skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no particular beef with you, so please don't take it that way--but "the absolute reality that is the importance of money to survival" is a subjective assessment that does not have to be (and is not) shared by 100% of the population.

Again, in extremis: Buddhist monks. And if Buddhist monks exist (and don't care about money), then surely there can be a spectrum of what money means to different people?

Maybe there's even a more successful attitude for earning money than maintaining a singular focus on monotonically-increasing your inventory of it? Maybe past a certain point, the best thing to do with money is to risk it? (Which doesn't even imply forgetting or debating its importance?)

You would be fair to say "this advice doesn't apply to me" or "this advice only applies when conditions X, Y, and Z have been met" or even "this advice is wrong". However, the statement that this advice is "insulting" creates a toxic environment.

No one will ever be able to anticipate all the ways they might cross/deny/fail to recognize someone else's experience or what they "know to be true". Nor is that anyone's job. After all, we're all just stumbling through this thing-called-life trying to do our best. If people persist in taking offense to comments made by strangers on the internet who have never heard of them, the only logical outcome is to exclude those people from the discussion. Is this what you would choose for yourself?

At best, this makes it harder to for me to find like-minded people to have the discussions I want to have--and at worst, it deprives people from being exposed to things that they might find valuable in those discussions, because those discussions are no longer being had in the open where they could be stumbled upon.

Whatever you choose to do from this point forward is no skin off my back. My point is that, in the face of such reactions, my response is to take my very important (to me), real-world discussions about maximizing my life-given-my-circumstances away from the people who would comment in this way.

Anyway, this is not a debate I need to win. Maybe you want to hear this stuff, maybe you don't.
Oh for fuck's sake, its a message board, not a goddamn missile defense system. Get off your high horse.
I have two separate and (mostly) unrelated feelings.

Musk has done something remarkable as you say.

At the same time, the market cap is nuts and a portent of doom.

Bigger than all car companies combined, by market cap?

A market crash could take down Tesla and set back electric car adoption by 20 years.
I envy those people that go on 500 mile road trips all the time and therefore can't live without a car with ICE. Personally I think I could live with not having that kind of range at all times if there were reasonable car sharing or rental options around.
It is 12 miles out, and 3,000 feet deep. It isn't going to affect humans directly. Maybe it could work its way into the food chain.
I live in Mexico and it's certainly not because I trust the police.
Any device that is used to ration is money though, there are other means to ration (the three we learn in Econ are beauty, brute force and first come first serve) but any device is by definition money since money is just a rationing device.
Email fatigue is causing rising dissatisfaction with remote work
Asymmetry in gamete size
10 or 20 years down the line, perhaps we will have semi-autonomous vehicles (full self-driving is a pipe dream, IMV). But I still feel it is a waste of time and resources. A better use of them would be to improve current driving conditions for a driver, such as reducing the amount of human energy required for an average drive, or developing more efficient vehicles for single / two passengers.

There is a large portion of the world that uses cars for daily commutes to office. If we can make that fleet much more efficient than current day, a lot of carbon output would be saved.

Edit:

Also, how about making cars safe and mesh enabled to drive further distances, faster and with less stress, so that cities and infrastructure can expand.

100 years down the line, what will survive is our infrastructure, the ability to move from A to B quickly and easily. Roads, bridges, highways, etc. Just look at the economic benefits of the German Auto Bahn.

Imagine special highways, that connect major cities to spread out urban areas. Highways that are automated, where the cars on the highway know about each other and can drive as a swarm. Collectively, they can achieve much higher speeds. It maybe the time to divert investments to such projects and build autonomous driving from that base.
TIL:

spruik (transitive, Australia) To promote a thing or idea to another person
True enough, but headlights driving up the mountain cause light pollution for the astronomers working at the observatory (who necessarily need to work at night).

From https://www.ucolick.org/main/visit/info.html

"Please do not visit the observatory at night without a ticket to one of our evening programs.

Lick Observatory is an active research facility, and at night all of the buildings are locked and astronomers are working at the darkened telescopes. Telescopes require the darkest possible conditions to detect the faint light from celestial objects. The success of our work relies upon minimizing lights around the observatory at night. Thank you."
The comment was that the points about money "are, frankly, insulting".

I'd call yours a radical interpretation of the text.
They sold some of their BTC holdings right?
I’m pretty sure mainstream republicans are pretty onboard with accepting homosexuality, it’s the trans movement that is currently under scrutiny. Obviously we can find examples of members of the GOP that are against gay marriage, but the last four or five years has seen that toned down a bunch.

People change, conservatives pride themselves on changing slower, but it does happen.
What Will Happen to All the Dead Electric Car Batteries?
The same sex couple message doesn't seem political because there are just sharing an experience. It would be political if they continued on about the law was unfair and needs to change.
I mean technically I’m a city and a town away, but I was more just giving an example of the area that we are probably bigger than say just a rest area charger. Having only seen this one, it taints my perception of traveling with an electric vehicle. There are quite a few Tesla’s around here, and my neighborhood.
"Turns out that the harsh truth is...

Users couldn't care less about the programming language you used or how beautiful, clean, modular and maintainable your code is. In fact, they don't give a crap about it."

This applies to some users, for sure, but not all. The few people on the planet who read, edit and write source code are also users.

As a user, I do care about the choice of language and what the code looks like, for a number of reasons. It tells me about how the program works. It is often the best "documentation" provided. It makes a difference if I want to edit the code. It reveals something about the mind of the author. Does this person have an appreciation for the same qualities in software that I have. Is the person careless or careful. Verbose or succinct.

Where possible,^1 I generally avoid program written in languages I myself do not use. All those Go programs posted to HN. I skip them all, no matter how good they sound. Python. NodeJS. Rust. The list goes on. I save quite a bit of disk space this way, avoiding large binaries and library installs.

1. I once commented on HN that I do not use programs written in Java and some JavaCard programmer got offended and said I was wrong because Java is in all sorts of devices, and JavaCard is running on SIM cards. That was not the point. The point was I am a user and if given the choice between a Java program and nothing, I will choose the later. The trick developers in "tech" use today is to remove user choice. (See, e.g., "dark patterns.") When choice is removed, then it does not matter if or what users would choose.

Turns out there is at least one user who does care and he does give a crap. :)
> I mean, it’s basically their only purpose in life

Cash back/miles is another one.
Ha, I’m near Shreveport.
> Apple allows any streaming provider to be on the AppleTV without making any kind of deal or negotiation.

Content providers do have to make deals to get on AppleTV. You just don't hear about it.

Here's an example:

"WarnerMedia has firmed up a distribution deal with Apple for distribution of its forthcoming streaming service HBO Max.... Under the deal, HBO Max will be available on Apple devices and integrated with the Apple TV app on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV."

(note the words "the deal")

https://deadline.com/2020/04/hbo-max-apple-streaming-distrib...

And there are few details around the HBO and CBS deal to get on Apple TV here:

In a second sign of frayed relations between the two companies, Netflix has decided to opt out of the Apple bundle, which will upsell subscriptions to HBO and CBS in addition to its original programming

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/multimedia/netflix-apple-...
The difference being that in one case they harass you directly and in the other they harass your employer, family, and any future employers?
Well, my intuition tells me that the ‘pool’ will always be there. I’m not sure it’s dried up, I think it will always be there for one reason or an other.

And it doesn’t seem like the job pool is drying up either. From what I can’t tell there are just as many job opportunities as when I started, and plenty of companies still complaining about not being able to find qualified candidates.

PS: there was a reply I read and was quickly deleted, but made a good point. These sensational companies like Lambda tend to dominate headlines now, but I’m sure there are plenty of smaller more local bootcamps fighting ‘the good fight’ in their areas. If whoever said that deleted comment wants to email me, I’d be interested in learning more about the program you mentioned.

It’s unfortunate these bad headlines taint the overall picture of bootcamps, because I’m sure there are plenty of smaller players around that are doing just as good of a job as The Iron Yard like I described.

And to be fair, there is a perfect example in my area, of a small bootcamp that popped up after TIY went out of business, and they are doing a great job of supplying the same mission and service to our local area.
Ah yes, I remember falling for the "we only sold to prove our liquidity" back in my young and naive investment years.
A few years ago I'd agree it would be a major EV setback but there are so many other options now I don't think that's the case any longer.

I'm very optimistic about Rivian. It's Tesla but without the ego thinking they are smarter than 50 years of manufacturing lessons.
Plus, Woods Hole is a charming place to live/work/visit if anyone gets the chance
The Chernobyl disaster is a classic example of capitalism socializing pollution costs.
Shipping Containers Plunge Overboard as Supply Race Raises Risks
I agree with the equipment. To the point that I just bought a great Dell Ultrasharp monitor to use instead of my company issued 1080p monitor at home.

Life is too short to spend on crappy screens.
There are some additional open source funding resources here:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Yea, it's streaming so there are some debugging sessions in there, but the information is gold.
I think about this all the time with so many things in life. Same with employer tax incentives, like a free metro pass/tax deductible contributions towards commuting. I’m actually paying less to take the subway than someone making minimum wage. It doesn’t seem right.

I take full advantage of all the credit card benefits though, as I think everyone should if they can.
Elon Musk says Tesla made ‘significant mistakes’ with solar roof project
Premium sedan has nothing to do with 0-100 km/h times. Those don't differ between segments.

What Model 3 lacks is quality interior and options.
This isn't a spill though: it's in containers. So it needs to be dredged up and destroyed by high temperature incineration.
How has 360 reviews confronted management in your experience?
Not exactly right either. Before its displayed to some approximation in some RGB array, it was some back buffer. That back buffer could have been attempting to render an infinitely small, crisp line or a line almost two pixels wide.

The point is that kind of information is not encoded in the buffer. Its just a point sample of the output of the previous stage in the pipeline.
Is Pfizer taking advantage the emergency declaration to fast-track this pill? If yes, we need to be wary.

Remember, there's no value to Pfizer to cure things like the common cold.
> America has poor control of its international borders and would be unconstitutional, not just unpopular, to lock down with a right of freedom of movement from state to state.

It was also arguably “unconstitutional” [1] for Australian states to close their borders with one another over the pandemic. Business magnate Clive Palmer sued Western Australia over its border closures, in fact, and even received backing from the Australian federal government [2].

Particularly in light of the patchwork framework surrounding state-mandated church closures in the US, the difference between Australia and the United States as it pertains to interstate border closures seems to be more a matter of cultural expectation, than legal impossibility. But IANAL.

US airports are highly controllable ports of entry. I think a lot more could’ve been done there had the population willed hard border closures into existence.

[1]: https://auspublaw.org/2020/08/border-closures-and-s-92-clive...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/02/feder...
>I have been explicitly told that I should start "building credit" by paying as much with a "real" credit card as possible.

You've been somewhat misinformed. You build credit by obtaining the credit line and just having it available for a long time, not by using it "as much as possible." Actually purchasing items with your credit card is not required.[1]

In fact, "maxing out" your credit cards (when your bill closes using 85%+ of your limit) actually can reduce your score (but only for the month(s) your cards are "maxed out.")

FICO scores aren't a black box, they publish exactly what they take into account - https://www.myfico.com/credit-education/whats-in-your-credit...

[1] with the caveat that some credit card issuers will close dormant accounts after a couple years.
The train system in Sydney, Australia has a guard cabin which it's recommended to ride near at night when there aren't many people about.
In Russian, at least, the country remains “Germany” but the people from it are the “mute-sies”, unlike pretty much every other pairing of country name / demonym.
The thing is, there probably wasn't anyway anyone could convince lyft not to spend money on this. In 2016 investors were writing big checks that self-driving cars were around the corner based on vague demos.

If anyone said it couldn't be done they'd simply be viewed as not AI enough.
Totally valid but just feel like I have to throw in that I went to a bootcamp, was very suspicious from the earliest stages of consideration but found on the other side that all the friends I made there who attended-even the one that failed out and went to another bootcamp-went from part time jobs making less than 30k a year to legit software engineering positions making 60~120k in less than a year. Im still surprised that the whole thing wasn't a scam. That said it was the most competitive and highest ranked bootcamp then and now in terms of job placement, not sure how places like lambda differ...
It's for the YouTube TV app, not the YouTube app. So you should be good with the regular YouTube app if that's what you bought your Roku for.
That liability is already outsourced to consulting firm, unfortunately.
> If someone gets ahold of your debit card info, there is very little recourse once the money has left your bank.

This gets repeated, but it's not true everywhere. Some banks may not care or maybe it's harder in some countries. But for example in the UK I could easily revert a few £k the same day without issues. I'd love to read more about where the differences come from, but the blanket statement is not 100% correct.
Very well stated. The art should stand by itself for what it is intended and if it, as it should, provides some commentary or some testing of ideas, that is what art has always done and is expected.

My argument is specifically regarding the award show and how it has simply turned into a political vehicle for many often with little or no mention of the art by the individual/group which is being awarded.
Waymo is at the head of the pack. I think we will see full self driving limited to cities + highways this decade.

ZOOX is another company I'm watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoox_(company)
Yeah, as someone else mentioned, TIPS are terrible investments for actual hyperinflation. In other instances of hyperinflation, "official" inflation estimates (which is what TIPS are benchmarked on) seriously lag the actual inflation rate on the ground. Most layperson financial assets aren't secure investments in this case, because their value depends only on what you can sell them for and it's far from guaranteed that you'll be able to sell them for anything in a crisis.

Your strategy for preparing for hyperinflation is to lever up on debt and then buy controlling interests in real assets that people need to live - real estate, food suppliers, weapon/ammunition suppliers, energy, utilities. When hyperinflation hits the debt inflates away to nothing and then you can name your price in the black market that inevitably ensues. Then you use the profits from your control over essential supplies to hire mercenaries to protect and enforce your rights to them, because hyperinflation is very frequently followed with a collapse of state control along with lawlessness, anarchy, and civil disorder. (See eg. Russian oligarchs.)

Note that folks who are buying up real estate with debt are following part of this playbook. Folks buying up gold and Bitcoin are following another part of it: their buyers expect that those will be the currencies of choice in the black market. I have no intel on whether gun & ammunition manufacturers are also getting bought up for outsize prices, but would be extremely curious if they are.
The opportunities are occasionally remote as in "on a research vessel somewhere in the middle of the ocean for several weeks." But virtually everyone has a home base near the campus. The nature of the work is very hands-on, even for software.

Edit: As pointed out below, there are some remote software developer roles right now.
You can illegally emigrate. I've seen it happen.
I buy this theory, but it sounds like the result of some kind of internal politics, not anyone trying to do what’s best for the user.
If it happens years into production, especially after the load has increased or requirements have changed, it is a legitimate version 2 :)
Also widening the range would be a reasonable thing. Wear a jumper in winter. Don't be forced to go from 40C to 20C in summer. We don't need precisely the same temperature 24/7, 365.
But he didn’t say you shouldn’t read, only that you shouldn’t waste your time on the latest popular writing.
They mostly do cash back as an option these days. The sinister part is we pay more to cover the transaction cost. But if you aren’t using a credit card to get points you’re only hurting yourself. (Unless the biz has a cash deal)
Well, yes, pretty much everyone who is an actual expert in biochemistry. I count myself in that group.

However, probably none of us consider ourselves "activists". We just shake our head and do our job.
> Also not clear they had anything to gain.

The resell the debt to investors[1]. If students think these debts have to be repaid even if they don't then they are more valuable so yes, the school has something to gain.

[1] https://inside.com/campaigns/inside-dev-2020-02-13-21344/sec...
Would love to see this acknowledged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26949343
Probably what the OP was thinking of, and significant enough to consider. The days of mass direct-contact with DDT[0] are over in America.

[0] https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/in-1945-a-truck...
Qt Licensing Explained [pdf]
So...you get to arbitrate my parents' experience of poverty?

I'll let my mom know that she wasn't poor when my parents spent an entire year eating nothing but cabbage, and they weren't poor when they had to leave me with my grandparent for 15 months (back when there were no video calls and long-distance was too expensive) because they couldn't support a child and build a new life. That they weren't too poor when my dad was working 2 jobs while studying for his license and had to live in a tiny apartment with roommates and borrow money to meet basic expenses.

I get it. There are people who have been and are currently worse-off. The idea that everything should always and everywhere be measured in relation to the extreme reach of the left-tail is batsh*t.

The whole point of the comment that I replied to was that the commentor felt that the article needed to be aware of and somehow speak to his experience--while he's a stranger on the internet who the original author could not possibly know anything about.

I have specifically detailed some of my mom's experience of poverty to you, and you claim the right to deny it--what, because they were not the worst-off people in recent human history? If I had said, "my parents were rich because we had X,Y,Z", would you have commented "No, your parents were not rich because they did not also possess a chateau and a private jet?"

Is this it? Any and every judgement of a comment and denial of experience can be "okay", as long as it's approached from the left-tail? Does this not strike you as mad?
My point was more when people say they're "going to Europe" they never mean they're going to Russia. If they're going to Russia they say they're going to Russia and not Europe. Russia is culturally and geographically unique.
If I’m following your logic, in that Monopoly is the opposite of fun, and Catan is the opposite of Monopoly, then you’re saying Catan is the definition of fun.

Catan is definitely fun, compared to Monopoly, but there are many games I’d much rather play than Catan (coming from someone that had to talk his wife into playing it a few days ago after about 5+ years of not playing it, due to the previous — and only — time we played it taking 3 hours over two days). I’ve played it with others, and on Switch, though.

My biggest gripe about Catan is it’s heavy reliance on luck.

Of course, that’s my subjective opinion.

Some of my recent favorites (in no particular order) that all rely quite a bit less on luck:

- Terraforming Mars

- Brass Birmingham

- Hansa Teutonica

- Kanban EV

- Pax Pamir

- Castles of Burgundy

- Scythe

- On Mars

Sorry, just geeking out a bit, since the subject came up.
> Usually, the "problem" they exist to solve is that some government functionary wants to look like they're "doing something",

I tend to disagree. Most regulations address some problem, and in fact, the rules around changing regulations are strict enough that most of Trump's appointees' attempts to do away with regulations were ultimately reversed by the courts.

Sometimes, the problem no longer applies. But, I don't just want to disagree. So I'll tell you what. Throw 3 or 4 regulations out there you think are insane, and we'll see if I can explain a real problem for at least 1. I'd bet I could with a single regulation chosen at random, but your choices will be anything but random.

> serve ideologically-motivated belief that some faction has managed to force on everyone else

This one is true. Like, I believe murder is wrong and want it to be outlawed. But there are tons of other beliefs - e.g. rich people should a higher percentage of their income - that are ideological as well as pragmatic.