skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2c.

Society doesn't care about young men. They're pretty much left to fend for themselves. Hopefully they have a good family structure, and a few good male friends. Without that they're toally adrift.

I learned this lesson when I got a flat tire driving across two states when I was 20. No one is willing to help. I guarantee a 20 yo woman would have no problem flagging down help, heck people would stop to help without being asked.

I'm 51 now, and I understand why more and more men are checking out. The grind isn't worth it. There's a reward system in play here, you grind at life and are rewarded. Grind in school and you graduate. Grind more and you get a degree. Grind more and you get a family and career and some big toys.

It seems that the amount of grinding men have to do is increasing, and the net rewards society bestows seem to be decreasing. I won't get into a shouting match on what the problems men experience are, you can fill in the blanks with your own experiences and biases, but all the men I know seem to agree that there seems to be less of an upside to sacrificing for the greater good than there used to be. As a middle aged man strangers I meet expect the worst from me, why should I try?

As an alternative you can spend your hours grinding away at video games and leveling up. And the games are getting better every year.

It seems to me that many young men are finding leveling up in games is simply more rewarding than leveling up in real life. I wish it weren't so, but here we are.

Historically speaking, civilization is built and defended largely on the backs of young men. When they check out, it can't be a net good for the trajectory of society.

Or maybe this is a win for feminism? Women finally have work equality and so men don't have to work as hard anymore.

I don't have answers. But the trend has been clear for a long while.
> that "sort of person"

I have a hard time believing you can't figure this out on your own, but briefly, the manosphere.

As to the rest, I am truly sorry to hear about your sexual assault. But I'm also sorry that you, like so many of the "sort of person" I'm talking about, have turned a bad experience into a reason to bash feminism rather than a reason to fight things like rape culture. If even with your experience can't figure out why serial rape victims might murder their attackers and why somebody might be surprised that doesn't happen more, then I'm not sure how I can clear up my point for you.
I have seen exactly this. Waiting for a 60+ min CI build during an outage is not a good look.
How to Build a $500k/Yr Business in Less Than 3 Years with Dru Riley
My observations of Arizona's approach to criminal justice leads me to believe it's mostly a make-work program. Many of my passengers were deteriorated by their time in Arizona's jails and prisons. While there are a few violent people who need to be segregated, most people do not magically get fixed by being locked up. Read somewhere that people begin to develop psychological problems after 7 days of imprisonment. Many of my passengers had cases of PPSD: Post-Prison Stress Disorder.

My one passenger exemplifies the futility of Arizona's system of criminal justice (link in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34157865 ). He only had the one charge (drug paraphernalia - it was supposedly someone else's pipe) from... 2013 or so. He just can't get off probation because he bails himself out and can't show up for his next court date. I think he's terrified of being killed by the jail. His diabetes is uncontrolled, and the jail implements a starvation diet (which is why I asked /u/ddtaylor if the food was adequate in his AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158365 ). His blood sugar is dropped by the forced time-release insulin injections, but the jail routine doesn't allow for him to check his blood sugar level or provide adequate amounts of edible food.

Three of my female passengers were definitely harmed by 'justice'. One got sent to prison for 5 years for having shared a single opioid pill with a friend (circa 2009), another had substance abuse problems that she couldn't shake.

This AZCentral article talks about Arizona's minimum-security prison in Perryville. My passenger who got 'moody' at menopause was sent there for her 3rd DUI. She tried to stay sober after being released, but then life happened and she hadn't learned how to cope. She's doing fine now, no thanks to her time getting 'corrected'.

I have all my notes - ought to write a book.

This article says the babies are separated from their mothers after 72 hours, as provided for by Arizona's version of a 'Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act'. But ... 72 hours is not enough to get a child off to a good start in life. Now that we have GPS trackers, there's no reason to not create a more compassionate system of supervision for mothers in the system. If not for them, for their children.

Congressman Thomas Massie (MIT Alumni) said he'd read all the quote-tweets of his query: "If you were in Congress, what would your priorities be for 2023?". I put a little effort into a thread about the predicaments of abundance and how Arizona's biggest job project is its criminal justice system: https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1609412832227110914

(minor edits - punctuation, mostly)
I'm gonna go ahead and assume your wife wasn't induced against her will
Absolutely fascinating wiki link, thanks!

I've found this video pretty enlightening to quickly grok the goal and tactics of one of the Tafl games:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=axzd_MM1rJ0
Lawyers also have a _legally binding obligation_ to provide accurate, context-aware, complete advice.
The US also bans a lot of Chinese solar panels, which are the cheapest on the market.
People have TVs?
The human body rapidly develops tolerance to tryptamine-based psychedelics (i.e., most of the ones being discussed here). In general, if you take a tryptamine, then taking more won't do anything for at least a couple weeks. (Tolerance isn't all-or-nothing; even if a person has developed it, it's still possible to get a small response with a gigantic dose.)

But even if there were no such thing as tolerance, psychedelics aren't pleasant in the day-in-day-out way that a beer after work can be, or that I imagine an opioid would be. They require far too much emotional work. It's typical to take a moderate mushroom dose, and then spend a month or two "integrating" the experience (i.e., figuring out what the heck all those insights mean).
ProtonVPN allows you to select a State.
The point is there is no advantage to throwing an exception VS. using sum type return values (e.g. Result types in Rust)
https://archive.ph/Ad3J2

note the date
I love when miscommunication creates an entirely new game; gridiron football (e.g. Canadian and American Football) was created from Rugby due to scrums being unfair in North America, so a system of downs was introduced.
We have to break out of this view count trap

audience size directly correlates with revenue, so if you want to make any money on the internet you have to find some kind of strategy to cultivate said audience. It's not the only thing that correlates with revenue, but it's foolish to ignore its significance.
I didn't get it any of the times I read it either FWIW, it just randomly clicked one day for me while coding and I connected it back to the article

I'm not the smartest tool in the shed, if I could dumb it down a little (sorry Alexis, and hopefully I'm doing you justice here!), I think it boils down to this:

In many programs, you have logic like the below:

function processOrderRequest(items: List<Item>, customer: Customer) {
if (items.isEmpty()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Items cannot be empty")
}
if (customer.isBanned()) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Customer is banned")
}
// ...
orderAPI.placeOrder({
// .. final order object with some logic
})
}

This makes sense, but if you look at it another way, what you're trying to encode is some function like this:

function processOrderRequest(
items: ValidatedItemList, // A non-empty list of items we've know are okay to send
customer: VettedCustomer // A customer we've vetted and know is okay to place an order
) -> PlacedOrderRequest {
// ...
}

What this does is allow you to move the domain of validation away from the fragile business logic of your program, and into the deeply-embedded domain of your data types.

It also allows you to control and refactor the validation logic much easier, since they live in your data-types and at boundary points

Once I grokked this I was like, whoa. Neato idea.
Would be fascinated to hear how the hell they do this microbiologically. This study just seemed to strongly indicate they do it.

I mean, as the consumER you'd have to (a) be resistant to getting infected by the virus in the first place, (b) encapsulate the virus in a way it can't broach, (c) deactivate and decompose it into nutrients you can use, no?

Which seems a tall order for something designed and continually evolving to breach your cell walls!

Granted, Halteria ciliates don't appear to be the virus' primary target, so potentially lack necessary binding points / are impenetrable to them, but that seems like playing with fire. Or eating plankton if plankton were carnivorous and rapidly evolving...

Although maybe it makes evolutionary sense if the Halteria:algae ratio is extremely low? I.e. it was never beneficial to target Halteria when more numerous food sources were colocated.
They probably want to make sure that the women have actual medical care when delivering, rather than having a baby when nobody is around.

I still think it's pretty awful, but it may be an attempt to be less awful given the awful state of prison medical care, which is generally non-existent.

See, e.g. that guy who lost his dick to preventable cancer due to not being able to see anybody about it in time:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6360081/Ex-inmate-f...
> I'm pretty sure society is not obligated to have an interest in you

I have grown to believe over time that this is true, and that most people are willing to throw away unsuccessful or unlucky others using this reasoning. It's depressing, but also frees you from feeling any particular obligation to society. If society doesn't either provide you with what you need or a means to achieve it, I recommend that you cheat, steal, tax-evade, and law-break as much as is personally beneficial.
They are wards of the state which means the state is legally required to care for them to the best of it's ability.

If you are a prisoner and want to die of eg cancer instead of seeking treatment that is not an option generally up to you. The state will treat you, whether or not you want it.

If the prison can argue that the induction leads to meaningfully better health outcomes (and induction frequently does!) then that is the end of the matter.

Your freedom to make subpar decisions or have deeply personal choices (eg a water birth or use a birthing center) is curtailed when you are in prison.
It is important to mention that inducing birth before term increases the incidence of respiratory problems in the baby (beyond the abhorrent ethical issues).
I generally prefer links since otherwise the code and examples can easily get out of sync.
Very interesting read. I'm looking forward to the details in the followups (1/9, 1/23, 3/6). However, I'm surprised that there are no KR banks who build their reputation on their technical acuity and who have eliminated (or avoided) reliance on these types of applications. The markets I'm familiar with tend to have a few banks who have a reputation for good websites, good apps, etc. Or perhaps that bit of context was omitted, and these types of banks do exist in KR?

Note for the author: small typo at "requires outmost care".
> I get bored or distracted easily, I don't believe in ADHD, but according to the definition I definitely have it.

ADHD isn’t some genetic on/off switch that determines whether you can focus or not, it’s a threshold for commonly-linked traits that indicates you may benefit enough from medication, routines, and special accommodations in certain circumstances that it’s worth it to try them and for you to be evaluated differently from people who don’t pass that threshold.

Not believing in ADHD is like not believing in charisma or any other observable set of traits.
The politicization of society is damaging liberal democracy
2022 Computer Vision Year in Review: The Best One Yet
I will admit that I have no idea how that would look like. If quantum computer can be as capable as one envisioned in Jormungand, I am not sure if anything short of declaring them a weapon is needed.
That's less true in union work or licensed trades; but of course lots of trades are only licensed in specific localities or the licensing is loosely enforced.

There definitely is a emphasis in the U.S. on college being the "correct" path though. I recently saw a public charter school in my city advertise their entire graduating class was accepted into colleges. Clearly this was the best metric of success to them.
yeah, its the unrelated to survival that gets me
i'd be fine working equally hard on something meaningful to not die. im not happy with shuffling paperwork for the same thing. maybe this is a personal problem

For me personally at least, why I really want UBI is for soul-starving needs specifically. My job I fully believe is either net-neutral or hurting the world, and after some amount of looking have not been able to find one that's both clearly positive and not exploited. If I was given UBI I would quit, maybe volunteer to teach one class a day in a high school, or help run a boardgame cafe or makerspace. There would be no worry of putting people out a job since they'd be getting UBI too.

Right now I feel souless. I'm living well but through some glitch in the system that rewards people for writing useless code on a project that I'm expecting will get canned (the last two were thrown away) and spending time on hackernews. I want to be doing the useful things that currently don't pay well enough to be live without anxiety.

I think a lot of people working exploited jobs would also benefit, for the reasons you already know if you want a general safety net. Being able to quit without fear is a lot of leverage and would make things a lot more equal between employer / employee. Current unemployment benefits don't give anything if you quit (instead of fired) and a UBI style no-questions-asked solves this.

Addictions / vices are certainly a problem, and could definitely be worse with UBI perpetually enabling. I don't really have a great answer to this. The current system does not seem very kind to addicts without external support either, so I'm not sure how much worse this would be either way but definitely something to think about. Hadn't really considered that angle before.

Either way, I'm not 100% convinced UBI is the best way to add a safety net. I do think it would have some pretty profound effects on what work people would be wiling to do, most of which would be positive. It's a pretty simple / meme-able demand the same way 'fight for 15' or 'healthcare for all' is, that's really all the pitch i have for it tbh

What sort of changes are you hoping for?

(edit: is there a comment reply limit? if this is the end im happy to give an email or phone # to continue somewhere else. legit this is the only pleasant hackernews comment thread i've been a part of on this or my alt so thank you very much <3)
Amazon is working on things like Matter which is just turned on by default on all Alexa devices and I'm sure they'll sell access to this "backchannel" if they're not already using it.

And there is precedent with Apple for example using everyone's phones to send airtag location data (enabled by default), or Xfinity / Comcast opening a second SSID (hidden or not) if you use their modem / gateway combo.

You don't need to have any of those things, it's enough that your neighbors do for future "unconnected" smart TVs in your home to piggyback on.
If Stripe doesn't acknowledge they made a mistake, one could say mistakes are down 100%.

It's tough to track metrics like that.
This is not a great summary of that wikipedia article.
But how can it Markit as dead as the mutatorthread runs?

It must stop the thread surely?
What about Electric Baseboard Heaters instead? They don't take up space like a freestanding space heater does.
>Looks like a 7 year return on investment after subsidies, 10 years without.

Price of electricity more than tripled in some EU countries in the last few years. Prices going up and OP reducing consumption will work towards reducing ROI period.
It is about striking a balance.

Little big concept or mono-micro people like the call it is where it is at. Spending too much time making a complex environment benefits noone. Spending too much time making a complex application benefits noone.

Breaking down monoliths into purposed tasks and then creating pod groups small containers is where it is at. Managing a fleet on kubernetes is easier than managing one in some configuration management stack. Be it puppet or salt. You have too many dependencies. Only your core infrastructure kubernetes should be a product of the configuration management.
From my perspective, trades are effectively gatekept (somewhat purposefully but also as a function of the business). It's a damned-if-you-do/don't situation with licensing headaches on one side, and the prevailing reliance on networks for finding both jobs and work on the other; the former a way to rein in the volatility of "vendor" availabilty and work quality caused by the latter, but with the side effect of raising the barrier to entry (and the cost of training for already wary bosses). "Trust" concerns on an encounter-to-encounter basis are too important for the robust market you would like. I've talked to two people who were looking for construction workers: one was a family friend who knows me well and was somewhat cool on me applying, especially after finding out the physical difficulties I'd had at a retail job that had turned out to be more demanding than I'd anticipated. The other was a stranger who freely gave out his number, but who implied that there'd likely be a soft hazing period to determine if I, unlike many other past applicants, "really wanted to work." $20/hr sounds great, but how much of that is going to future physical therapy? (I never texted back.)

Meanwhile, I'm sitting here, jobless, with an art degree (a few credits short of a sculpture minor), watching woodworking Youtube videos in my garage-less Millennial apartment. I tend to think enthusiasm is not really the issue.
Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, on the NYT op-ed
As someone who is only vaguely familiar with the P = NP problem, can someone explain to me if proving P=NP automatically solves the numerous problems that can then be “quickly computed” or does it simply prove there is an existence of an algorithm for each problem?

To rephrase if this is not the case - what value does solving P = NP provide?
Yeah, I'd like to see what happens when you go out and tell society that pedophilia is completely normal and fine...
Tooling did help this situation somewhat, but it is not very discoverable.

If a beginner started off with a clang or gcc toolchain, then I would immediately suggest the following command line options for the compiler (the exact standard version does not matter, just stick to one):

-std=c++20 -pedantic-errors -Wall -Wextra -fsanitize=address,undefined

And there are a few toolchain specific macros worth adding.

This would help with most undefined behaviors encountered as a beginner, although the sanitizers don't catch everything.
It kind of reminds me this one https://xkcd.com/221/:

getRandomNumber() {
return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll
// guaranteed to be random
};
I don't like this because state/federal identification systems are woefully inadequate, and integrating it into this sort of regulation calcifies usage of the already ineffective system, and creates a lobbying interest against any improvements but I suppose there's mitigating factors.

- it's a mere deterrent

- it's limited regionally
>That's absolutely how snow on top of the roof works.

How do you explain that picture with ~1 foot of snow on the roof's peak?
Anecdotally, I know plenty of people who've filed claims without repercussions. Rates might go up a bit, though. Your friends might consider contacting their state's insurance regulator.
My induction was invasive, uncomfortable, long, and I definitely had mixed feelings about being pressured into it by doctors. If I had NO choice in it, it would have absolutely been traumatic. Might have been boring for you but maybe ask your wife how she would have felt if she had no choice in it.
How ^NOT to Forge a Search Warrant
The article you linked has nothing to do with your assertion of long term psychological problems.
I can also vouch for LG not doing anythign scummy. Do you even have open wifi near your TV? I don't, all the dozens of neighborhood routers are all password protected by default from the telecom. You'd have to intentionally make an open network these days, unlike 15 years ago when the situation was the opposite.
Fascinating. It seems sensible (to a layman) that something would eat viruses but how would we construct tests (not trolling) to determine:

1. if the Halteria were not eating something_else, and that something_else was infected by the viruses?

2. if the Halteria themselves were not infected by the viruses?

3. are the Halteria trying to ingest the viruses, or are they just ingesting lots_of_things in the petri dish?

This observation seems interesting, assuming all other variables were constant and there was not some other interplay between the chlorovirus and other microbes which indirectly helped the Halteria grow:

>Halteria deprived of the chlorovirus, meanwhile, wasn’t growing at all.

Finally if the Halteria can ingest it and yet not be 'infected' by it then that seems awfully interesting as well.
That's a cool idea! That way if you miss the leading indent you can still tell a block of text is indented.
I would be very interested to hear from actual tafl players. The asymmetry makes it look very interesting.