skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be nice to know how that compares to previous generations. Boomers had a different set of complaints about us Gen Xers having "a different approach to work, with unique preferences and expectations."

There's also a lot of missing details. Take, "27% of Gen Zers have attended a job interview with a parent". That links to Fortune which links to a survey done by ResumeTemplates.com . They survey people ages ages 18 to 27 who looked for a job within the past year.

How was the survey carried out? What population did that reach? If it was 90% 18 year olds looking for their first job, then that's not really a generational thing.

If the numbers haven't changed since, say, 2000, then it's not a Gen Z thing.

If in 1989 they had contacted me, I would have been in the same category.

Why? I had a summer job as a lifeguard, because my Mom knew people at a summer camp who were looking for a lifeguard. She drove me to the interview, and was there for it, because she and the camp directors were friends.

And as for 'One in three Zoomers admit they don’t know how to effectively communicate with hiring managers.' - I absolutely did not know how to do that when I was ages 18-27. And I struggled with making eye contact. I would look at noses instead.

Why should we be surprised that Gen Z is any different, if Gen X was the same?

And for "21% of employers reported that some Zoomers refused to turn on their camera during virtual interviews' .. wow, that's a bias. If 0.1% of people refused to turn on their camera, and the hiring managers interview 500 people, then quite a few of the 800 surveyed people would have had a couple of Zoomers who refused to turn on their camera.

A camera which, of course, may reveal a lot more about the person's living situation than is appropriate for an interview.
Trump got a plurality of the popular vote, not a majority. There are lots of people who didn't vote for this. Many people are now doing whatever they can to limit the damage, but it's an uphill battle and plenty damage will be done in the meantime. It's been very hard to watch this unfold.
Bezos pumped billions into Blue Origin and still lost to SpaceX. Maybe scaling down and running it like a startup would be better. I wonder if Bezos is still pumping billions into Blue Origin even now
> What I find confusing is that this is not typical of conservatism, it's like a progressive right of political outsiders whose express goal is to destroy the government

Right, these people aren't classical conservatives in any sense of the word. I would think of most of these people more as libertarians: small government, little regulation or oversight, let the market sort it out.

The striking thing is that the actual conservatives in Congress are sitting on their thumbs, letting this all happen. But I think that's because actual conservativism in US politics is mostly dead, and has been so for a while. Republicans would rather play at culture wars, and cry about spending (that they themselves never rein in, even when they have the power to do so) and taxes (for the rich and corporations of course, that need to be cut).

It is pathetic that it seems like the only prominent Republican that has a problem with all this now is Mitch McConnell, when he's the one who enabled Trump in the first place during his first term, and failed to shut him down when he actually had the power to do so. Be careful what you wish for, Mitch.
No TV's are worth it!

They are just advertising-boxes and now with smart TV's, data collection boxes too

I personally have not watched an advertising-box for over 20 years.

I very rarely meet someone who does not watch TV.

There seems to be sense of sameness about people who watch TV, the complete lack of individuality, espousing the same tired old brainwashed cliche's they hear on TV, the over identification of soap opera and film characters, constant regurgitation of soap opera scripting language, why they are called operas has always defeated me.

The 24/7 news channels all speaking the same language and regurgiting the same biased agenda driven news stories. This is not news its entertainment made from human suffering.

You were all so pleased when you were sold +1 programming schedule, the +1 programs, you could watch your favourite show if you worked late, but really this was about creating more advertising space. same show broadcast an hour later with double the advertising. It was not for your benefit.

I feel a sense of peace and freedom from having no TV, a down to earth humanity.
You make a worthwhile point, and I think that we're talking about the same thing from different perspectives.

For example I'm glad the Unfair Contract Terms Act (and its successors exist), but I would have considered it a formalisation of existing, inconsistently applied, principles. As I see it, the magic of common law is that actual decisions can depend on which way the wind is blowing at the time, while keeping vague long-term ideals.

The concept clearly had some support in the Doctrine of Fundamental Breach. Perhaps you were already born in time for e.g. Canada Steamship Lines Ltd v The King (1952) which limited the ability to include exclusions for liability in a contract, in a way that that wasn't codified until the Unfair Contracts Terms Act.

Anyway I think we don't substantially disagree, and I think it's valuable to have a range of reasonable conceptualizations of the same history.
In Europe legislative bodies are responsible for moving things along. The executive takes care of filling in the gaps, taking care of current affairs and international diplomacy. This is by design.
When I had access to academic journals through my (western, wealthy) institution I would still mostly use scihub.

The simple reason was that I got conditioned to doing that because the login wall to doing it legitimately was often too painful. At a certain point my workflow switched to checking scihub first, then going the legal path if scihub failed.

It saves a lot of time, and I suspect it is a lot more common than most people think.
It's to let people fear that they could lose their job, so they won't speak up.
I find it sad that the US is confused about what a work contract is. If you can tell someone to take unpaid leave whenever you feel like it then they don't really need to call you back or explain why they won't be in next week.
My point exactly; no need to compare brake dust to other things for it to sound bad.
I think the difference is that teams are more cautious because they don't want a season disrupted by a major injury. Zion the other day said that the Pelicans were the limiting factor in his sitting back-to-backs. Players frequently come back on minutes restrictions (Kawhi previously, Exum currently).
I guess that all depends upon whether or not it was a super-conducting monkey.
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It reminds me of the blatant aim hacks that for example Flusha used in Counter Strike, yet people online still defend him.
Please stop with the false equivalencies. I'm incredibly tired of these types of bad-faith arguments.
They turned off the safety features to test a safety procedure. I don't think it is a fair analogy.
Yes, OpenAI is the leader in the field in a literal sense: once they do something, everyone else quickly follows.

They also seem to ignore usurpers, like Anthroipic with their MCP. Anthropic succeeded in setting a direction there, which OpenAI did not follow, as I imagine following it would be a tacit admission of Anthropic's role as co-leader. That's in contrast to whatever e.g. Google is doing, because Google is not expressing right leadership traits, so they're not a reputational threat to OpenAI.

I feel that one of the biggest screwups by Google was to keep Gemini unavailable for EU until recently - there's a whole big population (and market) of people interested in using GenAI, arguably larger than the US, and the region-ban means we basically stopped caring about what Google is doing over a year ago already.

See also: Sora. After initial release, all interest seems to have quickly died down, and I wonder if this again isn't just because OpenAI keeps it unavailable for the EU.
gimp became way less annoying once i discovered the command pallette (the forward slash key), you can pretty much do everything with it. i even use it to switch tools sometimes sinces its easier than trying to look through all the tool icons or having to long press them
I respectfully disagree. There are vast opportunities, even on Earth, to expand energy generation without overloading the environment — such as utilizing arid lands for large-scale solar farms and expanding nuclear power, among other solutions.

That said, I believe a robust space economy is imminent, not some distant uncertainty. Starship has already had partially successful test launches, and if it follows the same trajectory as the reusable Falcon 9, we will soon have a fully reusable vehicle capable of delivering 150 tons to low-Earth orbit per launch.

If Musk follows through on his ambition to develop a fleet large enough to transport the materials needed for a self-sustaining Martian civilization, we could see an explosion in lift capacity within the next decade or two, radically transforming the scale of human expansion into space.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too. No more govt. contracts for at least 4 years.
I agree. Its highly volatile, and has a huge environmental impact.

The ups and downs of tourism during the civil war illustrated it clearly. So did the impact of the Ukraine war (there used to be a lot of Russian tourists).

I was shocked by how cheap hotels had once again become when I last went back to Sri Lanka (2023)
Massively increases vegetation cover while reducing farm yields? I find that highly implausible.

One critical impact of higher CO2 concentrations is that drier climates see more vegetation, so you see a lot of greening in previously arid, barren places. And that also has massively positive implications for farm yields.
He is paid by the chinese equivalent hiSAIDxiSAID . its with the russians the only voice left in town after trumps surrender .
B2B transaction are generally VAT free.

In the event that VAT has been paid, the reimbursement goes via the tax authorities.
Not really, the government tried a short term solution to a lack of forex, which caused a drop in agricultural productivity which lead to much worse consequences about an year later.
This is true under California law (or was last I heard - I'm neither a lawyer nor in California). Unfortunately California is something of an exception. Many other jurisdictions allow employers to claim all IP, or broadly IP related to company work.

I agree with it as a 'should', though.
As is tradition, all threads about an open source project must be kicked off with non-contributers putting shit on it unconstructively.
Lithium ion batteries have an efficiency of around 99%. They are also not the only form of energy storage system or battery technology used for ESS.

The most efficient fossil fuel power plants (combined cycle plants that burn natural gas to power a generator driven by a turbine, and then use the heat from the exhaust to generate steam in a second turbine) have an efficiency of about 60%. That doesn't even begin to address the inefficiency in "synthesizing" "hydrocarbons." Electrolysis, for example, is less than 95%.

If you have such a fundamental ignorance then you are not remotely qualified to be making comments like "wind and solar are more expensive than they're made out to be!"

You must know better than all those silly grid and solar/wind farm operators! You should ring them up and tell them how stupid they are to be using solar and wind, how they have no idea what it's actually costing them!

And no, green power is not "unreliable." Hilariously, during the massive Texas blackouts during the ice storms, wind and solar were just about the only power sources still working...

That German power system you alt-righters love to shriek about for being stupid for going green? They have one fifth the outage rate the US does. As they massively increased their green power sources, their grid reliability went up. https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-e...

Several countries in Europe have periods where their grids are entirely powered by renewables. But suuuuure, "magical green power" is unreliable.
Because we are a profoundly stupid nation.
> I still don't understand how they expect to solve the occupant safety issue though.

What issue? I would regularly go 50km/h down hills on my road bike. That was completely my choice and if I came off I'd suffer the consequences.

The problem isn't the occupants. Nobody is forced to travel at high speeds (except on motorways). The problem is the people around and the environment. I definitely would not ever go that fast in town, even down a hill, because it's generally not safe for the people around me.

The problem with cars is the huge imbalance of power. Every car has the capability of killing or disabling you. But you can't disable them. As far as I know, carrying a portable EMP device is neither practical nor legal. Two wheeled vehicles don't exhibit this imbalance of power, not even motorbikes. I believe this is the most important reason to get rid of cars from towns.
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Isn’t it time to start providing wasm plugin support in most apps or too early?
The numbers may be a little exaggerated but the overall direction is definitely true. Basically Gen Z are a lot more introvert ( may be not even a correct term to use any more ) than previous gen. And Ghosting is definitely a lot more common. Demand / expectation is also a lot higher, comparatively speaking.

I think overall the trend is pretty much the same for at least 40 - 50 years. It is just every generation is a little worst than previous one.
Yep, Roman ruins are all over the place. I cycle past a chunk of the old London Wall regularly. Lullingstone Villa in Kent was a cool school trip as a kid.

And then there's this little wall running across Cumbria/Northumbria...
Why? That entirely depends on political alignment of revenue sources, and I bet that (before the takeover) the balance was heavily on the US left-wing side, as that's also the overall bias in tech industry and social media and news publishing. And all that is amplified by advertisers in general, regardless of political leaning, being very touchy about controversy.

I can easily imagine this to alone be responsible for wiping 84% revenue.

Real world has a different political distribution than the Internet. "Politically toxic" on-line in particular is a knee-jerk reaction that is great at generating consistent revenue streams for publishers and social media on-line, but doesn't translate well to how the entire population of a country actually thinks or votes in the real world.
Build things; that's how you figure out what the interesting research problems are in some small niche of the world.

With no industry experience, you'll not get a high-impact thesis. By building things you discover all sorts of problems deep in the guts of industry that are worthy of serious academic research.

If you're lucky, you'll have a half-built academic-content project before you apply for a thesis-based MSc, and you'll be done with the MSc in a year.

This approach works with Phd as well - except that it takes longer than a year due to Phd having the expectation of larger scope and impact.
Not necessarily. On plenty of projects I have done 100% TDD and never written a single low level unit test.

The type of test is, in my mind, a completely different topic to red-green-refactor and for the decision about which one to write I follow a set of rules which is also unconnected.

TDD is just red-green-refactor. It works with any test.
As an author of an alternative shell myself, I really have to commend the effort and design of this one.

It’s one of the more impressive and genuinely interesting shells I’ve seen for a while.
Half the people in the country either a) want to watch everything burn, because the system has served them poorly for too long, or b) are stupid enough to believe that Trump actually wants to help them. Or both.

Many (most?) Americans don't seem to have ever learned how to think critically or question what authority figures tell them to believe.

On top of that, COVID was rough for lots and lots of people. Even though it started under Trump, he somehow managed to avoid blame for the government's missteps early on. Biden did what he could, but even an absolute perfect response would have caused a lot of strife for a lot of people, and his administration's response was definitely not perfect. In a way I think it's impressive how well Harris did; even had Biden decided not to run at all for a second term, it would have been an uphill battle for the incumbent party to stay in power after COVID.
It's clear from the speed at which these changes are going in place that step 1 is not being followed, nor is it being encouraged.
I don’t know if you can’t read or not but I was responding for hours and included a Ford vs BMW example multiple times. Maybe English is your second language. I will go a little slower for you

Here is another one

Caterpillar (US) manufactures construction equipment and exports to Germany

Liebherr (Germany) manufactures similar construction equipment and exports to the US

When producing a bulldozer in Germany, Liebherr pays 19% VAT on all components and services (steel, electronics, labor, etc.). When Liebherr exports the bulldozer to the U.S., Germany fully refunds the 19% VAT. This lowers Liebherr’s export price by 19%. Liebherr sells the bulldozer tax-free in the US. The only tax applied is the US. state/local sales tax (6-10%), which is much lower than 19%. Liebherr bulldozer is now more price-competitive in the US. than Caterpillar’s

This is called a trade imbalance
Tensions?

Landlords looking to herd Internet dwellers for steady Profit

Vs.

Free-Ranging Users flocking toward Free Stuff

Classic Internet Battle.
Have you heard of Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory disorder? For me it's memory as it relates to myself that barely functions, I can remember facts just fine.
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Nobody can measure the 'velocity of money', since that is determined by what you divide GDP by.

And nobody knows what that is.

Anybody decomposing GDP into "MV" first needs to explain what M is, and they can't.
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Also to cut regulations, aka the police for corporations and the rich.
The Importance of Hard Work?

It is not important for you dear employee.

It is very important for those companies who want you, the mugs, to work 80 hours per week and only get paid for 40 hours.

There is absolutely no benefit for you if you work hard.

You will die younger from over work.

It is amazing that the Japanese are the only culture with a word for "death by overwork", Karoshi. so there must be substantial evidence that Karoshi "death by overwork" exists.

You work hard for 20 years and the company goes bust, who has benefitted from that? The company not you.
Try Krita, it’s free, opensource and what gimp should have been all along.
Came here to say this. It doesn’t have to be late in the game. The whole time tactical fouls is a valuable tool for defense. You try to make it non-violent enough and, when it’s a counterattack, early enough so the referee might not interpret as a foul to prevent a counterattack, so you don’t get a yellow card.

Also, exchanging a certain goal for a penalty+red card is a very common defense tactic. Check Uruguay vs Ghana, World Cup 2010.
It’s nice seeing a major outage a day after this.
I agree. As someone who watched Magic, Bird and MJ in their prime, I think the modern basketball is at much higher level of both skill and athleticism. The level of "4D chess" going on is incredible and very enjoyable to watch!

I do not like the bullying aspect of it though. Offensive players are ramming straight into defenders, shoving the them mid-jump to get a rebound etc.
“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Thanks a lot for sharing! These are real gems.
The wikipedia page is one sided and only puts the case for calling iu a genocide. As a mixed race and entirely ethnic minority Sri Lankan who lived there for much of the civil war I do not think genocide is an accurate characterisation, although there were certainly many atrocities.

It was also made possible by the populations fear of the other side who were extremely nasty ethnonationalists, "ethnically cleansed" areas under their control, and were the inventors and most prolific users of the modern suicide bomb (the type the west associates with Islamic terrorists). A common response to criticism of the killing of civilians during the war were things like "we are fighting fascists".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eel...
BBC's 'Mammals' [0] spends a portion of one of its episodes discussing the plight of howler monkeys in Costa Rica. [1] These monkeys die frequently to electrocution as urbanization continues. The power lines look like reasonable crossing routes above the dangerous and hostile human world. The solution they implemented was to build canopy bridges safe for the monkeys.

This isn't cost efficient but it's the right thing to do. Wouldn't it be nice if we could call it the humane thing to do? In general, "humane" seems to stop with human lives, despite the fact that we like to style ourselves caretakers of this planet.

[0] https://www.bbcearth.com/shows/mammals

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ZpLHZzWv93X70kvP2...
Maybe in the US. Any self-titled Engineer in Europe with no knowledge of CPU's, registers, stacks, concurrency, process management, scheduling, O-notation, dynamic systems, EE, and a bigass chunk of Math from Linear to Abstract it would be insta-bashed down in the spot with no degree at all.

Here in Spain atthe most basic uni you are almost being able to write a Minix clone from scratch into some easy CPU (Risc-V maybe) from all the knowledge you got.

I am no Engineer (trade/voc arts, just a sysadmin) and I can write a small CHIP8 emulator at least....
Cautionary tale: Be sure you omit several words from your next Federal grant.

Taxpayers are tightening their belt(s).
thank you. lemme take a look at that.
But they are already multi-modal. The Google one can do live streaming video understanding with a conversational in-out prompt. You can literally walk around with your camera and just chat about the world. No text to be seen (although perhaps under the covers it is translating everything to text, but the point is the user sees no text)
It is fascinating.

Particularly as I explained the mechanism by which it can be done. Did you miss that bit?

What I find interesting is how rigid the "tax the rich" belief is, even when the obvious problem with it is pointed out.

Almost like the people who believe it in really want to LARP as Robin Hood and won't hear any objections to the contrary.
Price of eggs went up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
> lack of observed ground deformation

I think he replies to a comment where he says “lack of significant ground deformation”. He also mention the natural up/down movement of normal faults being a cause of ground deformation.

I’m sure if there’s new information that he’ll do a follow up. I’ve followed his channel for a while now — I’m not a geologist or geophysicist either — but I find his knowledge and careful and thoughtful analysis to be exceptional.
Sounds fair, I like to support Early Access, and so far it has been great to see some games reach lots of success.
They put their wages up, and then the firm demands greater returns from their investments to pay those wages and those investments then sack a load of people to increase the returns.