skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really doubt that, in my subjective experience the average person doesn't care about any of those issues enough to be depressive about them and certainly not enough to commit suicide over climate change or political extremism. Gen Z kids aren't nearly as "political" as the millennials working in media want them to be. The average teenager doesn't care about affording a house or the political climate, I think you (and a lot of others) are projecting a lot of your own fears onto them. It's also worth noting that the US is not the whole world, there are European countries which deal with the same mental health crisis in teenagers despite being a safe haven even in the worst climate change scenarios and have a quite stable political situation.
> People love to rave about how the julia ecosystem is made up of tons of tiny composable libraries instead of large monolithic libraries like scipy. To me, that sounds like a major headache

Absolutely agree.

First and foremost, I need to get my work done. I do not want to learn all those libraries.

The API design, its quality, philosophy (or lack thereof) of framework will be different across all the frameworks.

And I am not sure I want too many libraries in my codebase.

It is a whole different level of technical debt.
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> but at the time the code seemed completely correct to me

It always does.

> Well, it teaches me to do more diverse tests when doing destructive operations.

Or add some logging and do a dry run and check the results, literally simple prints statements:

print("-----")
print("Downloading videos ids from url: {url}")
print(list of ids)
...
...
...
# delete() dangerous action commented out until I'm sure it's right
print("I'm about to delete video {id}")

print("Deleted {count} videos") # maybe even assert
...

Then dump out to a file and spot check it five times before running for real.
> Let's imagine you're building a company that intends to compete with FAANG. Your company will be expected to have most of these

Not really - you'll need most of them if you want to imitate the big tech companies but you can compete in only 1 category, or in a small number of categories. You don't need all of them.

Also, many of these are cost centers - research, open source languages, frameworks and IDEs, browsers etc. Competition doesn't work the same way in that space.

The one that's obviously missing from your list and probably has the highest barrier for entry is cloud - very tough market, a few established players, huge upfront cost, lots of expertise required to do well and lots of potential downside if you don't do it well.
Bitcoin uses PoW to be "trustless", which is precisely why it's designed to waste energy.

Bitcoin is a distributed consensus algorithm, and the way it establishes consensus is simple: pick the longest chain. Spamming dummy blocks on to an old chain will cause that consensus to switch, allowing double-spends, so Bitcoin requires PoW as an anti-spam mechanism to slow everything down by wasting energy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash ).

I wouldn't go so far as calling blockchains "trustless", since PoW has its own vulnerabilities, e.g.

- Lottery-like incentives for mining favours centralisation, to reduce volatility. That gives mining pools a lot of control, e.g. whether to back forks or not.

- Centralised mining is vulnerable to existing power structures, e.g. those with deep pockets can purchase warehouse-sized mining rigs, can launch legal or physical attacks on the rigs of others, etc.
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Or they hate the slaughterbots video and want to prove it wrong by building high tech drones that fall short of the science fiction depicted in the video. I think I would join that group.
of course humans have instincts, we're an animal like any other, just because some try to do anything they can to suppress those instincts doesn't mean it's not there
Gee, no 20th century history books about?

And I think the political spin of this article is incorrect, but not unexpected. The living check by check people aren’t the problem as they spend whatever they have getting by. Keeping the money flowing in the economic system prevents the gridlock of the 30s as well as keeping body and soul together.

The problem is the staggering amount of cash in the hands of the investing class. The previous president gave a huge tax break to this group. While this was supposed to stimulate production in the us, there’s no point in doing so when demand is flat. So a trillion more dollars are sloshing about looking for investment return. And the rest of us deal with the fallout of the current investment craze du jour.

They could have done more of what other countries did to needs test the covid money - in Canada, it wasn’t given to people who didn’t lose their jobs and it didn’t exceed their previous income if they did. Other countries did things similarly. It kept demand up and kept some smaller business alive. Even though a lot of layoffs occurred such as those making travel so difficult right now.

And businesses are making record profits while they use covid and the world’s unrest to jack their prices or shrinkflate their products. And there’s this little political instability in Europe right now, causing ripples across the world. Governments and central banks need the will to deal with the problem, but pain avoidance is strong right now.

Edit: the fact that money is available to take twitter private is a symptom of this. The readership of HN could reproduce the thing for peanuts is a short period of time so the return on that cash is at risk. Those funding Elon are counting the return when they flip it again. 44b could buy 10-15 sports teams, or provide a lot of medical research, or fix the battery recycling problem or all sorts of useful things that have guaranteed return.
I used to read news every day. I've noticed that I dread every coming day. Quitting the news for two years helped me a lot. I still read the news but not in the volume I used to.

Most of the things are outside my control so I just don't worry about them.

In short: doom scrolling is poison.
I'm baffled by this too. Unnecessary bridge burning I'd call it.

It's not even necessary to the story.
No, in the 1970s they were ringing alarm bells about global cooling, not global warming. If you read newspaper archival articles from that period you'll see that they sound exactly like articles written last week, except with the word warming inverted to cooling. Scientists back then, or at least the ones being interviewed by journalists, were communicating an absolute certainty that an ice age was coming and the world needed to prepare. There was scientific consensus, etc.

This whole thing has long since been memory holed, but it happened. Here's Spock in 1979 with a whole documentary about about how politicians are ignoring the scientist's warnings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQSBn50o_8M&t=21s

"What scientists are telling us now, is that the threat of an ice age is not as remote as they once thought. During the lifetime of our grandchildren, arctic cold and perpetual snow could turn most of the inhabitable portions of our desert into a polar desert".

They also had plans for how to stop it. They wanted to, amongst other things, cover the arctic in black dust to make it absorb more heat.

IMHO one of the major reasons teenagers suffer mentally is because they are way too sensitive to social pressures to never question claims about future destruction of the world. They're told the world is ending and that anyone who claims otherwise is an unspeakably evil conservative who must not be listened to under any circumstances. But it's not ending, even decades after global cooling scientists still don't really understand the climate at all and the people who claim otherwise aren't evil or bad. They're actually the level headed ones. Teenagers should listen to them a lot more - they'd realize there's a lot to live for.
>trauma doesn't automatically lead to depression.

As an aside, watering down what constitutes trauma and then assuming everyone's actions are the result of trauma seems like a path toward denying people their agency which is an implied goal of a lot of people these days.
A legal scholar in my country just argued that overblocking doesn't exist. I sometimes fail to imagine where these people live. Of course there are bad actors in the profession but from someone in a public position this came as a surprise.

Without an ounce of predictability of legal decisions any provider will block generously, any half-arsed lawyer should know this. If our legal scholars are that dense or self-interested, I don't see how any provider could ever make sensible decisions.
> Most bystanders aren't important enough to have their face on that database.

If you have a drivers’ license or a passport, you’re in it.

> WW2 weapons were already enough to wipe out entire cities

Indiscriminately. Which gives you a big PR issue. Being able to kill only, say, every military-aged male in a city without touching anyone else is a bit different.
It's obscene, I have a 1440p ultrawide monitor and it renders like this[1]. One paragraph on the screen, and utterly garbage scrolling which actively makes things harder to read. I know bitching about stuff like this is against site rules but what a shit show.

1. https://i.imgur.com/lmq8iTC.jpg
Some quotes from the article:

> “People have tried to solve flaring for a long time,” Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller tells me. “But the standard chemical engineering approaches like compression or liquefaction don’t make sense economically.”

> Bitcoin miners receive rewards for solving these puzzles. It is this incentive that provides the economics for Crusoe to deploy a technology able to divert gas from flaring.

> ... if the 14 billion cubic feet of gas that gets flared every day could be harnessed for computing, you could power the whole Bitcoin network eight times over.

> The International Energy Agency notes that Bitcoin consumes about 100 terawatt hours of electricity (0.3% of total global consumption).

> Data center and data transmission networks — which power everything from Snap DMs to Netflix shows to medical research — consume a total of 460-590 terawatt hours (1.4%-1.8%).

> ... it’s worth considering that renewable energy sources make up 39% of Bitcoin’s total energy consumption (vs. 17% for U.S. electricity production).

> If you accept the premise that Bitcoin has real-world value, consider also that it has two key attributes that can help transition the world to cleaner energy:
...
Interruptible workload: Mining operations can turn on and off at a moment’s notice, which helps to stabilize energy grids. When demand is low, Bitcoin mining can consume the otherwise unused electricity. When demand is high — say, household consumption in the evening — miners shut down without a hitch.

> “Bitcoin mining is the best buyer of last resort,” Lochmiller explains. “Few industrial use cases can use lots of energy like Bitcoin and shut down in 5 minutes. You can’t do that for an aluminum smelting plant.”
Bivouacs/shelters are indeed quite popular, there are lots of permanent ones made of wood out here. Basically just a slanted roof. https://vindskyddskartan.se
Oh, and it's DRM-protected, too! We truly live in the future.
> 1 IT person who is in charge of a third-party vendor relationship that offers managed IT services

That is something completely different from migrating your inhouse applications to the cloud by introducing kubernetes. I think your example show nicely that there is not one solution for everything. As an industry we have to put way more emphasis on deciding tradeoffs by understanding requirements and risks.
One person can control, at most, about two guns and one truck at a time.
>The advert was paid for by Keep America Beautiful, a group established in the 1950s by leaders from packaging companies like the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, and other public figures.

So they invest in ads instead of making sure their garbage does not end up in nature, e.g. by investing in compostable packaging.

But sure the consumer is to blame.
If it works, it's not bad UX it's dark UX.
It would be great to ask WSJ if they considered A/B tests?
Very cool write-up. Thank you all for writing (and linking) it.
Keyboard app with 100M installs with full phone access and tracking codes
It's funny how people don't associate the endless stream of shiny gadgets they own, that are stuffed full with the latest and greatest in rare minerals, with the destruction of the ecosystem.

Just to pick a recent-ish story at random:
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/nickel-deforestation
I can understand the concerns of the technology might be abused in DoD but I should point out that it is much better to see this result on Science Robotics, TRO, ICRA, and IROS etc. Military is behind many technology innovations but this doesn't mean all technologies should be used for military purpose only.

The work done is by:

http://zju-fast.com/

Disclaimer: Roboticist, have worked with fast-lab on World Robotics Sailing Championship
> Their disorder should be coined a different name.

But I guess part of the concern may be that they’ll be told there’s no disorder at all. Which could be liberating and empowering for some people, but potentially deeply invalidating for others.
Haha, yeah. Well they seem to enjoy the crowdedness, it's a weird subculture.
Internationally, whatsapp has been a big (or bigger) source of bullying, mobs, and disinformation in group chats - with even less visibility or moderation capacity/capabilities.
You only really see that in the US (as far as I know).

You may encounter a city tax of a couple Euro in most European cities as an add on, but nothing in the range of dozens of Euro.

I think it's nothing less than a scam and should be made illegal. Period.
News flash: the sun comes up in the east and water is wet. See FIFA.
This is propaganda.

"Before we had war, but now we don't, must be EU"

And your own evidence: "Nobody is worried about the U.K. declaring war on France"

.... contradicts your point - the UK was not part of the EEC/EU for most of it's existence, so did the EU/EEC 'stop wars'?

Seems like 'UK and France' learned to get along without 'deep economic integration'.

And Switzerland? They've never been to war - and they have the least amount of 'economic integration.

Neither Finland.

South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico have not fought wars against each other either.

"But just because the approach isn’t 100% effective, doesn’t mean it’s worthless."

More likely the 'approach' is not hugely relevant.
this is great info for me; thank you
The threshold would logically be somewhere around the <insert support cost here> mark. This might be 0 or millions of dollars a month. But expecting it to be included and complaining about it when you're purchasing goods for less than a support engineer costs an hour I'd say you should not feel entitled.

Raise the bar of communication a bit please, it's a market with many players, if you don't like the services from Google you take your business elsewhere instead of complaining about unreasonable expectations.
in my opinion any process that isn't preceded by another identical and automated process that varies only by the data involved is very risky to do in production. your management hopefully had a big reality check? or not because of backups?
I didn’t intend to link social skills and positive visions. Lazy writing before falling asleep.

As for the accusation, I certainly hope not. I am absolutely one of those type that kills them with kindness and excitement. And, to be clear, I didn’t call them socially inept - I called their social skills are reduced compared to students in the recent past/socially disinterested.

And, I absolutely didn’t call them unworthy of any attention; that’s absurd.
People who were teens during WW2 would not have known these things. In their era people more often than not died before retirement. Many people had no pension. Most people did not go to college so they would only dream that someday they or their kids would. With their parents having lived through the Great Depression neither housing nor food were guaranteed. The time you’re thinking of is well past the war during the late 50s and 60s and even they had to deal with the threat of nuclear war and actual wars like Korea and Vietnam and yet they didn’t lose hope.
agree tagging is good, but you only identify costs by teams and not solving optimization part. All the way you will need tools for autoscaling or to take an advantage of spot instances
But you presumably rely on your own nation’s military to help protect and safeguard your rights, freedoms, even your life. Without drone and anti-tank / aircraft missiles, Ukraine would already be lost, and Putin would be on to his next conquest. If we agree to allow our own soldiers to risk their lives to defend us, then we are morally obligated to provide them with the best protection we can provide for them. That’s a choice: we could choose to not support our soldiers, but then we should forego the right to be protected by them.
What's the point of having dedicated personnel, a human resources management division if you will, if an unaccountable outsider has the power to veto the entire hiring process? If you take it a few steps further, why not outsource the entire interview process?
So on the next versions of USB, the cable length will get shorter and shorter until the max gets to 5cm?

While I get the technical reasoning about high frequency/attenuation etc that limits cable length as speeds go higher, there are obviously some practical limits to how short cables can be.

How would that be solved, I don't know.
ZFS -> Snapshot....always!! Before touching writable-data (my personal mantra) ;)
So, “i am under NDA” but I reveal my client’s name and a lot of sensitive details about what we are doing. LOL.
Seemed to work for a lot software before SaaS ate the world. But who wants viable when you can bleed you customers for 10-1000x the would have paid for the software once? /s
I didn't get past the loading screen. I'm not going to wait five seconds for the website to load.
They don't believe that "innovations" you mentioned are something 'dirty' or 'unpleasant'.
I think it's like contention between vegan vs non-vegan at the end of the day.
I’m glad that I pretty much skipped the entire SPA era and now no longer have to write front end code very often.
I was talking about the general case. Hotels are useful, because the world would be worse if hotels would not exist at all.

If hotels exist, somebody must clean them. Even if any specific individual could choose to do something else, somebody must still do the job. The problem does not go away.

The market does not always reflect societal preferences accurately. It's a well-known game theoretic idea that when people make individually rational choices, the outcome may be worse for everyone than what could be achieved with better coordination.

Tipping individual workers is irrelevant here. While it may solve the problem for some people, it does not solve it for everyone at the same time.
This reminds me of how diagnostic criteria for autism all tends to focus on _presented behaviours_ rather than _internal experiences_. People who have different sensory perceptions of the world get overlooked when they're not getting overloaded by it, because there's less reason for them to try to describe their experiences if they're not distressed. You ask those people how they think/feel/perceive out of _curiosity_, though, and a whole bunch can be revealed!

I relate to that a lot, having a recent ADHD diagnosis as an adult - there's definitely some overlap between autism/ADHD traits; in conversation with my autistic friends and ADHD friends there's definitely some stuff we share when it comes to sensory stuff, and it's even _more_ overlooked when it comes to ADHD d/x. Like, _why_ is that kid throwing a massive meltdown? Has anyone helped them to work out their triggers? Is it something as simple as: overhead fluorescent lighting, or the area is too busy with sounds?

It really bugged me when I got my ADHD d/x that my psychiatrist, as lovely as he was, described me as "a mild case". Because psychiatry is all about quantifying "health risk" of "disorder". In his mind, because I had "no trouble holding a job down" and "had never been to prison", I was doing great. (Way to feed into my impostor syndrome, doc!)

But after diagnosis, after access to the stimulant meds, and making much more sense of how my brain ticks - all the day to day stuff I was _silently_ struggling with _without even noticing that I was struggling_, I can handle better!

Concrete example: Large, busy supermarkets and shopping malls. Those places don't make me melt down: I don't get angry or upset. But visually, audibly and olfactor-ily, those places can be really overwhelming for me. I tend to get quite quiet (shutdown?) and dissociate a bit, but I don't present as being _distressed_. And all I notice, is that after being in those environments, I am tired out, and need some recovery time in my own environment. Now I'm taking ADHD meds, those places are a _lot_ easier to handle and I require less recovery time after.

It's especially difficult for kids to describe their internal experiences which I think is partly the reason why diagnostic criteria is so focused on behaviours - and those behaviours are the most evident when they come from distress, which results in our neurodivergence being pathologised so much. But I really really hope that the focus - especially in schools - can shift, and that people can help kids think and describe how they perceive the world more. What we have now is "kid is not developing at same rate as their peers" and "kid has 'odd' behaviours".
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There is not a particular interest rate discount tied to this factor- once negotiated, it becomes a part of agreement. And negotiating this requirement beforehad would to submit another mortgage application.

I don't think any banks here allow you just to have a mortgage agreement without an account at them- they deduct the monthly payment automatically. It might be possible with other types of loans, but I don't think it can be done with mortgages.
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oh wow, i'm the opposite: non diluted coffee and i burn, even got scoped and showed gastritis...i evidently am at the acidic end, or just not healed enough, in a vicious burn cycle perhaps...
:shrugs:

why should i tell you what to tell your friends? they are your friends, you know their triggers better than I do.

tldr: i dislike the game-playing mentality and advocate more cooperation.

i just see all the idiots running to the ticket booth and treading on the flower beds to not just watch "the game" but to "participate" in it, even though nobody but themself really cares about the outcome of their own personal little game. (so why get tickets if you dont watch the game? why not just do your thing for your own sake?).

i especially despise the get-rich folk while people on the other side of the planet have to get by and live off of the trash sent there by "better off civilizations".

of course every single one of us has only that much leverage in the global game of personal survival, but the idea that we have to win the survival game by our own doing, without the help of others, is global poison. It is easy to win any game when you were born into the winning team, midgame.

you cannot play the get rich game only locally, it should come with a sticker on the box: "this game requires a herd of exploited (not included)"; and you wont be able to play for long if the exploited have equal rights and proximity to you
> Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device

Thank you, this is exactly something I was looking for!