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> Have them early if possible.

Children raising children has got to be one of the biggest jokes that nature plays on us.
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> Developed societies seem to be shifting into a more "selfish" paradigm, where the question of the day is "what can this situation really do for me?"

I think that's not well supported as the source of the problem, even to the extent it may arguably be true: developed societies tend to have adopted strong social support mechanism, so that having lots of kids so that you have a chance that someone will be willing to support you in your old age is no longer necessary. That's also why some very rich countries are seeing less of the dropoff in natural population growth for their level of development; they also happen to be the ones with weaker social support systems.
I have highlighted and marked books and I tended to buy the cheapest copies possible (or buy used books) as I was quite tight on money when I was at university.

What I discovered was that I could trace my understanding and my development towards concepts through the times when I returned to a book that I already had worked with before. My older notes and highlights were often the starting point but with my then current understanding I built on them, contradicted them in parts and sometimes laughed about my former ideas. It made me more humble towards knowledge generation.

To me it were a blessing to have different layers of marks, notes & highlights.
> Macron moved down the compulsory school age start from 6 (primary school) down to 3 (kindergarten).

There’s a bit more to the story than you may think here... you also aren’t allowed to be homeschooled. It’s illegal. They ban religious practices for minors (wearing hijabs, for instance).

Some people are took that as directed at Muslim community —
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/europe/france-passes-anti-r...

Also giving you children to the state to be taught is somewhat disturbing.

EDIT: By deferring to others to teach your children, they won’t learn your culture, traditions and will (statistically) be worse off than if you teach them yourself.

My wife and I settled on making less money (still more than enough), but raising our kids ourselves. It’s hard, but easily the most rewarding thing. Plus our kids are WAY ahead in most areas. Imagine, your children are learning from other children all day at school... is that better than learning from adults all day? No.

When they get older we will probably consider a “pod” or one teacher for 6-8 kids with a family we know. You can pay the teacher far more and the parents can be more involved (we can effectively dictate the curriculum). I’m also planning on having my kids help me with work by 8-10. They can learn to participate and be productive far earlier.
I think you may find far fewer people than you expect to be fully anti-immigrant. I'm 100% pro immigration, and 100% anti illegal-immigration, and that has caused me to be branded as "anti-immigrant" a number of times(only online, where nuance doesn't exist)
> Most jobs and careers just aren't possible to do with halved working hours even if it was paid well.

Nah. That’s what people used to say abou WFH too. All this is purely due to capricious employers and institutions, not because of some natural law. If companies had their way, we’d be working 80h/week. That’s true for both low paying and high paying jobs.
If it does like you it’ll promptly scratch and bite you for deigning to touch its belly for a single millisecond too long.
Thank you for saying this. I fully agree.

In order to keep everyone fed and happy, and sustainable, we need fewer everyones.
> See how this is makes everything much more complicated?

Has this stuff been discussed elsewhere so far, e.g. on some linux kernel dev list? I think you've made a good case for not trying to support per-process page size right away, but many of these issues are not entirely new; they came up in some form as part of the transparent-huge-pages feature. It turns out that some hardware support already requires the kernel to understand "higher-order" mappings of contiguous physical pages, and "transparent huge pages" could leverage that support.
It is more than just a click bait, to me it reads as a deliberate attempt to draw a conclusion that a decreased population size in certain countries is linked to biological fertility.

Really it is but a step away from reading like some Alex Jones crazy talking and selling bone broth.
Writing good quality content is good enough SEO on its own. People don't really write to please Google anymore, and prefer to get their traffic from social media platforms & newsletters instead. The problem with SEO is it forces you to game search algorithms, and before you know it you're buying back links off Fiverr and doing keyword stuffing. Just consistently churn out high quality content that is structured well, and has tags & categories for it, then syndicate out to social media, and you're golden.
We can likely agree that venting is not good. Flaring is better, though the combustion can be incomplete (windy days). Combustion in a generator is much more complete, so this is a significant pollution reduction. It is moving in the right direction.
I know X11 WMs have had all sorts of fancy features for decades, but I've never seen any particular benefit from them personally.

The Mac desktop works extremely well when used more or less as intended for the vast majority of Mac users (ie, on a laptop): with a multi-touch trackpad, flicking rapidly between virtual desktops, and flicking up to see everything at once.
> but on my Mac Mini, the battery life is dismal.

Possible typo? The Mac Mini does not have a battery.
> He can otherwise shut up about compulsive kindgarten at 3 rather than 6, because that is subversion of parental authority.

How does replacing one form of authoritarianism with another, perhaps preferable to some, form of authoritarianism make things better?

> More shitty government programs or opportunities for bad and dishonest people to indoctrinate the young from earlier ages, particularly now that some bureaucrats would want to use their responsibilities as if they constitute the power to subvert parental involvement, are a huge no from me.

As opposed to shitty private sector programs run by profiteers?

> We spent too much already and these politicians only gave us inflation.

What does this have to do with anything?
Instagram. I fee like such a dweeb using a platform that will tell me "Whoops, suspicious activity" when I use the correct username/password. Like how dare you think I want to use this dumb shit so bad I'm willing to tolerate a spit in my face.
The article fails to explain that, but round aperture is equivalent to infinitely many straight blades (and thus rays), so there is a light halo instead of distinct rays.
That's why the battery life is so dismal.
‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics (2019)
Explanation != justification. And a partial explanation at best.
A country having high GDP or personal income doesn't mean that things like housing, healthcare, childcare, or education are more affordable. For things like that where the buyer tends to have low leverage in the transaction costs tend to climb with ability to pay. In countries with strong lending infrastructure that goes past the limits of cash and into what buyers can borrow. This decomposes to local communities too, in my city incomes are high relative to most of the US but cost of labor and all of the above services are also expensive. Median household income isn't enough to afford a 3 bedroom place to live so you can imagine that's causing some problems.
Can you stop spamming getreviewed.org, please?
This is the WPA. It worked pretty well. You have my vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
The two sentences right after that explain why. They have also gone back on everything they have agreed to in previous negotiations. Their reason for being upset was one of those things they agreed was ok a long time ago.

They shouldn't be let to have demands over another country. This is where the west is failing
Seems related to IrDA, only using current hardware on consumer end (though phones might've had IrDA in the past): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_Data_Association#Rece...

> IrDA was popular on PDAs, laptops and some desktops from the late 1990s through the early 2000s. However, it has been displaced by other wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, favored because they don't need a direct line of sight and can therefore support hardware like mice and keyboards. It is still used in some environments where interference makes radio-based wireless technologies unusable.

> An attempt was made to revive IrDA around 2005[3] with IrSimple protocols by providing sub-1-second transfers of pictures between cell phones, printers, and display devices. IrDA hardware was still less expensive and didn't share the same security problems encountered with wireless technologies such as Bluetooth. For example, some Pentax DSLRs (K-x, K-r) incorporated IrSimple for image transfer and gaming.[4]
Wondering this myself. I remember reading ( not too long ago ) that europeans lived longer and had better mental health because they napped more than americans. Wasn't it even encouraged to take naps at work for better mental function.
say it as it is: standardization of the education for the "undesirables" so they hopefully get in line with the program.
Paywalled... I wonder if there is a way to avoid such posts.
The Listening Society by Hanzi Freinacht. It taught me that there is indeed a direction for society to go beyond PostModernism, that is constructive and nuanced. Also explained why it is so rare for people to move into such a stage of development.

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Showed all of the archaeological evidence for vast time periods where alternate governance models were put into practice, and how the history of progress that we are given is not the whole story. Useful for seeing that we are in a local minim, and can evolve into something better.

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe. Goes through the diaries and historical evidence of the early interactions with Australia's Aboriginals. Shows how over time their agricultural practices, towns and living environments were destroyed and replaced with a narrative that they were backwards and not using the land. Good example of how sustainable practices can look like unused natural spaces, and thus dismissed as poor uses of space.
Birth rates have been declining in the West since the late 1950s/early 1960s. Of course it won't carry on forever, because there is a point where you must have children in order to survive. And survive is what people do best.
Fertility is declining rapidly across Africa:

https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/dramatic-drop-fertility-acr...
Yes, but it has its own sunshade, with all the complexity and SPOFs it entails. The point is that at L2 it only needs a relatively small sunshield to block the three way too bright things in the sky, without having to move a lot to keep them shielded. On the lunar far side, it would have to block one whole hemisphere of the sky (ie. the lunar surface) PLUS the sun, which moves in the sky, PLUS insulate the structure from conducting heat from the surface. Oh, and radio doesn't work too well through 3000 km of rock so you'd need a relay satellite system just to communicate with Earth. And you'd need a non-solar source of power for the 14-day lunar night.

But building an infrared telescope in one of the permanently shaded polar craters? That just might make sense at some point, but likely not we have robust crewed infrastructure in place. The polar areas are very attractive from a crewed mission perspective as well, because we now know there are sizeable amounts of water ice there and at the same time on the crater rims you can get continuous sunlight for solar panels.
These demographic figures - both their severity and their broad, global reach - are why I believe deflation and not inflation is what we should expect from our economies.

I don't doubt that in the near term all manner of inflationary paroxysms will be employed in a desperate attempt to stave off this inevitable result ... but the big picture, globally, is deflation.
Starting with whom?
I don't think the requirements of working, fit for purpose hardware, updated semi-annually is significant burden for a technology company, post 2010. In fact it is about the minimum I'd ask for. They did make this bar with iphone, probably ipad for example.
> "(To be clear: I don't think that the risk of war ends with the deaths of these particular generations of leaders. But I do think we're seeing a particularly outmoded approach to war at the moment.)"

It will still be older people calling the shots, since they have had time to accumulate power and rise in the ranks, but the risk of war increases with the elders of future generations because they have no direct experience or cultural memory of its horrors; "Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it."
Though, I remember having a conversation with some classmates in college, and the only one that said they enjoyed their childhood was the one who had been "outsourced". The rest of us just remembered being mostly bored.
This a million times. But, the reason is clear: my demographic is terrified of being a minority. The fear of this is being stoked by Fox News and other similar media outlets. Especially in the US, the fear of reprisals from past bad deeds (slavery and Jim Crow laws) are the immediate reasons.
I once had a high trust (love) team. We kicked ass. Together. I miss it every day. Everything since has tasted like ash. I've been trying to get back to that happy place ever since. Sadly, I eventually stopped talking about trust (in the workplace) IRL; people don't much like crazy talk or zealots.
Use docker for local development (will protect files outside the project), version the project with git (will mitigate the damage if you mount the source folder as a docker volume) and make sure the .git folder does not end up in the container file system.
I read somewhere that charging a phone fully, and then letting the battery die down to zero, then recharging helps keep the battery alive longer than constantly keeping it at 100%. Keeping it permanently charged kills the battery quicker apparently.
They can dress it up however they want, but we used to have a world where women would stay home with children and teach them life skills and a near army of moms available to keep an eye on neighborhoods. Now we have both parents working full time and side hustles while their kids play Roblox.

We have so many problems and a system (in the US) that just seems bought and paid. I’m starting to think my time would be better spent trying to raise a small army than spend time fighting this system from the inside.
It’ll be back later today. Sorry for the downtime!
Whatever verbal logic is given to justify compulsory earlier access it will be just talk until it's actually proven that it has the effect of increasing the birthrate.

It may have the opposite effect and then we'll come up with a different verbal logic to justify why it decreased the birth rate.

Verbal logic was given to justify the war against poverty in the sixties and sixty years and trillions of dollars later USA has a higher poverty rate than then. I'm not saying it was a bad idea, just that forecasters were wrong en masse.

So this may work or not, but honestly nobody knows, and those giving verbal logic for why it will succeed are purely speculating.
You don’t. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, of course. My point was that GPs solution might not be enough, not that it was unviable. I tried to demonstrate that by showing that in the worst case it could potentially backfire, not that it necessarily will. I was painting in pretty broad strokes though, mostly because I don’t have any better ideas, so I could see how it just comes across as FUD.
Having kids is the "selfish" thing to do, especially in this thread. The economy and country will suffer, so bringing more sentient without their consent. These kids already have jobs ready for them, to fix things that their ancestors screwed up and now have a much bigger older population.

The rich and famous celebrities are asking to have more kids because they will need these cells to run their factory and sell product services. Economy needs to grow every year only for them.

Climate crisis also going to be extremely cruel to all species and these kids have to suffer the consequences of all the previous humans. Bringing them here is way too selfish. Even IPCC report was watered down.

https://scientistrebellion.com/we-leaked-the-upcoming-ipcc-r...

Additionally life is hard, cruel to many.

It's always others' needs. There might be many reasons to have kids but none of them is for the benefit of the potential kid.
Typical data center workloads need great communications (bandwidth, latency, redundancy) and very high power uptime, which is challenging to achieve at remote sites. Some IT workloads with less stringent communication needs are better for remote data centers.
Feng and English rides around with me in a messenger bag, but I derive joy from reading other translations, too. It feels like kind of a living document, with everyone viewing the underlying ideas from their own perspectives.
While I agree we could live more simply, I feel you'd need a lot more to justify your assertions. The fact is we have access to a lot more luxuries than we did in the past. Are they necessary? No by definition. Are they even worth it? Very debatable. But to act like our lives have not changed at all except for house prices going up is dishonest.
Who are they beautiful for, if there's no people to appreciate it?
There's hyperbole and then there's the idea that 7,000 deaths - or even 10 times that amount - is going to have any permanent effect on a population of 145,000,000 people. There are 785,000 18 year old males alone in Russia. There are 748,000 17 year olds. They could lose all the 18 year olds and replace them next year.

I understand there is a real discussion to be had about population growth and Russia as a whole. But the basic premise is a bit exaggerated.
It means not taking individual verses out of context and using only the rest of the Bible to provide that context such as who the Bible writer was writing to, in what circumstance, even in what time of year if it was a farming analogy, or what other Bible writers say on the same subject. That's only scratching the surface, but hopefully gives you an idea what I meant.
Imagine if you live in a autocrat country.

You want to protest something and yet not get shot.

Oh that is the color of uniforms we had left...

Its not a lie and does not support any direct protest of anything

And yet...it is the colors of Ukraine's flag.
Maybe op and the one person who still uses flickr should start a support group
In their eyes, you’re intervening in the life and health of the baby based on a difference of opinion (you don’t want a baby).
It’s also weird that the article starts with something caused by this trend which is either generally, or universally, considered good - fewer wars - and then, without comment or explanation (other than a throwaway line about the sound of children), postulates the trend is bad. The example he opens the article with (!) implies there’s some upside.

EDIT: I can name two - less war and a damper on climate change, especially if pausing to figure out solutions with a lower global population will lead to a larger, permanent, global “carrying capacity” later.
I'm only getting a blank background on Firefox, both Android and desktop.

Edge too, is the service just down?
You're going to be asked many of those questions anyway, at least in this format it's a no-time-pressure, no-public-performance way. That's the best silver lining I can find.

It's just plain too many questions though. Maybe they intend for you to only answer some of them, the ones you have interesting answers for? Or maybe they _should_ intend that if they don't.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I read this as part of course but it really stuck with me.
If one enjoys Wendover videos, there was a recent one about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggUduBmvQ_4
It seems like the unborn.
Biden ?

he is from there and has been a leader in Gov for decades.
Ask HN: How do you handle the thought of being late to the party?
I have been learning/using technologies like Go, Docker, etc. They all been now around almost 10 years. I feel that may be I am late to the party. How do you overcome that thought? Or in fact use that as an opportunity?

I get this idiom from investing that the best day was 20 years ago and the next best day is today. Wondering are there any good blog or books around this topic?

Thanks.
I got a Compsci degree and never had to take calculus. My college offered an alternative track that required financial accounting and statistics. I now work at a prestigious well-known tech company as an engineer. I probably would have dropped out if I had to take calculus; I spent 2 years in remedial math courses leading up to starting my undergrad.
The solution isn't to breed and then not (be able to) care for the own offspring (emotionally), because of low wages and an idiotic system.

If you decide to have children, care for them.

I hate this "the society as a whole has to care for the children" attitude and putting them in someone else's care as soon as possible.

Note that I do not hate children, nor parents and I don't mind spending money on education and care for children.

I just think the solution should be to work less and be able to live a meaningful life.

Later in life, children should care for their elderly parents.

This system is far superior to the "go die in a house full of old people" approach.

Mind again: I am not talking about taking care of someone with special needs like Alzheimer's etc.