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Child support is intended to cover the expenses of the child - food, clothing, education, medical, etc. It's not meant to pay for the time spent by the custodial parent in actually doing the parenting, nor any sort of "opportunity cost" of not being otherwise engaged in a paying job.

Translated to HN-world: "I'm going work on a FOSS project full-time!" World: "Great; we'll pay for your server! You won't lose a dime!" Me: "Uh, what about the income from the job I gave up?"
> Does anyone honestly think the United States has institutions sound enough to safely manage nuclear power over multiple decades?

Seeing as they have done so for 70 years, yes. I don't just think it, I observe that it has safely managed nuclear power. All of the plants have run safely, save for Three Mile Island. And even in that case, safety measures worked and the secondary containment prevented large scale contamination.

I don't think it's infallible. But it's aware of its own fallibility and enforces measures like secondary containment.
>Lets You
Ye, no. I still spit on them.
Codes of Ethics and licenses are somewhat orthogonal.

There are various engineering codes of ethics. Without looking, I think both the ACM and IEEE have them. I'd observe though that doesn't keep engineers from working on nuclear weapons for example. Which one may or may not agree with.

In general, I don't think the idea of ethical licenses which was at least a somewhat hot topic in certain circles a while back really was a popular idea overall. And, in any case, I haven't heard it come up for a while.
All of the things you listed are solvable problems, with hundreds of thousands of people working tirelessly to solve them. Fear porn about the impending collapse of everything helps no one, and is the reason why that the 9 year old is having an existential crisis about polar bears at all.

Should we worry about these things? Absolutely! But the incessant hysteria is counter productive. Us ceasing having children in a form of civilizational suicide is not a solution.
I am a female founder, and I think most people (not just women) have better options than going down the VC path.
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Is there any evidence that mental health is worse than for previous generations?

I don't think so. But people do seem more fragile these days.

Still, even if it isn't worse, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do something about it.
Quite a few would lose their jobs if NOT for caffeine, I'd wager.
If you're interested, Wye comes from the name of the river, which means either to wander, or crooked hills. Either seem relevant given the strange way that the river wye goes from wide, slow meandering bends across floodplains into rapids through steep crooked valleys (as opposed to most rivers that start in mountains and end in floodplains.)

Monmouth is at the mouth of the river Monnow, a tributary of the Wye.
No one said it was a problem, yikes. I regret bringing this up.
Commoners!? Wow, just wow. You sound like exactly the kind of hedge fund snob wsb is taking down.
Just upgrade the SSD
Sure. So would divine intervention. Regulation is more realistic.
Deflecting reality is not going to make it less real.

You exist because your parents make babies. All these so called people that claim they don’t want kids exist, because their parents make babies. Men and women make babies, because it is core biological drive in reality. No amount of rationalization will change reality.

Reality will bite people on their butt, one way or another. Biological drive will overcome any belief or thoughts, when circumstances become better for people.
And why are we comparing to fossil fuel plants as opposed to other renewable sources which are cheaper, safer, and less polluting than nuclear?

The problem for nuclear is that if you are making a pollution based safety argument for it, the obvious question is why not spend the money you would on nuclear in more cost effective and equally green or greener alternatives (ones which lack a doomsday scenario as a bonus).

In reality, nuclear sucks up a lot of green capital for 8-10 years at a minimum, under delivers, if it delivers at all, and does so at an extremely high price.

There are new nuclear technologies that have the potential to be cost competitive with other renewables, but they aren’t production ready yet. Why not make these arguments when those technologies are ready.
Its a hard resource-intensive problem to dogfood your own OSS at a company as large and diverse as Google. But hard problems haven't stopped Google in the past.

What you're trying to create is the same spark in your users as PHP and React did to the web. The "oh wow I could do...." that while technically possible before the product existed, is completely re-framed by relatively minor improvements to the DX. You want to inspire an entire generation that may have passed on mobile and cross platform app development due to the verbosity and pitfalls of the iOS and Android ecosystems.

I think a killer app example is the ticket to do this. It may not be the only way, you could blow a huge marketing budget, you could convince another large tech company to do it, but doing it yourself is probably the quickest (or only way) to get it done.
Hydro is great at producing low carbon energy but:

- completely destroys ecosystems and communities around it

- Can create international water disputes that threaten war (look at Ethiopia, Turkey, Tibet)

- Creates a ticking time bomb much worse then nuclear if not properly maintained

That said, situationally I think Hydro is still one of our better options.
Alphabet’s moonshot lab is working on a device to give people superhuman hearing
It’s not. This is on their website linked from the GitHub profile:

> Katharos Technology is a team that wants to make video games and other content and technology to the glory of God.
>>why doesn't make it to the top of the lists more often?

Modern thinking on hydro is changing. It can be good, but many implementations are disturbing. If you wipe out a forest then you aren't carbon neutral. And all those rotting logs under the water release gasses that are worse can CO2. So while it may be a great idea in the American southwest, it might not be a great idea to flood a rain forest in British Columbia.
Only thing I can right now is pay attention to things like this in the hopes that when/if I can finally get a company off the ground that I can help to implement things like this, and hope/encourage it to pave the way for things the way that Ford's early factories paved the way for the weekend.

I think we can make the world better, it's within our reach if only a few courageous executives would take that initial hit in immediate productivity in the interest of long term sustainability.
>they don't even compute anything

You mean you're an eliminativist?
Meh. Evolution is a useful tool, no doubt. But it's just a way to search a landscape. There's nothing inherent in evolution that guarantees that it will find all, or even "the best" solutions that can exist in that landscape. I mean, did evolution find turbo-prop engine powered aircraft, or helicopters, or jet aircraft, etc., etc. yadda yadda?

This sounds to me like a classic non-sequitur to me, unless somebody has established that the way biological intelligence works is the only way intelligence could possibly work. And that premise is directly contradicted by all of the intelligent behavior (ignoring the notion of "real intelligence" for the moment since that term is undefined) that has been demonstrated by artificial intelligence programs running on digital computers over the years.

Of course, as the old saying about AI goes "Once it works, it isn't consider artificial intelligence anymore." :-(
Take Gmail as an example. They provided nice way of allowing applications to access your mailbox. Then we got data mining apps which started using this for malicious purposes (with user consent). Now the API is only available for developers willing to go through security audit ($15k-75k).

10 years ago Facebook provided a pretty nice set of APIs and way to grant access to your data (for example photos, messages, friend lists) for 3rd party apps. What we got was 1000 quiz apps using these for data mining - with user consent.

Android is another example. Initially Google put little restrictions for data applications could access - with permission from user. We all know what happened.

I’m not saying we should stop trying to tear down the walled gardens, but this is not trivial problem to solve. Some users might be even better off with their data locked in the garden managed by Apple, Google or Facebook.
> Then look at all the mental health problems young people are having these days - bullying, depression, suicide etc. and I would say a big part of that is influenced by social media.

Guess who has suffered through most of those, without any kind of social media, outside of HN :)

Edit: And suffered before getting on HN. Seems relevant to the situation.
Indeed. We make some 25x what my parents did, but with them I grew up in a property with a wonderfully large house and many acres of land. Yet here I am stuck in tiny house with no yard to speak of and couldn't possibly afford anything more given current cost of housing and land.
I think it depends ultimately on the target audience of tools like this. If the target audience are people with a steady income flow that can bounce back from losses, then mistakes along the way are useful long-term. On the other hand, if the target audience is made up mostly of people who don't have the luxury of bouncing back, then those mistakes will be devastating.

It's definitely a fine balance for a product like this. You want to make investing feel "easy" but not so easy that it seems like all it takes to make money is to read a few bite-sized tidbits about a company, thereby increasing the risk-taking behavior.
Do they? I can't really recall an instance of catastrophic airplane failure over the last decade outside of 737 MAX certification / regulatory capture issues

I also think the amount of airplanes that exist is higher than the amount of nuclear reactors we'd need for it to be a strong power source, and I also suspect that airplanes face slightly more volatile conditions
Yeah a trusted 3rd party guide that calls out the security properties of the different L2 & other scaling approaches would be really good. I'm also concerned about how so many approaches rely on security though making a ton of on chain tx disputing any bad actor. Seems like a DoS vector
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1:20 is detectable in everyday life. If you know more than around 20 young men the realities of balance equations will have kicked in.
In the US, specifying the state seems to serve the same purpose of avoiding confusion. "Springfield, MA" and "Springfield, IL", as opposed to "Springfield-upon-Connecticut" and "Springfield-on-the-Lake".
Yes, I agree. I don’t see how that ties to the original argument in the thread, though. Presumably a full time parent with a spouse who can provide for both parent and child and who gave up a taxable wage to be a caregiver already had room and board. The room and board comment seems irrelevant to the argument given the context of the preceding comments around forfeiting a taxable wage for the full time job of parenthood.
This reminds me of the original JSON parse/stringify license, which stated

> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil

This sounds all good and well, and in theory is great, but in practice how does this work? Who defines what is "Good", and what is "Evil".

Admittedly this license is much more targeted but there are a few ambiguous ones:

> sexually suggestive or explicit images, artwork, or any other media

the understanding of what is explicit varies wildly between different cultures across the world; which understanding is applicable here? Can an art gallery/auction house that sells lots of portraits use this software? Does it depend where the art gallery is located geographically (and what if it has many sites around the world)?

> mass surveillance and/or stealing of private information

What counts as surveillance? For example, can I use my software to track where you as a user go? I guess not. But then what if I then say it's for a "rent a bike" service, that has a partnership with the local city, which uses that data to figure out where to build cyclepaths?

I'm not saying that the objectives the license is trying to achieve aren't worthy goals (and perhaps the example use cases I gave have nothing to do with the project). I just think that the practical situation ends up being more complicated in the end than writers of the license intend.
I think the idea is that it would grow the economy and overall tax revenue. Struggling with housing and joblessness is a great way to avoid paying tax - if you’ve got nothing you pay nothing. For people who don’t need the money, it just flows into their taxes, and their purchases. In addition the insane amounts spent on policing, and other downstream costs of poverty would help recoup.

But the final argument for something like this is: do you want to thrive while someone else starves? Would it not be worth it to you to thrive a small amount less in order to ensure that nobody is starving?
In this video an excavator operator explains the use of a very simple laser grading system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sklWQQGnC4o

And of course there are much more sophisticated systems available including automated control of the blade. Pretty much standard equipment on any construction project today.
U.S. traffic deaths rose in 2020 despite significant decline in road travel
Fukushima evacuation was an idiotic knee-jerk that killed more people than the alternative of not doing it.
Stallman put it best many years ago:

>I've stated some of my views about other political issues, about activities that are or aren't unjust. Your views might differ, and that's precisely the point. If we accepted programs with usage restrictions as part of a free operating system such as GNU, people would come up with lots of different usage restrictions. There would be programs banned for use in meat processing, programs banned only for pigs, programs banned only for cows, and programs limited to kosher foods. Someone who hates spinach might write a program allowing use for processing any vegetable except spinach, while a Popeye fan might allow use only for spinach. There would be music programs allowed only for rap music, and others allowed only for classical music.

>The result would be a system that you could not count on for any purpose. For each task you wish to do, you'd have to check lots of licenses to see which parts of your system are off limits for that task.

>How would users respond to that? I think most of them would use proprietary systems. Allowing any usage restrictions whatsoever in free software would mainly push users towards nonfree software. Trying to stop users from doing something through usage restrictions in free software is as ineffective as pushing on an object through a long, soft, straight piece of spaghetti.

His words are just as valid about this license as they are about the various "ethical open source" licenses that have proliferated in recent years, whether they be of the "don't let Amazon host our code" variety or the "totally not a thinly veiled vehicle for injecting social justice politics into software" sort.
Didn't bill gates fund this traveling wave reactor that has this property? I checked Wikipedia but it doesn't say either way. I don't remember for sure but I think this is a thing now, just nobody wants him to build it because brrr scary nuclear let's rather stop advancement of the field.
I have! I don’t use PyQt professionally so never had to worry about the license too much. Also for the most part, PySide should work just fine with the projects in the book :)
I think the general consensus (from my interactions) is that a local minima requires the gradient to vanish. When you have many dimensions, it's unlikely that they are all 0. Coupled with modern optimization methods (primarily momentum), this encourages the result to be in a shallow valley as opposed to a spiky minima. The leap of faith is equating shallow=general and spiky=overfitted.
Time-box it = Same amount of work in less time
> it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids

Are you suggesting that the father should pay the mother a salary for raising the kids? (Or same thing with the sexes reversed if it's the father raising the kid)

Isn't that just a more formal arrangement of a stay-at-home mother/father? The main difference would be: more financial independence to the stay-at-home party, which is good in my book, but I'm not sure if that's what you're suggesting.
Whenever anyone brings the CO2 cost of blockchain on HackerNews the comment section becomes a mental gymnastics competition filled with techbro clones of Ben Shapiro.
Q&A with a person who does not have an internal monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69YSh-cFXY
Octoversary – eight years of optimizing for developer happiness
Especially at startups where you don't know if they were ever truly vetted
> Join the military, kill people etc

I don't think we should push women into these job, but I don't think we should push men into those jobs either.

> it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids

Actually, my kid's day-care provider does exactly this! In a few years, he'll have teachers doing the same.

Valuing work is complicated. Personally, I'd be happy to be a stay-at-home parent if finances made that easy, even if seemed a little thankless. It's not like I feel that the webshit I build all day long is really valuable.

If someone feels undervalued as a stay-at-home parent, it's probably because they feel stuck in that job, either because of lack of education, lack of available child care, or otherwise lack of jobs.
I agree! The economic effects of Brexit are difficult or impossible to measure, so they're not worth worrying about. On the whole, Brexit was good for British people because it gave them a feeling of action and momentum, like they had a real "hand in history." Britain has never been as energized and optimistic as it has been post-Brexit.

In the same way, I bristle at the suggestion that I'm not rational enough to resist the "addiction" of push messaging. We all know what the word "addiction" actually means. This is not addiction, this is just hokey phooey using fake-medical language to push a liberal agenda of extra regulation.

Every time I get a notification from Twitter or Facebook, my day gets a little brighter. When LinkedIn tells me that someone is looking at my profile, that means someone cares, and that's a wonderful thing to know.
In my opinion Germany's experience denuclearizing (and replacing it with renewables and lignite coal) has been some of the strongest evidence I've seen in favor of nuclear energy.
Attractive men and women will find each other and make babies, as they have done for thousands of years.

Instagram, Raya, Tinder make it much easier for attractive people to find each other efficiently.
Angry Cat Attacks Pilot Forcing Boeing 737 Diversion
Or used in sexually suggestive content, or used in any way to limit workers, or used for violence (except for public good) or...
> Three of my close friends are women in the construction industry

anecdotes aside

Women working in construction numbered 1.5 percent of the entire U.S. workforce

they also earn only 80℅ of the men's pay on average.

> and my uncle is a nurse.

and so was my father, for 42 years. There are cultural differences in the World, as a low payd job there is less incentive for men in USA, only 13% of nurse are men, in Italy about 30% of them is a man.

But in Italy 80% of teachers up to high school are women, for example, still today.

Because traditionally education is a women's role.

We think (or thought) they do it better.
The problem is compounded when you think about the types of people who are missing their fertility window. We’re talking about some of the smartest and most ambitious women in the world. It’s a huge loss of our country if we can’t create an environment that allows them to create families and offspring. What a shame.
Sure, all of which are problems which we've since fixed. But the core point is that there wasn't a major release of radiation like Chernobyl, and the reason why is because there were a regulator-imposed safeguard in place: the containment building.

There were a lot of things that went wrong in 3MI. Many of the lessons learned from that were incorporated into future designs. But one thing that went very right was that there was defense in depth, so that a N different things would have to go wrong to create a nuclear disaster. And in this case the number of failures was less than N. That's an engineering and regulatory success story.
Strange how "broadband" and "high speed internet" can have a different meaning in various parts of the country. For ex: a 10 mbps dsl line is considered "high speed" in New Hampshire.
It's like we're rediscovering morality from first principles.

"Haha, look at those old fashioned religions and their quaint religious texts. How shocking that someone would not know how to behave if it weren't for some words on a page. Anyways, I've just submitted a pull request to update the terms on our code of ethics that all users are bound to adhere to. It's very important to use the software to advance social causes!"
Well, let’s get to 30-40% solar/wind before we start worrrying about grids that cannot accept majority renewable.

And guess what, at that point maybe some of the newer, safer, and cheaper nuclear designs would have been proven so the nuclear plays we build then for the next few decades are better than the ones we would build right now.
"Why cant we all live off solar and wind? Why must you have nuclear?"

Is large scale and cost competitive energy storage a solved problem?
> The funding is going to a mix of cable, fiber, and fixed wireless providers, plus SpaceX's Starlink satellite network.

I think cable providers should be left out. They were already gifted many billions of dollars in the past for this same basic purpose but they pocketed the money. They can just use the free money they've already been given. Instead, the funding should go to existing munipical fiber ISPs to expand their coverage. Give money to people with a proven track record of doing what you want, not people with a proven track record of keeping the money for themselves.

I'm on municipal fiber and it's amazing.
You have describe a situation where you and your wife decided on priorities in your life and acted accordingly. You both decided that personal career goals were secondary to raising your kids. It's a mystery to me why this is not seen as normal. Everything involves trade-offs. It's not possible to be present, involved parents and spend 60-80 hours a week on a career. Choose one or the other, and don't complain about how unfair it is.
You'd probably enjoy "St Andrew by the Wardrobe" then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe
I wonder how the inclusion of graph features in Postgres 14 will affect this project.
Thank you very much for the answer!

Could you elaborate on the last (now first, after edit) point you made? Sorry if the question is naive, I don't know much about this topic. Why can't you do that?
just a random guess and hypothesis with absolutely no basis besides this article. I think they may be able to 'sync' up transmitters which are then used to encode and decode based on time and space. Like time-sensitive antennas which adds another means of encoding....???