" over anything. On the contrary, they prevent ownership rights from being exerted.
80% of US consumers use BNPL to avoid credit cards [pdf]
I appreciate the candor but at the same time wonder about the lack of counterfactual experience. What if your parents had stayed together and you grew up in a household of constant fighting? Would that have been better?
> That was the norm

I don’t think you should blindly trust everything you see on TV. I doubt being able to afford a 4 bedroom while working in a low skilled job was ever the norm (even without being an idiot).

In any case Homer was an engineer in a nuclear power plant, while he was probably quite underpaid, his income should had still been relatively decent.
Where are you incorporated? Are you a non-profit? How do you make money?
I believe it's also one of the reasons the G-string is hardest to tune by ear because in equal temperament it's actually the furthest away from the true note.
Long Covid and association with 1-year recovery after hospitalisation in UK
Case in point: many microcontrollers. The AVR ISA (made famous in Arduinos) is a modified Harvard architecture.
It’s not arbitrary. Heptatonic scale is the cornerstone of Western music. Twelve-tone equal temperament is a 18th century invention created to make modulation between heptatonic scales easier.
Because there are benefits that aren’t quantifiable. Developer velocity is incredibly challenging to measure objectively.

These initiatives have to be top-down priorities in the organization, with agreed upon importance.
> I don't think the left thinks of privilege solely as racial or gender privilege.

The left doesn't thing of privilege as even primarily racial or gender privilege. (The people that do are centrists; the actual left centers class privilege, though there are leftists who see race/gender issues as important secondary/connected issues to class issues.)
Everything is always* scoped to the entire function in Python. Perhaps that's not always ideal, but at least the rule is simple.

* Well, not variables in generator expressions. There might be a few other exceptions.
Paid (bottom tier) Inoreader subscriber since its inception (since Google Reader was terminated). I don't use any of its fancy features, but use it across multiple devices, so it's pretty much my "internet brain" (as Google Reader was for me in its era).
This is how (and at least partly, why) I often work in a TDD style.

The test environment is the isolated place where I can quickly stand up individual parts and then later, assemble them into larger chunks of value.
Very interesting work indeed.

I second the sentiment, knowledge of the main goal would add context about the reverse engineering process
> Do people find this stuff compelling?

I enjoyed reading it. It's a subject area I've been thinking about from time to time.

> Rank speculation and confident assertion with minimal substantive backing?

It's an opinion piece, so I read it as such. That is, like having a discussion with a buddy at the pub.
Somewhat ironic that the cookie banner of theverge.com is using the same tactics/patterns (or even worse, according to UBlock Origin) that Google was fined for.
Thanks brasic, don’t know about charm yet.
It would be a really cool thing to see a NixOS like FreeBSD system done, but I really don't have it in me to do such a thing. It would make BSD more usable for me, save the lack of a solid service management framework like systemd.

As far as reproducibility goes, in practice most of the invariants that are not reproducible go down to people embedding way too much metadata into things for no good reason. A BSD base would certainly remove a bunch of variables, but it's not magic reproducibility sauce.
A crust is hard water, slipperiness you can’t get rid of is soft.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/why-does-it-take-so-long-rinse-soa...
This desperately needs a free tier, or at the very least a several month trial
USDC is managed by Blackrock, one of the largest asset managers in America, and audited by the Big 4.
> The world doesn't revolve around you

meanwhile you've posted 5 times in this thread about UK energy policy
But this appears to work in any terminal, not just the developer's. Or did I miss something?
Ibis Budget has these in some buildings along with built-in hair dryers.
A pity it is too snarky,

I agree with the thesis (it would be very nice to have children/young people to know how to use it) but the tone is too negative.

I am a big fan of teaching children to use an abacus, also.
I think you assumed they meant faith, when it really could just be influences. You are a product of your surroundings, and if your existence is tied to the Internet then those surroundings can include many negative things. The Internet has great power in the right hands, but it can also be dangerous in the wrong hands.
Perhaps 10 years of existing within the system led you away from the more revolutionary perspective and towards the status quo. I would be curious to see the blog post you wrote, I can't find it in your submissions.
I’m hoping that Apple will bring this reject all tracking cookies option to Safari so websites read that instead of asking all the time.
Right. If there is, in general, little to no chance for advancement in a profession, then there is little to no reason for a person (male in this case) to work hard to excel at it.
I hope you feel happy with your life choices. Be well.
That is not true. The UK doesn't have the force projection capability to do that to Morocco, which is a US ally. The UK would get hammered in an attempt to terrorise Morocco.

The only remotely conceivable way that the UK would have of projecting significant power onto the Moroccan mainland is by trying to foment a civil war. Otherwise they would not get anything out of it.

If the US even allowed the UK to do such a foolish thing, it would be disastrous long-term for the whole of Europe. Completely alienating and breaking off with North Africa means that Europe is now completely surrounded with unfriendly countries.
I hang most everything in the bathroom so the steam from the shower helps remove wrinkles.
I had similar thoughts and can recommend this video that helped me understand why the sharps/flats exist. It goes through a brief history of western music before harmonization was a thing, and then needing to introduce new notes in order to have perfect 4ths and 5ths.
https://youtu.be/r7aQQQsvxho
Of course there are pilot electrolyzers, mostly for R&D. There are a couple MW worth in Germany for example. But there is no point in deploying them at scale until in makes economic sense. Until policy makes GHG emissions sufficiently expensive, nobody buys green hydrogen if natural gas is available.
I don't see what is unreasonable about prodding for the "why" of the reasons you gave (which was basically the point of asking what your company wanted to optimize by using Python), and I don't see what is unreasonable about asking what would be your way to solving what "disappoints" you about the typing story without changing the language.

> I'm not interested in being "educated" by knowitalls.

From where I am standing, you are trying to get your coworkers to adopt some practice without a strong case for how it would help them or the bottomline, purely out of your belief that statically languages are better. If you think I am being the know-it-all here, fine.

> It's easier to pick on someone's comments than to make a comment of your own, because that would open you to correction and criticism.

Someone else in the thread already pointed out that your original comment and TFA are basically a statement of opinion, not of fact. I do not see what kind of comment we can have except the meta-commentary.
Be nice if the website worked without JS. It doesn't even show images. I appreciate low-tech solutions like TUIs, that should extend to websites. IMO anyway.
> Adobe Premiere (arguably one of the best, if not THE best video editor)

Daily reminder Premier, in 2022 can’t even update its preview window as you drag video clips around. No idea how it can be considered even a good video editor with that incompetence.
Such subversively worded math problems should be avoided, no matter who the named parties are.

"Jimmy, Jack, and John go to the store..." would be just as effective of a setup for a story problem without sneaking in moral displays.
> many OEMs (even reputable brands like Dell) install a PSU that is just enough for the load.

I'm not sure what the current technology is like as I haven't built a PC in a long time, but it used to be the case that efficiency would drop off quite rapidly if you underpower it. e.g. your fancy 600W 95% efficiency PSU would only be 60% efficiency at 200W power draw.

> OEMs often install barely-capable CPU coolers that are noisy (rather than something like a large Noctua cooler that can keep most CPUs cool with barely any noise).

My old AMD Athlon mainboard came with a very rattly and noise cooler for the chipset; I ended up replacing it with an after-market heat-sink that I got for €10. Pretty bad design IMO, but it saved ~€3 on the mainboard price.

A lot of the old Atom CPUs (Atom 330 etc.) had fanless CPUs, but because they were almost always paired with an old inefficient chipset they all came with a little cooler on the chipset. Ended up replacing a few of those, too.
Finding a console Word Processor (2020)
In traditional culture there was a higher birth rate, traditional culture would like to have a high birth rate today. It fails to do it because when it fights with modern conditions, women go on strike.
This is really interesting in the context of what is happening locally to my home, we are about two miles from what is planned to be the UK largest domestic solar farm [0,1]. It will output 350MW, so the one proposed in Morocco will be about 28 times the size.

There has been a significant push back against the project locally and so I suspect it won’t be built to the scale proposed. The main criticism is that the land is particularly fertile.

0: https://www.mallardpasssolar.co.uk/

1: https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/amp/clock-is-ticking-...
The issue is if you need A, B, and C to do a task and your function fails if it doesn’t retrieve it, won’t it waste time cleaning ingredients for a dish you can’t make? I don’t think it’s less readable than

carrot = fetch carrot

onion = fetch onion

celery = fetch celery

clean(carrot)

clean(onion)

clean(celery)

cook(carrot, onion, celery)
What are you talking about? Just try and find a plumber, carpenter or contractor that isn’t backlogged for months.

There’s a ton of really good blue collar jobs, often where you are your own boss. Unfortunately, society is pushing everyone to college.
> And commercial food producers make their products more addictive too... How about the tobacco industry? How about illicit drugs? Porn?

How about them? They also designed their products to be addictive.

“Personal Responsibility” is just the shield that powerful companies use to avoid being regulated.

Shift the blame to the exploited and make it clear that their problems stem from their moral deficiency. Pretty convenient all told —- the personal responsibility of the architects of these systems and products somehow evaporates.

Personal responsibility cannot overcome AI designed to addict you. These services are not your friends. You are not the customer or the product. Your future behavior is the product. The only way to win is not to play.
Of course you are right but I was just trying to explain to OP that certainly General Relativity is not just “linear algebra”.
Maybe many of the residents of the UK see the creepy undemocratic bureaucracy of the EU for what it is, and it's single-speed forward into the future federal state of Europe wasn't something they wanted to be a part of. This isn't brainwashing, but people feeling more need for control and action on a local level, not their national parliaments being subsumed and subverted by Brussels, and the diverse peoples of the continent being treated as if they were all one thing.
The USA isn’t California. The median college graduating debt is 20-30k, not 100k.
> Simple, don't have 4 children.

Okay, but some people do, so what then? Fuck them and their 4 kids who did nothing wrong but be born?
>> If you are a stable personality finding a mate isn't that much of an issue.

So those without mates are possibly not stable? Good luck finding a date if you work in an predominantly male area such as a northern mining town or military base. Good luck funding a mate if you are stuck in a bad job/career. Good luck funding a mate if you are stuck taking care of disabled/elderly family members. A stable personality guarantees nothing.
People tend to be absolutist about whether it’s better for kids if unhappy parents get divorced, but as the saying goes every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Some marriages are hell for everybody involved and need to end. I put abuse situations in that category of course and also marriages that have so much animosity that they can’t stop fighting. On the other end of marriages that may end in divorce are situations where one partner gets wanderlust and doesn’t want to be tied down by a family or are disappointed that their lifestyle isn’t what they expected. In those cases it is probably best for the kids if the parents learn to be happy within the bounds of their family.
Who are the people who ride electric unicycles anyway?
Toward the end of the article they use chroot to run an entire rootfs as sort of a user-level system emulation.

The next step is to do the same thing except using containers/namespaces. I was able to run a Yocto rootfs build for ARM completely, including init, and IIRC networking, using LXC and binfmt_misc. A very handy technique for testing and it does run much faster than full-system emulation.
Just buy or build a different table.

Don’t ask for permission, just fix the stuff so that it works for you and maybe your small team and then announce it.

There is no documentation and no planning? Just start writing documentation, just start planning. If you need permission, I grant this to you. I‘ve seen too many internal projects not even having a README, so this is now something I start whenever I have to debug something and wished to have documentation.

Someone needs you to do something? Ok, I‘ll share my screen, start asking questions, and write all the important things down.
> By the time the rescue team showed up with a rope and a pointed shovel, hacked a hole in the ice, and pulled her out, she had been submerged for about 80 minutes. She had no heartbeat.

Interestingly people like Wim Hof have apparently trained themselves to withstand the same exposure for 2+ hours with no issues. The article alludes to this too:

> Slightly less creatively, studies have shown that when experienced arctic explorers are asked to stick their fingers in icy water, they feel less cold than average Joes do—their bodies have slowed down their responses, trained by repeated exposure into playing the long game.

I wonder what changes in the body with repeated exposure, and why we haven’t evolved to do it naturally?
No Solution to this massive multigenerational problem involves teaching children to not try and give up.
The seven notes that have their own letters are what’s called diatonal in the Western musical tradition. It turns out that however you divide the octave (12 semitones in the West), you can make a lot of music using only some subset of the pitches (7 in the West) and people gravitate towards those subsets because of their familiarity. The rest, those that in the West are notated with sharps and flats and called chromatic tones – the black keys of a piano – are basically for situations where you need extra expressive power. They literally add "color".

(For simplicity’s sake I assume the Cmaj/Amin scale here. In non-Romance countries we typically teach basics of music using relative solfege aka “movable do”, where notes always have the same names (Do, Re, Mi etc) no matter what the absolute pitch of the tonic is)
On the flipside, most employees don't feel tied to an employer, even if the employer treats them well. Often many folks are chasing higher pay. I know in the cybersecurity realm quite a few folks are job hoppers, and right now employers are all to anxious to try to pick off talent from competitors. One of my former co-workers is now at their fifth job in five years, and each time they were chasing a higher paycheck. In my field they don't seek a pay raise at their current employer, they get it in writing on an offer from a recruiter at their next employer.
Show HN: All-in-one tool for managing feature flags and entitlements
> Working class pay has steadily fallen for decades and economic mobility is near zero.

Exactly, so long as this is true, every other discussion about the economics of the working class is a distraction from this
I had a week long business trip where I was literally only in the hotel long enough to sleep before getting up, showering, and leaving for the day, so I never used any of the hand soap. I did go through several of the travel sized shampoo and body washes they had in the shower, though.
We've already encountered that with "Do Not Track"—as soon as you have anything that doesn't require user intervention, websites start arguing that it doesn't reflect the users' intention, and so they have to protect us from the nasty browsers by tracking us.
In both cases, that's easily solved by actually considering the content of popular proposals instead of imagining what the proposals _might_ be.
Not sea animals per se, but goldfish and Betta fish are definitely domesticated.
Is it really better to never try than risk disappointment?
who are these people? why not pay for a personal coach? this seems like Band-Aid.....