skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pretty much sum up what I am going through. I'm optimistic things will improve. I think one of the more practical aspects of this essay was about "work finding a way". For me, that means an hour to 2 of quality focused time some evenings to counteract the brain fog during the day that makes me less productive.
This assumption makes sense given the limited modern scientific view of the world, but it falls down pretty hard when you consider how incomplete our understanding of the universe still is.

The piece of knowledge which is still missing, and which you should direct your search if you feel the way you outlined in your post is, what's consciousness? What're the mechanisms by which it functions? We might be biological machines with a single, hardcoded directive in one sense, but it's very inside the realm of possibility we possess the potential to escape that.
I had my kids when I was 30 and it's worked out well. I wouldn't want to go much later. I have friends who started later and it's fine now, but when their kids are in high school, the parents will be in their fifties. I want to have a little more youth and energy to spend with my children as they enter adulthood.

My twenties were a very parenting-unfriendly time of my life. I was in a couple of bands, going out a lot, moved around a bunch. It was convenient to have that luxury for a while.

I used to work with a guy who had his kids at 18. I can't imagine being a parent when I was that young and dumb, but I gotta admit to some real envy. When I worked with him, he was in his thirties and his kids were getting ready to move out. Having the child part of parenthood "done" and still having plenty of youth and many years of time to look forward to — spending time both with and without now-grown kids — sounds pretty amazing.
the resistance shown by the experienced/senior level in terms of re-skilling and get accommodated to the new technologies

When you have been around a while you start to notice that new technologies are mostly just old ideas with worse implementation than the originals. It’s not resisting genuine innovation, just seeing through the bullshit of the latest “framework” or whatever.
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This is the Wikipedia page for the largest solar plant in Arizona, and the 10% claim is clearly falsified by the numbers given here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite_Solar_project
If the articles claims are true, it would seem to me that even if the recorded conduct wasn't chargeable, it would be probable cause to see their other message history; there's most likely a pattern of behavior if you're surfing newest instagram posters and sending dickpics.
I mean, do you own a nice house or car?

If you do, you've already experienced this sizing-up. A contractor comes to the house and sees you can afford 2x what they'd normally charge. A mechanic for your Lexus charges N times as much as the same mechanic would for your Toyota, even though they're the same parts and manufacturer.
Why do you say that? I have supported educational efforts in prison, but not this specific one. I have personally hired at least 3 people who have been in prison.
For political systems, I can look at how happy people are, how healthy people are, how affluent they are, how much economic progress there is, how much scientific progress there is, equality, stability, as well as apply whatever theories of morality I like (e.g. utilitarianism).

There is a value judgement as to how I weigh those, or which ones I care about, but I can evaluate it in some way. People might argue about the merits of a meritocracy versus a democracy, but broadly speaking, everyone will agree that a progress democracy is better than an exploitative, violent, oppressive dictatorship.

The quality of art, in contrast, is fully in the eye of the beholder.

If you'd like to see how this manifests in practice, it's worth looking at Soviet Russia, the French Revolution, or many democracies which failed in practice, despite what were, on the surface, plausible ideas.

This contrasts with literature, where there is no objective metric, and much of the time, someone says "that's great, now let's go even further" to an idea as good as North Korean style communism.
AS they get older things might turn up better but yeah, once you have kids you are now only waiting to die while preparing your kids to carry the mantle of future.
You've hit upon one of the cruelest parts of life... Much success is due to not having any significant long term issues.

Kids, god love 'em, are a long term liability in the context of seeking your first big financial/professional success.
The last time I tried Instagram I got followed by 5-6 bots within a few minutes of creating the account. The problem seems similar to Twitter in that there are more people working on spamming the network with bots than there are Twitter employees blocking them, so they focus primarily on automated blocking than on catching other types of abuse.
I definitely agree with you in spirit, but I feel like in most organizations, there's still lots of easy potential for one person to seriously subvert things.

I think a baseline level of trust is an absolute requirement, regardless of how well implemented your organizational access security is.

I would say that any company source code, by definition, is a company secret, and there will always exist an easy means for an employee to leak or compromise that secret.
That...hits home. I could've written the same thing.
There's a good npr article talking about how to use this quality to get kids to help with chores:https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/09/6169288...
>Pretty crazy with Juul, WeWork, DoorDash, and Uber / Lyft all struggling

Given that the entire value-added of a company like Uber is getting a taxi to you slightly faster it's not surprising at all. Uber didn't make cars cheaper, drivers faster or added productivity in any other way plus they have a gigantic and expensive tech overhead, so it was never at all clear to me how they're supposed to be both competitive and more profitable than a regular bunch of taxi companies.

It's just like movie pass. As long as you have investors throwing money at you you can pretend that you're actually doing something but selling people a dollar for 75 cents isn't a business.
> Always read the scripts you're going to run on your computer.

I consider this harmful advice. You're promoting a false sense of security, which I think anyone that's spent 10 minutes looking through an underhanded code contest can see.

If your threat model includes the packages you're installing, then you need to do multi-person audits, sandboxing, etc. This applies to software obtained from package managers as well, which aren't typically pre-audited (and let's not forget popular packages that have been hijacked or acquired and injected with malicious code).
When I interned at a prop trading firm for a summer, I noticed a few copies of Meddling Mage lying around on an unused desk. Turns out that the guy who designed the card (as a reward for winning the Magic Invitational) had previously worked there.
Please email me at alex@gatepay.co - would love to work something out if possible.
I don't think the changes have been upstreamed into Wine. Plus I believe that being able to use the entitlement requires SIP to be disabled.
Related read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
> You seem to be saying insurance companies must discriminate unfairly by saying that if insurance companies discriminate unfairly, they will lose customers.

It's not actually a value judgement I'm giving. Whether it's unfair as in sex or race based is not part of the incentive mechanism. The mechanism still exists though. If you find out people of one color are bigger risks than another you have an awkward problem.

If you can restrict the companies from doing this you fix the problem, but of course there's games to be played regarding selection, as another commenter notes.
As you know, you are right. But that isn’t the superficial reading of “robots are replacing jobs”. The article makes the point that some people like Bill DeBlasio will try to outlaw automation and robots.
4% here!
That’s true, laws differ on this, and in some cases there is a legal distinction not because statutory rape is OK but because forcible rape is so much worse. In the US, the scenario might be very similar to what you describe except with explicit plea bargaining between the prosecution and defense. In fact the prosecution would probably try to charge forcible rape anyway just so they can negotiate down to statutory rape.
Beauty and the Beast, Old and New
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This comment stands out as particularly bad in this entire off-topic morass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We don't expect children to be perfect; in fact, we expect that they need to make mistakes to learn from.

The bank in your example is beyond negligent, as it provided the opportunistic thief the opportunity to abscond with customers' money the bank exists to protect.

In this case, the bank is the parents of children who are obligated to supervise their behavior online, not the children themselves.
Which is why you should get wage quotes over the phone.
Is it just me having inadequate vision or the visual design of the article is challenging? Light grey text on white background, dark red and blackish colors on dark grey background.
You also get to define what success means to you. For a lot of people, success means having a happy home and good friends.

Attaching success to finances is where things start to skew because no matter how much you have, you can always have more. It’s something that people take for granted in a country where we are all in the top 1% of the world...by birth.

Remember, money isn’t the root of all evil. The love of money is.
To be fair, members of Thanos and Cortex projects do contribute code to Prometheus, which might explain why they are named more often here.
Who cares about the “storage backend”? How does that affect clients?
iPad Mini + Apple Pencil

It is so much more convenient to

1. Read back on notes I've already written

2. Have one iPad versus 12 or so notebooks

3. Read notes on your phone or other devices wherever you are

This is the first Apple product I've owned (bought it Black Friday) and I love it
Yeah your motives are so pure. You're a real WK Kellogg. A real Lewis Terman.
German govt proposes law to force WhatsApp Gmail etc to hand over user passwords
Why would I innovate or put in extra effort at the day job when I don’t get compensate for it. If they gave me bonus or or ownership shares for extra effort I would. As a policy most companies do no have reward systems for anything. I want reward for my innovations.
Right, the bank is the parents in this analogy. The parents have a duty to protect their children, because they've been entrusted with them.
This policy has actually been pretty great for me. Ubers that once cost $4-5 started costing $10-$15, so I started walking and taking public transportation more.

Actually ended up getting to places faster than taking Uber, since I didn't end up waiting 10-15 minutes for the Uber to work its way through traffic to me, or the extra 10-15 minutes taking an Uber would entail due to drivers missing turns or getting lost (despite having a phone providing directions right in front of their faces...).
https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1201924979647905792
"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?"

You bring up an interesting question, but your examples confuse the issue.

In your examples there are always real, intended victims: the person who was being shot at with the fake gun, the person who was being given peanuts, and the copyright holder are all the intended victim (despite the attempts failing due to misconceptions on the part of the perpetator).

In such cases, a better analogy might be to someone trying to rob a bank with a fake (or a broken) gun. It's pretty clear that in such a case they would go to jail for attempted robbery.

However, in the case where an adult pretends to be a child, there's no victim. There's real intent, but the victim is imaginary.

This is similar to laws making it a crime to possess cartoon child porn. Once again, there's no victim.
> I've never met a full time homemaker who thinks she's getting a raw deal.

Until the nest empties, and they have no retirement funds or worthwhile employment options to speak of. If the breadwinner turns out to be more of a jerk than realized amidst the business of raising children, and maybe the homemaker learns by this time they've actually been exploited as a low-cost servant all this time, expected to continue in that capacity until death, then it can start feeling like a very raw deal all too late, now feeling trapped in it as well.

A good friend's parents went through this, it was a few years of family crisis with the homemaker living with relatives wanting a divorce while she slowly had to accept there's effectively no other option financially; go home and sleep in the bed you didn't realize you were making.

Kids are a very effective diversion for setting this trap, men have been doing this to women for ages. At least now women can get jobs and delay having kids until after a career with some retirement savings and marketable skills development.
>> If better GCs come out or tweaks to the algorithms are made, these configurations have to be updated. In contrast, Go programs gets these benefits for free.

> There is no reason why Java can't do the same by updating defaults. In fact, they often do.

Correct. The JVM guys always update the default GC to be the nearest to 'one size fits all'. Obviously if you've made a custom GC configuration then you want a level of tuning that Go does not provide.
I recommend you have kids as early as you can, but no earlier. You don't understand until you have children, but your life is divided in two: the time before you have kids and the time after. You don't know this, but you actually want more time with your kids, but you won't know this until you have them.

I would have had them earlier (I had 'em at 34 and 37) if I could do it again. Probably like 30-32 if I could.
If anyone has any other good ideas, please let me know. I'll make a list of them at the end of the article and provide credit.
The Price of America’s Inability to Track Child Deaths from Abuse and Neglect
Sandboxed applications relied on them even before that.
Yes.

We should structure society so people can have kids. With stay at home moms.

Not just impossibly rich older guys.

Everyone.
So my experience was the opposite. I came in expecting this great "chemical change" where suddenly the world revolved around my kids and their future.

Well the latter part is true: my world now revolves around them and their futures. But chemical change? No. It's just the responsibility I have now. There's never a break.
It's all-encompassing. I mean, it's survivable, I can deal with it, and I do the best I can, but, while it's certainly not PC to say, I regret it. I thought it would be great, and it's not.

What would I be doing so much better with my time had I not had kids? I don't know. Probably nothing. But it doesn't change the fact. I was happier before.

This article made me angry. That's great that Paul has such a wonderful experience. I'm happy for him. But don't act like you can speak for everyone.
> It produces six times more with the same amount of fuel as a LWR.

Really? From what I've seen (https://www.terrestrialenergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09... ) it's roughly equivalent to LWR's.
File under “did not age well” and move on.

Side projects take a slice but they expand the pie.
Or, as Zoz explained in his DEFCON 22 talk "Don't Fuck It Up!"[1], OPSEC is really REALLY hard. Even people that have the necessary technical background are human and make mistakes. To stay secure in the "dark web" you need to never make a mistake and e.g. forget to turn on your VPN/Tor before logging in somewhere important. I doubt anybody - even people that made the "best" life decisions - could do this successfully without a LOT of very specific, very technical training.

>> "OPSEC is a 24/7 job."

>> "... a lot of OPSEC fails ... [from] the folly of only using privacy tools when you’re up to no good."

>> "For example, investigators could look at who went and downloaded the Tor Browser Bundle right before the bomb threat got called in; or look at everyone who connected to a known Tor entry node at that time, or who accessed the Tor directory servers. [...] no compromise of Tor necessary."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8
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where on that page does it discuss the connection?
Not thread-safe. Also, from Alex in the comments: "Sounds good! Although probably we will run out of stack waay before that".
To be fair, I am not sure people have been looking particularly deeply at Centaur processors.
How about the obvious solution of not having ANY data transfer out?

Encrypt and sign the data via NaCL or similar, send via UDP duplicated 5-10 times, no response at all from the server (it's analytics, it doesn't matter if very few events are lost and you can even estimate the rate).

As for the REST API, deprecate it and if still needed place it on whatever 3 VPS services have the lowest costs, and use low TTL DNS round-robin with something removing from DNS hosts that are down.
Like it or not, most inmates will be released. Patterns of recidivism are well established. If they reoffend, we will spend more resources on those prisoners. (To say nothing of the costs on society when they do reoffend) It seem reasonable to not want to spend money on someone who has already messed up, but the practical reality is there's a real cost to not making those investments.

Put a different way, this is about those who haven't committed crimes: those affected by future crime, and those who haven't yet committed crime but statistically are likely to (think children of the chronically incarcerated)
Kids also help ease existential dread. Life is big and heavy, even without kids. And I think these days, lots of people try and find purpose through their work (forgoing or delaying kids), but I’m not sure that‘s the most direct path. Kids answer the big question of “why am I here” in a way that nothing else can. I often wonder if we’re programmed for it to be so.
You can have money and time if you have a massive amount of money. But you don't need that much money to have an enjoyable & meaningful life. Most people have to work.

You can't have love and freedom both, by definition. Love means giving a part of you to someone else.

The drug isn't having children, the drug is dedicating yourself to the service of something outside of yourself. That could be children, or other things.
Business owner wants employees to focus solely on work. Big surprise
You might have an exaggerated sense of what kind of control parents can have over their children, and an underestimation of how pervasive Internet tech is among preteens.

My 12 year daughter, for example, is one of only a few kids in her class that don't have their own phone. And it's been like this for a couple years. Her friends think we're dragons for restricting her and her brother to 1 hour a day. Throughout the school day she is getting access to school iPads for 'free time' where it's open season on YouTube and the like.

The ages 11 and up are when parents get a harsh education in just how little 'control' they can (or should?) have over their kids. The best bet is to make sure there's open channels of communication and enough mutual respect that your kids will come to you when confused or upset, and maybe even listen to your advice. Trying to clamp down on them and control their access to the Internet (in an era where most of their peers have almost unfettered access) doesn't encourage that trust. We've learned the hard way.
Then, soon, there will be Uber arbitrage: I only order food from cheep places, so I get great prices for Uber rides. Now, you can pay me to order the Uber ride for you. I get half of what you safed had you ordered the ride yourself. Deal?

(I never used an Uber and have no idea if that would work)
> Hydrogen just doesn't make sense from any engineering viewpoint other than "make sure there are still gas stations and a fuel distribution network no matter the cost."

There are gas stations and a fuel distribution network, so it makes sense to use the existing infrastructure.
Reader view is (to my understanding) a heuristic that gives you the biggest wall of text of the article. If it works, it is nice. But in these cases you can usually also c&p.

However, it does not work if what you want to save is not a wall of text. Some table, some receipt, etc. It does not work for the Google search box, for facebook, or Amazon, just to give an example.
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This turns out to be a more generalized statement because we can't just limit ourselves to the technological companies but also take into consideration of different industries starting from manufacturing, construction and varied other fields. Though I agree the resistance shown may be sometimes due to worst implementations of new technologies but at most of the cases it is not the same.

Also, agility is another important factor that takes the businesses to different horizons.
I’m not trying to convince anybody of that world view. My point is more modest: people can reasonably disagree about what is in the “best interest” of various groups, and therefore there is a difference between “convincing people to vote against their best interest” and “convincing people that a particular world view is in their best interest.”
The fact that you are posting this suggests your ethics are good.

The way people engage ethical questions is very complex. One way of looking at this is along the emotion vs. logic spectrum. Both strategies work, but have different advantages and require different feedback loops to improve. But it is our collective responsibility to engage those feedback loops as much as possible (which you're doing by your posting, which I think took courage).

On this particular issue it seems you're more towards the logic end. That's fine. If that makes you uncomfortable, that's ok. Dig a little but don't judge yourself - this only hurts the process.

At the end of the day, in the words of Batman: "It's not who you are that defines you, it's what you do."

Edit, for anecdata: I lost a parent to disease early in life, and it took me years to come to terms with the fact that I very rarely feel any emotion about it. Interestingly, I find my reaction changed with age.