skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you weren't doing it on purpose, but your comments have crossed into personal attack in this thread. Lines like "That's why you will stay the exact same and never progress as a person" are not acceptable here. Calling someone "honey" is worse, and calling them both "honey" and "sweetie" is harassment and a bannable offense. I'm glad that you edited one of those out, but it's absolutely not ok to treat anyone like that here.

I just had to ask you not to break the site guidelines a couple days ago. If you post like this again we are going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please adjust, we'd be grateful.

Here's one way to avoid that and do better on HN: let go of situations where someone else is commenting in a way that annoys you or pushes your buttons, and focus instead on places where your curiosity is being gratified. If you can't find that in one commenter's comments, there are many others to look at. That's the intended use of HN, and you can't go wrong that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's technically two more...from a certain point of view. Spider-Man: Homecoming, the latest live action Spider-Man film and there was a brilliantly done (both story and the use of CGI and visual effects to enhance and supplement the story) animated movie "Into the Spider-Verse". Coming soon is the sequel to said live action movie.

They're not connected to each other, beyond the two live action movies, and none of the above are connected to the Raimi Spider-Man movies--if that helps your frame of reference.
Most countries have 'single-payer' health care. It always amuses me that tiny countries like New Zealand and Australia can afford such a 'single-payer' subsidised health care service while the exceptional, rich, powerful US can't.

Some years back, I had to undergo a cardiac triple-bypass operation. No Charge for that. And that included several days in ICU.
Let us say that China raises the $$, explores space, claims resources and defends them against all comers and then sell at monopoly prices and owns the world.
It eventually leads us to a global chinese oligarchy with the same excess that Russian oligarchs have manifested. We already have man chinese oligarchs buying houses etc all over the world with stolen state money
archive.org has an archive of various retro console roms in their "No-Intro Collection 2016-01-03 Fixed" collection.
I'm interested in how the data splits across demographics other than class. One anecdotal observation I've made is that men often do not even consider cooking or learning to cook, while women actively decide not to cook or not to learn. Quite a lot of my female friends either cook or have actively rebelled against any attempts to teach them how to cook. While my guy friends do not cook by default.

It's also quite interesting seeing cooking as a service phrased as "is this exactly what I want, yes or no?" Because that's not wrong, but part of the reason I cook is to get exactly what I want. I like to eat healthier, spicier food with certain restrictions (no dairy, less wheat, etc). But that just makes me an outlier.

I've noticed a trend towards going to a restaurant, picking up food, and eating it somewhere else, which frustrates me endlessly. Not only is there more waste from the extra bag, the extra containers, etc., but also the food gets cold, soggy, i.e. worse. I don't think there's the necessary financial incentives for this, but a delivery service that used something more sustainable (dabbas?) and optimized the food for delivery would be fantastic.
A lot of OSX is not OSS, so I wouldn’t be surprised by the confusion.
I would assume/hope this means you have a senior role and are well paid. This is not uncommon for members of a leadership team etc to ensure reasonable transition times and stability. Also most employers will show flexibility here in my experience. E.g. A couple of jobs back an employee just requested I be on call for a couple months for the new person should they need help and kept paying my salary just to be available.

That said, if you're a lowly paid shit kicker that would seem wrong as typically a new junior job they want to to start ASAP and wouldn't wait for 3 months. So that could hurt your ability to find new work.
> "Carbon-free" is a standard industry lie.

Wrong. Here is an IPCC meta-analysis reference from a consensus of scientists showing that it's very low, 12 gCO2-eq/kWh, on par with wind. Solar is 40. Natural gas is 490 [1]. See Table A.III.2 | Emissions of selected electricity supply technologies.

Think about it. There is 2,000,000x more energy in a kg of uranium than in a kg of coal or gas or oil or lithium. A single train car of uranium can power a nuclear reactor for a year, vs. a mile-long traincar per day for a equivalent power coal plant. Energy density is where nuclear shines. And shines it does! That's why it's exciting and useful for a carbon-free future. It's the only large-scale low-carbon energy source we have that runs 24/7 and can be installed in very many geographical locations. It also has a tiny overall footprint. This is why James Hansen and Jim Lovelock and Bill Gates are so excited about it.

Same data in graphical form too, if you prefer [2].

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

[2] https://i.imgur.com/IpeULoF.png
I don't see our uniqueness as something different, something not seen in other species.

Rather, we are only slightly better, a fraction of a percent better. The compounding of that fraction of 1% over 4-7 million years has led to the dramatic differences between us and the rest.

That's why the article says it's a mystery. Humans are looking for a thing. Something we have they don't. There isn't anything. We just do those things better, faster, more dramatically and for longer which has widened the gap between what we have and what they have.

Same would be true of a human being who compounded their wealth over time. Families who have compounded their wealth for just a few decades now have as much wealth as half a planet of humans. We don't ask for what one thing separates them from us, we know what it is. The power of compounding interest over time.
What makes you think we can find enough professors willing to work for free that this would even be in the realm of possibility?
That's the future ladies and gentlemen. Creating AI algorithms that can mimic human creativity and sell them as art. Image what can be achieved in the next few years, art will be like the organic foods. It may have the stamp on the package but many farmers are cheating. (especially in Eastern Europe)
Just because it "comes from somewhere" doesn't mean it is valid. The rural they would already be disinclined to trust those from without - their mechanisms of trust are based upon personal knowledge and history which outsiders lack.

Also the latter is clearly bidirectional. I haven't heard of the urban calling the rural "not real Americans" for one.
There's a reason we have the expression "starving artist." Most people don't really want to pay for art.

If this is a means to monetize their skill so they can survive, it's understandable they would jump on it.

I'm a writer. Similar problem. I earn money working for a service where I get paid relatively little to write the kinds of website content that gets decried on HN as having ruined the internet. HN members expect high quality content on the front page on a regular basis and also uses ad blockers, posts ways to get around pay walls, etc.

Some of my original content occasionally hits the front page of HN. In January, I had a piece get 60k page views and 300+ comments. It didn't make me one thing dime. It took me about two weeks to write it.

I haven't done a follow up piece on the parenting site in question. Instead, I'm writing more stuff for pay that HN members decry as ruining the internet.

The world gets what it is willing to pay for. And then it says ugly things about people taking the money, like artists should prefer starvation to doing this thing we will pay them for when the reality is most of them can't find another way to pay their bills.
Just curious - did you include only the title and text of the question, or also the tags and author history?
The joke I'm imagining is based on a mental association I have with the acronym "GNU", which is used by The GNU Project:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html

The group behind that project support the idea that people who use software should have access to the source code of that software, and therefore requesting the "source" is an action they would encourage.

They are also responsible for individual pieces of software with names like "GNU Emacs":

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

Hopefully this information proves interesting and useful to someone, and I haven't merely made a silly joke less funny by explaining it.
ROS (Robot Operating System) is not a RTOS (Real Time Operating System). ROS itself is very very non deterministic and has no guarantees about scheduling.
Maybe at some point you will notice that once you have more responsibility in one area it will use up all our time and energy and you simply don't have time to learn other stuff on the side. I am in that situation right now and I think an 8 week bootcamp to focus on Machine Learning would be a good starting point. I could learn it myself but I would need some dedicated time to focus on it and not have to worry about my regular job.
> The assessing is done by the school as they are a trusted third party.

That might be for some loans, but from my understanding everybody is guaranteed a loan, regardless of their grades. The point was the government would back the loans so those who were less affluent could also go to school.

The end result is we tried to help the poor, and screwed everybody else along the way. Not only did the poor get a bad deal, people who could have normally afforded school got slotted into these bad deals too.

People like to blame the schools for raising the prices, but that simply how supply and demand works. Schools can hold X people, if > X people want in then the price goes up. Schools can also only expand so fast.

The fact is, not everybody needs to go to a 4 year school. The process of making it near mandatory lowers the value it brings in general as curriculum is adjusted for a much wider group of people -- generally by lowering the bar. This is in part because you now have a bunch of people given loans who without getting that degree probably won't be able to pay back that first year of school they failed out in -- even more so when that is north of 20k.

Before we started guaranteeing loans it as either your money, your parents money, or somebody loaning you money who truly was invested in vetting candidates abilities to finish school, get a job, and pay the loan back. With prices generally being lower the loans were smaller too.

A much better way to have addressed the issue with poor people would have been to set up grants, vetted students based of merit, and provide grants for those kids who showed promise. The end result is paying a lot less than the mess we have today, and it would have not dragged down those who would have probably been able to afford school on their own accord before this mess happened.
Doesn't that mean that Captcha as a concept has run its course? Original idea was that humans are better at this kind of tasks than machines, but it seems it's other way around now.
Yeah that's not really true. Incredibly extensive accounting was done for instance on the total number of premature deaths from Chernobyl, and the UN sets the number right around 4000 from all causes -- including people who committed suicide because they thought they were 'contaminated'. The current radiation levels in Pripyat are around the same as being on an airplane [2, 3] and much, much, much lower than getting a CT scan. FWIW, they continued to operate reactors on the site until 2000.

This stuff is incredibly well studied. [4]

The total number of premature deaths from burning fossil fuel is 7.3 million every single year. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

[3] https://www.livescience.com/65450-weird-chernobyl-facts.html

[4] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/b...
I think we're probably going about this the wrong way. Imagine trying to figure out how two computer programs are different by looking at their compiled machine code. Small differences in input can produce massive differences in program output. So if our brains are at least partly "algorithmic" (as opposed to a smooth function that maps input to output), then superficial similarity in brain structure probably doesn't mean a whole lot.

There have been some recent attempts in biology to understand the genome of different organisms using approximations to Kolmogorov complexity. The basic idea is to tweak the existing genome slightly in different ways to see if it "compresses" better or worse. I wouldn't be surprised if this approach eventually reveals a starker difference between organisms than trying to compare physical structure.
The microphones and speakers in an analog landline phone are not high end either, but they still sound amazing compared to Zoom.
Genuinely surprised you've hung out here so long and haven't picked up on GNU/open source software talk.

This should leapfrog you in that specific direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...
I’m not sure there’s anything intrinsically bad about this kind of service. I asked a friend who does graphics for NPR and the New Yorker whether she feels any attachment to her pieces, and she said it’s just work in the end. Not all software is just made to be beautiful either; for many of us here software is just work too.

I have a feeling art prices (particularly contemporary art) are inflated in part due to their being Veblen goods (high prices make it attractive), or otherwise a vehicle for value retention like diamonds and gold; see price differences between forgeries and the real thing.

And of course, we all know Adolf Hitler was rejected for art school and took a different job instead, and the world might be a better place if this service existed back then.
If no party to the conversation tries to win, but rather discuss it - it should not matter. It doesn't matter what my world view is at one particular moment - I am sure it is faulty in one way or another always. And world view changes all the time. Stepping out from that worldview, especially when there is no one to argue a different point of view, IMHO is beneficial (as long as it is not malicious). And adding some sort of disclaimer makes such viewpoint automatically weak since no one in the room holds this viewpoint, therefore it must be wrong.
I wonder how common this is among HNers. I felt like I could relate to many of the feelings in the article and I certainly have trouble keeping track of time (w.r.t. rabbit holes and whatnot) and do better with some external motivation. In particular, I can be “hyperfocused” when it comes to interesting technical challenges for many hours, but I get distracted instantly when doing my email, the laundry, or taxes. I’m not sure if the magnitude might be what sets me apart from people who have genuinely been diagnosed with ADHD or if no one ever suspected it because I did well in school and at work.
Very informative article.

The author didn't really delve into whether he uses meds to cope with ADHD.

How do other people who have ADHD cope with it as startup founders? Do meds like Adderall, Ritalin or Concerta work? What about Nootropics?

Asking cos this situation seems to be very common in our profession i.e. starting some side project, getting overwhelmed with perfectionism, distractions and never shipping. Is that ADHD or just plain procrastination?
I reckon it's more that the American puritan values are very much pervasive - so much so that people don't even realise they have it.
If all good education was free there would be no private Universities in Germany. But there are many and they all charge fees.

Also, _not_ all public universities are free.
That technology is circuit switching, i.e. the antithesis of computer networking.
Losing a professional license (or even a driver's license) based on a student loan default is asinine. [1]

I've never heard of outstanding student loan debt limiting eligibility for food stamps (SNAP) or section 8 housing. Can you point to any resource which can confirm this? My understanding is that both programs are based on household income.

[1] - https://studentloanhero.com/featured/unpaid-student-loans-fa...
Your armchair psychology is absolutely shameful.
This is as absurd as saying that neurotypical children have more preparation for social interaction or better preparation than autistic children, or that Kalenjin children have more preparation for running than Khoisan ones. People vary enormously in their natural talents socially, academically and athletically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

> Gauss was a child prodigy. In his memorial on Gauss, Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen says that when Gauss was barely three years old he corrected a math error his father made; and that when he was seven, he confidently solved an arithmetic series problem faster than anyone else in his class of 100 students.[9] Many versions of this story have been retold since that time with various details regarding what the series was – the most frequent being the classical problem of adding all the integers from 1 to 100.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao

Tao exhibited extraordinary mathematical abilities from an early age, attending university-level mathematics courses at the age of 9. He and Lenhard Ng are the only two children in the history of the Johns Hopkins' Study of Exceptional Talent program to have achieved a score of 700 or greater on the SAT math section while just nine years old; Tao scored a 760.[9] Tao was the youngest participant to date in the International Mathematical Olympiad, first competing at the age of ten; in 1986, 1987, and 1988, he won a bronze, silver, and gold medal. He remains the youngest winner of each of the three medals in the Olympiad's history, winning the gold medal shortly after his thirteenth birthday.
Education loans, especially the highly-regulated and specific form currently practiced[0], do not have collateral. If you fail to restructure your other debts, there is property to control; if you fail to restructure your student debts, the lender is out on their ass.
Student loans are pretty soft on borrowers, the way I look at it. What perhaps should be done is to make the liability conditional on income: loans for nonsense degree mill "educations" would become dramatically more expensive, which I think would be a good thing; but so would loans for anything lenders didn't find promising.

Of course, in the U.S, the government is involved in a lot of the lending, which means that they'll probably do whatever irrational thing pleases whoever they're trying to please; except this time around when they're doing the thing they are responsible for doing (actually enforcing the terms of the loan agreements) rather than the popular thing.

Here in Canada, I feel the system is pretty unfair to people who did not require higher education; I'm stuck paying for the useless, pompous ignorami who make private life harder and more boring for me with their prefab ideas and vague bloviation, and I've been paying net taxes into it since I was 17.

When I move to the U.S, I hope I'm not paying even more for the same garbage that convinces smart people that they are useless without college, and convinces dumb people that college has automatically made them useful.

[0] As long as the conversation about the tremendous amount of student debt held in the U.S. is centered around loan forgiveness, lenders have no incentive to improve their practices. The federal government can't just steal their property, so they figure they'll get a sweet settlement and a smooth exit, just like the lenders who were publicly scapegoated, and privately rewarded, a decade ago.
The author of the tweet that inspired the post lives in Japan, and as a first generation Taiwanese American and occasional traveler to Asia one consistent observation is that it's much more common to eat out than cook than here in the US. Kitchens are tiny in most stereotypical "big Asian cities" and eating out is cheap and options plentiful.

Point is this trend has been the case in Asia for a long time, and the only reason why I don't think it's really the case in the West is because the cost of operating a restaurant or even food truck is high enough that the cost of eating out isn't as economical as it is in Asia.
its not just media though. politicians in my country directly give ppl money, liquor ect in exchange for their vote, its not really happening in open.
In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door and someone from the restaurant will come pick it up at some point.

I don't see it working in the U.S. though, since people would probably be stealing them and other horrific stuff. Just a very different culture...
I know what Gnu/open source is. I got that it was a reference to that.

That doesn't really clarify "the joke" for me. I don't see how that's a joke.
> No real accounting has ever been made of the number of people who got cancer and/or died from nuclear activities,

First of all, nuclear weaponry waste from WW2 and the Cold War are wholly unrelated to activities of civilian nuclear power. While the material is similar in nature, you do not need to melt commercial waste down into radioactive vats of acid to extract pure weapons-grade plutonium in order to make low-carbon commercial nuclear energy. The civilian waste is solid ceramic and sits on parking lots at nuclear sites, where multiple decades of waste can fit nicely on a small area. Again, that's the glory of high energy density.

For Chernobyl and Fukushima, people absolutely count the effects. For example, UNSCEAR's entire mission is to do just that [1]. So far the counts are in, ~60 direct deaths from Chernobyl plus up to 4000 early cancer deaths on top of a few million that would have occurred naturally (small increase). Up to 1 death from Fukushima. As it turns out, more people die from coal plants operating normally every day than have died from nuclear accidents ever.

> As far as your Wikipedia link, it was uploaded by an individual person. No references there.

That'd be Figure 2 from the CBO in [2].

Helen Caldicott is the laughing stock of many respectable scientists. Don't make me dig up some of the ridiculous stuff she's said. She's a true clown.

[1] https://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/09-86753_Report_20...

[2] https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/re...
Naming themselves e.foundation is one thing, but explicitly naming it "/e/" does seem a bit odd.

For reference for those unaware (likely many of you), /e/ is the 4chan board dedicated to 'ecchi' content, where ecchi is loosely defined as a 'slang term in the Japanese language for playfully sexual actions' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecchi).

Apart from the name, will be interesting to see how well they can succeed with a "Google-free Android", which is much easier said than done.
Things that aren't sustainable don't continue.

I believe we should do nothing and let Old Ma Nature do the required culling. And she will.

All of humanity's problems including Climate Change, loss of water resources, loss of food resources, destruction of ecological systems, etc, etc, etc ultimately come down to humanity's lack of control of overpopulation.
It's questionable whether Cambridge Analytica actually succeeded in changing many votes. And even counting that targeted advertising, the losing side in the 2016 presidential election spent far more in ads. So apparently ads aren't that effective.

The Electoral College is what really violates the principle of "one human, one vote".