skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might want to balance PG's essay with some other viewpoints as well:

Decades of data suggest parenthood makes people unhappy https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/should-you-have-kids

Google confessional: Your search engine knows if you regret having kids https://www.salon.com/2017/05/09/google-confessional-your-se...

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...
Not true.

Though possibly harder in cases.
If he, as an employer and entrepreneur, feels he's not getting his money's worth out of an employee, he should just fire that employee. If he is getting his money's worth, he should stop complaining.

But trying to get more effort for the same money by anathematizing side projects breaks encapsulation on the employee/employer relationship. It's obnoxious and involves matters that are (literally) none of his business (at least in California).
Price adjustments are actually a fascinating area.

Because on the one hand, anyone can get a "de facto" price adjustment by buying a new one, keeping the old one, and returning the new one as the old one.

Now if consumers all actually did this and shipping were offered free for consumers, you'd see every company offering price adjustments within the return window, just so they could save on the shipping and handling they'd otherwise be paying for.

But in reality, a lot of consumers won't go through the hassle because it's not worth it in the end, or just too annoying. In that case, a company can save a lot more money by not offering price adjustments -- clearly Amazon's strategy here.

The most profitable strategy for any particular company on any particular product category can be either of these or somewhere in the middle. Which is why, even for companies that offer price adjustments, they're often predicated on a shorter time window (1 week instead of 60 days), only being on merchandise that was originally full-price (so you can go from 0% discount to 40%, but not 20% to 40%), or other exclusions which result in the most profitable overall balance.

It's kind of fun stuff to get into, actually.
How many of them will try to "groom" you like we see in the article, though? I'd argue that there is a qualitative difference between that and "losers" just trying to engage someone who's also unambiguously of age.
Australia and New Zealand are officially now using 'football' rather than soccer for association football.
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I'm not trying to prevent others from having fun, I'm just stating that it isn't fun for me, a member of their target audience and an owner of a .ca domain. Furthermore, I don't think I personally know many people that are amused by "boardroom lumberjack" that aren't people not from Canada.

That being said, if it's your cup of maple syrup, then be my plaid-wearing, beaver-trapping, boardroom lumberjack guest:)
I think it's probably like any other decision you make on a person by person basis, like salaries. You can't use protected stuff as a factor, but you don't have to pay every employee doing that job the same amount.
It is now, it wasn't always, and I apologise for the oversight. I watch this argument unfold a few times a week on Twitter, despite everyone in the UK watching TV shows like "Soccer AM" and "Gillette Soccer Saturday" every week of the season.
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I recently worked with a professor leading grad students in a software development project, he told me they seemed somehow cognitively incapable of absorbing information from standard docs and man pages. When they came to him with questions, he'd show them the answers plainly available in the docs. But when it came to finding answers on their own, they were totally dependent on web forums and such online resources.

A matter of generational cultural conditioning I guess.
It is likely that the people in the earlier photos were more well to do than the people in the later photos.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest that you would enjoy spending time around a stranger's children as much as your own! I just mean that if you like spending time around a stranger's children more than average, or if you find babysitting less grating than average, this gives you some info that's specific to you, rather than being at the population level.
It's hard to imagine how one gains confidence in this kind of product. How does this vendor have the resources to qualify this chip? Intel can already barely qualify theirs. The last seven generations of AMD parts shipped with serious defects that were discovered by customers in the field. Centaur and Via are far smaller. Is it really possible to be scrappy and scrappily produce a bug-free assembly of billions of transistors?
I think there is a future in hydrogen fuel cells, but not for personal transportation.

Heavy machinery operated in remote areas like farming equipment have pretty intense energy needs and downtime for charging could ruin a harvest. Batteries are also very heavy and soil compaction is a real issue for modern farming.

I think we're approaching a time where the marginal cost of energy will be 0, but there will still be costs associated with using energy at a specific time or place. I would like to see a lot more dollars being spent on technology and facilities that can ramp their energy consumption up and down extremly quickly to absorb extra power on the grid. Hydrolysis seems like a fantastic candidate since the process is highly interruptible and the result is portable.
I can relate, but no wisdom here.
I think there may be some clever accounting going on if it’s claimed to not be that expensive. Example, the carbon offsets that should be required for for the concrete typically used in a large plant are never spoken of. And cleanup and disaster recovery costs are probably tucked away somewhere else or even far off the balance sheet, out of sight.

They used to say nuclear energy would be “too cheap to meter” and if that can come to pass (safely) I’m all for it but the accounting has to be done honestly.
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The dark secret is that no social media company would clamp down on such a lucrative source of user engagement. A lot of the early adoption of social media platforms is by young people and... well, you see?
There are obvious privacy implications with social network owners running fake accounts to entrap their users without consent.

This company is training machine learning on grooming language and they could sell that data to companies like Facebook to automatically monitor child accounts-- with their parents' consent. That's a much better solution.
In Aus and Nz, the recent trend has been to use Football than Soccer, the national associations has been renamed accordingly.
This phenomena is so common it makes me think the educational system can do more.
I somehow feel that many of those guys have severe distortion of reality.
Like they are completely unaware they are doing something wrong.
I mean it may sound odd, but in addition to protect children and catch predictors (important),
we may talk about this stuff in schools and prevent those guys from becoming predators.

There is something about the online world that blurs red lines.

p.s having said that, this post is beneficial from educational perspective partly because it is explicit and disturbing. It shows exactly what it is we as society want to uproot.
I'm not using solely SharkTank...Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

Yes I completely agree with everything you're saying. ST definitely attracts certain kinds of companies with monetary needs.
That'd sad. It seems to me that if there is such a glut a poor person in the US should basically never have to buy clothes.
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> Are you still guilty of a crime if you only think you were going to commit a crime?

I'd argue that it's worth discussing whether it even matters. The goal of the legal system _should_ be to make society safer. Taking a sexual predator off the streets does make society safer, even if they didn't actually commit the crime. They did _try_ to commit the crime; they believed they were committing it.

Admittedly, this falls at least partially into the realm of pre-crime. Is it fair to lock someone up because they are _going_ to commit a crime? It's in the middle ground, because they did believe they were committing the crime. But it's still also very much in the gray area as far as morality is concerned too.
Sorry, I figured there wasn't much to elaborate on. Age is a protected class (after a certain age I believe, 40+ maybe?) but income is not. Price discrimination based on income/socio-economic class is one of the most commonly exploited things in business.
My second job was displaying telemetry waveforms in real time, in Java... 1.3 if memory serves. MVP goal was 4 waveforms, I managed to get 16.

What we did to accomplish this was first aggressively optimize the data ingestion, then spend all that surplus on maintaining a ring buffer of pixels. This meant we were always a little behind live (.5s or 1s, I can't recall), but it made everything smooth as silk. To maintain homeostasis, I'd trigger GC every time we made it through a paint cycle with a full buffer.

There are ways to do it, but it could change the structure of your app. I say, "in our case the main paint loop was stupid-simple so it wasn't that big of a deal to tack it on," but the idea was always sort of in the back of my mind so it definitely informed the design.

What I didn't have to deal with is random inputs from the user changing my display strategy.
I'm unclear whether you're OK with spending other people's money but not your own. The fund supporting this initiative accepts donations. Have you donated? Have you volunteered? No, you haven't and you won't.
The software industry is already pioneering this new system. For example, many companies pay developers to write useful free open source software in lieu of ephemeral marketing spend.

As the saying goes, the future is here, just not evenly distributed.
One thing that I don't see much discussion on is a single income setup.

My wife was employed when our daughter was born (oh lord 13 years ago) but we had hired help (this was in India - that was a very affordable option). Eventually she decided to stay at home because she wanted more family time and quite possibly that's the best thing that ever happened to our family.

Suddenly all of us had time and the luxury of one person with flexible time is amazing.

My career hit an exponential growth after this and she has a major hand in it. I am able to enjoy a cycling habit (20hrs every week) because of this.

It was a hard decision at first. Obviouslt financially, we also hadnt accounted for how much of our identity was defined by the job, so that was interesting. Navigating friends and family who considered that to be THE defining thing was also interesting :). I obviously have a lot to write on this since it is still a thing :)

Overall Id suggest it to anyone who is willing and able to try.
Enterprise code moved to Java (and later C#) for memory safety, period. The level of constant bugginess in the C++ codebases just made them way too messy and outright unmanageable.
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I think it is similar to the frustration you'd experience if you told a taxi driver you're running late and they responded "okay, then it costs triple." It's an asshole move. Or if you told the bartender that you're celebrating getting a raise and they responded "okay, then your beer costs two bucks more." Or if there's a medicine that usually just reduces heartburn and costs $20, but you need it to survive, so they increase the cost to 90% of your life savings, just because you'll pay it. I'd say it's super dickish, but also struggle to logically articulate why.
Not really. The murderer thought they were firing bullets into a live person. The sexual predator thought they were abusing a child. Both were incorrect about their target (dead body, grown adult). It seems to me to be a direct parallel.
Worth noting that this is a western city- centric view of children. It's much different for people living in small communities or near parents and other family. Children spend way less time near parents when the neighborhood is familiar and safe enough, and instead spend most of their time playing with other kids. Parents today spend twice as much time with their kids than 2 generations ago, and it's probably not because they really really want to, but that there is no other option. I'm also not sure if kids spending so much of their childhood around adults instead of other kids is better.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...
The Australian football or footy is something else, a bit like rugby.
Fantasy sports for money is a huge business here in the states - FanDuel and DraftKings probably do north of $200 million of revenue each in the vertical alone - and almost all of the top players have some kind of data science or math background.

It’s not a coincidence.
I'm fine with paying taxi prices with uber and lyft experience. The taxi experience was awful. Spotty acceptance of debit cards, racism, half truths from dispatch. They were insulated from innovation for so long
It would not work in some areas due to the collective demographical mindset: having said that; Uber simply does not utilize a very obvious solution that would Greatly increase revenue without raising fares for riders.

Insofar as what they burn on being the peeps that figure out self driving cars... I mean that's looking to hit the sweepstakes. Chances are They won't be the ones to cash in that particular ticket.
Why not join the https://coderdojo.com/ community and help out in getting young kids interested in coding?
It's a great way to 'give back' and introduce the future generations in the opportunities that software can give them. CoderDojo is an international organization and they might already be active in your neighbourhood.
You're presenting a future where there is (in the limit) no point in earning money. Lately there was a discussion about how in the future it makes no sense to buy insurance if someone is willing to sell it to you, you are always better off saving and you won't get insured if you actually need it[0].

I understand all these specific scenarios may be kinda-dismissed with some commonsensical argumentation, but has someone somewhere (in the academia?) explored how perfect information could break the economy/capitalism in some way? It looks like an interesting problem theoretically. (I don't feel like arguing either way, just would like a deeper look on this.) It's my understanding that economists actually think that perfect information should be a prerequisite/an effect of efficient markets, but did they really mean the same thing when this was formulated in the last century?

[0] this tree may make this impression https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21778890
Why would I care how they divided their money between the platform, the driver, and the company holiday party at HQ?

I don't need nor even want to know how much Dunkin Donuts pays to make a donut or Exxon to buy, refine, and truck a gallon of gasoline to me.
Yes, it is discrimination.

I believe that you're asking whether it's legal. Also yes.
The car-is-anti-human sentiment is one I can deeply empathize with. Just like oxygen and water, cars and their perils were with our generation since birth, and therefore for most are subconsciously taken for granted in life. But once you spend enough time in urban areas that have consciously rooted them out, you realize that their super loud noises, toxic smelly fumes, and omnipresent fear of death from them are indeed crushing to the human spirit. I’m also looking for cities in the U.S. that really do put “walkability” (and biking, e.g.) first. But the damage is so bad from the 20th century, thanks to the invention and explosive proliferation of the car, and socially the psychology of their existence so deeply rooted in most of our minds (“There could be no other way...”), that I don’t see enough strength to this movement. I’m typing from South Beach in Miami, e.g., which I think would be a perfect home were it not for the (probably, on average by land use in many cities) ~40% ownership by cars. I’ve lived in e.g. Amsterdam where the entire transport system was built around biking, and that from experience was such a liberating mindset to have every day, being able to bike across the city in 15 minutes. Alternatively I do wonder about e.g. Barcelona’s superblocks, about how the livability in small car-less or minimal car neighborhoods may improve (i.e. what small-scale neighborhoods without cars but also with sufficient amenities could be fantastic to live in?). Living on lush college campuses is typically a good example of where a much smaller percent of the land use goes to car transport, and it is expected that people walk and bike more - generally across landscapes with a lot more green than dead concrete.

I’m wondering if there any new urban projects, ideally in the U.S, potentially on the scale of the superblocks or e.g. NYC’s High Line / Atlanta’s Beltline / Miami’s Underline, where ecosystems are emerging beyond the reach of cars?
This unfortunately just gives the same old description of having kids from a position of extreme privilege.

When you have no job stability, or you yourself suffer severe depression, or you’re just poor and have no means or support network, then having kids is insanely stressful way way way beyond the kind of yuppie parents-who-think-not-sleeping-is-stress lightweight stuff.

Kids, like houses, vacations, fancy university degrees and adequate medical care, are something only accessible to rich people (and triggers a knee-jerk reaction in such people to try to argue they aren’t rich with ineffective anecdata and arbitrary thresholds).
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Edit: upon searching the web, I found that this is from at least January 2018.

Tl;dr: Crows figured out how to eat the good bits of cane toads (leg muscles, intestines, etc) without eating the poisonous bufutoxin ooze
But one has to be wary about the gap between reality and institutional or governmental propaganda (I’m looking at Russia but it happens in any country).
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This is unfortunate, most of the world immediately knows what is meant by "football". Probably only mainly American readers might assume American Football.

Can we change the website title to "US Hacker News" for clarity to avoid this sort of misunderstanding in the future?

(Edit: but apologies to OP thom, I've since read the other comments moaning about it)
Apple wasn’t gluing things together 8-10 years ago.

My 2008ish MacBook lasted almost a decade because I was able to open it and replace the HDD with an SSD and max out its RAM.

Without that even if it was working fine, it would have basically been unusable.

This is not true of their current offerings.

Also, this doesn’t factor in that when things do go wrong, and they often do, repairing them has become significantly more expensive, because you cannot simply replace an HDD for example.
This is one of the best and most accurate things I have ever seen written about having kids - it truly is a paradigm shift for your life - in a good way.

My kid (5yo boy) is very outgoing and talks to just about anyone he meets, about anything that comes to his mind (which is usually some aspect of playing Minecraft or Slime Ranchers).

He gets so excited about it and tells them about his latest discovery like Minecraft portals or Quantum Slime.

When he does this, it's so easy to tell who has kids and who doesn't because the ones who do really engage in the conversation and the ones who don't (95% of the time) try to end the conversation as quickly as possible.

I think back to before I had kids and somehow I can't remember a version of me that was like that, but I probably was.

The thing that resonated with me most was when PG talked about finding peace.

There's so many random moments when I'm with my kid and I think, this, right now, is the happiest moment in my life.
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Is there any independent verification of any of the claims of this article?

I am well aware that terrible stuff happens on the World Wide Web and it may well be that Bark was legitimately founded to stop that stuff, but as a natural skeptic I'm at least a tad concerned that this is self-published by a company that sells a service to catch these kinds of activities.

Were there no journalists interested in covering this story?

Is Bark profitable?
I have been teaching a Python course at my local jail M-F for over a year now, and something we have struggled with is finding potential internships or general employment for our students when they are released. We typically recommend our students to enter the local community college system, but we also have some students that are utterly brilliant and could succeed without a formal education.

Does anyone have any insight for how we should approach companies on their behalf? Is it more beneficial to teach web development (it seems like this is an easier way to break into the industry)?

I am also interested in hearing any opinions on how we should approach teaching in the setting where there is no internet access and the typical mathematics level is algebra.
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1. The design of documentation is usually atrocious (PHPs language docs make me throw up in my mouth a little every time I see them)

2. Documentation is written by super smart people designed the software... they tend to have a tough time relating to normal developers and especially beginners

3. Docs never provide enough examples. Stack overflow literally exists for this reason

4. Documentation is an after thought for most pieces of software (laravel is a notable example to the contrary - the docs are part of the software design for laravel), and not a forethought.

5. People just don't read period

6. Documentation usually has contrived examples, where other sources often have literally the think that you were trying to do (Users, Posts, Payments, Tags, etc)

Short list... but hopefully helpful
Except that it isn't necessary nor is it completely honest. Go and Java take different approaches here, but the article focuses on the merits of the Java approach and the downsides of the approach taken by Go.

Example 1. The article talks about compaction and generational collection as being Good Things(TM), but it doesn't talk about the costs associated with them. Looking at the linked Go article, these approaches suffer from high write barrier overhead. For Go, this isn't worthwhile because escape analysis allocates many young objects on the stack (which btw is effectively bump-pointer allocation) so trying to further reduce GC overhead by increasing the overhead of every pointer write is just not worth it. It may, however, be the right trade-off for Java.

Example 2. Java's many tuning parameters means that programmers who care about performance have to choose the right GC and tune it. If better GCs come out or tweaks to the algorithms are made, these configurations have to be updated. In contrast, Go programs gets these benefits for free. The best approach seems to be to offer a small number of high-level knobs, but it's hard to determine what those are, leading to the two (suboptimal) extremes you see with Go and Java.
Why would you care about hanging out with coworkers after work? I've never understood that mentality.