skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have six years of college and a Certificate in GIS. I was one of the top students in my graduating high school class and won a National Merit Scholarship.

I also have a 33 year old son who is the result of failed birth control. I chose to not seek an abortion because I was already married to a man with whom I wanted kids, but I had originally intended to have them later.

I will suggest that most of your coworkers discussing their "carefully planned pregnancies" are people willing to talk about their experiences and/or carefully framing their experiences in a socially acceptable manner. Most people who enjoy conventional success are either fortunate to have lives that fit a certain framework relatively easily or they get good at pretending to fit it and covering up or leaving out the things the people around them wouldn't be comfortable hearing.

Basically, your position is one of "Everything needs to go right in your life all the time or a big fat fuck you from me." And that tends to cause the fabric of society to unravel because most people can't manage to force their life to go right every step of the way all the time. If their lives work, it's because they had some kind of safety net when things did go wrong at some point.

If you are rich enough, you can sometimes pretend this is not the case, but the money itself is a kind of safety net, so it's a BS position for wealthy people to take.
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"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away"
True, although if I were tasked with inheriting a project like that I'd probably still do a total rewrite with the old code as a basis. I'd just be way too afraid of letting a security issue slip through, especially if I don't have tools to check.
Good question. I think it's the right time for the confluence of technology and human need. It's not an easy problem, but it's an important one
It looks like the user disable the automatic permissions rest on an app-by-app basis. If you navigate to the permissions page for a single app, there is a toggle at the bottom to disable this.
For promotion? You promote the person that is filling the higher role.

For bonus? Sure, hand out some extra money to the hard workers.
Exactly, I'm asking if they believe their personal choice to work additional overtime for a specific demographic of people should be compelled by the state via an additional tax.

Do you?
This isn't a problem if you get your drivers upstreamed into mainline Linux, right? My understanding is the kernel community keeps in-tree drivers up to date as the kernel APIs change, and that's why I can install a modern version of Linux on just about any of the x86 machines I have lying around and expect (most of) the hardware to just work.
Thanks for clarifying! This is exactly what I meant
> Everyone I know spent their Labor Day with their friends and families.

And that's the selfishness I'm calling out.

> That is your decision.

It's really not. I have elderly family members who are at risk from the disease. I have friends and family in other states and countries who I can't visit due to Covid travel restrictions. Do you know why those exist? Because we haven't been able to curb the spread of the disease. Because people keep saying "it's your decision" about social distancing and rather than actually doing something about the disease.

> Obesity is the reason healthcare premiums are high though.

That has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I can opt out of paying healthcare premiums. I can choose to stay fit. I can't choose not to get coronavirus and I definitely can't choose to travel someplace travel restrictions are in effect. It's an idiotic comparison, a weak deflection.
Well, the worst case is that the vaccine is actually a highly contagious world ending bioweapon that causes the extinction of humanity, so the latter.

How do you know that the current death rate for COVID19 won't eventually be much higher for those who have "recovered"? Maybe all those asymptomatic youngsters are actually going to develop horrible debilitating lung and blood disorders? We work with the data we have, and nothing suggests the vaccines are worse than the virus or even 1000x less bad.

Of course we should test them and find the best one(s), and an extra month or three are worth the potential risk trade-off... waiting 3 years "to be sure" is just going to needlessly kill millions.
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If you want the term to google to read more about this, it's called the FEIE (foreign earned income exclusion). You're allowed to exclude up to a certain amount of your income each year from federal income taxes (for 2020, it's $107,600). Due to the pandemic they relaxed the rule this year so anyone who spent the first 2-3 months of 2020 outside the US can seriously consider using it.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
An incomplete but useful list of classics might be the list following. You may wish to start with wikipedia entries on them, or other sources, but reading the texts themselves is useful!

Plato: The Republic

Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics; and Politics

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: Two Treatises of Government

Rousseau: The Social Contract

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws
De Toqueville: Democracy in America

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto; and Das Kapital.

JS Mill: On Liberty (the classic Utilitarian Enlightenment work)

John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (A hugely important work on rights and principles of political decisionmaking)

Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia (a right-wing / libertarian oriented response to Rawls)

Michael Sandel: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (critique of liberalism and introducing communitarianism)
ISIS was able to become a major power in Syria because of the weapons the US and its allies pumped into it and that inevitably found their hands into ISIS. It was able to spread into Iraq because the US invaded Iraq and destroyed them, with an occupation that continues to this day.

If the US hadn't pumped Syria full of weapons, ISIS would have been destroyed. If the US didn't invade Iraq, ISIS would have been destroyed too. Therefore, the rise of ISIS is a consequence of US intervention. There is nothing misleading or nuanced about it, it's just how it is. And people before the Iraq War and in the lead up to what happened in Syria were warning that exactly this would happen. And it did.
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Interestingly NYT is running an article about this now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/health/covid-masks-immuni... (TLDR: plausible, but nothing conclusive)
There does definitely seem to be a pattern with Western intervention in these states and the emergence of hardcore religious militant groups.

The Western interventions tend to piss everybody off and flood the country with cash, guns, and training opportunities, and it's easy to hit up wealthy princes in UAE and Saudi for cash for your militant group when it's a matter of driving the US out.
The nature of society was quite different in the 1950s than it is now. For those who were served by the government it was a golden era.

For those who supported the government, it was much more expensive.

For those who were persecuted by the government, it was a living nightmare.
>Something to keep in mind is most core apps (Maps, Gmail, Messages, etc) aren't baked into the Android OS and are updated with new features regularly throughout the year.

Which is Google's weakness. Not only are the core apps not developed by the Android team, but each app is done by a separate team and there is a lack of consistency across the board with different colors, placement of icons, and dark mode support. It took Gmail six months after the release of Android 10 to get dark mode. And dark mode has existed (in limited form) since Android 9. Dark mode for Maps followed Gmail.

Oh, and let us not forget Maps had white navigation buttons on a white background, with light grey shadows for a few months with the release of Android 10. When I first upgraded my Pixel, I thought they had removed the bottom navigation because of this regression. Supposedly these are the best and brightest programmers on the planet.
I’m curious about what other people think about this one. I tried the demo in a few terminals a couple months ago and it didn’t work well in any of them.
Other ongoing Covid vaccine thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24411540
The chimpanzee adenovirus is used as a vector, with its payload replaced with instructions to manufacture SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

Virus enters body, hopefully survives immune system long enough to insert instructions into your cells, your cells churn out tons of copies of coronavirus spike protein, your immune system sees the surfeit of spike protein and develops a response (antibodies and T* cells).

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/23/a-...
The problem here is several fold, while America's disastrous invasion of Iraq exasperated certain conditions, that does not mean that similar conditions couldn't have come about without American intervention. Who is to say that should the US had not invaded Iraq there wouldn't right now be an Iraqi civil war just as there is the Syria Civil war.

None of this addresses the Somalian civil war which is the on going conflict and predates US invasion of Iraq as well as other on going Islamist conflicts throughout Africa.
Everything you do depends on the services of other people, which depends on a somewhat stable birthrate. As you grow old and sick, the children of the people receiving "benefits above and beyond those of childless adults" is the only thing between you and a lonely, early grave. You honestly don't understand that?
Reminds me of fabricated claims in Europa Universalis 4 or Hearts of Iron 4.
honestly, i would not be at all surprised if there were people who resented a cancer patient for "not pulling their weight". american culture has a depressingly strong element of "your misfortunes and hardships are entirely your responsibility to bear; don't ask us to help with them".

edit: right here in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24413813
Real pay has been stagnant for at least the past 4 decades, while expenses (particularly housing, healthcare, childcare, and education) have skyrocketed. That's the reason the average family can't survive on one income now like it could in the 50s. Some possible solutions to these problems would include: Universal healthcare, universal childcare, and elimination of restrictions on building more housing (i.e. kill low density residential zoning entirely). Make those changes and it should again become possible to support a household on a single income.
Did any of these companies offer to pay their single workers to work on Covid support systems or handle a shift at the grocery store?
A €60bn tax scam is coming to a head
Of all the different vaccine "types" mentioned in the article (proteins, whole virus, mRNA, etc), which of those general types of vaccines are the most traditional, the most widely used, the most experimental, the most novel, etc?

I'm genuinely curious if "tried and true old vaccine tech" will come out on top in this case, or if "fancy new vaccine tech" will lead the way.
You'd be surprised. You should read about many-body localization and the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.
Ridiculous argument since, you know, the human race dies out if no one has kids.
> Change it all you want, but don't expect Tesla to fix your car once you've messed with it yourself.

My understanding is nobody else can fix it either, since Tesla doesn't allow 3rd party repairs and presumably doesn't sell parts to 3rd party repair shops.

So now you have a broken $40k driveway ornament. Who do you get to fix it if you want it fixed?
> No, we wouldn't. We would have a massive increase in immigration to offset the difference.

Sorry, but this is so naive. Or I guess, a superiority complex? Where do you think you will be able to import ~160 million people from, for the US, within a relatively short time span? With comparable cultural and educational backgrounds, skill sets, etc. This would be unprecedented in the history of the world. At least for peaceful migrations. Keep in mind that all developed countries are having demographics problems and therefore competing over migrants compatible with their current populations.

And let's not even open the can of worms of what the locals would think about such tectonic population shifts. A much smaller but similar situation happening over a longer time span (60 years) brought you Trump.
What if you joined the national guard I’m pretty sure they would. Why don’t you try it and see
> If all of a sudden, say, 50% of the people having children now...

This is assuming that people are only having children out of a sense of duty. Do you think that 50% of parents are having children out of some sense of duty to society?

> 2. Your lifestyle is made possible by people that choose to have kids. Especially women, who sacrifice a lot for kids. At least be respectful to them.

I reread my comment a couple times and I don't see where I was disrespectful.

This is anecdotal, but I have never had a friend confide in me that they had a child for the social good of procreation. All of my friends have had children because they wanted to have children. My wife and I are planning on having a child because we want to have a child. If you told me that society didn't require me to have a child, I wouldn't care one bit.

So my question to you is "if there was no social need for a child, would you still have one?" If the answer is "yes," I don't see how you can claim that you are performing some heroic deed to mankind. And calling that out is not disrespectful.
The phase 3 trial is where the safety and efficacy of a vaccine is determined for various groups. The risk/benefit decision you suggest can’t be made until it has been done.

It’s like the trolley problem but you don’t know whether more people will be killed if you throw the switch or not.

Also, if people are encouraged to take a vaccine that later turns out to have significant, previously unknown negative side effects, they will be less likely to take vaccines in the future. Squandered trust is very, very costly to regain so needs to be accounted for in a risk analysis.
"Sure thing. I'll take a 0% pay cut, reflective of the market rate for someone with my skills and experience. I'm taking a few weeks of PTO starting today to look for a new job in the meantime in case this isn't tenable. Thanks."

(Then you load up the "Who's Hiring" thread from last week on this site and line up a few juicy offers)
Our society (and economy) is killing our planet. We are too many. Not to have kids is a choice of life, not the opposite. We are not endangered.
Only applies "to regions in which the vast majority of peak-hour commuting is done on rapid transit systems with separate rights of way" according to your link. I think that's an important qualification.
Vaccine won't restore normalcy at least not immediately.

> I think a swift return to normalcy after the vaccine is distributed could do a lot for the public’s opinion of the importance of vaccination. It could marginalize the antivax movement for decades to come.

A bad vaccine could absolutely cause havoc. And do the exact opposite, that's why they are being careful. If our president wouldn't politicize it, they wouldn't even have to say it.
It's precursor would never have been able to pose any challenge to the Syrian military if it wasn't for the weapons the US and it's allies pumped into them.

The Syrian Army would still have been able to destroy the Jihadists if it wasn't for the US waging war against the Syrian Army, by the way of airstrikes and missile strikes.

I can definitively say that Iraq would not have collapsed into a failed state if Saddam had been deposed organically. Hell, if it wasn't for the occupation of Iraq by the US up to and including this very day its possible the Iraqi state would have been able to rebuild itself, one way or another.

That being said, a large amount of terrorist groups in the Middle East find the roots even earlier, in the US support of jihadis against the Soviets.

And wouldn't you know it! The founder of Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, was financed and trained in order to go fight against the USSR in Afghanistan. Financed by who exactly? By Bin Laden, of course. Which himself got his money and material for who? Wouldn't you believe it, it's the old red white and blue again.
I can say we have been effectively terrorized by mass shootings when things like this hang in kindergarten classrooms:

https://i.imgur.com/ztiYy9R.png
I know this is going to be a really unpopular take.

I tend to be more libertarian on this. I think the government and tech should get out of the business of prioritizing and promoting a specific family structure using tax code and other benefits. Let people decide if they want to have kids and deal with the fallout accordingly.

We already have people we can't adequately support now but you have the government and tech companies incentivizing people financially to have families even when they can't afford it.

IMO it is selfish to force other people to finance your family even when there is already plenty of resources to pay for your own family.

These "benefits" the families are getting leave very little resources for the most vulnerable people in society.

I just think it's generally selfish and irresponsible to have kids if you need the government structures to finance your lifestyle through the tax code and other government institutions.

I see people making far and away more money than me but they pay a lower tax rate than me because they have kids and I don't. That's not only selfish on their part but also unfair.

If the US had an adequate social safety net that includes UBI, Housing and Healthcare this might all be moot.
>Blame tooling. Go help.

This might be an opportune time to mention my attempt at helping. I made barleytea.js [1] as a light framework alternative to React that needs no webpack. I also recommend much more polished, production-ready things like µce [2] and heresy [3].

Anyway I just want people to know that there are lightweight alternatives out there, and they're worth at least checking out.

[1] https://gitlab.com/andrewfulrich/barleytea
[2] https://github.com/WebReflection/uce
[3] https://github.com/WebReflection/heresy
Proteins and whole virus are the most common. mRna is new and I think at least some companies are taking advantage of the epidemic to push the technology forward.
Do you read Derek Lowe?

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/09/03/co...

If you don't, you should... and yes, I do.
The swine flu vaccine was accelerated.
Many drugs for cancer will literally kill you (slower than the cancer), so the safety of a drug needs to be measured against placebo and demonstrate significant improvement. First, do no harm.
Let's re-state it to a person enjoying life in a developed country, especially for many on this forum, would pay it forward by not having kids due to their level of consumption.

We know the culprit is excess consumption of fossil fuels among other resources, and we know if people have the option of consuming them, they will. Therefore, you can generalize it to mean reducing the population of people who may be in a position to consume at levels similar to the personal car, single family home with a yard family, driving 15,000 miles per year would help the planet.
Alimony and child support are undoubtedly significant burdens on the person paying them.

But for the person receiving them, they are nowhere near what that person could be earning as a professional with a continuously developing career. And that's what rayiner is really talking about.

Also, just because someone is required to pay alimony or child support, it does not mean they will. Some people just skip out on it and dare the system to catch them; others fall on hard times themselves and can't pay what they intended to. Either way, it's a fragile situation for the recipient, compared to having their own job and income.
A lot of it traces back to anti-Soviet forces. Many modern terror groups are offshoots of militant forces funded and trained to fight against the Soviets. What major western country had the resources and motivation to destroy Soviet influences at any cost necessary is, of course, a mystery to this day.
> It's not fair to blame people for "choosing" to have children because, in the aggregate, the majority of people need to have children in order for society to survive.

I don't think the quotes around 'choosing' are valid. Having children is a choice, especially in today's age when contraceptive measures abound, and trying to paint it like it's not really a choice is disingenuous.

Next, we're gonna have people argue that getting a loan to buy a house is not in fact a personal choice, because, in the aggregate, the majority of people need to have a place to live in in order for society to survive.
This one is full of mathematical IDENTITIES; that is, phi, pi and e are here, as is the square root of 2, infinite fractions, some types of algebra equations with x and y, Pell's equation, how some types of algebra equations have an infinite fraction equivalent (and this equivalent as expressed in counts of blocks on 2D graph paper), and Euclid's Algorithm.

It's quite the mathematical mash-up!

Well worth watching again in the future!
You forgot the $10k/yr public/charter school tuition.

Those people making $62K are getting paid for their work, not donating it.
I've always had a question about this. If more people are deciding to use the road afterwards surely it means that trips are being taken that weren't before? Wouldn't that be a good thing, economically speaking?
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We have a saying here: "Today for you, tomorrow for me." I'm not sure how is the best translation.

I have a few teacher assistants in the university, and when possible we try to cover each other and keep the class going. Some problems are not related to kids.

* When the parents die, sometimes you must go all the previous week to the hospital. Or in a better scenario, you have to help your parents to go to the doctor.

* Some unexpected or chronic health problems. Sometimes small changes in the actives distribution can help.

* Problems with the car, for example after a small crash you must take the car to the official mechanics of the insurance.

* One of the water pipes is leaking and it is "raining" in the apartment bellow. The plumber promised to arrive in an hour...

* A trip to a conference or a similar event.
That comment would be ...possibly even deleted by HN mods.

This assertion runs counter to everything I understand about how HN moderation operates. I don't believe the HN mods do any such thing.
No, it's faster. Disable JS and - what continues to work, which is quite a bit - is snappy. It's also snappier than it was a decade ago, even 3 years ago, very clearly so.

But while people will accept JS and general online abuse, it will get worse.
I would say that most of the world isn't running around overthrowing governments.

My point is that we are insulated from the fallout of overthrowing governments. Not that we don't have a problem with school shooters.

It's that we can roll into a country, overthrow the leader resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths and feel zero domestic impact from that.