skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I do understand that. My issue is with Drew DeVault's blog linked at the top, which I quoted. My advice is that if someone is hitting out at you then reply with statements, evidence and not emotional hyperbolic language. As the chief of any project, you set the tone of the project and blog entries like this are counter-productive if one wishes to run a healthy community.

That's solely my point.
Generally speaking, cost of living is proportional to income; I could move inside my small country to a place twice as big, but if I were to get a job close to where I live it'd slash my wages by a lot to the point where I wouldn't actually be able to live there.

That said, if you can work remotely, you can move south or east and live a lot cheaper. It just has to be your thing to move to a new country.
social media is replacing the traditional ways of communicating ideas (which have been tv, radio, newspapers, and school curriculum & textbooks)...but now the elites cannot really control social media, as much as they want to control social media and as much as they try to control social media...they cannot.....

and control of what goes into young minds is THE most important commodity for elites...shaping young minds is how the elites control the future ("Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it," Proverbs 22 6)

and the elites don't like losing that control...they want to set the future path for youth; they want to create the adults that youth will become....and so the elites are trying to restrict channels of communication into young minds that the elites cannot control...they are doing that by demonizing social media...
DigitalOcean seems to be dropping FreeBSD support
from email:

> Beginning June 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the cloud control panel. You will still be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the API until July 1, 2022, but after July 1, 2022, only legacy FreeBSD Droplets will remain on the platform (...)

> Rest assured: Existing FreeBSD Droplets and FreeBSD Droplets created from May 1, 2022–July 1, 2022 will continue to work as usual despite these changes to our offerings.
Just adjusted my 2014 MacBook Pro using the recommended Fontsmoothingadjuster app - makes a big difference!
There is some (renewed) interest but in various niches..

https://linkedopenactors.org/

https://codeberg.org/openEngiadina/cpub (though parent project switched to XMPP)

https://github.com/andstatus/andstatus/issues/499 (though stalled)
>just end up hiring nice but mediocre people

I think a company can scale better with nice mediocre employees, rather than hardworking assholes. Hugely dependent on domain of course, some are more technical than others, and there are other factors too. But if no specialist talent is needed, I think a company is better off with okay but nice talent. The individual niceness will translate into productive communication, which sets a healthy atmosphere, which leads to less stress, lower employee turnover, and in general a less problematic team and workplace in general.
You are wrong. If you are truly interested in what's happened there, Internet has plenty of information about that period - just go and read it.
During his first term Putin's government implemented a number of successful economic reforms that boosted growth and helped to reallocate profits from oil and gas to support the economy. Those reforms continued what has started in 1990s, but they had to happen to enable real growth (esp. tax reform).

1. Tax reform: flat income tax of 13%, reduction in total number of taxes by 70%, reduction in social security tax, introduction of severance tax (captured 84% of profits from oil and gas in state budget)

2. Zero budget deficit and significant reduction of foreign debt

3. Reform of land ownership: created free market of the land

4. New Labor code and pension reform

5. Reform of banking sector and new bankruptcy law
Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to an extinct marine arthropod
You are talking about millenias and not teen. Most of us where 20 when 2008 happend and then the eurocrises…. Jobs ate getting worse paid in releation to inflation … and and and and … wait till teens are late 20s then they are fucked
Of course, complaints about what's on topic at HN always have the same, correct answer—it's on topic at HN if it's of interest to hackers, whether or not it's about hacking.

All the same, while I understand that blog entries don't have to be about anything in particular, I am curious about what made this worth surfacing here. There's a roundabout with some bunnies, people are feeding them, and it's not really clear who but no-one seems to mind—is there some significance to the story I'm missing, or was it just a pleasant bit of news?
> One. They lived through one major recession

If seems like one continuous recession since 2008 - at least here in the UK, and I suspect also in many places. Nearly a decade and a half of austerity and failure: what does that do to their hopes for the future? My children (both teenagers) ask me "has it always been like this?" I was a child/teen in the seventies and I remember thinking the same thing.

Add to that the perma-war, the climate crisis, massive and pervasive social inequality, housing and employment precarity, Trump/Putin, Brexit...

> Perhaps it's social media that makes that they are either too aware of it or simply mention it more often.

Teenagers know what's coming down the road. They just, broadly, haven't developed the adult habits of denial and avoidance yet. We need to listen to them, not tell them that they are "too aware".
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If I could go back and change one thing about my teenagers' educations it would be to homeschool them during the middle school years. They go from ~30 interpersonal relationships in elementary school to upwards of ~150 to ~210 in middle school at a time when they, or their classmates, are beginning adolescence.
Language designers have every right to avoid complex features if such a feature impede the language in any way.

Hare does the smart thing - it decouples the library distribution model from the language.

After all, it's the programmers job to make sure that distribution and packaging of his/her library is as simple as possible.
Interesting report.
I think we should ban teenagers/children from having smart phones. Calling and texting aside, teenagers don't need phones.
As an education tool, laptops/desktops are invaluable for teenagers. I'm uncertain of the best way to manage these devices with teenagers. Perhaps limiting the internet connection to their devices might work - e.g. only for an hour when a parent is around. Perhaps parents do not provide enough protection.

Broadly encouraging positive behaviours and exercise, and giving teenagers good defenses against difficult issues (bullying, negative thoughts, loneliness) could all help.
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A heartwarming story, but the thought that someone is now driving around in a modded car with a self-driving system installed by someone whose experience with the command line amounts to a few (half-completed?) online ML courses and who had never done hardware modifications before does make me feel uneasy.

Really not trying to be dismissive here, and I realize it was only the setup not writing the full software, but there's probably still a zillion things that could be missing / go wrong if you don't really know what you're doing (which is the case if you need a tutorial and help from Discord at every other step, let's be honest). "Failing forward" may work for consumer-facing web startups where nothing really sensitive is on the line, but if your software can physically accelerate two tons of metal to 100mph, it's a bit of a different game.
They're not talking specifically about climate change. Doomsayers have always existed, warranted or not. Previously, it seemed inevitable that the cold war would end in a massive nuclear exchange and yet here we are. That was a very real threat, just like climate change, but it was avoided. We also have AI/Singularity doomsayers right now and, previously, Bird flu, SARS, Ebola, etc. and where the doom actually came, humanity has survived just fine.

Through all of that, everything has gotten better.
Digital Ocean's "App Platform" is pretty nice, although not as slick as Heroku -

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform

Railway.app is pretty nice, very slick interface, this has the most "heroku-feel" -

https://railway.app
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Yakuza 0. I've been playing it as "virtual tourism", it's a faithful recreation of one small part of 1980s Tokyo. The environment is really lovingly crafted, and the main story is B Movie schlock in the best way.
> they aren't politicized, don't care about house prices, and don't know what "inflation" even means.

Those things are heavily affecting teenagers mental health even if they don't give a flying about them. Poverty, uncertainty, and anxiety in the family home have serious and lasting, even generational consequences.

The "I'm alright Jack"-ness of that statement is making me actually angry. You think forbidding the social media of 20yo's from your teenagers is making a difference? You put "suffered" in quotes? Gross.
I would say that the mobile phone manufacturers are, if anything, analogous to tobacconists. They do provide access to the noxious stuff, and one may argue it is their main source of income, but they also provide other non-harmful and even necessary products (depending on culture, in Spain for instance tobacconists would traditionally also sell postal stamps, bus tickets, etc.).
> cloud providers’ incentives are aligned with growth which naturally mean easy accessibility; hence all the defaults being generally “open”

So no different from every VC funded startup (or startup seeking VC funding) then?

The sentiment of imposing tighter regulations around data security feels counter to the general idea that the lack of regulations around data security (e.g. strong data protection laws) are what allows the US tech industry to dominate compared to its EU equivalents.

I'm not disagreeing with this, I'm just pointing out the contradiction and wondering how those who believe the latter would reconcile that belief with demanding the former.
> You can BYO SAML provider if you like, you'll just have to pay for it

Their website makes it seem like you can do SSO/MFA with even the free personal plan though. If you cannot integrate with your SSO provider then that's just marketing bullshit.

What they should really put there is "Can only sign in with Google/Github/Microsoft account".
That is very interesting. Do you have a link to more info about this? The only thing I could find was where they advertise their third party property management partners, not where they do it themselves. The service you describe could be incredibly attractive and have huge potential.
This feels like they are so full of themselves. They should have simply summarized it as, ‘Revenue greatly dropped in 2020, and the subsequent increase is inversely correlated to the level of society’s fear of covid.’

Instead, they have to throw in a bunch of self-aggrandizing startup bullshit.
I can't prove you wrong I'm afraid, because the only difference between the two is a weapon. But this is the two-sided sword in a lot of technological advancements; advances in medical science can be used to create bioweapons for example; advances in nuclear physics allowed both the nuclear fission and fusion generator, but also the nuke, and spaceflight evolved from long distance missiles and alongside ICBMs, the push was for both scientific and military progress simultaneously.
> Interestingly, EBUGs have a pretty good record -- teams using an EBUG have won 3 of 4 games

This is mostly coincidental: the goalies only appeared in the dying minutes or seconds of games their teams were already leading.
I would like to take the time to discuss how humanity can make a drone swarm that can fly through a dense bamboo-forest with 30 cm spacing of the trees but fail to make a video player that have any type of time controls in 2022...
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>We are currently headed to a 3 degrees C temperature increase. Which will cause global hardship on a massive level, but it's not anywhere near what's needed to wipe out even civilization let alone all/most humans.

No but with that also comes a bigger variance in extremes. Which brings more things like the current ridiculous heatwave and crop issues in india and pakistan which have what...1.5 billion people? Things like this should absolutely shock people. Much much smaller things like 9/11 have caused shocked and awe.
Well, it's even harder for insiders. What makes you think the would-be be reformers are outsiders anyway?

Further down this thread, someone brought up their sight reading tutor program. That's a very classic "solution" to the problem.

Also very classic is that when the well meaning "insider" who approves of classical notation finds out that his tutor program didn't really help matters, he'll come up with a reform proposal of his own...

We know that reformed notation systems can increase musical literacy, because they have. Examples are the Scandinavian siffer notation, the Chinese system (which is almost identical to the Scandinavian one, even though developed independently) and the American shape note systems.

But we also know that once they do, there is inevitably a push from educators to "graduate to real notation", and the gains are typically lost within a generation...
Around 1500-1509 Hermann Bote invented Till Eulenspiegel, and was hereby the first modern political satirist.
Far before de Hooghe 1688
I didn't personally upvote it, but I'm happy I saw it, as it was "just a pleasant bit of news" for me and the part about the "drive-by carroting" made me smile.

Also I learned that Aberdeen sees itself as the "Energy Capital of Europe" while I've never heard about the place before, and I've been around in Europe a lot in my years :)
2014 is a curious date, because it's when I first understood that my utterly optimistic outlook on what the internet would do to at least western culture/society was misdirected.

It's when I first noticed how loud, oblivious and frenetic online interaction became at large and how - by self-selection - sociopaths took the lead on the stage that big central platforms provided them. But what I found/find even sadder were/are the engagement numbers around shallow multimedial diarrhea and influencers.

It's also the year I sharply cut back on my internet usage by about 90% and quit all communities (perhaps prematurely, but I was sort of shellshocked).

HN is almost all that's left (except one venerable gaming community) and it itself I consider one of the shallower communities (this is structural because of the lack of longitudinal communication since discussions are keyed on links, not longer-lived standalone threads. The crowd makes up for it though).

And now... I'm glad I made the connections and experiences I did before then, some of which carried over to today. I also learned how the psychopathological spectrum does not just exist in textbooks and how to bail when confronted with it.

Maybe when I have less things on my plate I'll stretch out my feelers once more and visit a couple online villages like I enjoyed so much back then.
> There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.

Sounds like a perfectly cromulent outcome to me, if accurate, you're actually pretty lucky.
It's not really like that at all. I'd look a little deeper than that.
> 'cept with the zero interest and the discharges

Lol, that's the main reason we are balking at it. It's basically a free cash handout. The article doesn't even say it has to be a first home so you could probably take advantage of it and move every 5 years and get what is effectively a free years wage paid for by uncle sam.
> Bluntly? They are a running joke among anybody that has been around the renewable fuels space for longer than a couple years.

> There are no shortcuts around the physics required to assemble a molecule.

So the process is viable, but the cost is prohibitive?
Nonsense. The scientific consensus does not simply say that one thing or another will happen. There is a number of possible scenarios each of which is assigned some likelihood according to modelling(informed by empirical data). No serious scientist is saying "X will happen and that's it". That's an inherently unscientific statement.
I'm not entirely sure that the browser runtimes are suited for this since I watched a friend demo-ing V86 and the amount of crashes with modern OSs just seemed to make it a toy (though I might be proven wrong).

One plausible guess I have is that they might be running out of memory since the browser runtimes are expecting the WASM code to be long lived whilst a emulator JIT by nature should be able to adapt to rapidly changing code and blows out of memory before things are cleaned up.
If you weren't affected you were lucky enough that your parents were in a stable situation and have been able to wither the storm. But I'm sure there were (and still are) kids who aren't so lucky that were affected directly by their parents not being able to afford housing, food or heating.
Isn't that what Feather, the arrow file format, is? https://arrow.apache.org/docs/python/feather.html
By it's very nature, lightning is high enough voltage to leap an air-gap
> Climate change is causing distress, anger and other negative emotions in children and young people worldwide, a survey of thousands of 16- to 25-year-olds has found.

> The results, released in a preprint on 14 September1, found that most respondents were concerned about climate change, with nearly 60% saying they felt ‘very worried’ or ‘extremely worried’. Many associated negative emotions with climate change — the most commonly chosen were ‘sad’, ‘afraid’, ‘anxious’, ‘angry’ and ‘powerless’ (see ‘Climate anxiety’). Overall, 45% of participants said their feelings about climate change impacted their daily lives.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02582-8
You have to differentiates between French Socialist and do communists of the east. French Socialism was very successful in the 70s and 80s. The reason France is so successful today is because of the communist regime in the 70s and 80s.
A regular switch is no match for a lightning strike, there is only a small air gap and it does not take much for an arc to jump over it.

You can often see this even with your regular mains voltage, especially if you have some inductive load (anything with a transformer) attached. A small spark arc is visible when you flick the switch.
I think my comment kinda agrees with this, maybe I didn't make it clear enough though. You can write good or bad code in any language. But because of this, a low barrier to entry is both a blessing and a curse. And as time passes, and the more people touch the code, the higher the chances you end up with something cursed.

So my aversion to Perl could be considered a pragmatic solution to that problem. :-)
> and now we have to deal with source maps and shit

Yeah minification is only really for obfuscation. The small and unpredictable difference is absolutely not worth the ridiculous complex "solution" of source maps. Just the fact that your debugger really doesn't work right, is a deal breaker in and itself, not to mention all the time spent configuring and fighting with webpack.

I don't think any form of "compilation" i.e. bundling, transpiling, minification etc is needed at all. Javascript can already dynamically load (additional) code files when needed, I don't understand why you need to bundle it in the first place.

I don't buy that the http request overheads are so big that it motivates all this complexity, and in the average case a user don't use every single page of the application anyway, so by bundling everything you are always serving "too much", compared to just dynamically loading additional code.
> Often there is only a small period of hunger in a short fast, but this can even disappear with practice.

I did a fast which lasted a few weeks (18days) and I could have carried on doing it for longer but I had to break it, I lost 1kg a day. Never felt so good whilst doing it, no hunger.

I think copper supplementation before fasting might help with going into a fast at will. Any nausea from copper is probably Interleukin-2 and its possible, never done chemo, but there might be copper in chemo which will explain the nausea along with the effects of Interleukin-2 which is nausea and fatigue. Copper RDA recently been lowered, controversial, from a cancer prevention perspective.

> Hence doing a workout during fasting gives the best bang for the buck.

Its why the military get recruits up and running before breakfast. The military know how to get people fit fast.

Nicotinic acid on an empty stomach will also cause a spike in a growth hormone.
https://nutritionreview.org/2013/08/niacin-cholesterol-wars-...

The more fat in the diet the more the prostaglandin (the sunburn effect flush) & growth hormone response is blunted.

Niacinamide does not give you this effect, only nicotinic acid, both are classed as vitamin B3.

Nicotinic Acid in high doses can also cause abortions reportedly which might be topical for some but something to be aware of.

Also check out Herbet Shelton who was part of something called the Hygienists, he wrote a few books, but his attitude was if the fast kills you then there is nothing medicine could have done for you anyway, controversial but might be true.
https://archive.org/stream/fastingcansaveyourlifebyherbertm....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684131/

If you get into trouble whilst at Forth Worth or Fort Bragg, they slam you in a tin shack with nothing but water and a multi vitamin to suffer the blazing heat and sweat it out. What do they know?

Supposedly, 15mins in a 80 degreeC sauna sweats more toxins than the kidneys can process in a 24hr period, so perhaps the US mil consider toxins to be the cause of bad behaviour?!?
>> I'm trying to make a site that's just pure HTMX though, to see how it turns out

I’m in exactly the same boat, i’m (maybe unrealistically) trying to avoid using anything but htmx

https://github.com/craigjperry2/mingo
From the earlier reply:

distinguished voices (stem up v down)

That's a very important one that might not survive across re-transcription. Although in this case, Clairnote is similar enough that it might generally be possible to retain all the stem directions.
I mean sure, here in Sweden there are big camp sites that are essentially grass parking lots where people squeeze in their camper vans or sometimes even tents like sardines. They have amenities, maybe even a mini golf course!, but that's a completely different thing. Nobody would compare that to actual camping, and most people think it's crazy and make fun of it.

But what shocked me in the US was that there are "nature" camp sites where you more or less drive up to a designated, single tent spot where you pitch your tent. It's baffling and seems to entirely defeat the purpose of camping in nature.
Not op, but I don't think op is trivializing how pandemic impacted youth, I think he's saying that youngster are more resilient than we think they are and we project ours fears on them.

And than we trivialize how dangerous it is for their well being being bombarded by stories of personal success over nothing (being a popular tik toker is 99.99% luck) and let them do it anyway, because having to actually talk to them, have a meaningful relation with them or simply entertain them is hard and takes a lot of time and effort.
so we let the screen rise them.