skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My generation (early GenX) may be the last one to grow up in an environment that didn't systematically screw young people at every possible turn.

We didn't have a constant presence of adults and had space to work out issues on our own.

We were able to travel for miles in most directions without being barraged by No Trespassing signs - each of them backed up by disproportionate penalties and an ever present risk of life-changing criminal records.

We didn't have to navigate today's massively complex world that is growing more complex at exponential rates.

In contrast, my sons grew up in a world that is senselessly unforgiving and penalistic, with few breaks from adults and little chance to explore life on their own terms.

We have sabotaged our rising generations and to drown out the consequences of that we noisily protect them from risks that largely exists in our own heads.

We couldn't scarcely have designed a worse outcome if we tried.
I think lately there has been this concern from many folks that copycats are taking away some market share from indiehackers. A post was made on indiehackers as well recently related to this. So I feel that people would be hesitant to share. I personally have come across couple of indie hackers who stopped "building in public".
> If what you mean is that the desire is not under their control but refraining from acting upon it is

Yes, this is what I mean.

> The difference, of course, being that homosexuality doesn't imply non-consensual acts; no one is hurt by it.

Indeed. There is no moral imperative to refrain from that which doesn't cause harm.

> It could be that some pedophiles refrain from molesting children because some internal moral standard tells them it would hurt the child, but it seems more likely that they only refrain when and where they could get into trouble for it.

To me it seems likely that the majority of pedophiles (who have the thoughts) make at least some effort to refrain from molesting children, because I believe that most people care about others and want to do right by them as best they can. In many ways this is no different to anyone refraining from forcing themselves upon someone they are attracted to but who isn't interested in them, which is of course a commonplace and unremarkable occurrence. The difference of course being that if someone is exclusively attracted to children then they may find it difficult to find an outlet for their desire, which could make this more difficult for them.
That's interesting because in the part of the northeast where I live, northern new england, all the roads are asphalt with only a few exceptions. And I would guess that it's easy on the plows, because the asphalt will give where as concrete will not which would damage the plows.
Am I incorrect? Elsewhere in the thread you say this project is pure Python and then in the post you say you use a Rust library for queries. Am I misunderstanding something?
I’m incredibly happy to see wages at the bottom rising, but I think there’s a serious lack of discussion around obscenely high executive pay.
https://bittrap.com does this with crypto wallets.
I was at the beach the other day, beautiful weather, perfect sunset, etc. The number of people staring at their phones was very high. The number of teenagers, especially girls, taking pictures and seemingly staging events was downright depressing. We will soon look back and realize that social media and phone addiction was worse for people’s health than smoking.
Instead of defamation, could there be an easier claim of harassment?

What are the legal protections for speech intended to, or can be reasonably assumed to, cause significant stress and harm to someone without any constructive motive to justify the harm?
Yikes! You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do this.

I don't want to ban you, and since we haven't warned you before, it seems fair to ask you to fix this first. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd appreciate it.
Oh they have them online. Some in terrible pdfs or on sites that are randomly down with no warning. Rarely do you get good text search. God bless you if you're expecting some sort of API

The biggest surprise to me however was the lack of any well-organized effort to centralize all of these. To have them all in one API and make it easy to compare across states or get basic data around what gets passed when, who voted for what, etc. The latter information is sometimes not even available
That is an interesting point. Couple that with things like cost of living, cost of education, poor training and mentorship in jobs, etc.

Although I’m slightly confused by the quote. How do kids in Italy get started navigating real life earlier if they live at home longer? I’m guessing the point there is that they have help in early adulthood while still living at home, but the quote, as written, is a little confusing.
> The HN thing to do at this point is to believe that I, a software engineer, can do better and then fail spectacularly in doing so because building houses is different than writing code. So instead I will sit here, fume about the state of things, and throw money at problems when they arise.

The thing is, you probably can do better, you just can't do it both better and as fast or faster.

It's totally worth doing it better for your self to utilize and enjoy. The calculus is entirely different vs. a business effort needing to turn a profit. Most people have plenty of hours they'd otherwise spend unpaid wasting time they could instead be investing in improving their homes while learning new skills.
I‘m 42. Here‘s my advice to someone half my age. Have conflicts. Put your heart into it. If you loose, you receive some truth. If you win you give some truth. The outcome does not matter if it means you grow.

Go eat or drink together as if nothing happened.
But only after sabotaging it to the point that it's basically meaningless: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34170525
My doctor keeps saying all the side effects will clear up within a few months for most people. But I hear a lot about light sensitivity and halos as being permanent. Is zero side effects just marketing? Does the light sensitivity include computer screens? I like to keep my brightness up.
Seems like we need a united cause.

Surviving heat death seems like one whose target can improve quality of life as a byproduct.
How bad was the recovery? When could you start reading a computer screen?
>>the deliberate, built-in ways corporate “customer service” is set up to not only shield those on the top of the ladder—executives, vice presidents, large shareholders—but pit low-wage workers against each other in an inherently antagonistic relationship marked by powerlessness and frustration.

Yup. Just like the classic experiment on rats where they start introducing stresses into the environment (increased crowding, reduced food, noise, etc.) and the rats start fighting each other. Here's it is letting the customers fight the customer service reps, who are themselves deliberately understaffed.

Maybe time to using LinkedIn and other sources to find the higher level managers executives and start letting them hear the complaints directly in their inbox.
You forgot “then a miracle occurs” between steps 1 and 2.
>Customers would buy products with customer service that actually solved their problem instead.

I have never seen customer service come up during a purchasing discussion outside of large corporate purchases. It's pretty firmly a "cost center" that MBAs try to optimize into being as cheap as possible. It is simply cheaper to outsource your support and make it obtuse/difficult to reach a person, basically only fulfilling the absolute bare minimum to not get sued.
Sorry I also don't know anything else better than flameshot, but what is your problem with it, what do you miss?
Expressing incredulity over one piece of context without acknowledging the existence of other parts which modify it. There was a full detailed explanation at the medium blog, and all that was necessary to do was follow the citation given and read it. Repeatedly proclaiming confusion when already in possession of the explanatory material, rather than challenging that explanation, is not a credible posture.
> Not invented here (NIH) is the tendency to avoid using or buying products, research, standards, or knowledge from external origins.

It doesn't have to be actually invented, you can just build everything yourself.

Point is take that mindset ("Never assume anyone else in this organization knows anything"), quickly becomes never trust anyone else, and degenerates to - we'll need to rewrite the gluons (luckily people give up after they spend all their free time).

I prefer the Chesterton's fence. If you don't know what it does you can't remove it.

> I find it is generally a mistake to just bring in dependencies

I don't agree.

It's a pick your poison situation. Use dependency and have a centralized source of mistakes or distribute mistakes, e.g. billions of xml parsers suffering the same issue.

In my experience cautious use of dependencies is preferred, but I would take a well known devil. Over a homebrewed one.
In the streaming era, where reliance on advertising is much lower than in the broadcast era, ratings seem like they'd have a different importance. The content provider isn't trying to inflate numbers to squeeze as much as possible out of advertisers but rather can use them to determine what content is most likely to retain customers. As such, there's much less reason to publish ratings except to try to generate buzz about a show.

For the consumer, ratings are a sign of something you might want to give a chance and more importantly to me, high ratings hopefully mean the show won't be cancelled in the middle of the story, especially not left on a cliffhanger. Of course, sometimes different metrics are what are being targeted, such as Netflix's habit of canceling shows that seem to have a dedicated audience because the company values attracting new accounts with new programming over using existing programming to retain existing customers.
Are you a real person?
Here's a preview, from one perspective:

We are emotional creatures: Emotion, much more than anything else, is our experience of the world, and it is a major input in our perception, decisions, and actions.

Many people reject their emotions or are ignorant of them. And life experiences often cause a lot of emotional injury, to the point where older people reach their limits (I suspect you have a good sense of that at your age) and shut down.

The effect of that shut down - well see the first paragraph; that all deteriorates significantly. It cripples experience and ability, including good judgment, and it causes people to avoid new experiences - the experiences might be traumatic, and the skill of learning and exploring atrophes. Also, shutting down doesn't actually do away with the emotions; they come out and people become angry and cruel.

Instead, we need to learn to be resiliant, to build our emotinonal capacity, and to experience life and use our well-honed emotional insincts as hard-earned wisdom. That includes exploring and learning new things.
I feel like if this bathroom was in my house, brushing my teeth or bathing in it would feel like being in a dystopian movie about an overpopulated, resource-barren, industrial earth.

Indeed. It's basically a "live in the pod" sort of feeling.
I agree. In our modern societies we have more means of communication than ever, yet we’re also more lonely than ever before. Urbanization has also disrupted people’s social lives very much. Raising children is hard when your parents live far away and all your friends are too busy to help, even with state-funded childcare.

Different generations used to live together and help each other. Underpaid nurses and nannies are just a shallow replacement to that.

Then of course there’s the insane pace of change and increasing competition. Only guaranteed sources of income are either very hard to get into, or pay peanuts with bad working conditions. AI might make even some of those disappear, rendering years of education worthless. Life is much more complex than before. There are lots of options, but no obvious answers to which actually make sense. I’m lucky enough to have access to free education and decent social security, but still I feel like my life is way more uncertain than it was for my parents. They just had to get an education and could then work until retirement with same employer, buy a house and just settle down. Without job security pretty much everything else becomes difficult.
The founding premise of positive emotions from human service personel result it better client satisfaction is bogus. First: these humans are more like robots with heavily regulated and trained kind of interactions seemingly following predetermined scripts, not human-like at all. Robotic. More like carring out an excuse for ticking the 'have client support' on the cheklist of running a business, but without actually doing it. Two: inattentive incompetency and pushing company agenda down the throat of the client - which is the usual attitude - will not be neautralized with the words of 'excited', 'happy', 'glad', and other dishonesty, regardless if a human or AI does it. I seen a screenshot once, saved it:

Support agent: How are you today?
Client: Not good.
Support agent: I am happy to hear that. How may I help you?

With years of bitter disappointment I reached the point of rather discontinuing a service instead of attempting communications with the support department. Of the several dozens of communications about 80% ended up in wasted time and nothing wrapped in pretentious politenes. No resolution but robotic and empty words. Of these half of the cases did not attempt making an effort comprehending the problem before throwing at me the first prepared phrase came to mind just to rush closing the damn ticket on their side (several rushed me to declare closed case before outcome was even possible - e.g. dependent on something delivered later). And almost all have the audacity to send a followup survey about satisfaction with the support.

No, polite words will make no difference, not at all. Only real help will. Be it grumpy or overflown with joy.
How do you know the problem is solved, and the customer didn't just hang up in frustration?
I’ve never encountered an automated phone system that can direct me to the manual for a product. Do you have an example of this?

I have, however, encountered phone systems that make it literally impossible to talk to a person.
Many young women feel like they’re failures because they can’t meet the unrealistic expectations society has of them to be successful, beautiful and nurturing.

Many young men feel like they’re failures because they can’t meet society’s expectations success, attractiveness and fatherhood.

Society has always had winners and losers, the global nature of things makes people more aware of higher standards and the threat to their security that lies out there in the real world. No more local echo chambers.

Adding fuel to the fire, it’s easy to lie about how smart, happy and successful you are online, reap the status benefits of it and not get caught. Thus the wheel turns further and faster.

Adolescence and young adulthood is a fragile part of life when you don’t know what you’re capable of yet and have to constantly prove your genetic worth. This is why the young are far more affected than adults who have a realistic sense of what their abilities are and proof that they can survive.

The only solution I see to this is to show the young the importance of sticking to principles, how to suspend disbelief and embrace optimism, how to really take care of your biology and offer them multiple avenues of support they feel comfortable taking advantage of.

The ones who make it through to adulthood with courage will change the world for the better. This I’m sure of
I'm guessing you see/hear this discussed way more than I do, then. :D
I was about to wade in and call out today's youth as pansey-ass-snowflakes.

Then I read:
"I like to describe it as some kids are growing up developmentally delayed, today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort, and COVID just exposed it.”
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and I suddenly realized that I was just being pandered to.
I feel that this is not the case.
What do you mean by "fine". Is it legal or your own choice? Yes. Is it healthy? I highly doubt it. Will it cause harm? I'm almost certain. I think I've read plenty of researchers advocating continued learning as essential, but I can't cite it..
People always think they are the one exception.
Back in late 2010, we worked with Python for mobile (Series 60, Android, iOS).

For consumer grade applications, the issue is slow startup time due to module imports being dynamic and slow.

For scripting use case by a programmer, tools exist in Python. However use cases are rare, often better served by Raspberry Pi and others.
Is it a result of perverse incentive? I think it would help to better understand why executive pay is so high in the first place.
Living at home is different from being babysat all the time, or from the quote "American parents are more overprotective". You can live in the same house and have way more independence growing up depending on parenting styles. I'm not sure how true or not any of this is, but depends if for example kids are more likely to play in the street without an adult supervising, going to the beach also without adult supervising, etc.
Solving a customer's problem does not directly make a company money. It may arguably avoid them losing potential future money but it doesn't make them money.
>What's the advantage of using ElasticSearch and having to worry about server costs? Why not just get rid of that and charge me for the app without worrying about never-ending costs?

Because when it's a client-side only app, it's more difficult to charge for subscriptions to ensure that sweet, sweet revenue. Which appears to be the raison d'etre for most software these days. :(

Besides, making it require a server pushes the hoi polloi to register to use "the cloud" (read: someone else's server) rather than just run it themselves.

And if it gets big (it seems like an interesting and potentially popular app), money can be made harvesting PII from those who register.

If you're the app developer, what's not to like?

I'd note that the OP says the code is open source, and so should it be useful, tech folks will likely host their own servers.

This comment isn't meant to denigrate or bash RSS Brain or its author. Rather, it seeks to answer Masukomi's question[0].

My analysis may be dead wrong. It seems plausible, especially since so many folks seem to want to make everything a subscription.

To butcher an old quote[1]: Subscriptions are $10 here, $10 there and soon you're talking about real money.

No thanks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190815

[1] "A billion here, a billion there and soon you're talking about real money." Usually attributed to Everett Dirksen[2], but it appears that he never said any such thing.[3]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen

[3] https://www.dirksencenter.org/research-collections/everett-m...
Automated call centers save money by disincentivizing calling in, and by making people give up.

Most people don't think about customer service or support when they are buying stuff.

Actually solving the customers problem is way down the list of objectives for most phone systems. It's easy to see this by comparing the quality of phone support with the kind of market power a company has.
> Customers would buy products with customer service that actually solved their problem instead.

Why? And how would they know?

Customer service is a thing that maybe 10% of customers will interact with, and usually long after the product is purchased. It's very hard to evaluate up-front except through "brand" reputation.
It doesn't have to be this way.

It's stamped metal, so presumably its magnetic. Buy magnetic toothbrush holder, magnetic shelf , magnetic shelves and attach anywhere you want. Never worry about loofah hook being in the awkward spot - place it where you want! Put a magnetic-back picture with your favorite pattern in the shower to stare at!

(you'd want water-sealed or water-resistant magnet accessories, but I think they would be easy to find if that kind of bathroom to become common)
Yeah, I made some use of SPX/IPX. Talk about a minefield! System data in user space, if your program crashed just ctrl-alt-del (this was back in the DOS era) because the instant that data block got overwritten the system would crash anyway.

On the other hand why hasn't anyone implemented a recycle bin like they did? (Your whole drive was your recycle bin.) And the users really loved the feature that said "this drawing is locked by <station name>" that I can see no way to implement under any other system.
The prerequisite for this is a healthy foundation of self belief. Young adults out there are getting hammered by messages that imply that they are fundamentally flawed and will never stack up.

It’s a fragile place to be
Discussion can be had all year long, but the executive caste will maintain it. There's no law or peaceful incentive to change the tendency. It's important to them that the plutonomy be maintained and extended.
Yes, but likely there are administrative and legal hoops to jump through to be able to access this, and the data may not be “real time” or centralised and easily searchable. Potentially this was all in progress already and then Tate saved them a bit of paperwork by proving he was in Romania.
Sorry for a late reply, I am generally using ARM based images and I have run into VERY few things that availability was a problem for. I’ve never seen anything based on Debian or Alpine not have ARM variants. The only base image I’ve really ever run into problems with was Cent, and I only had like one thing that used it which I switched over to Debian and it’s not caused any problem for me.

I can definitely see mileage varying depending on the specific things you need to run, but I wasn’t ever really concerned with it because I usually have enough control over the images I use that I can switch something to a different base if need be.
A more apt comparison would be sex vs pornography.

Both junk food and pornography hijack the reward center of your brain. Whereas real food and sex are both normal, healthy things.
I have no idea how plausibly, but the book 2312 has a city on one of the hot inner planets that gets squeezed along a rail using thermal expansion. Even if that doesnt work, it seems like the sort of thing you could engineer around, just a more extreme version of the engineering we already do to handle thermal expansion.
I'm sure I'm not the only one not believing in this.
This is usually because the video outputs are often connected only to the discrete gpu, while the laptop screen is only connected to the integrated GPU, meaning you have to use both if you want monitors. On desktop, NVIDIA mostly works if you stick to X11 and deal with their proprietary driver. However, the hybrid graphics switching presents a lot of problems. Some ThinkPads actually can behave like desktops and disable the iGPU entirely, since they have a mux that can connect the dGPU to the laptop screen directly, without using any render offload shenanigans, though at a great cost of battery life.
datatypes are a great way for making static types. Python's power is you can use as little or as much typing is right for you.