skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it feasible to roughly categorize websites (or parts of websites, e.g. subreddits) and then perform full text search on them only, or at least establish priorities? For instance, it's extremely unlikely OP would find anything useful about part numbers on *.reddit.com/r/funny.

Does anything like that exist today in usable form?
The reversion to the mean here just reminds me of stuff I would read on 4chan back in the day as a high school student.

Many of my friends in those environments grew up, figured out how to navigate society a bit better, and stopped saying this kind of stuff. But these threads are a reminder that loads of people didn’t.
I am very, very excited about this. We are absolutely culpable for the absolute havoc we have wrought on the environment. Mindless consumption and endless growth cannot continue forever.
Here's one measure: the US GDP expressed in gold.

http://pricedingold.com/us-gdp/

As for medical, the US has a problem, especially compared to other countries.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
Can this be quantified somehow? Show some evidence people in some place that has been studied are having sex less often now or in the recent past compared to some more distant past?

I spent about 20 minutes trying to find some series of historical surveys somewhere, and meanwhile 65 comments popped up with their own personal beliefs on why people are having less sex, but none of those comments and the article itself don't present any actual evidence that people are having less sex. What they do show is people, at least in the US and most OECD nations, are having fewer lifetime children. But that is clearly explainable by widespread availability and use of contraceptives and protected sex or even by the increasing popularity of anal sex. It doesn't require that people not have sex at all.

I'm not saying this claim is wrong necessarily, but if this is going to be discussed, shouldn't we have some evidence allowing us to quantify to what extent there has actually been a decrease, where this has happened, and over what span of time it has happened?
>The Japanese buy and large aren't having sex, so I'd disagree with you that they're a good example of women having lower standards.

This is a phenomenon in most of young generation US and EU too. Both housing and the ability to get on with someone are far cheaper and easier in Tokyo in particular, than most metropolises in the developed world. If that doesn't tell you there's more going on than "just your own place bro", I don't know what will. If women are continuously taught and telling each other that a guy must have their own place or they are bad / deadbeat, the entire thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Given our species as a whole has been procreating with less for most of our existence, I'm more eager to place my bets it's a cultural phenomenon rather than "biologically hardwired".

>You can see their role as messengers of the truth pretty often.

You can just as well say men are "messengers of truth" because they don't want to marry single moms. The only thing you're showing is that their words mean jack compared to their actions, as is the case with every human being under the sun.
Yes. A popular way to see what shows reviewers and audiences like most.

If you Google “rt <name of movie>” you will get the rating too.
Running Linux on my mac. A VM is particularly useful because I can spin one up to install some crapware needed to work and then discard it.

Installing tunnels and certs needed for contract work.

Experimenting with new software environments.
Some extent, a society that grows probably looks like a society of growth along many aspects. That means down to the mindsets of populace. But just age characteristics will tell you the population characteristics skew towards the elderly for the next couple to few decades. And at least in the US those same people seem to have a stranglehold on all forms of political process. That’s not what a vibrant, growing society looks like.

Edit-consider the decades that led to the baby booming period of the 50s-60s. The world had ended WWII on the anti-fascist/pro-democracy side. And a Cold War started over the path the world would take. There were housing programs and I build affordable housing for the war vets. Energy was cheap and nuclear would eventually make metering it unneeded-more indicative of mindset than reality of course.
This would be true if the number being 32x'd was actually high, but that is not true. It was 1 megabyte. 32 megabytes over ten minutes is not even 512kbps. Other chains that process much more throughput, as well as BCH itself, has been benchmarked on very modest hardware pushing that boundary and higher.

Simple fact of the matter is that the whole justification for the permanent 1mb limit was an outright indefensible lie, pushed on idiots, and supported by censorship. Nothing more, and nothing less.
List is $200 now. I paid $100. I don't think of that as expensive for a pack at this level of quality.
Population explosion would also be the biggest problem of our life since we only have finite resources. We can't really win this one.
well, it's not in most of europe. rich people have more kids.
Working on Cloud vs. Mobile Is Different: From a Google and Ex-Microsoft Dev
Yeah that's the issue I have with wikis as well; there is often a big push for documenting everything initially, but then it becomes a dumping ground for things and eventually ends up unmaintained.

If you have a wiki, you need to assign a primary maintainer / editor who keeps the contents up to date. This also applies to Notion btw. And that role needs to be passed down and around.

A big issue with a lot of engineering teams is an over-eagerness to keep adding tools and processes without setting their governance in stone. It has to be done in an afternoon at most, then "thrown over the fence" for "the team" to maintain. But nothing works like that.

Don't add a tool if you're not planning on maintaining it.
An early litmus test for this is to look at college admission counts. Universities are very concerned right now over projected admissions from now through 2025.

There’s simply fewer high school graduates available, so enrollment counts will go down and universities will have to fight harder or lower admission requirements to keep the same number of students year over year.

It could also be that young people today simply don’t want to pay the high cost of college, and honestly I get that. But even cheaper or budget colleges are seeing enrollment dips.
And when they flounder without learning anything?

I’ve heard of teachers taking your advice. Usually, teachers who as children would have responded well to that same technique.

Almost universally they learn why that wasn’t the technique used.
I think the point isn't that a contraction is bad in general, it's that too fast of a contraction leaves an inverted demographic pyramid, which has all kinds of very bad implications.

You need a certain tax base to keep services funded. Then at some point on the curve, you start running out of service workers for the care industry.

I think automation will help to a degree but healthcare services is right at that sweet spot of both physically intricate and nonroutine that is so hard to automate.
I read the entire mediocre post. I need to take a dump now. Luckily, my toilets both flush, so I can choose whichever is most convenient. Right now I wish I had a third one in the basement, but that would require a pump, which would likely fail.
Reproducible Development with Devcontainers
Yes but this is better than not implementing the trap.
Running Linux desktops on a Windows system, and vice-versa, for development, testing or simply running some program without having to move to a different room and power up the desktop system, for example.

Testing and playing with older systems (Windows 9x, Linux distros from the 90s) for fun and kicks (or to compile some sutpidly old tarball of something that sounds interesting or fun but hasn't been updated in 15 years)

Building network meshes to play around with running BGP, OSPF etc. on FRRouting
Thinking Like a Scientist Will Make You Happier – Science Connected
It would also have had an ethernet port, quite probably a modem port, and possibly parallel and/or serial ports. Perhaps a PCMCIA slot as well.

It's possible to establish file transfer and networking over any of these.

I bootstrapped one installation, on an early 1990s laptop, using a null-modem cable and at zmodem transfers by pasting DEB archives and tarballs into Minicom.

Once I had enough built up, I could set up first SLIP (at 57 kbps), and later PLIP networking, natted through my desktop.

That box served as a firewall for a few years until it finally fried.
Agreed. That's why most times it should be avoided (for everyday users)
...and yet they still push so hard for recentralization of the web...
"It's also boring"

"These threads are always fun, because they often say more about us commenters than the subject matter."

I will not quote anything else from you and leave it at that.
Analog Computing for Molecular Dynamics
I think it's simply that the generation for whom the sex was a "forbidden fruit", has become old, the one after them, had enormous amount of sex just because they now could, and for the subsequent ones, sex is nothing special. It is too easy to get - guys who are now 70 year old, had to "win" girls when they were 20, now 20-year old girls are just sitting on Tinder waiting to hook up. It is as uncool as buying canned tuna vs going fishing. If anyone can do it and it's nothing to be proud about, what's the point?
What is the target market? Do micro-controllers need a JavaScript engine?
>You can just as well say men are "messengers of truth" because they don't want to marry single moms. The only thing you're showing is that their words mean jack compared to their actions, as is the case with every human being under the sun.

Yup. It flips when everyone gets older.
> the options are grim for men who are less than very appealing.

And you wonder why there's a fairly large community that have the so-called 'incel' behaviour. It didn't used to exist back in the pre-net dating era!
ulimit?
Sometimes that's fine, we can go without HN for five minutes once every few months.
I find it a lot easier to find a Docker container with whatever service I want to use vs trying to figure out how to install it locally. Nothing super exotic, but currently I'm running OpenSearch and PostgreSQL in a VM (via Docker).
How does an average woman find the process?
This article assumes a premise and then goes on to discuss it. It doesn't in any way attempt to provide evidence for its premise. I personally don't believe it to be true, and me saying that is exactly as authoritative as what that author has written.
No microservices on top of kubernetes? no SPA with SSR? You are doing it wrong.

I'm gonna write an alternative which will be WebScale.

j/k of course.
BCH changed the blocksize and thus became incompatible with the original network. If you're claiming that the project that kept the blocksize the same and remained backwards compatible is the fork, then I'm done here and I wish you the best of luck.
I'm using VMs for everything. Disposable, self-destructing VMs for untrusted browsing. Network VM solely for connecting to the Internet, Firewal VM for isolating the network from other parts of my system. Work VM for everything connected to work. Archive VM (with no networking) for storing important files. Banking VM for managing bank accounts. Zoom VM for isolating Zoom from the rest of my system. And so on.

All this works with a great, unified interface on Qubes OS (https://qubes-os.org). See also: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15.
The most sensible such situation is having the action happen on a moon of a smallish gas giant. Something a bit smaller than Saturn could hold an earth-sized moon in close enough orbit to have reasonable day-night cycles even if it's tidally locked. (And those days would be a bit freaky -- unless it had a very high inclination, in such a close orbit around such a large body, there would likely be an eclipse every day at midday.)
I don't have kids, but I feel like solo coding comes out of a different pool of mental energy (more introverted, flow state) that I only have so much of. If I do a take-home for a potential employer, it's likely taking it out of the energy I have for my current one

Interviews where you're discussing your history or even coding challenges are different. I don't know what it is about having another person there to bounce things off of and explain the process, but it doesn't feel as exhausting.
It's unfortunately a lot sadder than that.

You'd be suprised at the amount of males that want to have sex but just can't get any.

There is a serious case of looks inflation nowadays with Tinder etc.
I am also less physically attractive if I’m 25# heavier than I should be. This goes to an even greater extent once that surplus tips towards 50#.
Does WSL2 on Windows count?

Because 2 years ago I moved back to Windows from MacOS for my daily driver because of WSL2.

I get the same "modern GUI on top, Unix-like shell underneath" experience that I had with MacOS but now I have a 24-core machine with 32GB of RAM for a third (or less) the price of what a similar Mac would have cost me.
I wasn’t suggesting I would be personally targetted. I was stating that the infrequency and low criticality of my usage vastly narrows the risk of getting exposed to the attack.

Hence my point that if I were using this regularly then I might want to invest in a more secure mirror. But when it can be years between my usages the benefits of self hosting are vastly outweighed but the cost (both in time and electricity) of managing it. Thus I’m willing to take that slight risk in this specific instance.
likely richer than average, though...
Things that are broken, according to HN (2016)
I think that all the things you listed are definitely culprits, but I wouldn't be so quick to discount porn.

Anecdotally, I myself and many otherwise healthy, sociable young men I know have pretty serious porn addictions. I really wish there would be more research done on the negative impacts of pornography, especially on young men and teens/pre-teens.

I know typically any anti-porn sentiment is met with "Oh you're just being a puritan", but the reality couldn't be further from the truth.

On social issues, I'm very liberal. Yet so much porn during my developmental years has done so much damage that as an adult I'm just now really understanding the full extent of it, and breaking that addiction is incredibly difficult
If it isn't a 1-click unsubscribe I click the back button and mark as spam. I read on this website that marking stuff as spam causes a lot of problems for gmail delivery, which is what I want.
good sex is like two hour affair with new people with related warm up and and cool down phase. Even if act is only 15 minutes.

14 hours a week a lot of time
Are there any steps that can be taken to test these types of changes in a non-production environment?
Broken for me too. I haven't had search results on DDG for any query for over an hour. I'm running FF on macOS in the EU (I've tried across multiple locations via VPN).
> If you had an addictive drug and all it did was make all your teeth fall out with no extra side effects almost no one would take it.

I can't help but notice that you dropped "positive" here, and I can only assume it's on purpose, as otherwise your argument would like quite silly. People using something does not mean it's positive. The list doesn't really stop at meth.
People willfully keeping things secret when it's not even necessary has been a huge problem in my career. I get disrespect when I want to understand why things are happening. It's not reasonable to expect the people who create software to solve problems to just blindly write code and not understand why things are done in a certain way. It's their JOB to figure things out and optimize. Asking them not to look for improvement gains is like asking a fish to stop respirating in water and move just as fast on land in air.
Yes but that does seem to be better than not standardizing it as an architecture, but you can always fall back on the trap in the absence of being able to link with binaries from the preferred Zmul only architecture.
Or because they think tracking is bad....?
It makes sense to have them secret, then - and for the defense agencies to be pissed that amateurs may have found out which flight they were launched with.
It does not matter how much money a generation has saved, if the next generation is not there to provide the goods and services for them.
That's about 5 minutes of "normal" scrolling on Tumblr and Twitter.

I don't think you're in the target audience of Tumblr, which is fine.
So the token doesn't get recorded anywhere? I find that hard to believe
07:42: The last of the reverts has been completed. This was delayed as network engineers walked over each other's changes, reverting the previous reverts, causing the problem to re-appear sporadically.

Ouch
Yup.

In the Western world if you aren't a >= 7 in the looks department you will definitely struggle.
It is very un fun, one of the big things I've noticed is online dating is very different experience for men and women.
Both have their negatives and positives, but it create a weird dynamic of how people date.
I'd say the explosion of mental health and anxiety is playing a huge part in it as well. My wife and I would have a child if we knew we were stable and able to look after them properly. Also, with the wars, global warming and everything else that's happening right now, why would you want to bring a child into this?
> Long term success

Employees concept of this is not aligned with investors. Investors need a return on investment. It’s not enough for them to have a moderately profitable company with happy employees. They need a big exit event that fits their investment characteristics.

And this is fair because then accepting VC money gives them an advantage over their competitors who might have bootstrapped. We shouldn’t feel sorry for employees of a heavily VC funded company, but by their bootstrapped competitors trying to compete.

We shouldn’t try to protect employees with high salaries at entrenched big tech companies. We should allow entrepreneurs to create new companies to challenge them which is better for society. It’s better to have less monopolies and it would be better if one high salary was split in two due with someone from a smaller competing company. This is better for the labor market.
Yep, look at heroku and their big incident, and the amount of downtime they've had lately.
It's the Lust one.
Unless you generate your own power, I assume
Let me tell you: a person with a perfect body != good sex.

Sex, even soft and slowly sex, is a bit like sport. It is body work, you have to train it a bit, you have get the other persons feeling.

Finally you need time, even for a quicky somewhere.
By your definition of decentralization (a central entity could theoretically be replaced) everything from the Roman Empire to North Korea is decentralized - nothing is guaranteed to have its place forever. A definition that applies to every imaginable instance is pointless, but more importantly, it's far from how people commonly use the word.
Microsoft's Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering
A minor spoiler I guess, but that's what they decided to do at the end of Ready Player One (the film, not sure about the book).
Average can be derived from totals
Sometimes that's all the information that's available.
So... This is the real salt bae?
Market homogenization (because of the apps) leads to a larger scale of 'winner takes all' dynamics, ie increasing inequality.

The top players in the market are probably getting way more offers than they can, um, service, and for anyone in the lower ranks, the effort/reward is uneconomic.
If Einstein can be wrong
I can see that if said woman treats sex as something that happens "to her" and just starfishes. Unfortunately, I don't enjoy that kind of thing.
Or maybe people are not interested in fruitless relationships and are learning that it's okay to be asexual or non-binary.
CloudFlare are a hosting provider and CDN, they aren't "push[ing] ... hard for recentralization of the web".

If it was AWS, Akamai, Google Cloud, or any of the other massive providers this comment wouldn't be made. I don't really understand the association between centralisation and CloudFlare, other than it being a Meme.
> you probably haven't looked at how Nano works

I have looked at the past n similar products and it was always the same story. At some point, you don't need to look at the implementation details anymore, you can take this from first principles: somebody somewhere is running a ledger. You have to pay this someone one way or another, unless they're just volunteering.

> a few releases back they solved this issue

How are they getting paid?

Regarding the ledger operators, from https://nano.org/faq#nodes:

> Instead, participants on the nano network are driven by external incentives, such as helping maintain an instant payment network they can use without fees.

So it does look like volunteering / donating computing resources, and the 0 transaction fee doesn't reflect the actual costs.
The idea that HIV/AIDS is primarily of concern only to gay men is completely false. At the Whitman-Walker clinic in Washington, DC, which was for years primarily an HIV/AIDS clinic serving mostly gay men, the majority of new HIV/AIDS patients has for some time been straight African-American women. Every sexually active adult needs to be concerned about HIV and take appropriate precautions.
You're talking about it as if desalination alone would be expected to entirely reverse the water loss of the region, as opposed to it being one aspect of a holistic approach to the problem.

Desalination can absolutely make a huge difference, here and in many other places, if we can get it refined to the point that it's (relatively) cheap to run (both in money and in other resources). That doesn't mean we shouldn't stop growing almonds in a desert.
>The comments in this thread and this article is making me want to read HN less. (What a crazy incorrect take for most of the population.)

Yes the comments in this thread is surprisingly bad and I got flagged on my comment.

HN seems to have had their eternal september event.
Almost nobody got laid in the 80's. Fact.
Keeping objects levitated by sound airborne despite interference
> unionizing creates a steep competitive downside on the capital market that is not offset by enough employee retention benefit to be worth it

Citation needed.

Unionizing by itself does absolutely nothing, and if I, as the employer, genuinely want the best for my employees there will be little friction even with a union.
Windows Sandbox to run Adobe Flash to access old data rooms.
We play games together and his interests are often sparked by mine. But the dark side to gaming in the 21st century is they can easily become all-encompassing at the expense of a lot of things that I mentioned above (outside interests, etc.) Much of the modern gaming stack is engineered for total immersion and focus stealing, and leaves little room for outside interests.

I played games as a boy and young man as well. But I also wrote BASIC and 6502 assembly, or built forts in the woods, looked at neat plants, soldered projects for my VIC-20 or Atari ST, read ElfQuest graphic novels and acted them out with my friends, explored the local RadioShack, rode my bike, etc. The nature of my son's gaming obsessions has actually made it hard to get him to diversify.

Parenting is not easy. Defining limits is hard, but if you don't things can go
sideways really badly and we have learned this the hard way.
I've been banned from selling on eBay and I get around it by having multiple Windows 10 VMs (running on proxmox) with 4G USB dongles passed through to each machine. It keeps everything tidy with no chance of me ever making a mistake and getting found out.