skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, maybe not. Every situation is unique. My wife and I have 11 week old twins. We went from 0 to 2, so we have no baseline. But, it's been a joy. Challenging? Yes. Absolutely and without a doubt the most challenging thing that I have ever done in my life. That brings about a number of rewards on it's own, even aside from the children themselves.

It doesn't have to be chaos and it doesn't have to be torture. It's all fairly subjective and I don't want to type out a novel. But, I do want to give you a bit of a different perspective.

I am very busy tending to these babies, keeping our home maintained, working, tending to our dogs, etc... I handle 50% of our feedings entirely by myself (feeding for us is code for: change baby, feed baby, burp baby, soothe baby, get baby onto their next activity or put down for a nap or sleep, and this is times 2 for our situation). We're walking the twins in the morning and the evening. We're bathing a baby every night, so they get a bath every other day right now. We play with them during the day and we read to them at night before bed.

Yet, I slept for just under 7 hours straight last night. My wife slept for 4 hours, pumped, and then went back to sleep. She leaves me a note on the bathroom counter every night so that I know if I need to wake her up or not. I can hear that she is waking up now and so after this comment I am going to head upstairs and I'll be feeding both of the twins again by myself while she pumps and we get ready for that morning walk. I also worked out twice this week and since Sunday have gone for 2 hour-long runs. I have another run today, whenever I can find the spare hour. Another workout tomorrow. Saturday is a day off. We'll play with the twins as much as they'll have it. We don't really have any help in the house, it's overwhelmingly just my wife and I. We're making things work and things are working well. I've been told by people IRL not to say these sorts of things out loud. I've been told to "stop bragging" about how my infants sleep at night. So, personally, I've found that I don't really care to say much about it.

edit/ I'd do well to note that I work full-time remote and that makes a world of difference in our outcomes. If I had to commute to an office, no doubt that I'd be exercising much less and we'd not be eating very well right now.
Wait till you hear about Phabricator! It was a Facebook tool that got open sourced and then the devs spun out their own company to provide paid support and whatnot. But you can just self-host it and frankly, it's glorious.

https://www.phacility.com/
>Technology that publishers and advertisers use to make advertising even more relevant to people is now being used far beyond its original design intent - to a point where some data practices don’t match up to user expectations for privacy.

The whole thing reads like Google is just discovering the abuse that they themselves have perpetuated and bred into a real monster.

But, a noble goal nonetheless.
The question is, why do this?

Is it for fun? If so, great. Not my cup of tea personally, but I can imagine how it could be someone's.

If not for fun, what is the point? It presumably isn't to create a usable ray-tracing system. Perhaps a challenge to improve the author's Excel skills? If so, I suggest they move on to a proper programming language and visualisation system.

There seems to be this obsession, among some people, with using Excel for all sorts of inappropriate things, and I have a sinking feeling that this might be related to that. A system for generating contracts using Excel formulas, in Excel, instead of using mail merge, or something else, with Word or something else designed to format prose text, is a horrible example I have come across at work.
You don't need to win to deter, just need to mak it not worthwhile for your adversary. Second amendment works fine asa counter value capability.
Honestly, I'm coming to the conclusion that a lot of the designers of these kinds of devices do not in fact live in the real world.

But then I wonder if the world I define as real, is really not just make-believe..
Why is that?

Also, I detest fascism - but devil's advocate - is fascism worse than literal extinction?
I don't think, at all that Amazon, Facebook, Google, Tesla, SpaceX, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, +++ could have happened in Scandinavia. Even our small success stories are sold to foreign investors before they have time to grow big.

It's harder to determine the cause, though. Contrary to popular opinion, I believe that work ethic, level of dedication, drive and regulatory climate wrt. employee protections, consumer protections etc. has something to do with it.

But this is just a small part of the question. We also don't have solid access to investors and capital, a business/startup-friendly tax & regulatory climate, a home market of 300 million customers, a culturally compatible potential employee pool of 300 million, many of the world's greatest universities, thousands of successful entrepeneurs who participate in the business climate, entrepeneurial success as a prominent cultural trait, excelling in your chosen profession as something to be lauded, bureaucratic & legal support for companies that are about to become successful, a relatively judgement-free climate with regards to high compensation for successful professionals etc etc etc.

It's hard to say if the value of not having business/professional success, or even long hours as a primary cultural value is key when compared to these other elements.

I'm pretty confident that e.g. "The Law of Jante" easily trumps the lack of a 50-hour workweek as an impediment to success, but there are probably also downsides to not even having the latter as an option if it feels necessary.
>> Also, I didn't know Estonia was a Nordic country.

Relevant:
https://satwcomic.com/party-crasher

https://satwcomic.com/imposter

https://satwcomic.com/new-nordic

A funny take on why other 'Nordic' countries don't think so
I hope they start ditching user tracking from Android and Chrome and enforce more security: that would be a real privacy improvement
I hate housework WAY more than “work work”. At least work has the possibility of being something new/interesting rather than the grinding tedium of washing the same plates, floors, furniture and clothes day after day after day.
Imagine believing scarcity is manufactured.

Scarcity is NOT equal to shortage
This is what happens when you don't look at the data and argue from your gut. We don't just learn about one person, timed races release bib data for everyone in that race.

If you're a data nerd and a runner armed with this knowledge, it will have occurred to you to wonder if distance (in time) from the winner is correlated with gender and field size. It is not. Thus, you're proposing that we "normalize" for something which is shown to not have an effect on who wins a race.
>> Two basic basic rules if you want to work with TS: 1: apply the 'any' type 2: tweak TSC config so it won't complain anymore

That should be at the top of every page on the TypeScript documentation website. It would save developers so much suffering.

>> All companies I worked for in the past few years that use TS did this to keep TS 'out of the way'. And with that you completely annihilate the main benefit of using TS! I think it's hilarious and sad at the same time.

I'm still looking forward to the TypeScript version when they invent dynamic typing and enforce it at compile time.

I have similar experiences. What I've found is that a team which can build a high quality application in TypeScript is generally capable of building an even higher quality application in JavaScript in half the time and with better, higher quality test coverage.

>> I'm curious btw how long TS will live, especially when you realize that within a few years we can write in virtually any language through WebAssembly. Good luck with it anyways.

I look forward to this glorious day. Short live TypeScript!
Google doesn't use webkit any more if that's what you're referring to.

But absolutely Google doesn't believe that. Even if the Chromium team truly believed in privacy (and their track record suggests otherwise), there still is a huge conflict of interest and daddy Google is not gonna let them interfere with their revenue.
> Recently, some other browsers have attempted to address this problem, but without an agreed upon set of standards, attempts to improve user privacy are having unintended consequences.

Haha, nice, blame it on the ones that actually try.

> First, large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting.

Fingerprinting was used in addition to cookies. Banning 3rd party cookies is just a first step.

> Second, blocking cookies without another way to deliver relevant ads significantly reduces publishers’ primary means of funding, which jeopardizes the future of the vibrant web.

Here's the problem. Google only wants a solution if it works with it's current business model, which is ads. Trusting Google to protect our privacy is like trusting a burglar to protect your home whilst you're away.

Want to not be tracked ? Install Firefox or Safari, turn on ad blockers, use a different browser for Facebook (or use Facebook Container on Firefox), and refuse any "Consent approvals" when you visit a website. Also, advocate for laws like the GDPR (it has made privacy a bigger concerns for companies in the EU).
Intro to Empirical Software Engineering: What We Know We Don't Know (GOTO 2019)
.. and if it maybe had a next-gen tiny little chip thingy that still does something super Apple'y, but over your money instead of .. pics and things ..
Valid line of reasoning but I'm 10 years out from that world specifically because the bubble was/is ugly.

I think you're 100% right that there's building pressure and something will give but that's precisely because things haven't changed much. If the general populace decides "no matter how I vote, things don't change" some will lose hope and give up.. while others will look to other approaches.

(And those other approaches aren't usually good.)
Not sure you’re using the right definition of tyranny
That cuts deep. It's very easy to put things off and believe that I'm helpless. Thank you for being blunt about it.

I'll do something today about the climate and planting trees. I'm not physically able to plant stuff myself, so it will have to be something I donate to. I can also push my employer to start sponsoring climate disaster mitigation efforts.
`easiest` ?
I don't understand the desire for terse code, it makes things harder to read.

I also think Typescript makes the right tradeoffs, yes it may not have a Haskell-level type system, but in return, it has amazing integration with JS code and existing libraries, and no runtime.

As a side note, coming from someone whose previous exposure to type systems was Java and Kotlin, Typescript seems to have a pretty powerful type system. Yes, it may not have some/many Haskell-level features but I question whether those would have been necessary in the first place. At some point a more rigorous type system must stop generating value, otherwise we would all be using coq.
“Live free or die”
> I've found, for example, that most devs will cram arbitrarily large quantities of production-critical data into anything that vaguely resembles a data hole and then yell and scream when you try to explain the meaning of "cache", "ramdisk", or even "temporary" to them. Expecting more from the developing public at large is just setting oneself up for failure.

I was going to point out how disgustingly condescending this was and how it reeks of someone who overinflates their own sense of ability via ego... but then I read your profile which brags about getting muted and whatnot and realized that's exactly what you take pride in so...
I've gotten a vasectomy exactly because it's clear that some of the worst outcomes of human-created climate change are inevitable, and I recommend anyone who cares about the environment and the well-being of their potential children to do the same.

My only question is what to do when the world actually ends in 10 or so years. I'm thinking of quitting my job in SF and moving to a rural area in northern midwest far from the oceans, but I haven't been able to get my family or friends to join me. I'm worried about the ahem political affiliations of those areas as well.

Does anybody have a good plan for what to do when the worst disasters occur? Like food shortages?
Low taxes.

Edit: not anecdotal. I personally know 3 execs from Scandinavian countries who tell me this is why they moved here. Also health care. They travel back to EU for routine stuff, but when they need elective procedures or advanced treatments you just cannot get those back in the EU.
AOL/Aim was really the original social network. You can have status message. They wasted a great opportunity.
Ok I'm used to considering only Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland as Nordic countries. They're also the only members of the Nordic council.

Estonia I've always just considered a Baltic country, which I suppose is accurate as well. Not that these definitions really matter anyway.
Imperfect Produce: "if you can believe that folks throw out worse-looking produce rather than sell it at stores _you_ would never frequent, make other products from it, feed livestock with it, etc, boy howdy have we got a feel-good story for you!"
Except without advertising half of the internet collapses. And to anyone suggesting that a paid model will just surface, I don't really want to live in a world where only the rich have access to tools as useful as Maps, Translate or Youtube.
It strikes me that this is a topic of emotion, about which no rational discussion or debate can even happen because counter-points or even just mere questioning (aka, scientific method) of a held belief is generally and seemingly ever increasingly immediately viciously attacked as heresy, not refuted with counter-arguments and unbiased fact. "Burn the messenger at the stake" they cry, "it will make the message go away so we do not have to hear it" they proclaim through their actions. So we head down this path, right or wrong, either way.

As with the fundamental ideology that birthed the climate change, aka, rebranded global warming, it is quite an odd that it always depends on a combination of total ignorance of realities that lie right before us all with violent opposition, as well as utter delusions about the track record or consequences of its fundamental beliefs. Because at the core, the green watermelon of climate change environmentalism, beneath the thin veneer of the outer green skin the mantle rapidly gives way to parasitic red communism all throughout.

If climate change is such a great threat, why do the "leaders" that profess the need for everyone else to sacrifice themselves and deny themselves, fly around in private jets nonstop, to exotic hot destinations that have to be cooled with AC ... just to mention a single of the major hypocrisies and lies and deceptions. Why is it that of these groups that are all more or less what can be considered the "left", a defining characteristic is that they do not abide by their own prescriptions imposed on others around them.

If you want to stop climate change then, e.g., (and many of these will be uncomfortable to most here) give up your car, find jobs that are remote work or even better yet where you can walk to work, move to a temperate climate where little heat and cooling are needed, stop immigration of people from low impact regions to high impact regions, advocate for population control of African and Asian populations that are adding on the order of net 85 million additional humans to the planet every year (or one additional German population every single year), hold China and India responsible for their wildly outsized levels of pollution once you control for their per capita contribution to humanity, stop holding pets that produce unnecessary pollution simply for entertainment and so you can hold an animal for your own gratification, etc.
So it's better to just do nothing?

We're fucked, but at least have your conscience clean. Anything helps: eat less meat, plant some trees, start recycling, bike to work, refuse single-use plastic, sacrifice a little bit of your personal convenience for the benefit of the planet. Do anything you weren't doing until today.

Nobody will save the planet on their own, but a large swath of people doing one single thing is bound to have some effect. It won't cancel out the damage for sure, but at least it would minimize the effects a tiny bit.
Ah, cool. Seems like the latest paper involving the AP is from 2016.
Agreed. It really touches on the emotional aspects of it, which I think really need to be discussed.

When I picture why certain family members have a hard time accepting the reality of global warming, it certainly comes down to difficulty grappling with emotions, not a hard review of the literature.

Recognizing emotions as part of the problem and solution feels like a big step.
I think it's rougher for people to understand that aren't in this industry, and there are so many jobs that _do_ benefit from this in a numerical way, i.e. more parts per hour, more accounts created, sales made, etc.
If you are physically able to plant trees, then find a local organization and volunteer. Easier said than done, but I think that's something a lot of people could do to make a definitive step towards fighting the climate disaster.
I could place it with only +- 15 years if I’m going to be honest.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience with this.

The importer can still get better but we're importing about 500 projects per hour at peak https://www.dropbox.com/s/hr3ndcmu21aehmk/Screenshot%202019-...
Different societies already find ways to minimize the importance of other humans, it makes sense that it is worse for things that are not considered human.
Lasting 2 to 5 decades is pretty much in agreement with the parent though. Not easy for the US military at all.
Just thought about this comment now. I kept all my iPhone in pocket together with keys never cared for scratches and never seen any. On iphone4, iphone5, iphone6. Now im typing this message on horribly scratched iphone8 screen done with same set of key that i carried my old iphone in the same pocket. That’s sad. And few days ago i just discovered my old iphone4. Soeaker on it still plays smooth with strong bass. Speaker on my iphone8 sounds like cheap crap already after 6 months of ownership. Darn things really went south without Jobs around.
I would love to discuss these questions, starting with ”is consensus or effect what we’re really measuring?” or ”if the agents get to decide how they’re evaluates, what effect does that have?” but it really has very little to do with the fact that if everyone loves the CCP and they are doing a great job, democracy could be introduced without any real hassle.
These are all examples of a foreign power fighting a war, not an internal conflict which is mediated by internal violence. Winning a war by not losing is a completely orthogonal endeavor to getting what you want internally. How’d it work out for Syria?
3 envelopes = happy.

300 envelopes = oh shit.
Only the bad half collapses.
I personally don't believe that there are any fundamental barriers to human or better AGI but I also believe we are a long long way from anything with this capabilities being built.

Mind you - I would love to be proved wrong.
Wow! It seems like the "many eyes" theory of open-source safety really doesn't help much.
The article mentions that political action is the top recommendation from activists, and I agree.

So if you're serious, try to get a career in politics. Good Luck!
Unfortunately, Aside from identifying general trends, I haven’t looked into the issues enough to hold any strong opinions, nor am I in a position to cite any specifics without significant research. I think you may be right about increased interconnectedness naturally leading to a larger federal role in everyday governance.

As far as the supremacy clause goes, it’s necessary for the treaty to work. The states are agreeing to give up some of their sovereign rights to be executed by the federal government instead, in the interests of the union. The bulk of the Constitution describes exactly those rights that the states are giving up, and this clause confirms that they can’t pass legislation to opt out of individual federal decisions they don’t like that fall within those bounds. Without it, the federal government would in practice only be able to make suggestions— a situation that led to bankruptcy under the Articles of Confederation.

I’m actually more concerned about the shift in power from the legislature to the executive. As the role of the federal government has grown, it feels like every executive agency has grown its own miniature legislature and judiciary that are primarily beholden to the executive. Agency regulations are law, so why aren’t they drafted and approved by an arm of the relevant congressional committee?
You mean you don't commute to work in a private air-conditioned bus to work in an all-white glass UFO?
Cut the shifts in half and people work less individually while more people overall have job opportunities. As a benefit, working shorter shifts would result in more rested workers who would theoretically be more productive or at least have less chance of mistakes.
See my response to another comment like yours. It's easy to convince myself I'm helpless, and your comment combined with the other one have smacked me around a bit and made me re-examine what I can do today.
That I know, but it is important the differences of a company funded by ads and the ones that are not.

Especially given this right at the top:

> Recently, some other browsers have attempted to address this problem, but without an agreed upon set of standards, attempts to improve user privacy are having unintended consequences.
Look at it overlayed with this graphic of ice ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#/media/File:Ice_Age_Te...
It’s literally linked in the footer like all other websites.. why would you make this claim without at least checking the footer?
It's like we've been trying to destroy the electoral college almost since it's inception. And every step makes it worse.

The electoral college was supposed to be a sort of bulwark between the public and the highest office in the nation.

State governments choose their electors. Those electors are supposed to be tasked with choosing the best among the candidates for president and vice-president.

But instead, state governments threw that decision to the public. Effectively making the electoral college a proxy popularity vote for a state. And that's a big fucking ask of any person. Choose the person who is capable of running the country and making all these decisions, whose policies will guide your nation to prosperity, etc.

Hell man, I'm just trying to get my budget straight. Do I look like I have time in between everything else I do to also seriously investigate every single candidate? And I'm not a complete moron either. And I know I cannot actually make a completely informed decision here. But I know complete morons. And they get a vote just like me.
Astronomers discover 3 Earth-sized exoplanets just 12 light-years from Earth
Oh look, an article about Google. Surely the comments will be by people who have actually read the article and are discussing its substance.
> large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting

The safest assumption is that fingerprinting is and will be used regardless of whether local storages (of which cookies is one flavor) are forbidden -- these are not mutually exclusive.
I even managed to probed one guy who only had 3 videos to start posting again. I asked him when he would make more videos. I wonder if anybody else did.