skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Locating and contacting old friends is entirely within your means in 2022. What is most striking to me as someone in my early thirties is how much learned helplessness is associated with these communication technologies that supposedly enhance our capabilities.

Facebook makes it easy to curate the appearance of friendship, but meaningful relationships take time and effort in the real world to maintain. People have traded quantity for quality, and the true impetus for this transformation is that social graphs with more nodes are easier for facebook to make money from.
Men who DGAF aren't the same as "incels". You and GP aren't at odds with one another.

And yes, it is somewhat ironic society is making the exact same mistakes it has before: forgetting how destructive a large population of uninterested young men is towards society, without ever having to be violent.
That's basically WAI though. Plastic bags were banned because of the environmental impact. For some particularly naive customers they might think it's a feel-good initiative from a brand they now love a little more, but at the policy level it's really not important how various implementers want to spin it. What's important is that the outcome is a reduction in plastic bag use.
It is sunday morning. I'm at work (military). Part of that job is checking in with people at a half-dozen other locations who are also at work on a sunday morning. they just happen to all be hetero guys, which is not unusual in the military no matter the day. So I asked in our chat whether they had wives/girlfriends at home today. "No." "Nope." "My car is my GF" and "Rocking a peppi shirt under my uniform". These are single guys in their mid-twenties and thirties. They have jobs. Most are university-educated officers. They look good in their uniforms, especially with the medals. But they work sunday mornings because they don't have families and don't go out saturday nights. I worry about this trend.
I think there are quite a few alternative explanations for the data cited in the article than the ones the author proposes:

> "Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men. This number has more than doubled since the 1970s."

We have this place in the USA called "The Rust Belt" which was once a dynamic and active manufacturing center providing millions of well-paid jobs for these now unemployed American men. California once had a world-class electronics manufacturing industry (and a garment manufacturing industry) that provided hundreds of thousands of such jobs. Under the rubric of neoliberal globalization, those jobs were shipped out to Mexico, China, Indonesia, India and other low-wage centers, and the huge cut in labor costs went right into the pockets of a small fraction of now-extremely wealthy Americans. Why neglect that phenomenon?

> "Over the past half-century, the number of men per capita behind bars has more than quadrupled."

Again, we have a robust alternative explanation: the explosion in incarceration under the War on Drugs program launched by Nixon in the early 1970s and continued and amplified by successive Democratic and Republican administrations. This resulted in the explosive growth of the quite profitable private prison complex (which did not exist before the 1970s), and of course enforcement was highly skewed towards poor and minority groups. These groups were far more likely to smoke crack on the street corner than to snort cocaine in private clubs, and a 100-wt of cocaine powder was considered equivalent to a 1-wt of crack crystal in sentencing.

So if the author wants solutions to these problems, why not promote rewriting domestic and international law to exert significant penalties on corporations who outsource manufacturing overseas, and also end the War on Drugs by eliminating incarceration for possession of drugs, and instead focus on a public education approach emphasizing the benefits of getting off drugs and alcohol?
OP wrote "lucky" but probably meant "fortunate".
Do Electronic Signs Displaying Number of Traffic Fatalities Cause More Crashes?
Why is Mozilla publishing this?
I'm sure I got a GitHub Action syntax error for writing 'main' instead "main" for a conditional check that the local "act" tool didn't pick up, the development feedback loop was infuriating...

How are people able to piece together such complex GitHub Actions? Does GitHub have to deal with this internally as well or they just haven't gotten around to releasing dev tools yet?
It's a shit article where the author lightly blames what one would generally call "elites" for the stupidity and moral ineptitude of lower-class people who avowedly hate elites and who make it a point of hating everything the "elites" like anyways.
Yes it does, I'm not sure why they can't just put wind turbines in the UK. I'm sure there is plenty of wind there too.

Also it would seem the south of France or Portugal would be much closer for the solar part.
I couldn’t agree more. Chess is chess, and Bullet Chess is Bullet Chess. The amount of time available makes them different games.

I’d argue that faster speed relies more on pattern recognition and intuition, versus strategy.
Or 'migrants' exhibiting the typical behavior of their homeland.

See Vienna 1683.
By all means say the change will happen in 3 months time instead of never.

Then in 3 months time the choice is the change will happen now, or it will happen never.

You can schedule it for the future, but the choice will always be "do it now" or "don't do it now".
>This resulted in the explosive growth of the quite profitable private prison complex (which did not exist before the 1970s)

The government prison complex is orders of magnitude larger.

Welfare is how they keep the poors from rocking the boat.

Government jobs is the same tranquilizer but for people slightly better off.

Edit: fine, maybe it's only one order of magnitude bigger.
i don't think that is what the second point is about. there is a difference between having two involved parents and having one of the parents present but not involved with the kids at all. regardless of the gender, the latter will affect the children in different ways.
No, today it's the same. They're thousands of miles away from today's precision manufacturing. They won't be able to make usable parts. If they try to use whatever they produce, their machines will likely explode, or at least grind to halt.
I have a service with hundreds of requests per day, thousands of users, it is an old RoR app that is impossible to update now, 3 major versions behind latest, several dependencies that can't be built on newer Ruby versions. Even the Ruby version it is using can't be build anymore on more recent OSs because of OpenSSL incompatibilities.

It will take hundreds of hours to be updated, which at some point will be almost (or even less) than building it again from scratch. As I do not have this time, it will probably die a slow death.
While I broadly empathize with what you're saying here, this:

> No one that believes in their country becomes a criminal.

seems completely indefensible. There are all kinds of criminals who see it as a legitimate way to exist and thrive within society. There are also many different kinds of crime, including white collar. Particularly when you live in a "got to get ahead" society, pretty much anything that can you help you "get ahead" ends up feeling legitimate.
thanks just know igraph today.
Moving women into the workforce as certainly reduced fecundidity and marriage.
Have you ever considered that it could be a multitude of reasons?

It’s easy to preach on high about enjoying books but I think that’s folly, we all enjoy different things and just because yours is “socially accepted” (for lack of a better term) doesn’t mean it’s inherently better. What you read is usually more important than the fact that you read, for example.

Regardless of that particular point: I find that men, especially young men, are consistently being told that their behaviour is bad. No matter what they do.

If they seek career status then they’re contributing to sexism by not making space for women (an extreme example but one I have been accused of openly).

If they seek male companionship and shared experiences they’re accused of “lad” behaviour and if it’s in public they’re usually targeted by police for loitering or giving an aura of unsafety.

If the world is hostile to you, why not retreat into a world where you basically put everything aside and feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfilment from a virtual world? The benefit is that nobody makes you feel bad about it while you’re doing it.

It’s only after the fact that people look down on you for enjoying yourself.

Note: I don’t really play games and I read a lot of books like you, but I make games and I really despise that people look down on my customers for enjoying themselves.
This is the flip side of the “take trump seriously, not literally” argument that went around trying to normalize him in the last election.

There are people who absolutely
Believe that any police force is a slave enforcement force (or derived from one) and a tool of white tool to subjugate others. To them it must be eradicated.
No questions, but thanks for writing an interesting and cool article!
You don't get to call your movement a name and then cry foul when that name is taken at its plain english meaning. "Reform" is just as pithy and just as easy to say, and infinitely more accurate.
A trending subject in France, and worldwide, is the inflation.

It would be interesting to build an inflation calculator for France.

Example of a website on inflation:
inflationchart. com
Project Gutenberg, which long predates the web, is probably less well-known than it deserves to be. While there are various reasons you might want digital or physical copies of out of copyright texts--such as commentary and annotations--Gutenberg means that you can get the original text of most books of any note before about the 1920s for free. And with tablets/ebook readers, they're easy to read.
Approximately drop by 50% if existing rates are near zero. That's because a 10% yield will double your money when a 10y bond matures. So existing bonds have to halve to double your money in the same way.
Quit current position and take something less stressful (even some startups fit this mold). If you have enough money, take some time off an be with family (or with yourself if you prefer). Just separate yourself from current work responsibilities for as long as it takes before you feel good again.
Depends what you're doing. If a small team supports multiple products (internal or external) concurrently, it's almost inevitable.

Obviously, all analogies break down eventually, but I would say something similar to the article: if you anticipate needing to swap some component out, or you are concerned that some activity contains substantial project risk (in the analogy, this is chopping peppers while onions are frying and hoping that no one orders another dish) will be needed during a period of high pressure (lead up to a release, say), try to front-load that effort into a more forgiving timeframe (i.e. chopping peppers before the restaurant starts to take orders). Do the experiments, write the documentation, make sure everyone knows what's going on, then, hopefully, it's less project risk at a time when you can't afford it. You're saving risk, not necessarily time. And you can't eliminate all the risk.

If that's just not possible because you're too busy 100% of the time, you're probably on a death march and it's already too late: once the orders are coming in, if you haven't prepped the peppers, you just have to deal with it, and if that makes any dishes late and customers angry, tough.
The Vietnamese benefited from three things in air combat:

1. Russian advisors and pilots.
2. The US generally required visual ID, which limited the benefits of their air to air missiles.
3. Lack of guns on many US fighters. The US faith in missile technology (which was premature), led to many instances of MIGs surviving where just a few years later they would be shot down.

Both the USN and the USAF were woefully underprepared for air to air combat in Vietnam, but once they got solved some of the equipment issues, and refined their tactics (especially the USN with TOPGUN), they began to dominate these engagements.
I think the consensus is that GC works great _if_ you throw enough memory at it (about three times what you really need)

On mobile, the problem with that isn’t as much that memory costs money, but that it costs Joules. Peak power usage of RAM may not be large compared to that of your screen, CPU, GPU, GPS, etc. but AFAIK, with current tech, memory keeps eating energy even if your device is sleeping.

Being able to run with less memory, I think, is why iPhones can do with relatively small batteries and yet have decent stand by times.
If the soap is leaving a film, the water is hard not soft.
How good is it over crappy connection over SSH?
The Fusion part of Davinci Resolve is a sort of node based after effects.
I might try it someday, apparently it can even import 3D scenes from blender.
Glad the clickbait headline wasn't used. The content was far more interesting than that suggested and gave a very different impression.
I can appreciate this perspective because I used to have it. I even wrote a similar blog post 10 years ago - it was on the top of HN and the comment section was a beautiful shitshow. For me, this perspective was a good story to tell myself - it justified why I was only investing my time in “work”, and validated me for having “come so far”.

Over time, I have reflected and shifted this perspective. That reflection centered around the question the author hasn’t asked himself yet: who creates these expectations? It’s always some loose definition like “society” or “elite”, or some other handy wavy grouping of people.

But, to be clear, those expectations are coming from the author. That’s his perspective of what the world thinks, based on his interactions, based on what he chooses to read, listen to, etc. He's not describing anyone but himself.

I found that if I find myself projecting onto social norms, society, or some other loose definition of “they”, what I’m really doing is projecting a part of myself that I haven’t been honest about yet.
Store Nintendo Switch Screenshots in the Cloud
It sounds more like the author wants "elites" to preach what they practice.
I think you need to check your data sources.

> "Private prisons in the United States incarcerated 115,428 people in 2019, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased 32% compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 3%."

https://nicic.gov/private-prisons-united-states-2021
Have you reviewed the HN guidelines recently? As I understand it, there is no need to comment on being banned or downvoted. Just say what you think is worth saying, being mindful of the guidelines.
> also the industry adopting Blender is a clear sign that a product being open source plays a big role for adoption

I strongly disagree. Blender is a wonderful story and a wonderful team but it’s truly the unicorn in the FOSS software space.

Industry adopted Blender because it has evolved into being a really good tool for the job, is frequently updated (thanks in part to those corporate sponsorships that most pieces of software don’t get, unfortunately), and because it is good software.

Thinking the license played any role in that, I think is foolish. Industry, particularly the video and vfx industry, is not moved by ideology. It’s about what works, what is fastest and what can do things the best way. The editing world has relied on proprietary software since time immemorial and the two cases where we’ve seen more adoption of FOSS tools (Blender, OBS) are both recent (and again, I would argue are largely exceptions b/c the software is good and usable which is not the case for most video packages that are open source) and in tandem with existing tools, not a replacement for those tools.

As I said in another comment, I think in many cases, the open development model is best. But I also recognize that it isn’t always the right business move. And in this case, when you’re talking about an industry that doesn’t have any ideological ties towards doing things the open way, I don’t think it’s an idea that makes a lot of sense. Even if it would be nice to see.
> the husband beating his wife behind closed doors without repercussions

Families were much bigger back then. The extended family was always around. Communities were much tighter and actually existed.

I think you don't have a good understanding of those times if you think women could be beaten around without repercussions, and honestly, thinking women are so helpless smells of sexism.
Perhaps the best way to copy that lifestyle would be to, well, copy the choice to not have kids in their twenties (or teens). It’s hard to see how the choice by some to delay kids is somehow undermining others.

Conversely, the choice to have kids earlier brings its own set of benefits (having more physical energy is one that I wished for somewhat often and I think there’s evidence of earlier pregnancies being lower risk).
>Better-educated people commit crimes at roughly the same rate,

I'm gonna call bullshit on this.

Even if you assume all demographics are snorting coke and beating their wives equally there are so, so, so many laws you can just trivially comply with by expending a little bit more money and there is so much less incentive for petty crime when you are in a career track where misdemeanors matter.
Great comment on a good article.

I'm reminded of back when I was studying pattern recognition for a system that would become an Expert System (this was before that term was used). I would read many articles saying what techniques would work. I had the urge to ask "But this doesn't show how you got there. Show me your discarded solutions that didn't work." I would like to see your wastebasket.

Similarly, I am inclined to someone who acts as an expert to tell me five ways that won't work.
> Poor and working-class people follow suit. To the detriment of themselves and their children.

Uh. I know the author grew up rough, but yeah, I'm going to need a citation on this one.

This entire article is based on one huge assumption - everything was better when people felt compelled by society to get married. Was it? Was it really?

Is that why there was an entire genre of boomer humour that can be condensed down to "hahaha, I hate my husband/wife?" Were there no social problems attributable to dysfunctional families in the 1960s and 1970s?

Also this...

> And a lot did use to be expected [of men]. There were social norms to work hard, provide, take care of loved ones, and so on. Today, these norms have largely dissolved.

They really have not. Try going on on Tinder as man without a job, see how far that gets you. Now try it as a woman, you'll be shocked and stunned, I'm sure, to see that it's still considered far more socially acceptable to be a woman out of work than a man out of work.

Gender roles are still very much baked into our society. I am the primary caregiver for my children, thanks to being a dev, I work from home full time, so I can do all the things that need doing, yet my wife, their step-Mum, has missed out on several jobs because people assume that she'll need to take too much time off if they get sick - right after she's told them that I'm the primary caregiver who works remotely so is at home for looking after sick kids, and during school holidays etc.

People flat out don't believe her, because they're still stuck in the mindset that men provide, and women care.
Schools in the US are funded by property tax. It makes no sense to do that unless the goal is to keep everyone in their place and prevent kids born into poorer areas from competing on equal footing with the children of wealthy people.
And? Isn't overpopulation a major concern? Why would you want higher birthrates? Already there exist more people than required for jobs in the economy.
increasing energy dependence on the EU seems unwise given its attempts to use it for political leverage: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/05/france-uk-jers...

the government agrees:
https://news.sky.com/story/jersey-fishing-dispute-frances-si...

(and has denied construction of new interconnectors to France since)

Spain would definitely use an interconnector as leverage re: Gibraltar
> Second, pretty sure I’d argue the recent riots in Sweden would back up exactly the author’s theory around poorly behaved young males.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I do wonder the same but about Portugal.
Portugal would be closer than the south part of Spain.
I too ran into similar issues you describe when trying Resolve a few times. Also on Windows.

Gave up and just use ffmpeg directly for the few things I need.
Does that poll support your argument? Spending and funding isn't directly correlated with "spending time". Chicago spends almost two billion dollars each year on police. Yet it's often cited as one of the most dangerous cities. I'm sure plenty of folks in Chicago's South side would love more patrols. Is the right way to go about that really to keep throwing money at a system which appears to be squandering the funds? Especially when they spend tens (or some years, hundreds) of millions of dollars settling misconduct lawsuits?
Interesting to me at least, but the start reminded me strongly of parts of This Mortal Coil's, Song to the Siren. A lovely song. https://youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ
I'm more surprised by how many use the closet
I'm not even convinced deleting (and especially deactivating) your account does anything besides handing over control to Facebook and others. Perhaps it is better to obfuscate the data in your account and just not log in, even if emotionally less appealing than deleting.
shallower water
It seems obvious to me there are situations where a therapist should help their client/patient explore divorce as an option.
On what grounds are you claiming Morocco is less politically stable?
That ignores the fact that this Halberstadt project wasn’t designed by Cage, and the timing is for reasons specific to Halberstadt. Do you feel like Cage’s ideas call for a piece to last hundreds of years? It seems like all the ideas you just mentioned are thrown out the window when a single note lasts for years at a time, and zero people are present to witness the full performance, or even the full playing of a single note. This isn’t being done for music reasons, it’s being done explicitly for spectacle reasons, as described by the project page.
That is great. I am glad that you were able to make this change! It was not until we had our own children that I truly understood (or maybe appreciated) when my mom would say "After all I have done for you" OR "Thats why we can never have anything nice"... HAHAH. I love it. totally relate now.

On a serious side note. I think many (including us) highly underestimate how much time children require.
Sweden and Norway have more billionaires per capita than the US does.
ah ha, that makes a lot for sense, thanks
Also Elcomsoft phone breaker, which also grabs iCloud backups.
Everyone enjoys identifying why “bad people” are not “like me” and then put them in a group that is the “other”.

This causes unintentional and eventually intentional coverups when presented with someone “in your group” doing something obviously wrong.
It’d be stupid to run a cable straight through the EU, as well, yes. You want to be part of a large and diverse grid. Then, you add or reinforce long-distance connections based on observed patterns.

So the UK should get over itself, connect to larger grid that’s already operating on three sides. The same is probably true for Morocco, and at some point these photovoltaic-in-the-desert ideas will become economical, although I’m not entirely sure if we are there yet (the desert is less ideal for solar cells than one thinks, because heat isn’t linear proportional to irradiation).