skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We" didn't decide as a society. Rather individual people (and couples) in society decided that they'd prefer to have additional income [and stimulation] by choosing to work outside the home. Collectively, that dramatically increased the labor supply as compared to 100 years ago as well as increased the demand for goods and services.

I don't want to have us go back to the old way where it was looked down upon or judged for women to participate in society as free and equal agents in deciding how they want to spend their one precious life. "Men should work and women should tend to the household and children" is way worse than "Adults should be able to make free choices about their lives [and accept the consequential outcomes resulting from those choices, both beneficial and detrimental]"
For those curious - https://datatransferproject.dev
Reminiscing back to electrification in the 1930s overlooks a larger problem: cost disease. The US couldn’t afford to build any of the infrastructure we built back then. NYC can barely afford maintain its subway. Just extending the existing 120-mile long network by less than 10% will take longer than it took to build the whole to work in the first place.

People perceive it as a political problem, and in a sense it is, but they’re viewing it too narrowly. The US has enormous trouble building all sorts of infrastructure that other developed countries build relatively cheaply.
Yup, when I do my quarterly "Takeout everything" I always separate the photos request out because it takes 3-4 attempts to get it to work. Every single other service? Almost always works first time, even when they're all combined. Photos is the problem child.
One of two authors. I’ll share this with my co-author, thanks a ton :)
One thing I noticed as I aged is that my emotional intelligence and resilience increased (as energy decreased) and I'm not sure which is more important for kids; generally what I've read is that so long as kids have food, shelter, some quality time with parents, and healthy interactions with other humans they generally turn out normal. It's fun to be able to do youthful things with kids but the kids can honestly do youthful stuff with anyone and grow from it.

Definitely don't beat yourself up for not being younger; kids will always have more free time and energy than their parents (I had all my kids before 27) and the important thing is to help them find outlets for that energy that they really enjoy.
Bad arguments. Estimating social benefit of cryptocurrencies by the dollar cost of mining operations is obviously incorrect.

No perspective on the big picture. Pollution they talk about is happening at power plants, not mining rigs. Net electric energy consumption of cryptocurrencies is less than 1% of world total.

Proposing targeted regulation policies on minor consumer classes, no mention of big problems(transport, coal plants) and big solutions (nuclear energy). Looks very biased.

This looks like a nice lobby/news propaganda scribble from a think tank working against cryptocurrencies. Not as a scientific paper.
Liechtenstein is a part of the EU and is subject to the same regulations as the rest of the EU. Launching a product in Japan or India require an entirely new set of legal and regulatory work.
I might be traitor to the cause, but I feel like giving the industry an "out" might be easier to achieve and significantly faster to implement - e.g. instead of complete ban on targeted advertising, standardize on a clientside API that can send a list of topics/themes that are interesting to the person. In a way that's not owned by a single corporation.

This way I feel there will be less legislative and lobbying pushback while still achieving major privacy wins.
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I have been struggling with lack of motivation and anxiety for a while. I've found the following things helpful
- Start the morning by exercising or at least a small walk outside even just for shopping for e.g. buying bread or coffee.

- When it's difficult to start the day, I usually fool myself, I'll say OK I'll try 25 minutes and see if this works, usually I get hooked and continue working for hours.

- Try to adjust the task in hand so it is not so boring and not so challenging

- If you finish working leave something half finished (and a bit exciting) for the next day, since usually the start is the most difficult part I leave something unfinished that I actually want to do from the work I'm doing
Actually in the case of GP and GGP comment, this is EXACTLY what represents a financial success. If Softbank was able to exit their position through IPO and the company delivered great returns then Softbank's investment was a success.

Your sentiment is very broad and repeatedly echoed across HN, but in this comment chain it doesn't make any sense because they are asking about "making a profit"
>Millions is a low value in terms of wealth

As Skeletor once said: WAT?!

If you got millions you are part of the 0.5%.
That is great, but also deeply depressing.
They will usually attach metadata in JSON files accompanying the downloads if it's not attached to the photos, in my experience.
Yeah, revenue for that is pennies to the dollar compared to tracking. I am not defending it but it is not a simple switch to stop being evil and everything is fine. Hundreds of thousands of services would shut down that relied on ads to function. Which, again, they are relying on a predatory business model, but still.
Are there any integers in the physical world? To me they all seem in my head.

If I have 3 match sticks, they are each made of billions of molecules, atoms, electrons, quarks, gluons, etc. So there is no integer count, just in my perception.
Any idea why they built this to go straight to Google rather than just exporting in a standard format for Google to upload? There aren't any other real competitors AFAIK, but still why not just make it a simple export rather than an integration that will require continual maintenance?
Paid leave is 12+2 months if both parents use it. And it’s capped at 1800€. Depending on location and business type it is absolutely reasonable to start something with that conditions. There are no paid years for sure.
I'd love to be a stay at home dad: I enjoy taking care of and spending time with children, and I like doing household labor. It's not like I'd be bringing nothing financial to the partnership, either: I'd be bringing substantial assets into the partnership, such that my wife wouldn't need to worry about my retirement or even day-to-day expenses.

The reality, though, is that most women want someone ambitious (in the very limited, traditional sense of ambition), and aspiring to be a stay at home dad is considered at best neutral and more often a negative or dealbreaker when it comes to forming relationships.

This is true even of (or perhaps especially of) career-focused women, despite the fact that their male counterparts are more than happy to date and marry less-ambitious women with the intention of a division of labor conducive to family rearing.
If your only goal is to accumulate capital over your lifespan, then you won't have children at all, since they're tremendously expensive and have no dollar return.
For what it's worth I found this comic in the footnotes very touching:

https://images.nvidia.com/content/APAC/blog/tw/jhh-mc-illust...
I think you've overlooked something here.

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

But at this point we're not even sure if the thing you're referring to is the same thing we originally intended to study.

This is one of the pitfalls of scientific discussions of consciousness. Usually the first reductionist step appears to substitute the subject under discussion for something entirely different and then proceeds to explain this other thing.

"Assume a spherical cow" and all that.
Because the transactional ledger of bitcoin is what is driving electricity use, and another statement might be, for every $1 transacted on the bitcoin ledger, 0.0005 dollars in health damage is caused. (it's roughly a factor of 1000 more volume then new mining, and over time new mining is going to get smaller and smaller)
AZ is required by its contract with Oxford to sell at no profit during the pandemic period [1].

"A key element of Oxford’s partnership with AstraZeneca is the joint commitment to provide the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis for the duration of the pandemic across the world, and in perpetuity to low- and middle-income countries."

[1]: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-break...
I sometimes go through the thought exercise of making myself responsible of decisions with wide-ranging consequences.

I'm sitting here architecting a little project here and I had plenty of bad ideas and assumptions. In my space, that's fine, it's part of the design process.

If I was head of the CDC and trying to figure out how to handle this unprecedented global pandemic I'd also make plenty of mistakes and missteps. In this case, however, mistakes and missteps mean criticism from all sides and probably people dying.

It's a horrible responsibility and it's sure that rather than people are going to call it encroaching socialism or government incompetence or corruption.
I'm continually blown away by these small things. During your launch blog post, you showed how configuration tables can add tens of megabytes, and now the Swift<>Obj-C dictionary format can do the same?

It feels like these should be optimizations in Xcode, so its perplexing, but on the flip side, this horrifies me about my JavaScript/Ruby package management. At least on the Xcode side, there is some single party trying to improve.
I've had the same experience. The worst part is that you can only retry a download of a Google Takeout archive so many times before it locks you out, and you have to wait a day or so for a new takeout...
They follow one set of YC advice, but not another set of YC rules (what hpvic03 wrote). Although I do think YCnews takes Launch HN and Show HN differently. The first is only available to YC companies while Show HN is for anyone.

> Besides, tons of apps and services launch via [insert shitty "growth hacking" launch strategies]

Yeah, tons of them do but let's avoid that here if we're trying to keep the level a bit higher than just fad-of-the-day applications.
The founding of the United States of America was an experiment in the practical application of political philosophy. Without major philosophical disagreements between the Government of England and the colonies, the nation that sent men to the moon would not exist.
No, they explicitly do not apply. YC companies also have their own rules for hiring posts. It's a fringe benefit of owning the site.
I wonder if there is push for this narrative with throwaway accounts?

This was discussed many times, If I remember correctly the negotiatons were not on the price but on the liability issues etc.

I mean, AZ says its selling at no-profit. Did EU made them to sell at loss then? What's the logic of this narrative?
Usually languages come with their own ecosystems.

I am a C++ developer and I did some Java programming and C# programming. From my little experience both Java and C# look the same too me, I consider them like a different dialects of the same language.

When you step into their ecosystems, you notice the huge difference. Frameworks, build systems, CI systems, the way documentation is structured. Even the language that developers use to describe the same programming concepts is different.

Putting a name of the language in the ad is just a sign of the culture you will be expected to integrate into.
0 countries are relying on vaccine exports from the US.

0 countries planned their rollouts around vaccine exports from the US.

0 countries’ planned rollouts have been upended by new US export controls.

The impact will be more evident in a few months when the US begins playing vaccine diplomacy with under supplied EU countries.
Start by setting realistic expectations. A normal human can only do about 4 hours of difficult work per day before burning out. The whole office thing was/is a way take 4 hours of work and make it feel like an actual workday. If you don't have stupid/annoying tasks to do outside of those 4 hours that's a good thing - don't miss it or feel inadequate.

Next try to move around or set non-work tasks or outdoor tasks for breaks or even during all-company calls if you have them. Going for a walk or gardening or even laying outside in the sun for a 60 minute zoom call that you're only a passive observer on does wonders compared to sitting in an all-room office.

Also avoid any escaping behaviors (e.g. addictive) like alcohol, drugs, video games, social media, etc. If you start doing these things from a place of weakness things get ugly fast. Only do them from a position of strength like celebrating something not because you're bored/unmotivated.
Fast.com is Netflix, which doesn't have meaningful uploads, so they don't care.
Ok, well all this stuff that you're coming up with is called the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and it's a big topic with many many words written on it. And it's what the thread parent was saying wasn't satisfactorily answered by the glib "just a feeling" answer.
If the other machines on your LAN include Windows or Linux boxes, you could use Photos.app in a macOS VM to bulk download the files; here are some projects that make it easy:

macos-virtualbox: "Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

macOS-Simple-KVM: "Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM." https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM
It's probably the projection of my own bias there, thanks for your perspective! (and for the link)
You could say now is a local minimum, but in what time period? Out of the last twenty years? Maybe. The last hundred? Probably not.
>I think the main issue is in how Comcast allocates the different channels. They prioritize download because it also serves TV customers, while upload is only used for Internet.

Comcast has an inherent conflict of interest, in that they are a middleman for high margin TV subscriptions. Better internet obviates the need to purchase TV subscriptions from Comcast, so I would conclude they're dragging their heels on purpose.
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Channel allocation suggests they can choose this. So stop offering fake 1Gbps and allocate some of that downstream to upstream instead?
OK, from a pure hedonistic view - let's say at some time in the future, there are no more humans left. Why would it make sense to invest anything into economic gain in the time before that happens? You'd rather run the economy into the ground to extract as much value as you could from it, before the end of human existence. You - or else someone else who is the last human alive - are "leaving something on the table", so to speak. Otherwise they are just leaving value around for wildlife.

In other words there would be a time, maybe dependent on the rate at which remaining humans can unwind the human economy, past which any effort at collective economic gain wouldn't be worth it.
> According to this myth, the brain is like a collection of puzzle pieces, each with a dedicated mental function. One puzzle piece is for vision, another is for memory, a third is for emotions, and so on.

The author makes too much about parts of the brain not being specialized.

As a neurosurgery resident in a former life who actually operated on brains and took care of people with strokes and trauma, yes, different parts of the brain are specialized to do different things. Yes, there is plasticity, but there are limits to it, especially once you reach adulthood.

I will give some anecdotes, but these are very, very typical.

Example, frontal lobe and impulse control. Saw an older patient with a giant tumor in the frontal lobe. His family came with him. Seeing where the tumor was, I asked the family if they had noticed any recent decline in his impulse control. Their response: "Now that you mention it,..." and out came all sorts of stories how their previously very proper father, was now doing all sorts of very things with very poor judgement and had even gotten in trouble with the law. If your frontal lobes get damaged, you will have issues with impulse control, long term planning, etc.

Another example is speech. Speech is very localized to areas of the left brain. As an example, there was patient with seizures in the left brain so bad that we would have to remove parts of the brain to control them. We did a surgery where we opened up the skull, and then woke the patient up. Psychologists asked the patient to do various verbal tasks, while we touched different parts of the brain with an electrode. When the electrode touched the parts of the brain that control speech, the effect was instantaneous, the patient suddenly stopped talking mid-word. By doing this, were were able to map precisely which parts were being used for speech, and in the surgery, avoid those areas. The patient had a very good outcome with his seizures stopped, and still able to speak.

Another example is movement disorders. Worked with a surgeon who is a world class expert in deep brain stimulation. In there you precisely place an electrode into a specific part of the brain and turn it on. Once you do that, you can have someone with severe tremor or Parkinson's who has been unable to even write their name for years, suddenly are able to write. You turn off the electrode, and the effect goes away. If the electrode is off by a millimeter, it does not work. It has to be precisely positioned.

In terms of mental illness, I have seen patients with severe depression and obsessive, compulsive disorder improve significantly after precise placement of an electrode in the correct part of the brain.

This thing about parts of the brain specializing is not just abstract theory. It is used every day by neurosurgeons, neurologists, etc to make life and death decisions. It has a lot of real world evidence backing it up. The most important question to answer when you see someone with a stroke or brain trauma, is "where is it located?" The same size injury can have vastly different effects on the person depending on where it is.
Having both would be nice, but given the amounts of data available and the asymmetric nature of many residential internet connections, I think doing the upload themselves would be prohibitive for many users.
> So you're okay with people who could work but have stopped looking for work to not be counted in U3 as unemployed?

Sure.

I'm also okay with them being counted in U-4 and U-5, and not being counted in U-1 and U-2.

> What are these "alternatives?"

U-1 through U-5 (excluding U-3 since it's the headline rate) are alternative measures of unemployment, LFPR is a measure of employment. All are within the scope of “alternative measures of employment/unemployment”. All have some value in understanding the broad issue, and none are perfect, unequivocally better than the others without a fairly specific purpose in mind, and LFPR is about the least useful of the set on its own (and is especially not useful as a measure of unemployment, since it treats classical unemployment as the same as employment.)

But a much bigger problem than choosing a less-than-ideal measure of unemployment is excessive focus on unemployment as the key measure of health of the economy. Distributional measures of income (while less conveniently unidimensional than picking one or the other un/employment rate) are much more useful there.
Just did a quick search, found this [1] article.

The 25/3 definition was set in 2015

It had been set to 4/1 in 2010

In 1996 the original definition was 200k/200k.

This seems to be a moving target and there is no reason to believe it won't continue to be updated.

[1] https://broadbandnow.com/report/fcc-broadband-definition/
My guess is this is designed for the lowest-common-denominator.

Sucking down a multi-hundred-gig tarball on a phone to turn around and re-upload sounds like a poor user experience to me, and Apple has opinions about those.
+1. Based on all the other cool search capabilities they have around recognizing your face/people's faces/objects, I'm surprised they don't have a "recognize duplicates" / "recognize bad pics" filter yet...especially when they know you have a bulk or automatic upload into your Photos account from your devices.
orbitdb runs on browsers, via WebRTC. It's much easier to embrace something that runs on a web page than something that you have to download and run.
> I wish carriers would have a different brand for "enthusiasts". The type of customer who won't mind going to his back-panel and swapping equipment if the rest of the network supports it.

Problem with cable TV: it's a shared medium. Which means that for upgrading one pro customer, they'll have to either lay a new cable or get all of the normies on his cable branch to new STBs.
It's also not like having a CS degree makes you immune to this — people are busy, real software has indirection which can make the implications non-obvious, and for many working programmers an awful lot of what they learned was a long time in the past and not something they use on a daily basis.

The C++ code shown is a great example: when you see very simple code in the middle of a paper talking about how a particular patterns fails badly, yes, you're primed to look for a problem but if that showed up for you in code review are you really confident that you'd say something other than “followed standard practice, maybe add braces around the if statement”?

The real lesson here is that nothing beats actually measuring your code to make sure you didn't miss something like this.
There are not that many Winklevoss twins.

But twin sisters? There are way too many of them to count.
This comment is needlessly flippant. The move to online dating (and social media profiles in general) has radically shifted how dating works. A quick look at any research from OK Cupid or others who investigate perceptions, ratings, etc. very clearly shows that it’s become a meat market where a small number of men get a disproportionate amount of the available dates. Before online dating, expectations were generally more in line with reality and dating was far less of a chore.
> Liechtenstein is a part of the EU

No it isn't, which is why Apple specifically calls it out when they also have an entry for "the European Union". Economic Area, yes, Union, no. And Switzerland is part of neither and has their own data regulation separate from the GDPR.
> So I do blame the EU commission on endangering the general public health of its constituents.

As the comment you replied to asked; do you have an actual source for that? The "much quoted" thing is not a source, it is simply weasel words.

For what it's worth, some national-level politicians have said some negative comments about it, but I can't recall hearing any EU commission figures commenting negatively about it (being cautious about it; sure, but negative, I can't recall any). Happy to be proved wrong though.
I remember back when people put stuff on the internet for free because it was fun and they enjoyed sharing. I suppose the need for compensation has truly destroyed every good thing.
This only follows if the playerbase are expected to have full knowledge of the dark patterns at play but don't care about them. It's more likely they have no objection because they aren't aware.
I get crashes with XMP, usually right at worst possible time on a zoom call where I am presenting! And saying users should overclock just seems weird, apple works out of the box.

For whatever reason, the overall memory system on the M1 systems just seems better than intel. I really wish I could follow more details from on-die cache to how memory is actually loaded / unloaded to speeds, but every time I've looked at it a little it just seems the M1 / Apple are doing it better across the whole stack.