skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It wasn't that long ago that a man or woman would not be seen to have truly come of age until having a family of their own, or at least marriage

Many views in society were different not that long ago. You can't just cherry pick the changes and say some were good or bad without rational arguments. People have more options these days, and there's no rational argument for wanting kids. It's just a biological instinct that just like many others (polygamy, violence) can be avoided because it doesn't make sense in our current times.

Also, many people see as a taboo to acknowledge that having kids destroyed dreams or leaves them without the energy to do things they would like to do, so you only hear stories about how amazing it is.
There are very few billionaire charity projects that don't have some kind of bait stench associated with them...

This site is a lot less brazen that, say the Gates Foundation or Jack Dorseys "all the strings attached" charity "donations", but there's no doubt it's run in the interests of YC and they're doing it for the benefits they get.

Not that I begrudge them that. It just needs to be something you bear in mind when wondering about odd looking article rankings or apparent voting/submission patterns that evade the fraud detection... It's their space, they can do that if they want. I (and everyone else) needs to weight up the benefit to themselves against the benefit to the people in control, and determine whether to hang around here, or walk away. For me? They do an OK job of not taking too m much advantage of their ultimate power here. I'm mostly cool with them.
I cannot help myself thinking, although probably is not comparable:
USD 1 trillion for new fighter
vs.
USD 10 billion for the entire Startlink constellation

:/
I'm so disappointed. When I initially saw the headline I thought this was going to be a decent AMD Linux laptop. I've been keeping my eye out for something to replace my old Lenovo with, and I really don't want to go NVidia because of the proprietary drivers, but for some reason only the lowest-end laptops are AMD at the moment.
> 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.

As a software developer, this should be simple. Programs have their own state that you can understand without knowing the exact formulations of electrons in the processor that ultimately make up that state.

X = 5 sure but good luck figuring that out looking at the motherboard of a running computer.
Your average user has just come expect technology to suck nowadays. Go look around and many people are jaded by how poor things actually function.
> The highly successful model of using tax and tuition dollars to subsidize and plant the seeds for thriving local economies is getting hit from all directions at once.

Maybe schools can pay competitive wages to their researchers while state schools focus admissions on state students?
Those aren't classes. They are class theater.

They probably failed even by the simple arithmetic that the time required to make a minimally good faith effort at applying a grading rubric is greater than the time a teaching assistant is paid to "assist" in the grading.

Your teaching assistants almost certainly scaled back their time grading your assignments to fit their allotted hours. If any of those intro classes fulfilled a writing credit you can probably start with available undergrad writing credit requirements, figure out how many hours your TA got paid, and look back at the number of students for a given TA to figure out just how much money you and/or your parents lost on the deal.
That would mean a decline in revenues and an increase in costs. Where does the money come from?
I agree that losing references is a big problem. Thanks to GDPR you can request an export. https://www.couchsurfing.com/preferences/privacy

If that fails, you can also contact me - my account is Taiwan-registered and still has full access. I can save your references, photos, and friends list, but not your private messages.
It always bugged me that both universities I graduated from took in large numbers of high paying international students, in order to prop up huge salaries for administrators.
> If you are suggesting that you need a Mac to even write code that interacts with it then I would be shocked to find out that is true

That's true. For iOS too. Sorry.
Well, hopefully in 200 years we’ll have sorted out a few more details.
Wow, it seems people who don't work at FAANGs have a weird impression of what goes on at them... Autonomy is not guaranteed at a startup, just as lack of autonomy is not guaranteed at a FAANG.
Well, it’s hard to find capable people for grad school. It’s not just a selection to pick some form of the best. To succeed as a grad school you need people that can make discoveries and play the academic game.
Perhaps they're simply not forming memories of their own existence. Can you ask a particular sleepwalker their own name and get answer? That might imply awareness of their own existence.

It seems most people want to make consciousness out to be more complicated in some way.
There's the recovery from the pandemic, and there's the economic recovery. The Fed chair is speaking about the economic recovery, not the pandemic recovery. The economic recovery will be faster the faster we get back to business as usual... if we don't have to lock down again.
Is it possible to use the same "power-beaming technology" as a directed-energy weapon ?
Networking and distributed software are well understood nowadays, the lower productivity of web companies vs. SpaceX etc. comes from all the unstable (both ever-changing and buggy) software they need to use. Most modern software is affected by this, but the web has it worse because of security issues and because the way browsers are evolving (on purpose, one has to add, because it's a cartel of large players on the web trying to stifle competition). SpaceX doesn't get some innovative new alloy they didn't order every couple of weeks and even the games industry has fewer obstructing external dependencies (hardware vendors and their drivers being one).

At least that's my experience from about 20 years of web development (15 professionally).
My premise is that the state has no right to force people to go back to jobs that are now 3x as dangerous as they were 5 months ago.

Again, you seem to be saying the state has this right, and I would like you to justify that belief. Or, would you rather waste more words trying to weasel away from the question?
Some Americans definitely argue that the US should invest less time and effort into maintaining its international image.
It can do A LOT more than editing text.
Reminds me of Symbolics S-PACKAGES from the 1980s... (also LISP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV5obrYaogU

Edit: looks like someone beat me to it below
That doesn't seem like a useful attitude to me. Even if we neglect the economy except to the extent it keeps sick people alive, the USA spends about 20% of GDP on health care, and considers treatments cost-effective around $100k/QALY (quality-adjusted life year). Assuming that percentage stays constant, a 10% drop in GDP is about $2T, of which about $400B would have gone to health care. That's 4M QALY, or the equivalent of 300k dead 75-year-olds (assuming perfect quality, using SSI tables for life expectancy, male and female average). So if whatever you do causes a 10% drop in GDP and saves fewer QALY than that, then in a meaningful statistical sense, you've killed people.

The cost of the coronavirus in mortality is massive, but the cost of the reaction is too, even just in lives as above. Some measures seem clearly cost-effective to me (masks, not standing too close, keeping kids in stable groups, etc.), but others (closing schools completely) do not. It's not hard for me at all to imagine a response that causes more societal harm than the virus itself.
It should be fairly simple to take the original price of installing the components of the house and calculate depreciation.
Non-improved value = market value - depreciated home value

Obviously you'd have to keep tracking the improvements over time.
The graduate student analysis doesn't seem right. I don't think the article understands the incentives of graduate students. Yes, there are lots of foreign graduate students, especially masters students. One big motivator for them studying in the US is that they want to work for a US company and / or immigrate. Moreover, the ones that want to pursue a PhD often choose institutions based on potential advisors. It seems very unlikely that these things are going to change in the next year or so. Schools might miss out on prospective students with a time table, but I'd be surprised if the situation in 2025 is significantly different from today.

I do see academic towns really hurting from the lack of undergrads. That's a big decrease in population, and even if most businesses are allowed to open in the fall, lots of universities will take conservative measures and not let undergrads back on campus --- dorms etc. being an ideal transmission environment.
No, I am not pretending there is no risk in living. There is obviously a baseline level of risk in anything.

With COVID-19 out of control, I am saying that the state has no right to force workers back to jobs that are now 3x as dangerous as they were 5 months ago.

As for risk of being born, we should not encourage that, because the unborn cannot consent to being born, but thank you for playing.
Those liabilities don’t need to be honored, that’s why central banks exist and why they create money. The Fed can produce as many reserves as it wants, at any time, out of thin air. And it does! Lending comes first, and reserves are simply created by the Fed until banks have enough. That’s literally their job, and it’s how the money supply grows.

By the very nature of fractional reserve lending, banks cannot honor their contracts, requiring money printing to prevent bankruptcy.
I mostly agree with you. But I do take issue with this:

>But either way, both sides are ~equally intolerant.

When I was growing up it was the intolerance of Christian morality that prevented people from living their lives and expressing themselves the way they wanted to. The intolerance was a largely bipartisan (see the PMRC with Tipper Gore and Paula Hawkins for instance), but it was really the Democrats that gave way to social progress first, and the Republican party still today retains a reputation for Christian puritanism. The modern flavor of puritanism most certainly comes more from the other side of the isle (whether you want to call it the "social justice movement" or anything else). The basis of each of those political stances is the same. People should not be able say anything they want, or live any way they please, because allowing them to do so would risk causing offence. I've supported gay marriage since the 90s, and for the same reason that I support freedom of expression today. In the past those views (which I have not changed) aligned me much more firmly with the "left" than the "right", and the reverse is true today. I would argue that modern "progressive" (or whatever else you want to call it) politics has no room for freedom of expression, because it won't tolerate anything seen as "offensive", "hateful" or "dangerous". Which is basically the same premise that has obstructed all of our past social progress up to this point.
Have there been any cases where something bad has happened to either a host or a guest? (Such are the thoughts that consume my middle aged mind, I think I was more trusting when younger but never to the extent that you are). BTW, I think your attitude is great.
By some theory of games, mutual destruction between two opposing parties when they are aware of it simply doesn't happen. In addition, when one party knows that they are weaker than the opposing party, conflict cannot happen as the weaker party never escalates. So, Wars in modern age of information are hard to come by since we have a tremendous amount of surveillance and global recon.
because rich people in China moving their money to the US is a matter of accounting, not a transfer of resources from one nation or citizens, to another. The same person still owns the same stuff. This has nothing to do with extractive feudalism, or extractions of any kind.
If you don't know how to count, this book will teach you how to do it, a legendary book by Grimaldi.
Depends on the state. Several state have no income tax. New Hampshire lacks income and sales tax.
Check out clangd or ccls for VSCode. They have refactoring that actually works (probably still rather basic when compared to Jetbrains IDEs).
Thank you. Every Software Engineer should read Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David L.Parnas. People are nitpicking things and just parroting what is written in other books without really understanding the idea behind it all. For example what is a Interface/Class/Library/Framework/Module(logical and physical) if not Information Hiding at different levels? The concept is the same but the realization is different. OOD/OOP just gives you convenient syntactic sugar to express them. The rest is up to you.
Fitbit’s Chinese rival Amazfit mulls a transparent, self-disinfecting mask
Their automated translation also affects language keyword and error codes. It renders the page unusable. The option to change the language is hard to find and the selected language is not stored.

Some people have worked very hard to make their doc as painful as possible.
I have Dashpass free from my credit card. Its not the same as ordering from directly from restaurant as Doordash marks up the prices 10% to 25%. I always thought Doordash was a terrible deal without it, you're paying marked up prices, delivery fee and a tip. Doordash is winning because they have the widest selection of restaurants since they are using their own drivers compared to Grubhub. Not sure why Postmates and UberEats failed to capture more market share since they offer the same service.
A mew Kzinti lesson? "a power beam's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a power beam."
You mean with some kind of criminal record, or just a dead end career? Because the latter is your starting point, not your end point, when it comes to deciding whether it pays better to put subsequent effort into figuring out how to profit via crime versus finding better legitimate ways to make money.
I love that video tour of the lisp driven graphics software. I was just watching it the other day.

I often wonder what would have happened if there was a line of that OS/software still going that was still partially code-driven. Reminds me a lot of the interactive text editors/visual programming stuff that was all over HN a few yrs back with Clojure and others.
What about WebView then? Surely you can run 10 desktop apps that use WebView because it's just like having 10 Chrome tabs open.
You might enjoy this[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI
> I have been to a festival in Australia (the predecessor to burning man) that is completely volunteer run. It's interesting to be a part of operations and see it work, and fail to some extent, and in meat-space the 'look after each other philosophy' can work when everybody is can watch each other.

I'm curious about that (being an Australian and a Burner).

Which festival? (if you're OK sharing. My email in my profile works if you're OK sharing but not as widely as publishing it here...)
Martin Shkreli denied prison release to research cure for Covid-19
I'm so glad this comment is getting so much attention because Couchsurfing really is one of the best things to ever happen to me - not only with all the incredible experiences but also because it made me a kinder, more trusting and better person.

Really, Couchsurfing changed my life. Ignore the fact that the app is a dumpster fire and just give it a shot - or better, try BeWelcome or Trustroots.

And again, if anyone has any questions about Couchsurfing or wants to start but is confused (or wants to couchsurf my boat!) please send me an email (it's in my profile.)
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If it doesn't take 100 years to complete, it doesn't take 100 years to complete.
If it doesn't take 100 years to complete, then it doesn't take 100 years to complete.

But it is a sort of good point that a 100 year runtime in 2020 might turn into a 10 year runtime in 2030, making it only a 20 year runtime overall. For some jobs, a 20 year runtime might be acceptable, but probably those jobs are rare.

In general if a program takes so long to complete that its output is no longer useful, that limits its practicality and utility.
I can say, based on my own observations, that is absolutely nowhere near true. Many people selling drugs to their friend groups make profit in excess of $400 a day, tax free.

I can't speak for a larger group, of course. Perhaps the average is weighed down by more casual actors.
idk but that does seem like it comes from costs, just not from viewer funding.
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The long history of fear of “them” in this country is all about prioritizing prejudices over economics.
I saw the "BCG might the magic key" articles back in March, but the numbers/countries didn't add up.

The MMR-version of the same "this is the magic key" story seemed much more promising (except for Iran) ...

I'm not sure how countries that routinely did BCG vaccinations such as the UK and Italy ended up getting hit so hard? Or is it only very recent BCG vaccinations that "work" for C19 (which is great news for Sanofi shareholders).

I don't know, maybe I'm getting jaded ... or maybe I have been watching too much "V for Vendetta" (vis-à-vis the St. Mary's Virus & "cure")! Such a good movie ...
Large majorities of both cohorts love the shutdown, because they're scared and want to hide inside until it's safe. We have to argue against the shutdowns on those grounds, not invent a class war that isn't happening.
I think that what we are seeing with respect to economic equality is a Simpson paradox of sorts. Globally we are becoming more equal because globalisation is causing countries to come closer (maybe because developing countries are being benefitted from the law of comparative advantage? Not sure), but each individual country, and especially more developed countries, are suffering inequality growth.
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It's not about tanks or numbers its national resolve and there each side can vastly misread the other. Each side believes it has greater resolve and is in the right. There is no quantitative way to measure this. The only way to to find out is to fight. Just like two people who size each other up, one may be bigger or faster but the will to prevail and willingness to bare any sacrifice and tolerate pain in order to achieve victory is intangible and cannot be known until it is tested.

I fear the future will be dark in our lifetime.
Wow. Can someone more familiar with stuff explain how much of a big deal this is? Does this completely kneecap Huawei/China?
I don’t think you read the link before downvoting it. It’s about the effect on the hotel industry as well as consumers and hosts.

You also haven’t provided any evidence to back up your claim. I’d be curious to read it, if it exists.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned, maybe because it's not the case in America, but in Australia before Uber Eats your options for takeaway were somewhat limited. You could have all the Italian/Chinese/Indian you wanted delivered, but if you wanted a burger, or Mexican, or French food it was probably 50/50 there'd be anyone around who delivered.

Uber Eats vastly expanded the range of cuisines available, if they simultaneously lowered the quality (since these restaurants had no experience preparing food for delivery, and the delivery was usually slower since they didn't have in-house drivers).
I think both Austin and Raleigh have grown large enough that the "college town" effect is in the noise. In both cases the underlying economy is doing more to drive itself than the college is at this point. In those cases 40 years ago it would have made a big difference, but today better examples would have been places like College Station TX, or Gainsville FL, where the college remains the primary employer. UT Austin is the 10th largest employer in a town with a pretty self reinforcing tech economy, and a very long tail of national brand SMBs.

https://www.austinchamber.com/economic-development/austin-pr...
> Why can't I ever wake up in someone else's consciousness? How does "my" consciousness know to come back into "my" brain whenever I lose it (through sleep or injury, etc).

Why doesn't the fire in your car's engine suddenly appear in the engine of a car down the street?
Sure, but a mvp that does 75% of it is definitely possible in a weekend for a pair of really good in-the-zone coders. I'd argue that if you actually list out all these minor features fully, it's even possible to flesh it out completely in 4-5 very long days. Even otherwise, this could easily be a site that starts with a full weekend of work for mvp, followed by gradual refininig over the next few months with feedback needing no more than a Saturday afternoon. I wouldn't even consider myself the best coder out there and I have definitely coded something in a similar timeline in the past - a Netflix style book lending website with queues, inventories, user auth, the whole shebang. Im sure it wouldn't work in the same scale as HN, but I doubt it would have been that hard to keep up.

As I typed this I realized how unsubstantiated this claim looks, and to be frank the cost of just doing this isn't even that high, so I'm probably just going to do this next weekend for giggles. Let's see!
I don't know why you should accept it, I don't accept it but I have zero problems with letting Bill Gates speak freely wherever they invite him.
Correct. They found a company that had already both Embraced and Extended, which takes out two-thirds of the work for them. Of course, they've also been running the "We're actually all about open source now" marketing campaign for the last few years; there's seldom a single motive in a company that large.
Yes. I think most Google properties also support an hl query parameter that will work even if set to "en-US". Either way, not ideal.
Like the poster you're responding to, I haven't used couchsurfing in a few years - left due to life changes, and being annoyed by earlier stages of the commercialization that the article talks about. But, prior to that I semi-regularly hosted and used it in my own travels a couple times, over maybe 8 or 9 years and a few countries.

It worked very much as described in that post, and didn't seem to have the problems listed in yours. The biggest problem I remember with CS, was people trying to inappropriately use it to get laid.
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Not to mention all the economic and HDI growth in the developing world
I find the lack of consensus about anything in the comment here quite interesting too. Clearly nobody is on the same page let alone the right page whatever that may be.
There's many things you can fault Tesla for, but you can not fault them for forcing their employees to choose between unemployment benefits and unsafe working conditions. Because nothing Tesla has done, including their flouting of Alameda County laws, has put a single one of their employees in that position. The only party that determines whether Tesla are providing suitable working conditions is the CA EDD, Tesla making work available changes nothing.