skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar experience with the couchsurfing community 6 or 7 years ago. Beyond the basic hosting concept, there was also a large group of people who would meet up regularly in my city, which made it really easy to find activities for the guests you had in town. I really hope they find a way to keep going.
None of those are 'big reasons'.

Or rather, they might be 'big' for a few teams in specific areas, but they are not 'big market opportunities' not even close.

The ability to go from Java+Spring OR Perl/PHP - and then have the choice to actually do JS on the server is a big deal - and that's why Node.js was a success.

The sandbox is nice but I don't see it being a big opportunity just yet. 'Running your own SaaS with untrusted code' is a developing area, and I'm not sure of Deno actually is a solution (how does one integrate with it). Also - Node.js does have some options there in the form of VM2. The real security hasn't been validated just yet either.

'TS first' - I think is just a toolchain and packaging optimization. We're all going to be running some kind of process for bundling and packing, it requires no effort to transpile in to JS at that point.

The isomorphism again, is a neat feature.

In other words, Deno has some cool new features in the context of 'the market/users space' for server side JS, whereas Node.js actually founded and created that entire market category.

Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't bet on any movement towards Deno, just because there are too many legacy Node.js already there, but since there seems to be a strong fanboy following, I don't doubt a lot of young devs push for it to be used because it's cool and shiny. All 'shiny new toys' have some benefits here and there, it's just a matter of contextualizing them into the incumbent landscape.
Yes, 100% completely. Once I had my kids, I was never as productive as I was pre-kids.

But it was completely worth it.
Being a digital nomad is something that I've considered as well. How does your experience as a digital nomad compare to a FAANG offer financially and in terms of growth?
I have great respect for the Navajo and Hopi people of Arizona and New Mexico.
My recent interest in learning Japanese doesn't contradict the fact that I stopped using RSVP years ago because I didn't need to inhale information that way anymore.

FWIW, I may well use RSVP as part of a trance-assisted program of learning Japanese in the future. The simplest method of learning a foreign language is to age-regress to a pre-linguistic age and then grow up again in a community of speakers over a period of a few days. Obviously you want to be selective of the parts of your psyche you regress (so e.g. no one has to change your diapers.) If you can't get a community of speakers willing to help you you can do things like saturate with TV in the language, and then polish up afterwards. Anyhow, even with hypnosis one can't squeeze blood from a stone. That's why I was asking about resources and communities.
I think I read that somewhere on the side of a bottle of Dr. Bronner's soap in the shower. Although, every permutation of writing that could ever be written by a million monkeys at typewriters is on the side of a Dr. Bronner's too. Even this comment. #meta

Entities with too much consciousness can't handle their own consciousness and either go Warhol, invent the atom bomb, or make a startup selling silicone girlfriends because their bulging brains get in the way of their more fundamental drives.

Mental onany isn't as good as reality.
is this due before or after full autonomy?
Not every activity needs to be a viable way to make money. If you're struggling to put food on the table, maybe you should explore other avenues for making money besides blogging. If you want to write, there are lots of ways to get paid for writing.

Everyone has activities they enjoy that don't produce any income. Just because people enjoy an activity doesn't mean that there has to be a way to make a living from it. People enjoy playing video games, riding horses, sailing, painting. For most people they will not be able to support themselves with these things and we generally don't think that we have to go out of our way to make it possible for them to, so why is blogging different?

The general order of business goes "Here is something people are willing to pay money for -> You can do this and make money" not "Here is something I want people to pay me money for -> Pay me money for this"
downvoters I'm curious to hear your counterexamples!
Bias is unavoidable but if you read a variety of reputable news sources from around the world you will at least know when they disagree.

Then, if you care enough you can investigate the issue yourself and come to your own conclusions. In not, then at least you know that it's controversial.
Thanks for sharing.

Couchsurfing is so interesting. Its success relies on it never becoming mainstream.

It's like those word-of-mouth-only parties that are so great but if enough people hear about them, they are no longer any good.

I had a similar experience with drum circles in Toronto, Canada. They were this hippie heaven of people coming together in a park and playing drums once a week in the summertime. Other people would come by and picnic, sit around, dance, hula hoop, whatever.

Once it got popular enough, the park would be littered by the end of the day, so local residents complained and got drum circles banned, so we don't have drum circles anymore, because they were too good and a complete non-profit :)
Ever since i have had a kid, I have started asking the reverse question; Is my career dragging my parenting down?

I always wanted be a good dad, whatever that means to each one of us, my career choices started showing up in conflict.
I had to make choices. Overall, over the past few years having a kid really made me think about my priorities.
It made me focus and plan more and improved my ability to do more in less time.
The first few years are hard and you will not be able to give as much time to your career if you want to spend that time with your child and spouse in constructive ways.
Which is fine because the career is 40 yrs long.
My conclusion is that I chose to have kids and now I will work on maintaining that relationship because at end of the day you can change jobs, go to a place that recognises people have lives, do something else in your life apart from your current career (you never know), but your kid is your kid and not someone else's and the early years will not come back again.
As for my experience with my manager - As long as i get the work done, my place of work doesn't care about being seated in office. With Work From Home now taking off there are plans of making this semi permanent even if things go back to normal.
Edit: formatting
I've been quite surprised at how quickly people went from calling Trump "literally Hitler" or at the very least a Russian puppet/Manchurian candidate to complaining that he didn't come down with a hard enough iron fist and start doing things like declaring martial law to more strictly enforce lockdowns. I think there's some very interesting things going on here psychologically with respect to fear, team sports, and state power.
Since identical particles[0] are inherent in QM, I don't think you could even define what one "electron" is or what it might mean for it to be conscious. But conciousness (or rather, proto-qualia, which are the part of "conciousness" that really seems to demand some physical explanation) could subsist in more complex systems, probably involving a high-dimensional internal description as a result of some sort of stable quantum entanglement.

(Indeed, the fact that the sort of basic subjective experience we're familiar with seems to empirically exist as part of intelligent life is a rather compelling argument for non-trivial quantum computation of some sort being quite feasible in the real world.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_particles
Man I don’t know what industry you’re in but I get 3-4 PDF’s a week.
> I also think all these costs mean you should try really hard to avoid making your system distributed if you don’t have to.

There's a point here about microservices.
It probably can't since people don't have to be honest about being DoorDash.
AI overtaking humans and maybe some kind of merging with that is bound to be a big change. Bit hard to see beyond that.
Without a way for end-users to actually make judgements about application efficiency, there will never be any real pressure to make efficient, native apps.

I'd say it's more of a "without a way for end-users to compare" --- the average user has no idea how much computing resources are necessary, so if they see their email client taking 15 seconds to load an email and using several GB of RAM, they won't know any better; unless they have also used a different client that would do it instantly and use only a few MB of RAM.

Users complain all the time when apps are slow, and I think that's the best point of comparison.
Mostly because it’s not a zero sum game.

Yes it’s more achievable to build a pod on the antarctic (we’ve done that) or the ocean floor, but we should also see what we can do outside of our bubble.

I personally think Venus cloud stations are a better target, but why not try them all?

We learn great things and enable wonderful tech like the internet and GPS when we do huge projects like this, so why not?
(I'd rather share this anonymously, so this is a throwaway account.)

I'm a software engineer and technical manager with just shy of 20 years of experience. I've never received a job offer from a FAANG company, but I've said "no thanks" to Google recruiters a number of times over the last ~10 years, and several years ago I did an initial remote interview with Netflix before declining their offer of an onsite interview. Here are my own personal reasons against working for a FAANG company:

Facebook/Google: Surveillance capitalism at its finest; working for one of these would be using my talents to further the greatest privacy-violating data collection regime (with virtually zero government oversight) the world has ever seen. I'd rather give up programming entirely and work retail.

Amazon: less objectionable than FB/Goog, but only slightly. They treat their non-engineer employees like complete crap, and I've heard that the quality of life even on the engineering side is very much dependent on the org you end up in and your manager.

Apple: Their privacy game is much stronger than any of the above, and I use their devices daily. Their walled gardens and locked-down devices mean they are a far cry from the hacker-friendly Apple I remember as a kid in the 80s. Their culture also seems very secretive and rather cult-like which leaves a bad taste in my mouth (though maybe this is improving since Steve's death?)

Netflix: by far the least objectionable FAANG, many fewer privacy concerns and the product is good IMHO. However, they have a hard policy against remote work, at least for the team(s) I was looking at, and I don't want to live anywhere near SF Bay. This is the only reason I ended the interview process with them.

Aside from all of the above and even if you disagree with everything I said, FAANGs are just so huge that the incremental value you add by joining is likely to be tiny. I've spent the last ~10 years working at startups to mid-size companies (from 5 up to 200 people) and I feel that my work is much more impactful than it could ever be at a FAANG.
If wine and steam count as app support, then you're not wrong. It's pretty amazing what can run on linux nowadays compared to yesteryear.
I'm curious to hear how restaurant delivery services are meant to make profit; is it really through service fees (or a monthly subscription model), and tips?

Cost per meal seems way too high for people to use it often. Maybe it make economical sense for larger party orders, but how often do those kinds of orders happen during considering the COVID situation?
But how can DoorDash advertise and impersonate someone else's restaurant without their consent?
We’re About to Have the Longest Summer Vacation. That’s Going to Be a Problem
I just want an off-site backup for humanity. Sure, it's high latency and the restoration process takes forever - but it's something!
We’ve been considering moving our labs‘ blog there (because less maintenance, higher visibility in tech academic communities) and have been wondering about this too. Can someone comment? Are they aiming towards raising a login wall for the whole platform?
But that's a budget problem in the end, no?
PC takeovers leading to millions of people being victims of identity theft, or used as a backdoor for national security relevant hacking efforts... We need to stop acting like these things are “insignificant” and accept responsibility for our actions.
This is so asburd it feels like a story in bad movie. We have pushed finance & capital so far into the realm of fiction that it doesn't really make sense anymore.

Artificial growth for the sake of artificial growth, just so you can get to your exit and leave someone else holding the bag. Ponzi schemes at massive scale.

How did the startup/VC world become so entangled in all this bullshit capitalism?
>but rather that this situation seemingly can arise with no ill will at all assuming countries exist.

No matter the reasons, this situation arising supports the claim that that global resources are flowing from the poor to the rich.

That said, even if that were possible it is clearly not what is happening. No country needs this capital flight.
> Less hours means less dedication in the eyes of management.

You need to change jobs. I work for a fortune 100 company that is extremely supportive of kids and families. They don’t just talk the talk, but they actually walk the walk.
The pizza business is the one making the profit here, at doordash's expense.

It'd presumably be trivial for doordash to fix this, by checking the order amount against the cost. The article explains why they might not be doing that ("growth")
I think the two are simply illusions. Humans think of as free will and similar to thinking of having a consciousness in reality is just illusions at play. We can assume consciousness is similar to an outside external force that ends up with causing an outcome. Similar as a domino being interacting with another domino and resulting in a cause & effect outcome. I don't think humans are responsible at all for anything of their own doing. Some things are in fact impossible and even with how hard we desire them.

My previous comment is suggesting that it would be interesting to learn if somehow the processing of thinking isn't happening purely in the brain. Such as if we could revert all neurons back to a previous state of time before external forces changed everything up. I like to theorize about the universe having some state that's stored somewhere outside of what's physically observable.
I think there's a new business model that's taken over.

EEE -> Embrace Extend Exfiltrate

or maybe:

III -> Install Identify, ...Income!

(google makes billions just by identifying individuals)
That's the problem... The political conditions that preclude passage of such a law.
There are a few options.

https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

https://github.com/briskml/brisk
To your first problem: In the simple agricultural example, clearing the land has a reasonably predictable cost, whether it is taking down centuries-old trees and removing stumps and roots, or removing the boulders, or removing the spring harvest of rocks that surface due to winter freezes and placing them onto walls. Often the soil must be drained, and fenced, and possibly irrigated. But not all the land will be improved at once; uncleared land will be close to cleared, fenced, drained land, and obviously a tenant or buyer will pay more for partially improved farmland than for unimproved.

To your second problem: Where in the US is there unowned land? The settlers went west across thousands of miles of unoccupied land. Why didn't they stop and settle? It was owned. Early and ultimate sprawl. Others had pre-empted it for the benefit of their heirs. Think how the development of the US would have been had development proceeded west in some orderly way.

To your third problem: the land is forever. If well taken care of, it will remain fertile. But its fertility may not be important for all that long, depending on its location; its highest and best use will stop being agriculture. Buildings built for one purpose gradually deteriorate, and as the community changes, are no longer suitable to the current highest and best use of that land. At one time in NYC - say, 1880 - 21 year leases were common, and huge department stores and other edifices were built on them. It was understood that another building would likely follow. And it did. And the landlord got his "share." How did he earn that share? And look at the teardowns in your part of the country. Homes that seem perfectly serviceable to some of us are bought to be torn down to build something else on that well-located land. It doesn't happen on the edge of town; it happens in the center of things. The price one is willing to pay to get that land is pretty clear: the transaction plus the cost of removing the old improvement.

To your fourth problem: the land owner who doesn't improve his land can still sell it for a higher price due to the activity of the community around him. The value of the improvements never exceeds their replacement value, but could be quite a bit less. A huge spa resort built 15 or 20 miles from Disney World is likely an over-development of the land it is built on, while closer to DW, it might be quite appropriate and profitable. One who is building with consideration to others' preferences -- as customers or as tenants -- will build differently from one who simply wants what they want, without regard to resale value. We don't increase the unimproved value of our own sites, but we can contribute to the value of the surrounding sites -- or we might decrease the value. Increasing it doesn't exempt us from any portion of the value of our own site. Our neighbors' actions can increase or decrease the value of our own site. Regular reassessments take that into account.
Dabbawalas are getting paid in good salary because they are a lot more efficient comparing to Uber drivers.
From other reports / business review I am reading, there are about 200k customers with 5k Dabbawalas workers. That is avg 40 lunch deliveries per person. That is a LOT more efficient than Uber drivers.

The Dabbawalas is more efficient because:
- built on top of public transit: dramatically lower cost, no need to pay for gas
- have a pre set schedule and demand / not on-demand: enable huge supply chain optimization.
There simply wasn't any guarantee that once you installed a native app, you could ever fully remove it. Not to mention all the baggage with DLL hell, and the propensity of software to write random junk all over the filesytem.

Bloated, inefficient software is certainly present on the native side too, but it's also possible to write single-binary "portable" ones that don't require any installation --- just download and run.
Yes - not surprised family income is higher - that's what happens when all members of the household have to work full time in order to afford rent.
https://archive.md/9DpTM
While the definition of polymath is somewhat contested and arbitrary, my opinion is that the defining trait of polymathy is insatiable curiosity and a desire to invent things and solve problems, real or imaginary. I do not know how common this base set of traits is, and how variable it is in magnitude, but I suspect it is higher than 1 in 100. When you add in some combination of raw IQ, financial circumstance, educational circumstance, ambition, work ethic, and leadership skills, then you end up a more impactful polymath ranging from the software engineer who builds interesting things and blogs/researches various topics in her spare time to Elon Musk to Von Neumann.

I see many smart naysayer's on HN who argue "this would never work" or "this is considered bad practice" without offering some alternative idea. In fact, this is probably the most common type of comment. While they are usually correct, this is the exact opposite of how a polymath thinks. Polymaths have a confidence in their own ideas and a desire to explore and build a mental model for themselves before taking the tribal wisdom at face value. Thinking via first principles comes innately to these types.
The "science" of Hegemony and Control and Power?
I’m 31.
Agreed. The RSS can easily be equivalent to a Tweet with a link attached. I like Thunderbird on desktops including RasPi, have yet to explore cross platform + floss mobile or web readers, but have built my own little youtube-like stack with RSS that is similar to YT’s feed format and can aggregate them, in the iSpooge Live project in Clojure + ClojureScript.
I am curious to know why you are working through this book. Is it related to your career or are you doing just for fun? I am asking because I often face this dilemma of whether to invest time in furthering my career or doing something I like that is not going to help my career (although this book might given that it has theory of trees and graphs).
You're wrong, there are still mods for the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/about/moderators

Only the ones trying to fight reddit admins were removed: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/fi4ojg/the_...
After reading that I wondered what happens on Linux if you actually call posix_madvise(POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED). The answer, from glibc:

/* We have one problem: the kernel's MADV_DONTNEED does not
correspond to POSIX's POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED. The former simply
discards changes made to the memory without writing it back to
disk, if this would be necessary. The POSIX behavior does not
allow this. There is no functionality mapping the POSIX behavior
so far so we ignore that advice for now. */
if (advice == POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED)
return 0;
I have a vague sense that this exact scenario with pizza was covered in the Silicon Valley sitcom...
Even materialists agree that consciousness is a matter of degree; panpsychists don't have a monopoly on that position. Humans are more conscious than mammals who are more conscious than fish who are more conscious than insects. But the materialist position is that any non-zero degree of consciousness requires a substrate capable of computation, and so you bottom out to zero long before you get to electrons.
You say '"science"', I say reality. There isn't much room for creativity, because nobody wants elective exposure when the spread is still fundamentally unmanaged and growing. There is no middleground of prudently half-exposing yourself. Rather you go out only when you have to and mitigate that exposure as much as possible. The political debate is basically driven by people wanting others to ignore the problem, so that they themselves will be less disrupted.

For military service, specifically the US has moved away from the draft though. It's much less authoritarian to effortlessly cheerlead for sending employees off to die, versus being so whipped up that the majority of the population is willing to go themselves. Mandatory military service only works when people trust the government. If USG attempted to institute a draft for its next nation building exercise, it would find out how little support its wars actually have.