skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're playing a losing game.

Others read headlines, form their opinions and decide what they want to say, then come to the comments to say it.

Usually they scan the comments to check they're on topic, then give their pre-formed opinion. Sometimes they'll instead share that they had a different idea about a different topic if the comments reveal they were mistaken about the topic.

Occasionally they'll find another comment to reply to instead so they can further discuss their pre-formed opinions.

Almost never they'll actually read the article more than a quick scan.

Actually reading a whole article first before commenting is playing a losing game. You'll lose out to those who simply scan an article far enough to find a hook they can respond to. By the time you actually read, digest and respond to an article, the community will have largely moved on. The scan-until-hook crowd will appear more informed than the post-without-reading-a-word" crowd while maintaining much of the speed advantage of the non-readers.

Simply giving pre-formed opinions and only if the commentary signal is strong enough then actually opening the article is a better strategy from a game theory perspective.

It's a shame and there are times I feel compelled to fight back against it, but that doesn't always go well either.
As you say, they're just playing a different game. Some may say I should take heed from the article and look for the perspective that makes that okay, but I prefer informed opinions rather than everyone's favourite pet arguments endlessly rehashed.
> Yet, he and many others lived.

After the initial shock of the first couple of years, post-war Germany seems to have been a pretty comfortable place for a young person willing to conform to pretty strict social standards and put in some (by the standards of that time) moderately hard work. It tends to be that way after great disruptions, like after the plague, after the 30-years war, etc. When power structures that consolidate wealth have been thoroughly disrupted it usually takes a while to get back to a point where most people are excluded from most opportunities. Hence, for most people, opportunities tend to abound after great crises.

Most western democracies are not post-disruption societies; they're more like the opposite. Today's young people don't face the effects of a recent upheaval, they face the effects of decades of peace and comfort. History would seem to indicate that that, too, is a dangerous place to be in.

> Yet, he and many others lived.

> But I think humanity has proven that it will find its way.

So? People will live in the craziest conditions. Humanity's way has historically lead through an awful lot of unnecessary suffering. Good luck inspiring anyone with that sort of outlook, in times of peace and crazy prosperity no less.

Democracy and rule of law aren't ends in themselves, freedom is far from a natural equilibrium state. There's a social contract that says we do these things, you get peace, a good life, a chance at success and wealth, and a decent amount of participation. Right now, western nations across the board are hollowing out that contract crazy fast. The rising popularity of anti-freedom, anti-democracy, anti-rule of law politicians may be a foreshadowing of things to come if we keep this up.
Some ideas:
- Social media apps (whatsapp to tiktok) must rate-limit posting for under-18s.

You can post (text/tweet/whatever) only once every ... 5 minutes.

It's possible to have a conversation but the levels of abuse and cesspool like behaviour just become so much harder

bonus points - same for adults.
> East Asia population are aggressive consumers of social media. If they are not getting depressed from it, then the Anglosaxon (which seems to be suffering from this crisis) should look elsewhere.

Only if you discount the rest of the sentence you quoted...

> ... although I have not yet found good data from those regions.
> What else was in this database? Typically the password field is stored alongside the rest of the user record.

That is where you are supposed to have encrypted as many data fields of the record as possible - in addition to the conventional database encryption which encrypts the database as a whole.
I dunno.. people seem to like 0 downtime migrations, but really, for most companies a little bit of downtime or degraded functionality doesn't matter. Most applications aren't even large enough for the downtime to be more than a couple of minutes.

Having some scheduled downtime saves you a lot of complexity of writing, monitoring, and finalizing these migrations. It also makes it a lot easier to have a consistent state in terms of code+data.

The article doesn't mention how to deal with different datamodels / constraints etc.
I’m interested in peoples experience with this and if it’s relatively true.

We (like many others I assume) pay more for Heroku than AWS as it allows us to “outsource” our dev ops. We are a small team (sub 15) with a decent sized, decade old app. We’ve had it on AWS before (and used platforms like BuildKite) but both required much more overhead (in terms of employee salary). Anecdotally I’ve heard the same from friends, though I understand AWS works well and is cheaper if you know AWS well.
These slaughterbots will completely shift military strategies, just like atomic bombs.

In the last 100 years (and probalbly even further back) it has been incredibly difficult to fight an opponent who was fortified in a (bombed) city. Ukraine is a great example of what a few organized soldiers with anti-tank weapons can hold off.

Swarms of jamming resistant drones would completely trivialize urban fighting for the attacker. I'm worried about the future if attacking becomes easier than defending.
I remember reading part of a study a few years ago that noted that youtube was the only social media (in the study) that didn't negatively affect mental health. In fact it had a slight positive impact.

If I find it I will link it, but here's an article in a similar vein: https://www.psychalive.org/worst-mental-health-instagram-fac...

So yes, the search is obviously geared towards engagement. But not at the cost of mental health.
Regarding Mosaic: One way around would have been outputting the stylesheet links via JS `document.write()` and user-agent filtering, since every browser that supports CSS also supports JS. Anyways, an interesting detail about Mosaic!

P.S.: Now I'm not sure, if this would generally work in the head section, since with older browsers the `document` object became only available as the body tag was encountered. Or was this just for the properties and `write()` was available anyways? (This behavior changed with NS4/IE4.)
A bit of a scape goat. I remember how teen magazines managed to totally disrupt the body self-image of my sister in the 90ies, which she still suffers from today.

We cannot distinguish effects of media meaningfully from our societies on a general scale. Certainly some “propaganda” effects may be observable via intervention. But the general mental health effects are hardly traceable
Windows 1.0 is more similar to Norton Commander and DOS Shell (built-in to later DOS versions), as well as the Borland Turbovision products, in that it's something between a textual and graphical "shell" that you can manipulate files and run other programs off of.

At that time, it was nowhere close to being called an OS. It was a collection of GUI-ish tools for DOS. This started to change with Windows 3. That one still required DOS to function, but by that time it was clear DOS was the past on the PC and Windows (in some form) was the way forward.
Surge protection devices are designed to sacrificially fry in a last ditch attempt to protect the electronic devices downstream. The report that the power supply was the only thing that failed when unprotected electric MOTORS in his house were fried (very hard to do) says the the protection device actually did a phenomenal job given the circumstances.

Lightning is not generally possible to protect against in nonconducting residential structures except with lightning rods and other devices designed to divert the strike. Even then the protection is not complete. Steel clad steel buildings are exceptionally resistant, but even in this ideal case, a direct strike can destroy equipment through the EMP and differing potentials generated within the structure.

Lightning protection is a achieved through defense in depth. Utility level, distribution level, then a protector at the service entrance, then circuit protection, then outlet (plug in) protection, then in device protection. If the lightning skips any of these steps by striking inside of these rings of protection, anything inside is going to face extreme challenges and is very likely to be damaged. You can’t trivially absorb or divert 10-1000 terawatts of power. It’s enough to heat air to 20,000c and to instantly vaporize a third of a cubic meter of sand. You just can’t easily protect against that kind of energy. It’s equivalent to protecting your house from suffering damage if a small commuter aircraft crashed into it.

It’s possible, but it requires extreme measures… not just plugging something into an outlet.
Youtube popped this suggest on my feed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VbA6ZnNi7k

You can see its a re cast of the official channel but with the scam info added on top of it.

For a moment it surprised me. Thought youtube would discern that kind of obvious copycat channels.

Edit: And someone just sent 5000$ worth of BTC. Youtube needs to take that video down asap.

Edit 2: And there are even more recommended Live videos about Musk, BTC and the scam overlayed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PK08bQi4FE There are 20.000 people watching on these two, and there are probably more. Already 15.000$ sent to the scammer. It's happening now.
> Do you have an above average salary for the region you're looking for the apartment in?

Yes, the salary seems to only be part of the issue. Some of the landlords seemed to be slightly offended that a young person makes so much money. Other landlords were searching for long term tenants and did not believe that a young couple was looking to settle down for long enough.

> If so, then who's getting those apartments, if the majority of people cannot afford them?

The supply is super limited. Judging by the rejections I received the landlords are primarily looking for well off young families which the seem to find without a problem. One landlord told me that she received 120 messages within 48h, she basically can choose whoever she wants.

> Is this a special case like SF where there's just not enough apartments being built for the size of population?

This is generally the case all over (west-) Germany. In more rural areas and small towns there is basically no rental market, but purchasing is still unaffordable for most. In my hometown (rural with average income) land prices more than doubled in the last 10 years.
So many young people choose to move to the next city. In my target city, the cheapest apartments I could find for purchase were around 400k€ from 70s to 90s, new construction was usually well above 500k. Rental prices are equally absurd.
It appears they are just using cameras. Nevertheless rolls of tinfoil will come in handy for the zombie robot apocalypse so make sure you have some handy.
> There’s a popular narrative that social media companies use algorithms that intentionally favor divisive content. WhatsApp is a useful illustration of how that narrative might be wrong.

You are making the argument that Whatsapp doesn't use algorithms to favor divisive content, therefore, it doesn't have malicious use. My argument is that Whatsapp still contributes to the data harvesting of Facebook because it is used maliciously to invade your privacy. It's just in a different form and just as bad. You are not looking at the whole picture and only a tiny slice.
> You need to specify to install a grounding rod, as well as the length

Umm. When electrician installed grounding rod for me, he did measurements. He couldn't tell how much grounding rods will I need. Because some get lucky and get tapped into undeground water and immediately gets low resistance.

In my case, we couldn't use a single spot as the rods were too hard to go in for required length, so 4 places actually were used and connected together while appropriate resistance was achieved.

Moreover, I don't much about it but someone may approve/reject the following I heard from another electrician: If your ground provides VERY LOW resistance, then it is also bad, because it can work backwards, providing a path from outside to your house.
Makes stocks go up
It’s time - now I’m here, we’re training existing people up, but if they’ve not god a good mental model of backend development then it’s going to be a challenge.
https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/sys_matrix/#clients (german)
This might be a slightly more useful link: https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/programs/forgivable.htm

This page describes the requirements for the program, which does have some limitations -- importantly this only applies for 'first-time homebuyers'.

One thing that this doesn't note is if the income level has to be sustained through the period of the loan, or if it's only on approval. Only needing to have a low income on application to the loan could open a lot of avenues for gaming this.
I checked it and failed to find any. Though if it was scanned from a color print its very likely that they were there in the paper version-- they just may not have survived scanning.
It really isn't. You highlight something important: musicians don't usually learn to convert notation to music in their heads. Instead, they learn to associate notation with how to make the sound, e.g. finger positions.

I remember in ear training class in high school all the brass kids playing imaginary valves with their fingers when trying to sight-sing.

It's harder for singers, and quadratically harder for instruments where you have more positions and play more notes at once.
I have a WebGL project thats been broken for a few years due to a browser deprecated api, it is not a relatively easy fix
For what it's worth, I gave RTK a go after a rushed, failed attempt at using redux. Initially started as a POC for some internal tooling within the company. Due to its simplicity, it was a breeze to set up. Two years later, it's still great, and things like RTK Query[0] have made it even better, by removing the need to write custom data fetching logic, and adding other perks like caching.

Thank a lot for your hard work!

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/rtk-query/overview
All internet-powered depression. I am not saying the issues you list aren't real, but the need to doomscroll through these issues on the daily is not necessary.

Ukraine was that for me. Put me in a huge helpless funk and I could not stop reading or thinking about it. Then I realized I had to stop checking in everyday. It may sound heartless, and of course I am still aware that the war is still going on and people are still dying, but I really believe focusing on things I can actually control in my life is one what to feel empowered and to improve my mood. Focusing on all of the various global tragedies that I can do nothing about is the fast track to depression.
The program does require you to be a first-time homebuyer, so presumably you can only get this once: https://www.calhfa.ca.gov/homebuyer/programs/forgivable.htm
Swarm of cheap drones blankets area. When an individual drone finds a target it requests an artillery strike (or similar) on its own location.

There's something about the swarming nature of these things that makes them even more unsettling.
Only at 88mph...
Will and initiatives
Paradoxically we as engineers have to trust more to business people who are focused on finding the most economical and effective solution to a problem.

Engineers love to overengineer, because they can. And because it’s a lot of fun.

And then they end up shooting their own legs with unjustified complexity.
never gonna join the mice race
Of course any information media is an amplifier for actual events.
But I think you are minimising what has become a dangerous (although
admittedly very complex/nuanced) force in society today - which is the
general over-reach of digital technologies.

It's not just about the content of social media. This is the tobacco
moment for tech in general.

When your entire world becomes a 6 inch view-port that you're
inseparable from it's tantamount to a kind of mental and physical
servitude. Electronically tagged convicted criminals suffer less.
Physiological harm to eyes, neck, and posture from hunching over, is
visible in young people in their 20s. Diminished attention span and
poor interpersonal skills is absolutely obvious now. I am seeing
devastating mental health issues in the children of friends, kids who
have everything to live for and love life, are isolated, glum, and
neurotic.

When I started researching Digital Vegan [1], late in the game after
2018, my main focus was privacy and the effects of surveillance on
adults. In many ways I wanted to assure myself that I was not a total
crank who was growing old prematurely and shouting at clouds.

As I read more into this area [2] I went through feelings most of us
will remember from the start of the pandemic... as anecdotal snippets
started to form into coherent narratives and hard evidence, and
finally the sinking unavoidable realisation that something BIG is
happening. Surveillance capitalism is just one symptom.

The rapid growth of decent science around these issues has been
dizzying.

From Haigt; "I believe I can be most helpful to this committee by
first summarizing the academic literature on the changes that have
occurred in teen mental health since 2012"

This is key! Most of us are entrenched in to-and-fro arguments about
what we think are mere opinions and anecdotes. Things have moved past
that.

As technologists, instead of defending an illusion we identify with
like the guys from Exxon who just got news of the first climate report
in the 1960s, let's start talking in good faith about how we can fix
things - through sustainable, durable open hardware, software freedom,
civic cybersecurity and protections from government and
corporations, reducing use, educating young people away from social
media and towards a healthy, limited use of tech.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net

[2] https://ledger.humanetech.com/
>Does io::handle maybe exist only as an optimization for sendfile()?

io::file exists for where it's needed to interface with the host system. io::stream is needed for userspace streams. io::handle is needed so that code which just wants to do I/O but doesn't care which of these two paradigms is in use can be useful for both.
Tailwind CSS vs. Pico CSS
I'd rather eat 3 times a day than feeling stuffed from shoveling 2,000 kcal in my stomach once a day – and even if you sit around all day, you still burn up to 2,000 kcal.
Steroids cause problems with rage also. Still more people probably take acetaminophen than both steroids and statins combined. Some people probably take all three. Rage is a somewhat different manifestation than lack of empathy also.
This is an interesting point. There have been a number of construction-related scandals in the last thirty years of building public housing estates in Hongkong. Either the contractor used weak cement, insufficient rebar, or didn't drive piles deep enough. The fact that they were not caught until the building was completed is terrible. It says the QA by gov't was seriously flawed. (It has since improved a lot!)

I think the offset is to have a mixture of QA/checkers and gov't regulators who are onsite checking things. With huge civil engineering projects, sometimes the gov't will hire a competing civil engineering firm just to be onsite checking the work. That balance probably works.
I don't know if you actually looked at the link in this post.

The 1 in 4 number is from the original study linked in this post.

Girls and boys refer specifically to females and males under 18.
India now has 100 startups valued over $1B
It's quantifiably different in several dimensions, including access to media and the sophistication with which messages are tailored and targeted.
> In fact, to be honest, having public repos is more likely to push me to rule someone out rather than arrange a chat.

That sounds like a good thing? Looking at the quality of someone's public work lets you rule out more candidates who are not a good fit.
That’s a dev problem…
Grant: Paving the way to use GSM/GPRS technology on amateur radio bands
No need to change the database itself, these kind of features belong in foreign data wrappers. You can already treat csv files as tables or access tables in other databases(mysql, oracle etc)
Thats why I am saying that $50/ month is way off. The price for that would be much higher
Don’t people with facial paralysis say that their feelings of emotions are, not functioning at full capacity, due to inability to express them outwardly?

Or, something like that?
> The work environment may be stressful at times...

If you're talking about SWE or adjacent, why?
Go to Paris, I have 5 years of experience but not exactly outstanding and yet I get 1 or 2 offers every year without pushing too much.

10% income tax is on your take-home salary. From a different perspective my take-home salary after tax is less than half of what I cost my employer, i.e. if I'm paid €2,500 per month I actually cost my employer slightly more than €5,100 (and even that is ridiculous compared to what people pay in countries with similar income level)
For [Ex-]Googlers: I thought this sounded a bit like Capacitor and indeed it is mentioned in this page:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/bigquery/inside-capac...

(I don't think there's a direct analogue to Postgres though? Maybe people sometimes take data out of Spanner and put it in a Capacitor file instead sometimes?)
I was told repeatedly starting at probably 12 years old that I'd never see my social security benefits pay out. Probably before that too, but I distinctly remember it around middle school. It was very similar to what the comment you're replying to describes. Just because you're not planning your retirement doesn't mean you're not picking up on cues from people who are.
>Good luck building enough spare nuclear to heat the entire continent by 40-90 degrees.

Which non carbon heating or energy source do you suggest? The US doesn't seem to be warming up to heatpumps much and it's not like those are grand in those extreme conditions. The insulation standards there from what i've heard and compared are still quite bad (Not helped by the fact that AC and pure heating solutions common involve lots of airflow)
Who cares about recessions, inflation and political whatever when they are teenagers? That's all just meaningless boring bullshit old farts in the TVs mumble, isn't it how do you perceive these subjects when you are a teenager?
> Many of us create technology as if our democracies are built forever. And they are — until they are not.

I agree 100%, this is why we need more people working on getting 3D printing and other fabrication techniques into the hands of as many people as we can. The right to bear arms holds no water in the US as the DoD so massively outweighs any possible resistance the populace could offer; the only way to safeguard our democracies is to bring the scales back to level.
Usually more like a 2 to 4 mm gap. A direct strike won’t even notice that. It already jumped thousands of meters lol. I’ve had electronics destroyed sitting on a wooden table that weren’t even plugged in (battery powered) when lightning struck a tree 10 meters from my house. I don’t think there was any arcing to my house, so it was most likely just EMP from the blast (which blew small parts of the tree through exterior and interior walls into the living room)

I’m now in the process of finishing my new all concrete house with 12” solid walls lol. Screw lightning. It’s not a rational reaction, but it’s my reaction.
Maybe, but simultaneously its performance on any slightly more complex/heavy-weight PDF file is still noticeably inferior.