skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the fact that adults are expected to live lives wholly independent of their parents. (And so often seem to begrudge their parents.)

Divorce rates used to be lower. Was that because people were genuinely happier with each other, or was the divorce just not a viable option for many people? In the same way - yes, people used to live around their multigenerational families more, but was it really their choice?
Woof. As long as you’re verifying the answer and making sure not to spread buggy code, this is probably good.

However; I’m sure there are agents out there that are more interested in gaming the stack overflow points system than acting morally.

AI has been trained on human generated code. What happens when AI is trained on code that AI has created. What a wonderfully absurd scenario. Technology is so much fun to be in, especially now.
God, I would feel monstrous having children with the expectation that they live for me. Slaves by bloodline.
Can someone please explain the picture at the top of the article?
That's the effect of thousands of tech workers leaving. In terms of relative wealth, tech workers have more in common with restaurant and service workers than they do with billionaires: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

The presence or absence of a billionaire in a given jurisdiction won't be the deciding factor for those industries as evidenced by every other city without tech billionaires that has a thriving restaurant and service industry.
> there is massive inefficiency and bureaucracy standing in the way of people actually getting help,

That's because that bureaucracy isn't there to serve its clients. Its there to serve itself. Those are politically popular jobs that flourish on backs of the underserved and impoverished. There's no incentive to reduce the friction when for the most part poverty is seen as a personal moral failing. It's not the system. It's "them". And the system perpetuates itself and that belief.
What does ‘going online’ mean nowadays? It used to mean dialling up your modem to your ISP; you had to pay for it by the minute. Or for a business ‘going online’ meant getting a website and an email address set up - and once you’ve ‘gone online’ like that you’re online all the time.

Social media account users are ‘always online’ in the sense that someone can always find them and interact with them… regardless of whether they’re using a device or even awake.

Most information workers - even ones who still work in an office - ‘come online’ when they get to their desk and often remain ‘online’ for out-of-hours contact.

So… what different people mean when they say they are ‘online constantly’ feels like it probably renders any conclusions you can draw from this kind of survey pretty thin.
"Thinking" is only one thing that the brain does, and it is actually a very small part of its job. All brain activity causes the brain to get tired and burn out to the point that it needs rest. Try driving a car around a racetrack competatively, even in a simulator. Talk to a ballet dancer about keeping their balance for hours. Talk to a soldier under fire hour after hour. Talk to a pilot trying to negotiate with ATC all during a weather event. All brain activity, even the basic biological stuff we don't classify as "thinking", causes the brain to get tired and eventually lapse into a survival/maintenance mode to handle the stress.
Screen time and the young brain – a contemporary moral panic? [pdf]
> Like a defense mechanism has been installed in my brain preventing me from hurting myself like that again.

I consider this a feature not a bug. Now go focus on important things in life: money, sex, and exercise. Don't overthink. Learning another state management method in new generation of Angular, unwinding a mess created by CV-driven FOMO hysterics, acrobatics in Java design patterns... they're all not worth it.
Per the Urban Institute, a less right-wing source, the poverty rate was 13.7% in 2021.

https://www.urban.org/research/publication/2021-poverty-proj...

So a minor investment in making people’s lives suck a little less has improved the rate by almost a third.

I agree with the Cato Institute that we should invest more in the safety net.
Instead of being a bastion of free speech it really seems like what goes at Twitter is all up to what is most pleasing to Elon at any given moment, hypocrisy at its finest. The implication of decisions like this could be lives lost and oppressive regimes defacto boosted.
SATA is orthogonal to SSD vs spinning rust. Also, over 40 minutes to boot sounds like there was more going on than slow disk.
This is similar to Rich Hickey’s talk on “Hammock Driven Development”:

https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

Spend your conscious time loading your brain with data. Spend your unconscious time randomly making connections… until “Eureka!”
> Taking care of your parents (and children, and children's children) is your life.

Easy to say if you're a software engineer earning 200k.

Not so easy to say if you earn a more normal wage of 60k (not my case btw, I earn quite a bit more) and have to choose between, say, saving for a downpayment on a house or giving your parents money to help them avoid homelessness, possibly for the rest of their lives.
It doesn't cite any sources, and it also omits time scales. It is basically impossible to fact check, which is by design. It looks quantitative, but it is just propaganda.
If your print dialog was set for color then it requires working color cartridges. Even if the document is only black and white. I've been buying Brother printers for over 20 years and I've run into that a few times.
Is there any way paywall links could get flagged in HN?

Nyt now shows an annoying amount of the article and what is hidden is hidden until you read the first bit.
Pandemic pounds push 10k Army soldiers into obesity
This doesn’t really surprise me. The Saudis have a ton of money and like to invest it aggressively in passive vehicles. If your job is to drum up investment money then it makes sense to focus on them from a purely economic standpoint. I once went to a meeting at Credit Suisse’s offices in my earlier days in finance and was amused to see a huge framed image on the wall that was the family tree of the Saudi royal family, showing all the wealthy and influential cousins and uncles who dominate key governmental ministries and hold the purse strings. The bank had practically made a science of how to best target them to pitch their schemes (didn’t end up saving them in the end though!)
From the ‘See Also’ section in that Wikipedia article, it looks like for software this is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law.
"something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest."[1]

The article you get when clicking isn't the content promised by the headline. To get the content promised, one needs to go to a second article, which requires a fee.

If that's not clickbait, I dunno what is.

1: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clickbait
I don't necessarily have anything for pre-loss anxiety, but I did suddenly lose my dad. As in talked to him the day before and he was feeling a little sick and the next day I learned that he had died alone in his home. Without going into some of the sadder details, I can tell you what helped the most.

I felt complete in our relationship in the moment. I still have times when I wish I could share something with him. But, I felt like I had really vocalized the love I had for him. I love you doesn't really count in my mind, but being specific about how they make you feel loved and how you love them. And secondly, I had accepted/forgiven him for anything that wasn't in that love category.

That feeling of being complete was really nice to have after his sudden passing. It didn't take away the sadness and missing him, but I didn't feel the regret that I've heard others do.

So, my suggestion would be to express the specific love you feel for your parents and in laws to them and forgive or accept them in the other things. I hope this helps somehow or at least makes some nice moments in your family.
What is shocking to you about a man apperearing feminine? And where do you see a national security concern in effeminate men?
Cheeky=fine.

Yeah im not one to care much about the tools. Ie:systemd av upstart/init.d

And the networking change isn’t ENTIRELY on canonical. The dhcp rfc says to use a machine identifier over MAC address when possible.

The hiccup is that when you upgrade 18.04 to 20.04, net plan is there but unconfigured. But they now generate machine ids so any dhcp reservations are broken. And I’m not aware of the override that goes into /etc/networking/interfaces. And if there is one like ClientIdentifier=Mac, it’s not easily documented.

So I had to comment out the interface configs and migrate to netplan manually where I can specify the override.
Ah yes, that update broke one of our applications. I've been meaning to try the update again with HTTP3 disabled but haven't had the time.
guys, we've found the HP CEO
I lay awake at night worrying how I'll handle this when the time comes. I have a bad relationship with my parents, and live across the country from them. But I also don't want to just abandon them when they need help in the future. Or just leave my siblings take care of them alone. But there's so much internal anger at them still (I'm in therapy already, no need to suggest that).

My help might need to be monetary only, although elder care can be so expensive I don't know how much I'll be able to help.
that first one on the list kinda requires it though... and the 2nd one kinda requires the first one haha

not that easy is it
So over 25 years the poor got the same amount wealthy bankers got in 2008?

https://theweek.com/articles/479867/federal-reserves-breatht...
Which is worthless unless the measures go though, there are no "points for trying at this scale"

Right now San Francisco is not "too big to fail", but rather "too bloated to save".
I like Takahashi's music a lot and I just learned through your comment about his passing. This day got sader out of nowhere
I do the same with the same ratio estimate. The two deterring thoughts I notice are: (1) balancing and shifting around when standing is a little disruptive. (2) I don’t want to interrupt my focus to lower the desk as my body physically fatigues from the standing position.

Focus is the driving factor in this for me.
The major challenge of this approach is that a lot of those traditional models were exploitation in disguise, it just changed who was being exploited.

Solving this issue by declaring, for example "Honor Your Mother and Your Father is an edict from god, and if you don't comply you're sinful and should be shunned/cast into hell" just puts a friendly face on the issue without changing the issue (and it's not even a particularly friendly face, since the consequence of bucking the system is eternal divine retribution).

I don't fault people for thinking that simply a raw deal and rejecting it.
Your kids are not stupid, you know. Just as you learn from your environments, they will learn what is right from wrong. Indoctrination is the wrong word because the grandparent would not be the ones spending a majority of the time with the children. The children’s friends, classmates and teachers are the ones who will “indoctrinate” your child. Instead you are teaching that it is ok removing your grandparents from their lives because of boogiemen .. and that they will emulate your footsteps one day.

That’s my outlook on it, and I don’t push family values on others. So take it with as many grains of salt as necessary
Doesn’t work. Large corporations that employ large numbers of workers are happy to have you sacrifice your family on the alter of capitalism.

And the ones that try it want unacceptable levels of control over over your life and faith. See Hobby Lobby.
It looks like you got downvoted, but I agree with you actually.
By contrast, the US total budget request for military spend is $773B in 2023. That says something about the government’s priorities.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
One of my very good friends is old enough to be my grandfather.

I'm pretty comfortable with the idea of death, so I don't get anxious per-se. But it's still a very melancholy thing to think about.

I just do as much as I can with him and try not to get distracted by it.
Sorry, my bad. He was not talking about it from a “psychological” standpoint. He was citing real hormone changes in the process. So it might be a bit more complicated than what I expressed.
Tom seems brilliant but I wouldn't refute my argument based on a single datapoint. I've seen non-technical managers being able to hold conversations and make insightful comments having been around engineers for so long. A little bit like ChatGPT, now that I think of it. And they definitely can serve as a counter-balance to over-engineering.

But would they be able to code a single HTML page on their own? I doubt it. They definitely know how to spec one down to the last detail, but alas there's a distinction here. And I would also argue Tom might be a little biased in his opinion. I don't particularly have anything against Elon but I'm not surprised certain type of people with personality faults gravitate towards him.
The government authorized. Don’t say spend. Spend assumes it went where it was supposed to go. Authorizing and then absconding with funds is what really happened.
and what if it never successfully does complete?
+1. To add, vast majority of senior care requires trained, skilled, and empathetic human human labor. This can't be automated and so this challenge is only going to increase (and supply going down as you have rightly pointed) as demographics shift.
To be honest, people are just exhausted. The economic collapse over the past decade means people have to swim hard just to stay above water. There is no stability, and I can tell you as a religious person...God isnt going to put bread on the table.

When its so difficulty just take care of your self, adding more people to the equation is impossible.

The other thing to add is that the boomers took all the economic gains and left. They left the following generations with a bleak outlook from an economy drained of any prospect of prosperity.

If you want this sort of society, you need to fix the economy and make people feel safe, secure, and comfortable. When people are no longer drained from being on the edge of poverty, then more responsibility can be taken.
First example that comes to mind is 'not domiciled for tax purposes' . In the UK, our prime minister's wife benefited from declaring her tax domicile as India. She changed it to the UK when it looked like harming his political career. Either she loves him more than the money, or they have a plan to ensure this remains an economically rational choice.
I've been hearing this about both China and EU for the past 20 years. It seens you'll be waiting a while.
As much as devs like to moan about AWS and it’s “problems” it is by far the best cloud out there. The moat is so vast that I really doubt any current provider will ever catch up.

Also we don’t know what they have in the works in terms of innovation.

And they still have massive room to go from Lego blocks (disjointed components) to massive integration and value added services. Thus has already began in my observation. I think we’ll see massive scaling in this area.
If you do anything financial, legal, or business frequently you have to provide PDFs of signed physical documents.

Every quarter I have to print->sign->scan->email multiple forms.

Inefficient and wasteful? Yes. Also required by law.
-"OpenBSD" as a negative quoted keyword in these cases.

Once you get your query dialed in, prepare to take the Turing test.
It really pisses me off that even Firefox on desktop tries to scare you away from about:config with a lie, claiming that using it will void your warranty. Meanwhile the license under which Firefox is provided says "Covered Software is provided under this License on an "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind"

Firefox has no warranty to void. The warning message they make you view the first time you try to use about:config is simply lying to you. You might say "Oh well it's a well intentioned lie", but it's still a lie and there is no reason for this lie to even exist. The warning could be worded without this lie. It could simply say "You might break stuff if you continue" and that would be true enough and still scare off people who don't know what they're doing. So why the hell are they lying?
We Verified Ourselves on Mastodon – and How You Can Too
> But he also slept 10 hours per day.

Wait, is that unusual? If so I might be a genius lol. How much do "normal" people sleep? I thought 10 hours was pretty standard stuff.
AGI doesn't have to imply consciousness. It can just mean superhuman performance at tasks, as GPT-4 has perhaps already reached. As AGI architectures go, LLMs seem pretty good for this worry about consciousness. They were already not doing anything as long as they weren't currently being asked a question.
The government is very good at filtering that money through processes and contractors that extract as much of it as possible. The main benefit of reducing the safety net to a basic income is the elimination of a massive amount of administrative overhead.

As a random example of subsidy of the wealthy, every year, the government loses at least $70B to just the mortgage interest deduction, which is allowed for the first $750K of the value of up to two homes. That is $2,160 for every poor person in America, or $6,480 per poor family of three.

edit:

> Little of the deduction’s benefits go to households that have difficulty affording a home. Data from the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey show that in 2011, 10.5 million homeowners faced what HUD calls “severe housing cost burdens,” meaning they paid more than half of their income for housing. Some 90 percent of those homeowners (and about 40 percent of all homeowners) had incomes below $50,000, yet JCT estimates for 2012 show that homeowners with incomes below that level received only 3 percent of the benefits from the mortgage interest deduction.

At the same time, 77 percent of the benefits from the mortgage interest deduction went to homeowners with incomes above $100,000, almost none of whom face severe housing cost burdens. Some 35 percent of the benefits went to homeowners with incomes above $200,000; taxpayers in this income group who claimed the deduction received an average subsidy of about $5,000.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/mortgage-interest-deduction-is...
I was hammered by my parent into an educational success machine. Now that's all I can do.

I've been putting a considerable amount of my time into helping people for past 20 years, that doesn't mean people like to spend time with me outside work and studies.

I didn't do, and didn't learn how to do actives growing up, it's just awkward to others and I when I try. I even cook 5 course meals and workout at home.

Of course I'm going to be constantly online, games and forums are were I'm loved.
This reminds me of an Upton Sinclair quote: “was one to believe that there was nowhere a god of hogs, to whine this hog personality was precious. To whome these hog squeals and agonies had meaning?”
Your beef is really with whoever submitted the headline. I certainly don't assume I have full access to reports on analyst sites.
You can get that without spending 90% of your time on a farm. I get most of that chilling out on the back patio in the morning (there's also a prairie just beyond our back fence).

And then eventually the sun gets too bright for my computer screens and I have to go back inside to continue working.

But good on you for taking an honest stab at full-time farm work. From what I hear it's gotten pretty difficult to make a living off of it, unless you have a huge farm and put millions of dollars into farm equipment (or you're otherwise retired and don't need much extra money). Hopefully it's the latter in your case :).
I would withhold judgment. With a 3-4 year old, as a parent, I can tell you you may not know that they need a break. Or that they spent all morning interacting at home, and are just trying to get out of the house and the kid into a situation they can catch a breather.

The _guilt_ I would feel looking at my phone as a parent is objectively unproductive when I look objectively at how much 1-1 time I have sunk into my kid. People need breaks, and if not the phone, it would be something else...
Stripping down seemingly disparate problems down to their bone will often reveal the wisdom behind certain 'rules of thumb':

More rules disproportionately benefit those with the resources to navigate said rules.

Be that Ivy league admissions, GDPR or lines-of-code. I believe there is a universal virtue in aspiring to make a system simpler. Every exception made with good intentions is disproportionately exploited by those it was least intended for.

Blaming emergent patterns on the behavior of individuals never works. We know that shaming people into avoiding sugar doesn't decrease obesity, and shaming tax evaders won't stop tax evasion. Emergent behaviors are downstream of the systems that enable them. The humans within it are no more than blind chickens following the smell of food. Civic duty can serve as a counter-flywheel levee for a bit, but give it sufficient time and it's simply a matter of when the levee breaks. sorry

At the risk of sounding like a naïve libertarian: Have a small set of tall walls. Enforce those ruthlessly. Once inside, don't sweat the details. This doesn't low taxation or removal of all nuance. It means more streamlined collection. The budget can encode all the nuance afterwards. That way, each group that avails a 'tax break', has a clear $ value associated with it in the budget, instead of an unobservable 'opportunity cost' for money that was never collected in the first place.

Having said that, it is naïvely libertarian, because exposing the true subsidies that certain protected groups get in the form of a $-value, immediately makes it politically unattainable due to voter dynamics. Democracy is truly "the worst form of government" – except for all the others that have been tried .
Movim 0.21: A federated, open-source web-based social Jabber/XMPP client
Maybe not. I put a ridiculous amount of effort into that last project last year. I saved it from disaster, which saved a bunch of people's asses that had fucked it up over and over.

Nobody really noticed. My raise this year didn't keep up with inflation. I could have let the project fail like it should have, rather than burning myself out. Maybe I would have received some of the blame, but chances are I'd still just be making the same amount of money if I had just cared less.
My man… I have 100 week lead times on some parts and they haven’t changed for roughly 100 weeks.

There is a chip shortage.
I think OP is talking about laser printers. Aren't you talking about inkjet?
I do not see what is fun about this fiasco
What if your way of finding god is exploring a brothel with a mix of uppers and downers? I'd imagine you could find some books by Hunter S. Thompson to guide you on that path and some community of a sort on a similar journey as well.
It demonstrates, quite clearly, that energy cost is not a concern. We can just barrel through to the electric revolution without a single care to cost, availability, or reliability.
No. They didn't destroy the American flight schools. But even if they wanted to destroy the training camps, they did a hell of a lot more than that.
Children sleeping under their desks. Presumably hinting that learning is tiring and/or maybe adults need nap times too.
State Dept warns about censorship then threatens to “hold platforms accountable”