skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.fo/6xEPW

The article makes this sound super shitty. What happens if you were traveling on May 14th in a country where you don't have cellphone service, trusting that you're going to use CouchSurfing to message your hosts to arrange to meet up when you arrive, and now you can't contact them any more? Either it's cough up the US$15 (assuming you even have a means of payment CouchSurfing accepts — I don't think they do M-PESA) or you're sleeping on the side of the road where your hitchhiking ride dropped you off. And US$15 is a fucking lot of money in some places.

I've hosted a bunch of people via Couchsurfing and also been hosted. Another alternative I've used is hospitalityclub.org, which seems to still be up. The article and other comments here mention BeWelcome, but I haven't tried it.

While I agree with comments that it shouldn't require hundreds of millions of dollars a year to run the site, and that we need to move community services like this onto decentralized systems, I think things like the Beaker Browser are not yet widespread enough. Communities like CouchSurfing where lots of people meet up in person and try new things might be the most fertile soil for something like that.
Ironically, Gil Tene uses the talk to sell you the Azul C4 pauseless GC, which shall easily invalidate your 10x lower p99 latency claim. Of course we also have zgc and shenandoah these days.
I am guessing that DoorDash will succeed in the very long term. Eventually they will not need independent restaurants, they can just start their own (and cut ingredient costs to whatever they need to make a profit). And eventually deliveries will be done by robots, so no workers to pay. I'm not saying this will happen tomorrow, but think 20 years out -- there is a lot of money to be made.

I am not sure that making something a commodity is necessarily bad. You can go to the grocery store and get store brand macaroni & cheese, kraft dinner, or some organic brand. Kraft and Amy's stay in business, so people must be buying those despite the higher cost. But the lower quality / lower cost version is available for people that want money more than better cheese powder. I don't think that's a bad thing, and is the direction that food delivery is going. (Starbucks didn't kill independent coffee shops, McDonalds didn't kill fine dining. DoorDash seems like that kind of thing to me.)
Not all distribution centers validate weight, don't recall if Amazon does but I would be surprised if they don't. High speed scales are expensive.
I don't think it will be such a dramatic shift. It will be more of a middle ground IMO. The mega corporations of US will be regulated by the government just like it happens in China. And China will end up with more rights and transperancy like a democracy.
Almost any societal level health policy, about breast cancer screening, colonoscopy recommendations, or whatever... people misunderstand all the time and announce "well that's because it's not effective under X circumstance".

It's always hard to explain, and then after explaining the probability stuff ... you get to explain that it is the probability ... that we know of.

For anyone who wants hard facts on COVID-19... science will tell us in 2 or 3 years I suspect.
Since when has it been the government's business

Weighing things like the lives of others vs a small disruption in your sex life seems right up government's (organized society's in general, even) alley.
What a perfect HN reply. Webapp bad. Native good. No justification. Just a bunch of generalizations.

Gmail empowers me. Wikipedia empowers me. Github empowers me.

Of course native application are important. You don't need to rely on those moralistic justifications.
Seriously. I'm a Hindi speaker living in South India and I keep getting Google search results. Facebook also thinks I must understand the language.
Yeah, it seems like you didn't grow up in a big city?
I'm referring to this one https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/15/our-extension-is-safe...
It works great. All those management middle men of thousands of delivery and taxi companies have been replaced with software. Razor thin margins are enough to keep the servers running and a small team of developers managing it - for the entire planet.

It's difficult for any company to abuse their position as they're easily repalcable. So the margins will get lower, and more of the money paid by the customer will go directly to the supplier. Efficiency incarnate.
But COVID-19 is very much under control in the area.

I'm just not sure what you mean when you talk about the state having a right. COVID-19 isn't expected to go away entirely for a long time, and California doesn't have enough money to give everyone paid leave for the next year. Workers can't be paid money that doesn't exist, even if they have a right to be paid.
I bet you have the same accent as most of the people you deal with. I do not, having moved halfway around the world, and doing things over the phone is often surprisingly painful.
So money laundering
This content is directly plagiarized from

https://news.yale.edu/2020/05/13/new-imaging-tool-helps-rese...

with the true author credit (Bill Hathaway) stripped out and replaced.
Oddly enough, your experience with CouchSurfing very much matches my initial experience with AirBnb, back in the days when they were still small.

My experience with CouchSurfing, on the other hand, was weird. When me and my roommates (3 guys, 2 girls) signed up our shared house (in waking distance of a touristic city center), we were expecting to see lots of backpackers and tourists our age. Instead, most of our guest requests were middle-aged women with a strong urge to point out how adventurous they were feeling. I believe we not once had a guest request from a guy.
> It's not about tanks or numbers its national resolve and there each side can vastly misread the other.

Agreed, but to be perfectly honest, I would be 100% happy to see the US pull all manufacturing out of China and put it back on US soil. The US has gained a temporary price reduction in labor that is now evaporating, gained no access to the Chinese market or influenced China to open further, and has lost the actual ability to manufacture far too many goods.

If that means things will get more automated because of expensive labor, great! Then we should build our own robots, too. If things will get more expensive, then perhaps we will start throwing things away less and start worrying about longevity more.

And, you know, the US has a lot of unemployed people who will need jobs very shortly.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article24276248...

Could a TB vaccine common in Latin America protect from COVID? New study casts doubt
It (long) predates "falsehoods" style articles, but this article is pretty commonly cited: http://jkorpela.fi/flags.html
Consciousness is a physical phenomenon. You can't wake up in another body in the same way you can't just wake up in someone else's house.
Sure, this does happen, but it's very rare. Anecdotally the most common issue is non-violent sexual assault - e.g. guys hitting on girls. That's largely a risk for solo female travelers unfortunately. If you travel as a couple, for example, the risk is far less. On the other hand the vast majority of solo travelers, male and female, don't have any issues.

There are some safety nets in place, like you can get verified by couchsurfing for a small fee. It's a trust system, people are encouraged to vouch for each other. If you're worried, then only visit/host people who have a lot of good reviews, or who can be vouched for by someone else in the community. If you were asking from the perspective of a prospective traveler I would suggest going to local couchsurfing meetups rather than randomly finding people to stay with. Often you can get recommendations directly and gut feel is very valuable.
This whole sphere of economic activity is a gigantic farce. It would be hilarious if it weren't so pestilent. The only upshot I can see is that it feels like people are finally catching on to it.
Logger for Recoiljs
> Yes there are consequences for unemployment since their job is available to them should they want to do it. This is by law, not Tesla's doing

Except it was illegal for Tesla to be opening up early against health department orders, so it seems likely that the law would actually be on the employee’s side. Terminating an employee for refusing to violate lawful government orders is illegal.

Of course, non-unionized factory workers at Tesla may very well not have a lawyer on retainer to consult about this and might feel forced by Tesla’s unlawful threat to go in anyway...
It's our understanding/perception that is fooled. We feel like we are the conscious authors of our thoughts when really they are summoned from within and calculated for us. We feel like pilots but really we're riding coach.

I feel like there is a chance I'm misinterpreting your question though, apologies if so.
Awesome article... Extra points for posting on blogger.com :)
I've participated in couch surfing for years when I was younger (single/childless) & the worst that happened (I hosted a lot more than I surfed) was that some people are just not that nice/interesting. I had many more positive experiences.

Keep in mind I'm a pretty big, able-bodied guy & at the time I was in my 20s. If I was a small woman living alone I may have skipped hosting single men.
My hospital now had a very easy to use portal for bills.

And I’ve still been sent to collections for a bill that wasn’t on that portal.
Get rid of the excessive high paid administrators.
You are making my case. Please do the math. Assume 15% YOY growth for ten years (almost impossible). Then figure out the breakeven time for buying the company at various multiples of earnings today.

If you want to be more realistic, don’t assume a constant earnings growth slope and allow for market tracebacks and competition.

Very important: Do not look for companies to fit your model. The fact that there might be outliers that buck the norm does not modify reality. The vast majority of companies (public or private) don’t have never-ending constant high earnings and market share growth, far from it.

I invested in a modem manufacturer many decades ago. Imagine valuing that company at 20 or 30 times earnings! They were out of business five years after I bought the stock.

I actually do buy stocks valued at crazy multiples. The difference is I buy them based on a prediction that others will be willing to pay more in the future. The decision has nothing to do with ROI based on company fundamentals. If you can identify what the sheep are hot for, you can make a lot of money. And, when they scare, it’s priceless.

EDIT: In your calculations you have to account for the fact that you can’t take 100% of earnings from a company every year. If you did that you would implode it. You’d be lucky if you could take 25%. Breakeven is very distant in the context of real math.
Similar story here, I would receive emails/phone calls every half-year inviting me to interview with Google.

My initial question was always "Can I stay here in Scotland?" to which the reply was "You will move to either Ireland, or Switzerland." At that point I said "Please stop calling/emailing me"

At some point they stopped calling/mailing, looking over my email archive it has been ten years+ since I've heard from anybody at Google.
I agree there's an inconsistency. The obvious explanation for why 8 counties think it's safe and Santa Clara thinks it's not is that Santa Clara is just wrong.
Spotify and Genius partnership – business model?
Since 2016, Spotify has partnered with Genius for providing lyrics and annotations for the songs.

Does anyone know how this partnership works? :)
Bryan/College Station is already growing beyond A&M for sure, even outsourcing companies like Cognizant are opening offices there, not to mention the oil (that might be a big if now of course) jobs around.
He seems to have caught the issue dead on, since you seem to be arguing you know more about pumping blood than the surgeons based on a feeling - exactly what the people arguing consciousness can't arise from biology are doing. They feel consciousness is some big important thing that can't be produced conventionally and then resort to the equivalent of religions to explain it - feelings arrived at with no scientific method that don't really hold any weight.
This is logger for state manager Recoiljs https://recoiljs.org/
I’ve got a quite scary thought about this: what if we are not only not the same consciousness after we fade away by daily sleep, etc.., but we are constantly fading away in short cycles, like every “tick” (planck time?) happening in the physical simulation of this world?

How would you be able to tell the difference?
I think this goes back to the early days of web development. Before we could add fonts with CSS @include and had to write progressive websites (yay 800x600), everyone who wished to use custom or platform specific fonts had to generate images with that text using a php script or some such. Since government IT is chronically underfunded (IMO) and the web hit critical mass late 90s/early 2000s - long before best practices or new technologies could be widely disseminated - most of them are stuck in that time period because that's when they were first forced to support the web.
> And China will end up with more rights and transperancy like a democracy.

I see no timeline in which this happens short of Xi Jinping catching coronavirus and dying.

China is headed into "What is best for Xi Jinping" rather than "What is best for China". Lysenkoism is coming.
It wouldn't work because it doesn't support the intrusive tracking (including "telemetry" and "analytics"), giant slide-over windows that obscure the content, repeated pop-ups demanding your email address, announcements that "you have 1 free article remaining unless you pay for a subscription," social media integration buttons, solicitations to "download our mobile app," CAPTCHA loops, "DDoS protection" delays and redirects, ad-blocker-blockers and autoplaying videos that are integral to web sites in 2020.

Also it is too lightweight in terms of cpu, memory, network and power usage, so it wouldn't push users to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware (and data plans) every year just to maintain the same performance they had last year.
China becoming more democratic has been a pipe dream getting sold by businesses making money off the fantasy for 3 decades and running.

The opposite is currently happening.
So many websites do this. It's been very frustrating for years. I have everything set up to Catalan or otherwise English, but so many websites decide they should force me into their Spanish version. I don't even live in a Spanish-speaking country. I get it, you see Catalan and think, hey, we don't have Catalan, but we can offer Spanish! Well, not all Catalan speakers live in Spain. Catalan has been spoken for centuries in other areas. Consider the case of my kids who read and speak Catalan and English, but not Spanish.
Plenty of other car manufacturers were shut down too - Ford, GM, Toyota, basically all of Tesla’s competitors as I understand it across different states not just in California. For instance, here is a story about a Toyota plant in Texas being closed between March and May. https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Toyota-again-pu...

Never mind that “federal guidelines” have no legal relevance to county or state health orders. The US constitution leaves police power, including quarantine orders, to the discretion of the states.
Exactly.

Not only that, but it's so much easier to misread your opponent and the nature of the game when the dynamics are very high dimensional as they are now. It's not just about tanks or militaries anymore. Information warfare and misinformation campaigns, economic warfare, cyber warfare... When all of these potential channels of conflict exist it's very hard to reduce tension in any one domain without tensions rising in another, which in turn fuels an increase in general tension.
Thank you for this post -- this is one of the best, most succinct, accurate commentary on parenting + work life I've read. This echoes my experience as a parent of a 2-year-old now, as someone who had been quite career-focused all my life before that; and it also serves as a good reminder of traits I should continue to strive to have.
The last time I had a face to face interview I actually brought my child with me. Apparently in Finland that is, if not common, at least acceptible.

(I'd quit a previous job specifically because I wanted to be a stay at home parent, but then time passed and I had to make the decision to work again.)

Later I heard the way I'd treated him in the interview was a positive thing that helped me in the interview, though to this day I can't recall what I did with him except "Please be a little quiet now, Daddy needs to talk .."
See, you will enable it. it is plausible why you should give over microphone access.

(meanwhile I can also add an advertising sdk to listen for nearby television advertisements or recognize nearby music to "add value")
What's amazing to me is that they can all so brazenly pursue a strategy of "monopoly or bust" without any fear of regulatory action once they reach that endgame. I'm not sure whether it speaks more to the foolishness of VCs, or to the corruption of regulatory institutions.
> taking cabs

It all depends on where you're hailing and where you're going to. Also on what you look like. Drivers don't like some locations and appearances.
I hope you did better than Netflix. It's horrible to navigate. For example it's really really not obvious how you find previous seasons of a show.
Oops. Thanks!

...although I realized just now that I'm actually using the native client, so it should actually have been another "native" in my case. D'oh.

https://github.com/overtake/TelegramSwift
It's the opposite. People are so busy that they can't spend 10 minutes to get food.

Also the fact that they can afford the premiums in the first place implies that they're not lazy ;)
How about public transport? It makes a substantial difference that I can pull up the route suggestion and station timetable from my pocket always-on always-connected supercomputer to know to the minute when I need to start tieing my shoes to get where I'm going. You're basically arguing that adding telepathic conscioussness to a service provides less than zero value.
Not a language, but hotels.com was quoting me prices to North American hotels in Rupias months after my visit to India.
Can we get the TSMC fab built in America first before stirring things up?
Aside from magically happening upon internal memos, what evidence could I possibly have? I am using simple reasoning, extrapolating about the future using data observed in the past. It seems a bit underhanded to demand evidence of the intent of a corporation.

Microsoft is, quite literally, famous for their EEE strategy. And, as a major corporation, their decisions are based on forecasted returns to shareholder value. Those two facts support the idea that Microsoft purchased GitHub as part of an EEE strategy on git. What we should be arguing about is how strongly they indicate that is what Microsoft is playing at; history has already shown that it is a definite possibility.
Worth watching a Deepak / Sam Harris interview, they tend to turn into - painful, but - great comedy.
For the company I work for, our software is preferred offline to secure sensitive data. We, and they, cannot afford data leaks like online “cloud” services.

We’re a very unique niche software that could be design online only, some have, but they slowly fail.
Users who get scammed or get spammed are usually unhappy, so that’s a big request right there.

I’m not a fan personally that Facebook has extended their anti-spam infrastructure to block some sharing of other disfavored links in PMs (e.g. the open-source gun building website was blocked). But I’m sure there are plenty of anti-gun facebook users who cheered that move.
Would the revised Nokia 3310 work?

https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310

It’s basically an old style Nokia rebuilt for the modern era.
It's because the consumer experience is so subsidized. Consumers would also love an app that sends them $1.10 for every $1.00 they spend in it.
Yes, we would have to send the same signals for a significant interval of time like it was a year ago and to the brain of the subject. Also having all the outside the body external forces aligning similar to the past and for the experiment to be successful for answering the question. It's a pipe dream but theoretically possible.
I updated it to hide name and email by default.

If people wish to expose their name and email, they can include an email signature!

Edit: If you already posted, this page was already archived so you should create a new e-mail address if you want to be pseudoanonymous.
In the immediate future, Huawei will be fine:

> Huawei has been preparing for such a move by the U.S. since the end of last year, including stockpiling more than a year's worth of networking equipment-related chips, especially for its crucial telecom equipment and carrier business, sources told Nikkei Asian Review.
Thanks for your posts abellerose, I am in agreeance and find this topic generally interesting. Free will hasn't been defined in such a way I think it can even exist (that I've seen or understood).

Do you have any thoughts on how this impacts the way you see the world? Personally I find it something I'm almost keeping 'off to one side', and am aware of, but in the 'heat of the moment' I still feel like I'm an independent agent. Maybe it speaks to the self-deception at the core of every human.

Sam Harris (while being a figure I can take or leave) raised what seems a good point; that our penal systems should be therefore 100% geared around rehabilitation, not punishment.

Do you think there are other ways we can map this onto daily life?

I try and never be too certain of anything, given the veritable ocean of cognitive biases we have to fight against.. but this is a trait I developed before discovering the argument of determinism vs non-determinism.
This is a great idea. I've actually started down this path a bit, and will add the actual email relay tomorrow!
"All non-U. S. chip manufacturers using American chipmaking equipment, intellectual property or design software will have to apply for a license before shipping chips to Huawei."

Isn't that really crossing the line; It implies that if a country buys American Equipment/Software then they are at the whims of American policy; American equipment comes with strings attached: Really does not look appealing to many countries this.

What if Huawei rebrand themselves or try to gain a new identity etc, then US regulations has to catch up again.

Moreover is this some sort of punitive measure against Huawei? What if they approach US courts, what shall be the outcome?
Right, pull the other one. The number of issues with Microsoft in recent times is large enough to put serious doubt to the theory that they've changed.
I understand!

It's definitely a popular line of thought. Though having worked in multiple areas of the US, I don't think it is. You won't need to look hard in SF, NYC, or London to find corporate leadership that doesn't really consider engineers to be humans like them.

Is it possible people are looking for patterns in noise?

Personally, I find the purported cultural commentary of others on offer here to be an uncomfortable echo of the cultural snobbery one hears daily offered by Californians to the "flyover states".
Unfortunately various sites, particularly Google's, gatekeep functionality behind the language/region setting.

Browser set to en-au? "Oh, I'm sorry, you can't use this feature yet because it's not in your region." for years after launch.
Hah! I had the same experience in Vietnam. It was in Hanoi and I had such a blast. The students of the class took me around and showed me places for the rest of the week.
And thus enables the Chinese semiconductor industry.