skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I hate to defend any of paltrow's nonsense, the numbers in that article are bullshit, unless you're using a full can of olive oil spray for an omelet or 3 pounds of flour for a couple muffins.
As opposed to a financial and institutional structure that doesn't rely on the young subsidizing the poor choices of previous generations in an eternal game of pass the tab.
> presupposing that there is no inherent value to human life

I mean, you can argue anything if you make your assumptions ridiculous enough.

If your approach is to let other people die because that's more efficient then sorry, I'm not very open to your arguments about self-interest.

(I don't want to engage in too much character assassination but: There's this joke that within the first few pages of the comments of any Libertarian account, you will find them defending pedophilia in some way. I'm pleased to say that this rule still applies)
As a former bell-ringer for the SalArmy across two time zones, the people who give the most are always the ones who look like they need it the most. No different from how the biggest tippers always themselves work in the service industry. The lower class isn't surviving because of WIC or unemployment insurance, or from the .ooooo9% billionaires part with in exchange for additional tax breaks, but from others out here in the streets.
Japan is a great microcosm of this effect, where the younger generation has to essentially work themselves to death in order to support the aging population. The politics and workplace environment is skewed towards the older generation which is resulting in (what I see as being) resentment or apathy.
What do you mean by "large-scale editing work"? Are you talking about the size of the document? The duration of the editing lifecycle? The number of participating authors and authoring systems? The full editing/consumption lifecycle for a long lived document that goes through many revisions and publications for several decades?

Things I've seen fail with Word in my career that would be unacceptable for programming:

- Relatively simple docs being eaten alive, as described in grandparent comment, after several dozen authors make small edits over the course of a few weeks.

- Complete change-tracking disasters when attempting to merge concurrent edits to different parts of a document by several authors.

- Docs where the WYSIWYG behavior completely changed when opened 5-10 years later by newer versions of Word. Attempting to import/export/save as to rescue it involves much of the same cut-paste and hand recovery described previously.

- Docs destroyed by international collaboration, where different locales of each editor seem to accumulate contradictions in the saved document over time.

- Inconsistent WYSIWYG between Word on Windows and Word on Mac OS.

I don't think it is responsible to promote a programming language that does not have a tooling-independent and platform-independent textual representation that carries ALL program semantics as manipulable, printable character sequences. That promotes disposable code and prevents real programming in the large.

(edited to try to rescue bullet list)
True that. Windows always had its warts, just like everything else, but it didn't used to make me want to strangle someone like it does today.
This may be a different idea to "doing nothing", but when I teach labs, I explicitly do not get on the computer while students are working. Instead, I literally just stand there looking for students to ask me questions.

I've noticed that whenever I would start working on grades, or assignments, or whatever, students would never ask for help unless it was dire. When I was at attention, while it wasn't constant, I found myself helping students more. Over time, I've assumed it is because they don't want to "bother" me or break my concentration. However, when all I am doing is waiting for them to ask a question, I seemed to get more activity.
Point taken, I just don't know anyone who does what they do because of Jack (anecdote of one). They do it because of the same people who probably influenced Jack.

Re-reading my comment I'm also using "invent" colloquially to mean, "start a pop culture trend" - not literally.
Posted by a Chinese university, I am kinda guessing the latter. Pearson isn't known for giving stuff away out of the goodness of their hearts, and it's not super uncommon for university professors to just post course materials without a lot of concern for where it came from.
Where does Tim Ferriss fit into this culture? Wasn't he a SV god at one point for his 4hr work week and workout books?
What does expanding its product portfolio have to do with privacy?
Drugs are hell of a thing.
I'm glad someone said this. As far as I know Dorsey just discusses his love of pseudo-science while Paltrow actively shills it for profit.
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The phrasing sounded like something bad was happening to AWS.
Looks great! I was unable to change my profile picture though.
Hang on. I am the last thing from a Jack Dorsey fan. However, I see nowhere in his somewhat grotesque tweets where he tells me what I should do. As near as I can tell, he is simply telling us what he is doing.
It’s not the doing of these things by people that’s annoying. It’s the conviction that it’s their duty to make sure that everyone else 1) knows that they’re doing it and 2) is doing it too.
What people want to hear is there is none, and there never will be. Even that isn’t enough, but at least there is some legal recourse.
I am not a homeless expert but I think a non-insignificant portion of homeless are not mentally stable enough to accept help and are suspicious of anyone that attempts to help them get off the streets.
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What does "the city" have to do with anything?
I guess they did...
Really excited to see Withfriends launch! One of the most exciting companies I saw at YC Demo Day this year :)
Thank you nessup.
That won't happen for half a century, the total is actually increasing and only keeping steady in the "former first world".

We'll have to deal with it in some way. UBI, extending production, shifting focus from competition to cooperation can all be done gradually.
Apple being big into privacy is just a benefit of their business model - they don’t need to make money off a data as a hardware company.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but breaking a written policy is (AFAIK) fraud and has some teeth to it.
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In a future with far fewer natural births, and much more automation, it could be possible to fund large scale IVF creation of babies carried to term by paid/volunteer surrogates, or artificial surrogates. I could see both secular and religious motivations for such a program.

The raising of such children in stable family units or non-dysfunctional academies would probably be a bigger challenge than the birthing program.
What does any of this have to do with a Chinese developer in China? This is just whataboutism.
I absolutely love the writing style here. Very professional, and then this lovely tidbit "I found some household dust and threw it on the mesh.". I cannot help imagining the author walking to the parts bin, ruffling around for a while, and then picking up a small box with a "aha, there's my box of standard my household dust!" comment
I'm not sure I understand, but I'm also not concerned with the definition of what healthy or "not unhealthy" are either way as far as my comment goes.
It's not. The trust is in the good intentions, the verification is that people do make mistakes. I trust myself, but I still verify my own work.
The problem was not "company didn't like remote work," the problem was "spending work time caring for a newborn instead of working." Moving to a company that's entirely remote doesn't fix that issue, you still need to be actually working during work time.

Of course, the problem was caused by lack of paid parental leave with a desire to care for the newborn/wife and not lose salary. So, really, a family oriented company would be best in that situation. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, paid paternity leave is an uncommon benefit in the US.
I think the question is, does such an argument qualify as communication at all? There are many (sadly often rather abstruse) theorizations of communication in the cultural context out there, often bound up with the question of alterity (Levinas, Todorov, et al), but I think it's fair enough to say that many share the idea that true communication is dialogue aimed at advancing mutual understanding, or at persuading, or at increasing collective knowledge. But, if one participant actually has no interest in any of these ends, such "communication" has (potentially significant) opportunity cost -- there are many genuine communications that might occur but that do not because the good-faith participant is distracted from engaging with other good-faith actors by the bad-faith interrogator. (For example, rather than have serious conversations about how to manage and remedy climate change, scientists are distracted by conversations about whether or not it is a real phenomenon.) Bottom-line, time is a finite resource, as are the psychological energies of experts.

Now obviously, deciding when someone engaged in an argument is acting in bad faith is difficult. But the naive position that it's always good to argue it out is not practically sustainable.
> One nice form of regulation would be a mechanism to let companies in this situation make a formal and binding privacy claim, that would then expose them to painful consequences if shown to be untrue.

Or you could just make making false representations to get anything of value from people a tort generally, and in egregious cases a crime as well, rather than making it a privacy-specific regulation, and without making any particular formality on the part of the vendor necessary for consumers to be protected.
Then as a non-US citizen you should be worried about what a financially frantic nation with a history of going to war for sustaining their economics and with more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined would do to places that look to have resources available.

The world's largest economy going dramatically to shit isn't just a problem for the world's largest economy, it's a problem for the world.

Addendum: Putting focus on your family doesn't exclude you from creating problems for "others" who don't fit your view of virtuous people. Donald Trump comes from a wealthy family who seem to do very well at ensuring their dynasty will be preserved. They take care of their own.
You miss the point of my comment. The group our politicians call enemies may or may not be.

If we have actual enemies, we can be sure that they want us to waste as much money as possible on futile wars.

If we have actual enemies, we can be sure that they want our leaders to circumvent the Democratic process to steal money that could be spent on domestic programs or returned to taxpayers and instead spend it on pointless wars.

I’d we have enemies, we can be sure they want our leaders to spend billions making us hate, fear, and mistrust brown people, and crave strong man leaders over pluralism and liberty.

Assange revealed that our leaders are acting in concert with such enemies.

We can’t separate the lies from the theft. The lies about the war and the illegally classified info that the war logs revealed are what make the theft of resources possible.

All the lives lost are of course also a major issue but the theft aspect makes it easier to see what a sacrifice we were all forced to make to wage the wars.
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Comments like this are why there is no point in talking with environmentalists. Their entire ideology is a thin veneer over backwards social motivations. Worse, their rhetoric is entirely wrapped around de-legitimizing anyone other than themselves.

Perhaps OP should take a 17 year view of silence while everyone else gets on with doing... everything. Literally everything. Because environmentalists don't do anything. Anyone who wants or needs something has got to get it somehow, and it sure won't come from the "work" accomplished by comments like these.
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Currently in this position. I'd rather find another job that cares about giving me the tools and helping me do the tasks they want me to do, just busting my ass in my own time doesn't solve the underlying issue.
This is very close to the argument Alain de Botton makes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_for_Atheists.
I also wonder how much of it is people desperately trying to undo the damages of stress. What people might really need is shorter work weeks and more time off (including time away from social media and other non-work related stressors).

But that's not something out culture really allows for or encourages. So we look to miracle cures so we can continue feeling productive.
And how does one accumulate a nest egg when every employer I have ever dealt with cannot afford (or outright refuses) to do better than paying late and/or less than agreed, if at all? Believe it or not, not everyone can live off their parents as adults.
Yes, of course. I don’t disagree with that at all.
I don't personally put any value in those kinds of audits but Google has those. For example they have outside auditors for SOC and ISO 27018 and whatnot. Some dipshit from Ernst and Young swears that Google has such internal controls and processes.
...I mean, it might be, because iPhones don't come bundled with the Facebook app.
This article title is ridiculous. These aren't the "good jobs" at all. These are the "best jobs available assuming you have no particular skills and no college degree".
How do you get people to read your article about Chevy? Mention Tesla.
They made a movie out of it: "The Road to Wellville"[1].

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111001/
I'm a left-anarchist.

I tend to find a lot of political & economic perspectives I see on here naive: folks have a faith in market solutions without a coherent understanding of how markets operate and under what circumstances the things markets optimize for conflict with the functioning of healthy societies; folks also have a pretty warped understanding of what certain things mean. (For instance: it's perfectly possible to have a fully communist society with free markets, although there are some issues with the stability of any system that uses markets.)

My support of free software has little to do with my political leanings, other than it being a product of a general absence of the kind of counterproductive overconfidence endemic to the right (i.e., the stuff I write in my free time doesn't have a wide enough audience to constitute a profitable business, so there's no benefit in not giving it away, especially since I can ignore patches or feature requests).

Free software has a political & economic impact, but it's more complicated than people generally admit: large companies are subsidized by the free labor of individual hobbyists who have been conned into shaping their personal projects in ways that make them useful to those large companies. (My personal projects are not just fringe but also idiosyncratic -- they are useful mostly only to me -- so nobody's liable to profit off them even if they have a stable of other projects to synergize them with.)

Software design & software engineering can be an important component of good praxis. I try to reflect my ideals in the software I write.
I don't have a clear answer to that, but I don't find it hard to believe.
Lots of plants and fruits were brought from the Far East to Europe in ancient or medieval times: for instance, oranges and peaches originated in China. There were a number of trade channels (not to mention military campaigns or migrations) which allowed for that.
Besides, they're plants, so the trip could easily have taken years or decades for all we know.
>Tesla released their accident statistics, and their cars have a significantly lower rate of accidents when Autopilot is engaged.

That has absolutely nothing to do with whether people have died due to false claims about the ability of Tesla's autopilot. The cars may be safer, but if 1 person died or 100 people died because Musk/Tesla lied about autopilot that is a problem. It doesn't matter how many other accidents their cars have or have not been in.
> Was the claim that it's a function of age based on research or your personal opinion?

A bit of both. There is research that suggests, but does not prove, as far as I am aware, that this is a function of age (or, more accurately, a function of having children). And my personal observations are in accord with that.

The underlying hypothesis is that when you're young, the priority in terms of species preservation is personal preservation: you have to stay alive and healthy enough to reproduce. That encourages short-term thinking.

After you've had children, though, the priority in terms of species preservation becomes the preservation of the children: they need to stay alive and healthy enough to reproduce, not you. You've already done your reproduction bit.
I don't think that there is disagreement on the existence of healthy routines. But we should be skeptical of the benefit of "Himalayan salt" and equivalents. Have you tried switching the salt to just common salt in a blind experiment? Have you tried only lemon water? Himalayan salt is a luxury, and there is not particular reason to believe that it does anything more than a placebo.

I drink just water in the morning and I am out to empty my bowels right after. I don't think that has much to do with Himalayan salt.
But only if you have a google account. If you don't have a google account, there's no way to request your shadow profile get scrubbed. As usual.
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> Where does Fisher point this out?

Probably in the Fisher excerpt.
reminds me of this one... https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-09
And how much has Android “winning” help Google? From the Oracle trial, it came out that Android has only made Google $21 billion in profit during its entire existence and the largest market for “Android”, China, doesn’t make Google one dime.
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Judging by HN comments, engineers in Silicon Valley seem to be the kind of people who need infinite amount of proof that meditation works, but readily believe in the Singularity. This is skepticism-as-a-brand, where your vocabulary and the sense of belonging to some intellectual elite outweigh all other considerations.

Selectively enforced skepticism is not real skepticism.
Random and uncontrollable shuffling of the software in your car is a FEATURE?
Forget Munich (don’t but you get my point) what’s the liability of the 40-year old 2GW Indian Point plant, which is constantly receiving safety citations, being 30 miles upwind from NYC? 20 million people live there..
(Disclaimer, work at Microsoft. Not on VS Code.) I expect you should be able to run Fiddler or Wireshark or similar traffic sniffers to see the requests.
If you want to bring more people in to EV, you don't make cheap cars, you make durable cars and let the second market handle the rest. Tesla's aren't durable cars because price for maintenance and repair factors into the equation, and tesla has ensured those costs are high.
It's not a coincidence that Graham and Kelloggs were both doing weird dietary stuff in Battle Creek. The Seventh Day Adventist Church was - and to an extent still is - a major presence in Battle Creek. They place a great deal of emphasis on health in general and diet in particular. I believe all of those men were Adventists.
I think what I hear you saying is not to take a 30% cut on wages that have stagnated. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you should take a swing at that $300k/yr 'elite' job, not the leftovers patronizingly displayed in the NY Times article. If you can do that job for less than $300k because you don't have $250k in student debt, that's what the free market calls a competitive advantage. You should be empowered to use your advantage, not discouraged like this article attempts to do.

Also, my Dad grew up on a shit farm, forced to work for free until he escaped as a teenager. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Work hard, get smart, get rich, in that order.
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Allowing yourself to be exploited is a great way to ensure that careers face a race to the bottom with employers offering fewer benefits, less pay etc all because people are desperate to find a job.

This isn't a 'meritocracy'. This is exploitative behavior disguised as being beneficial mixed in with a bit of survivorship bias. I've had friends of mine take software jobs paying well the average (as in, 50k and below in an expensive city) thinking that by just working extra hard the company will reward those efforts.
> They adopt (or appear to adopt)

This is a really good point. I wonder how much of the nonsense extolled by Dorsey & Paltrow is something they've tried more than once, if at all.
Okay, that headline made me laugh out loud.