skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate! I'm 13 months in with my first and while I love him to pieces and am very happy to be a father, ensuring he's cared for and gets what he needs at all times while also being there for my wife eats up a great deal of time and energy. I don't have any answers yet but hear similar things from friends a few years further ahead. The answer seems to be to just keep muddling along as best we can!
Verizon Bans Archivists Trying to Save Yahoo Groups Data from Deletion
Only thing missing is a Mountie writing someone a traffic ticket.
With the qualifiers (“may”, “probably”) provided I’m not sure I see him as offering any absolutes, at least in your quoted passages.
Yeah, Apple tried to take the Microsoft approach with the Mac Clones in the late 90s and it failed spectacularly because it's just not in their DNA to be a tech company. They're a product company that hates managing technology longer than is absolutely necessary.
Lol, what else is HN for but for being specific to the point of being contrary on technical matters? : P
There is no responsibility or obligation to one's ancestors to have children. This is a construct you are creating to justify your choice, or rather "lack of choice". You're playing the logic games you're saying others play to justify not having children.
We are giving every IPv6 address a name
The idea that a female character with negative traits is evidence of misogyny is silly. Stoner isn't misogynistic and this isn't an appropriate way to read novels.

The writer argues that Stoner's attitude towards Walker, a student, is bullying when, in the novel, that student is presented as lazy and nihilistic. By invoking misogyny, the Post article is doing the same thing as Walker: offering up a facile objection instead of engaging. If literature is worth studying at all then it can't be dismissed by invoking "misogyny" or "questioning the usefulness of grammar".
I've heard the documentary Trailer Park Boys also presents a somewhat distorted view of rural Canadia. Is that true?
This is because most of them start with heavy investments.

But when time has come to make their own money they will discover it is not so easy as thought.
The Four Stages of Objective-Smalltalk
I’ve read about it many times but still can’t figure it out completely.

Can a x86 license holder always use any of its new features? For example, you had a license in the 90s, can you automatically use 256, 512 width vector instructions?

Are none of those licenses untransferable in case of the company purchase or just AMD’s?

Is the license policy from Intel a result from IBM’s pressure back in the day? Did they demand multiple providers or just one alternative (AMD)?
Most of us have rich lives compared to the average parent in 1950. I was struck by how Bryan Caplan put it in perspective [1]:

> If you asked parents in the Fifties to imagine raising their four children with the help of the technology and wealth that we take for granted, they probably would have cheered. Why are so few couples taking advantage of this historic opportunity?

[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Selfish_Reasons_to_Have...
Poorer people also worry about that. And that's even worse for us with a lower wage. If I die, who will be able to provide for my children? I'm sure Paul is able to make arrangements so his kids can still have a finatially stable living if he dies prematurely.

It is a fact that life is easier for him now. Just as much life is easier for me than probably around 99% of the people in the planet. Even though I'm nowhere near to even be considered rich.
"How dare you slave not work for me 24/7 so that I can buy that yacht? I fucking own you, get back to work": the post
You probably have an understanding that the world has always been full of predators and that children shouldn't be having conversations with random strangers, so there's nothing for you to be shocked about. We were told not to do that as kids, but today we're handing children the keys to adulthood by giving them iPads not even before they're a year old.

The fact that there are people preying on children over the internet is disturbing, but I don't find it surprising. I'm not upset in the visceral sense because I can't keep that feeling up for something that has been a matter of fact about the world since time immemorial.
I'm assuming the population of dupes will eventually be depleted.
I went ahead and posted it there... hope you don't mind Drew

https://old.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/comments/eandil/hack...
Another confounder is that parents with kids know what it's like to be single. Most people without children have no idea what it's like to have kids of their own. There is a subset that knows exactly what it's like, and it's those who have lost their children. Ask them if they regret their choice. Or actually don't, because people in that situation almost never made it there by choice.
Yep i was there. Picked up bike commuting to work because it replaced time driving, not required more time. I also started drawing because you can do it in short spurts, and you can do it anywhere.

The time commitment has changed for me but not quite enough where i can sit for hours and code something outside of work. My kids are 5 and 7
Yes. But in a lot of cases of sexual assault there is only testimony, and the dispute is over whether the activity was consensual or not.

You'd expect this wouldn't apply to child sexual abuse, but you'd be amazed at the number of people who claim the child seduced them and they weren't aware of their age.

The best approach against the "repressed memories" or "why are you reporting this now" is to make it as straightforward and encouraged as possible to report incidents as and when they happen, and collect and process any evidence at the time.
There's something I've noticed that's always conspicuously absent from Paul's writing: The ability to view the world from a perspective other than his own.

I'm sure having kids was great when you were rich and it was the '90s. Not so much anymore, especially if you aren't rich.
The words "may" and "probably" seem to indicate these statements are not facts, and may probably not apply to everyone.
Chrome does this too, it times GCs for when it has free time or is rendering in another thread, https://blog.chromium.org/2015/12/smarter-garbage-collection...
After 10 seconds of Googling, here are the new (BEV: 11 models / PHEV: 9 models) models shipping in the US next year: https://evadoption.com/future-evs/new-electric-vehicles-in-2...

I will leave as an exercise for the two of you to Google:

1. How many new EVs arrived in 2019, in the US and worldwide?
2. How many are committed for 2021, in the US and worldwide?

You might start with VW committing to 27 models in 2022: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1118857_vw-plans-27-ele...
DI.FM uses cloudflare + bandwidth alliance [1] for their streaming audio network, so I'd model after that. Cloudflare isn't exactly transparent about their egress pricing, but most discussion seems to indicate once you start hitting about 50TB/mo, they'll strongly encourage you to upgrade to their $200/mo plan. But you can likely push tens of terabytes per month on their free or $20/plan.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/di-fm-eliminates-egr...
It turned my habits around. I worked remote for 6+ years when my daughter arrived. Had a generous 10 weeks of leave of which I took 7 and I stayed up late at night or all night for the feedings which meshed well because I was always a night owl.

That was 21 months ago.

This week I was in bed before 9pm at least 3 nights and up at 7 am with the spawn to take her to day care. I get a shower and get her dropped off and get back home by 9am and immediately start work. I don’t get up from the chair till noon for a quick break and back to it for another 3 hours. My wife and kid get home around 4:30 or 5 and I slap together something frozen and barely healthy for all of us and then my wife does the bath routine and I read slack on my phone and think about how much I didn’t get done. We play for an hour or so and bed time is at 7:30pm. After that I try to wrap up loose ends and make notes for the next day and usually so tired I just go on to bed. I’m stuck in this cycle. It is so hard to stay up after bed time because I know I have to be up and at em first thing in the morning and can’t lay in bed till 8:30 or 9 because I stayed up till 2am.

I would work 2 or 3 side gigs on top of my job previously and now I have no mental room or energy for it. It’s a hard pill to swallow. I put a ton of stuff on my google calendar. Friends want to play a game on Friday night? It gets on the calendar and I usually can’t make it past 10:30pm. It makes me keep the value of my time in the front of my mind. Do I want to play video games or read and play with my daughter? Sometimes I choose the games for my own recharging. I want to start my own thing so bad and I just can’t get the courage to make the jump and don’t have the energy to do it on the side.
If the item was made of a gore-tex or other specialty materials, they may have been unauthorized to repair it in-store. The Seattle place you’re referring to is Rainy Pass Repair, a well-known and popular repair shop that is licensed to work with gore-tex and other exotics.
I'd borderline use this before I tried to work in an open floorplan office.

That said, it's too early on the hardware for resolution and size/weight.

If you want an intuition about why this will be compelling in the further future -

What is a memory palace and why is it so effective?

It appears that we encode a great deal of our thinking, memory, and conceptual relations in a spatial way in the brain.

Maybe a 2d laptop screen that portals into a world of constantly rearranging 2d windows doesn't give us a strong or intuitive sense of place?

What if your computing environment supported or even enhanced this type of natural way that your brain worked?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_memory#Virtual_reality

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/cuso-snt1107...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell
This is likely not a problem pg has, but becoming a parent can provide an ambition to provide for them and have enough success to be able to spend time with them.
This is also why age of consent laws exist.
True but he starts out by writing down his own experiences and the he suddenly changes to may and probably if it applies to most people.
Apple or no Apple the Snapdragon 8cx is looking good!
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-s-Snapdragon-8cx-amas...
Dependes on the country. In my country, it's not enough to charge someone even if they did think they were talking to a child. But the chance that they can be entrapped like this and get into real trouble as a result, can be enough to scare some people from attempting to do this out of boredom or frustration or whatever.
Each citation is added to a formatted JSON file when it is first seen. After this it stays the same. This means you can fix the citation data by hand by just editing the JSON file. You should include the JSON file in your version control. An example is here [1]

Of course this might not be as comfortable as a GUI editor like Zotero, but I think I still prefer doing some small tweaks to a JSON file vs. the problems I've had in the past with Zotero exporting. The auto-export didn't always work consistently, and Zotero has many features that I don't need at all that make the whole thing more complex and fragile. Even collections are somewhat confusing to work with - I've often added citations to the wrong collection because it always adds to the currently open one, and then had to spend time to find it again. You also can't know which references are actually used and which aren't.

And I pretty much always gave up as soon as someone else needs to work on the same paper, which then leads to managing the .bib file by hand anyways.

[1]: https://github.com/phiresky/pandoc-url2cite/blob/master/exam...
If you worried about everything that didn't affect you, then you would need to see a doctor because basically at that point you shut down.

There are an infinite number of things in the world that are troublesome, that don't affect you. You do not want to let it take over your life. I have a friend with severe anxiety and he worries over everything that doesn't involve him or that is inconsequential. He is absolutely miserable because of it. You do not want to be like that.
Why whales are big but not bigger
It feels like Dropbox and Slack have been spoken of positively more often than not. And I'd say Stripe, Twilio, and various other B2B "Infrastructure" companies seem to get the warmest response.

You're right though, if HN is at all representative of Silicon Valley, Uber and Lyft are hardly its darlings.
Yes, a human competing in the AI challenge would be cheating.
I doubt that the pool of people who are willing to trade their time and vehicle's value for a paycheck today is going to shrink any time soon.
I didn't even know Paul Graham had kids. I don't recall them playing much of a part in his business, his essays, his creations, etc.

So how exactly does that show the biggest problem you have with kids?

Alternately, for some reason you laser-focus on the topic for some reason and you can't help but let it fill the entirety of your perception. This appears in Facebook a lot where people complain about baby pictures or anecdotes and somehow ignore the 99.99% of absolutely irrelevant inanity that the rest of their feed is ("Oh you ate at a restaurant...wowwweeeee"). It happens in loud restaurants when people filter out enormous volumes of ambient sound to focus on the sounds of a child sixty feet away. When someone has some sort of hangup about children, it's amazing how large it can appear in their perspective.
I would ask yourself how likely this nightmare scenario really is, since you seem to be planning your life around it. Seems super unlikely. I'd invest in selling you insurance at like 4:1 odds that it won't come true that you would ever resent your kids because you were forced to stay in a job that you hated.
This is a good read: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-plot...
The training/instruction scene at the beginning of Enter the Dragon has so much tight wisdom packed into only a few minutes.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously...

and

it is like a finger pointing at the moon...

are seriously worth noodling over.
It was probably Rainy Pass Repair. They have been doing that for quite some time, and in many ways I prefer having a shop I can take any of this stuff to, not just the "REI" repair shop.
Like all complex legal matters "it depends".

The enforcement is based on patents and contracts signed for licensing those patents. There tend to be a new set of patents for each new ISA feature. That's half the reason why the virtualization extensions are different on Intel and AMD for instance; they didn't cross license that piece.

The patents are obviously public, but we can't answer all the questions about the contracts since those tend to be private (we have seen a couple publicly due to law suits however).
That's something different. Here you'd be charging someone based on what they thought during the act, and not on what they did or attempted to do.
But that doesn't correctly represent the proportions of hacker new readers that would call it soccer. Since this web site was started in the u.s. and is almost entirely English speaking that heavily selects users from English speaking countries, both north America, and in particular the u.s., and especially silicon valley.
And even if you found a paralegal willing to break the law, you'd either get an idiot who can't get a job anywhere or have to pay a lot more than $5
Another reason that the authorities don’t care is that their bosses, the politicians, often partake in child sex abuse as a hobby (cf. Jeffrey Epstein and his very close links to Prince Andrew, his links to Donald Trump, and his acquaintance with Bill Clinton... that’s not all coincidence there).
I remember the oddly named System.pauseForGCIfCollectionImminent() AS3 (Flash) function:

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actions...
Imagine if program windows weren't constrained to the flat planes of your monitor, but could be anywhere in your field of view at your desk. That's the dream, and this is a stepping stone I think. Soon enough the VR headset will be slim and ergonomic, seamlessly combining reality and the virtual workspace so you don't feel separated (if that's what you want).
Some small number seem to appear on SharkTank primarily for the free TV exposure. That seems a viable strategic move.
Any Machine Learning engineers here willing to take the challenge of generating a prolog engine from the natural language descriptions of constraints?
Couldn’t this technically qualify as discrimination? I vaguely remember reading about how one of the big dating apps increased prices with a user’s age, but had to revert the policy because it amounted to age discrimination.

I would hope income qualifies for the same protection, but maybe not.
I share the intuition that price discrimination feels wrong, but I have trouble really articulating why.

Why is "the seller would have given it to me for less" any better than "the buyer would have given me more for it"?
GC might not be a productivity win for you, but for many people it definitely is.

I'm pretty sure that's true for the great majority of software developers, but of course they don't even use a non-GC language!

Part of the reason they don't is that productivity. Not that they chose it personally for that reason, but e.g. historically enterprise code moved to Java and C# for related reasons.

(I also agree there are people that are equally productive in non-GC languages, or even more - different people have different programming styles.)
> Finding a diamond in Minecraft takes many steps - from cutting trees, to making tools, to exploring caves and actually finding a diamond.

Sounds like a simple state machine. Don't they program objectives into their agents? Or are they relying purely on training?
Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/should-you-have-kids

Many Parents Are Happier Than Non-Parents — But Not in the U.S. https://time.com/collection/guide-to-happiness/4370344/paren...

Having kids makes you happier, but only when they move out https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213655-having-kids-mak...

The depressing reason why having kids doesn’t actually make you happier https://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-theory-on-why-having-k...
> The days are long, but the years are fast.

So true!
I'm not sure what you mean because I didn't say anything about a "complex cover-up", and I'm certain that Russia (and most other states, including America) is continuously running operations to sway things in their favor all over the world -- that's what spies and intelligence agencies do.

But I don't see how that's relevant here. Seth Rich provided the emails to Wikileaks and Assange is nobody's puppet, and Wikileaks definitely does not deserve to be called a "fake media cutout". Trump won the election because he appealed to a large number of Americans who voted for him because they thought he was the better candidate. Everything else is denial and excuse-making. Who said anything about a conspiracy requiring the coordination of "hundreds of career public servants"?
I went into the article expecting it to look like the old To Catch a Predator TV show, which really bordered on entrapment in many cases, trying to make good TV happen, but that isn't the case here at all. They just put up an innocent profile and were immediately bombarded. Good stuff.

Using these chats to train machine learning corpus on child grooming is a great idea too. Social networks could use that data trivially and at very low cost by having parents opt-in to having their childrens' communications automatically monitored and alerting the parents when a conversation trips a threshold.

You've got to figure anyone harassing children on open channels isn't exactly a master criminal and will get caught sooner or later anyway. But harm done is substantial so you want it to be sooner, not later.
I wonder how many of these predators are getting off as much on the virtual corruption of some negligent parent's innocent offspring as they are a sexual attraction children.
I'm sorry, but your argument can be applied to everything.

> You should care because (presumably) you don't want to be an ignorant person (as in, lacking knowledge).

Everybody is ignorant about approximately everything. People may find me ignorant because I don't follow some celebrities, sports etc. We need to choose what we educate ourselves on.

To me, it seems like you are making a social proof argument. Other people care about it, so I should care about it too, because otherwise I may be labeled as ignorant. But at the same time, I doubt that this is the kind of argument you want to make. I assume you have some stronger reasons.

I like the monologue of Feynman about Beauty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmbwczTC6E

To me, aesthetics is more or less a curiosity. An aspect of our cognition, that is relevant only because it is a result of evolution, some kind of heuristics for dealing with the world. Would you agree with that kind of characterization?
Great work done by this company, but I wonder why social networks like Instagram isn’t doing this themselves to protect children? If a paid service has caught so many already, you can imagine the scale of the problem... Hope I’m wrong and they are doing it.
He’s longing for the days when companies had longevity and gave a shit about people’s futures. At this point (especially in tech) if you are not working on something interesting to you on the side you will eventually find yourself laid off with a very deep knowledge of a very specific environment that is (likely) outdated.

Would it be better to have full investment from your employees? Sure. Is he ready to invest in them for the next 30 years or give them 20% time to explore things that are motivating to them? Probably not so much.
The point of prisons is to remove them from society until they can be sociable again. But I see your point, we should be putting more spending towards those who have never been convicted than we are now.
I read a few comments here basically saying, "oh because he's rich". I respectfully disagree.

I was at the lowest point in life financially when I have my first son, but a lot of what PG said resonates with me. Particularly, I feel very emotional whenever I hear/see children being abused (people share video of violence by nannies in WhatsApp).

Then again, parenthood is different to everyone.
Yea, on the other hand: more and more recruiters require to have a nice list of side projects on github. I failed an interview a couple of times because of that.

On the other hand: too often the "work hard, dedicate all your thoughts to this project" just means: "let the owner buy a new jet, and the manager to get a huge bonus... oh, btw. you will get fired as soon as you will show the first sign of a burn out, then we find a new one who will happily work over the weekends so we will get next car this year".
Games have a very regular object lifetime, allowing them to manage much of their allocations in arenas, which can certainly beat even modern GCs in performance (although maybe not for good). But concurrent server business applications don't have such regular object lifetimes, and it is getting quite hard to beat the performance of modern GCs with manual memory management in such applications. These days, footprint is the major and pretty much only significant cost to GCs in a great many applications.