During the early industrial revolution people were not starving in the countryside because of poor harvests. They were starving in the countryside because the UK at that time siezed land that was previously held in common and granted it to the nobility through the enclosure acts. Now to survive as a peasant you could not subsist off of common land, you had to pay rent to a lord and work their land, and as agricultural productivity increased through mechanization and improved farming techniques the lords only needed so many people to work. A subsistence farmer would become unable to afford rising rents, as they did not benefit from mechanization due to not having the capital to buy machines.
> The decline of the US means that there will be increasingly fewer deep-pocketed customers able to pay 5 figures for anything.
Those at the top are doing very well, it's those without access to capital who are struggling. America in decline looks like a bifurcated economy where low-paying jobs catering to the desires of the wealthy take up an increasingly large share of the economy. You can decide for yourself to what extent this is already happening.
I see people posting this all the time without mentioning that the page says "based on data from 2023." As someone who graduated in 2025, I can tell you that the market has changed significantly since then - Trump won election in 2024 and tariffs went into effect in 2025, for one.
NyQuil contains DXM which is a dissociative in high doses as well as having some seratonergic activity. I wouldn't be surprised if this was why, especially taking it with a still-developing brain.
The nominal increase in GDP is almost all due to a decrease in imports relative to last quarter, when companies were stocking up ahead of the tariffs. Growth looks significantly more anemic without this factor.
This is only a problem if you can't modify the library you're using for whatever reason (usually a bad one). If you have the source of all your dependencies, you can just fork and add methods as needed in the rare cases where you need to do this.
I think base Rust is a great language, but the ecosystem tends towards very complex and overengineered solutions; with advanced uses/abuses of macros and the type system, trait hell ends up being not too dissimilar to template hell from C++. And the async/await story is plagued with layers and layers of complexity due to the many obtuse interactions with its lifetime system.
Rust honestly probably should've gone with its original idea of green threads/channels, like GC-less Go, but that idea was dropped a long time ago.
How does AI have anything to do with this? Are you just talking about emulators? Those already exist, and the main opposition to them is the companies that own the IP. Many companies would rather let games languish than let their community do the "prohibitive" work to maintain those games for free.
These are categorically different situations. In many places, people literally only have 1 or 2 choices for their ISP - not so for social networks. The degree to which the logic of neutral platforms applies depends on the availability of other options and the cost to switch; in the ISP case, the options are very limited and the cost is monetary and very high, and in the case of social networks the cost is low and purely social and there are many available options.
I tried the first drill (/drills/1), and I wasn't able to take a shot - pressing space did nothing. I was also able to aim while in c-mode, which the tutorial says isn't allowed.
I'm disappointed this culture war drivel got to the front page of HN. I have a close friend with DID caused by severe childhood trauma, who has contributed to the sorts of TikTok communities mentioned in the article.
Those faking it for attention or clout exist, and invented victimhood is definitely a thing, especially among the sheltered upper middle class. But most of this is just byproduct of youth and inexperience with the world that people tend to grow out of.
People like this watch teenagers still discovering themselves do or say some mildly stupid stuff and construe it as the collapse of society or something.
For me at least, clicking on discord message notifications on the mobile app directs you to the correct channel, and I haven't ever experienced discord hanging on the loading screen on my Linux machine, over the two years since I got discord. Outdated info perhaps?
I'm not the original commenter (and on mobile, so this response might be a little terse), but I think what he's talking about is polymorpism. For an example, if you have two classes, Int and String, and you have a method special_fn you want to implement for both in different ways, (e.g. "addition/concatanation"), you can either make a bunch of special_fn_* stuff, or simply create an interface SpecialFner with the special_fn method, and implement it for Int and Str. This lets you use this interface in other places without worrying about all the different versions of this function.
> When law firms offered Sandra Day O'Connor a secretarial job after she graduated third in her class at Stanford, do you think they said "we just don't like women?" Of course not. They couched their bias in appeals to the differences between men and women, and how those differences supposedly were relevant to the practice of law.
Note that he isn't saying that women do have these traits; they are saying that on average, they are more likely to. In this example, O'Connor would just be one of the ones to not have them.
Gender stereotypes are sometimes supported by fact (even if they may primarily came into being by anecdote or plain ____ism). When they are, it is not fair to dismiss someone as "advancing gender stereotypes" whenever they make an "on average"-type claim (based on evidence) that happens to align with a gender stereotype; the problem comes when you forget the "on average" part of it (which he did not seem to).