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Having children bestows the incomparable gift of life on other people (your children). Bestowing that gift is the part of having children that makes someone happy. It's not a self centered happiness; the day-to-day of raising children is frequently miserable.
Discussions around Stadia always fail to mention the alternatives.

I've been using GeForce Now with a Nvidia Shield for over a year now and it's been a great experience. The hardware costs are the same as the Stadia ($130), it's free to use while the beta period lasts, and you can play all the games you've already purchased on Steam, BattleNet, Epic etc. in 4k.

Why would I buy all the games AGAIN on Stadia when I can access them on GeForce now? The social/streaming aspect of Stadia is not a big draw for me either, so I really don't see the advantage from my perspective.
People who publish on social media are already very vulnerable to destoying their ability to distibute what they have to say. Their existence is fragile.
It reads much cleaner for sure than flexbox.
I used to live in an area with lots of apartment buildings and had to babysit a friends dog for a couple of weeks. I met a couple of people when I took the dog out at 6:30am because they were doing the same thing. Ran into the same people every day. Plus you always let the dogs visit (sniff each other) so starting a conversation is almost automatic.

Now I have my own dogs. Easy to meet people if you go to obedience, agility, or other dog classes.

With a dog you get all of the above, plus the affection from the dog, plus the additional exercise.
My grandparents as children lived in farming/ranching communities where all the rest of their family lived. But then along came WWII and after the war many went to college on GI Bills and subsequently ended up living far apart from each other. Their children ended up living in a number of different states. I have eight brothers and sisters and we all live in different states scattered all across the USA from east to west and north to south. It has been decades since we were last all together in the same location. I already assume that my children will settle down somewhere far removed from where they were raised. Heck, I plan on moving away from where I raised them when I retire. I just can't see how it could ever go back to families living in the same town. It seems so unrealistic and infeasible.
The one thing that the author forgot or didn't realize to mention is:

Test moving your environment between service providers in production.

You should be able to failover from one provider to another, in a predictable way. You should actually do so every few months so that you're well versed in what needs to happen. If you practice this, you will be prepared in case the absolute worst happens.
So that was my initial (curmudgeonly) reaction but I posted my question with an open mind and the responses have honestly changed my perspective.
But it sounds like thier son is a f'ng looser. He would've had some sense beaten into him if his parents actually cared.
That's when you bike
B2B generally has a lot more cost in support / handholding, and B2C has much more cost in servers. The extreme examples are a B2B app with 100 or less total users vs an imgur clone with millions of users
Seriously. With food and shelter always taken of, there's no incentive for him to get a job or "adult" at all.
Ask HN: How do you deal with recurring payments?
Echoing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12160368 from 2016, what do you use for SaaS payments nowadays?

At SerpApi.com, we are currently using Stripe subscriptions. But I feel it's suboptimal. We have a lot of code duplication to support sync of subs between Stripe and our app, upgrading/downgrading is no easy tasks, and no PayPal support.

Thinking of rolling our own. Just capturing a token from Stripe and PayPal and a cron to charge customers. Wary about loosing auto-update credit cards and anti-churn email feature from Stripe though.
I lived next door to the co-op at State and Catherine, and there were a few people who lived there who were in their late thirties and definitely not students. I don't know about _all_ of them, but some definitely don't care if you are a student or not.
Are you using a managed host for HAProxy? What if it goes down.
As a NYC resident and a cyclist - pedestrians are no picnic either.
I mean - NYC has horrible bike infrastructure, street parking(unplanned) and pedestrians that just take over the few bike lanes or wait for the signal in the middle of the damn road.

Bike infrastructure is cheaper to maintain, because bikes don't impact the asphalt as much as cars do. Manhattan's Westside bikeway hasn't been repaved for decades... While most of the roads with similar "body traffic" will deteriorate in 5 years in NYC.
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A few years ago, I managed to add a new report to GnuCash (specifically, an invoice format requested by a consulting client), but it was difficult because I couldn't find documentation on the application-specific APIs. The Scheme part itself was easy and a great choice for this.
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Yes, exactly. Isn’t that precisely the point? Paying it forward, so in turn we will be supported when we reach old age?
But in this case the original author proposed that the liberation of women and feminism was contributing to loneliness and that was the reply. So i.e. feminism makes women less dependent on unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate men so that is not the cause of loneliness.

Let us say someone would say that the increased loneliness instead came from the rise of online gaming/porn/communities and that men in larger degree become less interested in meeting women and making an effort.

If someone then answered that "Men avoiding unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate women by online gaming is not a problem" you would probably see that statement as misogynistic. Even if that description does match some women.

(I fully agree with the liberation of women (and men) from many of the traditional gender roles.)
This is a startup forum, dude. He’s talking more to fellow creators than users. We prefer this.
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At the bottom:

> Note: These regulations do not pertain to students taught at home by certified teachers. In some states, private school regulations also apply to homeschools. In others, parents can choose to operate as a private school, but are overseen by accredited private schools and typically face different requirements.

The last part is what I was referring to. As an example, here's Iowa's homeschooling options: https://www.educateiowa.gov/pk-12/options-educational-choice...

They provide this as one option:

> Home schooling with the support of a certified teacher. Home instruction is supervised by a teacher hired by the family or provided by a district’s Home School Assistance program (HSAP).

And this as well:

> Part-time homeschool with part-time enrollment in a school district. The student completes some instruction at home, and participates in a public school for some instruction or extra-curricular activities.

They also allow homeschooling without this kind of support, or attendance in unaccredited schools, which seems troubling. For parents who are not prepared to teach this is obviously an issue; Iowa should probably limit their homeschooling options to those which provide a good education. To me, this is not indicative of a problem with homeschooling per se, but rather a problem with the specific state policy which allows for less-than-adequate homeschooling programs.
Well you see, Sean is a known liar and conman. So it wasn't actually done. It is one of the reasons him and his team were fired by Samsung when their house of lies came tumbling down.

Or uh, so I heard.
Yes, I'd like to read a "I must have messed up somewhere". That would be a good starting point to "what can I do about it".
The number of times I've seen people in the US wait for their Uber/Lyft to pick them up exactly where they are instead of crossing a road that would make it easier and faster for the driver astounds me.

People here seem to optimize for low effort more than their time. Same reason why people stand on escalators. If they cared about time they'd walk up it.
Stadia can be played on Chrome though which runs pretty much everywhere, with an Xbox controller. The Google founder's edition is just buying some extra stuff for 30$ worth of sub time for free basically.
I think the shift to eschew "traditional" gender roles plays a part, certainly, but I don't think it's the dominating factor.

I'd say the strongest factors, at least in the US:

1. Work/career is #1 priority. Career has always been a big deal in the US, but I feel like it's become more extreme in my generation (nearing 40) than it was for my parents or their parents. For them, it was more about putting food on the table and providing a better life for their children than what they had. For us it seems more about intangible things like "being successful".

2. Geographic barriers have broken down a lot. In the mid-/late-1900s, you'd likely grow up in the same place, and more often than not would find a job or go to college nearby, and stick around as an adult. You'd probably meet your future partner through family, local, or church events, and after marriage would probably still live in or near your original hometown. Nowadays, it's much more likely to move hundreds or even thousands of miles from your hometown, often to chase job opportunities (see #1). New adults going to college far from home also makes them realize that living near your hometown isn't the only option.

3. And yes, changing gender norms fit into this: women have caught the bug of #1, and we are still struggling with the "having it all" mentality of women having a strong, ambitious career, but also raising children. I personally don't think there's a universal solution to this; there are only so many hours in a day and so much energy to go around. Child care is expensive and a stretch or out of reach for many couples, even with dual incomes (and the jury's still out as to whether or not pervasive third-party child care is a detriment to early childhood development). In heterosexual couples, many men still resist taking an equal part in child-rearing duties, but I'm not convinced that would completely solve the problem anyway (again, only so many hours in a day); it would just make it more equitable as to bearing the responsibility.

Definitely agree that it may be another few generations before we fully understand the effects of all these societal changes. Some of it may be bad, even if the overall changes are good.
I know Kim because I interviewed with his company "Data Protect" in Munich in person.

He was a hero back then in infosec and kids like me were told by "the Internet elders" that if you want to make it in InfoSec you have to work for Dataprotect ... "because this is a company where the boss flies to work with his helicopter". I was young and easy to impress and this kind of talk was even echoed by fyodor @ insecure.org so it wasn't just idiots like myself who believed it.

When I met him and his other German partner in September 2000 at his swanky office in Nymphenburgerstraße all my alarm bells rang because they had literally cartoon cut-outs of Kim and posters of Kim everywhere plastered around the office.

Kim is a genius in managing his brand but he isn't a hacker, in fact his questions in the interview were so lame that I felt really disappointed. Later it turned out that he hasn't even done the credit card hacks that he used to say he did. Instead he made his money with insider trading and ponzi schemes during the dot-com bubble which was the reason why he did a runner and why German authorities wanted him for so long.

Kim isn't a technology genius, he is just a really good con-man (oh btw his real name is "Kimble Schmitz", which sounds way less cool than Kim Dotcom).
“Nature” as it existed 500M years ago has been obliterated and does not exist today. Same for nature as it existed 100M and 10M years ago. Who’s to say which era’s version of nature is correct and deserves special preservation?
Wow they just censor everything they don't like on here. So shameless. It is like HN is run by a bunch of homosexuals who hate straight people. Stop hating & censoring.
In terms of influence, I agree. But in terms of imagining alternatives, I think it's useful to look at history. In finance people often do stress testing for portfolios by looking at periods of historical downturn. I'm proposing doing that for ideas here.

In my own family, the American half reproduced earlier and had many more children than the "old country" half, due to economic distress and war. People in my father's generation were not directly affected by World War II, but the economic contractions that gripped Europe in the 1970s really show when you look at the reproductive choices my "old country" family made compared to my US family (which supports your previous post).

It's just weird that this longer conversation posits either idealized 1950s suburban America or an individualist society. Especially as employment configurations evolve, we should be aware that those are not the only options.
It's a variant of norm. Another variant is to throw away anything one doesn't use for more than a year, rent-not-buy most of entertaining stuff, including musical instruments, game consoles, fancy cars and dresses, holiday villas and yachts. Actually, hoarding and junk collecting is a prerogative of the poor.
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A student claims to have replicated the full size version of OpenAI's GPT-2
The article has an image illustrating the no-boundary proposal.
> Most well rounded and balanced humans won't tell you that any demographic is "evil".

This. We must break down own issues and barriers to truly connect to others.
Sorry I know I sound pretty negative, it's frustration about people pushing for languages that are clearly not ready and for some of them will never be.
Your daughter is fine but unless your son is disabled / has other potential issues (like autism, severe depression) you need to get him on the right track. No 25 year old should be able to get away with the excuse of being unable to "adult well enough to live on his own". Your son of course has responsibility but that's really your problem to fix if he won't
I'm sorry to say this, but the tone in your voice towards your son sounds more detached than it should in my opinion. I mean, why would you let him slip into that bleak future you're describing for him? Shouldn't you be the one to wake him up, especially if he lives under your roof.
I get it if you don't believe in discipline, but I think that's what is required here (or at least fatherly guidance).
what makes Mode/Periscope/Superset/Metabase the same category to you? Is it that they have SQL editing as a main entrypoint?
There's either something you don't know or aren't telling us. There has to be a specific reason why someone who holds a Doctor of Pharmacy would be unable to get a job.
Doctrine of equality does not apply to private trade of products and services. This is not a public procurement announcement and they can disallow particular products to be used in their premises.
Your son's situation sounds a lot like my own, but I am married and maybe am a bit more responsible than him. :)

So, we're a couple that doesn't want to / plan to have children and we've discussed the "getting old" thing before. What I regret about our American society is that it's no longer common to live together as an extended family. Why couldn't he live with his sister (or near her), after you're gone? What about other relatives?

I think it's possible that, in the future, we'll see more communal living situations because I have a feeling there's a lot of GenX and younger people who aren't going to end up having children. Communities can be remade if people make the effort to come back together and live around one another again. I'm thinking of communities like the elderly have in Florida, but maybe people will start living together at a younger age? Just some thoughts I've had.

I've seen the pain and the struggle around this (personally) and I'm hoping it's something that people start taking seriously soon.
These aren't all clones. Many of them are just playable versions of games that have had their source code released. IMO a clone refers to a new implementation, but a lot of these are just modified and re-released versions of the actual game.
Why the World’s Best Mathematicians Are Hoarding Chalk [video]
How to Monitor Your Kubernetes Cluster: Prometheus vs. Datadog
Yeah, you need to be next to a PoP where the game servers are running for an optimal experience.
In this context "Your Content" is not the stuff you're selling, but the content you're using to customize the store frontend.

So the clause wouldn't apply to someone using the store to sell CDs with AGPL software, but they would apply to someone using an AGPL Javascript module in the web frontend of a (Square-hosted) store that sells shiny rocks.
I’m sure there is a definition of “city” and “modern” where’s that’s true.
> too cheap

I'm astounded at HN's ability to spin anything as a negative.

> these games are second-rate titles from the last year

since when were games like AC: Odyssey or BL3 "second rate"?

Of course they aren't going to have all games (out of the gate, we can assume they are working on licensing) or have exclusive titles (for obvious reasons).
Disclaimer: I have a smartos setup because for now it still runs quite stable.

Joyent/SmartOS was the one that added KVM support and a bunch of other features to the kernel, but I think it was merged into IllumOS. It's quite limited and has a clunky interface. When I tried to contact anyone there to add UEFI boot support there wasn't even so much of a: "we don't care".

The problem with SmartOS, Illumos and the rest of the Solaris world is that while for Linux you can find heaps of books, forums, stackoverflow entries there are 3 books for OpenSolaris. SmartOS has seemingly great design, but it's absolutely nontransparent on how to use it. The documentation is subpar, lots of the wiki reads more like an experiment than an actual documentation.

If you hit a bug, be prepared to spend hours on github issues to see if someone found a solution to it(might as well skip it because it's unlikely).

If you use Triton and the API for it all is good, but if you want to use a SmartOS cluster directly, everything thing will be fine until you make a mistake or try to do something non standard and then good luck to you.

There's a great/fun talk by Bryan cantrill about how management killed Solaris. But if you ask me it's only one half of the story. The other half is elitism.

If you want people to engage in your open source project it needs to be decently reasonable to work with and you should be able to get some sort of feedback, even if that feedback is "lol, what you're doing is completely wrong why don't you RTFM here".

But the attitude I saw was more like: "Our stuff is greater than everything else so why should we bother with you".
true, and thanks for the correction, I must have gotten confused by him having a girlfriend there.
Even all-out nuclear war would leave the Earth far more habitable than Mars. We'd need to come up with quite the feat to extinguish life here, think steering a Moon-sized asteroid.
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I use the Web Annoyances Ultralist[0]. Blocks basically everything except the header (non-sticky of course) and the text, which ends up as a nice centered column on a white background.

[0]https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances
That's a really big assumption. For a lot of genres the latency is just not going to be low enough.
These are all anecdotes though. My mother -- who wanted to be a traditional housewife -- but, as a migrant to this country, was forced to work to support our family seemed incredibly depressed that she couldn't be at home. Once she started staying at home (by becoming a teacher, and thus getting some months off with us), she became so much happier and it was a net positive for my family. Once she retired early, it became even better, and she was just a much happier person.

Granted, my father also took a job that let him stay home most of the day, because he hated working too, so I guess we're one of the few families which seems unaffected by marketing, and instead seek what we actually want. Why in the world would literally anyone want to work a job? I feel only someone who's never worked could want to do it
One nice thing about having more cloud providers is having more options for where your computation was housed. I have had a machine at Joyent for a long time now (with the goal of building a service that I never got around to, so sadly for them only ever the one computer) because their US South West datacenter is located not just "in Vegas" but specifically at the SwitchNAP SuperNAP site, which co-located me with other resources I was using: I had a <1ms ping to my upstream telecom provider, and thereby could sit inside of real-time audio without adding noticeable latency (as well as have the option of getting extra-cheap bandwidth: I wasn't going to be costing Joyent anything for bandwidth but was still intending to use lots of CPU, so they had indicated a willingness to let me one-off this billing if I ever actually scaled up, though I was still quite happy to pay the full price for the epic latency). AWS is great (and I honestly used them for most of my less latency sensitive projects... hence the problem for Joyent, I appreciate), but their lack of a South West location means that the lowest ping I can get from them for this purpose is almost 20ms :(.
It sounds like you're skeptical about companies that affect people's habits. So avoid these terms:

- finance

- advertising

- entertainment

I'd focus on companies that sell to other businesses. Changing the habits of businesses is usually considered a good thing.

And sell something less abstract. If you sell laptops, routers or office chairs, nobody's going to think you're a bad person. Just maybe a bit boring.

Software-only products are all about information. It's about gathering information about people (gray area) or understanding lots of information about people (gray area). So work for a company that does something in the physical world.
"I think she will be fine"

What a ringing endorsement of your wife :)

(probably not what you meant though)
I thought his manifesto on Medium was pretty thought-provoking. I would identify as a curious-hacker.

The bit about the human-blockchain of trust being the best defense against babbling language models made me wonder whether that would force us to go back to a time before the Internet when there were gatekeepers of information.

For instance, if the web were flooded with false claims created by bots, would a claim like this particular one even get any attention? It is coming from an unknown entity, after all.