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My MIL used to say, "there's a reason that they make mothers young," and it's because kids are exhausting. As a mid-40s male, I can't imagine bringing a child into my life again right now. I would die before 50 from sleep deprivation.
the arrogance here is beyond shocking. go gauge an average Taiwanese citizen's interest in your offer, you might be in for a nasty surprise.
If we lower the birth rate below replacement (roughly 2 children per couple), humanity will die out. This is not a desirable outcome.

If the answer is, "well, the birth rate will never lower that far, because some people are going to keep having children" -- who will those people be? (Do you presume to be able to choose who gets to have children and who does not?)

Aren't those some people then doing a great service, keeping humanity alive? Shouldn't we value their efforts, and give them support?

Also, drastically lowering birth rates has negative effects on demographics and economies (e.g. a population pyramid heavily weighted toward the elderly, without enough young people to do the work of taking care of them, or the productive work of maintaining and improving society generally).
That's why Starlink will make sense mainly in the US, as there's only an antenna for the user to plug, there's no landline to extend.
I estimate AT LEAST 25 million potential American customers that are in the same situation as your friend
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>> It is very difficult to get a good number across all sectors.

That's what cost of living indexes are for.

>> The bell-weather asset for me would be Gold

You probably mean to say gold futures or gold-based derivatives. There are more people who think they own "gold" than there is physical gold on this planet. Unless you have a bar in your hand, you own a contract tied to the price of gold, ie paper.
How can one regulate an endeavour that is so inextricably entwined with the military and government prestige? How do you set up a genuinely independent regulator that has strong enough teeth, one that cannot be leaned on by industry heavyweights lobbying the government?

These problems are not unique to nuclear power, of course; Australia seems to have similar problems with coal, and the US with oil.
The line about

> Messages often took a full month to get a response.

Also does not ring true to my experience with AWS unless the author was not paying for any support tier. If they did not have even developer support on the account, then they got exactly what they paid for.
I apologize - I am just so upset on how things are going and I am livid at the inability to make meaningful change for the positive while we all watch ourselves being robbed.

The fact that there is a "vote" on a 1.9 TRILLION additional stimulus, on top of the ~6 TRILLION previous thefts - the fact that in 2008, many senators and congress folk had their spouses create LLCs - then get stimulus and bailout funds just illustrates the corruption.

The situation is bananas right now.

And people are defending the system.

This is like if you have major outages to prod and instead of doing a proper post mortem to get to root cause on the failures, you re-up your contracts with the vendors who failed you and pay bonuses to execs and ops people who left the system in a position to fail, then have all the other employees yell at anyone who questions what the hell is going on.

I get emotional - isolation for the last year has made emotions bottle up...

But seriously this situation sucks.

Again, I apologize for certain things - but not my indignant opinion of the current political and technical climate we are forced to live in.
Personally, what I'm interested in is not seeing ads. I think the notion that more relevant ads are somehow better for the user is mostly industry propaganda. Ad targeting is about finding people more susceptible to manipulation into spending money. User satisfaction is at best an epiphenomenon of the ad industry, and at worst is directly counter to their goals.
There seem to be a series of pro-nuclear submissions here, driven by articles that are, perhaps, driven by lobbying. That would be an interesting story to dig out.

The resulting discussion points out that the cost of nuclear power plants is very high, the long term risks high, the time taken to build and cost overruns extraordinarily high and so on and on. Meanwhile renewables are cheaper, even when adding the batteries required to smooth lumps, and they can be stood up very quickly. Sure keep the old plants and improve regulation, but investors are not going to get returns from nuclear plants when the competition is low capex, free sunlight and almost zero maintenance.
or you own a decent house in London.
Maybe it is. It’s encrypted though so could be hard to check.
The "Control-C + Control-V = $$$$" wall art made me laugh out loud. Well done.
> It's true that only women can gestate and breast feed,

If you have multiple children, that can add up to a significant chunk of prime career building years.
thank you very much.
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>The result is that stuff gets cheaper, that is, the same number of dollars buys more. That's deflation.

It's more about the number of dollars out there. Fractional reserve means that a dollar saved leads to dollars being created. Boomers saving up for retirement meant lots of dollars being created. Boomers withdrawing and buying stuff means lots of dollars will be destroyed. Fewer dollars means dollars become more valuable i.e. deflation.
I mean those sorts of issues are unavoidable and would be discussed in a court where there would probably be some invocation of what "a typical person finds" offensive, as has happened in obscenity cases before.

What I made sure to be part of my very popular answer on the OSS stack exchange about GPL, is a very careful perspective I have on this whole licensing debate. And that is, a license should be understood as fundamentally "about" what you are willing to sue over. Like, folks take a very moral view of licenses, what "should" you do with the software, what "can't" you do with it, etc., and the pragmatic statement is: you can do things, you just might get sued. A license is saying what conditions will definitely not brook a lawsuit.

When you start to see licenses-as-lawsuits, the BSD and MIT licenses are just like "look I don't want to sue you and I don't want you to sue me, let's agree to not do that." The GPL is much more "look I don't want to sue you and I don't want you to sue anybody else and I would be willing to sue you to stop you from suing other people," which is why it is much much longer than those other languages, that's a much more subtle point.

This is just saying "look I for the most part don't want to sue you but if I find out that you are promoting things that I find deeply morally offensive, such as {insert list of topics} then I might sue you if you're using my software for that." There's nothing too "not-thought-through" about this, it's just a matter that might have to be litigated where you say "look I don't personally lobby for abortion, just abortion-lobbyists use my platform" and some lawyers make some reasonable cases on both sides and some judge decides on some clarifying line as a result of the argument.
Well, you could argue that was directed at the Hebrew people under Moses, and not a directive to everyone everywhere. It's not contradictory to say not to discriminate against people's different religions while forbidding polytheism within your own religion.
I want them to support smb. I would like to be able to sync my photos to a network share. This doesn't mean I wouldn't still buy iCloud space.
Been there, done that. Burned out. Twice.

Eventually learned that I can't achieve everything I want on every facet of my life. I am not superhuman. The day only has 24 hours.

Something had to give. I was in a position in which I could afford to work less, so that's what I did. Now I'm mediocre at a few things in my life rather than being great at one at the cost of everything else, and I couldn't be happier with that decision.
s/washing/wagging/

s/interprets/interpreters/

Damn, I should have proof read this on my desktop rather than just blind posting from my phone.
Wild that software that was developed for guided missile destroyers has " Do not murder. ", " Love your enemies. ", " Hate no one. " etc. in their Code of Ethics.
This paper is just saying there are reasonably estimable costs. That's all!

It's not even trying to address the bigger argument you're talking about.
It worked for me. I have uBlock Origin I wonder if that helps?
Nuclear energy is safer than coal, oil, natural gas.

https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106843635-161400902674...
Thanks for letting me know. I may create a new account :)
You spend your time well. Yes their eyes are alien.
I've heard OCD used casually/incorrectly before, but never PTSD. Is that really a common term?
Another of those propaganda articles.
Pretty sure even if Google doesn't support it explicitly, you'll have open source tools that can download + re-upload to Google.
I don't see how well educated, career oriented people having fewer children will meaningfully reduce the birth rate.

The data I've seen shows that poorer countries and families tend to have a higher birth rate than wealthier countries and families. To abstain from having children as a well educated, well off individual because you want the global population to drop is like not drinking a glass of water when you're thirsty because there's a drought, while farmers consume thousands of acre feet of water. It's not rational.
It has been available since iOS 13/macOS 10.15
If a service is monetized with ads, then the user is the product. We say that a lot but I think a lot of people still don't understand it, especially outside the tech sphere. "Engagement" isn't about building a better service; it's about serving more ads. "Driving user engagement" should be seen as synonymous with "psychologically manipulating users to use the service so they see ads".
> Humanity is basically a plague.

This succinctly states the premise behind a lot of progressive thinking.
One place where a (doubly, perhaps) linked list might be suitable is when you have a list that wants to provide the following features:

1. Multiple independent (not necessarily concurrent, but not coordinated) mutators.

2. Insertion and removal happen commonly and should be cheap.

3. Operations on the whole list typically happen in list order or close to it.

Bonus points if the size of the relevant data structures is often such that you blow out caches anyway (e.g each thing in your list is larger than a cache line) and hence there are no strong locality benefits from an array. Thought prefetching _can_ sometimes help with arrays there.

The above features _can_ be implemented on top of an array, but feature 1 means you can't use indices as long-lived handles to items, so you need either handles that get updated on mutations or some concept of identity and "find the current index of this thing" calls.

For context here, Gecko used to store the children of a DOM node as an array of pointers and switched to a doubly-linked list because the DOM does have the above properties and it was faster and mostly simpler to have a linked list in practice. There is a bit of complexity to make node.childNodes iteration (as opposed to .nextSibling/.previousSibling iteration) not be O(N^2), but overall the switch was a win.
I don’t think we currently have the battery technology to carry the base load for the United States.
If Apple opened up their APIs so that data could be imported by ANY authorized third party service, that would be fantastic. This post is about a behind-closed-doors deal with Google. Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see a reason to celebrate.
We are already go fucking deep in debt this barely makes a difference. I say go for it. let the people vote for whichever politian says they will give them the most free money.i give the usa less than 100 years.
Caching in this context means “no need to ask the server for a new copy of this within the cache lifetime”. no-cache then does what it says: You can store it if you like, but you need to check with the server before reusing it.

That might be a little counter-intuitive, but if you read the definitions of the words, it does make sense.
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I think there are far more effective venues for lobbying that posting pro-nuclear links to HN.

More likely, it's educated users who don't want to see the world melt by 2100.
Ad-free for me too in Norway. Probably due to UBlock Origin rather than the location though.
kudos, thanks for sharing, and keep up the good work!

p.s. looking forward to updates
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Very much so. It's something we're trying to push back on at https://sendmemo.app

But how do you measure success, we're a messaging app.
- Total messages sent
- Number of conversations.

Measuring any of this will mean we optimise keeping users on the platform.

We're trying active conversations, where to be active means only at least one message per week. We'd love to find a metric which went up as each individual user spent less time on memo. A "time to solution" metric
Yes, because iCloud and Google Photos shouldn't be considered the only piece to a backup solution.
I liked this article because it echoes some of the questions my non-technical friends ask me when I'm bullish on SpaceX and Starship.

There are huge unknowns here still. Perhaps the largest one is whether or not they will be able to solve the reentry heat shield problem. They don't really have enough fuel reserve to to decelerate, and their ceramic tiles (like most tiles) are brittle so you can't put them edge to edge without having the expansion/contraction of the underlying rocket damage them. That means a design that is both effective at shielding the rocket from the plasma of re-entry, while adjusting to different expansion coefficients.

There was a LOT of engineering work on the shuttle with this issue which lead to the very complex and difficult to refurbish system that the shuttle ended up with.

If you can refuel in orbit, not a problem as you could use propulsive descent all the way and keep your velocity low enough to avoid the heating issues. Not the case here.
> It's honestly so trivial and uninvasive of a regulatory matter it's ridiculous.

At what point do you become compelled to start transforming your web application into an open protocol?
Exactly, I got this idea from a talk about Lean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-mQ3HxgDE
Ulysses has an AppleScript export to Markdown files, that might work for you.
Why can’t you do that on a phone? I don’t live in a rural area and I’ve spoken to lots of doctors on the phone.
Author waited and also regrets. My point is that having kids early is much easier and cheaper, because it is at peak physical health.

Baby requires too much attention and prevents work in normal 9-5 job with fixed schedule and meetings. But it leaves enough "holes" in time table to work on something.
You know, it wasn't too long ago that people were unpublishing repos because they learned ICE was using their software. There was a strong drive to add a code of ethics to software, and an attempt to make software developers liable for how people use (or misuse) their software.

Opposition to this idea was very poorly received.

What makes this any different? Are we for using OSS to try and drive morality, or not?

(My answer is no to both accounts, for the record, and hasn't changed.)
Is nuclear power particularly an element of Japanese government prestige? I have to say when I think of Japan, nuclear power doesn’t spring to mind. Same goes for the military - is there any evidence that nuclear power is particularly entwined with the Japanese military?
I'm not going to pretend like I know the answer here, but my gut tells me that this is sort of like accepting the risk of smoking but not accepting the risk of sky-diving.

Smoking will almost certainly kill you in the long-run, but there is a rare chance that you might explode into a fine red mist moments after you jump if your chute doesn't unravel.

We worry about rare acute disaster, but ignore slow but certain disaster.
>driven by articles that are, perhaps, driven by lobbying

Or because people are waking up and realizing that climate change is gonna screw us faster than we can build the tech to prevent that and people are defecting toward nuclear which is relatively shovel ready compared to grid scale solar/wind and the storage they necessitate.
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verification is not always formal, though - it's often "fuzz testing" (I have done this).
The lobby tries everything to paint themselves as a clean energy source and alternative to renewable energy. Striking aggressively left and right. Sometimes even by the same lobbyist:

https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2020/09/16/statement-on-zion-...

https://www.facebook.com/shellenbergerMD/videos/my-interview...

I have the feeling that the gained pace now that nuclear is on the retreat in democratic countries.

https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.74261...
Gasoline pump prices are highly impacted by taxes and regulations so those don't tell us much about core inflation or deflation. Look at the spot price of crude oil on international markets. The price today is still well below previous peaks.
This virtual exploration had me revisiting each page multiple times! It was so good!

Some suggestions:
- Please consider adding an arrow to jump to adjacent rooms.
- Put a randomize button for calibrating the canvas with two contrasting random color schemes.
I quite like the idea of measuring "time to solution" somehow, particularly for more business- or productivity-oriented software. I guess that doesn't make sense if you're making a video game or a social network, though.
That's more of a crapshoot though. The vast majority of open source projects don't generate enough donations to sustain even a single developer. The vast majority of indie games don't experience the success of Dwarf Fortress.

A clear revenue model from the beginning makes it much more likely that you will be either A. long-term sustainable or B. call it quits before too much time is invested.
The data: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7800&id=6961

So about 29.9% say Taiwanese + Chinese and 2.6% say exclusively Chinese.
Well, if by "fiasco" we mean "a random person wrote some random observations about his computer and chrome on some random website" then, probably they don't really need to follow up on it...
"Posted from my ARM-based cell phone."

Or, hell, some ARM-based Mac, these days.
Totally agree.

I experienced a variation on that and learned pregnancy is not a vector space. My wife carried twins so when I asked about the "new kid == n weeks of leave" it was _not_ multiplicative. I only got n and not 2n. Boo.
At which point that philosophy has completely jumped the shark.

The premise that the universe is somehow "better" with no conscious life is just silly sophistry.
And a good chunk of the women entering the workforce then work for the state providing childcare for other women's children.
That's because they're running a 70 year old design.
You don't need back-up power for a CANDU reactor which are still old, but not one of the initial designs. You can't build nuclear weapons with a CANDU reactor though, so it's not really in high demand.
I am the child of two young parents who had to drop out of college to raise me and my siblings, eventually on my father's "lifestyle business" when working multiple jobs didn't balance the books, so I am well aware of the tradeoffs. In my experience though it's not a question of just adjusting your lifestyle for many people, it's a question of financial survival.

My parents have not come close to being financially recovered relative to later-parents a decade after we've all left the house. The delay you are talking about compounds to absolutely massive differences in my experience. Trying to multi-task both the other "life" check boxes and your work is going to have large hidden costs on work because of these compounding advantages.
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Your argument is that by evading jurisdiction, an act transforms from 'theft' to 'not theft'?
Unfortunately I just don't think it's a tenable position to assert that women (or men) should be able to take 2-4 years off of work and not be disadvantaged in their career for doing so.

I wholeheartedly support the idea that, as a society, we ought to value childcare/child-rearing and (perhaps monetarily) support those who perform this service. But I don't believe corporations ought to be the ones making a space for that.
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Yeah, it's not complicated. What's crazy is the way lots of engineers rationalize all this instead of just being empirical. I think software selects for authoritarian personalities to a degree, who are quite comfortable pretending to be avatars of rule of law (they are merely messagers who can also disavow merely being a messenger) rather than looking at what's actually happening in front of their eyes, like the adversarial nature of most Product teams in most mediocre orgs.
Hmm, I think at least people on HN care. I think most developers care. Did you see the recent post about the slow loading times in GTA 5?

Problems like that would go away with something like this, no? (if it is possible and there isn't a fault in my argument)
Australia's economy, and in particular Victoria's, was shattered by the longest and strictest lockdown globally.

It's nice if you got to keep your job, but many businesses and lives were destroyed. Especially blue collar businesses. The government offered the businesses that it literally forced out of business essentially zero compensation.

Are we supposed to be perpetually in and out of lockdowns for years until the rest of the world is vaccinated?

Economic downturn is directly linked to adverse health outcomes, not just including suicide but things like deferred treatments, depression and otherwise.
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Definitely not.

The average life expectancy in Africa today, the poorest continent, is over 60.

The average life expectancy of hunter gatherers was about 30, give or take 5 years.
> He also acknowledges in section 6 that it doesn't work for non-moveable types.

Actually these days it does. Copy/Move elision is mandated by the language in this case and no valid copy/move constructor is required. Similarly is no possible to return non-movable non-copyable types from functions which opens the possibility of interesting code patternes.