skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These unreasonable expectations

> But millennials faced these same challenges

In my experience, each generation consumes content produced by members of the previous generation

Gen Z tends to consume Millenial and Gen X produced media. This is why Millenial and Gen X coded shows like 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Rec, The Office, and others had such staying power with our generation.

In Millenial and Gen X media, there are often jokes about Boomers (as in actual baby boomers born in the 40s and 50s) being able to get a job without a degree and afford a house.

What this means is a lot of us Gen Zs have an unrealistic expectation of society, as if the world 60-70 years ago was the status quo until recently but our parents (who are GenX or Millennials) would have never lived in that kind of world.

Gen Zs are not going to enter the writer's room until 20 years from now, and then we'll provide a similarly warped view to kiddos.
> How can you know what things are getting invented today if it takes 100 years of refinements for it to blossom into common knowledge and use?

A good portion of the things mentioned in the book (photography, radio (vacuum tube), telephone, television, cars, refrigerators (and AC generally), vaccines, washing machines, trains, trams, subways, automobiles, airplanes (piston and jet/turbine), rocketry and satellites, etc) were invented and available in the fifty years between 1870 and 1920, and completed mainstreaming/saturation in the fifty years between 1920 and 1970.

There were some things that were invented in the 1920-70 time period: penicillin, CT scan, MRI scans, notable car refinements (fuel injection, crumple zones, seat belts, ABS, airbags), computers, transistors, modems, microwaves, fax/photocopiers.

Besides the Internet and maybe smartphones, what new classes of device were created post-1970s that had a major technological, sociological, or medical effect on society? @cperciva mentioned Li-ion batteries in a comment as well.
One of the best things someone can do to improve their mental health is to ignore and refuse media, particularly news/"journalism" and "influencers".

Life is short, are you really going to spend it worrying about some guys on the other side of the world you'll never meet in a country you'll never so much as visit just so the Sensation Industrial Complex can make money?
> Providers should be firewalled from finances, not in on the action.

That’s a crucial point. The "eat what you kill" compensation model, where doctors are paid based on volume of procedures and visits (RVUs) creates the environment for this to continue to happen again and again.
The related thread that prompted this:

Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42350245
Not if you look at safety, max performance, reliability or efficiency. Drive a 1940s car and compare. Hell, try a sports car from the early 80s.
I’m looking at it for the realtime channels feature WAL to websockets), and knowing that somebody is running the open source thing in production is comforting. Good luck.
Sounds like one of those dead people that didn't want people to read.
Why shouldn't restoring it to "just like new" not be allowed? This reviewer says entering it now is like the medieval builders had just finished it, it's almost like time travel: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/06/notre-d...
Not so. The Chromium bits have the native tracking goo we neutralize, see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-....
B-mesons are threatening to break the Standard Model
Don't do anything important with a domain that's not in a juridiction you can expect to lawyer in.

For me, as a US person, that's easy. I've got some stuff on a .org, and some on a .us.

I actually let the .org go for a while when money was tight and hosting was hard, but managed to get it back later cause whoever had registered it and gotten it signed up for lots of Japanese spam had some problem and it became available again in the middle of the registration year.
AFAIK Kildall never denied it. If so, I'd like to see an authoritative source, as opposed to an irrelevant meme.
Heck a single city (San Francisco) spends over a billion dollars annually on homelessness, and the problem just gets worse every year.
Very true.

I lived in a developing country in Asia and the number of food safety concerns that popped up was far, far lower than what you see in the West.

When another foreigner mentioned how "safe" the food was, I said "yeah, concerns don't pop up because nobody is looking for them".
Thanks, I know the article. I thought it was interesting to see that you-again is not alone in attributing the progress of deep learning to Japanese and Finnish researchers who lack wider recognition.
Maybe that's how they came up with the idea.
Imagine that instead of a make target listing its dependencies, you had to pull them out into a separately maintained BUILD file.

That’s not quite true, but it feels like it sometimes. Bazel is nice about seeing exactly what you need to rebuild if you touch a file. It’s very, very complex though.

In code terms, think of it as a framework that you have to embed your project into, not a Makefile or such that you’d drop into a project. That doesn’t make it bad and it has its niceties. You’ve gotta be prepared to pay for them with sweat equity.
Thanks for the original posting.
> Today, any average person can do video calls across the world.

Yes, the book makes the point that computers and the Internet was one of the inventions that were and an improvement post-1970s.

But the productivity bump of those seem to have peaked around 2004 (the book has numbers up to 2014, as it was published in 2016). Apple's iSight was released in 2003:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight

The first webcam was in 1993:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
> The book referenced argues there have been no major innovations that have changed society and the economy in large ways since that time period, or at least nothing that shows up in any economic metric.

Apple makes $400 billion a year largely selling a product that was at best a sci-fi imagination item in the 1970s.

> Or health metric: there was a step change when treated water and indoor plumbing (including sewage treatment) came in. We got penicillin in ~1945, and widespread vaccines in the 1950-60s. CT scans were invented in the 1960s, and MRIs in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine
I believe it’s more likely social media is supercharging FOMO and the facade vs historical cultural references.

> “What we found was a really strong connection between feeling badly about your money situation and how much time you spend on social media,” Isabel Barrow, director of financial planning at Edelman Financial Engines, told CNBC.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/social-media-reason-millennia...
The title of this article really bugs me. It's only one fan, it's cooling itself!!
have you ever been in a DC? they loud af boiiiiiii
> you cannot have things that can be decomposed.

Indeed. You couldn’t store integers because those are decomposable into bits.

Atomicity was always a BS concept, and Chris Date and Hugh Darwen themselves have written as much on this topic. It didn’t help that although Edgar Codd had a math background, a lot of things published on the relational model just didn’t have formal rigor, but people interpreted it as such.
I use “Open image in new tab” on Firefox all the time. Maybe the site you’re using is doing something in JavaScript to block it?
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Social Media plays a role, but it isn't that significant. For example, alot of the "tradmom" kinda stuff is relatively niche among my age peers despite it being used as an example of our generation becoming more right leaning.
> If the PostgreSQL backend is cancelled while waiting to acknowledge replication (as a result of packet cancellation due to client timeout or backend failure) transaction changes become visible for other backends. Such changes are not yet replicated and may be lost in case of standby promotion.

This sounds like the two generals problem, which has no solution. But I may be misunderstanding.
I don't think that's entirely true for Gen Z because of social media. Gen Z seems to mostly consume content generated by their own generation. You have all these Gen Z influencers who have no real experience teaching other Gen Zers. Even for topics like music or technology and other "intelligent" areas, influencers never seem to be middle aged or older. They're all under 30 it seems.
To put it mildly, it's a shitty job.

I don't think it's an easy job in most countries, but in Japan in particular the pay is low, hours are long and the expected work load is super heavy as it includes endless meetings, paperwork, watching extracurricular activities often including on weekends, seasonal events etc.

Some still enjoy it as a vocation, but on paper it's just mind crushing.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/3580/
> Apple makes $400 billion a year largely selling a product that was at best a sci-fi imagination item in the 1970s.

The book specifically mentions the mainstreaming of computers and the Internet as one of the (few, according to the author) innovations post-1970s.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRNA_vaccine

Possible contender. The book was published in 2016 (and has statistics up to 2014), so perhaps if a second edition is ever published they'll mention this.

But the mortality rate from chlorinated indoor plumbing and sewage treatment, is a hard metric to beat when it comes to improving human mortality. Along with penicillin in 1945 and widespread vaccines in the 1950-60s (especially against smallpox, measles, diphtheria, poio), I'm not sure if MRNA would be as much of a step change.
Just FYI, to those not in Pakistan who might not be aware. The minister mentioned in the article (yes, deepfakes are a form of sexual criminality!), is a direct underling of another female chief minister (who won despite her party receiving less than 20% of the votes - yay military rigging) who ... get this ...

runs an extortion ring where 100s of judges, politicians etc are honey trapped & copious videos are made. She (& her husband) have OPENLY bragged about this, FOR YEARS. 1 judge (whose video was released by her team) committed suicide 3 years ago. The rest of the judges all toe the line (hence the laughable "lawfare" vs Imran Khan).

She makes J Edgar Hoover seem like a novice. Just keep that in mind ...
For me, there was like a 3 year window of "exponential" growth. Everything beyond that has been fractional improvements.
Warcraft 2 gets first balance changes in 29 years
I worked with AngularJS, Angular, Vue, Svelte and now React.
I tried React time and again but found it to be too complicated and ineffective.
I like Vue best. But lately I have completed a few React projects, because of a graphql package that's only available for React.
The current state of React is pretty good IMHO.
There are some things you need to get used to, but that's the case in every framework, when in Rome.
The SPA side is great, it also ranks well.
But the SSR side is awful. Absolute nightmare.
And it's moving too fast.
Vue is vue and code from v2 even works with v3.
React will now stop being easily embeddable without a compilation step.
Of course it is. Knowing the events shaping your world have repercussions on your personal decisions. What should I eat? What should I learn? What career should I embark upon? What should I invest in?

To think that you can shield yourself from the world is one of the biggest yet most foolish ideas of individualistic cultures
He spent $250M to elect Trump so now gets to be in the inner circle and travel with him, simple as that.
France’s social spending is around $509 billion per year.

France also has a form of guaranteed minimum income.

Spending a billion to repair a historic national treasure is not only a drop in the bucket at the scale of a country, it’s likely ROI positive due to the tourist revenue that would be lost if France were to abandon their national treasures over the centuries.

Being angry about this is irrational.
Could someone explain how this is implemented? I saw on Meta's Llama page that the model has intrinsic support for structured output. My 30k ft mental model of LLM is as a text completer, so it's not clear to me how this is accomplished.

Are llama.cpp and ollama leveraging llama's intrinsic structured output capability, or is this something else bolted ex-post on the output? (And if the former, how is the capability guaranteed across other models?)
This project might be exactly what you're looking for:

https://github.com/peterdsharpe/AeroSandbox
And health insurers are using it to deny claims.
>No relation with France or Notre Dame, supposed to be kind of an agnostic and not a "fervent catholic".

True liberalism is a church opening its doors to anyone desiring to come in, and someone able to appreciate and pray as he desires. Freedom of religion. Musk might not be a "fervent Catholic", but is that really even relevant in celebrating the restoration of one of the greatest cathedrals?

Identity politics like this truly waste all of our times and turn what are simple moments of happiness into artificial problems.
It really depends on how you communicate with your team and the level of physiological safety you have.

I work on a team where this would be a "matter of fact" means of having this conversation. Nobody on the team would bat an eye at someone else telling them this or their manager telling them this. We all know we're extremely good at our jobs and we all know that even the best of us have issues from time to times. Every, single, one of us would prefer to have this conversation upfront, before it becomes a spiraling issue that results in termination.

That being said, I've also worked on teams where I'd be sending my resume out the moment I've heard those words.
Launched my last book for this year (Design Patterns for Back end Engineers)
You might be thinking ‘poor’ but look at median household incomes. In 1960 the median household pulled in $5,600 https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1962/demo/p60-03... inflation adjusted that’s $59,720 https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ which is almost where median household incomes sits today (80k). https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2024/comm/medi...

Except to make basically the same money more than twice as many households are dual income and productivity is vastly higher.

Why? Because drastically increasing the labor force drove down wages. We need a lot of childcare, restaurant workers, delivery drivers etc to support dual income households which obviously don’t pay very well. Worse households are paying a large fraction of that 20k on things like childcare and meals that used to be done by the stay at home parent.
Can you explain your logic here? It doesn't make sense to me.

A subsidy for homemakers would shrink the labor force, driving up demand and pay for the remaining workers (the working parent).
You're quoting a blogger's interpretation - here's the tweet quote - "put a tiny linux system running busybox on your command processor". Command processor is the part of a GPU that schedules the hundreds of smaller cores.
> I'm sorry to be racist.

The term you are looking for might be something like 'culturalist'?

> France where there are rules for "pain tradition" ("bread made to tradition"; nothing to do with BDSM :| ) that basically enforce that the bread is made by the baker on the day it is sold.

Yes, but that's still white wheat bread.

> To summarise, the dough can't be refrigerated, the bread must be baked on premise and then there's some restrictions on the ingredients (e.g. no additives except fungal amylase).

We do some of these things at home, they don't prevent you from making good bread.

> Btw having rules like that is a very French thing. The French (well, some of them) are very picky about their food and so they have all sorts of standards like AOP (which was a French thing before it was an EU thing) for cheese, wine, pork products and everything else that you can eat really. And that's a good thing and it works: you really should try the bread in France. I get the feeling you haven't - no offence.

I've had French bread. It's good for what it is, but it's rather limited. They don't even like rye.

These mandatory rules seem a bit silly to me. (The Germans also really like them.) If you want to make something that conforms to some arbitrary rules, you should be allowed to and be allowed to label it as such, but other people should also be allowed to use whatever ingredients and processes they like.

(I'm still sore about Bavaria forcing their beer purity law on our tasty North Germany beers. But I guess that was the concession we made to get them to join the Prussian-led German Reich.)

> Btw, that Albanian bakery also makes bread without salt.

Yeah, that's a mistake in my opinion.

> Not great but eh, it's without salt.

You seem to think being without salt is a benefit?

(From what I can tell, there are some people with specific health problems for whom salt might be a problem. But normal healthy people do just fine with salt, as long as they drink enough liquids---which the salt makes you want to do naturally anyway. Salt is especially important in your diet if you sweat a lot.)

> After all, this is modern times: we can control the temperature and humidity of enclosed spaces, yes? Salt is not needed for preservation anymore, it's now only there for the taste.

Well, if you want to live in harmony with the local environment, you'll go with salt rather than aircon. So in addition to helping slow down the fermentation, the salt and sourness also help our bread last longer once it's baked here in Singapore.

Salt is tasty. (Up to a limit, of course.)
I sort of feel the same way about Stone Henge and I think it’s an exposure thing. It was maybe the tenth or so stop on my tour of ancient megaliths and after Gobekli Tepe, Easter Island, Avebury, the Baalbek stones, etc it just didn’t feel as special.
Wait til you hear about maple syrup...

That aside, yeah, this is a real problem with honey (and maple syrup) in the US. Food manufacturers will go to insane lengths to get around any laws that protect product purity and honest labeling because the profits are far greater than the fine for breaking the rules.

As we all know, if the punishment is a fine, it's only illegal for companies that cannot afford to pay...like the guy at the farmer's market with the mason jars.
This is a totally reasonable take for the current tooling. But it's strangely short-sighted in my view as far as a prediction, even going 3-5, maybe 10 years out.

Predictions on this come down to worldview, how you feel about technology in general, about AI, and if you have heard about exponential progress and bought into it.

It looks to me that when you close the loop with agents that can directly output and test work products, and get slightly more robust reasoning, you are going to make most current knowledge jobs obsolete. I think initially there will be a transition period where people handhold AI to do their jobs for them and maybe leverage AI to be more productive.

But after a few years of that and improved reasoning and tooling, it will become obvious that the humans are bottlenecks.

I think the answer is to move towards a widely entrepreneurial economic system where everyone has their own team or teams of robots and AIs.

To make anything work in a post labor world will require an upgrade to government that properly integrates new technologies, tracks resources, and also fully values human life.
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ChatGPT can be surprisingly helpful making suggestions for what to do about error messages.

(Which is one small area of debugging.)
Wow as a dude living alone in my apartment, this will come in handy like seriously, thanks!
A few brave souls (eg Senator Swati) have openly admitted to this attempted blackmail (his was an explosive, tearful press conference 3 years ago).

She even does it to the military top brass, and they do it to her & her goons. In short, they're all low-rent garbage, so save your tears for the more worthwhile 1000s of political prisoners (MANY of whom are female) of this military-led, crime-family infested, American State Dept sponsored gang of thieves & cutthroats (eg: witness recent Islamabad massacre, helpfully ignored by the mainstream US media)
> However, pick up a high value product and it’s likely to be some effectively identical fake while still being sold by the company it says on the box.

What is this supposed to mean? Every high value product I purchase is definitely unique to the company that makes it. My laptop, GPU, car, and phone are definitely not some rebranded items.
This ignores the fact that the number one expense in most households is housing, and housing is a positional good. There are only so many homes in places with good jobs, so everyone bids up the price up to the max they're willing to afford. "a single salary being enough to support a family of four, like it used to be" was only possible because the average household didn't have two earners. There was never a time where the average household had 2 earners AND you could support a family of 4.
To make and redistribute fixes or changes or forks
How many years did it take for them to drop by the previous factor of 100?