skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are also easier to read and write than the Python version, as you can just follow the dataflow from top to bottom (or left to right if it fits into a single line). In Python, your eyes have to jump around to find where to the next bit of processing happens, not just in comprehensions but also with map/filter/list/len and co which are freestanding functions for some reason.
Every bit of it is because people don’t want to get get sued if something bad happens. We live an insanely litigious country with far too many lawyers and kids suffer the consequences.
I suspect it likely could be if you're spraying everything to rinse it; use a few basins with a good sized rinse with sanitizer or bleach (measured -- ideally use a ph strip to avoid going too far here) and you can use quite a small amount of water for a good number of dishes. Of course, bothering to fill the basins for only a few dishes could be a waste, but when you're doing a whole family worth, you shouldn't need to run the sink while you're cleaning.
Ok, but then I don't understand the claim that it's faster than React while using React. I don't know of any more specific and good benchmarks for that.
You mean the casual eating of another person's flesh you buy at the grocery store?

Yes, that's pretty tame...
Make sure to check the other apps from this developer, there's some very cool ones!
That's a great passage that you've quoted, and a great example of why we need UBI to keep Americans alive under late-stage-capitalism.

> What a ridiculous article. Why is this on HN

This on the other hand is sentence completely devoid of potatoes, let alone meat. Would you care to expand on why you find it ridiculous?
Perhaps the next programming language / ecosystem can remove this problem entirely . Why is it so hard to have access to everything while shipping only what is actually needed?
I don’t think you need a “formal education” to see the benefits of strong typing. Whether someone is attracted to it or not probably has more to do with their specific use case.

Strongly typed languages is simply a trade off where you get peace of mind by paying for it with extra time and effort spent. For some people that’s a no-brainer and for some people that’s just something that gets in the way.

My background is mostly in sysops and monitoring, and for me types are a life-saver because I value stability and predictability over almost anything else. If my job was something more similar to “ship new stuff fast” I’m not sure that would be the case.
This is mostly about parenting, but the point about conflict struck me. I've found that lots of people out there seemingly can't handle disagreement at all, and attribute a fundamental moral failure to their conversation partner if they don't see eye to eye. And most of these people are incredibly unhappy. I would be too if I couldn't trust anybody other than my perfect clone.

It's an antiquated idea, but explicit classroom instruction about agreeing to disagree might go a long way for some kids, if only to counter a media environment that only tells you exactly what you already want to hear.

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More controversially, I've found that some young people would really benefit from disengaging with the entire concept of "mental health." Their obsessive focus upon medical labels and the dysfunctional communities it brings them in contact with only serve to warp acute distress into chronic misery.
The interstates are a constant stream of freight trucks. Trucks cause 4x the pollution of trains. Trucks spew tire and brake dust all over the countryside. Most of the maintenance on highways are the result of trucks, and this is paid for by taxpayers.
I prefer ordering from an iPad, but it should result in the food quality and reliability hitting 99%.
Maybe. Smoking is a very social habit at least. Whose to say the isolation and depression from phones/social media is less harmful?
Should I not pay attention to the meaning of words?
I wrote a toy distributed SQL, cypher graph, dynamodb style and document storage Python database but it's more for experimentation than serious use. It's not ready for use it's more a show of how little code you can use to write a database.

https://GitHub.com/samsquire/hash-db
and, worse, it seems that some of them work with computers.

it's shattering to see this being taken seriously by people who should be trained to work with extremely deterministic systems, demanding the utmost rationality.
It would be a mistake to suppose that more automation would have resulted in a different outcome. For example, an update to a critical system can also result in operator/interface breakdowns, leading to failures. In fact, according to some accounts, this is exactly what happened and it exacerbated things (some spreadsheet software was updated).

I recommend this paper to everyone: https://ckrybus.com/static/papers/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica...
There is a tension in the article between "the capitalists are pitting the consumers against the front line workers" premise and the "the capitalists are eliminating the front line workers" point made in the article.

Southwest's meltdown was about computer systems that coordinate "offline" based on assumptions instead of online based on passing information back and forth on a regular basis.

Southwest was a very reliable airline, it didn't have some sort of day-to-day understaffing problem, they executed an unorthodox business strategy [0] in the last year or so that has degraded their performance, and bad weather exacerbated the problem.

0: https://www.inc.com/kelly-main/southwest-becomes-one-of-amer...
No issue with the pay. But the US sucks at taxing rich people.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Definitely hearing the game console signal, although my resistance was that there would be better ways to spend his time as school only goes so far.

Sounds like gaming console and... Cracking the code interview, and Leetcode subscription.
I never said my generation did it right. Quite the opposite. The evidence is my generation screwed children out of everything kids have always needed to learn functionality.
The calculus of setting up a billing/pricing system against the potential incremental revenue (people who will pay per usage but not subscription) probably moves the endeavour to 'we'll do it, but not today' pile

Having tiered features not tied to usage skews the calculus even more
>but i would have been in the 10% of respondents that don't find blowjobs arousing

Perhaps, but the survey is about what is considered taboo - and BJs are like still 5% taboo. What's up with that?

That said, not finding them arousing should be a taboo itself, it's like not liking chocolate, what kind of weirdo doesn't like chocolate?
I agree with the general idea that the insatiable hunger for greater profits comes at the expense of labor. Southwest is just another example of this. Additionally, everything ts treated as a cost center, such as IT systems. And everything is short-term thinking.

But pointing to automation as a problem is misguided. Automation is great. I look forward to a future when we don't subject humans to "time off task" in an Amazon warehouse. We automate a bunch of things now that were horrible for the people who originally did them.

The problem is systemic: how do we distribute the fruits of that labor? The current capitalist organization of the economy exploits labor and concentrates all the wealth in the hands of a small handful of people.

The US has and produces enough wealth such that every citizen could have enough to eat, a house to live in, access to healthcare and otherwise have all their basic needs met. We, as a society, have decided we'd rather have people die in the streets, starve and use state violence in the form of withholding basic healthcare like insulin.

Automation should mean that we only need to work 10-20 hours of work a week. But no. Instead we just cut the amount of workers (to the point of having no redundancy like the railroad companies) and suppress real wage increases in the name of increased profits.

It really doesn't have to be this way.
Yes.

P used for something in places in parallel of hundreds of (several exotic, rarely used) technologies is not really predicting how much P was used without scientific and ML uses. What if P is mostly used for scientific and ML purposes in those places, or as an experiment, study, not necessarily being a backbone? Or with other secondary agenda, overstated, etc. The mere fact that P is used in a huge amalgam of A,B,C,... tells very little alone concerning the question. Almost nothing.

Yes, needs some unwrapping what you believe.
Exactly, it’s like quantum physics, or dice rolls. No point discussing them. ;)
Thank you for your thorough reply. You've managed to make manifest some thoughts I've been pondering for quite some time now.

> There is no reasonable form of independence when you need to work 9-5 just to cover your most basic living experiences.

If all your life is spent on just making sure you get to survive, how does on manage to make the world better? If all one's mind is spent on making it through the next month, or week, or even day, how can we expect them to make a meaningful change at large?

This world has brought about the availability of an incredible amount of even more incredibly brilliant minds, but for some reason we choose to not actively make use of them. Somehow, actively, we choose to let some of the most productive and knowledgeable of human beings go to waste.

I am not sure this was the exact sentiment you were aiming for, but what you wrote resonated for me and here we are.

I do have to admit that I do not know the "solution" to what I am (or might be) suggesting is the problem here, but if we might just be able to figure this out, there might just be hope for all of us.

Or I might just believe in Interstellar a wee bit too much ;)
It was a simple example. As always, it depends on the application, though most applications do not need this level of checking

Further, what happens if the grok pattern is wrong? Or if it changes?
Cheerfulness works, it is one of the best way to make me a return customer.

But that's not just cheerfulness, it is the idea that the service rep cares about me. Cheerfulness means "I am happy to be with you, I love my job, I will do my best for you to leave you satisfied". Of course as a customer I want that! But then, if like with most chatbots, I feel no intent to actually work on solving my problem, it goes straight down the uncanny valley. What are you? Happy to not help me? What's your problem? If it wasn't obvious from the start, that's typically a dead giveaway that I am dealing with a bot.

Actual people who are good at their job will know to put the right emotion for the situation, including a lot of cheerfulness, but only when appropriate. Bots don't get that. If they can't play the human game, just let them be machines, no useless emotions, keep things factual, short and to the point.
The view from Inverness Park is also pretty great.
“You can…”

Sure, but the Python code is so much nicer.

I don’t even like Python all that much but it’s comprehensions and generators are very sweet.
Find individuals. Twitter is a good place, Reddit too. Once you find one, you can usually find related individuals with good taste.
I use a todo thing I made https://madprops.github.io/Hoff/

I don't care about due dates, I just write the tasks I have to do in the short term (same day).

Then tick them when they're done.

It helps me not forget things too since I can add a task when I have an idea.

I have a dedicated spot on my monitor to display it.
> Elixir is a very nice language to write distributed systems in. Functional in all the right places plus it has OTP.

This is the biggest blocker for introducing Elixir to any company I work at. I don't want to become / hire experts in the OTP and the Erlang VM.

I'm ignorant about it in general, but my feeling is it's not only a new language, it's built on abstractions that I'm not sure I'm comfortable owning or operating. Is that wrong and how did you handle the tradeoffs for your company?
Deglazing a wok at the end goes a long way -- through in half a cup to a cup of water while it's still hot after you've taken the food out, and scrape the bottom gently. Don't put in enough water that it'll cool the pan off entirely, just an amount you might be using when making a sauce. Even if you put off fully cleaning it until after your meal, you'll have saved yourself a bunch of work, on both cleaning and reseasoning (though I always throw a little oil on at the end for good measure).
Not a broken premise at all. The focus on the ultra rich is mostly just a political ploy since it's easy to villainize extravagant wealth. But the vast majority of income (I'm including capital gains in this) is made by the middle class and wage-earning upper class, not by the ultra rich. If you take all the wealth of the ultra rich and distribute it evenly, every person would get a one-time, nice, but not life-changing check (somewhere between $70k and $150k). And then next year everyone is mostly back where they were before except you can't raid the ultra rich again since you just wiped them out.
Banks cannot recall LBO debt because they think the debtor’s value decreases. That would be ludicrous.

Like most corporate debt, the debtor must service the debt repayment schedules while following financial covenants (addition rules on performance ratios). If debtor fails to make payment or breaches covenants, it can lead to a technical default.

In this case, most of Twitter’s LBO debt haven’t been syndicated (ie. The banks still hold them and haven’t securitized them to be sold to other investors.) Twitter no longer has a credit rating (Moody dropped them in Nov, S&P dropped them in Dec; both citing insufficient information to assess credit risk). Without a credit rating, most bond investors simply won’t buy the debt because it wouldn’t meet their investment guidelines.

Also, there can absolutely be margin calls on equity holders of private equity if their stakes were financed on margin. ie. If a hedge fund (most are leveraged at least 100% for financial reasons) chipped in, their margin creditor (ie their prime broker) can absolutely request the fund to post more collateral.
$5 / month is a bit stiff. Why not just allow onetime purchase ?
If you get better support from a news aggregation site’s comments than you get from official support channels, those support channels are defective.

This discussion shouldn’t have to happen here to begin with.
You didn’t buy “crowdfunded yada yada”. You bought a product called “full self driving”.

You did end up paying for Tesla to figure out how to build the product that didn’t exist when sold. (all of which should’ve become a useable product “next year” by the way)

The fact you’re ok with that doesn’t mean everyone else is. It doesn’t mean it was marketed ethically.

I’m not even saying you were swindled. I think teslas seem like nice cars. You’re just making the wrong argument.

They sold everyone a snickers. Just because you’re happy to have nougat and a little Carmel doesn’t change the fact you’re missing peanuts and chocolate.
Shameless plug, I made https://www.knotend.com which is a keyboard-first directed graph editor. Supports trees and directed graphs (multiple parents).
In aggregate it would be hard to say. But at the extremes I think you could argue that social media is worse. For example, getting severely depressed and killing yourself as a teenager due in large part to a distorted sense of reality from social media is probably worse than getting esophageal cancer and dying in your 50s. Both are extreme outcomes of a bad habit, but one is way worse in my eyes.
The premise of this article is absolutely disgusting. The inequality that matters isn't the difference between blue collar workers and college grads with marketing and tech jobs. This is just propaganda to destroy the middle class.
The infantilization of an entire generation and the extension of adolescence into the 20s is a disaster for mental health. It's hard to find meaning if you remain immature. Without meaning, what's the point in living?
>I've found that lots of people out there seemingly can't handle disagreement at all...

This is the second time this week I'll have linked this here on HN but I'm exceptionally happy to do so. Jonathan Haidt has a topical discussion[1] about that and hypothesizes it stems from an utter lack of viewpoint diversity as kids grow up. He states that universities have sought to remove all emotional distress, when they're supposed to be the place where you go to have your ideas challenged and feel a little distressed about it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gatn5ameRr8
>Would a serial killer be just as horrible for fantasizing about murders without ever murdering, or helping others murder?

No, but nobody said it would be "just as". It would still be creepy as hell though, if one did it all the time.

And you never know until they're dead themselves if they'll pass into action either. Sure, this is the case with people not fantasizing about murders too -- they can still commit murder. But fantasizing makes it sound quite more likely. It's also one of the creepiest ways for someone to think of you (as their fantasy murder victim)...
Every workers union is a labor monopoly designed to transfer money from those outside the union to those in the union. Thats why the laws allowing unions specifically exempt them from antitrust laws.
> Nukes would be a big nuisance, needing constant maintenance, unless you just run a naked pile at incandescent temperature and catch the light coming off photovoltaically.

If we had piles of Pu-240 we could use RTGs, though they wouldn't be very efficient considering the amount of mass we'd have to send.

Running a naked reactor doesn't sound so bad considering there's no atmosphere or water sources to poison -- just stay away from the reactor. Running a steam turbine shouldn't be too hard, but it probably can't be serviced -- if it breaks, you replace it.
> But automated call centers do save the customer time. 9 times out of 10 a user problem is easily remediated by pointing the user to the correct manual.

Do you have any evidence for that claim? It seems unlikely that could be true since people need to call for things like repairs which a manual couldn’t help with and the intersection of people who don’t read manuals but will read them when prompted seems to leave out a lot of other people.

> If it wasn't, phone trees and other pre-tech phone routing would never save the company money at all!

> Customers would buy products with customer service that actually solved their problem instead.

This is leaving out a lot of obvious alternatives: products don’t fail often enough that people buy anything but the cheapest one (or the one that is featured more prominently in the store they have a promotional agreement with), companies have all cut their support staff so the ability to shop around is limited, the cost is shifted to the retailers or installers, some fraction of people give up and ask a friend or neighbor to help, etc.
>The waiter hasn’t been replaced by an iPad, they’ve been replaced by you.

I've noticed as well that in grocery-store lines. Where customers are being conditioned to patiently wait in long lines to be next at the checkout machines. To wave their purchases over lasers, then pack them into each and every bag they'll pay for. Be careful what you put in the bagging area! the machines' metallic voices shriek at the customers. They must do exactly as they're told. Or else the single human attendant will walk over to ask them what they did wrong. While others still waiting trade impatient glances. Oh the shame.

Meanwhile the silent rows of unmanned registers wait in the gloom, just in case. Are they waiting for an EMP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_of_eternal_light
Ah, but pushing that responsibility onto the customer is part of the scam!
> Southwest Airlines ticketing agents, cashiers at Nando’s Chicken, low-wage call center workers for Verizon overseas, become corporate sin eaters

This is why it is a good idea to be nice to the people you deal with on the front lines, and write a very politely worded letter to the head of the department at the company you are dealing with, and potentially letters to their boss, and their boss, etc. Mail it, if possible, as a follow-up to the email. I am sure people here need no instruction on how to find the appropriate person in the corporate structure to contact with their concern. These are the people who can get things done -- not just for you, but for everyone. Oh, don't forget that if you have a 401k you may legitimately be a stockholder in the company, so you can mention that if true.
That's meaningless. They don't have inside information.
This gives me a thought: is there any service out there that creates and monitors canary tokens on a larger scale to try to identify when specific providers have been breached?

In light of the LastPass breach, it seems like it would be useful if someone had created a few LastPass vaults and seeded them with some canary tokens (and probably canary crypto wallets), so if any of those tokens or wallets were used, it would almost certainly indicate that attackers had breached LastPass and successfully cracked vault passwords.
I'm not a fan of communism, but that ideology produced two of the major world powers. Entire generations of illiterate peasants were educated, entire economies were completely reconstructed in a way that is pretty much unprecedented. There was immense repression, the human cost of Stalinism for example is uncountable. But capitalism has caused immense suffering as well.

It's better to simply speak plainly of the effects systems have had rather than trying to moralize away the good in order to emphasize the bad, in my opinion. Dogma makes for bad reasoning.
older millenial here to say that you weren't the last generation. The world remained pretty offline-centric well into the early 2000's. I grew up exploring and testing boundaries out in the real world. As a parent now, I have to artificially create independent experience for my kids in a way that was just natural to me growing up.
Since you capitalized it, it looks like a static method on the “G” class. There is nothing OO about static methods - this is purely and organizational construct.
Can't a pure Python project use any library that's not a pure Python project?

Is python-non-purity something that taints all dependants for you?
Capacitor uses WebView which is less performant than RN
Another fun problem of hyphenation in English, that I didn't see on my read through this, is that how something is hyphenated may depend on how the word is used. Easy example is "record", as a noun it will hyphenate differently than it will as a verb.
Thanks that site's pretty cool
Could also do something with falling standards of living, social media pushing influencers that flaunt obscene wealth on young people, rising awareness of the coming climate catastrophes etc.
This is multifaceted issue
2023 Predictions
Well, Italian’s are not currently known for being independent adults very early either. Unemployment is insanely high for young adults too, and has been for a long time. Somewhere around 25-30% depending on how you slice ages. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1097938/unemployment-rat...
We can’t outrun it forever…
How do I find the mailing addresses of the bosses? Actually how do I find the names of the bosses? Maybe from LinkedIn?
Maybe in numbers - not in any other way that actually matters. Canada is a trainwreck in motion.
To highlight this point, Jose’s in this thread and across HR. He’s an inspirational leader.