skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> then maybe I can think about something interesting to work on for a couple hours before sleeping

Those "golden hours" in the night or in the morning where I got to read or learn or do what I wanted were precious. As others suggest, getting some alone time by trading with your partner (if possible) is rejuvenating. But it's ok for you to not be as productive as you were before, because you have less time to be productive.

I have older kids and can tell you that it gets better. The kids get more independent. They want to do stuff with their friends. I have friends with teenagers and at that age they rarely want to spend time with you and you can leave them alone at home for hours (or even days).
> Really we should be asking if it is good value for money.

Which is what the term "overpriced" is almost always referring to. Overpriced is not a synonym of expensive.
Because of increased volatility, or at least the perception.
Question to people with kids: if you could do it again, would you do it at a different time of your life?

Personally I’d like to wait until I’m in my mid 30s for some of the reasons Paul mentions: you have less time outside of work to do other things once you have kids. Seems like being a founder or even just trying to advance aggressively in a standard career is a lot harder if you have dependents.

There’s also two key trade offs I see too: money vs. energy. The more financially well off you are when you have children, the easier things will be (affording the house in the right neighborhood, daycare, etc.). So in that respect it’s probably better to delay having children. But if you delay too long, you might not have enough energy to do things your children want to do, and have a higher risk of health problems cropping up which take time away from kids
Yes but their National 'soccer' association now calls themselves Football Federation Australia, in line with international usage.
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> When I was young, I was cautioned against giving away personal information like my age or any personal photos. What happened to that mindset?

Seemed to me to happen right around when Facebook got popular. When it was college-only a real identity didn't seem that big a deal, since you were linked with people you already kind-of had access to, and anyone who could see who you were you could also see who they were. But then when it went public the dam broke - hundreds of thousands of people suddenly unmasked on the public internet.
https://github.com/atelier-des-communs/vigibati.fr

from https://linuxfr.org/news/vigibati-un-outil-libre-de-cartogra...
You either are worried or not. Being worried about not being worried is a bit too meta. :)

I'm not that worried either. This issue is already being discussed quite widely, children will get educated, etc.

Naked/sexual images aspect doesn't disturb me much, what disturbs me is the manipulation/secrecy/blackmail aspect, and attempts at real life contact. Both is hopefully preventible with educating children on how to treat the internet, and how to keep their privacy, and how to recognize danger and deal with it. Newer generations of parents will have more clue about this, and will be able to prepare their children for this better.

From what I've heard so far about the issue, and given how widespread this is, I have a theory that children get targeted more, simply because they are more likely to give attention to people giving them some attention and simple adoration.
And government tech grants are very rational. We give them out in the US as well. Governments have their goals. I can understand that.

I'm just saying that the amalgamation of rational actions on the part of everyone involved has the potential to lead us to the decoupled world that everyone claims they don't want.

Of course China should fund their chip industry. It's common sense. Long term, they should probably be using their own chips. Also common sense. But imagine the same common sense being applied across the economies of all great nations in every critical sector. Think about where such measures lead in terms of global trade.

Maybe it's good? Not saying it's a definite bad thing. I'm a dad, when my kids were younger, if they couldn't get along I made them take their things and go back to their rooms. I have to admit, that made for a much more peaceful house. I'm just saying that it's probably better for the development of the children for them to peacefully play together.
In other words, you’re making a circular argument: since you’re defining “biologically programmed behavior” as “having children”, you’re only proving that having children implies having children—a tautology.

You’re also missing my point. The only reason you have any desires or goals or ambitions in the first place is because, at least heuristically, they serve some sort of self-replicating purpose. Not all possible human behavior serves a self-replicating purpose, but the vast majority of actual human behavior does, at least heuristically. That’s why we behave that way and not in some other way.
> “We are focused on improving profitability in this market.”

Seems like some kind of collusive price signalling announcement to Lyft. Eg, “we’re going to up our prices, here’s your chance to do the same”.
Hah, no way. A little back of the envelope calculation shows that if that claim was correct, my electric bill would be 10 times higher than it actually is ($25 per person in reality, versus $250 per person in your world). Nope.
What a horrible thought.
Life begins with kids.
Know life better.
Was expecting "Aw, shucks, I can't stay mad at you" love letter to the humble Common Lisp operator. Was confused to find story illustrating psychological phenomena at work.
I had a kid at 30 and think it was the perfect time. I wouldn't want to be too old when my kids are going to college, I want to be a good age where I can enjoy my free time and travel around.
It's not that the Go team's decisions are different; it's that they are worse for most applications. If you read the first part of the series, the author goes into detail on this. The problem is essentially that the Go GC focuses entirely on latency at the expense of throughput, which is not the best choice in most cases.
I guess I am the only one missing the point (disliking this as a code golf challenge) and cringing that the solution does not sleep for a precise 1000 years and overthinking that various other rules are not being taken into account (e.g. leap years, extra seconds per year, etc.).
A beautiful and thought provoking essay and definitely one for pg’s kids to cherish later in life.

I see people in the comments trying to glean lessons from the essay or to compare pg’s experience to their own. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from having two kids, it’s that a lesson learned from one can be exactly the wrong thing for the other. Parental advice and experience is so hard to generalize.

I look forward to the follow up essay when the kids are teenagers. :)
My learning / hobbies turned around a bit. I now like to read stuff about kids, their mental development, hoe to stimulate their growth etc. I love it.

Yes, it's very different from the hobbies I used to have, but for my brain, making the kids a hobby/'project' works pretty well.

I do kinda agree with another commenter here that it does somewhat sound like you simply need more challenging / interesting work. My four day workweek is fun / challenging enough that I don't really need to do anything similar (i.e. write software) as a side project.
> Slack is within the top 10% of companies in the Bay Area by pretty much any metric you choose to rank companies by.

What about profitability?
Having young kids is like working 80 hour weeks. In fact it basically is that, just at two jobs rather than one. Plus you spend a lot more time keeping house, on top of it.

Most people don't have much left to give working those kinds of hours. Personally, I've had to dramatically cut back on hobbies and keeping up with various media, even, and all but drop some categories (I bet I spend 5% as much time gaming as I used to, for instance, and haven't even bothered to set up my gaming PC since a move about 1.5 years ago). I got a ton of reading done when each kid was young because you can just read them whatever, they don't know the difference, and you spend a lot of time feeding them or watching them in the bath so they don't drown or whatever, but now? Hahaha, so, so little reading.

Mostly I just watch movies or TV or read garbage on the Internet (ahem) because I don't mind as much being interrupted while doing those things.
With the food delivery and meal kits and stuff, they were just selling that stuff for less than it costs. I provided thousands of dollars of revenue for Blue Apron style meal kits and food delivery. As soon as they charged market rate for them, I stopped.
There has been a severe drop in the quality of Uber drivers and vehicles since a few years ago, I can only surmise that they have had to relax their standards hence indicating a lack of sufficient supply.
"It is exciting to read about a fraud — from a distance. It is not so funny to live through one."

This is a great summary.

My estranged father is a professional con artist: He has multiple lies on his social media about his alleged wealth and committed credit card fraud while I was in high school resulting in my parents' formally declaring bankruptcy.

I have found it very difficult in life to convey in words what being exposed up close and personal to con men is really like, because normal people lack imagination to put themselves in the mind of someone who doesn't care at all about humanity.

Author Chuck Klosterman has a chapter about con artists in his book "I Wear the Black Hat" which covers similar ground as Harford: people enjoy these stories and con men because of a mix of admiration (life is easier in some ways if you literally biologically can't care about anything except base biological needs of sex, power, and consumption) and curiosity for the different.

Having known multiple con men in my life, including family, I can definitely claim it's less entertaining in person than in media.

The other book I recommend on this topic is Dr. Kent Kiehl's "The Psychopath Whisperer" for its mix of neuroscience and personal stories.

"I Wear the Black Hat - Grappling with Villains Real and Imagined": https://www.amazon.com/Wear-Black-Hat-Grappling-Villains/dp/...

"The Psychopath Whisperer": https://www.amazon.com/Psychopath-Whisperer-Science-Without-...
In English law consent still matters unless the child is very young indeed. The imaginary 11 year old in this story would be young enough that it's always rape and if the defence (or more likely the accused personally) tries to bring up consent they'll get shut down by the judge because it's irrelevant. But for a teenager consent matters and a defence barrister would be doing their client a disservice if they didn't seize any opportunity to suggest their client believed there was consent.

It's illegal for an adult to have sex with a 15 year old, but there's considerable gap between the likely tariff for "Had sex with a 15 year old" versus "Rape". The maximum tariff for having sex with a 15 year old is not inconsiderable (14 years) but it's far short of the tariff for rape (life imprisonment).

In the case of a 15 year old either might be plausible for prosecutors depending on what evidence they have. If it's clear there was no consent, it'd always make sense to charge rape regardless of whether they're sure they can persuade a jury the defendant knew the victim was under age - but if consent is tricky, or especially if the victim is prepared to testify for the defence that they consented, then you need solid proof the defendant knew they were under age or it won't go anywhere.
This is awesome to see. I've been working on something similar: a remote Wayland compositor for the Oculus Quest, Magic Leap, and other AR/VR devices. Last night I hit a milestone, getting a terminal running on another machine to render inside Unity, then on the Magic Leap itself. https://twitter.com/daeken/status/1205762441285685248

I really believe that 2020 is going to be the year of VR/AR productivity, and I'm committing myself to working full-time from within the environment.
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"Efficiency of modern hydrogen generators is measured by energy consumed per standard volume of hydrogen (MJ/m3), assuming standard temperature and pressure of the H2. The lower the energy used by a generator, the higher its efficiency would be; a 100%-efficient electrolyser would consume 39.4 kilowatt-hours per kilogram (142 MJ/kg) of hydrogen,[23] 12,749 joules per litre (12.75 MJ/m3). Practical electrolysis (using a rotating electrolyser at 15 bar pressure) may consume 50 kW⋅h/kg (180 MJ/kg), and a further 15 kW⋅h (54 MJ) if the hydrogen is compressed for use in hydrogen cars."

What about your sources for 93% efficiency?
100% this for me, but I would go a step further. I don't want to birth kids into this exact situation.

If I have kids now, I'll have to work into old age, and so will my kids. That's a very sad situation in my view.

If I achieve financial independence personally, but I have kids who will have to toil their whole lives, then I'd feel I'm making a selfish choice. How could I explain to my kids, who would see nothing but a relaxed and happy life at home, that they now owe our system 40+ years of labor?

If I can achieve a level of wealth that would ensure my children could follow their dreams, then I'd love to have kids.

It's very hard to find a partner that would be able to say "Well, if we don't have $5M+ by age 40, we'll be childless, and that's fine. If we do make a lot of money, we'd love to have a big family."

I know lots of people here are doing it, but how can you ethically commit your unborn children to a lifetime of work?

And god forbid you have a child with disabilities and don't have a sizable financial buffer...
I'm not a doctor but if you are not disturbed by a 40 years old sending a video of him masturbating to a 11 year old and you create a new profile just to ask about if you are normal, I don't know, what do you think about yourself?
well written, to me at least.
I've lost my friends at new years eve 2018 and have been obsessed and sad ever since.
I've known these people all my life, and the thought of new friendships seems pointless to me. If ppl can do this after 20 years, there's no point in making new ones, my mind reasons.
In my observation a single income setup is some kind of local optimum. I've never met a full time homemaker who thinks she's getting a raw deal. It is a real job that requires an exceptional level of responsibility, creativity, and effort, but it's one that is extremely financially and emotionally rewarding. When I ask they all say, essentially, "We didn't want work just to hire someone else to raise our children for us." That said, part time hired help is very affordable in the USA too. You can get a fully qualified part time babysitter who is also willing to do light housework for about $15 an hour in California. I imagine in other states it's even more affordable.

When you look at the market value of the labor the homemaker does for the household, and consider that it accrues tax-free, the financial benefits are considerable. And there are also substantial tax benefits to married filing jointly when one spouse has no taxable income. For the arrangement to be successful though, the "working" spouse needs to fully recognize the value provided to the household and make sure it's well compensated, both emotionally and financially. If you can do that, it works extremely well.
Yeah, in my experience, the Red Green show is more accurate
With only two competitors here, there'll be plenty of producer surplus I'm sure.
Have you heard of Culdesac? It's a YC company building the first 100% car-free neighbourhood in Temple, Arizona.

https://culdesac.com
More than half of Exxon's trucking is not company owned. All their filling stations are not company owned at this point (I believe that's accurate). The overwhelming majority of Dunkin locations are franchised as well. I don't care how they split the money up; I only care whether what they offer is worth the price they're asking to me.
Finland traffic tickets sounds like a horrible idea.
The thing is that the catharsis theory, that is, the theory that providing harmless "outlets" is a way to manage the desire, is not supported by any evidence. On the other hand, Patrick Galbraith has done work with Japanese fictional child porn communities and found that the communities tend to strike a very powerful distinction between real desire and fictional desire. They just don't view real children in the same "space", mentally, as fictional children in pornographic comic books.
Whatever the skill, I'd say it's clear its no coincidence and is down to Magnus' incredible mind and brilliance in whatever skills are needed.

Having said that, you might expect to see good showings in the league by other top-level grandmasters with a similar passion for football.

Perhaps his interest in it is unusually keen within the chess world though, I've no idea.
One clear change that happened with me, once having a child -- is that I understood my Dad much more.

I understood what made him upset, and I understood how he reacted and why... I started showing same behavioral traits as him. But it was only after I had our first child.

Stuff that I took for granted when my Dad was doing it, now I understood, was actually meant to take an effort, on behalf of a parent.

Unfortunately, my Dad passed away weeks after my first child was born. It felt like the 'nature' decided to make a replacement.... and exchange the life of my still young dad, to our first child...

So I did not have the time to express back to him, my gratitude, my newly found understand of his sacrifices to make his children happy & confident, and, at the same time, isolated from bad/unfair stuff....

Therefore, my advice is, do not repeat my mistake. Show your parents, while they are alive -- that you understand their sacrifice, and you are prepared to do the same for your children....
Spammy site. Nonsense
My kids are 8 and 11 now. I just spent the past hour working on my book while they puttered around doing... honestly I don't know what they were doing.

For me, the toddler years were the nadir in terms of having my own time. Babies sleep enough to give you some time. Older kids are independent enough. But toddlers, man, it's like living with a pair of destructive monkeys that you're legally forbidden to cage.

It will get better.
Docs often describe what the one documenting has in mind while designing, explaining already known facts to herself/himself from the point of view past understanding the domain.

Users start fresh. If users had spent as much time as the one documenting they would probably love the documentation, but since they are new, the viewpoint differs.

Truly good and intelligent documentation tries to capture the mindset of the assumed reader.
No, go to amazon.com and look for your favorite product, now tell me if 10 people from different income level see that, will the price be diffferent?
I have the same problem with my new MacBook Pro 16-inch.
It's definitely a defective GPU. Try disabling Automatic graphics switching in System Preferences to reproduce this issue.
A very deep FT reference indeed.
I find it quite horrifying that you’d read an article containing a description of an adult man literally teaching an 11-year-old what a blowjob is, after she told him she didn’t know, and follow that up with “meh, grooming is the same thing as Instagram courtship just like your attractive female friends experience, no psychopathy here.”

You don’t know what grooming is. Grooming is taking a kid to get ice cream for years while laying the groundwork for what you have in mind. The article shows clear grooming attempts on an accelerated timeframe. Please don’t ever speak about grooming authoritatively again, especially when others in this audience have been groomed.
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My kids are 7 and 1. I know what you mean about that burst of energy and motivation, and about how it gets plowed right back into the family and it’s needs. Frankly, I do little other than work and kids. And that’s okay. It’s a stage of life, and it will pass (and you’ll probably miss it when it does). It’s important to carve out some time for you and your spouse, for socializing, networking, etc., but be realistic about your expectations.
Would you please stop taking HN threads into flamewar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yet another person who only skimmed the article and hasn't read Part 1, which explains GC tuning tradeoffs and addresses the two examples you mentioned. Part 1 debunks the dishonest marketing from Google around Go's GC when it was originally released, and discusses the tradeoffs that weren't disclosed.
I have a 5 and an 8, and I can tell you things get better in terms of time savings and enjoyment at a few stages:

-Potty training

-Social play with other kids

-Full time school

-Reading

-Interest in Legos and games

I am still coming out of an eight year productivity valley (and my wife's of course was worse), but as Paul says, it's worth it. For me two fun things are when they beat me at a game for the first time and when they say, "Look what I made!"
Memory and intuitive reasoning definitely helps in both, though another part is luck: Carlsen's skilled, but he also has made some incredibly lucky guesses.
It is price discrimination but very hard to prove as one person doesn't know what another person is paying. The algorithm is proprietary.
If you're a horny guy on the Internet and your preferred Instagram quasi-celebrity "actually replies and engages you in conversation", you almost won't believe your luck. Even if you aren't that horny anymore, you probably will want to engage her right back - who wouldn't? The "horny guys" theory explains the initial DM, but no such explanation whatsoever is needed for what you call "grooming" that hot Instagram influencer you happen to be a fan of. A significant difference that involves far more than just your chosen "target".
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Why would the billionaires funding the populist party and providing vital coverage via their media empires want to do that though?
If a bank leaves its vault open to the street and unguarded, it's possible for the the thief and the bank to be simultaneously and fully in the wrong, without the negligence of the bank being somehow compensated for or compensating for the guilt of the thief.
Please adopt. There is no reason to clone yourself.
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Sometimes it is automation related but I think more often it is due to the near slavery conditions of much of the world. Obvious slavery and colonialism is no longer fashionable but the current economic system acheives much the same effect by other means. Wealthy countries use a varity of methods to keep the rest of the world producing goods at low cost. Even "fair trade", while slightly better than non-"fair trade" is rarely anywhere near what anyone purchasing items would consider fair if on the other end of the transaction. A global minimum wage or global basic income would do a lot to reduce waste.

Some waste is related to health or the logistics of mass production and would not be eliminated without more radical changes (and in some cases might not be possible to eliminated without major effects on health, such as many disposable items used in health care). In theory, manufacturing could work the way scientific exchanges is supposed to, with knowledge shared, and production more localized. This could also reduce waste quite a bit but is obviously a much larger and more difficult change from the current system.