skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, practice gratitude. Yours are definitely first-world problems. "I can't get motivated" is a much better problem to have than "I can't get food/medicine/shelter" or "People are trying to kill me". Really meditate on what gratitude is. List the things in your life that you are thankful for. You feel "stuck", but you probably have roller skates on while standing on a paved road.

Second, you clearly want to believe in something and have something give you joy/meaning. But you can't just sit around and wait for something to pop into your life. You have to make meaning. You have to decide for yourself what will give you a reason to get up and go through drudgery. What do you want to do with your life? What would you like your purpose to be (at least for the next 20 years)? Where would you like to go? You could keep the same job but use it to achieve some larger purpose, or change jobs. Or not have a traditional job; it's a big world out there!

Third, consider that fear may be keeping you in that rut of mindless entertainment. Fear of change, fear of the unknown, fear of missing out, fear of effort, fear of failure, fear of success even! You know you're not happy; so what will make you happy? Or what would you like to try that might make you happy? Or content, anyway? First decide on that, then build your courage, then go get it.

And remember that you also don't have to do anything interesting or fulfilling or exciting. You can just be a regular person with a regular job and regular friends and not seek anything. But do recognize the good things that you have and appreciate them.
Potentially in the short term, if government were to introduce such tax policies as changes to the status quo. These types of short term changes/issues can perhaps be remedied via short term tax credits or similar for those renters impacted.

In the longer term and at the macro level, renting ultimately competes with cost of mortgaging. If the cost of home ownership goes down, so should rents. Again, government backed loans could help those renters who can afford the monthly repayments but lack the upfront deposit/capital to purchase.

What is needed is lower residential house purchases prices which will flow into rental costs (eventually). In the long run, rents are always based on the underlying asset value.

The other thing that could help lower residential property prices is obviously on the supply side, which I have deliberately avoided.
Then again, see the bottom-most entry in: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It has links to 2009-dated comments that HN is turning into Reddit.

To be objective, 2009 Reddit is not necessarily the same as 2022 Reddit. Maybe 2009 HN was turning into 2009 Reddit.

If HN and Reddit are both perpetually getting worse, and Reddit is perpetually worse than HN, then it always looks like HN is turning into Reddit; which then isn't a semi-noob ilusion.

:)
Last one is different from which state? New York? New Jersey? Pennsylvania? Illinois? Mississippi? Florida?
How does Japan do this successfully in Tokyo (which was until recently, growing in population)?

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14538387#:~:text=Tokyo's%....

https://japanpropertycentral.com/tag/average-rent-tokyo/
Except the actual words to La Marseillaise are quite terrible, at least by modern standards, "Qu’un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons!" "That their impure blood Should water our fields!" Ugh...
Yeah, manufacturing issues might be real. Just think of proper eco-terrorist group attacking multiple refineries... You newer know with people nowadays...

My point is that there is relationship with price and consumption. If the price rises too much people will either look for alternatives or reduce use. Thus prices might not rise that much.
Definitions for this are all over the place. Fussell's "upper middle class" lifestyle couldn't be stably maintained by households under the top quintile (probably not under the top 10%, even), nor could the upper-middle (also upper, but largely upper-middle) described in the jokey-but-fairly-accurate Official Preppy Handbook, and those books are ~40 years old now. For one thing, both paint decent-or-better private prep school as key for that class, and that's never really been within the reach of the lower four quintiles, to say nothing of the other things you'll need to spend money on to stay in that class.
Unfortunately we live in a world with countries such Russia so we have to invest in millitary too.
While moderate amounts of saturated fats are not bad, there is no doubt that it is recommended that in the eaten fat the most abundant fatty acid must be oleic acid (i.e. the fat must contain mostly MUFA, mono-unsaturated fatty acids).

The reason is simply that oleic acid is the most abundant fatty acid in human fat. When the ingested fat consists mostly of oleic acid, it can be used as such, while when the ingested fat contains either mostly saturated fats, like many animal fats or mostly poly-unsaturated fatty acids, e.g. linoleic acid, like most cheap vegetable oils, the ingested fatty acids must be converted by the liver into the fatty acids preferred inside the human body, so that is extra work for the liver and the liver becomes less efficient at old ages. If the liver does not succeed to convert all the ingested fatty acids that should have been converted, than the composition of the fat used for various purposes in the body may be suboptimal.

Examples of foods with optimal fatty acid composition are olive oil, high-oleic sunflower oil (not classic sunflower oil, which contains mostly linoleic acid), hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews, peanuts.
The states with the highest vacancy rates are pretty rural (and Florida, which likely has lots of vacation homes).

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/vacancy-rates-stud...
Whenever I've found myself in a rut, doing something with my hands has been helpful in shaking me out of it! If you're in a big city consider googling around for "pottery classes" or "woodworking classes", or "sailing classes", or "jewlery making courses".
Hulu blocks ads on abortion, guns, and climate change – and Dems aren’t happy
The alternative is that you buy a car with offline heated seats...
Cutting off an infant's outer ears or doing electrolysis on their armpit hair follicles or burning them with a hot iron also have no long lasting side effects but we don't allow those because of course we don't. Cutting off a male prepuce has just as much effect as cutting off a female prepuce. Can you imagine a doctor agreeing to removing a baby girl's clitoral hood? As someone who did have long-lasting effects from circumcision, I would delight in finding the son of a bitch that did it to me and seeing how he likes having pieces removed. You don't need a spreadsheet to know that causing agony to children is a bad thing.
I agree, the majority of the protests were peaceful https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-george-floyd-protests-in-lo...

Even though National Review is a heavily biased, that's still true
Of course, you could be right. However, an alternative explanation is:

1. The threshold of what constitutes “abuse and general toxicity” has lowered significantly, giving people social tacit permission to ostracize others for lesser and lesser perceived offenses.

2. People always think that discarding something is good, and that they are better off without it, immediately after having discarded it. People naturally want to be able to blame all their problems on a single source, and after they have gotten rid of it, they quite obviously believe their lives to be better in every way. Of course, the worse the thing they discarded was, the more correct they are in their belief, but if they are entirely correct can not be known until much later.
It's actually quite unobvious - you should click on "sparkly" icon on the upper right corner:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21167920/twitter-chronolog...
You can tell it will be BS just from the title treating C and C++ as if they were one language, not two very different languages.

Other comments here reveal how, exactly.
What I wanna know is how does Tokyo do this semi-successfully?
People point out the demographic declines of Japan as a whole, but the Tokyo metroplex hasn't been quite hit by that.

I know there was stuff like proposing to pay people to move away, but I don't know if that's a real thing?
I feel similarly. The only reason I program anymore is because I'm being paid relatively well for sometimes 2-3 hours of work a day. My friends who are pharmacists cannot comprehend that I make more than them, while it seems I'm living carefree and have much more time than them.

However, when the app I created halts, the thousands of dollars will add up quickly, while hundreds of employees are on the clock and no product is moving.

I have many projects on paper that I think can have positive impact on hundreds of people but the drive isn't there anymore.

I'm hoping to ignore my emotions and try to just develop something, I think if it gained traction I might get that spark back but I will probably find reasons to be unhappy about it.

Now that I typed this, it seems like its a mix of pessimism, depression and my somewhat validated negative view of the current society.
Sundials
Middlemen (e.g. wholesalers and retailers) serve a valuable function.

Imagine each consumer having to maintain relationships with hundreds of factory owners and tens of farmers.
I can see that, but I disagree that it's enough of an explanation. The blog specifically gives an example of the Earth's angular velocity changing with the melting of ice caps. They even threw in a cute animation of an ice skater to explain it. Last I checked, we're in the midsts of global climate change which is rapidly melting our ice and raising sea levels. I'm supposed to take Meta's word that we'll never need another leap second then? Why is that the case? Instinctually it makes sense to me to have a clock that follows the Earth's rotation. Why does Meta believe this is no longer the case? The only justification I saw was "it's hard" followed by their explanation of how they've solved it already. So what is the problem that's being solved by not counting leap seconds?
When there is deficit of supply, prices stabilize at the margin where increasing price also decreases the quantity sold.

Monopoly prices = increasing prices reduces revenue.

Also look up "rent seeking".
Yes, there are many kinds of science which can be done more cheaply from the ground.

Even considering the effect of Starlink.
It's certainly a dream. It would require some type of worldwide disarmament agreement since any power that had a military could ostensibly bully the ones that did not (and just take what they wanted).
> The result, in America as elsewhere, is a widening generational gap between Baby Boomers, who are statistically more likely to own a home, and Millennials and Gen Z — who are watching their dreams of buying one go up in smoke.

Sigh, Gen X, forgotten again.
This is the real answer. Japanese tax law heavily incentivizes building and discourages sitting on land forever and doing nothing with it for one’s own investments (paging California).

Helps that the whole country is on a fault line; nothing is going to stand up for a while anyways so you may as well establish a culture of rebuilding.
https://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/08/17...

>The Idle was completed in 2018, after Battista worked for years to convince city, state and national officials to OK the project. Even before it opened, it became a punchline on NPR's "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me" when a segment asked a caller to guess whether The Idle, a Karen Pence towel charm museum or a women's prisoner talent show were real. The caller didn't choose "The Idle."
That’s fine. You’re welcome to have your own assumptions about me no matter how false they are.
> THe point of marketing is to make people aware of you who are and if they could possibly be helped by you now or in the future.

That's maybe true in theory. The point of practical marketing is to make people think they have a problem that you have an extraordinary solution for. Sometimes that is true, but the vast majority of the time the problem doesn't even exist, and even if it did, the product wouldn't do anything to solve it.

Basically, penis enlargement pills are the quintessence of marketing.
"The Jungle" is a work of fiction written by socialist Upton Sinclair who was pushing his platform. It is evidence of nothing whatsoever, much like the Star Trek Federation utopia.

As for failing to pay workers, or selling unsafe food, that is against Libertarian principles because Libertarianism requires government to enforce contracts, and does not allow hurting one's customers.
Because the biggest consideration is the reversibility as GP said. If you have Tubal Ligation your odds of getting it successfully reversed is 1%[1]. It is effectively a permanent decision.

[1]https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(15)00292-7/pdf
I heard that was a novel where a guy made life choices on a roll of a dice.

I loved that idea. Obviously, the book took it to an extreme but really what is life anyway, isn't it all just chaos and a lot of seemly random events? New pretend we have control and in some cases, it's this that actually makes us miserable.

I'm curious since you recommended it to OP, how you apply this in your own life and if you have some examples of things you have discovered.
Hit the gym and meet your loves.
For sure. I'm good with the part of marketing that is really figuring about how to market a product. Understanding audiences. Understanding their lives and their needs. Explaining how the current products can help, and providing internal input so that future products are better. That's all productive stuff!

But as we look towards advertising and sales, it looks to me like both an arms race and the tragedy of the commons. Between companies' own websites, professional reviewers (Consumer Reports, Wirecutter, etc), and community discussions (Reddit, etc), these days consumer information needs are for the most part easily satisfied.

But because competitors try to manipulate purchasers via ads and sales techniques, other companies are obliged to follow suit to some extent. That's the arms race part. And the tragedy of the commons is that so much of the information space is filled with stuff whose information value runs between low and negative. Another commons that its harmed is the ethical one. With so many people whose jobs depend on manipulation to one extent or another, it makes manipulative behavior more generally ok.

I think you're also right about push vs pull. Push systems so often have pernicious negative side effects, and this is no exception.
> As the great Gil Scott-Heron once said: "A rat done bit my sister, Nell with whitey on the moon."

I didn't know the reference, but I found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzoPopQ7V0 (2 min)
In 1983, a Professor Gave a Urology Conference Presentation Nobody Would Forget
Next week on Cody's Lab: what happens when I drink palladium?
> the same reason kids aren't especially susceptible to COVID seem to also substantially reduce their transmission of it

In hindsight, maybe, but there were a lot of unknowns in March of 2020 and that was one of them.
My vasectomy doc made it very clear that vasectomies are not always reversible and you should absolutely not count on them being reversible if you anticipate changing your mind.
Many of those houses are simply between owners, in need of repairs, in abandoned towns nobody wants to live in etc

I'd prefer if we focus on simply increasing the supply. Ban single family house zoning. Encourage more high density apartment buildings. Build more cities.
I invited the author on Twitter to participate here on HN, and he said:

> Haha that’s a lot of commentary to field, but if you’re in there with everyone you can tell them I’m happy to take questions or have deeper discussions in a livestream or something like that.

https://twitter.com/StrangelEdweird/status/15515497699311697...

> I also see a few people misunderstanding/misinterpreting #starmanning as being a replacement for steel-manning. It’s meant as an addendum. Steel-manning is about the argument; star-manning is about the arguer.

> And there are no exceptions to it. Everyone can be star-manned.

https://twitter.com/StrangelEdweird/status/15515500388574494...
It's a last resort because adults can't reliably stick to the diet and doctors know it. People don't even stick to medication very well. It's really only prescribed in kids with severe forms of genetic epilepsy because it works well for those conditions, and their parents control what they eat. It's a lot easier to take a pill than to change your entire lifestyle.

Unfortunately, keto doesn't always control seizures either. Pills still work better than diet for some people.
You can compare taxes here: https://files.taxfoundation.org/20191022154112/TEMTR-41Count...

To compare cost of living: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp

Safety comparison: https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp?title=2...
I don't see what stocks and other investments going down has to do with this, unless most middle class people are leveraged against their portfolio value, which I doubt. This is really a story about inflation and the value of cash savings and earnings decreasing. The only people who benefit from inflation are debtors, specifically those whose debt interest increases slower than inflation / interest rates - or not at all. This also benefits low income earners, but they are hit harder by rising prices.
>Statewide bans on short term rentals

I live in Canada, but we have the same issues.

It's going to be a very interesting cross-generational political battle. The sheer number of "normal people" who own investment properties and AirBNBs now is extraordinary. I know people scraping by working average jobs that own multiple units. Meanwhile, the younger generation can't buy a home.

We've normalized the idea that real estate can't lose and everyone should own multiple properties, and we can't come back from that without one side suffering a ton of pain.
The fun bit about that is that most of the "state of the art" modern stuff like the railway station and shopping centres has been demolished and replaced since

Not sure Birmingham looks that post-apocalyptic despite its reputation, although the starchitecture of the Bull Ring centre that replaced the Bull Ring centre in the video has a definite aliens-have-invaded vibe to it... e.g https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/article1992671...
sliding on their bellies. the seal. it was sold by the lady's single reaction shot at the beginning. it's just so well done
And convincing people to sign up for a subscription when that is objectively terrible for the consumer is marketing.
I think the point is that your "opponent" might agree to this if you express openness to it from the start by showing them you understand and share their deepest motives, but they will almost certainly be closed to you if they perceive themselves (rightly or wrongly) to be under attack.

It's always up to you to assess whether there's any hope for a productive conversation with someone. It's also up to you to define "productive." If there is no hope, by whatever definition you select, it's probably a better use of your time to set a boundary and disengage.

This strategy seems to be geared toward maximizing the chance that your "opponent" will be able and willing to hear your points, but there's only so much any strategy can do if someone is determined to see you as an enemy from the start.
I was feeling the same way in my late 20's. Sort of climbed all the hills I cared about climbing. I ended up getting married and having a kid.

For me, life would be really boring without children. It's more fun to watch her have fun than it is to have fun yourself, if that makes sense.
As someone who lives in an area with similar problems, I agree. We need to quit designating buildings as historical based on their age. Unless something actually notable happened there, it should not be considered historic. Bulldoze it and build something more efficient. Society moves forward.
Sack it off and go travelling for a few months.
Surely '2 times less' is minus 100% less, if the amount originally spent is '1 times'?

It's an illogical phrase to be sure.
Land value tax and a basic understanding in society that if house prices go up its a transfer of wealth from non-owners to owners, but not actually making the country richer, quite the opposite, it's just a type of inflation.
There are 130 million more people in the US today than there were 50 years. What changed? 130 million people is what changed.
Sounds like you've got legitimate depression- have you considered therapy?
Construction is cheap, most “property” value comes from land — not the building itself. Hence you’ll find sprawling mega-mansions that are under a million dollars in the middle of nowhere, whereas a few hundred square feet can cost millions in New York.

Denser areas are more expensive because that’s where people want to live, and land is at a premium.
How is that going to meet scientific goals?
There is quite a bit German community there incl doctors, lawyers etc.
the big hospitals are also okay, although the local youth is fleeing the island.
> Hae you tried adding randomization? As in, try some weird stuff (say kayak or whatever) to see what brings you unexpected joy?

Haha, I’m in the same spot as OP and I recently bought a kayak. It’s hard to find free time to go to the river but it’s true that I’m really enjoying it. It’s a great activity because you can choose where you put the cursor between sport and relaxing. From trying to go as fast as you can to totally lie down alone in the boat.

Not saying it would change anything for you OP, but the enjoyment is real.
Personally I think the most important thing to minimizing code complexity is ensuring that it understandably maps to the business logic. The business logic is the essential complexity and everything else can be seen as waste.

The first step is getting the lexicon right. Frequently the business lexicon is ambiguous in such a pervasive way that the people immersed in the business aren't aware of the discrepancies. For example I remember from working in healthcare the words "claim" and "member" often have very different meanings in different contexts and I would see developers hacking code together to get the data model of one context conform to the data model of another when they should have been treated as different entities.
You’re trying really hard to find something to be offended about.

You could go write for the WSJ - they need more hot takes about why rich people getting poorer is actually a tragedy.
TikTok’s ‘alarming’, ‘excessive’ data collection revealed
This today on the effect of tyre dust specifically on animals: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dus...
C:\scan>python
'python' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\scan>

which is my point. (BASIC is also a far, far easier to learn language than Python.)
When I chat to my friends and family the last thing I want to do is "transfer value". My bank app allows me to send money to my friends and family in seconds and to create quick payment requests as well.

Perhaps this app is just for blockchain people? If it's another Internet of Coins app then that explains the vague website and the lack of things like privacy policies.

I do find it funny that they've added rules about linking to their website to their terms and conditions. As if they have any right to control the way people link to them.