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he's smart and i always like reading his insight but his writing is so cryptic and always dances around his point without fully committing to it
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The “more money == more kids” hypothesis comes from the observation that women are typically having fewer kids than they reportedly want to have, implying that something is holding them back from having the number of kids they want.

In places like America, the cost of childcare is commonly pointed to. However this phenomenon is common enough across multiple countries with different labor arrangements that I genuinely doubt its just the cost.
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I personally don't and don't judge you either. As I said earlier, I and my wife didn't want children until one came along; that eventually has changed us.
But we will stop at one and I agree that there are plenty of people already.
PS: Not fully sure what could have caused your Kafka woes. Certainly all what you described is supported, and it also 'should' normally be easy to use as a user/developer.

For example, with Kafka Streams, any app you build with it just needs to set “processing.guarantee” to “exactly_once” in its configuration, and regardless of what happens to the app or its environment it will not lose messages (on write) or miss messages (on read) from Kafka.

Consider asking your question with a few more details in the Kafka user mailing list [1], or in the Confluent Community Slack [2] if you prefer chatting.

[1] https://kafka.apache.org/contact
[2] https://launchpass.com/confluentcommunity
> and you search by the app’s exact name.

Seeing how catastrophically bad search is on the App Store, this wouldn't work most of the time. Apple would have to make search usable first.
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Media outlets are already using deepfake as a general term for photographic manipulation. You might recall that video of Joe Biden making lewd gestures on Trump's twitter. That was reported as being a deepfake but is in fact just using generic pinching technology.

To expand on the parent comment's point, this is most likely using some variant of StyleGan2 which has plenty of endpoints on the Internet to make it easy for someone to just download a face for free.

However, they all have this uncanny StyleGAN glare. And there are still artifacts. Quality's improving though. Scrubbing it of EXIF data doesn't really deter detection.

Go ahead, try posting some StyleGAN avatars to Facebook or something. Your account will get flagged immediately for doing so. There's already a robust amount of interest in "deepfake" detection, and there are methods to fingerprint or adversarial attacking your machine learning models with data poisoning so you can reasonably determine a dead giveaway. Kind of like putting a dye pack in your bills.

What is NOT helping, is how media outlets can drum up some cheap panic over the "end of truth" or insinuating how the barrier for disinformation campaigns is lowering. Both statements can be valid but I think we are teaching the wrong lesson having people told they can't trust anything rather than to establish what trust means to them in the first place.
Do you know of any systematic figures on such things?

A six-figure bake sale (if I grant that it happened) is probably 1% of the school's budget (at a school of 1000 in CA, or 500 in NY). I always thought such things existed more as social occasions for parents to get to know teachers and v-v, in a more co-operative context than parent-teacher evenings.
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Undoubtedly I agree with both of you. Unfortunately, since the introduction of blue LEDs little thought has been given to the way people react to them. From my experience, they seem to raise the most criticism of all colored indicators.
Harvard was established as a christian college, a "church in the wilderness" to train strict Puritan clergy. Maybe both Harvard and the later christian colleges you mention can be orthodoxies.
I wonder how. I often do not agree with pjc50 but I do agree in this case. I miss something too and don't want to miss it.
I also had/have reservations for the same reason before having children. If I didn’t pair up with another high earner, I would not have tried to have children, as I believe the labor market is too volatile.

I also would have wanted to spare them the effects of climate change/societal turbulence, but partner wanted kids so I said sure, but I wonder if that was the right call sometimes.
I would. I have a couple apps on my phone that are no longer in the app store due to policy changes at Apple. One is an old version of AdGuard which was essentially an on-device pihole. The other was an internet radio tuner which was pulled for reasons unknown.

Until recently you couldn't purchase books in the Kindle app. I'd have happily downloaded a non-broken version from Amazon.

There are many examples of apps with strong safeguards that aren't allowed in the apple app store.
I was answering to your last line: "Just a few years ago you could find plenty of opinion articles talking about the necessity of “the marketplace of ideas” for political discourse. None of that now...."

We've seen how accellerated communications create "social" bubbles and outrage, while we know true policy-making will require much more refinement of ideas through representatives that are eager to think beyond their tribe and tend to the greater good. The opposite is happening in later populist movements, and we instead witness corruption at the highest position exploiting outrage and dissent.
Could be those unfortunate users who reside in one of the “forbidden” countries or regions. Of course, those countries are unlikely to be able to force Apple into opening up their platform.
Consider this one a features story. No so much need to follow an assembling crowd and seeing what they're griping about in person anymore, trending will show it.

Fact of the matter is that momentarily twitter reflects general public discourse and has to be engaged with. Not to say that the whole public discourses through twitter, but that it generally reflects public discourse. As in, even the broadcast segments that are watched by technophobic grandparents show it on screen, reference it, and then talk about it.
I do see your /s, but I'll answer anyway: I've decided that US cultural problems were a source of stress for no payoff, which I didn't need. I used to be much more involved until I realized I live a world away from the US and the societal problems don't affect me much (and I also realized that I didn't identify as black, white or any of the race options on the census), plus there are much more pressing problems at home.

As you can see from the fact that I commented in this thread, I don't always succeed :P
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Sometimes I wish HN would have an almanac of topic themes that keep coming up. Flow/Deep Work seem to be a constantly recurrent theme, as is “imposter syndrome” and other pseudoscientific garbage that people discuss with high authority, quoting this and that author.

For the next poster that wants to toss their hat into the ring, please do a piece on the Quiet Eye. I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
They have recently announced they wouldn't support many of the APIs needed/useful for PWAs

edit: I was a wrong in thinking they severely limited PWAs, they still allow Service Workers although with a 7-Day Cap on All Script-Writeable Storage. Not as bad as I thought.
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>Which of the two holds more institutional power is up for debate

In regards to opinion safety the answer is clear: you don't get fired in a twitter shitstorm for expressing left-wing orthodoxy.
How frequently do you get tested for the virus?
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He's probably choosing not to say some stuff because it's heresy :)
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> The fact that you have to speak of "private christian colleges", rather then naming any, is revealing

wheaton cedarville liberty byu gove city college of the ozarks point loma king's college convenant oral roberts...

Brand recognition is not always a good measure of power. Those institutions have a lot more cultural/political power in many circles than harvard.
I don't think there is a right or wrong answer. My experience tells me that everyone is different when implementing solutions. I'm working with a new grad, with MS in CS from a top school. He is great theoretically, but this project requires learning and implementing new tech very fast. thinking outside the box and prototyping a lot unfortunately he is overthinking and delaying the project. On the other side I have seen people that doesn't excel in algos and create great products. My take is that the take home assignment provides a better perspective on candidates than just algos and ds
The world has been hard up for terminology to describe what’s bad about the forces that have dragged down SSC and driven Weiss away from NYT. “Cancel culture” was a good start, as evidenced by those who have been rankled by the suggestion of its existence. My fave part of this essay is that it offers a shiny new tool, “orthodox privilege,” that allows us to enumerate the case for a countervailing force against this age of outrage.
.. would you like to explain then?
Courtrooms will always accept video so long as the proper foundation can be provided and the authenticity can be proved. Even the best edits and deepfakes are rather simple to explain. If anything, as the technics become more advanced, we would see a rise in forensic media analysts (I made that phrase up) who would assess the reliability of the media. Many people are prone to lying when it benefits them, but we are never going to stop letting people testify in court because of that. The same goes for video and other editable media.
14 hours compared to 13h for a similar intel based laptop. Not really that impressive. Correct me if I’m wrong, but most of the power consumption comes from the screen anyways.
> Maybe both Harvard and the later christian colleges you mention can be orthodoxies.

I literally said that _three different times_ in my post:

>> None of this is to dismiss or deny that maybe Harvard has its own orthodoxy

>> The orthodoxy of silicon valley and elite college campuses

>> Not because I don't believe this happens at Harvard or wherever

That's not the point. That point is that the proposed solution -- calling out an "orthodox privilege" and insisting on politeness -- is not going to work. How do I know? Because "cancel culture" is not even close to new. It's existed on college campuses, in media, etc. for hundreds of years on the right. History is a tutor for what will/won't work.
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That's just about surviving, and with both partners working. How do you have a family and any sense of security and health like that?
> because if everyone is asking whatever they want there is no way to compare one candidate to another.

That's obviously not true....

> Most companies require interviewers to pick a question from their internal 'question bank'

Again, having worked at some fairly big and respected companies, this has never been the case.

I'm not interviewing for rote candidates. Everyone is different. Ergo, the questions are different. I could never imagine hiring senior developers and security engineers with questions from a "question bank".

If you're just doing boilerplate, you're probably getting very sub-par employees.
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This case has nothing to do with income taxes. In Ireland we actually pay more than Germany with the additional USC taxes (which is essentially income tax in disguise).
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You're not getting downvoted from "sharing personal experiences", you're getting downvoted for screaming your flawed conclusion "It's allll fakeeeeeddd!" from your bubble of observation. Against thousands of other conclusions backed up with data. Which you are dismissing as invalid or is a giant conspiracy.

Do you wear the seatbelt while in a car? From my experience I would've been fine in all the car journeys I've ever taken if I hadn't worn the seatbelt, but I keep wearing them and I don't go on the internet and scream "Seatbelts are unnecessary!!!!". From your car ride experiences, you'd probably agree, so why do you keep wearing it? Is it because you trust the (scientifically done) experiments that show how badly hurt or dead you can be if you don't wear it?
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Businesses absolutely have the authority to say "no mask, no entry", just like they can set "no shoes, no shirt, no service" policies.

The ADA requires reasonable accommodation, and has explicit exemptions to accommodations that pose a health threat to others. https://www.ada.gov/taman3.htm#III-3.8000

> III-3.8000 Direct threat. A public accommodation may exclude an individual with a disability from participation in an activity, if that individual's participation would result in a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
Also, I would venture a guess - a lot of us are not laptop-gamers and as such, do not look forward to those '>=120Hz' display-panel technologies companies are dedicating so much resources into. A significant part of the reason I'm about to buy an external monitor is the 16:9 ratio vertically challenged little screen on my laptop. This new trend ought to catch on.
> Tesla’s Chief Executive Elon Musk said this month the electric car manufacturer was close to making its cars capable of automated driving without any need for driver input, so-called Level 5 autonomy.

I suspect we will remain “close to” autonomous cars for several decades.
I doubt editorial policy is dictated by proximity to flags, so I'll leave that aside.

The FT and Economist are both focused on economic issues. I don't think you can expect them to campaign for a cause that is (by the admission of its supporters) going to damage the economy. They do consider the positive economic outcomes and possibilities of Brexit within their reporting, but there just aren't many compared to the negative ones. I don't think that's biased, it's fact, and it's fact that is agreed upon by both sides of the debate.
Problem arises when you assume that everybody exists in the same context.
I'm not yet convinced the uneven distribution of economic opportunity is due to a fundamental shortage of opportunity. It reminds me of the food shortages in African states embroiled in conflict- there is enough food, but it is not distributed. A significant question of our time is how we might bring economic opportunity to distressed regions. The idea of remote work from rural areas is a simple conceptual example; increasing access to markets for isolated farmers is another.
It doesn't have to be beyond the pale. There are plenty of totally scientific and statistical facts, observed many times over by many different studies, that reveal uncomfortable truths you will be cancelled for talking about.

Whether it's IQ or crime demographics, or something more esoteric, we're increasingly entering into a time where you have to toe the line of orthodoxy or risk losing your livelihood. This means we can't actually get better studies into these areas, nor can we propose policy mechanisms that might actually work towards improving reality, because we are incapable of basing policies on unorthodox facts.
> Isn't that sometimes just the nature of having to prove a different idea in the face of another idea that may be proven?

Orthodoxy is a numbers game not necessarily an accuracy game. Orthodox opinions may be accurate or inaccurate; what makes them orthodox is that they are held by at least a plurality of people in a given setting.

Orthodox ideas have not necessarily been proven and aren't necessarily parsimonious, so they should not necessarily enjoy the privilege of the null hypothesis. Null hypotheses require a lower burden of proof than alternative hypotheses.

If an orthodox position was never proven but is simply widely held, it should have the same burden of proof as an alternative hypothesis. However the way orthodoxy works its burden of proof is lower owing to its greater popularity.
> low-carb takes less effort and discipline

"less effort and discipline" than what? depends on the comparison

Also, I'm sure a lot of people who have had trouble staying on the diet would disagree. Regardless of the specific regime, if a diet is restrictive (especially of things people are used to consuming) it can require a lot of discipline.
> Placed in the context of BLM

80 to 90% of the times I’ve seen this phrase, it’s been used in response to Black Lives Matter. As opposed to being used in the positive for, say, universal healthcare, food assistance programs, and initiatives to house the homeless.
You have to feign excitement to deal with the terrifying hellscape that is American corporate culture.
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That's up to 10 years of hell though
I had this experience, though with a different virus. It’s no joke. I was in above average shape, able to run fast and far, lift heavy things, free dive deep and long, etc. After a two week illness, I couldn’t lift my hands above my head and I haven’t run more than 10km since, let alone at <5m per km. It has been 4 years. It wrecked my lungs and I think even caused mild nerve damage.

If COVID is doing similar things to people, it’s very serious. It’s potentially life altering. I genuinely suspect I will never be as healthy or as strong as I was. I didn’t believe this could happen to healthy people in their 20s, especially not someone who could run a half marathon on a whim, but humans simply aren’t invulnerable.
It's kind of like saying that corruption in the president's office isn't really that big of a deal because there are plenty of small town mayors that are also corrupt.

That's absolutely true, but the influence on society and the country of both aren't really the same.
No, this isn't about Ireland only levying 12% corporate tax (which is already a beggar-thy-neighbour race to the bottom).

This is about Ireland abetting Apple (and every other large US tech and pharma firm) to not even pay the 12% but pretend that all of its EU profits were created in Bermuda, BVI or some other zero-tax offshore tax haven. (Via the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich legislation they offered until this year, or the newer and improved "Patent Box" law.)
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>problematic history

You say it as if it didn't happen to Python and Go. Also experienced programmers are luxury.
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I understand that the real reason is Women’s education. The more education a woman has the more life options she has. Uneducated women have lots of kids, educated women tend to have fewer.
Related, in Europe they are making laws to make app stores give reasonable explication 30 days prior to removing games from the store and to add more transparency to rankings:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-07-13-european-u...
Paul Graham as always says the things I want to say, more clearly and concise, and with the privilege wealth brings of being able to more freely speak.
I use both Slack and Riot (in browser). Slack is slow, but it manages threading and notifications much better than Riot.
Exactly this. A lot of people who say 'All lives matter' as a response rather pointedly refuse to say 'Black lives matter' because that would be admitting that the problems of institutional racism that devalues black lives are real problems that need to be addressed.
Last I read, the average tenure for an employee at FB is about 1.5 years... Could be different at other place.
I would probably use gopass if it would not enforce the usage of Git.
What circles?
I believe the scientific term for this is blogspam
At a 50,000 foot level, you have:

The "Progressive" camp, that has a few sub-genres that prioritize or disagree on different things.

The "Conservative" camp, that is more consistent at a high level.
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This article seems to praise people for not being "conventional minded," as if being unorthodox in itself is something to be cherished and rewarded. That is too low of a bar to clear. There are lots of opinions and viewpoints that are unorthodox for good reason -- because they are just bad ideas, or are factually untrue no matter how many times you argue it. It's as if PG is saying to us "Think Different," and just stopping there. What he should be saying is "Think Different, but be prepared to prove it," as well as "Be a little tolerant of people who are doing their best to prove it."

The problem is that, unless you're speaking to someone with whom you have a great deal of trust, that second part -- the earnestness of their unorthodoxy -- is difficult to prove.
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Wait, so more than 1 in 10 times you've heard this, someone was saying it in an unrelated context to BLM? What were the separate contexts? I've never even remotely heard this term when not used as a response to "black lives matter."
The F-15 is one of the baddest planes in the air, and has been since its' first flight back in 1976, with an undefeated combat record. The radar capabilities are superior to almost all planes out there, which make it a damn good deterrent because they can reach out and touch you before you can see them. They have a wizzo in every situation, which offloads a lot of work from the pilot and lets them focus on flying the plane. I'm pretty sure none of the three you mentioned can boast those stats, so I'd say yes, give us more F-15s. The US has the most dominant air force in the world and I'd like us to stay that way personally. If you're upset about the government spending more money on new planes, be upset about the money wasted on the planes that aren't even flying, not our bread and butter.
What have we lost?

I have _always_ preferred a wider screen to a taller one because it means I can fit more xterms side-by-side.
But you are talking about microphones which you cannot simply cover.

I admit, muffling them is better than nothing – but in the case of microphones Apple doesn’t even advise you not to cover them.

Either way, this is just an effect of common covers seemingly breaking screens. Which sucks. However, depending on your risk profile the re-assurance of a hardware solution that lights up the LED might be plenty for you.
>What database did you use? We didn't use one. We just stored everything in files. The Unix file system is pretty good at not losing your data, [...] It is a common mistake to think of Web-based apps as interfaces to databases ...

This. I mean URLs were designed to encode Unix file names. Today you'd probably say 'it's a common mistake to think of Web-based apps as interfaces to "REST APIs"'.

Now the question of all questions is why viaweb was recreated in a non-LISP language (though probably discussed to death here) ...