skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree what you’re saying is a problem, but it isn’t universal. Anecdotally the trend seems to match living preferences: parents in central cities tend to be less myopic about their kids, parents in the suburbs more so.

For my wife and I, the book “Bringing Up Bebe” was really influential in how we thought about kids before and after we had them. It’s a perspective shift kind of like this: your newborn human can’t talk, can’t move, doesn’t have any hobbies, interests, or friends. Rather than bend your life around that, why not invite this child into your life, to join in your hobbies, meet your friends, etc.

That may sound silly but it’s actually a pretty influential idea to latch on to. We don’t have a schedule wrapped around our kids, or weekends wrapped around our kids. We go places we want to go, and do things we want to do, and include the kids and tell them what we’re doing and why and invite them to join the fun. The great thing about kids is they’re pretty much up for anything, so they usually love this and jump in :)

I think, as an adult, you also have to make a conscious choice to keep up your independent life.

Losing your independence is something that happens to people for various reasons - you see it sometimes when people get married, and then they withdraw from all their old social life and kind of retreat into each other. It’s a lot of pressure to be someone’s entire world... I haven’t seen many of those couples stay happy.

I think that’s the part of having kids that’s hardest. Because they do have needs and do have to be accommodated, it can be easy to just worry about taking care of them and give up on everything else because it’s not as easy as it used to be to maintain your independent life. But it’s a choice you make, and in my experience it’s deeply worthwhile.
Convince .as to buy it and publish it as a stock photo gallery!
I don't get it. What's so bad about having an unsuccessful side project and what's so bad about wanting to work on your own thing when you're not at work.

It's my free time, the company doesn't own that.
The financial crisis manifested itself in the UK wholly due to Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the economy yes. A housing bubble and promising the end of boom and bust. Having sold off the gold reserves at a rock bottom price already.

Labour would like their voters to forget it was them who bailed out the banks too.
Yes, I agree with that; my experiences lead me to strongly believe that 24/7 parenting is not for me. Right now, I like kids in small doses.

The question I'm attempting to answer with data is: how likely is it that I would experience the "switch flip" that Paul describes here, and would it be enough to overcome the feelings I have about it now? If the data strongly indicated that most parents experience this kind of "switch flip", it would make me more inclined.
Draw.io: Online flowchart and schema drawing software
> under these measures of fairness, a perfectly accurate predictor is regarded as perfectly fair, regardless of a disparity in base rates in the two populations.

Unless your predictor is perfectly accurate, the errors will be proportional to the base rate. If you're predicting that more X will do Y then you have more chances to be wrong.

Improving accuracy is the only real way to reduce the error rate. If you can't do that then you're left with malicious nonsense like fudging the base rate, which is just trading false positives for false negatives and not actually making anything better.
My point is not: "it's biologically programmed, therefore bad," as you seem to be suggesting. My point is: "it's biologically programmed, so it's silly to say that it isn't just because you enjoy it."
Sorry to hijack the thread: I read all the dialogs there but did not feel disturbed or upset or anything, really. Should I be worried? Should I check doctor? Or will it come naturally later when (if) I have my own kids?
It's a well known property of boats. Due to fluid dynamics. This is why boats are big. Longer the waterline the faster it can go. Also why fast boats use multi hull designs.
I'm not talking about RDS.

I'm talking about "Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL". That's what they call it. See this page, for example: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/aurora-postgr...

As mentioned, they likely wouldn't tolerate a "Tyingq Typhoon Fargate" that was my Fargate clone.
I could say a lot about having kids, but I'll keep it to this:

The fundamentally most powerful thing I feel about having kids is faith. I have faith now. An unwavering, unquestionable understanding of my purpose and direction on this planet. It makes so many questions so easy to answer.
Ground truthing Major League Baseball's ball tracking system
> If we ever get serious about climate change it will be illegal

Hopefully it will be one day... but my feeling is that the current trend is for more and more useless junk to be produced for very marginal benefit. An example comes to mind: ipad literally at every tables of every restaurants in some US airports, just to take order... do we really need that? is it worth the impact on the environment?
Pioneers in the wilderness told their kids about mountain lions, bears, and wolves. We have to tell our kids about this. We can't helicopter them 24/7, especially as they approach their teens.
I'm a bit surprised that anybody is surprised by this lack of success, that seems like a hugely complicated task given the limited amount of time and resources. The amount of possible scenarios the AI needs to be able to handle (fall damage, environmental hazards, block types behaving differently, lighting, day/night cycles and of course enemies) plus the extremely open-ended gameplay where you can almost always dig in every possible direction while collecting and crafting potentially hundreds of items seems to make it a very arduous task.
Why? Did he hurt Go's feelings? It's a programming language, not a child. I prefer his honest assessment of their relative strengths and weaknesses.
I agree your DNA is heavily involved, but I don't think he's trying to deny that, at least the way I interpreted it.

I think "simply" is an important word in that sentence, and when I read "is not ... simply your DNA", I read "simply" as "merely". He's saying that, sure, there is a biological compulsion involved, but there is also more to it.

The kid is a human being you can have a meaningful relationship with. They will do or say things that are interesting or worthwhile or significant in a way that's not really connected to the fact that they're your kid.

(It can be compared to a romantic relationship. Are there hormones making you want to be with a romantic partner because you like their looks, etc.? Absolutely. But on top of that, you can have a real friendship with a romantic partner where you have shared interests you enjoy pursuing together, you have interesting discussions, you support each other, and so on.)

On a side note, some parents can only see their kid through the lens of parenting. They rarely or never connect with their kid on the human-to-human level, and every thought and interaction is on the parent-to-child level. Maybe they just haven't thought in those terms, or they're afraid of undermining parental authority by being too much of a buddy, or their sense of parental duty dominates their thoughts, or maybe they can't connect personally to anyone else either.
Here's what gets me.

The other day on youtube I saw a review of a very thin, very crappy laptop that was going on sale at Wal-Mart for less than $100. It was held together with six screws. The guy dismantled it on camera to give the audience a view of its innards. Meanwhile, Apple is selling laptops in the two-kilobuck range and higher that are glued together.

This tells me that using glue instead of screws is not about keeping cost, thickness, or weight down. It is strictly about keeping the end user from being able to easily disassemble and then reassemble the equipment they bought. If your MacBook wears out or breaks, Apple expects you to buy new. (Or take it to the Genius Bar, which in principle is the same as buying new.) Apple's great reputation is built, in part, on the top-quality machines of the 90s and early 2000s, which were designed to be able to be kept running for years if not decades. Now, it's like, MacBook is four years old? Why haven't you bought new yet? They are catering to the more-money-than-brains crowd. Maybe the Mac Pro is different, but it wouldn't surprise me if it turns out to be engineered to have a very short service lifetime also.
That's only the first section of the article.

Edit: Can someone paste the whole article? As a parent of 9 and 7 year old girls, I'd like to know what platforms to be weary of. There's no way we'll be letting them have public social media accounts for a very long time.
This reveals that it is possible to combine the Persuasion and Zero Sum methods that the poster above described: "Once I have persuaded 51% of voters to my view, I no longer need to care about your view."
Speaking of that, the inventor of the 3 point harness also invented ejector seats for airplanes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Bohlin

And the first seat belts were made by a person who had fun gliding in the air.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt

None of your argument holds water. People who do dangerous things like being safe doing them.
Drive shame needs to join flight shame
Re #1: I've bought electronics like this on eBay for 1/3 the price of a new one. The box looks like someone tried to play hockey with it but the item inside is perfectly fine. If electronics can survive, clothing and other items certainly can.

#2 sounds plausible, but there are only so many luxury brands in the world. I bet lots of companies want to believe that they're luxury brands, and destroy returned merchandise to attempt to maintain this, but really aren't.

Re #4: How can we make it worth it? Couldn't they just drop a bunch of returned products on a pallet, and sell the lot for a fixed price? There's plenty of sellers on eBay/Craigslist with seemingly infinite time to sort and resell items like this. I bet if any clothing store in the city posted "$250 for 1 cubic meter of the latest returned clothing items from the internet, unspecified quality/quantity, you pick up", it'd be gone in an hour, every time.
Well since we’re guessing it’s also possible this is the tip of the iceberg and that it’s also possible only amateurs do it in plain sight. I’d imagine agencies who tackle this issue have more insight into that realm than an amateur sleuth of online commenters.
Even here on Hacker News. Just look at the downvotes on the parent and gp posts, all because they don't fit the worldview of a lot of readers here
I think that by "gigantic american-style pickups" he meant full-size pickups. From what I've read, most pickups in Europe are mid-size.
Escape Competition by Being Yourself
This is untrue. Without a doubt, with autonomous vehicles, efficient energy usage, storage and harvest via non eco damaging sources like solar power, the cost of rides will get cheaper.
Same thing on my 2018 MBP 13"
> And actually making the environmental impact and waste recovery part of the price won't happen, because the masses will then vote for the populist party that promises not to take away your daily steak and cheap appliances.

It could, if the populist party promises a massive increase in working class jobs that repair the kinds of things we currently throw away.
One doesn't have to be a sociopath or psychopath to be attracted to children or thrilled sexually by the taboo.

Trying to put a label on these people will make you overlook the ones who don't fit.
That's kind of the point. The trend in machine learning right now is to try and solve problems "from scratch" by training "end-to-end", which means without any prior knowledge. For example, DeepMind's last three or so iterations of their Alpha-X architecture for game playing did not even have any prior knowledge of the rules of the games they tackled (chess, shoggi, go and Atari games) and were trained entirely through self-play and without anything like an opening book of moves etc, like the origional AlphaGo architecture (or DeepBlue and traditional chess engines).

That is very big in AI right now, to try and remove the need for the "human in the loop" and learn complex tasks from 0 background knowledge.

Obviously, like you point out, this is very difficult to do and it requires lots and lots of data and compute (no, more than that. Really lots). As the article reports, this eliminates any hopes of "democratising" machine learning and makes advancing the state of the art a game that only large corporations can play with any hope of winning.
I don't think he's anywhere near one of the absolute wealthiest people out there, but these facts are certainly true.

Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it sure doesn't hurt, and takes away so many of the stresses many of us face.
Imagine seeing poor kids wearing authentic Supreme/Balenciaga and holding iPhone X's. Who would buy those things anymore?

The only reason to buy a luxury brand is to signal that you are not poor.
Ask HN: How do you explain your job to your parents and grandparents?
Or else what?

Let's see if Germany is willing to take a car import duties bullet for the crazies from EU and little Greta, lol....
> To some extent I'm like a religious cultist telling you that you'll be happy if you join the cult too — but only because joining the cult will alter your mind in a way that will make you happy to be a cult member.

There are strong parallels here to my feelings about Burning Man.
When verifying the token you could just check if exp is set and if the lifetime of the token does not exceed your limit.
> I hate to say this, because being ambitious has always been a part of my identity, but having kids may make one less ambitious.

Of course this is true. Can someone think of a single $10B+ founded by someone who already had a kid? Now a single $100B+ company?
I feel like you're referring to the seam of high individualism in American culture. imho, that's the lie. And if we don't come to see that, it might be our collective undoing.

There's a reason our highest form of punishment is to isolate. It's not our functional unit of existing. To truly isolate us from others is to punish us perhaps worse than death. So what makes people think the individual should be our highest functional unit of decision-making after millions of years evolving otherwise?

This is something I wonder if western thought deserves to lose its crown over, if it can't course correct.

Disclosure: civic technologist, community organizer, biochemist
New Orleans declares state of emergency following cyber attack
Doesn't work. Today a simple reverse image search will re-identify the product.
"you lie" - guess not everyone thought Obama was a Truth teller.
How does a new engine find webpages at start? Does it work from the Dns system and indexes every domain name? At a certain point it will follow links I presume, but how does it start?
Best Academic and Scholarship Website
I'd say, once people stop dumping money into these companies and they can no longer operate at a loss, the real price of a ride/delivery will become clear.
Habitually bitter.
Compressed hydrogen at 700 bar is 2x better volumetric energy density than the best lithium ion batteries on the market today. It's a 4-5x worse than hydrocarbons, but still workable.
I type things on a keyboard and solve puzzles so that you can do things using your computer instead of calling someone or driving somewhere or going to your mailbox
>That's true, but it's falling into the same problem I was trying to tease out of GP, which is whether an argument can be produced that study and self-development will lead to one appreciating Bach over Harry Potter.

An historical/statistical argument can surely be made.

You seldom see people who have studied aesthetics, music, literature, etc, preferring Harry Potter over Bach.

You'll see many more who seldom read or only read genre books or only listened to anything than the charts their whole life enjoy Harry Potter over Bach.

>To a person unacquainted with both Harry Potter and Bach, on what grounds does an aesthetician say that we should assign higher value to Bach?

On points related to one being immersed in culture to recognise. E.g. having read enough literature to understand the derivative and trite nature of Harry Potter, and having heard enough music and knowing its history to know about the innovation and coherence of Bach. Asking professional musicans/composers etc to describe the merits of Bach's music wouldn't be bad either.

There's also an element of "if you have to ask, you will never know".

But all this rounds to the same initial question "what is the objective measurement that makes Bach better".

But there is no objective measurement or axiomatic argument.

The scale in aesthetics is one of development and cross-correlation of techniques, ideas and experiences, and one can only understand these is they have the knowledge and have made the connections. Not just for Bach, but for anything in arts.

The same way a 13-year old pop music fan doesn't have the same refinement as a 20-year old music fan, who has studied the genres, their history, interplay, who did what, techniques, cultural impact, etc, and even less than a 30 year old music critic.

Harry Potter fans are more of the 13-year old kind.

Of course this is sacrilege to say in the modern world.
Sure but they need to stay solvent until then
> Reactor-grade plutonium is still rigorously controlled, because it might be possible to make it explode, but nobody has ever done it.

The US tested a bomb made from reactor grade Pu in 1962.
Makes be think of slaughterbots based on some comments and concepts touched on here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
> As with many child care issues there is an unspoken classism at work too: that only happens to the children of less responsible lower class people (which is false)

This was one of the hard problems about the Rotherham abuse scandal. Many of the victims had been in "care" (ie taken away from abusive parents), and their reports weren't believed. Therefore a substantial grooming ring could be built up. This is why people keep saying "believe victims".
There should be a picture of someone getting complex surgery without having to pay a single cent.
As a counterpoint, this essay resonated with me very deeply, and I earn a low salary for an engineer in NYC.

We do fine as a family and have to make compromises I couldn’t have imagined making prior to having kids, but it’s totally worth it.

This type of experience isn’t universal but doesn’t require massive wealth.
Absolutely. I assume that (as horrible as what the people quoted are doing) someone who doesn't predate in the open commits even more disgusting and damaging acts. Given the number of creeps that show up for "level 1" abuse, it seems likely that there are also huge numbers of people doing even worse things.
This might work for some people, but for me it would have been a worthless and tragically misleading signal. I got modest-at-best enjoyment from being around kids before I had one, but the past 10 years with our son has held many of the best experiences of my life. Your own kid is a very different thing than all the other kids you might spend time with.

My experience is more like pg describes, where I had a lot of trouble projecting what it would be like, and in retrospect all the rational pro/con analysis I did wasn't really getting to the core of the matter.
Apple has a long history of sunsetting various technologies, so I don't know how this is different. Their solution to tech debt is often to just deprecate the edge cases -- which is probably the right decision.
Wine opens many new usecases. You realize the software rot myth was created by bad API deprecation pratices.

Think how different the market becomes when consumers can keep using a 12 years old license. You need to introduce fantastic new features to get my money. Changing the font, the menu and the colors won't do.

Even if it is free - why should I bother to learn this new software? The old license did cost me $5. If I misplace it, I can buy another for the same amount instead of paying year to year. And to this day it works reliably on every operating system I use.
That's alarming. Things are way worse than when I grew up using the internet in the late 90s and early aughts. The worst things I can remember were getting GNAA spam on my Xanga blog at 12 years old and later on the usual Omegle and Chat Roulette exhibitionism; gross, offensive, but easy enough to dismiss and move on. I can recall being solicited for nudes by a much older man at age 16 over IRC but I was old enough to know to just block the creep and move on. Clearly social media has magnified the issue to far more dangerous levels and lets predators find the easiest targets.

When I was young, I was cautioned against giving away personal information like my age or any personal photos. What happened to that mindset?

Obviously, nobody should let their 11 year old child make an instagram account. It isn't even permitted by the terms of service.

I grew up using internet with zero parental supervision, but there's no way I could do the same with my kids until they're at least 16 and capable of recognizing danger. Hell, you can get into plenty of trouble on the internet at age 16 too. Social media has made the internet a worse place.
Long-term documentation is not the reason logs are useful. Asynchronous communication is the reason logs are useful.

That is, you can ping people who are offline, or with a flaky network connection (e.g. mobile, where you can't keep a consistent TCP stream open), and they can still see your message and a bit of context when they get back.
Reasons Why Zoho Mail Is Better Than Gmail
If they don't remain solvent then theoretically the IP would be bought by a solvent corporation that wishes to fill the void.

That is of course unless Uber asks way too high of a price.

That's basically what happened with the Yahoo auction
Banks do not create money out of thin air
Note that PG has two incredibly important positive factors that make his experience of parenthood much better: he has a great partner, and he is very wealthy. People who don't have these power-ups might have much more mixed feelings about the experience.

I would actually like to have kids, but from a young age I decided that I would not do so unless I achieved financial independence. The reason is that if I were forced to stay in a job (or other life situation) that I hated for the sake of the kids, I would start to resent them.
The idea that moderates or "the center" would win an election just broke Labours back in UK. It's also what broke Clintons campaign in 2016. The left has a big enough voting base to win elections, what it lacks is motivating them to vote. The exact opposite of what happens when you water down your positions in search of "moderates".

Interestingly, right-wing parties understand this quite well. If they loose an election you never hear that they have to convince moderates. Instead they get even more radical.
Compressed hydrogen containers are pretty heavy and that's a bummer, but they're still better than lithium ion by an order of magnitude.
To add to everything you said, which I agree with, having children is also a profound act of responsibility, or even obligation.

Along with all the logic games people play to justify not having children, they miss the overarching principle that they have a responsibility, to their ancestors, to match the gift of life that was given to them, to the sense of continuing the legacy of their parents, grandparents etc.

Or... one should, or even must, think this way to overcome the obsession with seeking a logical or selfish reason to have kids when they might not find one.
Yea, using rr would certainly require that they test on Linux. That doesn't seem like a very high hurdle though.