skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wide open internet is a pretty serious threat environment and it makes sense that parents want to protect their kids from strangers and horrific content. But one thing I find pretty disturbing is parents monitoring the digital footprint of their children's real-world relationships. Most people would find it pretty creepy if you made your child wear a tape recorder to school or a friend's house, but the digital equivalent - reading text and instant message content - is surprisingly accepted. I had some friends who were monitored this way and it was very uncomfortable knowing that their parents were party to any conversation we had.

My enormous volumes of unrestricted screen time led to my interest and eventual career in technology; I'm pretty grateful for them. On the other hand I do feel like success in modern life is down to resisting the siren song of empty-calories time sinks like social media, gaming, Reddit, Twitter, etc. and the successful adults of the next generation will be those whose parents inculcate self-control and moderation here.
ArrayBoundCheck didn't say they never had to find out why a particular piece of code is the way it is, just that they didn't have to search through log messages.

For isntance, when you use "git blame" and similar tools, the log messages are not involved. You might end up reading the log message of the commit that was responsible for a change, but you didn't search log messages to get there.

In a project with poor commit messages, they will be of little use; reading them won't produce much value, let a lone searching.

Anyway, that seems like the best possible interpretation of the user's comment, anyway.
Is it a familiarity thing? Did your families/parents like dark roast, ice in scotch and well done?
"Maxwell" is mentioned 5 times. Are we sharing well-written advertisements masquerading as organic marketing on hacker news now? Are we becoming reddit?
I can taste the different kinds but I honestly don't mind the Folgers bagged coffee. It's nice because I can just use my normal electric kettle and there's hardly any mess.
Note that this can have the opposite of the intended effect: "Oh, my parents are so crazy, everyone uses this tech, it's _fine_."

Not sure if there's any avoiding this.
I was seeing something about them having a 2.5c/kwh deal, I think?

Edit: I think I was remembering this: https://twitter.com/DigiEconomist/status/1546844815140216835
If someone is important enough in your life, you'll both find ways to make it work.

The mental health benefits of leaving Facebook are worth it.
WSJ (editorial pages) has a theory of that the expanded use wind power in Texas is part of the cause. When 30 to 40% of power for the state can be produced by wind, you have fewer backup natural gas and coal plants, as maintaining backup capacity is expensive. And then there tends to be much less wind when there is a heat wave, such as last week when wind was only producing 6% of the state's power.

To me it seems the state needs to enforce x amount of backup not a renewable capacity.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/californiapowerproblems-hit-tex...

Edit: they have another editorial today postulating the moved to green energy without sufficient backup is leading to problems across the US and Europe. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-wests-climate-policy-debacl...
There’s an episode of Good Eats where Alton Brown chucks a cordless drill onto a pepper grinder to pretty good effect.
Sure, I'm not defending every choice they're making specifically. I don't subscribe to almost anything they do, although I probably subscribe to plenty of other things you think are "not enjoyable not convenient". But I can think of reasons why most of these things could be a reasonable purchase for someone.

I'm not seeing any of these that are "fundamental lazyness" unless you're trying to claim that entertainment is a bad value proposition.
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Surely depends on how things work out. Even though ultimately my employer is who saves money (and they pay for my work license), I end up benefiting because I have to work less , I’m therefore less stressed to hit deadlines and I’m seen as higher performing.
I've been hearing these predictions all summer but here in TX I have yet to see one blackout or brownout. Days starting to get shorter. So how much of this is puff?
This is what's so good about hacker news, morons that enjoyed the book can learn how deficient their minds are at grasping complex ideas in comparison to intellectual heavyweights such as yourself.
Exactly, If or once the situation gets to a point that requires scheduled load shedding (eg South Africa) I would suspect a lot of things would change pretty quickly. I can not imagine any 'side' in TX putting up with having no power for 2-3 hours, 2-3 times day - forcing a greater divide between the have's (businesses/homes willing to pay for generators) & the have-nots.
In the Philippines, there's a motto in cafes - "Bitter is Better". Yuk... Dark roasts (which makes it bitter) bring out everything bad about coffee IMHO. I'm with the parent comment here - medium to light roasts is where the actual flavour comes from.
If it has lots of connective tissue like a ribeye, I want medium rare, preferably gotten that way over a long time at low heat then seared, if it doesn't, like a filet, I want it cold and raw.
The invasion of Crimea was directly related to the Russian puppet being unseated. The US isn't responsible for Russia invading a sovereign nation and murdering its citizens. Crimea isn't Russia. Ukraine isn't Russia.
> Plants are being regularly ordered to go into service, or remain in operation, and skip any scheduled maintenance.

If you don't schedule maintenance then your equipment will schedule it for you, usually at the least convenient time.
While my European travels are neither recent nor exhaustive, only in Germany could I get a decent cup of drip coffee. Everywhere else the "cup of coffee" was a really bad Americano.
> Hence the rolling blackouts the last few years and more are expected for this summer.

California has had two days with rolling blackouts since 2001, August 14-15 of 2020.

It has had public safety power shutoffs in some areas since 2019 to prevent fire risk during dry, high-wind conditions, but those are a different issue than rolling blackouts and unrelated to energy generating capacity.
Just on microplastics, fishing gear isn't even a blip on microplastics in the ocean.

From Primary Microplastics in the Oceans: Boucher & Friot 2017

35% Clothing and textiles
28% Tyres
24% City dust
7% Road markings
3.7% Marine coatings
2% Beauty products
<1% Plastic nurdles
It's not a problem. Just put your laptop on a coffee table or similar.

This setup works quite well with a wireless keyboard that has a built-in trackpad. The keyboard can move between the table, the floor, your lap, etc.
I third this opinion. Their instant packs are their best coffees.
Yes. The most reliable product of the nuclear industry and its advocates, since earliest days, is falsehood.
In Utah, researchers are trying to make geothermal energy a reality
So this is closer to reality than we might want to admit. I once had a terrible business idea that we laughed at internally and mentioned it to someone in the industry, who then promptly 'ripped it off'. Our 'secret' was not a great new product, it was actually a ridiculous concept.
That's why UBI was proposed.

Otherwise there's blocks of tribalism. Some workplaces are tribalistic - they actually do care for you like family once you get past the initiation rites. Most of it is replaced with faux tribalism though, to squeeze more out of some other party.
Reading these comments it’s clear there is no consensus and that this is a crisis of sorts that has gone largely unrecognized.

Tech companies are innovating faster than parenting wisdom can evolve. New challenges on the horizon with the metaverse, AI, and an increasing share of products that can only function connected to the Internet.
'cause we're all in the mood for a movie, and we'll be rewinding all night.
Perhaps because it’s older? Coffee culture took off post WW2 in Australia with an influx in Italians but it didn’t start to catch on in the US until the 90s.
Was it ever not like this? We usually prefer the stealth marketing to be software products and startups but it's never been strictly that. I can't remember a time when HN was better (or worse!) than reddit on this front and I've been around both since they were young.
A long time ago now, but The Neverhood did non-verbal physical comedy well. It's a point-and-click puzzle game.
Just agreeing here. It's a game changer.
Yeah, the story goes that very early on it let two people register joe.blow and joeblow.
That's right; for log messages to be useful, they have to be very disciplined. They have to stick to a certain format and then if the information you're looking for is of the kind which is provided by that schema, then they are useful.

As an example, say log messages are strictly required to contain a bug database ticket number (even if they are not fixes: bug database tracks tasks too) then that is useful; you can quickly search the git log for a bug number to find all of its commits.
Submitted a bug report :o)
I guess we as a society have to decide if we want a market on usernames. I don't think we need it. And if the majority of users agree and switch to a platform that doesn't value usernames, then the few people trying to monopolize usernames (like the people who swarmed to twitter to grab handles) will be left on a barren platform.
However… put the music on and I expect to see a fiasco play out.
There's two problems I think that would limit the value of this as a service.

The first is that any consumer product offered somewhere with a "lowest price guarantee" or "price match guarantee" is likely to be a unique product for the retailer. Stuff like low cost appliances and electronics are notorious for this. A corollary is that many product brands have exclusive distribution deals with retailers, which is stuff like lightbulbs, yard equipment and power tools, or really anything you can buy at a hardware store (compare stuff at Home Depot, Menards, and Ace for example).

The second is that the other trick retailers pull is by selling "exclusive" products that are really just the same product with a different name. Furniture is a great example of this, there is even a startup out there (the name escapes me) that catalogs the same furniture available from multiple retailers online by different names. Reverse image searches of the product can get you pretty far here.

Just a random example: I needed kitchen appliances. I have a big incentive to lower my cost here, but also specific features I want out of each item. Refrigerators are the worst about this, if I wanted a particular combination of product series, finish, ice maker, door config (French door, freezer in left or right, etc), and form factor it would essentially determine which store I would buy it from.
Yes, true, but they have sufficient capital controls and foreign reserves they can almost do what they want.
I guess that depends on how you treat your friends.
Great point.

I am a Libertarian and we don’t SPAM people. But I would hope that all political parties get the same treatment.

BTW, I block email addresses and that works fairly well. To be honest, I don’t care much what Google does here.
Superconducting? So, needs a continuous supply of liquid nitrogen? What am I missing?
Passive Autocatalytic Recombiner
How about get rid of one cruise ship, and maybe just the Italians stop driving? /j

Yeah, Cruise ships are pretty nuts!
I don’t follow the “just Europeans” consideration you’ve proposed. As an American, people will inquire and make distinctions when race/ethnicity comes up. ‘So-and-so is French’, or Italian, or Greek, etc.. Usually people also mention when their families immigrated, or that they are part x/y (Irish, part German, or something to that effect).
it's interesting that 46% of a state can vote blue, but the majority votes red every time. Texas isn't even close to purple; there's little moderating effect on Republican politics in the state, unlike how Manchin's tugged to the right.

I'm sure there's arguments that this powerless 46% Democratic minority is balanced out by a 46% Republican minority in a reliably blue state, but still.. it seems messed up that voting works like this.
I interpreted it as meaning: don't place too muxh trust in the internet to be good.
ok i know hn hates memes but this one is so relevant: https://i.redd.it/3p9mr4vuxny41.jpg

like i get a lot of hackernews can afford it but i got so many friends who r "broke" while spending like that and won't stop.
At this point a full-screen spyware warning with the only option to continue being a tiny "allow once/i know what I'm doing" would be appropriate. The lengths these companies go to to map your every move is beyond comprehension. And sure, there are bad actors and there always will be, but that they're the biggest companies in the world with a top notch reputation, in most circles, is absolutely insane.
Does anyone in Texas know if there have been any changes since the 2021 spring freezes to the system in terms of letting people set their own price caps, preferably with some fine grained options to them? My recollection from then is that one issue is a lot of people had signed up for completely dynamic price plans, where they got the absolute lowest grid price at all times, but that the system didn't let them easily and adjustable do caps. Kind of similar to some of the surprise cloud services bills that appear on HN from time to time for that matter, anything of that kind should have some sort of sanity check to "never ever spend more than $X without my explicit say so". Ideally a market system like that would allow entering something automated along the lines of

>I will pay up to $0.10/kWh with no limits, $0.10-$0.25/kWh but only for 6 hours per day, or >$0.25 kWh but only for up to $5 worth per day and it should send alerts to my phone/email/app immediately

Then there'd be no surprise hundred/thousand dollar bills, and the grid operator could get demand to smoothly drop off based on how much people valued it just by raising the price. Could even make that revenue neutral by having all excess money gathered from emergency demand adjustment pricing be evenly distributed back to all customers at the end of each billing cycle, which would help offset the loss for those less well off. It'd be more transparent to see the value of things like home energy storage or conservation measures.

Or maybe those plans just fell out of favor vs more traditional uniform billing where both the best and the worst case are price capped?
I'm not a fan of giant solar farms cut into forests, but if someone adds panels to their roof or yard seems like an easy enough way to cut energy demand in the sunbelt in particular.
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Most homes in the US are drywall and wood studs but that’s not the norm in a lot of places.
A county I have a farm in averages ~2 humans per square mile. Cows, chickens, pigs (really all animals) outnumber humans. Though this map isn't entirely accurate. Every farmer seems to have a handful of pigs, cows, goats, horses, ducks, turkeys, donkeys, chickens, etc at the very least.

Part of the challenge in this particular case is data collection, most of these people sell amongst each other and sell everything they can out of auction: direct, to each other, consume themselves, etc.
Some people can read and speak good English but they can't brainstorm properly in English. It's not a switch in their head, it's a button they have to hold down and exert energy on.
I was going to recommend finding a job in the AI field. This will give you real-world experience -- which will come in handy when you (later) start your own company. It will give you credibility with investors (which you'll need).

But, most importantly: you'll meet professional-caliber people who are already working in that field. (Part of your problem seems to be finding the right "network" of people to work with -- and for better or worse, a lot of networking happens through your co-workers.)

The only other route that comes to mind: AI conferences. There'll you'll also meet people who are working on AI at a professional level (as well as AI companies that are hiring).

Good luck!
Wow - as a New Zealander that almost sounds reasonable. Any other food splits: White-wine versus red-wine? Chicken versus steak? Ice cubes or warm water in Scotch whiskey? Types of distilled alcohol? Etcetera?
Sometimes, in some kinds of projects, the commit messages looks like this:

JIRA: #1234

Adjusted the FOOBAR parameter from 42 to 73.

To know the "why", you have to read the ticket; you will not find anything in the git log.
The sheep economy was forced upon Scotland by the British during the Highland Clearances [1] which followed the subjugation of the Highlands after the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

Peasants who were not involved in sheep farming were forcibly evicted or killed, resulting in the sheep-centric agriculture we see today, and also triggered the earliest large Scottish peasant migrations to the Americas.

According to the guides at the Battlefield of Culloden, prior to the Clearances, the Scottish Highlands had a more mixed agricultural and cottage industrial economy, but basically got turned into a sheep production "banana republic" after the British defeated them.

1. https://www.britannica.com/event/Highland-Clearances
Even if that’s true (debatable), it’s important to not use it as ammo to slam renewables as a whole - which republicans are keen to do. We need to wean off of fossil fuels asap, and this sentiment is easily manipulated to hurt that cause.
He asked the American people to vote for him knowing he was walking into a mess. I don’t think these problems are his fault and he had been hampered by both parties in implementing any of his plans to fix it. At the end of the day though, how is giving him 4 more years a good idea? He’s ineffective. He should let another Democrat run so they can at least claim they have the right plan to fix things.
It was a great way to earn money as a kid in the 70s too. Wander around and find old beer/coke/milk bottles and return them for the deposit.
Yep, same here. My favourite coffee shop does a great pour-over and an even better oat milk flat white. But it's far away, and most of the time I either drink supermarket dark roast filter coffee out of the machine at the office, or super cheap coffee from McDonald's or Gregg's. I can taste the difference, but I still enjoy both ends of the spectrum.

Amusingly, the only coffee I have ever actively disliked was a cold brew from aforementioned coffee shop. I think I'm just not cut out for drinking cold brew - it just tasted weak and acidic, even compared to a light roasted pour-over.
The value of that deposit would be reflected and transferred.
I remember reading one of Anythony Bourdains books and he talked about how much experience matters to food. I don't have the exact quote but it was something like:

I've eaten in 5 start restaurants, had meals by the best chefs, but when you're seating on a tropical beach at sunset with a girl on your arm, a beer in your hand and you're pretty sure you're gonna get laid tonight.... that chicken wing tastes fucking amazing.
The fastest decoder there uses the GPU, not the CPU.

The fastest one that runs on a CPU, Kakadu (proprietary), is far behind.
And how do you feel about the republicans in California?
Sorry, we need this word "trilium" for 3He, helium-3, which is likely to become important for powering, at least, outer solar system probes.

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Very interesting then, I hope you find a helpful way forward if it's any kind of issue.

> what exactly did he mean? How did you do that?

From the way he explained it, he was referring to increasing my attention to subjective-executive activity. So like, "ah, I know what I'll try next time!" subjective organizations of things, subjective logic, frameworks, clever plans.

My main go-to is subjective-perceptive, IOW kind of waiting, watching what's coming, and more existentially surfing those waves as they come, more foresight- and in-the-moment-based perceptual activity.

So one example of an activity I do more often now is a sort of lessons-learned organization of things, looking back at what happened during a given activity or context, and planning for what I'd do differently next time.

IDK how that sounds since it's been both a huge change and also one that's mostly in my past, but in my case it was a real game-changer. However I'd really emphasize that this is just based on my own EEG results as processed through his experience in doing that kind of thing, and not general advice necessarily. For some people the steps I took myself can really make things much worse for sure, even though it sounds constructive generally speaking. For example if you're naturally a subjective-executive person, you run the risk of basically overusing that functionality and developing huge blind spots which could lead to problems.

BTW a long time ago I used to participate in a university-level biofeedback lab. The instruments were pretty simple but the results were IMO pretty great and reliably so, in my case anyway. Should be a pretty good project if you get into it. I've been wanting to start on my own gear/lab for that kind of thing, but just haven't got to it yet.
Nix sounds like it could be such a tool. But it seems to also suffer from Linux's wizard syndrome
I don’t know what you think being the parent means that you react so strongly to the idea?
It's useful to read the first 2-3 chapters of any algorithms textbook (CLRS, Algorithm Design Manual, etc.) just to familiarize yourself with Big O notation & the techniques used for analyzing probabilistic algorithms.

Learning Algorithms, like many other subjects, is subject to the 80-20 rule. You can learn 80% of the topics in a few weekends. Just review the concepts of BFS, DFS, how hash functions & hash tables work (handling collisions etc.) and the basics of trees. Maybe code up a BFS yourself just to get a gist of it.

If you learn about compilers (ASTs) or do ML, then algorithms-related topics will definitely come up and having that core knowledge will definitely help.

But getting that last 20%... by grinding hundreds of problems on LeetCode and memorizing 3 different ways to reverse a linked list isn't useful for anything other than passing interviews. Getting that knowledge will also take many weeks.

The same way how reading tons of recently-published academic algorithms papers probably won't help you in your day-to-day either.
the refreshing and recent research from graeber/wengrow showed in detail how we don’t need to collapse back down to small tribal groups to support a healthy society (healthier in terms of freedoms I mentioned) at scale. their work should expand our imagination for future society by looking at what we were able to already demonstrate under similar in useful ways conditions in our past (post agriculture, in large society above dunbar number bs)
Because if 37 changes are done to the same 15 line function over time, the amount of comment material will dwarf the function. And most of it will pertain to historic versions of the function which are not what actually appears below the comment; a comment made 13 revisions ago makes sense for the 13-revision-old version of the function.
For ex: https://gab.com/RangerCandyCoffeeCompany
They don't need to look good though, they only need to maintain control. Doing a good job at things and winning elections based on earned confidence is one way to maintain control but not apparently the one they're going for.
we haven’t even hit our hottest month and yet and this week alone the grid hit an effective 100% utilization rate and was only saved by asking manufacturers and crypto miners to shutdown. Toyota has to close their plants by 2pm. That’s pretty messed up