skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very interesting way to view it. Gonna sit on it and let it marinate.
Facebook gets its pound of flesh from you in other ways.
> planet destroying at scale

This has been repeated often.

I usually think everytime I read this: what if the price of electric power included the price of destroying the planet?

For me this looks like a market failure that proof of work is allowed to destroy the planet.

You consume a lot of electric power? Then you pay the full price of it!
> I'm not sure what's difficult to square away about that.

What's contended is "the premise that all enterprise is exploitation", not reducing exploitation.

> Most anti-Marxists just declare any transaction without a gun as fully consential, therefore it can't be exploitation.

This isn't a helpful projection.
I remember seeing this story on Youtube a couple years ago... https://youtu.be/49oZt8Sl-JA
> Someone should make a laptop that's way heavier/thicker than current models but is also silent, cool, high-performing, and the battery lasts a week.

With a deep-travel backlit keyboard, FreeDOS, WordPerfect 5.1, DataEase 4.53, SuperCalc 5, and JPI TopSpeed Modula-2. (Oh, and Elite+, Prince of Persia, and the Infocom back catalogue for down-time).

Seriously. My dream machine.
Exactly. The last couple years has really let the mask slip on what the EU stands for and they've made it expressly clear how they intend to treat the UK going forward - despite the UK's best efforts to forge a genuinely strong relationship, this has been rebuffed at every opportunity. We are "fair game" to them now. So it makes complete sense to design future energy projects with sovereignty in mind.
The "rockstars" who write the first system will be despised by the "clean crew" who have to maintain it after its no longer easy to add features...
Some groups are really dependent on evidence the person is who they say they were - especially parent groups /Mom groups, health groups, where you’re looking for advice or legitimate local socialization / resource information.
It doesn't; it affects the cost of laying it. The cable must be anchored to the sea floor at regular intervals and it's cheaper to place an anchor at a few hundred meters depth (the coastal shelves) than at 3 km (depth of the Biscay abyssal plain).
It's disingenuous to compare a country with another country with 1/30th the size. Otherwise, you'd come to the conclusion that Sweden would be better off as a tax haven like Luxembourg. Massachusetts matches the Nordic nations by most metrics, and blows them out of the water in terms of median income.
A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)
It's also really untrue, don't believe the doom and gloomers!
> Because industry makes good decisions?

That's irrelevant - if you want uptake, you need to support what user's want. It's been clear for at least a decade now that programmers don't want Haskell syntax.

Whether it's a good syntax or not is irrelevant.
There are rockets that run on hydrogen. There have been jet designs that run on it. There is even a company in the UK that is building combustion engines for heavy digging equipment that burn hydrogen instead of diesel. It's a great fuel.

Fuel cells are potentially more efficient though.
I don't know about "undermin[ing] the norm" but I see this kind of hypocrisy in my own family. They shout about all life being precious and abortion being murder and also how single mother's need to get harder and how they shouldn't have to pay more taxes to help lazy poor people. Both positions have one thing in common: they negatively impact non-whites and the poor more. They can't self reflect and see it, unfortunately. My family is not unique. It may not be intentional but they still clearly think that the only way they can succeed is by having others fail.
The article repeatedly talks about marriage.

From the article, a quote: even those who cohabit, believe that as long as they are not married, it is acceptable for either partner to walk away at any time, and for virtually any reason.
It is news to me that Italy "enforces" traditional values.

Possibly there is still is in some (few) very religious circles/groups some stigmatizing of the breaking of marriage, but that's all.

Otherwise we have divorce (since 1970) and also (only more recently, 2016) a number of legal provisions for unmarried couples (that give to the partners some rights under the Law), called "unione civile" (civil union) that is open to both hetero and same sex partners.
Wow, lots of controversial things in here.

"You put a guy in chaotic and impoverished circumstances. And then you decide not to expect anything out of him. How can anyone possibly believe this will lead to anything other than disaster?"

I think the author has neglected a hugely important factor in this. Sure, what others expect of you can influence you greatly. But what one expects for themselves is a huge factor too. This self expectation can be largely driven by what opportunities one perceives to be available to them. Some of those perceptions are influenced by others, like teachers or parents exposing the child to a possible career path. Others are what the see their peers and slightly older group doing. Among this vein...

How hard is it to get a decent job today if you have a criminal record, even a minor one, vs in the 1970s?

How have real wages trended since the 70s?

Where have the high paying (relative to working fast food, etc) manufacturing jobs gone? How many jobs require expensive college degrees now?

Enlisting used to be a widely available option. How about now? I believe it's much more selective about who they take.

It might not be that young men are expected to do nothing. It might be that society has created a system in which it is hard for young men to do anything. If you have a lack of hope because the deck is stacked against you and none of your peers are making anything of themselves, then why wouldn't most people give up? Lack of hope and reduction in meaningful opportunity is a huge problem. There are many factors behind these. But the author doesn't seem to touch on any of them.
“Cooking onions is not down time” directly follows from “there’s no downtime in cooking.” If there is no downtime in cooking is true, then *cooking* onions cannot be downtime.
The idea of "funding" is just a rough proxy for what people really want (or don't): more police presence. Garden-variety "defund the police" advocates think that, due to police violence, bias, and so on, the police should be a smaller part of how we address crime. The people in areas affected heavily by crime think that the police should be _more_ involved. That's the disagreement.
Burning it in our nitrogen- rich atmosphere creates NOx which is bad
If I’m staying at a hotel for multiple days, I like to stop at a nearby store and get full size toiletries. (Maybe even some bubble bath or something to unwind, and some snacks to save on using the hotel market.)

I’d rather use that then try to fumble with the often tiny bottles of soap that are either hard to pry the cap open on or barely have enough soap in the bottle for a single day. Plus I can grab a cheap loofah, too.
That's not quite correct:

[Europe Minister] Clément Beaune, who is a close ally of the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said action would be decided on within days and discussions were already in motion .... [Beaune] added, "We defend our interests. We do it nicely, and diplomatically, but when that doesn’t work we take measures. The Channel Islands, the UK, are dependent on us for their energy supply. They think they can live on their own and badmouth Europe as well. And because it doesn’t work, they indulge in one-upmanship, and in an aggressive way"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/05/france-uk-jers...

"Reducing supplies (of electricity to Jersey) is possible, but cutting the power to every Jersey resident this winter is something that will not happen and something that I do not want," Europe Minister Clement Beaune told BFM-TV in an interview.

https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/france-could-reduce-...

France could cut electricity supply to UK Channel Island Jersey unless a post-Brexit fishing agreement is respected, Maritime Minister Annick Girardin told the French parliament May 4.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...

French fishermen are struggling to obtain fishing licenses allowing them to keep working in U.K. waters, including in Jersey. They must show they have been fishing in these waters from 2012 to 2016 using GPS data, which some don't have. "As you know, the [Brexit] agreement contains retaliatory measures ... So as far as Jersey is concerned, I would remind you, for example, of the transport of electricity via submarine cables. So we have the means, and even though I'm sorry it has come to this, we will do so if we have to," she told the French parliament.

https://www.politico.eu/article/fishing-brexit-eu-uk-jersey/
>Norms were loosened around being an absentee father. So more men took the option.

I'm afraid that the author got it wrong. All social norms were destroyed between 1950's and now. If society desires hard working, law abiding, family loving young men, it should rebuild what it destroyed.

The only interesting point in the story was about that "expert" which publicly behaves how society coerces her now to behave but secretly raises her own children in a way that she deems better for their well-being but comes into contradiction with the norms of the day.

So yes, trying to destroy family, religion, men self esteem and purpose in life, by creating a hedonistic society with no morals will prove a disaster for Western society. A disaster which if extended for long will equate to suicide.

I wouldn't blame young men but those evil people who continuously waged war on Western civilization and tried to demolish everything good while promising freedom, justice, equality. Freedom, justice and equality nobody got.
At first you had extended families as norm and that was a huge safety net. Then even with nuclear family, the wages people earned were enough for one to manage by themselves, even without the wife working (if she did, ever better). Now there is little familial safety net, wages for low-paying jobs are all-time low, people are doing 2-3 jobs to survive, stress-levels are all time high, no body wants to have a conversation and is ready to walk at a moment's notice and the root cause of the broken family is that poor people are following upper class's example? Sure, why not.
True, but I'm not sure that per capita matters so much. The USA has only about 5% of the world's people, but nearly 30% of the world's billionaires. That's a very large share (and nearly 1.5x as large as the next largest, China, with around 3x the population).
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I would argue that you are overestimating the help women used to get from extended families in terms of protection from abuse. That kind of life came along with rigid societal expectations, extremely limited economic opportunities for women, and harsh views on divorce.

Many cultures around the world still have such communities and they are worse on average for women.
> America so thoroughly that the head of the “conservative” party is a three-times-divorced man of little character.

I think that’s an interesting point. The political window has shifted further and further left in recent years. The fact is he’s not the head of the conservative moment, he’s the head of the Republican Party. There are differing factions and he promised something most in the party could support. For example, he supported states rights during the pandemic and didn’t use force. Similarly, the focus was domestic production and an improved foreign policy. Finally, there was a decent support of policies for the working class.

I’m not personally for the man, but I can see why there was support. It’s the most conservative president in decades by most measurements, though not personal life.
I'm 100% sure you're not part of such a community. Neither am I, of course :)

When polled, poor black people want more policing, despite also agreeing with much of the defunder critique.

Knowing both options, they prefer flawed policing to being ruled by criminal gangs.
If a company violates 25 requests, does it lose all revenue?
But the current NixOS approach is terrible for maintainers and developers, there are so many that get burnt out due to the constant churn and lack of regression prevention.
I think the DVLA is pretty unique in how dysfunctional it is as a British agency. I think the move to Swansea was very poorly executed. But you cannot criticise it because Very Serious People have said that devolution is always good.
I don't think it was using iCloud. It would show up in iTunes (haven't used my Mac much since iTunes got split up) and I could drag files around from some applications and back it up to my local drive (in addition to the iCloud backups).
I don’t think so. It’s just a way to pay people with the ACH process handled in the background.
Same with moving men into the workforce. If people had more free time they'd have more kids.
I think it’s a combination of:

- Android itself really sucked at this point in time.

- Android and iOS in 2010 couldn’t run complex web apps either without chugging. It really had to be native code to perform well.
Looks like we're currently getting a pre-defined set of 38 models: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thesephist/modelexicon/mai...
Thing is I'm not convinced that discord is really any better from a privacy perspective.

They still retain all of your messages (including DMs) unencrypted indefinitely with no easy way to remove them. Deleting your account doesn't remove messages either.
well they're newer than Television if you're talking about effective birth control and family planning. And I mean effectiveness has risen since the first invention of the pill to where you really can control and plan things pretty well.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of those 14% of people who don't use hotel soap for washing their hands are people who don't wash their hands anywhere else either.
Hmm I don't know Nix very well. But the features described in the blog post. Aren't they very similar to the features of docker ? And docker doesn't hat all of these "paper cuts".
For context the UK is already massively invested in wind turbines, with a lot more investment going into off-shore farms. On a good windy day, current capacity might satisfy ~40% of grid demand and this will only increase. However, the wind doesn't always blow and a cache of coal-fired power stations are kept on hand to quickly be able to plug the gap.

If this is economical enough - I'd be all for it rather than paying energy companies to keep coal-fired power stations ready to belch out smog at a moments notice.
"End Police Violence" has been a slogan in fact. It didn't really do much, precisely because not enough people who consider themselves unaffected by the risk of police violence were drawn in by it.

By contrast "Defund the Police" definitely generated a "say what?" response from just about everyone, whether you agreed with it or not.

As for the political power thing ... given the difficulty that existing politicians and political bodies have in exerting control over police authority, the idea that any new group would somehow be able to actually accomplish anything remotely close to abolition is crazy. Look at what happened in Minneapolis as an illustrative example: probably the closest to "actual abolition", and it just fizzled out completely.
Why do you think it's Haskells syntax that is the problem? The syntax is not so weird. I'd say the semantics are the hangup. 100% purity and lazy evaluation are a much harder pill to swallow then the syntax.
Indeed, and if the GP has said "there's no downtime in cooking", it would have been apt.

"Cooking onions is not downtime" isn't an effective rebuttal of the general point of "I chop things during downtime, for example when cooking onions".
Support for states rights was wildly inconsistent and dependent on the issue. The focus on domestic production was largely via anti free-trade protectionist policies. The foreign policy was largely unipolar and anti-nato.

Trump is absolutely not a small-c conservative. He's more like a European right wing populist than Reagan or Bush sr.
Web browsing, office apps, media consumption on the excellent (for the price) IPS panel.

Also to be noted : one of the lightest 14 inches on the market with an excellent battery life.
Antitrust. Yeah, but we haven’t practiced antitrust in this country for a long time.
That's not true! Poor people can escape if they live perfectly and don't make a single mistake and don't get unlucky. /S

(Unlucky = health emergency, family emergency, wrong place wrong time, etc - advantaged people have accidents and mistakes but they have money and safety nets that catch them)
Do they have other social life, or just their job? I would suspect we've changed into being less social, not seeing friends either (replacing it with other entertainment or stuff to do).
Usally a shocking vibe as to how many ads people will tolerate.
Can’t you invalidate all social commentary with this argument? Surely there are trends in society that can be remarked on generally.
Small list of projects using rich/textual: https://www.textualize.io/textual/gallery

>we are building technology that lets Textual apps run in a web browser (no code changes required)

Excited to see how that turns out.
I’ve noticed an increasing number of hotels I’ve stayed at have shower pumps for soap, conditioner, and shampoo. These pumps are locked so that they cannot be easily tampered with. This solution seems much more environmentally friendly. It has the additional benefit that you needn’t worry about running out.
> Children living with both biological parents

> Affluent families in 1960: 95%
> Working class families in 1960: 95%

> Affluent families in 2005: 85%
> Working class families in 2005: 30%

Ok. Maybe that has something to do with this:

More than six out of every ten American households (64.7%) in the bottom fifth of households by income had no earners in 2020. In contrast, only 4.5% of the households in the top fifth of households had no earners last year, providing more evidence of the strong relationship between average household income and income earners per household.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/explaining-us-income-inequali...
We're long past the time when we need to be concerned about maximizing children output as a societal goal. I'm much more interested in ensuring people have lives with meaning and growth than trying to pop out as many children as possible. If that means a woman has a career, great. If that means a woman wants to be a stay at home mom, also great.
Because the efficiency of hydrogen-burning jet engines is not substantially better than that of kerosene-burning jet engines? Vs. a fuel cell/motor/propeller system could be much more efficient?
You are precisely right.

And laptop marketing focuses primarily on CPU speed, which is an error. It drives running CPUs at speeds that create non-linear heat/power graphs without much consideration to total system performance.
Feeder on Android from FDroid. It is being very actively developed and has been improving rapidly.

Only thing I wish is that it would handle a dynamically changing feed list that can be kept on NextCloud across devices, a la keepass.

I also use TT-RSS self-hosted to aggregate academic article feeds into a single one I can share with my students. But I hear that app community has become quite toxic.
If that's the case then the USA is superior to all but a few European democracies per capita and all of them nominally?

Even Massachusetts would be superior than every European country per capita.
Women also file for divorce 60 - 75% of the time (up to near 80% in the black community). Men are risk assessors by nature, and see no benefit to risking their livelihoods for such little benefit.
> soundly rejected by the industry

That same industry which embraced PHP and JavaScript? Is that an authority, on what?

Also, the industry hasn't rejected Haskell, it has just been learning from it very slowly. My prediction is this trend will consistently continue at the same glacial speed.
Yes and crypto exchanges following "Know your customer" will also refuse to withdraw funds without those things. It's no different.
Those are certainly causal explanations for the data, but once those phenomena are here they impact people's expectations. Change in expectations is clearly what the author is focusing on.
For example, the emergence of the rust belt leaves a lot of unemployed men - the impacted parts of society won't continue to expect the same work ethic and commitment from their men 40-50 years later.
Why naming stuff is hard?
Interestingly, of the two towns - Belmont and Fishtown, you immediately know which one is poor and which one is rich. What if we rename Fishtown to, say, Barbeau?
I live in Canada, so I keep an emergency blanket in my car .. one of those silver mylar ones.

My wife and I keep each other's master password in our own password vault.

I have enough life insurance to clear debts and cover my family's expenses for a few years.

My passport is always valid.

I should have a small generator to power the fridge and a few lights but I don't. This is what the "preppers" consider table stakes.
The EU does not think of the UK in that way.

In fact it tends not to think of the UK at all, these days.

As to being "fair game": that's true, in the sense that the EU will place the interests of member states over those of the UK. That dynamic must be among the least surprising developments of history, considering it is both obvious and formed the core of every serious prediction in the run-up to Brexit.

There was plenty of swagger back in those days with fantasies of renewed UK superpower domineering the EU and extracting every concession it can think of. "Fantasy" because that's just not how it works if the other party makes up 60 % of your foreign trade, but you make up less than 10 % of theirs.

So here we are now, with the UK coming up with these harebrained schemes that feel like some party organized with the specific purpose of not inviting your ex.
I absolutely love the idea of the public square. It's been something I've been dreaming of for a while now, to have a place on the web like that. But having the entire web as one public square, that blows my mind.
UK which of course never used unrelated subject like fishing rights or immigration as a political leverage. \s

Every country in the EU submit to the majority law, that's the idea of an union, even France or Germany do not have everything to their liking every time.
I think this is a reasonable course of action, of course, but also respect the DINKs who look at having kids and go “no thanks” and continue jetting off to the Alps, Turks and Caicos, or whatever. Having kids is an opportunity cost, and there’s a lot of life enjoyment to be had if you don’t have them.

Kids were previously an asset a century ago, now they’re a luxury good.
It has so much you barely mentioned any of them! What a low effort attempt at shilling for Firefox.

Mozilla doesn't care about your privacy or security.
We’re not talking about tax havens, or “exploits” such as those which require exploitation of a global financial system.

We’re talking about countries and the claim that the USA is too big for decent social systems is just about the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard.

Either you have enough GDP for each state that it could be it’s own country, or you don’t. But it feels picky and choosy to say “we are extremely wealthy” and then later say “ah. But we’re too big for social programmes. It would cost too much”.

It’s a weird kind of double-speak that might have an iota of truth in either direction, but those positions cannot be simultaneously held.