skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't create a dichotomy between these two choices. In many ways our descendants will determine the state of the future far more than any particular change we might engage in today. Imagine that people who are well educated, secular, and generally well off start to stop having children. At the same time people who are poorly educated, highly religious, and generally poor continue to have children at a high rate. Think about what this would mean for the lives of people born into the next generation. They're going to disproportionately come from households that are poorly educated, highly religions, and mostly poor.

And of course this isn't a hypothetical. This is exactly what's happening today on a global and crucially, even on a national level. For instance in the US people who earn < $10,000 per year annually have a fertility rate that is just about exactly 50% higher than those earning > $200,000 per year. [1] And there's a disconcertingly smooth gradient in the incomes in between. This is a very new problem. It was speculated about in the past, but generally well to do families continued to pump out the kids at a decent rate and there were macabre systems in place that prevented reckless procreation from those who could not afford it. Today fertility rates have plummeted and such macabre deterrents have become completely unthinkable which is a very good thing, yet it's simultaneously a very bad thing in that it effectively enables reckless and socially destructive behavior.

It becomes clear that one of the easiest ways to have a society where more people are better off is simply by encouraging those that can afford to have children to do just that! This also goes a step further as well. You might argue that 'well, if we create better social systems then we can start to transform those poorly educated, highly religious, and generally poor families into the [perhaps subjectively] better off households today.' Maybe, maybe not -- it'd be a herculean task in any case. But there's an even more fundamental problem. The future of those systems will be upheld, or tossed aside, by the generation of tomorrow. And we once again end up back at square one as this generation will be comprised heavily of these poorly educated, highly religious individuals who are going to generally have different social motivations.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
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Sounds like you’re describing Google+ and their Circles feature.
> If this was a child of an UHNWI there really isn't a problem with spending $5k on a video game at the end of the day.

The problem is not the relative amount of money being spent by a family's child whether that family be wealthy or of means.

The problem is that five-year-old children cannot provide informed consent.

EDIT: remove superfluous "the".
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> Seriously why do you think companies are hiring them if there were no economic gains and in the end they have to pay more to workers?

THIS!
This brings a smile to my face. I don't care anymore what excuses people come up for Facebook's behavior. Enough is enough and Facebook has crossed the line years ago. No remorse, no forgiveness.
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The cruelty is the point.
I despise facebook, but salon's article is ... clickbait. The results of the study are generally positive, but fairly small, and I wouldn't describe their stats as any kind of "gold standard." I don't think the study should be praised for its rigor either. It's extremely mooshy, and I'm certain someone FB friendly could do the same study and easily get a different result. Look at the plots of the data in the appendices; they're silly:

http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf
Facebook's solution was initial exclusivity to college students. This made it cool to high school students. Then once high school and college students were all on it, their parents eventually got on.

So maybe we could shamelessly copy that exact model for the new federated open-source Facebook replacement.
The only thing that bothers me about Facebook anymore is the realization that I live on a planet with, literally, billions of people that do not care about their privacy.
How many people outside of HN even know what "F2P" is and how it works? In-app purchases aren't limited to F2P, either. Nor are they always a dark pattern.

My parents would buy me $10 of gaming stuff as a kid, like a month subscription to an MMO. Seems unreasonable to expect them to know there's some in-game button I can press that keeps charging their card. I played World of Warcraft for five years and still couldn't tell you if that feature existed in-game. How would my mother?

Seems like a tall order especially with all the other things a parent needs to stay on top of when raising kids. "Just don't make digital purchases" seems like a weak solution. Small measures like having to re-enter the CC control code after a time interval would really help parents.
Executive branch makes decisions about priorities all the time. They certainly don't enforce all the laws all the time with the same effort.

It makes sense to complain, criticise or defend those decisions.
Unlike Saudi-Arabia?
That's what I meant. Political action can mean regulating, as in not allowing tobacco ads, or taxing as in sugar taxes on soft drinks, or banning, as with certain drugs. Or it can mean subsidising or other encouragement outside of basic market forces.
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They kinda tried already ;-)
https://www.cnet.com/news/heres-why-the-facebook-phone-flopp...
I see that theory about female selection being pushed a lot lately, but it's a fairly easily debunked theory.

Female selection didn't occur in human society. Females didn't get to choose who they married. Rather it was the men who decided which females marry which male.

Also, there is far less diversity in the Y chromosome than the X. The best possible explanation is during ancient tribal war, the winning side killed all the males of the losing tribe and bred with the females.

Also, we have evidence that the greatest genetic winners are warriors/leaders like genghis khan and charlemagne.

Historical, genetic and biological evidence debunks the female selection theory.

As for the "pruning of violent individuals by the whole group". That too is nonsense. It is the most violent group who establishes order. Law and order isn't anything the group decided on. Rather law and order is something a small group of violent elites forced on the masses.

Think about the US. The group didn't vote on independence. Rather it was a small group of violent elites. During the revolution, at most 30% of the colonial population supported independence.

Think about the current world order ( aka international order ). Nobody voted for it. It was forced on the world by 2 world wars, 1 cold war and 200 million dead people.

Or look at china. Tens of millions of people died in order for order to be enforced on that gigantic nation.

The idea that female selection or pruning of violent individuals is how humans tamed themselves simply isn't true. Also, the idea that humans tamed themselves is simply a lie as well. We were tamed through law, order and lots of violence. Also, full bellies and distractions ( bread and circuses ) helped.
Hi, I'm the creator of the website.

The reason I created this was that I was getting huge knowledge value from podcasts but I couldn't listen to just a few episodes on a very specific topic.

The idea behind this audio courses concept is not to teach you a skill if you didn't know how to perform that skill at all before (e.g.: you certainly won't learn programming this way). The idea is to make you better at something you already were interested in. And also to give it to you in a friendlier and more "free" way than traditional video learning - here comes the podcast part.
You can be learning while commuting, cooking, runing, etc. And you probably won't even realize you're learning if you already like podcasts!

I'm currently trying to to figure out how to get people using it. Something still doesn't feel quite good about the courses. I get positive feedback when I'm sharing a specific courses but people seem to not care when I share the whole website. So something is still off.
In the future it definitely needs to be a mobile app, starting with a website makes it much easier and faster to prototype and share it with people though.

If you have any question, feel free to ask.
Presumably FB has similar versions of internal apps for Android which has no remote kill switch since side loading is allowed.

Employees could just switch to Android if they are worried about Apple killing their apps.
Thanks!

Your words are very kind. My request didn't get any reply but yours and it would have been extremely discouraging without you!

Yes, I don't want to incorporate nothing of groundbreaking in that series, scientists need to be able to write and share good enough code and that is where I am aiming. Simple concepts that have prove themselves over and over in engineering but that are not common in other fields.

I will definitely incorporate your feedback, moreover if you have more ideas about blog articles I could cover or bad patterns that you see happen again and again feel free to let me know.

Thanks agains for your kind words!

Cheers,
I've never played games on Facebook, but I did once discover that, after I purchased a game on Android for my son, he was able to make in-app purchases without authorisation. Turns out Android didn't require re-authorisation for half an hour after making an authorised purchase, which can make sense in some situations, but is a terrible idea with in-app purchases for an app you just bought for your kid.

Fortunately they quickly refunded the money. I pointed out I wanted explicit authorisation for every purchase, and I think that's what Android now does.
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>> What is the effect of males selecting for docile females on future sons and daughters? Or do you believe that males aren't discriminating?

What makes you think males get to select a mate? And who deliberately goes for a docile female?
I've been reading blog posts about Georgian food lately, and their cuisine and food practices and ingredients seem interesting and somewhat different from those of other countries. A lot of use of walnuts, for example, not just to eat as nuts, but in the form of paste added to various dishes. Also a lot of use of greens and herbs.

culinarybackstreets.com and roadsandkingdoms.com are the sites on which I've been reading that stuff, plus after that, googled some more for Georgian food blogs, etc.
So, weird/dumb question, I don't know if you have the answers to this, but why don't ladders have round tubular hand rails? Like, no residential or commercial ladder i've seen has hand rails, so I'm always gripping tightly to the sides or the steps.

But this seems stupid. Anyone with hands will realize that sliding your gripped palm around and up a round tube in a neutral position (that is, with your palms facing each other, not facing down) feels more secure then hand-over-hand on the steps, which don't give good grip anyway because the lip of the step faces down, not up.
These set-up stings always throw me off a little bit. It's like sure these people are breaking the law, that's clearly wrong. But shouldn't we be fixing the system that isn't good enough to catch fake transcripts and fake schools being submitted, or were any visa applications for this school accepted for the sake of letting ICE catch a few fake students.
Yeah, it's true about the hiring biases in general.

Where are they looking? Have you shown them "Who's hiring" HN threads?
Not to mention Apple has a much higher Operating Margin than AWS. And yet people are still not happy with it.
Do you know the history of Iran? It was once a very progressive country before we interfered in their government. With expose to global markets for Iranian citizens, it may be again.
So that might be true for people who commute from a relatively remote location to another remote location. For someone like me who lives in an urban environment, autonomous ride shading would absolutely be more efficient than owning a car.
You've lived here since mid-2007 and haven't become a citizen in 11 years? You admit yourself that you have had an incredibly lucrative run in this country but will blast the citizens here concerned about what an influx of labor would do to the people who have been here building up the systems from which you benefit.

And then you compare yourself to a Jew in Nazi Germany, which is absolutely incredible - that your situation is even comparable to being loaded on trains and murdered is the most vile appeal to emotion I've ever seen on this forum.

I'm assuming you came to this country because you thought it would profit yourself. That certainly seems to be true, but you seem incredibly hostile to the country which gave you those opportunities and very resistant to having it take stock of where it benefits in this arrangement.
Interesting that the article explains this is the same sort of sting that was run in NJ under Obama.

Reminds me of those stories of police departments sending 'you won the lottery' announcements to local criminals who had to appear to collect their prize in person...whereupon they were promptly arrested.
Especially as this causes frustration for Facebook employees that directly stems from Facebook’s misconduct, rather than holding Facebook customers hostage.
> I just try and keep my feed filled with mostly positive/upbeat things

You know Zuck has experimented with making people’s feeds negative to see the impact on their usage?

I get Facebook works for you, but consider the company is run by a truly evil and insidious man. As an organizer consider helping people leave.
I read things like this and wonder how is my Facebook feed so different. For the most part I just see my friends and family posting about their day and photos of the kids.
afaik nicotine is the addictive substance in cigarettes but it's not the most dangerous.

+ Inhaling any burned matter / fumes will have an impact the lungs.

"Cigarette smoke contains over 7,000 chemical compounds, including arsenic, formaldehyde, cyanide, lead, nicotine, carbon monoxide, acrolein, and other poisonous substances. Over 70 of these are carcinogenic." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette
Automobiles are not addictive in the medical sense, but consider that, all else being equal, heavy car users will, much faster than others, lose the capacity to walk long distances.
> The cruelty is the point.

No, it isn't. If you took any time to talk to any of the tremendous number of reasonable, empathic people working at ICE, you could not say that with a straight face.

The mandate of ICE is to enforce immigration and customs laws, not to "be cruel to foreigners" or some such. Making a dehumanizing moral caricature of people you disagree with is not helpful to anyone who needs help.
There are numerous new and different opportunities that emerge which create different dynamics. Insurance companies might want to invest in tech that reduces accidents because they can lower their premiums and be more competitive, for example (which btw, would be a side effect of a "capitalistic" system)
> well-thought-out, fine-grained privacy controls

The problem with Facebook isn't that some people can see some things you don't want them to. "Privacy controls" are just a distraction from the real problem which is that Facebook can see everything.
I don't think it's so strange, it explains very effectively that driving a vehicle has very little to do with the optics and sensors because humans can drive with a crappy camera, limited fov, and two small super inaccurate mirrors.

It's all about the data processing and the breakthrough that will enable human-ish self-driving cars will be there and not in more accurate sensors.
This is confusing.

> eight people who allegedly worked as “recruiters” for the school and collectively helped at least 600 students to remain in the country under false pretenses now face federal conspiracy charges

If this was a fake university set up by ICE, why are its employees being charged with conspiracy? (The Detroit News article clarifies that the recruiters did not know it was a fake university)

And for that matter, how is this whole thing not crystal-clear entrapment, at least for the "recruiter" employees, if not for the "students" themselves? The Detroit News article, again, quotes a law professor / prosecutor as saying "it's not entrapment":

> “The government can put out the bait, but it’s up to the defendants to fall for it.”

...but isn't "putting out the bait" what entrapment is? (That's a sincere, not rhetorical question, I'm not a lawyer and don't play one on TV)
An attack like that would also be carte blanche to nuke whoever the hell you wanted — that wasn’t themselves a nuclear power that could survive the volley — in retaliation.
Yes, nobody should view 5 year olds as valuable customers. Their parent or guardian can be, but you should not design a product that encourages the child to spend money, and you should not think of the child as the customer. The child can benefit from your product, but they aren't the one making purchasing decisions.
Android is great for refunds compared to iOS.

If you uninstall an app before 2 hours after install you get an automatic refund.
The irony of this is that there is another group of people that "lol" at Facebook employees and call them whales as well. Just because you make a lot of money at a multinational advertising firm (lazy win) doesn't mean you're the smartest person in the room. lol indeed!
Before signing, I always outline all of my side businesses in the "list of prior inventions" section of the contract. I've never had an issue with this, but with your business being competitive, that would likely pose an issue. I would delete this post and discuss with a lawyer.
Good catch. They said 15 in the chat. The article was sloppily written.
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Same problem here.

2019 is also looking like it will be another incredible year.
It must be depressing working for Facebook knowing you make a negative impact in peoples lives. If their engineers had higher morals they would find a better place to work at
> deep learning phones that can tell us everything going on in a room

What information would be on this HUD? Do you mean real-time voice analysis?
Illegals? You mean undocumented residents?

Personally I don’t think the president has any strong points other than being a racist, misogenoist, pathological liar, and narcissist.
Lots of nuggets of wisdom in this post, many of them informed directly from experiences in production. I hear plenty of people talking about "building operators" as the next step after Helm charts these days, but haven't seen many dig into the details of what that really means and how to go about making it a reality.
> Except it's not true that the US education system isn't producing enough educated prospective software engineers.

Says who? The same people pushing for H1B?

We all know how this works. They tailor a job description that only could be met by a H1B. Any native interviewed is either slotted not under qualified or over qualified.

Even if you still want to argue that the solution is not more H1B, its less H1B. You force the companies to dump money into the local schooling systems to ensure they are producing the workers they need.

Allowing them to game the system and hire H1B means they have no incentive to ensure our school systems are producing the workers they will need.
You have greater self discipline than i!

With the watch, It is comfortable to check a notification and quickly respond to it but not much else.
Inventing the wheel absolutely is automation.

Why would the wheel, which allows the movement of goods with much less labor, be any different in concept than the transistor, which allows e.g. the accounting of a corporation to be done with far fewer accountants?

Or the assembly of a car with robots?

All productivity gains (expressed as production per person-hour) is a result of either (1) advancement in technology or (2) the increased use of existing technology through capital investment or (3) quality of labor (education, training, etc).

The invention of the wheel, the invention of fire, the invention of the steam engine, and the gas engine, the solar cell and the transistor all fall under (1) and the expansion of their use falls under (2).
I have a similar office but I've made efforts over the years to engineer my environment to support deep work. I'd started doing this before I read that book but increased my efforts after. If you really believe it's important you can usually make it happen. I have good buy-in from my teams.

Details: desk facing a wall or window. Failing that, a 3-sided divider. Earplugs plus headphones. Skim my emails once every hour or so and leave notifications off otherwise. When I'm not trying to do deep work, headphones off so people know they can approach me. Nuclear option: work from home one or two days a week.

If you really think you can't get away with these things, then maybe you do need to find a new job where you're less micromanaged and more evaluated on results.
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But then it becomes a race to the bottom.

So I think you need some enforcement of standards, whether moral or legal.
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Here's my FB setup that has in fact been good for my MH:

My feed contains:

- Strongly moderated meme pages based on screenshots from a TV show. No political posts allowed. Everyone's here to partake in the shared enjoyment of a show.

- Nothing from friends; 1-on-1 is better, and most status updates are networking-style humblebrags anyway.

- Nothing from news sites; this should be obvious to anyone who's seen how the algorithm operates.

- Nothing from Events: my event invites (posted on FB) arrive via email notification.

Result? I almost never check my FB except when I actively think about wasting time with some dumb memes.

A big part of why it's hard to leave FB is because it's become a part of people's everyday ritual. I recommend starting to unfollow some pages and people, and see how that impacts your FB use. Slowly, you can taper it off more and more.
This is the parents’ faults. What kind of imbecile willfully gives Facebook permanent access to their credit card? Right now their bloodlines are being pruned in slow motion as their children accidentally destroy their own futures, and that’s a good thing because those children carry the same faulty genes that compel someone to enter their credit card information on Facebook. Don’t get in the way of Darwinian evolution in action, you’ll just further damage the gene pool. If you really, truly, sincerely want to stop big companies from frequently doing these “exploitative” things (even though, again, it’s a good thing because it encourages dangerously naive genetic trash to kill themselves off), the only actual solution would be labeled highly anti-semitic so I won’t even bother describing it.
>Iran's "own destiny" isn't a positive one, so let's not romanticize it.

It's probably more positive than a number of the US's allies, and it is a valid question as to why Iran is the one being picked on.

Everything you say is as true and more of Saudi Arabia. And much of it is also more true for Pakistan. In the latter country, a huge portion of the population literally cheer the assassination of a governor who promised to interfere with Asia Bibi's conviction.

Edit: And let's not forget the slap on the wrist Pakistan got for developing nuclear weapons.