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If given the choice I would choose to have my daughter again I would. But even so I can definitely empathize with many of the people in this article.

My wife and i have always been very open communicators. After having a kid when people would ask us if we are enjoying parenthood we've always answered honest.

"It's the most work we have ever done in our life" (and I build startups!)... "We got no sleep last night, she woke up at 2 AM and wouldn't go back to bed."

And it is amazing to me the backlash we got. People who plan to have children were telling us "all I ever here is the bad stuff!" and essentially saying we should lie and say everything is perfect.

The fact is, having a child is the biggest life commitment you will ever make and if you and your significant other are not prepared, you're in for a bad time.

But at the same time I think this whole "you're not allowed to say anything bad about parenthood" is unhealthy.

This article talks about people who are willing to speak their truth about parenthood and I think overall that is a good thing.

Edit:
If more people talked honestly about he burden of parenthood we'd maybe have less unwanted kids. We as a species are well past the point where we have to have 10 kids just to ensure the bloodline continues. Be honest with people about how difficult being a parent is. Some people like my wife and I will choose to do it anyway knowing exactly what we are getting into and other's won't. And that's OK.
Remember that story with the company management stepping in because a feud between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann was starting to get into unsavory business of the networks' parent companies? The idea that Jeff Bezos could influence the Post's coverage isn't outlandish, even if Trump rather cynically invoked the concept.
seems they're using javascript for their maths.
The article is laughably biased in both its reporting and its language, it's almsot funny how they don't try to hide it:

> According to a survey conducted late last year by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

> But it is far from clear that classroom _indoctrination_ is driving students to the far left

> students’ upbringings are a large part of today’s _problems_ on campus

Most clearly visible in the following excerpt:

> Naturally, when they arrive on campus as 18-year olds, they look to professors and administrators to take over the parental role of protecting them from life’s challenges. Thus, so-called “helicopter parenting” yields “snowflake” students unable to tolerate uncomfortable opinions.

> In response to perceived slights, however artificial or exaggerated they may be, activists demand and often receive compensation

> This is an encouraging conclusion as it suggests that students who are more serious about their academic work are more likely to think for themselves [leftist = unable to think for themselves?] and less likely to be drawn into disruptive political activities

> If moderate and liberal professors want to take back the campus from illiberal activists who reject open debate and a marketplace of ideas, then a good place to start would be to re-emphasize academics as the raison d’etre of university life
There's a lot of very bad pop-sci books on this topic. Do you mind sharing the ones you read and recommend?
> European socialism is "not so bad" compared to North Korea, until you learn that Europeans on the whole are also significantly poorer than those in the US.

Yes, if you define "poor" in terms of net income. I could at least double my salary by moving from Paris to California, yet my standards of living would plunge... I love paying taxes - and every trip to a low-tax country reminds me of that !
How easy or how likely is a meltdown attack likely to be successful against a moderately protected PC or say a VMware Cluster...these kinds of things seem hard to pin down...and if all one can do is READ - exactly what is to gain here? It seems that the machine would have already had to have been compromised in another way to get the memory that has been READ off and out of the computer system.
And as we all know, median income is a good measuring tool for the total health of a society.
What's to say the introduction of bcash with its confusing name didn't hamper the uptake of either BTC or BCH?
Nice write up. One of our guys wrote a similar piece. https://www.carvesystems.com/blog/meltdown-spectre.html

One of the biggest challenges describing low level systems vulnerabilites like these is you have to actually learn at least a little about the CPU internals and high level explanation only gets you so far. I think adding a "why this matters" to your post is helpful.
If you google in your native language you'll get results in that language. I agree that it takes a bit to relearn all formulas (and I find it too confusing to use different versions at the same time) but when I was still using a non-English version I had no problems finding solutions.

I think it was exactly the right thing to do. Excel formulas are often used by people with little knowledge of programming who aren't aware that "if" is a common keyword. Using the local variant makes formulas much easier to understand (and to get people closer to actual programming).
We should resist this by wasting as much time as humanly possible. How about carrying multiple data devices with brute force able encryption for meaningless data? Encrypted linux ISOs, 8051 datasheets, trivial C programs, etc. There's clearly a file structure in place, it's clearly not easily readable, the person who was carrying it will not (or maybe cannot because they genuinely don't know) divulge how to read it. All this just to waste their time and resources dealing with piles of this shit.

Anybody remember that USB stick that kills whatever it's plugged into? I could throw 2-3 of those into my luggage and forget about them.
Here's a related article some may find interesting if you like this one: https://www.theawl.com/2011/04/inside-david-foster-wallaces-...

It's about the writer David Foster Wallace's annotated self-help library. I think it's fascinating to see the energy with which someone who is brilliant consumed low-brow self-help literature.

Alas it seems like it did not work in the end.
> I read a great book that goes into Shannon a bit

Ha! noticed what you did there. Was that intentional ?

I think grad students might be able to relate to the following: If one's masters thesis is as world changing as it was, how does one even muster up the courage to join a PhD program after that. What could one possibly do that could have a stab at even a token respectability compared to foundation of digital circuitry. Foundation of something that has really changed the world. For grad students who are mere mortals, that would be terrifying.
Nevertheless, this is of value since it distinguishes between articles with a lot of opinion and articles with little opinion. Even reputable newspapers like the NYT regularly publish news with a lot of opinion.
I see plenty of anti-capitalism in today's youth, but I'm not sure that equates to socialism.
Quality of life is more important than raw cash.
No one can ever be 100% prepared for children.
The article has it wrong, as I mentioned in another comment. Polish word for tea is "herbata" which comes from "herbal tea".
Why put art in quotes in the article as if to suggest it is not? Seems like the piece got the author to participate and share their experience. Sounds like pretty successful "art" to me.
This would be kinda cute if it weren't for all the posturing about it being art. "challenges how your brain thinks about the internet" is an overstatement.
Can you give some other examples of this mentality on display? Have there been other articles on HN? This sentiment has been prevalent among my peer group (b. Late 80s/Early 90s) for at least a decade. Very few of my friends outside of the very religious are looking forward to having children.

As far back as June 2014, Pope Francis spoke about this phenomenon.

http://time.com/2814527/pope-francis-dogs-cats-pets/
These two approaches are not mutually exclusive. We can simultaneously accept the world as it is yet work to make it what we wish it were.
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That's how I feel about it. There is a convergence towards common usability as long as you choose your graphics card carefully for GNU/Linux (no nvidia).
On a Dell, try CTRL-P when the Dell logo is showing.

Used to work on Optiplex machines, I don't have any other Dells to try it on.
I work remotely, and it can definitely get lonely. To combat this, I do martial arts. I get my 'social fix' and am good for the day. I don't need constant conversation throughout the day with people I may or may not like ;-)

What is most difficult for me, is getting inspiration. I work remotely for myself which is different than those work work remotely for others, and have a boss to report to. So...I'm struggling with how to get unstuck right now.

As far as 'never leaving work,' I change up my work locations. Sometimes I'm at Starbucks, other times Panera's, and sometimes I'm at home.

As far as degradation of social skills, I'm going to assume that was an attempt at humor, and not really proven lol :) Seriously though, yesterday I realized that I definitely don't socialize the way I used to. I went to panera and ordered at the kiosk with my card. Later on in the day I went to Target's 'self check-out.' It's almost as if we don't have to interact with humans as much these days.
Oh totally, I'm continously surprised by what kids are capable of and they're generally smarter they're given credit for. I just thought that if it's not possible to phrase a question or concept because a kid does not have the vocabulary required to understand it or then it's probably not worth it.

Then again maybe I'm wrong and that's why I'm not a teacher :-)
I find t hard to believe anyone genuinely doesn’t want to. I suggest they’re wrong about their feelings. They only exist because every ancestor of theirs has children. Every person who exists today shares that quality. It seems like a critical part of life to have kids or a kid at least.
Appreciate your parents.
> No student is thinking, 'we should be more like North Korea'.

I'll be honest, I've been starting to doubt that North Korea is actually as terrible as our leaders want us to believe it is. I still don't think we should be more like North Korea because I don't expect it's good, but I do think we should be less like the Soviet Union, telling our people that our ideological opponents are completely awful places to live as a way of propping up our own socio-economic system's failings.
Questions like these ("would you prefer to live under a socialist system") always come down to semantics. It should be noted that Social democrats often identify as "socialist". So while a third of Swedish voters are social democrats, and all of them would agree that regardless of who runs the government, the state apparatus is more or less "social democratic". Not all of these people would identify as "socialist" just because they are social democrats, but many would.

Meanwhile in the US, very few would equate social democracy in a capitalist society as "socialist", because you were raised to believe that "socialism" is the opposite of "capitalism". Which it is. In a way. But it's complicated.

So a better question would be:

- Would you like to live in a capitalist society with significantly more socialism?

- Would you prefer to live in a completely non-capitalist society, i.e. without a free market?

- Do you know the difference between democratic socialism and social democracy? Which do you prefer?

So: to a lot of people, "socialism" means there is no market economy/capitalism. To a lot of other people, socialism is also the social democratic ideals of redistribution, equality and strong workers' rights.
Wait, which side is the climate change denier?

Because when you say things like "the ramifications of socialism are profoundly harmful", without any examples or supporting arguments - and ignoring the fact that every stable industrial nation government is to some degree socialist - well.
Absolutely agree, though I don't think its necessary to have done so in front of a counselor.

Before we got married, there were a number of things that we discussed and had to make sure we were on the same page. Of those, the most important were children and religion.

I personally made it a point to get an understanding before we were even serious.

Now that we're married, the question isn't "Will we have children?", it's "When..." and that's much easier to figure out if both people are playing the same endgame.
Facebook had a huge effect on the most recent elections in both the US and the UK. To say that it has no power over your life is pretty naive.
> But human intelligence is clearly much greater, isn't it?

Our current method of evaluating non-human intelligence is mostly taking tasks humans are known to do and seeing if we can get animals to do them, which biases it toward finding animals performing at no greater level in any dimension than humans. We don't really have a coherent model of what intelligence is, much less an unbiased interspecies test of it.

Humans obviously have the most human-like intelligence; any other superlatives attached to human intelligence should probably be prefaced with “apparently” rather than “clearly”.
There are conservative and liberal professors, 'radical' professors are far and few between nowadays. As far as why the kids are socialists, it has less to do with their Boomer/gen x parents' raising, and more with watching them get laid off, refinance their houses so that they could defer payments and ultimately end up paying the high mortgage interest later over the course of their entire life--and then finding out that the bailouts given to the banks are what allowed the refinancing. and considering that that same money could have been applied as true mortgage payments instead, with the same economic stimulus effect, without rewarding the banks' behavior.

Our capitalist system already uses socialist instruments to affect the economy and to sustain itself. That the kids are fleshing this out online and discussing how it could be better served to the general populace as opposed to industry leaders should surprise no one.
Are there warranty upgrades that aren't scams?
Intel is in trouble. They've lost mobile and they're in danger of losing desktop/laptop and cloud. While AMD is some threat there, the much larger threat comes from high performance ARM64 cores. Intel would rather see AMD take market share from them than ARM, since at least AMD Ryzen is still an x64 core and will keep the architectural center of gravity in Intel's area.

Of course their longer term strategy seems to be to get ahead in areas like quantum and neuromorphic computing. This is going to keep them relevant in the long term, but in the medium to short term they could have difficulties.
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> screwing up badly and thinking "wait!? I can fix this, I've got a crazy idea that just might work"

Reminds me of that scene at the end of American Made, where Monty Schafer drops by a colleague's office and says (paraphrased) "Here's an idea, let's sell arms to Iran".

In other words: we're gonna need a bigger shovel.
Rather than help address then problem a sister comment alludes to "get a dog" folks are helping to perpetuate it.
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Exactly. Venezuela is more of an object lesson about the resource curse and currency pegs than it is socialism.

As the guy above pointed out though, this is article is propaganda. It's not designed to make you think.
I never even knew that was there!
Ugh, wouldn't want to hear that from my mother.
That sounds like there's a demand for a code-help service that is syntactically aware enough to perform translations into the viewer's native language. I'm sure it would be harder to implement than a basic text-only + syntax highlighting site, but imagine how nice it would be to have your user's language preference (or, if not logged in, with a dropdown "pick $human_language for this $programming_language snippet"). You could also optionally integrate Google Translate or similar for the non-programming-language parts (obviously with less accuracy, but still better than nothing).

Searchability would be tricky, since google etc. might detect the very-similar-but-for-code-snippets links as duplicate/spam and bury them, but there are hopefully ways around that--up to and including asking google to somehow improve their algorithm; it seems like they might be sympathetic (because they're programmers and because there's money to be made) to a request to accommodate such search patterns.

Not only would that solve the problem you posed (googling for stuff on SO is tricky for you as a (presumably) English speaker if it's in another language), but it would also address a far wider-reaching problem with big implications: the relative inaccessibility of programming, especially at the early-beginning stages, to people who are not fluent English speakers.
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Personal responsibility?!
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This is clearly a ruse by Big Childbirth who want to talk other people out of having children so that their offspring has less competition.
> A third of Americans and as many as 44% of Millennials would prefer to live under a socialist system than a capitalist one.

What a weird phrasing. In the real world capitalism and socialist policies are not mutually exclusive. The report also states that despite Millennials’ enthusiasm for socialism, they often confuse the definitions of communism and socialism. https://web.archive.org/web/20171220105444/https://victimsof...
I (think I) get the point you're making and I broadly agree, but in the immigration case (on the way in to the country, rather than the way out) it's more than what they want you to believe: it's what they can and do enforce. For good or ill. And there's very little that you can do about it other than decide to not travel to the USA.

This link[0] is admittedly an advert for legal services, but there are a couple of interesting snippets in there such as:

> ... if you have been refused entry into the United States at any point in the past, even for an expired passport, the previous denial is reasoning enough for future denial.

IANAL but my understanding is that for non-residents there's no legal obligation to admit you outside of maybe some of the international refugee conventions (which are unlikely to apply). The law is deliberately discretionary. A refusal to admit can be based purely on "suspicion". You can imagine a CBP officer finding you suspicious (rightly or wrongly) because you refuse to hand over your passwords even if they don't have a legal right to force you to hand them over. They can simply offer you a choice of handing them over or going home.

To be clear: I'm not advocating for this state of affairs, but it does appear to be the case.

[0] https://www.visaplace.com/blog-immigration-law/denied-entry-...
I am surprised by your use of a closed-source password manager. I feel much happier using something less susceptible to secret flaws.
> "Some of the help and therapy I eventually received was excellent, but as much as my recovery was supported by the NHS, it was also fuelled by my determination never to have to rely on it again."

When I read this line, it hit home. I've been in and out of NHS treatment for years for other (not anorexia) issues. I never ever want to rely on the NHS again. They failed me so much I now avoid having to interact with anyone in the medical field. I deliberately avoid going to my GP for anything. Mental health care in the UK is so bad that you really wouldn't believe without first-hand experience. It needs to be scrapped and started again. I don't want to rant here on Hacker News too much (almost never comment) but this hit a nerve and I'm angry just thinking about the mental health care the NHS pretends to provide.
Most things in life that are worth it are hard. I find that Occam's razor is deeply misleading - when it comes about the important life decisions, the exact opposite applies: the easy path is one of superficiality, short-term gratification, that you will come to regret later.

Yes, raising children is difficult (especially the first one, since in radically changes your life, you're no longer independent). It's also rewarding, but it _is_ difficult. And that's for the best case, when you get a normal child - I don't know if I can even grasp the difficulties of raising a problematic child (e.g. diabetic).

You should absolutely not do it on a whim; but if you do it, I'd say "go all in and enjoy it". Don't regret your previous life, fully embrace the new one. It has its perks, too - and they are not few. And (at least I hope so), it only gets better as times goes by.
Excellent point. I removed the "100%"

With some reflection I don't think I was 100% ready. But I did at least make sure my finances were in order, I knew what it would do to our budget, and my wife and I had expectations set going in who would bear what responsibility. It sounds like the people in this article didn't think of that stuff. And I'm not sure I entirely blame them. We as a society make it a taboo to talk about anything but good stuff when it comes to parenting.
It's a side-effect of modern societies. This is actually a trend spanning at least several decades. As societies become more modern, they start wanting fewer to zero kids.

This is actually the main reason why I've never been so worried about those overpopulation predictions, or worried about what happens if the technology starts allowing us to live hundreds of years.

Well, if we knew for sure that we would live 500 years (and continue to be young and health), nobody in their right mind would want a kid at 30. And you'd likely still be able to die from accidents for the next 100-200 years.
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”/../socialism has proved a catastrophic failure in its remaining strongholds in Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba.”.

Holy Smokes that seems a bit rough on socialism. Just because some countries are extremes does not mean the whole of socialism is bad. Take a look on successfull countries as France, Sweden, Germany, Danmark, Norway, Finland, etc, that all have some sort of socialistic goverance.

The pitfight between capitalism and socialism is a bad way to win any argument. It is not all black and white and saying otherwise is not helping further the discussion.
I hate the keyboard (I'm a 110+ WPM typist). I can't feel them as well because there is no sculpting and the key edges are too far from the center of the keys. The keys tend to get stuck and/or don't activate (my Option key requires extra pressure to work). Easily the worst keyboard Apple ever invented.

The touchbar is useless. The only things I ever use on it are the brightness and volume controls - which worked just fine with the function keys they removed. Actually, they worked better, because I didn't have to look at the keyboard to use them.

The trackpad is ridiculously large, which makes it awkward. Palm detection is poor because my palm hovers just above the trackpad when I am typing, and the slightest brush (as I'm typing) moves the pointer. This would not be a problem with a trackpad of reasonable size.

I agree with the rest. Even on my external keyboards, I have caps-lock mapped to Ctrl and Esc via a Karabiner-Elements script.
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Then again Norwegians have Frokost as breakfast time, whilst Danes have Frokost at lunch..
Thank you. I thought it was some disorder or type of polyphasic sleep or something.