skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An opinion piece written by a rabbit?

https://bigthink.com/the-present/5-reasons-why-america-will-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/opinion/america-falling-a...

https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/four-s...

The contemporary assertion that america is collapsing is well established by the entire political spectrum as well as objective observers internationally.

>I realize that to a large extent, “doomerism”, as the kids call it, is just self-expression. We just went through a massive pandemic that killed a million of us, we had an era of riots and coup attempts and random acts of terrorism, crime is high, inflation is eating away at people’s paychecks and savings, and there are rumblings of major war from overseas.

That is the collapse... you just proved it's happening. There has been 2 years of racial unrest and so far minor insurrections.

>Nor do I want to deny that the country faces real risks. If WW3 starts, that’ll be a calamity. We could also have a civil war in 2024-5 over a disputed presidential election result. It’s even possible that inflation could spiral out of control and turn us into Venezuela.

Midterms are this year and we are going into another summer of racial unrest. It's inevitable another black person is killed by police brutality who doesnt get punished because of immunity. If the food shortages happen you're going to have riots which are hungry. BLM is only popular during elections and midterms are this year.

>The economy is not collapsing

Your first graph shows no peak since 2000? How terrible. Prime age working and there hasnt been a peak since 2000?

>Once we control for the Baby Boomer retirement by looking only at the “prime age” population between 25 and 54,

Because why? What does the boomer graph look like? Really bad eh? I know you looked and chose not to include.

Wage growth tracker also peaked around 2000. 2 decades of failure?

>Yes, we had some huge protests and riots in 2020. Yes, crime is way up. We even had a (shambolic, ridiculous, halfhearted) coup attempt. Yes, there’s even a slight danger that a disputed 2024 election could lead to civil war. I do not deny any of these things.

Is this post meant to be sarcastic and it doesn't read like it? I assume your 'coup' attempt was Jan 6... the weaponless trespassing for a couple hours? Not a very good coup is it. Or are you referring the multiple insurrection autonomous zones that existed for days to weeks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

This roe vs wade thing is because of #metoo. It's only vaguely part of the collapse. Men vs women(and however incels fit in) isn't majorly part of the polarization and collapse.
OK, I see what you are getting at now. I was expecting to see something about the public support for the implementation where voting is contingent on paying fines.
> and typical precursor for a significant state change event in complex systems.

We're about to rediscover food chains and the domino effect sprinkled with a heavy dose of "told you so"
Thanks Neil - I certainly do not mean to disparage your success or work done with your writing. I think part of my comment is driven by the need for someone on HN to post something cynical.

I think there is just some mental fatigue that happens when you read about other's success - maybe this is an unhealthy reaction, I do not know.
Or they had family with money and connections.
> Vertical Slice Architecture

I didn't realize it had a name like that. I've always just called it "package by feature" (Java). Been using it for over 10 years at this point.
I'm sorry, what do you mean by that? By the top bar are you referring to the orange (header) bar?
Yes. I think we are actually agreeing?

Still, even with those observations, it's still true that artillery (true artillery, not just rockets/missiles, but actual dumb shells raining over your enemy) is a devastating all-weather weapon, the only true all-weather weapon. I guess it's also comparatively cheap. If the Russians don't care about casualties (either civilians or their own troops), and they are in no rush to gain air superiority, they can continue raining semi-accurate shells on their enemies, inaccurate intel be damned. Eventually they'll hit something.

I think it's unrealistic to think this strategy will win in a war against NATO though, even without nukes being involved.
As someone who owns a lifestyle business, I think the domain of lifestyle businesses is almost entirely distinct from that of startups. Something that has the potential to be a startup (massive growth), could not be "held back" to remain a lifestyle business. And things that are lifestyle business generally cannot be grown at the pace of a startup.

Almost by definition, a lifestyle business lacks the potential for massive growth. If it has it, and the owner tries to 'hold it back' someone else will come along and capture the rest of the market. The incentive to do so is large.

Occasionally, you will see privately held businesses that have the potential of startups, but they are not lifestyle businesses (maybe mailchimp). They grow into full fledged businesses that just happen to be privately held. They will often find ways of funding their growth (and have options for doing so), even if that isn't VC.

That said, lifestyle businesses are awesome for your lifestyle. I didn't think I wanted one until I ended up with one, and it turns out high-ish income, total control of your time, and direct positive relationships with customers are a great lifestyle for me.
Yep, probably should be using a screwdriver. A drill is probably overkill since it’s designed for drilling and not screwing…
True although many targeted you young adults are on the sweet side. Hard lemonade, sparkling wines, etc.
I think what you just described is called "A Business"
I never use sunscreen at the ocean, both because I just hate putting it on and because I always thought it was probably not the best thing to put that crap directly into the ecosystem. Unless I'm spending a ton of time at the beach, which rarely happens, I feel like I can deal with an hour or so of that kind of sun exposure every now and then.

If one is spending a ton of time in the sun, then yeah, use sunscreen. Since I'm indoors most of the time, I rarely find sunscreen that helpful. Anecdotally, I think I became more sun tolerant after changing my diet. In short, I highly limit eating processed foods and stick to meat and some plants that are low in natural defense chemicals. Since that's a low-inflammatory diet, maybe that explains it. But I'm purely speculating.
With SQLite you embed the DB in the application. If I have 6 Kubernetes pods and the pod containing the writer dies, all other 5 pods will be useless.
In the Dark Playground right away :(

I waste a lot of time on Hacker News and checking other social media, then I freak out that's it's almost lunch time and I wasted yet another morning and proceed to have another stressful day full of guilt because I completely lost my work discipline and can't seem to find a way to get it back.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti...
GIS Arta Ukrainian artillery coordination software (please use translate)
Eve Online is the best game I'll never play again.
To be honest, rather than magical blessed keys held by a few orgs, I'd feel more comfortable with a slightly larger number of individual reviewers (and prosaic keys), each with some kind of visible distance metric related to the codebase they're signing artifacts for.

For example: "ah yes, a core contributor, a frequent code reviewer, and two downstream consumers of this library have signed off on the changes in this release. even if one of them is having a distracted day/week, that's good enough for our team to be comfortable upgrading it today since it's a minor version upgrade"
3 things to avoid saying as a Product Manager
Ha, it’s not exactly a scientific definition, I think Tesla is a bit meme-y, just not 100% meme-y.
Yes, but there will always be niches where you can make good money, but not enough for the big fish to be interested. For example, my wife uses some statistical software that is apparently pretty popular in her field, but it's still only used within a niche of academia. You might be able to find a niche that brings you $10M/year in profit which is enough to live a lavish lifestyle, but not enough for VCs to fund you or for Amazon to bother competing with you.
Dark Souls and friends, with the help of soulsplanner.com, eg https://soulsplanner.com/darksouls/weaponatk
and you can always just be an investor in a business with simple % ownership and splitting net revenues at any interval you want. no multiple share classes, no liquidity preferences, no need for infinite growth or growth at all

all this is still around ya know

people act like they just forgot
> Reading history to comprehend the present is like watching videos of other people driving, while you are driving

Completely off-topic but watching car accidents video on Youtube clearly made me way more prudent. As long as you have not seen accidents, you feel that you have a way better control of your vehicle that you actually have.

Watching accident video should be a mandatory part of driving training.
300 is nothing compared to the typical Node project. It's typical for a basic React project to have over 14,000 dependencies.
We have at work some HP laptops and got a strong recommandation from IT to not keep them plugged in all day due to the risk of swollen batteries.
Totally forgot about the toilet haha!
Many of the prevailing HR assumptions, including those of some if not all execs, are rooted in early 20th century industrial understanding of human beings. It's deeply rooted in prevailing culture and systems.
Slightly tangential but do you still play Genshin Impact? I used to play for a while before I realized how terrible it was for my mental health and fortunately stopped.
The two are kind of glued together.
HMAC Keys in AWS KMS
this sounds great, and i wish everyone else could have this luxury and privilege, but that's not the case for millions of people. i wish the focus of the convo wouldn't be on "waaah my employer wants me to come back" and more "waah society is fundamentally broken and we are lucky to have such options though our cities need huge reforms"

i mean seriously, i would like to be 100% flex and choose when i go in and not (i virtually do that already) but i know what i signed up for, i enjoy going in to the office, and the mix is good enough for me because i care about my work deeply.

techies don't realise just how abnormal their situation is, and they want society to do for them what it should do for every other person, so i don't really care much for the constant arguments about wfh. just go find a place that lets you do it and then maybe fight for unskilled labour to also have 55" OLED TVs, a fancy coffee machine and the ability to work from home or choose their own hours.
Thanks for sharing your joy in bells. That's an awesome collection of knowledge.
Headline is unclear, and the article isn't much clearer.

tl;dr: there's a 50/50 chance that one year within the next 5 will be more than 1.5°C over baseline. Currently, the record (2016) is 1.25°C.

That's not the same as the IPCC target, which would be a long-term average below 1.5°C above baseline. But reaching a single year at that level, so soon, would be a very strong indicator that we'll see many more years at or above that temperature.
I love this visualisation. Is the script to generate it publicly available?
The coin of science is truth, and history has shown repeatedly that it responds quite poorly when any other goal is incentivised.

That includes "publish or perish" (promotes low-value journal-milling), impact factor (dittos), various forms of degree conferring and/or tenure-gating (journals become gatekeepers to disciplines and careers, and can feed back influence to senior faculty and/or administrators to enshrine that status), and more.

Schopenhauer's essay on authorship is strongly recommended.

Peer review, for all the awe it inspires presently, is quite modern as a significant factor, dating to the 1980s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=peer-reviewed+...
honestly as someone who played it for about 6 years at the peak fun time to play it, its a lot more fun to read about than actually play
HN is allergic to Blockchain; people don't even read the articles they just jump straight into their opinions.

The only exception is Vitalik; sometimes that guy is just too smart to ignore.
It would be great if it had any description. Because it's not very clear what _Sugar Candy Machine_ does. I mean, I guess I understand what it does IRL, but in Rust as a software? It doesn't make any sense to me. Or it's a CLI to some cooking hardware?
You read my comment accurately.
G is the SI prefix for "Giga", meaning 10^9. So, 1Gm is the SI representation of "1 giga meter = 1 billion meters", for example. It's most commonly used in computing, e.g. in 1GHz = 1 billion Hertz. You may have also seen it in power output numbers, such as saying that some power plant produces 1GWh annually (1 giga watt-hours = 1 billion watt-hours).

Of course, in computing G is also sometimes used to mean 2^30. The ISO has allocated the prefixes Ki/Mi/Gi (Kibi, Mebi, Gibi) for that use, so technically my machine has 16 GiB or RAM, which is slightly more than 16GB of RAM would be.
First, I would argue that your statement is not true that successful people always or even generally or on the average know how to be successful. But even if it is true, because they are good at one thing (starting businesses) does not mean they have anything valuable to say, or that they can say it in a way that transfers value to others, or that they are good at anything else, really.

Anyway, you're attacking a premise I didn't put forward - I didn't say his advice was not valuable, I said I feel that way when presented with articles like these by wildly successful people.
>These reversions, due to in effect religious fundamentalism and pandering to what I only hope are minority crowds emboldened by gerrymandering and the electoral college, are concerning. The U.S. will continue to stagnate if all we ever discuss and rabble about are fringe issues. Why is abortion literally a major topic in every presidential election over decades? Abortion is a tough issue no matter what, and so a compromised is needed. There will never be a totally clean solution. Why are people so damn concerned with decisions others make? In Texas, last time I looked, anybody can initiate a lawsuit against a doctor on abortion related issues, making doctors frozen due to legal worries and even reverting to communicating on paper notes that they then throw away. It's insane. We're taking decision making from the educated and giving it to the uneducated.

RvW was a compromise that made both sides feel shafted, like most good compromises. The rise in extremism on both sides is fueling this, not religious fundamentalism. For states like Texas, where most people still hold to vaguely Christian values and new life is valued over choice, they feel like they are forced to allow murder. For other places like California who have a more secular egalitarian leaning, and value choice over life, they feel as though being limited to before viability is too much restriction.

RvW was always on shaky ground legally and morally speaking [1]. Making it a federal issue was always going to lead to this. States are different, some so different they might as well be separate countries. California, for example has already toyed with the idea of making abortion part of their state constitution. With Roe gone, it's much easier to do that, not harder.

Acting like this was done out of a lack of education is reductive and pointless. The justices know what they are doing and what it means. Just because you happen to be against this particular decision does not make it wrong. Abortion rights are not going away, they are being given back to the states where they belonged in the first place. Activists on both sides will just have to deal with the fact that they can no longer dictate how the entire country lives, just because their local bubble agrees with them.

[1]https://www.liveaction.org/news/roe-v-wade-exploitation-mcco...
[2]https://apnews.com/article/california-reproductive-rights-st...
There are better ways. They are also not that expensive for mini servers running a few services.

Fujitsu Esprimo, Fujitsu Futro, Lenovo ThinkCentre, HP EliteDesk, HP ProDesk, ...

Used and refurbished they can be found starting at around 40€ depending on the configuration.

2012 is too old in my eyes (CPU performance per watt)
The best I can think of right now is Inter's (a font) website: https://rsms.me/inter/
Very interesting info about a state-of-the-art distributed application used to coordinate artillery strikes in the Ukraine-Russia war.

Unfortunately, I can find no English language sources, so please use Google (or other) translate - it's good enough.

It's another strong datapoint that (good) software is eating the world, and software is magic.

Found in this Twitter thread, which has context and interpretation:

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1523791050313433088
Disclaimer: I used to work at robinhood

The consolidated bid and the ask across all exchanges make up what's called the NBBO and every one (market makers, exchanges, etc) are required to give you a price equal to or better than the NBBO. So if the bid for SHOP is say $50.00, the ask is $50.10, and you are selling SHOP, its illegal for anyone to give you a price < $50.

Market makers make money by buying low and selling high (and vice versa). They typically look for small movements not large ones. So if a market maker bought SHOP at $50, they would try to sell it at $50.10. This is what everyone means when they say a market maker makes money off the spread.

This strategy works really well when you have large random order flow, which is why market makers want to pay brokerages for order flow. They incentivize brokerages, even ones that charge commission) by giving pfof (payment for order flow) and price improvement on top of the NBBO. This price improvement is passed on directly to the customer.

IIRC, brokerages have a best execution obligation. So they are required to try and execute orders in a way that gets customers the best prices. I don't know about other brokerages but at Robinhood, pfof wouldn't go into our order routing decision at all. We would send orders to the market maker using a model which only considered the historical price improvement they gave our customers.

Because Robinhood order flow is so lucrative for marker makers in aggregate, they were willing to give us really good price improvement. So the execution for options and equity orders at Robinhood be better than other brokerages (even ones you pay commission for)
Desktop 1: Ryzen 7-5800X, 5700XT, 64GB DDR4 RAM, Custom Build(Office Desktop)

Desktop 2: Intel i5, RTX 3060, 32GB DDR4 RAM, Custom ITX Build (Living Room HTPC)

Laptop 1: 2021 Macbook Pro 14in (Personal)

Laptop 2: Dell Precision 5550 (Work)

Laptop 3: 2012 11in Macbook Air (Old Personal)

I have an iPhone too if we're counting those...
When will this be generally available? Or will it always be for enterprise customers?
Control a persons body, you mean like poisoning or butchering their body and pulling out their corpse to dispose of it?

(I honestly don’t have a strong stance, but both sides have equivalent arguments and what bothers me is people refusing to acknowledge that)
These are the businesses all up and down I-880 on the bay side from Fremont to Oakland. They’re just businesses.
The "open office" concept is not as cool as it's often perceived to be.
Asking "Source?" on a topic where some prerequisite knowledge should be required is a lazy Reddit tactic. But here, since it took me 30 seconds to find:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2017/01/29/no-m...

There's other sources too covering different timeframes. It's all information in the public sphere. Stats Canada for example tracks a ton of stats about various businesses.
Emacs uses the same mechanism to work inside a container as it does to work over SSH, which is also the same mechanism it uses to work as a different user on the same machine, and pretty much anything you can get something FS/shell-like on. Multiple container runtimes, k8s clusters, git repositories, etc. It's essentially a full VFS layer, although (like most VFS layers) it's clunky if you try to compose certain things. E.g. remote debugging isn't going to work on your HDFS cluster...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/in...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/tramp/Cu...
I work on-site and from home. There are pros and cons to each. Some people prefer one or the other. A hybrid solution is probably best, but I can do either or both.
Each side has valid arguments (empty office space, office rent cost, lack of in-person chemistry) versus (no commute, more time to focus, just as productive).

Some people do take advantage of WFH and work less. Some people who cannot WFH feel it is unfair. It's a complex issue and both sides should work together to come to a fair solution for everyone. Bickering about it and not compromising is unproductive.
A lot of the stereotypes around AS are just that. I have two sons on the spectrum and both have traits they are "not supposed" to have and yet strongly evidence other traits so that the diagnosis is clear. In my experience this is even more the case for females. That said, the "food phobia" you describe is by no means restricted to ASD.
Sorry to hear about that.

I agree that it's easy to dismiss a lot of ideas like this, and the fact that there's so many people out there working on all these ideas can seem a bit daunting.

What has helped me is knowing that I am doing all of this for myself, and because it's fun and interesting to _me_. Yeah, sure, other solutions exist, but then I'd be trading more money for less fun, and that's not... fun.

I hope that you can get your spark back. It all depends on external factors and life events as well and with those I cannot help, but don't lose hope.
I'm a fan of bootstrapped companies and have started and operated a couple of them, sometimes quite successfully. But I don't understand how the economics of funding them are supposed to work. VC is a star-search business. Most businesses fail, and that includes businesses run conservatively with organic growth. In a portfolio like that, the winners have to pay for the losers, or the math just doesn't work.
Favoring the James webb over the terrestrial planet finder is the biggest funding mistake NASA ever made
My digital bathroom scale doesn't have batteries; it has a big capacitor and a foot-operated push-button that charges it. I tap the button maybe three times and that's enough energy to use it. It was also dirt-cheap.
It’s like bikeshedding. It’s easier to deal with the smaller problems.
That article is about the UK!
A bit OT, but how many people use Gnome ? or KDE ? The only stat I see is that it's about 1.2% of Steam users which are about 120 millions. So we're talking about 1 million here and I guess many devs don't play games so that's more... I've checked the usual web page : steam, wikipedia, etc. Are there better sources ?
>better, faster

If I'm reading the benchmarks correctly, it gets higher compression but is slower and has higher memory usage. Thus cannot call it better.

>spiritual successor to BZip2

What does that mean? If it isn't related to bzip2, why choose this name?
No, they simply cannot. No country can afford to replace dumb shells with smart shells completely, they are simply prohibitively expensive for anything except very high value point targets. They are completely useless for area fire, for example.

GPS artillery shells are also completely inferior to guided MLRS for every use case. Laser guided artillery shells are another story, but they don't have any more range.