skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not directly aimed at you but rather the hilarity of the situation.

> only one USB-C port [...] if I hooked up an external drive, the computer would run out of power before the transfer completed.

Absolutely crazy how we ended up accepting supposedly professional devices that work like this. Choose between having power or being able to use a external hard drive (unless you purchase accessories of course). Mean while, desktop computers are built to be customizable in every single way.
It’s good that apple offers this but when you try to move your photos away from google photos
It’s hard like hell
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251143
Did Robinhood make people click that they accept the terms?
It's only lying if your users are completely rational aliens that have linear perception of the passage of time.

By the way, people do really not expect progress bars to be correct. They may with they were, but not expect.
This is me. I remember being amazed with DSL that was something like 768 kpbs. Then I got 6 megabit cable? WOW. Now my phone is even faster than that.

Geeks sit around and measure their broadband speed but most people just do not care. It's fast enough for them.
This is really sad to read. If you want children, I can only imagine that's ultimately more important than having some company to run.

Realizing opportunities are foreclosed to you as you age is always sad, but this one seems really tough.
You can do that as a hobby, or you can do it as a startup but treat the startup as a 9-5. (Your leisurely pace of work might hurt your chances of staying ahead of your competitors, but that's only important if you want the wealth and fame part.)
I'm currently working in my home office while my partner is looking after our newborn full time and I'm jealous as hell. I genuinely with I could stay at home longer than just a couple of weeks/a few months and be a full time stay at home parent. Unfortunately it doesn't work for us financially but I wish it did.
This is a fine thing that can work for some people and not for others: it's really hard to live a decent life on a single (tech!) income in Silicon Valley if you're not already wealthy, and young people may not have enough saved up to take a year off.
It's unethical to have kids? I don't follow.
Isn't Google Takeout pretty easy?
I hate reading comments like this because it always causes me to waste a week dabbling in jupyter notebooks with bitcoin data before realizing it's probably far too much work for me. Happens every 10 months, on average. I know it's 99% data cleansing to arrive at a "true" price through the noise. How to do that, I don't know.
The situation where the sexes are reversed is the norm. That is what almost all successful career men do: they let the wife take care of the kids.
Yup, my first question on seeing the headline - how does some specialty bank I've barely heard of end up putting at risk 50K jobs?

Leverage.

Which is also the answer to the question: "What causes most collapses of both individual investors and entire economies?"
"Progress"? Interesting interpretation, I'd invert that; society is miles from where it needs to be if these situations are increasing in frequency. And I don't think medi/biotech is the solution.
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it's a philosophy, so no it doesn't have testable predictions - but neither does objectivism, its counterpart. But then, testable predictions don't tell you about the nature of reality so c'est la vie.

> is there a function from theorems of ZFC to {invented, not invented}?

Can you derive definitions of inventions versus discoveries from set theory? No, probably not. You can't derive the smell of a rose from set theory either though so it's probably not a very good theory of everything.
I feel like part of the problem is the obsession in media and social circles with young success. I see lists like Forbes 30 under 30, 40 under 40, and the celebration of young billionaires who are worshipped and held up as the example of what high performers should strive to be, and its quite unhealthy. I wish there were more stories about people who found success in their 40's, 50's and beyond, especially the ones who took time to fail, learn from it, and apply it later in life.
Exactly this; the Fed has been printing like crazy, but the new money has relatively low velocity. Velocity is required for inflation, not just the money itself.

Look at stock market prices of the past ten years; its the largest bull market in US history. The US Dollar isn't getting inflated by the printing; the stock market is.
Not all day long.

Right at the start of the day, when I've just finished sleeping, when I'm awake, but I haven't yet figured out where I am, or what day it is, or what I've got on today, or anything.

It's a lovely, easy feeling.

Then it hits me. I'm in my house on the east side. I've got that meeting today. My girlfriend is still angry at me.

In those few moments before all that data is mounted, there is no "I".

Do you experience that some mornings?
Dare I add one other important story?

2 Former Employees Allege Intuit Made Millions Knowingly Processing Fake Refunds (Feb. 2015)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9097974
If any Google Photos product people are here...

Since you're ending free unlimited photo storage, I badly want a feature that automatically finds all groupings of similar photos and deletes all but the best one (least blurry, most smiles, whatever you decide). Whenever I take photos, I tend to spam the shutter button, so I end up with 3+ photos of anything and everything. I could stay on Google Photos for many, many more years if I had this auto clean up capability.
> Who would rather have spam than targeted ads

I would, because the targeting creeps me out entirely. Instagram were so good at it that I deleted the app. In the old days, you stuck luxury advertising in rich neighborhoods and used demographics for broadcast and other media. That'll do.
I believe the context for the advice is directed to whoever is capable of having children. So, economic gains are meaningless to them when they're dead in 100 years.
No, but that doesn't mean the advice is bad. Two consenting adults should be able to divide up family responsibilities however they see fit.
> It's not harming people in any way, but the opposite.

Please explain how lying to your users is good for them.
Well, I can see how someone fixated on a "store" Vs "cache" terminology might arrive at that name.

Browsers store, proxies cache , so it should be no-cache, obviously!

Sure, it's stupid, but naming is hard and these things happen all the time.
> 100Mbs is overkill

Not really considering this probably won't be updated for another 20 years
That is, in fact, a small fraction of the world population.
Oh ok, I just read the thread. While I don't agree, I really don't think it's any better for a bunch of seemingly mature adults being this upset over someone on Twitter posting a bad take and getting 10 likes. It just screams garbage "anti-sjw" culture which adds nothing of value to any discussion.
If I understand FloC correctly though, it sends your profile/tags/interesting topics from your owned client software. So this basically means that if you have a browser like Firefox, it could send a preset cohort set to server that doesn't build your tracking profile and gives you things you're interested in.

To me this seems like a win? It allows you as a person to control how your ad profile is built (and if it's sent at all) and doesn't send your data to servers anymore?

(Please correct me if I misunderstood the technology.)
It's clearly not a tautology. It's a basic scientific approach:

> You reduce it down to something much more biological, like basic feelings, and then you start building up the complexities.

Author is attempting to "build up the the complexities" from discrete falsifiable parts. There's great and obvious benefit to that. One obvious drawback is that it may not succeed in adequately addressing the complexity suggested by the history of philosophy of consciousness. But that in no way makes it a tautology.
> If there is no "I", who is this "I" who suspects?

Good question.

It is a transient data structure.

Or a code structure if you prefer. A function that is executing. It can reference data.

When it is finished executing, it is disposed.
This reminded me of a post I wrote,a couple of years ago: https://honeyryderchuck.gitlab.io/httpx/2019/02/10/falacies-...
>In some places,

Some? Can you please tell me about where you legally/legitimately can perform recorded music in a public place for public consumption without "permission"?
Yes, I think GP is noting that egg quality declines somewhat exponentially, rather than linearly.
Not how opinions and politics stand now, but that is part of the reason why articles like this are important. There is quite a distance to travel between writing an article criticizing tracking + the technology that enables it and arriving at legislation.
"Our people first" is much more than nationalist chest thumping. When a plane is crashing from the sky, you put your own mask on before helping your neighbour, otherwise you risk both parties getting hurt (not just one).
> Beginning a few years after 2008, came endless news reports of our recovering and robust economy.

Just like the recovery after the 2001 recession, that was hollow as shown by income distributional statistics: yes, there was an aggregate boom in both cases, and in both cases the gains were very concentrated at the top.

Unemployment/employment measures are about whether people have work, not whether they have money.
wasn't there a study that suggested that more successful startup founders are in their 40s?

so have kids in your 20s and build your startup when the kids are old enough. use your life experience and increase your chances of success.
> In computer science, a loop is a programming structure that repeats a sequence of instructions until a specific condition is met.

That's the general definition at least I've always been most aware of. I don't want to claim it is the most common one, cause I don't really have numbers and who is the authority on comp-sci definitons? But I do feel it is at least a somewhat common academic definition for looping.

That would mean that recursion is a form of looping. The distinction between recursion and imperative loops would then be a matter of implementation and exposed programmer interface. Similarly like others have said, goto's can also be used to implement similar loops.

And in that regard, there are variants of recursion as well, such as tail-call recursion which has a similar memory model as what you described and differs only to an imperative loop in the programming interface it exposes.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. The consensus among most scholars is that most of Freuds ideas are BS. He's liked because he was closer to the truth than many of the other frauds in his day and he used techniques and methodology which was innovative for his time.

But the whole left-wing infatuation with him (e.g. see the work of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Sartre) needs to end. Somehow, many of our intellectuals still believe that most of the core concepts of Psychoanalysis are legitimate (e.g. ego-id-superego or Oedipus complex) and they're just actually not. They don't exist!
> pumping works out great for everyone

You might want to ask a few (other) women about that. My partner very much dislikes pumping. Both the physical aspect as well as the emotional/psychological side of it. But I get what you're saying and I agree with the sentiment.
When I have to explain something to people who don't know all the specialist terms, I like to state things in terms of concrete real-world examples.

After all, I can think of several concrete interpretations of "propping up the status quo" that are pretty different.

For example, perhaps you think the media's gossip coverage props up the status quo by making already-famous people more famous.

On the other hand, maybe you're arguing that media brands are all owned by Jeff Bezos types, and they prop up the status quo by denying airtime to eating the rich and overthrowing capitalism.

Or you could argue that Fox News tells its viewers what they want to hear and every other media outlet does the same; and what all readers want is the status quo reinforced.

Or perhaps you see propping up the status quo in the media's attempts to be 'unbiased' in political reporting, like when one party says X should be higher and they find someone from the other party to say X should be lower.

Perhaps you're thinking of newspapers' comment sections, where newspapers hire pundits with political opinions that their readers will find right on.

Maybe you see the latest twitter storm is the current status quo, and reporters who follow such things as helpless to do anything but chase the latest trends to get clicks.

Perhaps you see 'propping up the status quo' in the area of broad, unquestioned ideas like love of country, the flag, mom and apple pie.

Maybe you feel reporters are too credulous when listening to politicians, and they're propping up the status quo every time they take someone in government at their word, or fail to point out when someone contradicts themselves.

Perhaps you see the media as a smokescreen, distracting people with low-impact high-emotion issues like who can use which toilet to distract people from The Real Issues.

It's hard for people to know if they agree with you, as some of those interpretations are a lot more radical than others.
Lol two months ago I moved about 80GB of photos from iCloud to Google and it was an absolute nightmare. Nothing worked correctly through the entire collection.
In most places adoption is also very expensive. For some absurd reason prospective adopting parents must prove they are worthy of raising children to the state, while biological parents don't have to prove anything.
Your whole blog resonates deeply with me. All this corporate grifting and women's empowerment months will do jack shit until we figure out how to make workplaces and lives more equitable for mothers and allowing for gaps, breaks and destigmatizing time off for parents of both genders.

Instead, we talk about how sexism is the biggest problem. Sure, sexism might be annoying, but in the west, it is hardly something that creates a genuine barrier for women.

Startups have it worst, and everday I count the number of years I have to work in the high stress places I want or do a startup if I want to have two kids before 35. No one talks about planning around fertility. When I mention it to someone that I want to take time off for a couple years to have children in silicon valley, they look at me as if I'm an alien. As if wanting to be pregnant and not working at the same time as being sleep deprived and wanting to spend time with my own baby when they are at their youngest is some strange outlandish fantasy.

All careers are built this way. PhD to tenure, startups, generally high stress professions. I wish the world wasn't so male centric, that feminists actually cared about finding structural solutions instead of forcing women to become copies of men to achieve gender parity. But they care more about power than actual equality where we acknowledge that women have different needs and desires, that those needs and desires are equally valuable and not inferior to desires men have, that the two genders have different strengths and capabilities and it is equally important to reward both. And maybe not wanting to outsource your baby to a nanny during their most vulnerable years is not a heretical thought.

I wish we had more focus in allowing people to transition back from taking a few years off to raise young kids, and it wasn't automatically assumed that you would be a worse founder or professor or software engineer just because you have 2-4 years you didn't commercially work. Hell, I want to take that time to contribute to open source, something I don't get to do much usually and I'm looking forward to it because I am willing to face the consequences. But I wish more women could be less scared of their career prospects for choosing to have children.
No, they do not, and no, it does not. Your height is the only limiting factor. A short person on a tall bike will have a hard time. Everything else is a matter of balance, not strength. You hardly use your muscles, just the engine.
Evolution is not prescriptive. Just because a certain outcome is favored by evolution doesn't mean that outcome is good.
Celebrating 25 years of Quake, modders recreate original levels
Also both FT and Bloomberg are still filled up chalked full of trackers despite asking for money.
I mean. Jesus christ. Devs used to be proud they could optimize and run their programs on slow machines. What happened? Thats like making a game for casual players but only < 5% of the global population can even afford to play it. How does this make business sense?? I'd understand if it was a game breaking new ground with some hectic VR or something like that but it isnt.
I think the winners in data science are Python, R, Matlab with Ada's share being non-existent. There is a reason for that. Ada doesn't have the numerical or data frame or stats libraries or any REPL functionality or charting libraries...etc. Language ecosystems are the thing that matters. I'd rather write Avionics or high speed trading systems in Ada, but data science? Maybe for some very niche problems.
The antinatalist point of view is incredibly damaging to the long term progress of our species.
Hmm I don't think that's quite right.

In order for me to continue building something nobody has built, I need it to be generating revenue. And in order to generate revenue I need to stay ahead of the competition, which probably requires not treating it like a 9-5. So yes I'm pursuing money, but not to achieve vast personal wealth, but rather to ensure my (hopefully) novel business is long-term viable.
Speeding up Chrome's release cycle
Am I the only person that sees this move as a ruse by established cable providers to disqualify Starlink from federal funding?
8-12 years of child rearing is very expensive. That's without even taking into compounding returns from working longer hours, seniority, experience, and investments.
It's more like we have several thermostats, some set too low, but you pointed to one that was set just right and said we should turn it up.

OK the analogy is a bit strained. Maybe I should just say that I do not think the authority given to the FCC to make determinations about broadband speeds is an example of Congress delegating too much authority.
Having done a neuroscience degree myself, I would double on your conclusion — I still have no clue how a brain works, apart of some simpler systems, like visual pattern recognition. I am out of the field for a single-digit number of years already, but in retrospective it is hilarious how all the literature in neuroscience is gently moving around the question of «guys, bit how all of it works»? People are happy to hack on single neurons or do some fishy fMRI studies instead. But of course, our tooling today is not adequate for this task.
I'd assume that you can use a browser that doesn't send this data?
Great topic.

Yes/no. It depends. Context is king.

If we're talking VP/C-suite level compensation, probably not.

If we're talking engineering manager / director level, the answer is likely yes.

The issue is, the higher up you go, the less roles there are (for either manager or dev). It's usually way easier to jump from dev to manager than from dev to staff/principal engineer. There is also likely a cycle of having to prove yourself at new companies (often staff roles are promoted from within), but I am seeing more and more staff roles on job boards.

It's actually a great career move to jump into management for a period of time, pick up the skills, then jump back to dev. It would make your impact even higher once you become a staff engineer.

I don't know how useful this is. But if you love to code and don't want to manage people, it's a solid route.

If you want fast compensation increases in the short term, go for the management route.

Edit:

I chose the management route because I like support, basically. Helping people, solving problems, and seeing people grow is my favourite thing. You can do this as a dev, but I found that I enjoy this stuff more than coding.

I also love systems thinking (computers, people, process). So it's a good fit for me :)
That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added to the project soon.

[1] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...
I'm not sure if you've got the details right, but it is definitely true that if you are taking part in any elite competition, you are probably going to be competing against people who are working very hard. I don't think that this is specific to male cofounders. Even in the counterfactual world where all founders are women, some will work harder than others, and if there is a perception that the harder workers are more likely to succeed, there will be pressure on everyone else to work harder as well.
IMHO no. I've had the giant company I work for throw me some recent college graduates to work for our team, but it turns out despite their claims that they knew C, they really only knew how to read the hello-world type of code. It was frustrating to realize they didn't understand our usage of function pointers or the C preprocessor. I also found people who couldn't read very basic Bash scripts, and that was very frustrating too since a lot of our tooling relies on Bash (and no, they're no the horrible stuff you can do with Bash, we migrate to Python once the Bash script gets complicated). And don't even get me started on the Computer Scientist who didn't understand a C++ destructor.
Put another way: let's say everyone who is capable of children follows your advice. To whom are these economic gains meaningful in 100 years? Who would their parents be?