skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To even ask the question is to misunderstand what drives most people to have kids. The reason they do it is the same reason they do anything: because they feel the need to. I won't have kids because I look at the pros and cons and the idea simply doesn't outweigh the cons. Some people are attached to things like the idea of passing on their genes, having someone to care for, having someone to care for them in their old age, not being lonely, giving their life purpose. If you don't care about those things then having children loses a lot of value.

Unfortunately you're seeing in this thread a reflection of how the world reacts to people who don't want kids. People are incredibly shameless about how intolerant they are towards the idea and shameless in how they stigmatize not having kids: for example saying "you're not ready to be a parent", assuming that being a parent is something that should even be done in the first place, rather than sincerely discussing whether or not being a parent is best for a particular person
I blame the laptop lens
How does telling someone that words don't hurt make words not hurt? I can't make knives not hurt simply by saying so.
Yep, Mithril's redraw system is definitely one of its strengths since there is no plumbing necessary. You're free to do whatever you want without any weird adapter libraries. You can build some decently robust state containers without dependencies or Mithril-specific code[1].

[1] https://mithril-by-examples.js.org/examples/tweeter-box/
Very nice! Sorry for my inexperience but how would you proceed as a beginner to build one of these projects?

I understand you can buy the components from Digikey but you have to print a PCB with those components, right?

So it's the PCB printer that should have access to the components, no?
TaleSpin was inspired by old adventure movies. The whole tiki-bar culture, scruffy cargo pilot thing was a vibe back then.

Transformers has a much weirder cycle. They were a collection of different transforming toy lines from Japan that U.S. companies wanted to sell to children here. They divvied them up based on criteria: road vehicles largely became good guys, weapons and planes largely became bad guys. They wrote some comics around a concept of a giant war, made some animated films as a sort of pilot, and went to town.

Jetfire (IIRC) is actually a Macross figure.

Gundam is Gundam. I think that's just a Japanese series that is also popular in the U.S.
Circa 1985 I worked with a guy who told me that "It takes two 'attaboys' to make up for one 'dumb shit'".
I don't really care enough to stop people suffering any further.

Works for me. Ticket closed :)
Isn't this a dupe? Or I'm mixing channels and got it some other way before.
Given the change in market dynamics around video streaming, I think there are going to be a decent number of projects like this, that no matter how good they are, stand no chance of being positive ROI anymore (if they ever were). I think a really interesting angle on this is what does Amazon do in the few years after the series comes out. They've sunk so much money into the rights for this, and it is a valuable property, but it's going to be impossible to spend similar budgets on anything new. I wonder if we're going to see a massively expensive season 1 and then simply nothing because they don't want to do a season 2 with 1/5th of the budget.
> Imagine spending a lot of time and money picking out the best possible gear for a hobby before actually starting the hobby.

Are you kidding me that's my favorite part!
Ubiquiti has the UAP-IW-HD, in-wall mounted four port POE/wireless AP that uses a standard mounting box. I replaced my old cable TV outlets with them in a couple of rooms and they work great.
Back in the great AWS outage of last December, there were people who literally couldn't turn their lights on. Things like that make me want to tear every network cable out of my walls. I thought the point of all this technology was to put me in control, not sacrifice it to some computing proto-monopoly.
The mass of the massive gauge bosons, the W and Z bosons.

Edit: there is an excellent in-depth (but math-light) explanation about the Higgs mechanism by Leonard Susskind. I highly recommend it if you are interested, it lasts about 1h (plus some Q&A) and is extremely approachable, while being presented by an established authority in the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY
Well, the oliphaunts might be a bit happier, unless that was The Hobbit (I haven't read these for about 20 years).

But yeah, it'd be pretty weird if a TV adaptation _was_ word-for-word the same as the book, honestly. That's virtually never done, and rarely ends well when it is.
This article focuses on Home Assistant, but I think it's worth noting that the HomeKit ecosystem is default-local as well.

And as TFA notes, using HomePod Mini as a hub allows HomeKit devices to to "interface with Home Assistant over the local network (without any cloud connection)" as well. That gives you access to many privacy-respecting devices as long as you don't enable Alexa, Google Home, etc.
Does the Metaverse need blockchain to ensure widespread adoption?
In the very least, it is too close to the more familiar phrasing "x% less," which unambiguously means (100 - x)%.
Unfortunately Apple, although creating technically excellent products[0] is a very bad player as far as the environment is concerned. In particular, they insistence on thinness and related design choices (gluing everything together) makes the shelf life of their products relatively short. This is wrong no matter how you look at it. I have no problem with paying premium, I have a problem with the fact that my MacBook Pro from 2019 upgrades my main tool (Xcode) for a few hours, just because it is a 128GB model - supposedly the most popular one. I mean, it has "Pro" in the name, why does it behave like a toy? Why can't I replace the tiny 128GB drive with a 2TB one I just bought from Samsung? Because Apple decided I can't.

It wasn't always this way. Before the thinness craze, I think around 2013, you could freely replace your memory and disks - and I still have several of these machines beefed up.

[0] Most of the time - let's ignore little fucups everybody makes from time to time
The simple trick is try another browser. I am not joking, that is what the author proposes. This is the most infuriatingly click-baity headline in a long time.

Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
> Perhaps we can agree there is no point placing it on patients who can talk to you?

Yes, that's kind of what I was getting at.

Or to put it another way "don't fuck about with the AED because it's not a toy and its safety systems are not infallible". If you stick it on someone unresponsive - and you've got enough reason to suspect they're in a shockable state - it probably won't make them any worse.

Like my old trauma instructor used to say, "You can't make dead any deader!"
Fan service can seriously destroy a show for me. If you haven't watched it yet, Legends of the Galactic heros, both the original and reboot, are great

Agree about Netflix. Thermae Roma was a lot of fun.
Ugh. Colorado isn’t allowing crypto payments.

They are partnering with a payment processor who will sell your crypto for a fee and remit US dollars to the state.

The state does not have a wallet, and they will never touch your crypto in the transaction.

By this logic they also accept any currency in the world.
This looks great! I've actually been experimenting with making a functional language too, in rust - so I'm probably gonna read through the code soon! Also, those error messages look really good - I'm totally gonna try ariadne and chumsky out :)
Seems to have been overrun.
Discovery reveals large, year-round ozone hole over tropics
One thing that a lot of people without familiarity in medicine as an industry, the residency match process, etc. don't realize, is that family medicine/GP is the least competitive field. If you don't match into any residency process, you go into a scramble mode to try to get picked up unless you want to wait a year and try again. Those scrambled slots are almost all in family medicine, and largely in toxic training programs or very undesirable areas. There's a decent chance your GP finished toward the bottom of their med school class and/or did poorly on their step exams and/or didn't even want to be a GP anyway.

None of this is to say that they're not smart, or good people, or hard working, any of that. But it's important to know the person sitting across from you very likely didn't dream of sitting in that seat the way a surgeon or ICU doc or neurologist very likely did. It changes the dynamic quite a bit. For general medical issues they likely know more than you. If you have a disease or condition requiring specialty treatment, you likely know more about it than they do within the first year or two of specialist visits.
""Change gives the illusion of progress". I asked him what he meant and he responded with something to the effect of "They have the habit of changing big things every 5-10 years on purpose to make it look like they are productive, and to justify their own roles, one guy will come in and 'cut costs', the new guy after him will 'invest'". "

That's deep and 100% makes sense, I can see how the cloud is both of these "things."
That is not more neutral. Perhaps it is as neutral, but in the opposite side of the neutrality spectrum.
MS Teams is the worst. Their Linux client has been in "Preview" for the past two years. It's still missing many features like background blurring or the ability to show more than 4 people on screen at the same time. After a certain point, you have to stop making excuses for them and accept they're abusing their monopoly position to intentionally harm competition.
Between how difficult the Media Capabilities API is to use correctly and the fact that no corporation is the superman you seen to be ascribing to Microsoft, yes, that's exactly what I'm suggesting.
If by market leader you mean creating monopolies, or oligopolies, there are rules againstt that in place. So there seems to be some concensus of seeing those outcomes as non desireable. And those rules cover consumer protection and choice, Microsoft has some experience with that when it comes to Internet Explorer.
Asking as a complete newbie in this paradigm, but what's the benefit of writing factorial like this?

fn factorial =
| 0 => 1
\ y ~ x + 1 => y * factorial(x)

Instead of

| y => y * factorial(y-1)?
> One of his classes was even taught by a Fields Medalist.

Yeah, you don't "happen into" a course on algebraic geometry. He must have dedicated a large amount of undergraduate courses to math, or demonstrated aptitude in another way.
> some horrible stuff

Note that I don't agree with many points of the article or the many bad uses of that technology, but for a second, let's imagine you are in charge of organizing and scheduling police patrol routes. Remember you are trying your optimistically best, because you want to truly prevent crime, and the simulation is good and provides meaninful information. Wouldn't that information be useful to you? Would you at least consider it?

Otherwise, what other information would you use to plan police patrols? Statistics probably, but how reliable or updated could they be? Would statistics give the information you are looking for?
i keep repeating this when people feel they have a right to complain when FOSS developers don't fix their problems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31953881
> I'm looking for new perspectives on why one should choose to procreate nowadays.

When I look at it clinically, whether or not to have children feels pretty much like a selfish decision these days; everything is about the parent's fullfilment/needs, not the childs. Perhaps it always has been: free labor for the farm/factory/shop, carrying on the family name and/or genetic legacy, and free care in your dotage.

Since none of these applied to me or my wife, and I know I wouldn't have been a good parent (something indirectly validated by helping to raise nieces and nephews), we're not parents. No regrets so far.
You are a result of countless generations of people, each one took their time to procreate, and this is how you ended up with your life. That's the gift you got for free to use and enjoy, and arguably to procreate is the only thing those generations are asking of you. You think you got it bad now? People were raising children without access to most basic necessities. You got it all these days, and looking for an excuse to not have to continue the lineage is pathetic
Who else is there? Anyone retired is living off their own savings or tax paid by those who aren’t retired. Any cost to develop these robots is ultimately paid from that same pool.
I run an email newsletter with 30k+ readers and currently do 6 figures annually in revenue with a very predictable path to 7 figures in revenue (just reinvest all the revenue into ads lol). I've seen firsthand what it takes to grow an audience having done so myself (first 25k subs were all organic).

I'm also really really dumb. It's honestly just write a lot of content, make each post 1% better than the last one, and figure out a solid distribution channel.

I've also watched a lot of content on how to grow on other social platforms. Colin and Samir's podcast is amazing for YouTube.

Everyone says the same thing lol. Building an audience online is far more deterministic than people think.

> really smart people who can get a job at faang in less than half a year

Yeah, I didn't mean go from 0 coding knowledge -> Facebook. I meant you're working as a software engineer at a smaller company and want to get a job at FB.
Have you looked at your microphone's volume in your OS's settings?
Your metaphor simply doesn't reflect the reality.

Material sciences, condensed matter physics, chemistry and etc work up from the abstraction layer of "atoms". It's a quite well defined and relevant layer. So, until that work brings some different configuration¹ for atoms, they will have no impact at all.

1 - It doesn't need to be as new elements, but even for the resonance between the nucleus and electrosphere they didn't create anything new, and only things affecting the electrosphere matter. (Even then, they didn't create anything new on a nucleus either.)
I'd suggest reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis for a short but succinct alternative viewpoint. It's not specifically about whether or not to have children, but it talks about what connects the visceral aspect of man with the rational aspect, which is something you seem to be having difficulty reconciling.

But, let's set that aside for a moment. Assuming you believe in evolution and natural selection, you know that every environment has stressors and great filters. With life existing on Earth for 4.5 billion years, do you really want to be the evolutionary dead end of all the ancestors who came before you? In the great dance of life, are you the dodo bird?
You need to deal with overhead. Nobody does their own HVAC in house because you rarely need them, and would have to pay to train people on that despite them not using it.

In some cases you can even get a discount. Utilities are. Big customer of tree trimming, the companies doing that work can give a great deal because the utility doesn't care that they take a week off after a storm for high profit margin consumer trimming.
It's probably worth remembering that a company the size of FedEx isn't going to be paying the listed prices.
Kind of. So the primary issue is that Apple collectively bargains on behalf of customers against developers. So if you take something like privacy rights, Apple can say "hey, we've got all of these users and if you want to participate in the ecosystem you have to not track their data" - as an example.

Now what happens is that companies like Facebook and others who really want to get your data without that pesky Apple interfering is they launch legal attacks and marketing campaigns to convince people that Apple is a big bad monopoly and their "locking down" is bad for customers, etc. (so ya know, typical monopolistic corporate scaremongering) and then Apple goes and gets regulated.

With Apple finally being forced to allow a third-party app store on iOS, it makes financial sense for, well, Facebook and others to start such stores that don't respect privacy rights - Apple can't make them and then Facebook creates a neutered version of its products on Apple's App Store and creates the best version on their own (or one they support) app store. It didn't make a lot of sense to do this with just Android because you're maintaining a lot of software and it's not worth the money + you don't want to show your hand. Now with this new legislation these companies will basically eliminate a lot of customer protections that we have.

Many day-to-day people will just say "oh I need the X store for Facebook and TikTok and YouTube" and they'll sign away privacy rights to get those apps because they don't have an immediate feedback loop. They just get more and more invasive applications and then that's that.

With Apple maintaining control of the App Store ecosystem, customers could have their cake and eat it too. They got privacy rights because Apple could collectively bargain for them, but they also got their apps because so much money stands to be made anyway that companies would comply with these rules.

It absolutely blows my mind that people are rallying the pitchforks around Apple for "monopolistic corporate scaremongering" all the while missing that its all of these other "monopolistic corporate scaremongering" corporations like Facebook, Google, TikTok, Uber, and others who they're out in the streets for. I mean, you do know that Facebook is a giant corporation, right? (Not picking on Facebook here).

For me personally as a user, it means companies leave the App Store ecosystem, and devalues the iPhone and other devices.
When making decisions they say you should toss a coin. And then when it's in the air look within to see what you are secretly hoping for.

After posting this I was instinctively hoping that HN would talk me out of a career in IT. So maybe I already have my answer. I thought of deleting it, but if somebody just read this and took the time to answer I wouldn't want the thread to be gone.
Many people find meaning in work and family. Especially when the work is helping others. I find people who live for selfish activities tend to be miserable. Those who love to help others tend to be happier
Wow, this is huge. I wonder if it will motivate Apple and Google to finally reduce their fees to something reasonable like 5%.
Please don’t use links as words. Links get abbreviated on hacker news.

So “some amount of Wikipedia” doesn’t get any message across.
Honestly, the biggest thing as far as I'm concerned is basic categorical imperative/collective action stuff. Unless you think expediting human extinction is a good thing, someone has to have children. Not doing it isn't a universalizable behavior. It doesn't mean every single adult in existence has to procreate, but the baseline expectation if we want humanity to survive is that most do. Thinking of it in terms of personal benefit is the wrong way to look at it.

For what it's worth, I'm in my 40s and don't have children and likely never will, though I do hope to adopt. In my case, I'm a man, can't have children because of that, and my wife didn't want to for various reasons. It's ultimately up to her, and I'd rather adopt than divorce her. Is that a good enough reason? I don't know. But I don't personally see anything about the world and it's future making it bad enough that future human existence isn't worth it. I plan to continue existing as long as I can, and if I could exist long into the future, I would. If it's good enough for me, it's good enough for new humans, too.

Also, my wife has ADHD, and as far as I can tell, her existence is still worthwhile. Not bringing people into the world because you fear they'll develop ADHD doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. If you expect to pass on some congenital condition likely to result in a short life of nonstop suffering, sure, forego that. But I don't feel like the common diseases of affluence, i.e. anxiety, attention span disorders, obesity, make life not worth living. Humanity has some work to do in order to figure out how to reconcile our evolutionary history and learned behaviors and mental proclivities with a dramatically changed modern world, but we should actually do that work, not give up and end the human experiment.
It's not just syntax, it is obviously C-like which I like, but it is the way programs look, I think Zig is maybe more low level than I care for.
Humans like being a part of society. This appears to be ingrained in hominids, if not mammals as a whole -- cats like groups of 5 to 50, depending on environment; some whales seem to be happy being alone for months at a time.

Some percentage of humans are willing to submit to significant demands from tribal leaders in order to demonstrate their loyalty to the tribe, including wearing tribe colors, displaying tribe emblems and flags, and changing aspects of their life to conform to the tribal leader's statements about what is right and good and proper. Quite a bit of money can be spent on this.

And, at an extreme, some humans go looking for a tribe that promises more, and demands more from them. It's a continuum.
Kids are a bad idea. This should be obvious but unfortunately it goes against our biological imperative.

The rich can afford to make bad choices. Everyone else needs to carefully weigh the pros and cons for themselves.
Complaining about Chrome performance but then just downloading Brave. Smart
Thanks! Interesting to hear from someone who started with Go and transitioned to TS
99% of the time, you just need full screen windows, on dual screens (or even triple screens!), with (OF COURSE) virtual desktops.
I'd imagine Windows would run like absolute shit on a Raspberry Pi.
Hehe... I wrote a FB app (circa 2008) called How Normal Am I? - it got pretty popular for the time.
If Microsoft hated Linux as much as they did in the 90s, we'd know. It's cute to pretend like Modern Day MS is drafting up Halloween documents every-other-Friday, but the reality is that they don't really care that much anymore. Microsoft congratulated Valve for their progress on DXVK, a program that undermines one of Microsoft's most proprietary APIs. Microsoft expanded the capabilities of the Github free tier, even though they had no real incentive to add things like free CI/CD time or unlimited private repositories. Github as a privately-owned company monetized those features.

I think anyone who's paid attention to Microsoft over the past 20 years could tell you that they're out of the game these days. Hell, if you still don't believe me, go look at their revenue share. Windows, Xbox, Office... all of that plays second-fiddle to Azure now. Without Linux, Microsoft couldn't deliver the same first-rate cloud experience as AWS. Without Linux, WSL doesn't exist on Windows. Microsoft has realized that their role in this play is to sell thick-clients and let servers do what servers do best, there's pretty much nothing I've seen in the past 10 years that would suggest ongoing hostility towards Linux users from Microsoft. Maybe that dotnet hotloading fiasco was the worst thing? As someone who wouldn't touch dotnet anyways, I don't really care how good it's Linux tooling is.