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The Hacker News comment section tends to be factual, rational, and logical.

So - this may be out of place, but here goes.

When making decisions about whether or not to have children, we operate in a state of partial information. (This is of course true of all decisions.)

I would like to contribute a bit of information.

I'm 66, and have three children and four grandchildren. My adult children are the most wonderful people I know, and it is comforting to be aware that we will be part of each others' lives forever. I spent a lot of time in assisted living facilities with my mother as her health failed, and I saw a lot of old people in those facilities with no one to visit them. It is comforting to know that I will not spend my final years in loneliness and isolation.

Our grandchildren are an unalloyed joy. We have two 3-year-old identical twin grand-daughters, and they are working their way through the nuances and finer points of grammar. It is indescribably adorable to see their efforts at expressing their detailed and elaborate thoughts. My grandsons are seriously into aviation, and I've become the go-to aerodynamics consultant. Our four-year-old asked me with great seriousness, "Grand-dad, why is the horizontal stabilizer always shorter than the wings?" Another time, the family was at the beach. He, his dad, and I were looking out at the ocean. He asked, "What are waves?" Darn good questions!

No rose-colored glasses fantasy here: I've found that your children can break your heart and devastate you just as well as bring you unfathomable joy. My daughter (a black-belt IP lawyer now), when she was about four, wandered off in a crowded video game arcade, and we searched through the crowds for her for about ten minutes, with growing panic and horror. We found her and all was fine. Fact is, if you love someone as much as you end up loving your children and grandchildren, their decisions and choices will have profound effects on you. My therapist observes that you are only as happy as your least happy child.

So, the decision about whether to start trying to have a family is a BIG-ASS decision, with life-long consequences. I highly recommend it.
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He/she explicitly said he/she doesn't disagree with you. Why are you asking this question?
> Case in point, New Zealand is COVID free.

Unlike NZ, the US can’t control its borders - as decades of uncontrolled illegal immigration has shown us.
That’s correct, there’s nothing surprising going on here biologically, it’s purely about the definition of the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’.
It must be, because TFR for resident populations is below replacement. Every wave of immigration has seen this fall: first-generation kids are intermediate, and second-generation have the same TFR as the population as a whole.
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That fails when every country has falling birth rates
systemic != top down for me.

top down to me equal some secret cabal of people that push an agenda

systemic to me means the way the system is but how the system got that way would be the random inputs of thousands or even millions of individual and uncoordinated actions.

People living paycheck to paycheck seems like it's always been a thing even when they had larger families. In fact the largest families in the modern world come from the people with the least amount of money (not judging, just stating what I've read). So having a paycheck looks like it has the opposite effect of encouraging family. No I'm not arguing that we should therefore get less pay. Just arguing against that idea that if everyone had a paycheck large enough to support a bigger family that they'd start having bigger families.
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Contraception is not dysfunction.

There is no cultural elite brainwashing me into believe otherwise. I can arrive at this position all on my lonesome, simply by rejecting the appalling prejudices of the Catholic church (and many other religions), misogynists in general, and bigoted authoritarians (but I repeat myself); both on the basis of the crushing harm they have inflicted over the centuries, and the colossal waste of talent due to the systematic oppression of women.

As for this:

> the separation of procreation from the procreative act was considered harmful to both society and the individual

That depends who you read. If your selectively chosen history of the last 6,000 years consists entirely of texts written by and/or documenting the fun police, I can see how you might arrive at this conclusion. On the other hand, there have always been voices otherwise. Until the Enlightenment they tended to be pilloried and/or executed, but that doesn't exactly highlight the hypocrisy in charge as something to be desired, rather something to be abandoned.

Again, unless you are amongst them.
That's a good thing, because fertile soil depletion is going to be a huge problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/12/third-of...
This is correct. The driver is responsible when their actions—in contravention of the road rules—cause an accident. If a vehicle is L5, the only "driver" is software. This software would need to attain a driver license just like a human would. Thus software becomes the vehicle's legal driver for the purpose of accountability in an accident.

Tesla is absolutely willing to take responsibility. You'll have to use Tesla as your car insurance provider, but it'll be cheaper than anyone else's insurance so that's fine.

Why would it be cheaper? Because they're insuring a driver that never gets angry, never gets distracted, doesn't drink and has high resolution dash cams pointing in every direction and capturing every moment. Even as the software is imperfect, it's going to have so many fewer accidents that the statistical risk of insuring the entire fleet is going to be minuscule compared to random humans.
And you can still mirror to GH to benefit from the extra visibility and attention this is bringing to your project.
> The demand for labor will go up, the supply will go down. Bad for the investor class looking for profits, good for reducing economic inequality. People will be able to profit from labor again.

I'm not so sure about that.

Loads of wealth is consolidated at the top, both in terms of economic class and age. People who got their jobs and attained management positions after barely graduating high school are demanding bachelor's or master's degrees for jobs that will barely pay rent. Landowners bought up when it was cheap and refuse to lower prices or sell for below what they think it's worth, even going as far as evicting people during a pandemic, knowing full well those units might not be filled in months or years, if ever. Some young people will get to a point where they can buy stuff up and work their way up the ladder, but there will be plenty more people who have it all given to them by those who established themselves when it was easier. I don't expect the next generation to be any more compassionate.

There are already endless reports of there being insufficient workers for agricultural jobs, nursing, teachers, etc. Wages haven't risen to meet the demand. They've remained stagnant or dropped in the long term. Meanwhile, those at the top are richer than ever.

Wealth at the top is often created by rent seeking. Just extracting money without actually making anything. I'm pretty confident that if the number of workers dropped and demand for labor increased, they'd just squeeze harder. Shut out the ones who didn't make it and terrify the ones who've managed to hold a job about the possibilities of what'll happen should they quit.

People are already getting paid more being unemployed. Employers are trying to get people to work for them again while offering them less than unemployment pays. They're not even trying to compete because they know people are going to come desperately crawling back.
A maid can do much more things than this robot can do. This robot is actually quite limited.

It's trying to work within the limitations of the robot and figure out what value it can bring that is the interesting part.
Who wants to live in Georgia though? I mean this unironically, there's not much to do in terms of entertainment and opportunities for a young 20 yo vs LA or NY
Another unrealistic project.
I very well could be wrong, but that's almost completely besides the real point [as well the self diagnosis regarding ADHD].

The amount of anxiety you're experiencing in your day to day life is grossly abnormal. I would suggest not waiting another day to start seeking out the help [therapy or working with a psychiatrist] you deserve. I also you suggest you research hallucinogenic medications as something to possibly relieve your existential anxiety: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/hallucin...
now this would be useful as C library for python. But in python itself it's just a toy.
I guess the political wars of JavaScript vs Dart, ChromiumVM and Chrome team dropping Dart on the floor, causing the departure of the original design team, kind of helped to Dart's success.

The political wars at Google with Dart are quite visible from outside, with Fuchsia picking up Flutter, and strangely the future of Android UI looks pretty much like Flutter, after too many times asking Android team about what was their opinion on Flutter for Android development at IO Fireside, meanwhile the developers' survey has had questions about how much we cared to see it supported on Kotlin multi-platform.

So yeah, had Chrome decided to push Chromium VM no matter what, Dart would be as successful as Go by now, after all younger generations don't seem to have any problem being Chrome developers.
I read a science fiction book based around this once. It makes a lot of sense at first, the issue is that we are not a random sample. People could have used this argument at any time in human history.
I think AI recommendations algorithms are too unregulated. Say a person is having or had for example a depression. Recommendation algorithms for advertising tech wants customer to stay on site and view content to sell advertising. So potentially recommendations algorithms could recommend videos or content that transfers depressed or other emotional states to viewers as long as it generates ad revenue. Depending on what the algorithms
senses what others in the same emotional state are viewing. What is the legal liability For transfer these emotions for companies providing these platforms?

On the other side the platform could transfer positive emotions. The issue I see is that we have unregulated emotional and potentially addiction transfers directly to consumers brains. What I mean for cigarettes there is warning here there is nothing but the product is probably as addictive minus health effects.
I stopped reading at "Kubernetes (or, as the "cool kids" say, k8s) is the worst thing to happen to system administration since systemd.". These are the best tools to happen for system administration in 20 years. Also, etcd is a terrible db. You cant back it up and can easily lose quorum (and all your data) with a network outage.
We decrypted messages from the Biafran war that remained secret for 50 years
I still find the most insightful Rob Pike statement (and the one that maybe induces a bit of forgiveness) that can give an idea for why Go is the way it is to be from this slightly older talk:

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to be able to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fr... at 20:33
So many "open core" projects are really crippleware. The open core business model just makes too much of an incentive to make core functionality proprietary. I guess one nice thing is you could fork the open-source version and add the "business/enterprise" features to it yourself. I'm sure that would earn you the ire of the company that makes said software though. I'd love to see the pull request to add such features to the open source version. Would you get a response like "The PR looks great, but it doesn't align with our business model, so we'll have to reject it."?
We've filled this role. Thanks to everyone who inquired about the position. We don't have any additional openings but do intend to add a few more engineers later in 2020.
The basic problem I see with Go is that its users are ignorant of how other languages have solved (or failed to solve) problems.

> As for the 5 different ways, that is the sin of the languages that start small as a counter movement without understanding that the others are complex not because it is fun to make them complex, rather because languages are products like anything else in software, and either they adapt to their customer base or they fade away.

Well, that's somewhat true, but there are two ways to adapt while avoiding the problem of having 5 slightly different and incompatible ways to do the same thing:

1. Pick a good set of language features up front and stick to them, devoting further development efforts to a strong standard library rather than language features. Example: Erlang.

2. Break reverse compatibility and remove things. Example: Python.
I guess what I'm saying is just because it's distinct doesn't mean it's alluring. It might be a different form of expression but what is being expressed is that entertaining or different from Instagram. It's just a bit less objectifying than Instagram but still feels lacking.
Having absolute determinism is probably still difficult but using SSE on x64 on Windows, where all users have compatible compilers (I.e determinism without diversity) is at least “good enough” nowadays. I haven’t seen any issues with that scenario so far, even though it’s certainly possible problems can arise.
By "biased to the left" I guess you mean they support socialism a la Bernie Sanders? So far I enjoyed listening to Greenwald's podcast (System Update), except it was rather weird hearing him casually saying that annexation of West Bank is worse than annexation of Crimea in 2014 because in Crimea almost everyone wanted to join Russia anyway (compared to the West Bank, where no one wants to join Israel). That's not quite a neutral statement (about Crimea), at least without a proper source.
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Google Clouds big query has an option for defining ml models in sql.

R can deploy several models as sql queries.

MSSQL also has options for this.
I just spent 3 days figuring out that I needed to remove a single line.
> Don't interact with provisioning/managing infra raw, use the CDK or other tooling you publish haha.

I've moved pretty much all my sandbox exploration to CDK. A one-shot destroy when I'm done to clean everything up is great. I also appreciate the documented types in Typescript. But beyond that, I've found that there's really no easy way to manage permissions manually. Doing ` bucket.grantRead(service.taskDefinition.taskRole);` is so much simpler than any of the policy generators in the aws console.
> ”Each satellite only has 20gbit/sec per beam of capacity. It's likely even in small cities that will not be enough”

But you're not going to have just one satellite per city. Consider that Starlink already has approval for 12,000 satellites. And has applied for 30,000 more! At 20 Gbps each, that’s a lot of bandwidth.

When fully built out, any given point on the ground should have coverage from dozens (hundreds?) of satellites at any given time, spreading the load in regions of heavy demand.
Actually no, Zope was quite famous during the first .com wave.

But Python has had many interesting sponsors throughout the years, not only Google.
One solution to the OP's problem is to continuously document the activity leading up to those two lines of code. That way you can point to the notes and say "here's why" .. and I've found that quite often justifiable and shows you've not been goofing off. Furthermore, it also helps someone who'll have to look at those two lines later on to grab some context and understand why they're there.

This could be as simple as notes logged against an issue about experiments done, etc.
Lets assume the 16th was ratified (it wasnt, but set that aside). One might ask the IRS Comissioner where the law is, plenty of IRS agents have tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNNeVu8wUak

It's also a rather obvious violation of the 5th. The gov does not own us; it's the other way around.

So far 9 states have removed state income tax completely: AL, TN, FL, NH, SD, WY, TX, WA, NE. A good start; seems to really bother the authortarians.
Wasn't one of the promises of cloud - "it will save us money ?" It's hard to visualise the end result of "savings exercise" for ppl to put funny video's on the internet is 800M /s :)

Yea I know they big and there is a lot I don't graps/knows about their system
A good WISP will even beat it. The one we are on has latency (measured to 1.1.1.1) of 17-20ms. We are quite rural.
Those two things are not the same.

One is a statement made by a candidate that is at best insensitive to people of different races.

The other is a poorly specified scenario where a black person does not fit in? For what reason do they not fit in? Is it because of their race or something else.
As a postscript,

For the web hackers out there - the lossless animation at the start of the article is not a <video> or a gif.

I got annoyed with how video codecs destroy pixel art, and other things, so I wrote my own.

This was almost more fun than doing the port.
> I dream of wild blueberries and refer to the cultivated kind (even the “cultivated wild” kind available frozen) as 3D printed blue spheres.

I was confused by the use of “wild” blueberries in the article. Clearly they’re being cultivated - in what sense are they wild?
it is the kid's responsibility... until it becomes the robot's.
It has not exited yet. This is an interim evaluation at day 56. The whole trial will last a year.
> I guess there's no downside

Just opportunity cost.
What do you mean "option of both"? I have both. I have Finder and I have Terminal. I have ways to jump from Terminal to Finder and from Finder to Terminal. I don't need or want a Termider or Finderminal.
I've read plenty researches: main factor is healthcare. It's a natural a better healthcare - leads to lower child and women death rate. That's why people are having less child and they become more valuable.

100 years ago there's NO statistic for child under 13yo death rate. Mostly because it was TOO high around 50-60% children are dying before they get ready for marriage.

My grand-grand-ma told me she had 8 brothers and sisters and only 2 survive: she and her brother. In that time it was reasonable to bake kids in enormous numbers in hope some of them are won't die. Then healthcare changed everything.
pass[0] has been the best of everything so far. gpg based and easy to use with keyboard shortcuts. i like alternatives like htis, but pass is super barebones and highly available.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
Yeah but we have money that can be stored and anyone that is old and have reserves of money will be treated and get food etc.

Society doesn’t reward you based on the value you produce but based on how much fictional currency you have. This could be entirely granted to you for example in a a lottery and you never produced anything of value.
By far Qt has the absolute best docs a toolkit can hope to have. No doubt about it.
Thanks for sharing your experiences! This is good advice. I also agree that, at times, some "filtering" must occur with regard to who we work with/for.
37% is the highest federal marginal tax rate. It starts at $510,301, which might kick in for a decent number of Uber shareholders at IPO.

That's also the tax rate, not the withholding rate.

I have no idea what they meant by "but likely need to pay a lot more than that yourself," unless that was a reference to state income tax. 37% is the highest bracket. It's higher than AMT. I'm not sure under what circumstances you'd owe more than 37%.
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> The bottom 85% (in income terms) of the global population contribute very little to unsustainability.

Is that true? What percent do they contribute?
With the little detail that ANSI C written decades ago most likely contain UB that a modern C compiler will gladly take advantage of, with all the nice consequences that it entails.
No employer treats those two things the same.
I have never used those words during an interview.
Yes, people use those words often and genuinely mean it more often in America than in other places. No, you will not get the job if your interviewer thinks that you're lying!
The key is who saves/invests the most and they will have access. This is how it works with everything in capitalism and this is the only efficient way we know of distributing resources.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that sentiment could be used to describe between 80 and 95% of the global job market. Most jobs suck, otherwise you wouldn't have to pay people to do them.
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Backwards compatibility is something that you only ditch for extremely good reasons, for instance to deal with a security issue that can not be handled in any other way. Breaking it for reasons of aesthetics is just plain dumb. The python ecosystem is still suffering from these major mistakes many years later and python's image as a reliable and trustworthy tool suffered right along with it. Such changes are fine pre 1.0, but once you ask people to base their production systems on it you maintain backwards compatibility at a cost, even if that means holding your nose occasionally. And my suggested fix would at least allow for the old syntax to live happily along with the new one, which given the price (two stupid brackets) could have easily been dealt with. Focusing on purity vs the responsibility towards people maintaining 100's of millions of lines of code in aggregate (if not another order of magnitude more) means you don't have your priorities straight.

Imagine we'd drop HTTPS for a new protocol because it fixes the 'Referrer' spelling error.
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p57 {LABELS} is interesting because historically it took a long time to get from LABEL to LABELS. One doesn't have to change much to add LABELS to a LISP 1.5, but because almost all the time LABEL suffices, I don't think anyone really felt the need.

p63 {QUOTE shafts the compiler} is still a religious war to this day.

p68 {WEBER} shows Steele & Sussman were writing pre-Moggi, but faced similar problems.

(incidentally, the overruns in the box on p55 make me think that despite the right-justified text, the boxes were added after printing, via pen & ruler.)
Perhaps some 80% of global population would be very grateful to relocate to Georgia.
Until Docker or Kubernetes fad doesn't go away, having to deal with Go is something that those of us that rather use C# or modern Java have to face, so it will help if the language catches up with modern times.
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It has also been adopted for all municipal elections in New York City.
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They should call it "DriveAssist" because thats what it is instead of layering autonomy with Autopilot (for that matter, even Copilot carries similar underlying semantics).
I made this for students like me who use school-issued Chromebooks and lack access to desktop solutions like OBS.

Unfortunately I'm having trouble porting it to Firefox due to its XSS Content Security Policy, though it's also available as a GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey script.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/406944-google-meet-mini-st...