skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US, unlike many other countries, doesn't have a national ID card issued to citizens. So to obtain an ID, citizens need to usually have either a passport, which costs $85, or a certified birth certificate, which can cost up to $45. And ironically, you often need valid ID to request a birth certificate.

So for lower income citizens, the cost can be prohibitive. This then becomes the equivalent of a poll tax, which historically was used to disenfranchise minorities.

So I'm not saying it's impossible to implement. If the Federal government wants to start issuing free national ID cards, then that would be acceptable in my opinion. However, this would trigger a huge part of the population that doesn't want government tracking etc.
I was hype until the part about it being total miles, not range on a single charge. And then I was disappointed. And then uninterested as I thought to myself "yeah that makes more sense." And then suddenly angry, as I thought to myself "wait why they hell AREN'T they trying to develop a million miles battery on a single charge!"
> society benefits from when parents raise their kids to be “better off” than they were.

Society doesn't benefit from this. Low-status jobs still have to be filled, at least until technology eliminates them. Making sure that your kids aren't the ones that do them isn't a benefit to anyone but you and your kids.

> I believe that having and even encouraging parents to strive, scrimp, save, and sacrifice for their children is an overall positive force for society.

This is less a thing that doctors have to do than a thing that plumbers have to do.
Anyone know if it would be considered fraud and/or illegal to exploit this? I would consider doordash and grubhubs tactics of falsely representing themselves as restaurants to be more unethical. It would be great if someone could scale a solution that would take those arbitrage opportunities and pass them on to the drivers and the restaurants.
It really whipped the llamas ass.
I suspect the larger restaurants have negotiated deals already, so they would not be amenable to this.
Not for me. It's turbocharged my career. It helps that I'm at the level where management isn't seeing my contribution as hours in a chair. Having kids gave me something in common with all of our senior management. Anecdotally, that improved relationship has been a hell of a boost for my career success.

It certainly will depend on your individual situation. If your management is all childless workaholics, I can see how it would totally count against you.
I'm not sure random draws are even better from a zoomed-out "total welfare" score. People get lot of value from preparing for the future and believing good things will probably happen, especially when it comes to their kids. The random straws outcome makes that impossible. That's a lot of utility to leave on the table.

The flip side is that parents who could not ordinarily build for their kids' futures might feel better. I wonder if that's enough to compensate.
In my twenty five years of browsing the web I've clicked on two ads. The second one very recently. I guess it's a tough job.
I don't think many people wanted Trump to declare martial law. Rather, I think people want him to not incite armed protests against governors who do lock down their states, and more importantly would have liked to see a test and trace program put in place by the federal government at some point between December and when we started having a few 9/11's worth of deaths per week.
You can be as tolerant as you want, that's not how things go for iOS apps. It's certainly not how things go on macOS except when there are no available alternatives.

Windows, Android, and the web, constantly changing so that there's never really been any sense of stability, blind a lot of developers to the fact that good design is both functionality AND looks.

When people complain about designs of controls being out of date, they don't only refer to looks. They refer to how they feel, behave — or more succinctly, don't correspond to the expectations set up by the rest of the system.

To reduce the debate down to looks vs. functionality is reducing things down to the wrong level, missing the forest for the trees, and ignoring the user — a person who often isn't able to express what they need but knows what they want, not often realising that they're the same thing.
This may be a silly question, but what benefits do you find in caffeine pills over just having a cup of coffee?
I could see Street View-like vistas under a Pentium3/Amd Athlon.
On power, I did the same you can do today but with an Athlon XP and Kopete. On video, since BeOS and Mplayer I could multitask perfectly XVid movies good enough for its era.
When you start the actual construction of a structure you may begin to fret that the amount of time you are able to devote to erecting the scaffolding around it is now in decline.

This is by design. The structure was always the goal.
The Dabbawalas "secret" is: - 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.
These 2 are the key differences between the dabbawalas and uber eats supply chains.

Uber can also does similar optimizations if they offer a lunch subscription service that u pre-book ur lunches.

- uses vanes to do batch pick up / drop off: restaurants (small van)-> local hub (large van)-> destination local hub -> final mile delivery on bike / foot.

This will provide efficient supply chain to keep cost down and reliable if theres enough demand.

However, demand might be low because US customers looking to save money are used to pack their own lunch and microwave at work. This is not an option in Mumbai because of crowed train in rush hour.
I'm curious what the total energy storage would be, and what kind of destructive damage it could do. A million miles is a lot of miles to move a full Tesla, passengers, and luggage around.

Anyone want to do a back-of-the-envelope sketch and give some colorful units-of-measurement given instantaneous discharge (e.g. tons of TNT)?
I think that can be true, but people can be wrong about their own interests or who or what will actually help them.
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> [...] military supremacy and having the best weapons in the world is a huge part of why the dollar is THE global currency.

However, in "How the United States Could Lose a Great-Power War" (RAND, 2019)[0], we read:

> [...] For now, U.S. forces appear poorly postured to meet these challenges. That's because both Russia and China have developed formidable networks of missiles, radars, electronic warfare systems, and the like to degrade and potentially even block U.S. forces' ability to operate in the Western Pacific and Eastern Europe to defend allies and partners in those regions. China in particular is developing increasingly impressive capabilities to project military farther afield, including through systems such as aircraft carriers, long-range aviation, and nuclear-powered submarines. Together, these forces have tilted the military balance over places such as Taiwan and the Baltic states from unquestioned U.S. dominance to something much more competitive.

And[1]

> The US keeps losing, hard, in simulated wars with Russia and China. [...]

[0]: https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/10/how-the-united-states-coul...

[1]: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-t...
If you use typescript, the tooling is great and the parent also mention it so I assume they are using it.

Code reusability between browser/desktop/mobile is one. Easier to find developers, faster development speed due to ecosystem, previous experience/familiarity etc. I guess.
"watch the kid" -- I think you spelled "be a parent" wrong.

I don't know where you are in your career, or what your expectation is of a career, but there are lots of companies out there where you can do interesting things, be well paid, and have time to balance your work and family life. You just need to look for it just like you were looking for a higher salary, more responsibility, or even use of a particular technology.

Asking about it at an interview may get you an answer, or rather, anything but an emphatic "yes" with some examples may be a strong negative sign. But I think the key thing is to decide what you want out of both a career and a family, and to find the job that puts you on that path.
1. Adventure, exploration.
2. The earth will be destroyed by the changing Sun in a few 100 million years. :)
3. Better to not have 10x the human population here. Leave big open spaces for the other animals and national parks.
I'm sure there are other reasons too...
When HG was writing, there were taxes on land, on buildings, on personal property such as watches, horses, carriages, umbrellas ... the poor paid the personal property taxes -- and widows and orphans paid them, because their trustee wouldn't swear off on less than the real amount. But on his own holdings, well, they were quite meager. Some interesting news articles compared the personal property of rich decedents to the personal property on which they paid annual taxes.

There were also significant tariffs on imported goods. Sugar and tea, which the poor liked as well as the rich. One of HG's books was "Protection or Free Trade" which Milton Friedman called his favorite book on the topic. (Then again, Friedman repeatedly called land value taxation the "least bad" tax, but never found the motivation to promote its application.) I had occasion to dip into POFT last week, and found it pleasurable and interesting reading. Its at Schalkenbach's website, among other places.

Yes, a shift could be quite gradual, though I suspect that once it was begun, and people began to see the beauty of untaxing buildings, wages, sales, it would likely be sped up.
I wish we would adopt automatic ticketing for speeding. It’s been tried in some places near me and there was public outcry about privacy issues. I don’t know what they are exactly, I believe there is no reasonable expectation of privacy while driving on public roads, especially when you’re breaking the law, nonetheless it seems to be working to prevent photo ticketing.

It was super interesting driving a rental car in Iceland last year. They have automatic speed cameras & ticketing. And we didn’t ask for it, but the rental car’s computer knew where they were and beeped every time we approached one.
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21930336
Trying to develop a battery that can do a million miles on a single charge right now would be like telling a Chinese kingdom circa 500 AD to develop a working moon rocket because they have fireworks.
I'm not ignoring the context at all. If I genuinely believed that someone was evil, I cannot imagine a scenario in which I'd want them to have more control over me. The fact that so many people feel the opposite of me in this particular context is really interesting and hard for me to grasp. I want to be clear, I'm not suggesting anyone is right or wrong. I just find it fascinating.
That was actually explored in https://xkcd.com/505/ but with rocks instead of paper. Also "Ship of Theseus".

My take on it, is that my consciousness is not the one I was born with, or the one I had a few years ago -- instead, it just thinks it is that same one, but the only link to previous versions is just memories.
Thank you. I definitely try to strike a balance. As the primary earner, I feel there is a lot of pressure on me to deliver. It is definitely a difficult balancing act to balance being there for my family and providing for them. I look forward to this being only a few difficult years like you said.
who gives a fuck about making the man money. Enjoy your life, nobody who matters gives a shit about your job title.

I think too many people are obsessed with making "all of the money", when just "some of the money" leads to a better lifestyle.

That being said: People with kids get fired much more rarely, tend to get the promotions, have much more understanding around missing work, and parents tend to watch out for eachother.
I guess first you will be able to buy the chassis option that will support this future battery.
When I was a teenager, I tried to work at McDonald's over one summer break.

They turned me down.
The stimulus check going to millions of people is also part of the Trillions they are spending. They are printing money at an unbelievable pace and handing it out willy nilly right now it seems.
I don't know why people says that RSS is dead... It is very much alive. I am still using it for everything.

Just because it stagnated and is not as popular as social networks does not mean it is dead.
In-N-Out has done this: https://www.foodandwine.com/news/n-out-doesnt-want-anyone-de...
The turnover rate is low and the weight of those companies in the index is very small. That said, I prefer broader indices.
This is not how defaults work.

When you are talking about the realm of the possible, you provide settings that allow you to reach the scenarios that you feel are reasonable, desirable, or lucrative (or commonly enough, some happy combination of the three).

Defaults are the realm of the probable. And nobody is requisitioning a 192 core machine without a good bit of due diligence, which would include deciding how to set server affinity.
Thing is, RSS didn’t “die”. It only ever filled a couple of niches, and arguably it is more popular than it ever was because not only are people still continuing to use RSS readers, podcasts are arguably more popular than they’ve ever been (this period of time with the coronavirus possibly excepted).

I get that when people think of “RSS”, they’re thinking of tech that downloads text and maybe some images into a reader, but it’s just another means of syndicating media. The same places that disseminate the full text continue to do so because they’re not invested in making money directly off the writing, and the same places that have an investment in you going directly to the site continue to operate their feeds in that manner. If you have a browser extension that can discover it, or are willing to do a bit of guesswork, it’s amazing how many new sites launched in the last year that might not expose it on the website (because the webmaster didn’t think it was important to expose even when the CMS has it) actually have a feed you can pass off to a reader.

I don’t think RSS is ever going be competitive with a service like Instagram or Reddit for what they do, but the full value of these services doesn’t lie entirely within a feed and wouldn’t be neatly exposed within the constraints of the RSS or Atom specs to begin with. It’s different, and therefore have other, albeit less popular than social media, uses.

If someone prefers a stream of photographs to a stream of blogs and news sites, and that’s a lot of people, then RSS isn’t going to be competitive for their attention. If somebody prefers the discussions on Reddit and the semi-randomness of sources, RSS isn’t going to be competitive for their attention either. If you don’t care about an image stream (with comments, reactions, stories and whatever else Instagram has), and you can do without the Reddit commentary, well, you may very well have a use for RSS. Or maybe not. If it hasn’t gone away yet (and it really hasn’t), I have a hard time believing it is going anywhere in the near future.
Huh interesting. You could have a website where for each job people want you find someone who failed at each point along the way to getting it, so you can know what to avoid doing yourself.
> Honestly at times it seems like all these Uber for this or that, DoorDash and whatever other logistical services were created with the premise of just keeping people busy and making them feel like they have a job (one that often costs them money to work at).

Are you referring to customers or restaurants or drivers?
I would not obsess about your employer's rating too much. Look at the economic perspective. I did this as an economic analysis some time ago for myself. (It was not kids, but another commitment in my case.) Your employer is a just a customer for your services. A lot of people forget that not only has the employment relationship to be beneficial to your employer, it has to be profitable to you as well. And profitability in your case, is not just the net money you make from the job. It is also the hedonic value you derive from NOT working, but instead spending that time with your kids. And the value of that you will find is very large. Not only will you derive enjoyment from the hours actually spent with them, you will be setting up the kids to have a happy healthy and productive life in the future and a having a great relationship with you. The economic value of helping raise a successful, well-adjusted adult is very very large. Compare that with the economic value of a slightly better rating. Even in economic terms, paying attention to your kids should be a no brainer.
- I don't like to work at a public company, it's very stressful to work in an environment where every day you are waking up and reading stock market news.

- I had already worked at Microsoft for 2 years in 2009-2011, there isn't much value addition to your resume after you have worked at one such big tech company.

- I was hired by the Android TV team, which is not a product I use and not my area of interest. It was mildly disappointing that they only gave one option in the team matching process.

- I am not a very suburban person, and commuting from SF to MV every day seems appealing at the outset but gets very cumbersome after a few weeks. Google doesn't tell you whether the team will be located in SF / MV when you interview, you are allowed to choose when you go through team matching.

In summary, I had made enough money already and my resume had Microsoft brand (though it was not a FANG in 2009). Touchwood, I have been able to get through all the recruiter filters whenever I have applied and I think that's the only advantage of working at FANG.
You're comparing it to nations that have little to no healthcare systems at all, the US has one of the largest healthcare systems with the main issue being the salaries of said doctors causing the imbalance of healthcare costs versus actual results. Our healthcare is among the best but at a cost. The compared countries are among the worst, and China is arguable a developed nation masquerading as a developing country. Our taxes for military also result in a lot of people having great knowledge for civilian jobs once out of the military if they plan correctly.
But for kids, what is the point of a career?

Perhaps my POV is old-fashioned, but real honestly, the only reason I went to school, obtained a professional degree, and made fat stacks of Benjamins was to get a good wife (and then kids, etc.)

If that was not my plan, I would have lived in a shack on the beach and smoked dope all day.
Plug for a website I built to combat against this very 'loop' I too was experiencing.

It's a site for collaborative fiction through writing prompts, if you like reading or writing: https://www.storylocks.com
But doctrine of first sale does not extend to you fraudulently masquerading as the first-party seller.
Of course they do! You want to spend every minute you can with them and start cutting whatever corners you can with everything else.
You're thinking of UWP apps, which used to only allow winrt APIs, though nowadays UWP app can also access most of win32 APIs as well. UWP is more about the distribution model than the APIs (apps must be signed, are usually installed through the store, etc...)

The winrt APIs can be used from traditional desktop apps just fine, and mixed with win32 from within the same executable. They don't constrain anything. UWP, however...
OP already acknowledged this: "for most adults, it doesn't matter as they got their SSN before it changed"
jetbrains stuff is written in java btw, for all languages. (when we talk about “native”/“not native”)
This claim would imply that, at some point in American history, every single person below the middle class was just a lazy bum who couldn't be bothered to get a good job. I'm not sure that's true and I kinda suspect you don't think so either.
Most people waste so much time on the internet that you can simply channel this time into parenting, which is much more rewarding, and on net not lose any real work or focus time.
And why it can't be added to the node? Why we need the brand new incompatible engine for that
I found this article via RSS.
This is totally anecdotal, but I’ve seen coworkers have kids with a partner who stayed home and their careers seemed to take off but people who coparent and both work it seems to take some of the wind of their sails. I feel like me not being a parent, especially during this pandemic, comes with the expectation that i will work more, which i honestly have zero interest in doing.
You mean sorting within a vector register? Can you provide a link or something? I can't find info on this
But one can definitely ask how something seemingly as complex as a "brain state" can be directly experienced as phenomenology. How is it that we can so easily describe some things about our brain states, that we'd never realize by physically looking at what brains do and how they behave.

That's the "hard problem" of conciousness stated simply, and the answer to it would seemingly have to involve some quite direct access to some part of brain state physics - meaning that the physical properties involved are quite "basic" in some sense.
Yes, but nats is dead simple
You can't extract more rent if you charge maximum of what your customer can afford. If landlords raised rents collectively then people would simply sprawl out to suburbs.

City rent is an aggregate monopoly - there is not enough supply of housing to have effect on downward pressure for rents. Demand is overwhelming supply.

Landlords' rent prices are not driven by competition but determined by what the market can bear.