skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of a single society it would make more economic sense to stop having children, import foreign collage graduates, and execute people once they reach retirement age.

But society, luckily, isn't some autonomous macro-organism that can treat people like individual cells in your body. So when we say that we value babies above all else that's a projection of the individual aspirations of the members of that society.

An average member of society will care much more about the health of their family and children than maximizing the GDP of their country, and government policy and rhetoric luckily at least partially reflects this.
You are citing things but your argument is nonsensical.
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> School districts are weirdly tied to real estate in the U.S.

Rich people want nicer schools. These same people have a lot of influence and or control in our society, so they dictate how the money was divvied up, to make sure their kids got the best.

In many other countries the money is put into a large "pot" and then redistributed from that. So most schools per student budget is similar but with adjustments for cost of living. The US is actually the odd duck for how monied some public schools are, while depriving almost impoverishing others.

Charter schools only make the situation worse, since many utilise public funds while also charging parents (so effectively a private school that keeps poor kids out, but gets to utilise public money to do so).
That is strong AI argument. If strong AI happens, I'm not worried about income inequality, jobs, economy or anything like that.

How world is for humans after that point depends completely how somebody managed to program ethics and motivation into that AI. That AI probably can learn and modify itself, so the original designers probably can't even foresee what is going to happen.

It's impossible to imagine something more intelligent than you. So any science fiction on the subject is bound to fall short. If we choose to be afraid of that, only real option is to go full unabomber.
Life is not limited to economics.
College graduates are "better" than the whole population? Wow.

I completely disagree and as a college graduate I would never say something like that.
What is the legal implication of distributing a range of Pii that can be translated into copyrighted material?
It's questionable if their target audience are mature and informed people. Those people are usually harder to manipulate and extract money from.
He has a perfectly valid economic argument. He's not saying it's the sunk cost that provides the value, it's the added overall value they provide by having a college education. The cost of getting that education could be a reasonable proxy for the value of the education, though imperfect.

People usually make the sunk cost mistake when they aren't evaluating the immediate potential of the options, just the emotional tie to the money invested. That's not the case here.
I believe Pisa at the time was part of the Duchy of Milan (a constituent state of the HRE) which at the time was under Spanish control (previously under French rule).
What's the future cost of getting a college grad to become productive? Nothing.

Future cost of making a baby productive? ~20 years of varying levels of investment.
Of course not. If this is a meaningful afront to Facebook customers, those customers should leave Facebook. There is no valid moral principle by which the shareholders of Facebook should be forced to subsidize their competitors. Period.

Putting a gun to their heads (which is all a law really achieves) and telling those people that have invested, for their own self interest, that they now have to fund someone else's self interest is in fact, immoral.
Awesome—thanks for joining!

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Another note: traffic is still pretty low on the site, as we’re so new. I’m working on fixing this, by starting to promote the service a little. That said, in the interim, it’s good to promote your sessions actively, as that’s where you’ll likely receive the most interest.

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From the top of the page:

Greetings, people of the future!
If someone has linked you to this page,
they're probably trying to con you.
Don't fall for it. In fact, stop reading
right now. Don't read this page. Go read
this page instead.

I wrote this twenty years ago.
Now is not then. You are being robbed.

-- Jamie Zawinski, 2014.

Edit:

Has been discussed previously, and the original site seems to have crashed (is HN now so popular we can slashdot a site!?). A good roundup on the issues with her usual style is on https://unicornfree.com/2011/fuck-glory-startups-are-one-lon...

Basically, we still need to fix the management of software lots lots more than we need to fix the interview process.
That's a fantastic list.

Universe does sound promising, although they barely say anything. Do you know where I can learn more about them?
This is obvious, but he's talking about the US. Here, "software engineer" is a sort of made up title. I wish the US was like your country, though.
It's really interesting that you feel a collection of upcoming projects is a positive, rather than a negative, and I think the reasons you give are convincing. Without thinking about it carefully, I used to consider having a list of projects to work on next as both a distraction and a source of unwelcome pressure. It can be discouraging to see that list grow rather than shrink, and I was worried that pondering how fun the other projects could be took away from my focus on the "one project" I'm supposed to be working on.

I'm going to try to adopt your outlook, and look upon a stable of upcoming projects as an encouragement to tie a bow in what I'm working on at a suitable point, AND an opportunity to switch when things get boring. Thanks for that.
It isn't a new concern, you would have had to start listening back in 2005 (or probably earlier) https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs161/fa05/Notes/objectSeria...
Amazon Should Implement 2-Factor Authentication for It's Non-AWS Customers
9 Years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545

8 Years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100176

5 Years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211360
Hi, I'm the Dan Kohn from the article. I'm not quite sure what inspired the post (since we already passed the 20 year anniversary), but please AMA.
I normally just call myself a developer, although engineer is so widespread in the industry now I wouldn't mind that either. I can't look at someone with a straight face when they refer to themselves as a "software craftsman" though. I do think we need to reign in the job titles a little, many of them smack of one-upmanship.
So you're saying Africa would've been better off without colonization? I bet life would be much worse in Africa if it was never colonized. Did you know the homicide rate was 10-20% in prehistoric societies, and the life expectancy was only 30-40 years or so?
well as far as gold goes they pretty much ingored the sources during the post WW2 world gold consolidation and redistribution but now it might be a bit more complicated.
European Jewry wasn't the only source of gold, but it was one of the prominent ones as France and many other European nations actually stowed the gold away in the UK and in other places that weren't occupied.
If there are any substantial amounts of goods there there will be a very ugly legal battle if there aren't goods there then anything outside of anything that might add to the historical record should probably be scrapped.
While some people might argue that anything from that period has an historical value I quite disagree we all can assume which people trade in things like Hitler's dinnerware http://www.germaniainternational.com/hitler3.html these types of items do not hold any historical value in my eyes, because other than confirming the pretty obvious fact that Hitler have had to eat dinner from time and that he would probably had some fancy plates it doesn't really add anything.
And these types of items are usually traded by people who pretty much use them as alter pieces which is probably quite disturbing to most people.
It's a very pretty website, but perhaps too clever for it's own good. Even with dang's link... I still couldn't find a translation of a single letter or a description for that matter.

Picture books only go so far, sometimes context or content does matter.
came here to say this was a cool app, but faking testimonials in this manner is unforgivable. at the very least if you are going to fake it, don't use real people's photos!
Do we know that Satoshi Nakamoto is still alive? That might cause some issues, as the Nobel can't be awarded posthumously.
This isn't a bad train of thought, though I wonder if this says more about Millennial narcissism than it does about the "religion of parenting".

I think this has more to do with a kind of ethical posturing ("I am holier than thou") than it is about a sacred cow. There are parents who will give up their own interests for the sake of their children's interest, and not because there is peer-pressure to do so, or as a way to gain status within the community, or to be tyrannized by a cultural myth.

So thinking about it more, I think this article is BS -- not because the issues it raises are not true, but because it focused on the wrong thing.

There is also a spiritual and psychological transformation that takes place with becoming a parent.

Philosopher Ken Wilber had written extensively about modernity, and the way it throws pre-modern ideas such as the Great Chain of Being out the window, leaving members of modernity disconnected with their place in the universe. That's not to say that pre-modern ideas where they just told you where your place is a good idea. On the other hand, existential angst and a constant wondering of your place in society, in the world, in the universe as a whole is a constant them in the cultures of modernity.

What does this have to do with parenting? The idea of the Great Chain of Being is a kind of stand-in, or abstractions, that Ken Wilber claims ties the pre-modern religion together. They disagree on a lot of things, but one thing that is present in the religious teachings is putting the human experience in context of the cosmos as a whole. The search for the meaning of life was a search for your origins, of where you came from -- a search for who you were "born" from. It might seem obvious that your body was born from the DNA of both of your parents; however, where did they come from? If you trace things up your lineage, you still come to the question, "Where did life originate from?"

To use the mythic language in the context of the Great Chain of Being, you were "born" from the universe.

To become a parent is to experience -- just a little bit -- of what it is like for the universe to give life and creation. It might be accidental or intentional. Someone might enter this stage with naivete or with great wisdom. There are a lot of things you might have railed against growing up, but now as a parent, it makes you think and wonder.

My point is that, if you were to strip away the ethical posturing and political correctness, what you are left with is not a re-examination of parenting, that there is a sacred cow to be slaughtered. Parenting is an re-examination of your self and your place and purpose within the universe. Your growth does not stop there. You might gain a better appreciation of how things come together.
And Poe's law strikes again...
This is totally correct! Except, sometimes it's wrong.
People would pay good money for that kind of secure erasure if it could be triggered on demand. :)
I remember watching the documentaries about him in the 90's. As I understand it, there was scant technical evidence against him but he produced some very detailed and convincing confessions of his murders. One which he retold in an interview was him sneaking up on a camping German couple sleeping in a tent and stabbing them both to death while they were still trapped inside. He also told stories about his step father taking him on "hunting trips" in the woods in which he forced Quick to perform oral sex on him. Those stories were also found out to be lies but were also incredibly believable.
I do my best work when uninterrupted for long periods.

My productivity suffers when I am interrupted seemingly at random by the needs of those inconsiderate enough to assume their need trumps whatever I am working on at the time.

Email, texting and instant message are controllable mediums. The only acceptable barrier to the real world interruptions accompanying open concept is a pair of headphones and that is too light a defense in my experience.
From my own research it depends greatly on the benefits you want to provide. Do you want them to have a deductible? How much? Should they have a copay? What about prescriptions, dental, eyes, and out of network? That said from my own research $1000 a month per person would be pretty nice coverage. Many companies cover a percentage of the payment, say 50-80 percent.
previous discussions of note:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3288671

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3283214

from https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/vc-metadata/
Everyone wants nicer schools. Wealthier people are more likely to be able to live in areas with good schools; they can pay for the rents and mortgages necessary to do so.
that product already exists[0], running watch have been around for many years and do exactly that.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=running+watch
Mistakes to avoid when designing Unix dæmon programs
This is exactly the approach we had to adopt when we travelled around Europe in a camper (a sweet 1970s converted Ford Transit). I loved having to be creative about finding space and making sure every thing we took with us had multiple functions if possible.

I wish I could say we have kept this up now we are back living in the "real world" but some of the spirit has rubbed off and we're definitely much better at becoming less attached to particular belongings.

I strongly believe that most belongings end up becoming burdens if you don't establish a process of questioning their utility on a somewhat regular basis.

Thanks for the article! Really thought-provoking.
I sit in a chair, in front of a panel with many lights, and another panel with many buttons. And I press the buttons rapidly in some specific order to make certain lights go on or off.

No idea what should be the name for that job.
I wish this could be up voted twice!

I know many liberal and conservative friends. No one that I know thinks "there are simply good and bad people".

It sounds very condescending and ridiculous.
Are you suggesting without colonisation that Africans would still be living in a per-historic society?
That's not true.

Robin Li, the co-founder of Baidu, obtained a patent for hypertext link analysis before Larry Page obtained his “Page Rank” version.
Watch a VC use my name to sell a con
From my understanding, the executive summary is usually 3-5 pages long and gives a fair understanding of what the company is. Is it not?

In our particular case, we need it for an investor in Europe that we cannot meet in person. So it should give away most of the details. At best, we'll have a call with him.

Yours seems to server a purpose of well polished email pitch that could be forwarded along with an introduction.

Another point is startup's stage. In our case it's angel round. Even though, we have a lot of technical progress and talking to users with mockups on hand, we cannot yet brag about traction or physical unit sales.

P.S. Thanks a lot for the answer!
That moment a HN reference to your site causes a full scale DDoS takedown.
Yes, much closer to one. Somewhere on a scale between what it currently is and a prehistoric society. Why do you think it wouldn't be? Africans wouldn't just magically absorb Western culture without exposure. I'm not sure if 1% were even aware of Western civilization, trade, and such until colonization happened. Do you think Africans would learn how to read and write if the Europeans didn't alter things?
This is utterly wrong. Theory is not any mental masturbation. On the contrary, theory helps in understanding a problem with sparkling clarity and often offers a general approach or solution to the problem.

The above is a problem with people who thinks everything in the world is black and white; or they themselves don't understand theories, maybe even being right in the circle which theorizes theories day and night (read academic circles).

The key is to understand that all of us theorize all the time. Being programmers, whenever we see a problem, we do try to approach it scientifically. Basing parts of the problem on already established knowledge (read theory). See what we are doing here? We are theorizing a problem. It may not be any formal theory but informal theory is still theory.

The point is theory is not just intellectual mumbo jumbo, sure it stimulates few of us to the point of orgasm, but theory is a very humble practice which helps us understand things better.
As a licensed Professional Engineer and wannabe programmer, this guy should get off his high horse. There's a difference between an engineer and a Professional Engineer. Much of the engineering industry, electrical, mechanical, chemical, etc. does not require licensure. It's only needed in specific industries where engineering services are offered directly to the public. I don't think anyone is confusing software engineers with PEs.

And building things in the public interest? Please. These things our built in our client's interest. Yes, sometimes that client is "the public" in the form of a local, state or Federal government, but not always, and for many engineers, hardly ever. It's also dubious that the government's interest coincides with the public interest. I worked for a firm that bid on the contract to design the NSA's 60MW datacenter in Utah. We didn't win, but someone did, and they happily took the money to build it. Public interest indeed.

Yes, we recommend building things in sustainable, efficient ways whenever possible, but at the end of the day someone else is footing the bill. As long as they aren't asking for something outright illegal or dangerous, they'll get it. If they want to knock together a building that barely meets code minimum requirements, that's what they'll get.

> Today’s computer systems pose individual and communal dangers that we’d never accept in more concrete structures like bridges, skyscrapers, power plants, and missile-defense systems.

It's still pretty early days as far as computer systems go. It's only a little over a hundred years ago that hundreds of people died in a fire[1] causing us to realize the egress doors need to always swing outwards and should not be locked. And that's after how many millennia of building buildings?

We don't accept these dangers now because we know what they are after people having died from them in the past. We won't know what things we will need to watch for in computing until they happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
Yeah, that comes off as extra naive today, although I'll point out that even Snowden didn't show that the NSA can crack PGP or properly-configured TLS (assuming we're only talking about on-the-wire eavesdropping and not a black bag job).
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"Ayelet Waldman, where the author explained that she loved her husband more than her four children."

Recently did some pre-marital counseling where they recommend that you put your spouse above your children. Seemed really strange to me and counter-intuitive. I don't know much about marriage at all, but if you think about it, the trickle-down effect does seem to make sense as setting an example is a good lesson for kids.

I think the takeaway is to keep a balance. Also, it's not like Ayelet Waldman is a revolutionary, as other old-school practitioners seem to have been recommending that advice for years.
> Also, limiting the degree could backfire, because it could end up driving away the best students along with the worst, while attracting mediocre students who figure out how to play the game.

Maybe. Does the astronaut program drive away the best and attract mediocre people?

I'm being extreme to make a point. I don't think high standards drives away the best people.

> Should I have been kicked out, to make way for more worthy students?

I don't understand the point. You competed with others for your spot, right? If that was working properly, the more worthy would have taken your spot. Sounds like you made the cut.

I think we'd agree that the problem is in expectations of students going in. I agree with others in this thread that profs have a duty to help people make realistic decisions. And as long as some subjects are set up to rely on a badly-paid middle class of postdocs, they are missing the incentive to do so.

In AI and robotics right now, it's very hard indeed to get a good postdoc since their opportunities are so good. I'm a prof and I'd love to exploit some but they all make more money than me. Good institutions are routinely hiring AI people straight out of PhDs. The problems we are talking about vary enormously by field because the supply and demand are wildly out of whack in some fields.
As any person will have observed more often than not accreditation proves little or nothing about anything. For example many corporations possess numerous different accreditations (some of which are industry specific) e.g. ISO:XXXXX, OHASA, Microsoft Gold etc etc etc. Most of these are simply seen by management functions as a box ticking exercise. The principles and most importantly mindsets evangelised by such accreditations are never enacted or held by those with the power to enact them. Perhaps this is a problem because for some reason management types aren't seen to be a collaborative discipline, but instead a ruling one. Often engineers are at the behest of management decisions which tend to be based upon ill-conceived preconceptions, and poor and/or politicised information. Ultimately more engineers need to hold management positions to ensure values are enforced and engrained within the culture of the organisation. To some extent accreditation is just advertising and brand image.

My house builder is accredited by X, Y and Z but their management and customer service is so poor that I fail to see how the business functions. I think this projects a some what idealistic view, not founded in reality.
There's actually some evidence that shared earning/shared parenting marriages are less likely to end in divorce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_earning/shared_parentin...

I guess the hypothesis is you start to feel alone in your responsibilities and you lose touch with your spouse's life.