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>Absolutely not - and I have direct experience of this.

Everyone who has direct experience of this time has been dead for half a century at least.

>First: multi generational households are extremely common.

Define "extremely common". What percent of people in a given society in a given time period do you think grew up in one?

>Second: people, including children, spend tons of time with other people outside of the parent-child relation. Relatives, often cousins, granparents, and neighbors.

Nobody is debating this. Of course prior to the industrial revolution people moved around less so your friends and neighbors are more likely to be your cousins and if grandma is nearby she'll wind up babysitting more. I don't see this as being meaningful to this discussion since they are outside one's household.

>This is still the case for most agrarian societies outside of the English-speaking world.

Back this up with numbers. Grandma has to live somewhere, but for an child in any given agrarian society to be more likely than not to have have grandma living under the same roof birth rates need to be low to the point of apocalyptic.

>The obsession with the hyper nuclear and exclusionary family is very american.

Is the fact that it's an American obsession supposed to be a bad thing?

Yes, multi generational households were far, far more common from the grandparent's perspective in the past because elderly parents living alone was far, far less common. But from the perspective of the child growing up they still far from the default. The birth rates are simply too high for them to have been default. Nobody here is saying mutligenerational households are bad but the people who think they were default have a skewed understanding of history. Calling something that just has to happen by mathematical necessity "unnatural" (i.e. the comment my initial comment replied to) seems a little over the top.
Your argument just boils down to "I think not". Saying Magnus Carlsen doesnt have one of the best minds of this generation because he is "just" a chess player is like saying Erling Haaland is not one of the best athletes because he plays "soccer" not football.

If being the indisputable number 1 player for almost a decade and being in the conversation for being the GOAT of one of the oldest, most studied, more competitive mental sports in the world does not qualify you for that nothing does. I could hardly ever think of a better example.You can count PhDs in the hundred of thousands, SV engineers in the same range.There are 36 2700+ players in the world, there are 2 +2800 players.There has been only 1 WC in the last 7 years.

I have no idea also what you meant by "transferring skills" or do you think a a "genius" CS kid in Google can quit and tomorrow become a neurosurgeon? All people are specialists. Ironically is Magnum, again, who has demonstrated flexibility by topping Fantasy Football, a game played by millions.

It's you who doesn't seem to grasp anything about the world of chess. From the time commitment and skill needed to get to the very top (Some people has argued is equivalent to the effort of getting 2 PhDs)to the esteem and reputation they have in the society at large.People like Bobby Fischer, Gary Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, are considered veritable geniuses, in the same league of Fields Medals winners. Almost nobody in FAANGs is in that league.

Chess is not "just" memory and pattern matching (Although those are pretty impressive,many Nobel-worthy discoveries have been that),it is mental and physical stamina, imagination, ability to perform under heavy time pressure , creativity and almost all the qualities heavily linked to any intelectual work.
FreeBSD's old CVSup was written in Modula-3: https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/3.0-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handb...
As a great fan of airbnb having stayed 10 times in Denmark in different ones, I was suddenly burned by a fake review from a first time host ( she got into trouble with her housing association I think ). She destroyed my feedbacks "image" with made up statements in her statement.

After several appeals airbnb did not help at all.

I got so burned that I still don't quite understand whether I was unlucky or failed to reach the right person, but Ive been too taken aback to start again with a new profile.
Asynchronous discussions are durable as content (in the internet). They are also very useful for working students. But they need focus to retain them in memory.
> has much more to do with classism

You're right but I think that's an unfair way to put the fact that two rich people can get a remedy from each other without the law, but a rich person only gets remedies from poor people through the law.

The better comparison is Airbnb versus CouchSurfing or TrustedHouseSitters. All three use unused space in your home in exchange for something of psychological and monetary value, including some things Paul Graham said were important to Airbnb - like the psychic pleasure of having guests over.

The difference is that TrustedHouseSitters sitters and CouchSurfing surfers are disproportionately completely broke, so if they go and they break your rich person coffee machine, what are you going to do? Get money from the guest?

You'll never use THS again. Retention is 0% after the first incident. The private equity firm that owns THS isn't going to make you whole, the insurance they give has a $1,000 minimum, the requirements are onerous, etc.

When I break something in an Airbnb, I pay every time. When they fuck up the parking and I get towed, the Airbnb paid. So we both keep using the service.

Michael Sandel talked big talk about Airbnb monetized something that used to be generously gifted, but he omitted the special math of how rich people exchanging stuff with each other results in that thing being utilized 10,000% more, simply because it is sustainable in the sense of people retaining and not hitting the home button, and he never really talked about, ironically, the lack of justice when people break or steal your shit and there is simply no remedy.
A face pull involves setting up a cable machine so you can pull a weight horizontally towards your face, until the handles you're pulling with wind up on either side of your head.

It'd be sort of difficult to do without equipment since it's a cable exercise. If you didn't mind buying some resistance bands, and have a reasonably stable point somewhere at head-height to loop them through as an anchor, you could do that at home. (It's an exercise that you're supposed to do with reasonably light weight, so it wouldn't need to be too sturdy.)

EDIT TO ADD: this article has some explicit advice on how to adjust it to do at home on resistance bands: https://athleanx.com/articles/shoulders-for-men/stop-doing-f...
Me too... the lack of decent non-array containers is frustrating. The string handling is also painful (seemingly TRIM everywhere). I've also hit several compiler bugs trying to use fairly new features.
A perpetual stimulus or a guaranteed income would certainly solve a lot of problems for all. Even though it will likely often trickle up to the landlords, it will enable a lot more freedom and economic output, and it does not have to be a fixed value for everyone, it could adjust based on income, a Guaranteed Progressive Income [0]. But what does that have to do with a wealth tax? I don't think the two are as connected as people would like to believe.

To use a naturalist's metaphor, wealth comes from having seeds and trees, with orchards bearing fruit. There are people with some trees and plenty of seeds to keep sowing, and there are some people with no seeds and simply waiting on the receipt of fruit. There is likely enough creative output thanks to the endeavors of prior generations to create enough orchards for us that handing out decent fruit rations would be great with little negative consequence, but wealth comes from planting and nurturing new seeds to grow new trees to create new fruit. In short, if we could empower people to start their own endeavors that could blossom fruitfully, that would be a better strike at the heart of inequality than simply shaking bear some trees at the more fecund and productive orchards. Picketty is not wrong, but that sounds more like oak trees and their ability to propagate thanks to squirrels running off with the nuts and burying them far and wide than some sort of ontological argument about society.

While a GPI (Guaranteed Progessive Income) will help, we need to focus on creating the causes for our own orchards, our own wealth. If someone else's presence of wealth prevents one's success, then maybe it is time for intervention, such as in the new era of logical and necessary Anti-Trust suits, but if the only obstacle is not having enough resources to start with (education, capital, knowhow, access to resources) it is difficult to see how shaking apples off another's tree will increase or improve those things directly. What's the ideal world? What's the ideal result? Perhaps we can work backwards from the Utopia we want to have, rather than incrementally towards a swamp of disincentives that counteract original aims.

[0] https://satisologie.substack.com/p/guaranteed-progressive-in...
Do you oppose health warnings on cigarettes? Food labels? Independent testing and verification of air and water? Safety testing for appliances and vehicles?

In your informed consumer advocacy, is there any room for shared responsibility?

What chance do individuals have against a corporate juggernaut's finely tuned outrage machine, exquisitely crafted to prey on human fallibility?

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Sure, we've always had propaganda.

What's new with social media, like with personal computers and smart phones, is the convergence.

Now all the social pathologies (targeted ads, dopamine hits, crowd out authentic speech) are bundled together and monetized, begetting a positive feedback loop.
my T440, T470 and T495s all do the same thing. Nightmare. I use a mac mini most of the time now though.
Features you didn't know you needed in remote work
This misses the point. EVERY device I carry with me charges via USB-C right now.

My laptop, my work laptop, my headphones, my phone, my tablet/e-reader (remarkable).

It's insanely liberating to know that I can pretty much always find a charger for everything, and I only ever need to pack a single wall-wart.

Flying? One charger. Road trip? One charger. Biking to work? One charger.

Better yet - Leave a charger at work, keep a charger at home, don't need to carry 5lbs back and forth every day.

Forgot my charger? Every person I hang out with has a usb-c charger floating around somewhere.

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You know what I really don't want to have to carry around anymore? Fucking cable adapters. You know what no one will have if I forget my charger? Fucking cable adapters.

Honestly - I probably wouldn't have bought these headphones yet because I'm quite happy with my current headphones.

But I'm very, very close to no longer even considering devices that ship without a USB-C port. And that's a shame, because I otherwise really like the Max, and probably would have slotted it in when my current cans die.

Getting over the hump to convert to USB-C initially was fairly expensive, but my job is good and I can splurge. I don't want to go back.
Have you read the actual suit? [1]

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
Sure, a sliver of the Baby Boomer generation has been given vastly too much attention for doing some drugs. Meanwhile, the bulk of that generation are responsible for the largest per capita prison population in the developed world and the ruin of millions of young lives.
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I'm going to let you carry this on, but we're all know which music genre can easily win this title.
It's interesting why do you think that " CentOS is dying" ? Thanks ...
In their defense, this looks like content marketing for people who buy functional programming consultancy services. So they're not really writing for a general audience. I tend to agree on initializations though. I think a lot of times people use them as a signal of their membership of the technical "in group", to establish a place in a social hierarchy. That's not good communication.
Key features like the spatial effects only work with an iPad or mac. So now you have a dependency on Apple keeping that part going for years as well, if you want to keep using them as you would have expected to at launch.
Elasticsearch as Primary Database
Having gone through the product development lifecycle several times, I find that at some point in you almost always end up needing to search data in your database. In the cases where we started out with a traditional document store db like mongodb when we tried to start implementing search capabilities mongo performed very poorly. Innevitably we had to use a multi-database approach where via event sourcing we would store data in 2 databases and took a lot of time away from building new features.

I am just starting a new product and wanted to know what you think about just using eleasticsearch as a document db from day 1, seeing as how it can perform just well for normal key/value pair lookups and very well for the innevitable search features we'll want later down the road. I'm interested to hear your thoughts overall on working with elasticsearch from a developer's point of view, eg, ease of use, tooling, sdk support, etc.
That would be "left-pad": https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-...
What genocide has Canada committed recently?
How do accidents like this even happen at an established company? That sort of stuff indicates a worrying proclivity to cut corners.
Let me assure you, your "tiny ass Canadian home town" have little in common with Stockholm 2020
Sounds like you found an amazing support rep and made a great case for it - good job!
Yes; that's my latter point - it could easily have been a bad technical choice. But that doesn't really validate the "big mess"-style criticism, which I have mostly found to be untrue.
Thanks a lot! We'll look into that issue on mobile.
On the related note, what would you guys recommend as an introduction to compilers, say for beginners?
Sudan is two countries these days :)
Book Note: The Psychology of Money
The UK seems peculiarly obsessed with wind power. And a few times last month, it was (unusually?) wind-less and the wind power contribution to the national grid dropped to almost zero, whilst at the same time...fossil fuel and nuclear had to pick up the slack.
There is something missing from tech worker organizing
Why everyone is after news? Is it to get their customers hooked on to their client regularly? OR there is ton of money in that domain?
Stainless and aluminum headphones that weigh a pound are made to last a century, not a couple of years. I have a closet full of incredibly durable, beautiful Apple products that will show up in an archeological dig of our sad epoch but were only supported by Apple for five years max.
Lawmakers are generally hestitant to prescribe specific technological implementations because technology moves faster than laws. Imagine if radio spectrum regulations hadn't applied to wifi because they'd specifically specified TV/radio.
Can't seem to find 'Smell the Glove' anywhere, the original that is.
So, I can't criticize the interior of America for generally failing to distance because of some rich finance people you met at a high-end dinner and somehow know their drug habits?

Sorry, I really don't see the relevance to the original claim.
Google owning youtube is an example of a real problem with monopolies.
Let a Thousand Internets Bloom
They don't even necessarily care about Windows support. Upgrade to a new version that doesn't quite work the same with the hacks in their cobbled-together drivers, and you're quickly in the same boat as the Linux users.
> For decades, the traditional way for a video player to temporarily inhibit the screen saver was to have a heartbeat command that ran "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" once a minute while the video was playing,

...which was a great way to inhibit screensaver when you had its timeout configured to be <= 60 seconds.
> America is and has always been predicated on the idea that the ordinary person has the capacity to make decisions that guide the republic, either as elector or elected. This idea is the basis of all democracies, generally....

> I’ve come to know many politicians in the past few years, some of them nationally prominent. And I can say without hesitation that the average person is as qualified to make decisions about governance as the average professional politician.

The idea that Facebook is bad for democracy doesn't contradict that idea. For anyone to make good decisions, they need good information, and the problem with Facebook is that it amplifies lies and disinformation.

> I notice that there is, and maybe always has been, a vocal group of people who believe that we should only elect and appoint experts, highly-trained specialists in their area of government. Heinlein reminds us that “specialization is for insects”.

I don't think that's what being advocated for. What specialists are good at is providing accurate information in their specialty. Often different specialists will disagree.

In many cases, democracy should be about the people choosing which specialists to listen to and where the balance will be between them when they conflict. It shouldn't be about ordinary people trying to replace specialists (e.g. lets have a vote of non-engineers to determine how big the support beams for the new bridge should be).
Right, but to make your point, you made the incredibly bold assumption that every minute is equally as valuable as every other minute. So because time with children = one TV episode of time, it can't be that important.
They may have a usb-c charger they want to use eg for a laptop. By making it lightning on the headset side they just reinvented a corded headset.
So my takeaway from this article is more or less these are expensive, heavy, great quality, and have great sound. We already know Apple's noise cancellation and transparency mode are pretty damned good from the AirPods Pro.

If these were about $200 less, I'd probably have pulled the trigger on these already. At $550, it's a pretty tough pill to swallow when fundamentally there are some damned good ANC headphones for quite a bit less.

For the moment anyhow, I don't watch TV on my iPad or phone enough for spatial audio to matter. So the only big features which make it stand above much more affordable competitors is: transparency mode, easy source switching, and overall niceness. Worth $200?? I kind of think no. Maybe I'll revisit this when more reviews are in and the wait time is less than 3 months to order them.

Edit: Gruber also mentioned this, but worth noting. They would be a lot more appealing if the Apple TV supported spatial audio.
One particular issue is that nobody actually implements the ACPI power management protocol correctly.
Perhaps where we actually start to diverge is that I view stories like this as appeals for increased funding from Congress. If NWS were going to rearrange the budget internally, they would have already done so. Did you not mean your comment in the wider context of managing the entire federal budget?

You haven't directly argued for cuts, but I still maintain that reflects the gist of your comment. "You don't have any money left" is an assertion of limiting the budget. The immediate implication is that increasing funding to something means having to cut something else. The cliched response pertaining to such tradeoffs in the federal budget is "well then, buy one less F-35".

The directly opposing argument is that would be worthwhile to increase the federal budget and taxes by 0.2% to fix similar problems across the board. I'm certainly not making that argument to increase taxes though - but we should be able to hold a critique of the government's foolish penny wise pound behavior in our heads without collapsing it to one of the two.

My comments were downvoted because HN abhors sarcasm, the exchange has generated much more heat than light, and that got attributed to me because I went meta. Next time I'll just copypasta the comment about the F-35.
The Answer to 0x49: Fujitsu FMR
Are there glasses that don't use lenses...?
This isn't an audiophile product. It's a status symbol marketed at the same people who own an iPhone and beats. People who have money and would like everyone else to know it.
When it comes to expensive audio equipment I'm a buy once and use it for a long long while type of person. Sure "better" comes out every so often but I see audio as an investment and I want to get my money's worth.

These airpods aren't an investment, they are expensive and disposable as I doubt these will be usable in 10 years time. To me, that is a bad investment.
Sure, but the poster clearly doesn’t understand if they are saying Therefore you cannot know BB(n) beyond a certain n.

I am not really conveying this clearly but people seem to misunderstand that Touring machines are just one class of computers. Just as quantum computers are another class of machines, so to are human minds or x86 processors. You can very much program a touring machine with the output of a different class of computer hardware, but that doesn’t solve the problem.

>>> You need an Oracle at runtime not compile time. <<< There that’s what I was missing.
Worse in this case is a complicated comparison. The computational stuff is cool and that will definitely stop working when drivers eventually rot out of support but for general audio quality these won’t be in any way comparable to a cheaper 3+ decade old set of headphones. A huge amount of the extra complexity is making up for using Bluetooth – that has advantages but it means that you have to support a protocol stack, codecs, etc. just to approach the quality that you’d get from wired headphones for $50 in the 1990s. If you really value not needing a cable or the computational features that may be worthwhile to you but it’s important to remember that a lot of the extra cost and reduced reliability and service lifetime is required by non-core functions.
I've had the displeasure of going through AirBnb dispute resolution process more than once, which was resolved in my favour once and not the other. Neither time did I think they did a good job of hearing the sides of the case and deciding on solid principles or written foundations. It's pretty much a matter of who sees it and makes a subjective call. It's also shocking that the first several tiers of customer support is seemingly run by volunteers (or otherwise ill-equipped people).

The success of the trust and brand issue is largely due to the number of well meaning hosts far outnumbering the bad and AirBnb keeping the bad stories not get viral too often.

The 'keep your rating high' has been around since eBay and could easily be copied. I wouldn't have a problem using a service that competed with AirBnb. What they have is a volume lead. People look there because that's where the listings are. Hosts list there because that's where people look.