skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpopular opinion: Social media is a great scapegoat, but it is not the source of the problem. It is where they go to communicate and cope. My sole qualification to post this: I have four kids that are either teens or in their early 20s, and one who will be a teen next year. Here is what I see out there:

1. Kids have little or no slack in their schedule. This means very little freedom, and very little time to work things out mentally. School, practice, volunteer, homework, bed, do it all again. This builds up to a very difficult to unwind ball of stress, anger, fear and despair.

2. Everything is conflicted and unclear. Schools teach cultural tolerance while enforcing zero-tolerance policies. Diversity is good, but being ____ is bad. So many areas where what we teach and preach are the opposite of what policies and actions actually do.

3. The stakes are too high. View the wrong website on your chromebook and get referred to law enforcement. Have a kid send you the wrong selfie and get charged with a sex crime. Get a bad grade and you are off the volleyball team, and you won't make the team next year - so done forever. Misbehave and you'll be arrested by the resource officer and face time at juvi, and potentially a conviction that will be held against you for a very long time (in some states juvi convictions count against three strikes laws).

3. Kids are targeted. Sexual predators, gangs, fringe and mainstream ideologues looking to recruit followers, sports agents and talent scouts all have one thing in common: they want to exploit kids or sell them something.

It's really hard to be a kid right now, and that needs to change. We need to lower the stakes, the stress and have something that resembles consistency.
This is an incredibly toxic outlook that fails to take into account that women are also fully featured humans with personalities. As a man, you likely get along with people both nerdier and less nerdy than you. Women do the same.
If anyone happens to know the Brightcove video API

Account: 53038991001

Video 1 ID: 6305520207112

Video 2 ID: 6305519415112

API: https://apis.support.brightcove.com/playback/getting-started...

For request video by ID:
https://edge.api.brightcove.com/playback/v1/accounts/{accoun...

Let's try:

https://edge.api.brightcove.com/playback/v1/accounts/5303899...

No joy for me, seems to want a request-policy-key, but if someone else wants to take a stab...
I've watched "Watership Down" as a child. It's one of my more vivid memories from back then to put it mildly.
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Yes. Winess Java.
I strongly relate to your example - I find crowded places extremely stressful, but not in a way that leads to impaired functioning, but that seems to take an inordinate amount of time to recover from. I'm not sure how I feel about forming a diagnosis from that as a diagnosis seems to imply some sort of disordered functioning while to me it is simply normal neuro-diversity and not at all pathological.

On the other hand, if identifying these aspects of how our brains function can lead to concrete improvements in quality of life, it seems crass to deprive someone of that. I do wish, though, that we had ways to describe our neurological functioning without it necessarily becoming a clinical diagnosis. I can be tired on a hike and use a walking stick without first needing to see a doctor to diagnose the condition of my legs.
well stop bloody venting on me.

jerk
This is hardly a whitespace issue
Yes, I was referring to how the nomination was stolen from Obama. The nominee they had in mind was in fact moderate, and in the past Congress had never wielded its power to block a nomination because it was done in the last year of a presidency. The fact that the Republicans pushed their own nomination at the last minute was just adding insult to injury. I think we have to be clear about what is legal and what is legitimate here. It is legal for the Democrats to pack the Court, and there is even precedent for that. They also have congressional majorities that in theory allow for that. However, it would be illegitimate to do so.

> I find it unfair to the point of outright incivility though to escalate a debate about the fairness of it the level of calling the appointment _illegitimate_, and is disrespectful to a fine and honorable institution.

A fine and honorable institution which has upheld slavery, segregation, imprisonment camps, and the list goes on. The SCOTUS is not above criticism, and change can only occur if we treat them for what they are, servants of the people.
what you need, in addition to surge protection at the electrical device, is a whole house surge protector. It will stop the lightning strike immediately. Mine was 120.00USD plus 75.00 to install. totally worth it. These are used in place of lighting rods.

https://www.thisoldhouse.com/electrical/21194149/how-effecti...
I have to agree with most of your points, even if they seem to be US problems to a large extent. What social media does, so, IMHO is enabling and aggrevating those problems.
I mean the simplest explanation is that there's a price fixing cartel where everyone benefits by not trying to undercut each other.
Concur. Persist and reap ongoing improvement. I identify with globular-toast's self-description and experiences, but often erred in relationships (both personal and professional) in the opposite way as well, that is, by over-accommodating and failing to see the end had long passed. Finding the balance of im/patience, but not too much, with both others and myself, has been a permanent project, with many and increasing successes.
you are incorrect. a whole house surge protector will stop a lighting strike. its what they are designed for.
last I've seen the Oauth permissions for the Heroku Dashboard given by Github are excessive and include write access to all public repos - as read-only is not an option if I recall correctly, see https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/113#issuec...

Newer integrations like Github Apps are more granular and can restrict the scope , also ssh deploy keys are an option for other purposes, but specifically the tokens issued for the Heroku Dashboard can write to the public repos of a user or org.
How Crossrail was affected by the curvature of the Earth (2018)
This is likely the most bloated and worst designed website I've ever seen.
They used to have terrible location weighting. I guess based on average tech sector salaries, but there aren’t tech jobs in my area so maybe they were picking up support call centre workers or something and it was a quarter of a reasonable tech salary, even for their highest tier. And this was the UK not anywhere more unusual.

There were also suspicious tiny pockets of higher compensation areas which made me think actually they just rigged it if they had to reach higher for an individual.

Transparent doesn’t mean fair or good.
I prefer the online approach regardless of downtime. Breaking the migration into incremental and backwards compatible steps is less stressful with smaller tail risk exposure than trying to do it as a single state transition. I think the parallel change approach seems more complicated at first but ends up taking less work and less effort in the long run because of increased safety and incrementalism.
Ah, my beloved MDD: Magpie Driven Development

http://www.nichesoftware.co.nz/2021/07/10/magpie-driven-deve...
You say hi to your neighbors and decide to be friends with them actively, and without requiring them to be exactly like you and agree with you on all topics.

I haven't done this myself in the appartment I've been renting for over 10 years. I used to in other places but for some reason not here. Residential neighborbood in NJ.

Only a few weeks ago a retired neighbor across the street, somehow, had the idea that I would be a good person to ask to help get his wifes laptop working with dual external monitors. He was correct of course but how did he get that impression? I helped them and it turns out they are a lovely couple that our two housholds could be great friends with each other.

We could have been friends for over 10 years, but I never approched them and untill last month they never approached me.

I think in my case I simply don't partake in some of the ways most people get involved in each others lives. I don't have kids so there are all kinds of things around kids that I'm just not there. I'm not religious so I don't go to any kind of church. I don't like sports enough to actually spend any time doing it. Not on any teams or anything.

I have a fair number of friends, and when we get together it's great, but they don't live next door and can't hang out. I only see them at occasional events, either a party or some event we're all going to.

My partner is involved in community theater which exposes her to a lot of somewhat local people but still not our actual neighborhood.

To become friends with your neighbors, you have to just do it. Even though I haven't where I am now, I have in the past. In my case since this is a street with standalone houses and not an appartment building, there are lots of opportunities to see a neighbor working on something on their yard or their car and just walk up and talk about that. I don't know if it would be easier or harder in an appartment building.

And of course it doesn't always work. I just remembered way back when I first moved here I noticed one guy up the block has a couple nice antique cars he works on in his garage. I'm into cars and stopped to talk to him one day, and he let me, he wasn't rude but didn't really engage and was pretty much just waiting for me to leave so I left and never bothered him again.

And one of my neighbors is a full-on nut job who gets into screaming matches with everyone and the cops are at his house a couple times a year. That one I actively keep away not just through negligence. Maybe the rest of his family knows he's crazy too and I could be friends with them.

Probably wherever you are there is also a shall we say "full spectrum" so just don't let that fact of life discourage you from meeting whoever else will play.
Wouldn't someone have said the same thing about PVs 20 years ago, though?
Case/control is not the only kind of analysis you can do here. You could define a numerical scale describing someone's degree of "autistic-ness" and train a classifier on that instead of a binary categorization, for example. Obviously there are challenges in doing so, just as there are with the binary case. But if a continuous scale turns out to be a better match for the underlying phenomenon, then obviously it's worth modeling in that way.
Remember the hype for NFV? Whatever happened with that?
It’s probably my biggest gripe with nim. I hope they drop it and provide a tool like gofmt to get everyone’s code into the same style.
But actually the underlying price of crude hasn't been ridiculous, whereas the price of petrol at the pump has skyrocketed. It's the gap between the two that has grown and hence oil company profits.
That sounds more like fiber optic adapters/converters that fit into usb-ports and talk usb, rather than USB-cables that can be 50+ meters.
Life will give those hard lessons out for free - why build a curriculum for it?
> I did a fast which lasted a few weeks (18days) [...] I lost 1kg a day

That seems unlikely.

1kg is 7,700 calories. You'd have to burn about 5,700 calories in exercise, which would be something like a 200km bike ride completed without eating anything.

Maybe a serious athlete who had specifically trained for that could do it for one day, but I don't think anyone could do that for 18 days. For a start, I don't think they'd be fit enough to do it if they had 18kg of excess weight they could lose.
Yes, Bambi is an utterly depressing story.

Most original material Disney adapted was bleakier and more grisly than the adaptation.

Most of the tales collected by brothers Grimm would today be horror stories. (Did you know that Cinderella's evil stepsisters had their toes and heels cut off so they could fit in the slippers? Or that the ravens pecked their eyes as punishment? Or that Maleficent ends up in a boiling cauldron full of vipers?)

I bet Disney would be able to adapt even something like "Requiem for a Dream" into a happy hero-coming-of-age story.

You lose a lot if the only version of these classics you've seen (or read, or heard) is Disney's sweet & shiny simulacra.
Experience is the best teacher™
Watching the current war, I think those drones are not that useful: slow, short-range, suspectible to bad weather and visibility, and carrying too small warhead.

So it's like using a laptop to hammer a nail. There are way more deadliest, simplest and reliable solutions, unfortunately.
Microsoft excel driving an astonishingly large number of business processes.
Why do you need to eat you softy? Can't you just make it a week without eating?
My sister, now 27, was diagnosed with psychosis about 10 years ago. Her real social life was plummeting and i couldn’t notice it since i was living away. But apprently she was obsessed with social media, particularly twitter back then. At one point, she came to our parents saying thay “people put cameras at home and they are watching her”. So, she totally lost it. Immediately diagnosed and started using heavy medication. She totally lost touch with real life and human interaction. She still wouldn’t talk for hours if you sit in the same room. Still obsessed with social media. She has 20k followers on instagram (not sure how much of it is real though). And if you look at her instagram profile, it
‘S totaly a different person. Fancy dresses, fancy restaurants, bars etc. but in real life, she’s a total loser with no single friend. Doctor says it’s only medication that can help. I don’t believe it. I believe she has to also get therapy sessions. But my family doesn’t believe it. They are old , too tired to deal with this. Probably they also need therapy. And i do as well. But living abroad, with my wife and little daughter, i can’t really influence these decisions. So all i do is being sad. A teenager’s life was totally ruined because of this. Maybe it’s not entirely social media’s fault but i’m sure it plays a big role.
Just a little advice, if you see your kid or sibling being isolated, untidy and spend more and more time on social media, please try to stop it before it gets out of control.
Just my 2 cents.
If I get stabbed in Italy the newspaper would title “A 34 year old boy has been stabbed in the park”, if a 18 year old get stabbed in the UK the newspaper would title “A 18 year old man has been…”
HNews adds the user name for gitHub links in the title of a post, it could be handy to add this for YouTube links too, perhaps for other websites.

I guess gitHub user names has more currency on HNews.
More and more people are living as a lower class, relationships are fragile, internet and social media is more integrated into our lives causing shallow over socialization, short attention span and addiction for attention / likes / whatever, broken families / families with mental issues, unstable economy, owning being replaced with renting, loneliness, and increasing race against other people for financial and social survival, honestly it all looks pretty bleak, even more so for the people younger than me.

Also for some people the country waging war and spreading propaganda of surrounding countries nearby isn't helping things either.
Should health professionals run a campaign to advise parents not to let their teenage children have mobile phones? Severely resticrt internet access to them?
it does that for a few sites - problem with YT is probably that you can't just get it from the URL.
sure. the article is good. i just had in mind the grandparents interpretation visavis cultural differences. i found it interesting since on my first reading i imagined brad as a typical childhood as described to me as personal experiences of my asian (incl indian) friends and i found it interesting that they have an opposite interpretation whith which my experiences also align somewhat

some people play the maths game, some people play the school game, some people play the philosophy game, etc. its an interesting simple take on life. what is an interesting problem to me is how to optimise for the games we choose to play while taking into account societal pressures to specialize in one game
My assumption, I'm in my 40s now, has been since before going to University that my state pension, if any, will be a bonus I can share with grand kids. I have to find a way to finance retirement myself, somehow. Which is bleak, even bleaker for all those low paying blue collar "job" that sprung up in the last two decades. And I don't think the gig economy is rock bottom for now.

Is this the root cause forental health issues? I don't think so. I'd rate climate change, uncertainty and media living of controversial topics and FUD as serious reasons as well. All topped by social pressure. And all of that is drven, enabled and aggrevated by the current social media. We will figure it out, as we figured out mass media before. Maybe we just started figuring it out. Until er do so, we will pay a price.

Would ve interesting to hear what the affected people, teenagers, have to say about all that.
That's not necessarily a reason to push conversations to the middle.
That seems to be a key reason for fairy tales and such things— gentle preparation for life. It’s better to be equipped before battle rather than being tossed into the fray wholly unawares.
Of course USB-C makes this worse, but the problem already started earlier: a few years ago I connected my phone to my computer with a USB-A to micro USB cable and was scratching my head why it didn't work. Then I remembered that the cable had come with some Bluetooth headphones and was only a charging cable without data lines...
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These are basically Manhacks from Half Life 2
Yes, every decision has its share of criticism. Roe is unusual in that it rested on such a remarkably flimsy basis (part of which was rejected in Casey).

It is not the first time that a longstanding doctrine has been completely thrown out, even after a gap of decades. Courts aren't infallible. Are they supposed to persist in error forever?

And yes, Roe absolutely was in error, and yes the Court has been deficient in its duties over the past 50 years in not correcting it, undoubtedly for fear of the political impact.
But apply the same logic to any other product.

If you made widgets, and you knew demand was 5 units, would you make 20? Of course not.

The power of OPEC has also decreased over time as other sources of oil have made up a larger percent.
Which means it does work, as a malpattern. If your customers can't get through the bullshit to cancel that reduces churn.

(Though this ignores the consumer-side counter, which is sort of a malpattern but IMO justified when the company makes cancellation difficult, of just cancelling the credit card authorization. Code 41 chargebacks are a beautiful thing.)
I am for housing assistance. Heck, I am actually for free housing. I think Maslow's bottom row should be provided for, providing it is done in a healthy and sustainable way.

That last caveat is why I am against this.

They are giving/loaning (PO-tat-O vs PO-ta-TO) $140k to people who have not been able to save up that amount, and may not be able to pay it back in 5 years. There are roughly 669k non-senior adults in San Jose. We know half of them are under $130k a year (~330k). Let's say 2/3 of those are under $104k (~220k). Most of them probably do not own a home (this is an assumption and could be faulty). Let's say half use this program (110k) and half of that use it again each year as new homebuyers reach adulthood. That's $11.44b the first year and ~6b every subsequent year. San Jose's entire operating budget for 2020-2021 was $4.6b.

Forget that this is essentially an extreme example of sub-prime lending if you look at it as a loan. This does not seem to be sustainable in any way, or expandable across CA.
With fear of rejection from other people as one of my greatest anxiety drivers, I can relate a lot.

One of my favorite learnings about the topic recently though is that saying "yes", "maybe" or even just staying silent is effectively the same as saying "no", just in other dimensions: and vice versa.

Saying no to nuclear means saying yes to coal.

Saying yes to doing something I don't like because I don't want to offend someone also means saying no to being honest and enjoying myself.

Just embracing that the vast majority of decisions have the potential to offend — but that this offense is also not my own but the recipients' feeling, originating from _their_ belief systems that I have no control over — was immensely liberating to me.
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In the US you pay more IN TAX per person than other countries pay for their entirely otherwise free healthcare. Yet you have insurance, and have to pay premiums ON TOP of that!
This is something I've been thinking about as a user (provisioner) of cloud services like Heroku, AWS, Google, and VMs from Linode and Digital Ocean. Especially with the potential of state actors trying to cripple large businesses (I don't actually know how serious a threat this is TBH).

Sure they take security further (I hope) than I would provisioning my own hardware, but I also worry about how large a target they are and how much more complex their systems are (increasingly large attack surface).

It's appealing to just let someone else handle my hosting, including security, but I also wonder if I'd be better off running colocated metal. I mean I still have to worry about the hosts network and physical security when colocating, but it's a much smaller attack surface, and also a far smaller target than massive hosts like AWS.

I think cloud provider's might need to level up their security practices, even if it incurs some friction with their customers and staff. I don't even know if it is feasible to evolve as fast as potential attackers from a cost perspective over the long term for many (or all) of them.

Not to single anyone out, but take Digital Ocean as an example. They're constantly adding features to their platform. I assume this increases their attack service? How much weight are they giving to security as they add features? I assume quite a lot, but I don't really know! Another example is AWS, who are constantly growing their features / services (to the point where it's near impossible to navigate all of their offerings!). Every cloud provider is doing the same.

There's also no real accountability. If my database on Heroku (or another provider) is compromised it could have a massive impact on my business, but at most it might mean losing a customer for my hosting provider, and maybe some bad press (not really enough though IMO). So the incentives aren't perfect.
And I was playing the "argue with strangers on the internet" game.

Can you please post something that's easy to disagree with, so that I can tell you're wrong and feel better about myself?
Doom became my favorite game lately since I started going down Doom history with Doomworld.

https://www.doomworld.com/25years/

The AI is certainly limited, but the maps too, Doom not being a true 3D engine. The core mechanics is walk into a trigger, it's either a trap or a puzzle. It's really fun, and you don't get the impression that the AI is not up to the task.

I however like to play with a mouse, and use modern weapons from Beautiful Doom. Unlike Brutal Doom, Beautiful Doom was careful to preserve the original game. It makes weapons a bit more powerful, but you need to reload them. This makes combat a bit faster, a bit more challenging, minus the use of mouse that makes combat easier. Beautiful Doom has been compatible with every WAD I played so far too.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/beautiful-doom-6100

I like to use GZDoom, without texture filtering, and with software sector light mode that emulates the original look, and smooth fuzz style for rendering invisibility. The default options are too bright, and invisibility is too visible. Most maps are designed for the original look too, it's worth approximating it.