skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Partly, and I won't deny it, this is because of serious chemical changes that happened almost instantly when our first child was born. It was like someone flipped a switch.

I have a step-daughter. It's amazing how protective I am over here. I'm not violent or confrontational by any means.

One time this drunk guy didn't like that she was on her phone (she wasn't doing anything wrong).

This guy was basically yelling at her... my adrenaline spiked and I was immediately in this guys face protecting her.

I mean you'd think this was the natural thing to do right? Of course it is... but what's interesting is that I don't have any recollection of actually making a conscious decision to take this action.

It was almost done and over with before I realized what happened.

The guy was actually arrested for public intoxication and taken away. He had been drinking in the movie theater and came out drunk.
I think that's true at many coffee shops in the US (even large chains), but the discounts have varied widely. IIRC, it's 10 or 20 cents at the one I go to now, which is too small to change anyone's behavior. I think in the past it was a much better deal, though.
Stings like this are the bread and butter of effective law enforcement. The fact is that the vast majority of criminals are not that hard to outsmart. It turns out that if you’re a master criminal pedophile, even then you don’t waste time with darkweb shit, you just con your way into the inner circles of the powerful and blackmail them into covering for you.
> from what I know about small children they're likely to be a thousand times more selfish than you

Wait until they are 12.
Well, then get to work.

Dethroning MS Office is going to be a long, hard battle, and it seems like not very many people are interested in fighting it.
There is no separation between corporations from government.
I can identify with PG's sentiments almost entirely.

I also identify with the observation that one is more likely to appreciate kids when the basic necessities of life are covered - food, housing, healthcare.
I know it’s completely irrational of me, but seeing something called a “zine” is offputting, since the central example of that term is usually a short political tabloid. (And it doesn’t even convey the information I expect from the “format noun”—zines are not usually illustrated!)

I’d really rather see these called what they are: educational graphic novels.

But I know why these end up getting called “zines”: it’s because there’re only a few major publishing cultures, sort of broken down along two axes (corporate vs. independent; fictional/author-driven vs. journalistic/editor-driven), and a person will end up enculturated with the terms of the publishing culture they learn the trade from. The “independent + editor-driven” culture calls everything they make “zines”, so that’s the term you need to use to communicate what you’re doing to your friends, if you’re a part of that culture.
Agreed. I'm in my early 30s and don't have kids because I don't think I can provide for them unless I spend all my income and free time/ambitions on them. I make a good income as a programmer but I still live paycheck to paycheck because of cost of living in the Bay Area.
>I don't follow this argument. Levels of sexism in the 60s and 70s are irrelevant to decisions that women are making in the present.

The argument is not about that.

It's that "Those very sexist 60s/70s fields still had a lot of women going in, more than women in IT today. If women could go into those very sexist fields then, it's not sexism that keeps them out of IT today".
a bit optimistic i think. the algorithms are already being tuned to "whatever riders are willing to pay" while uber and lyft are incentivized to make as much money as possible.
Definitely top 0.01% in the world though. Quick google search estimates lower end of net worth around $250m, and top 0.01% in 2012 was about $111m. So he's up there, but yea, not the tippy top I guess.
Then having one or two should be seen as a huge failure, when you could have dozens.
Yes but I'm sure Uber would rather raise prices now and keep their IP so they can print money with autonomous vehicles later
> > for most people their kids will have more overall influence then their work ever will.

> This can't be the case, unless you think the amount of 'influence' always increases as generation pass (why?)

There are three errors in your reasoning:

1) Having kids won't completely eliminate any non-child influence you've had or will have in the future.

2) If you have two or more kids, they'll together have more influence than you have (respectively three or more kids, if you account for your partner).

3) Your kids will potentially have kids themselves, further increasing the influence your kids can have.
It seems like a losing argument, from whichever direction. Who would not be ashamed to confess, that they took only their own interests into consideration when voting?
> Can you elaborate? What exactly is wrong with parents talking to you about their kids?

I'm not sure I can, but let me try. Some of my coworkers will chat to me for five minutes about watching that new Scorsese movie, and maybe make plans to hang out after work. Let's call this Group A. Some other ones will talk to me for twenty minutes about how their kids are really into Frozen 2, and how they dressed up as Elsa for Halloween. They also never have time to hang out. Let's call this Group B.

It so happens that none of the people in Group A have children, and that's really my problem with it. It's not really that I care whether or not anyone has kids (none of my business, really) -- but it seems like the people I overwhelmingly have no interest in listening to or talking with always end up being the ones that have kids. And so I end up wondering if this divide is inevitable, like of your (hah) sibling comments seems to say.
I wish less companies created a "design system" and more companies used bloody standard OS and web widgets, especially drop down selections...
Worth it for the block quote and thumbnail description of the theme of Butcher’s Crossing.
> There is very little important software outside of iOS development software that is Mac only.

So true; it feels like every Mac app is Electron these days.
For a mainstream programming languages, complicated ambiguities are hard on users anyways, by writing your parser by hand you have an extra incentive to keep the grammar simple (eg Scala). A lot of the power a parser generator gives you shouldn’t be used.
I also did not experience the chemical changes part. At the time I was wondering if I would, but nope.
While I agree with your later point about having larger families leading to a healthier mix of time spent, I cant agree with your first point.

Yes, most parents talk a lot about their kids and that can be annoying if you don't have kids. Most single people are just as annoying though. You can talk about your kids or you can talk about your vacation, or your job... for the most part people will find it interesting if they relate and boring if they don't. I don't think there's a qualitative difference there between parents and single people, just different audiences that will be receptive to what they're talking about.
I feel like I've seen pretty high prices in Boston lately. On the other hand I took a trip to Las Vegas and suddenly Lyft was dirt cheap again.
Sounds like you need to have a puppers and simmer down, bud.
yep

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257612445_The_Sacre...
Kids are great and fun. My business did better after I got married and then even better once the first kid came around. In some ways it appears that working less and being grounded and less stressed helped a lot.

Kids are just a lot of fun.

I do not live in NYC or silicon valley. Those places are expensive and kid unfriendly to all but millionaires.
Look at this list of puffer jackets, with prices like $9200, $3500, $2000, $1500, $700 and a $80 one throw in (hey, we don't judge based on price).

https://www.gq.com/story/the-best-puffer-jackets
The entire point of prison is to remove them from society. Why are we spending more resources on prisoners than people who've never commited a crime?
The guy who wrote this piece is speaking from the perspective of an entrepreneur himself. Presumably, he would like dedication and focus from his employees. When I've worked at startups, that's what's been expected from me. This is why he's saying this bubble "causes great startups to fail."

Aside from that, I've found that generally in my life, I can only do three things well at any given time. Health, work, relationships, other goals... It takes mental energy to make decisions and process things, and even you are still spending the same amount of time on something. So yes, you can spend your time elsewhere, but the fact that you have a second full time job is highly correlated with you doing your first one worse. Are you claiming that your productivity at work is going to be the same if you have a side project or not? I definitely think there's a clear difference, having done it at one time.
Indeed. I thought "seeing black" simply means "profiting," especially after a period of being "in the red."

Eg: a company might "hope to see black by then end of Q3."

So the headline baffled me.
Sprout Social Just Went Public. What Does Their Online Advertising Look Like?
The problem is that with children especially, it’s also not that hard to implant false memories and coach them to not only make false accusations but to actually believe them. This is part of what happened with the whole “Satanic ritual abuse” panic with “repressed memories”.

This is part of why people keep saying, “wait for all the evidence” and “presumed innocent until proved guilty”.
> I've noticed this. I can reliably count on Uber/Lyft to price gouge me whenever they get the chance.

Yeah but come on though, the cut the driver has to take, the cost of car maintenance, the cut Uber is entitled to for giving you a reliable service of connecting you to a driver (and co-pool-riders) and making this process smooth -- compare all of that with what a taxi used to cost, it's still pretty cheap in my opinion. Well, at least in the center city where I am (5 dollars yesterday for a ~5 mile ride, not bad).
They only talk about Instagram in the article. It’s an ad for the service they run, so there’s not much info besides “this horrible thing happens regularly, we’re working on it.”
Prices have been more expensive than traditional taxis in my market for over a year now.
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The alternative being what? Gov regulations? Where the companies manipulate the regs and have flat out abusive monopolies? As we have now? I don't see how more of the same is any sort of solution.
Agreed; it's a blessing. I'm actually keeping my brand of car as long as my mechanic retires, and I have 2 brands that I won't ever touch again due to bad experiences with contract garages.
If the premise is "parenting is great and you should do it", it should include the caveat "if you're a tech millionaire".

I can't help but wonder how far removed pg's experience of parenting is from those without his resources, which is most people. The lows of parenting probably hit a lot less hard when you don't have to worry about money or work multiple jobs.
It's a reasonable working assumption that "ride share" prices end up somewhere around where taxi prices are--with the possible exception of places like London where black cabs are somewhat of a premium service relative to minicabs, etc.
The constitutionality of such a honeytrap is not exactly clear though since the person isn't trying to molest an actual child. It's a bit like leaving a fake gun on the street and then prosecuting a person who picks it up and tries to shoot somebody for attempted murder. Are you still guilty of a crime if you only think you were going to commit a crime? If someone lies to you that they are allergic to peanuts and you secretly give them peanuts is that attempted murder? If you download a song that you weren't aware is in the public domain, is that attempted copyright infringement?
Your exact comment could have been posted three years ago, and three years before that, with Chevrolet, or Audi, or Volkswagen named.

And yet, here we are, and only one company in the world is actually building the factories you’d need to sell a half million EVs in a year.

There’s too much money in not making EVs for any of these companies to start making them a day before the market forces them too.
Yeah i guess
The reason we rest decision-making power in the individual is that it's democratizing. A community is not inherently a hierarchy. People can work together and achieve common goals without vesting ultimate power a Supreme Leader. It just means that you have to convince people that what you want the group to do is good, instead of ordering it by fiat.

And if some people want to split off and do something different, diversity is a good thing too.
I'm specifically talking about the grooming and manipulation. That's precisely the sort of stuff sociopaths and psychopaths do as a matter of course. People who are just looking for a sexual "thrill" of sorts, by and large, don't engage in predatory behavior especially not of this disturbing sort.
> time-limited exclusive license to any side project I do that does overlap with their activities

Thank you for your answer. Could you please elaborate on this one? What does the exclusive license entails? Do you get ownership back when the time expires?
Costs don't dictate prices.
huh, that's pretty clever. I wondered how unsplash was going to monetize.
Why do you assume that cost isn't being subsidized? Uber and Lyft are both still hemorrhaging money. I'm willing to bet the real cost is at least twice what you mentioned.

Yesterday it cost me $30 to go 5 miles via Uber, and I chose that over Lyft's $40. Not a busy time of day so no price surging. This is in San Francisco for a frame of reference.
I think this is qualitatively different than environmental hazards. This is other people, maliciously intruding into kids lives and attacking them. It's less like wolves than it is like an enemy tribe, nation, or army intent on attacking defenseless people.
I was hoping this was about the infrastructure and systems around collecting human garbage in the modern world.
This is absolutely true. I love spending time with my kids and I really don't like being around most other people's kids.
> But it is, because your entire biology has evolved for billions of years with the sole purpose of reproducing effectively. No amount of "I feel like I enjoy it" negates that it is programmed into you as an organism. It just re-enforces how integrated the drive is with your psychology and consciousness.

I don’t think it’s programmed into me. I am
actively repulsed by children, the thought of reproducing, the concept of adding more humans to society, or increasing the resource consumption of my leaf node’s subtree.

The whole thing seems disgusting and self-centered and self-indulgent and selfish and irresponsible to me.

That said, I think that myself and others that feel this way stand in contrast to your claim that we are simply programmed to reproduce. We are not—only a subset of us are.
This must be the first comment where I disagree with every line in it(except the How so?)

Corporations are as moral or amoral as their leadership wants. Your average small bakery better has some good standing in a community, so it better behaves reasonably.

Their job is to keep existing, hence making some profit. That can be just enough or maximal, again depending on the wishes of the owners.

The long term value of the OSS community relationship might be more valuable than just grabbing the project. The law might explicitly not entitle them to grab it.

They can try to take ownership but are not at all obliged.

In fact the psychopatic behaviour of todays megacorps is unravelling the fabric of the societies that enable their existence.
They’re about 2.5x to 3x what they were when I first started using Lyft, and even shared rides are pricey enough and take long enough that they have no edge over government transportation in most circumstances and I’ll generally call a private cab if I’m calling a cab at all.

These days I prefer to get myself around without either, but if circumstances prevent or make that option look unattractive, I’ll generally favor government transportation over Lyft or Uber and only call a cab from one of them if I’m in a hurry.
When I was growing up a guy on my street had a dog sled and people would drive their snowmobiles to high school.

Sad to see that my culture is not represented here.
Reddit works in many (not all) cases for reviews because if there's something falsey enough, you can often count on the hive mind to provide many points as to why that is fake, links to reliable sources on better info, or alternative experiences and documentation (photos/vids) to back it up. Unlike retailer sites or Amazon, where the platform has a vested interest in just getting you to hit Buy, Reddit has no such issues, and there's no real policing of dissenting reviews.

It is self-policing in some ways. But again, some review categories are better for this than others, and the hive mind can be susceptible to hype and astroturf.
Yes, and you're getting downvoted, but the whole framework of individualism and enlightenment principles prioritizing individual autonomy above all else often locks people's views in such a way they cannot conceive of having children as a fundamental responsibility/obligation to continue legacy of their ancestors.

There is this enlightenment western philosophy that everyone is an atomized, isolated blank slate acting only in their own self interest, severed from any ties to the past... it goes against long standing views of having inherited legacy, and responsibility to continue this legacy which applied much social pressure to having children, even many children like in more traditional/religious cultures, and this has been abandoned in a very short period of time (seen in declining birth rates, marriage rates, increasing age of having children etc.)
> but I think there is much better way to estimate how kids would affect your happiness: do activities that put you in extensive contact with kids, e.g., volunteer to baby sit for your friends/family, offer to tutor/advise neighborhood kids, and coach youth sports

I strongly disagree that this gives good evidence whether you'll enjoy having kids yourself. I never liked dealing with kids of any age; the experience with my own kids, however, is vastly different, and I really enjoy their company.
Maybe I don’t know what your argument is responding to specifically. I’m not suggesting that Slack should be by itself “in charge” of solving all social problems, and I don’t think the article suggested that either. I’m suggesting that their participation should be non-zero.

Is this really a black and white issue, do or don’t? I don’t feel that way at all.

Do you think private companies can “contribute” to the solutions alongside the government and the public, by being open to hiring non traditional workers, by having support programs that help people keep their jobs? Can companies encourage and support the government’s support programs, by enrolling the government’s help and joining together to pay for them, by writing corporate policy to foster non-traditional workers, by making work allowances for people who need more help?

> when the government has vastly more authority to act

I don’t agree with this framing. Large and small companies get local zoning laws changed all the time. If Slack was lobbying for zoning regulations near it’s business, it’s entirely likely they can, in fact, get them changed. Companies can, and do routinely, suggest regulation changes, participate in policy making, and the government listens and routinely acts on those requests, and involves private companies in the legislation process. When companies band together to get zoning changed, it happens even faster.

The government does not really have that much more “authority” than the rest of us when it comes to the basics of taking care of each other. This isn’t really an authority issue, it’s an issue of whether we care and take action, it’s an issue of what our goals are as a society, it’s an issue of whether we view it as our collective responsibility, or someone else’s responsibility. If we all think it’s someone else’s responsibility, and we do nothing and think of the government as the only solution, then we not only end up with a crappy solution, we are ceding our own authority as well.
I find it marvelous you can reliably use software 24 years later. And we talk about binaries, not sources. And we talk about software still with business uses.

The original storage media may be corrupted but the software lives!

My personal belief is Wine will stand next and maybe above the GNU project, the Linux kernel, the QEMU emulator and the GIT version management as the best things ever made by free software.
Dumb question here, does he get paid for this or earn prize money?
"When will these darlings of Silicon Valley begin to turn a profit?"

The funny thing is criticism of these two companies has been vociferous on Hacker News since the very beginning. I'm not sure what company I'd even call a darling. Every example I can think of FAANG, Dropbox, Slack, etc all have various criticisms. Perhaps Spotify? But it's not a Silicon Valley company.
Why do you want to worry?
Cool! I love seeing tools like this. I've also done a bit of research into VR desktop experiences https://twitter.com/trevorjbaron/status/1197043776197251074 mainly built using webGL + other web tech and running on Quest.
It seems to vary a lot. I was on a business trip to San Diego recently and airport inbound (taxi) and airport outbound (Lyft) were about the same price, albeit with the taxi ride a little shorter. OTOH, whenever I visit Raleigh, Lyft still seems about half the price of a cab.
When I had my first kid in 2009 I was expecting this whole life changing experience, instead it was just...the same, except now there's a baby take care of.

Three kids later and I definitely have strong feelings around my kids, but it's not some kind of revelation. They're people just like me, they just have less experience. It's my job (legally and ethically) to make sure they have a reasonably well informed, if biased, framework to examine, test and act in the world.
That's the best that PEM electrolysis can do. Solid oxide cells have been >93% efficient for over a decade now, and some research cells are 99% efficient. If you are willing to supply heat to run in endothermic mode, they are >100% efficient on an electricity basis (meaning they take less than 39kwh of electricity to make a kg of hydrogen, with the rest made up via heat).

I personally have made hydrogen with SOECs for $2.72/kg using industrial rates for electricity. After a 60% efficient conversion back to electricity, that comes out to $0.116/kWh, which is better than the residential rates for nearly any state.
Hot molten lead eats structural (stainless) steels for breakfast. If you get the redox chemistry just right, a thin protective oxide layer forms on the steel surface, but it's tricky to maintain in a vessel with flowing liquid.

The Russians in their Alfa submarine IIRC had some mechanism for dissolving lead oxide into the coolant under way. The Swedish company Leadcold has a process to produce a protective alumina layer on the surface, remains to be seen whether it works out.