skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have compared with a friend that wanted to get her tubes tied, and the doctor insisted she might change her mind, should wait a few years, and wanted her to speak to her partner about it.

I asked for a vasectomy, and the doctor scheduled it 2 days later. It really is a double standard
The doctor chatted with me before my vasectomy, asking how many children I have and their ages. When I said "5, 2, and 0" he made sure that the 0 represented a child who had been born, not a pregnancy. He did not want perform a vasectomy on a man who wanted to have three children but whose 3rd child might miscarry. I explained that I had 3 born children, and he then did the operation.
How do you imagine people pull that information? You still need to be “findable” when someone is pulling that info. You still need to convince them that what you are offering matches their need. They need to be convinced you are better than the other 4 other things they found that might also match their need.

All of this is still marketing.
That makes it even harder to call out bad science. You hate how your colleague cut corners but do you want to testify against them in court in your free time and have them sent to jail?

I'd go the opposite way and give job security to anyone who is doing solid science to remove some of the weird incentives. There is upside to be amazing and win prizes or get better positions, but there is also space for people to "just" reproduce, or generally do important but non-glamorous stuff.
Vasectomies are reversible.
The advantage of this goes beyond price: most have to people go to Alba (Piemonte, Italy) every year for the Truffle fair for fresh white truffle because white truffle can't be stored for more than a week or two, so if you want it fresh, you have to go to the source, or get it air freighted, or taste it via inferior byproducts like "truffle cream" or truffle butter. If this democratizes location, it means more people will have access to the (much more tasty) white truffle closer to home. Less air deliveries, less travel, more truffle on eggs sunnyside up! (the traditional, recommended way to enjoy truffle in Alba)
> As engineers, we all want to build the 10x product - the one that is so great that it cooks for you and does your dishes too

What? No we don’t. Maybe some of us I’m sure, but I’d wager only a small minority want to build a 10x product as a priority. I suspect the category is far too wide to generalize about this, but for myself (programmer and entrepreneur) I enjoy the “craft” as cheesy as that sounds. The satisfaction from pouring effort into something you can be proud of. Awesome if it pays the bills (even better if I no longer need to care about bills), but 10x w/e isn’t even something I’m thinking of.
If crude oil were to triple in price I think we might have bigger problems. Also I think hitting those price levels is unlikely in any case. Apart from hyper inflation. The consumption would be lower so price would be too.
This blog post discusses a good pattern by comparing canary to a baseline set of hosts that are both scaled similarly so metrics can be directly compared to one another (versus relying on thresholds):
https://netflixtechblog.com/automated-canary-analysis-at-net...
??? There is plenty of land in most places, and notably, people die.

'lack of space' is not the issue for the most part.
There are many reasons for the price differential; two of them are safety and quality in general. Cars in Europe, and DE in particular, have a lot of safety requirements (from antilock braking to Knautschzonen) ignored in India for cost reasons. And the quality of Indian mfg is not up to German standards (few countries are!). There are other factors as well of course, some of which would work fine in Europe. Bt really, how many people would choose a Lada or Trabi today?
I think you're right. Though a solution to this problem seems simple. Just like we ought to have timeouts from the moment you want to buy a firearm to the moment you can have it in your possession, we could have a procedure "fill out this form and sign in, have a consultation with your doctor, and if you come back 3 months later with the same request, after you sign one more form, you can have the procedure".
My mistake. Thank you for clarifying.
Of course. It's just yet another to add to the pile.
Now people who grew up in suburbs will have to find a new excuse for not being able to parallel park.
By national governments asserting themselves and:

- Overriding local governments and HOAs and loosening zoning regulations. Let developers build almost any kind of housing almost anywhere they want.

- Banning or severely restricting the sale of residential units to companies, LLCs, and corporations.

- Using taxpayer money to train more construction workers and building more houses, then selling them on the open market

- Banning the sale of land and housing to non citizens or non residents
Men do get pushback and young men do get refused.
Plus, some EVs are still getting the $7500 federal credit.

I can buy a luxury Lexus ES Hybrid for $45k, or I can buy a luxury model S for $100k. The only thing the ES is worse in is acceleration but it makes up in build quality.
Wait — you don’t see any problem not knowing about valuable stuff?

If your product offered a 5x better way to do something, but nobody knew about it, wouldn’t you be a little frustrated for both yourself and them?
Yeah things like the inbox used by Getting Things Done productivity system handles that need, whether a physical inbox, or an email inbox, or a note to self IM channel, or even a page on a note taking program.

Setting systems aside, if you define and use a queue, you don't lose things when ideas and information page out of the wetware's RAM (l3 cache?)
Id be fine with any system that leaves me alone and requires zero attention from the layperson. Also, one that people don't bitch about all the time. A benevolent king/queen/emperor kinda sounds good, like Marcus Aurelius of old.
> cut taxes for the rich and 'pay for it' by putting the nation (and hence, all of us) deeper in debt

This is what both parties have been doing for decades with no exceptions. It's time to stop playing tribal games.
Top comment on youtube (makes sense, how lively this scene came out):

"Interesting thing to note: in the Casablanca script for this scene, NONE of those actors were given the cue to cry. Due to the fact that this was being filmed whilst France was occupied by Germany in the war, and coupled with the fact that a lot of these extras were French or from French territories, a lot of them swelled up with emotion during the song and started crying spontaneously. Those tears that you see on their faces, my friends, are truly genuine! That's why this has always been my favourite scene!"
My point is that the PCR tests used to diagnose COVID were dialed up to 40 cycles, which results in "positive" results even when there's no infectious material in the person. This caused 94% of the deaths, by the CDC's own admission, to be misclassified as COVID when the true primary cause of death was something else.
> And likewise maybe more people have a PC-type device than before, but still represent a smaller fraction. I take heart in this.

I also question this whenever I see that "people mostly use locked-down devices now". But I don't have any numbers; honestly it wouldn't surprise me to be wrong.

> Edit: see e.g. the rise of the home lab movement

Sure, but care should be taken for this not to skew the numbers. That more people can now afford to have a mini-datacenter in their house – and therefore there being more computers out there – doesn't mean that there are more distinct people whose main computing device is a general-purpose computer.

To me, the people interested in the home lab movement are those who already were interested in doing "more" with computers, as opposed to just "consuming recommended content".

I know it's my case and I do it now because computers are cheaper, and it's easier to find quiet ones.
Also, however convenient or well-implemented it is, SSHv2 the protocol itself is very much an all-singing, all-dancing monolith that’s pretty much doomed to have an Implementation Of Unusual Size. The Plan 9 client[1] has less knobs but still quite a few, and it doesn’t even do forwarding as far as I can see.

[1] https://plan9.io/magic/man2html/1/ssh2
Different things are important to different people. I did have a "digital paranoia" phase but it gave me more anxiety than it was ever worth. :)
You literally described the goal as increasing birth rates in "healthy societies" and suppressing it everywhere else.

So you tell me, what is the definition of a "healthy society" so I can understand which groups you wish would just stop breeding and disappear.
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>In Germany it's high taxes and bad conditions ... at least for us.

You're well off, you're earning a lot, you're privileged enough to be able to travel often and to a lot of places, some quite far away. You're in position where you can basically freely choose where to live next, by the sound of it.

One of the foundations of Germany is the principle of solidarity and that owning property bears social responsibility. That means that people who earn and possess more than others may and most often do have to contribute more to society than others. Or in simple terms, as you earn and own more, you're benefitting less from "the system".
Just want to make it clear that this is by design..

You'll most probably find a place that will make your personal life objectively easier, i.e. taking less money from your paycheck.

I honestly hope you will find a happier life!
“DALL·E 2” tacking race or gender words to prompts before returning results
That's what I'd say if I were living in Greece ;)

But no, you are right.
> becuase they both sound the same.

Found your answer.
I wonder how much this could be reduced by cleaning the road surface such that there is less dust to kick up? Say, pressure washing / brushing / vacuuming the surface. There are already automated street sweepers, could these reduce the amount of dust kicked up by cars?
Land needs to be legally switched from an asset into a liability before the market will build housing supply with the same enthusiasm it builds phones.

Land redistribution (which is structurally similar) only really tends to happen after a revolution and that tends to be bloody. Landowners throw resources at violent and politically extreme reactionaries to send off the threat of their rent entitlements being democratically revoked.

So, it's unlikely to happen soon and if it does happen it'll probably get pretty ugly first. The path of least resistance will be a gradual slide into a kind of neofeudalism.
If I understand correctly, you're proposing to add a cost to owning the property, which will either raise the total expense or shift the value of the property from the owner to a government.

How is this supposed to un-break the housing market?
Yeah and the rockets that send the satellites are directly inherited from world war 2 designs
The Idle [1] featured on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, and I've used it ever since to absolutely horrify toxicologists.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idle
I actually really like the system that we have. I think it might be a little too chaotic for most people’s tastes, though.

That said, those people will have to deal with the chaos because I’ll fight to the death to preserve it.
Well, the problem is one of misaligned incentives rather than capitalism per se. From the BMJ article:

"Researchers progress by publishing research, and because the publication system is built on trust and peer review is not designed to detect fraud it is easy to publish fraudulent research. The business model of journals and publishers depends on publishing, preferably lots of studies as cheaply as possible. They have little incentive to check for fraud and a positive disincentive to experience reputational damage—and possibly legal risk—from retracting studies. Funders, universities, and other research institutions similarly have incentives to fund and publish studies and disincentives to make a fuss about fraudulent research they may have funded or had undertaken in their institution—perhaps by one of their star researchers."

Capitalism is certainly the economic context we operate in, but I'd hardly say it is the root cause of most of the above, which could apply equally in other economic funding models.
It's likely someone's 20% project.
> Granted, there are some breakthroughs that come from military research

Like the Internet that you are using right now.
Now convince capital to do it (because most governments won't) with very low potential returns due to oversupply.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1510262323176374278.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30891217

Great comment from the above thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30897398
They explain this at the top of the article:

> This periodic adjustment mainly benefits scientists and astronomers as it allows them to observe celestial bodies using UTC for most purposes. If there were no UTC correction, then adjustments would have to be made to the legacy equipment and software that synchronize to UTC for astronomical observations.

> While the leap second might have been an acceptable solution in 1972, when it made both the scientific community and the telecom industry happy, these days UTC is equally bad for both digital applications and scientists, who often choose TAI or UT1 instead.

The claim is that the benefits accrue primarily to a community whose relative importance is minuscule compared to the broader software world in 2022. The tradeoff was made in 1972, when astronomers etc represented a vastly larger proportion of software.
It really isn't that big of a deal to use more traditional tires either. The reduction in range only matters for edge case folks that really need the last 10%. It has also been harder during the supply chain crunch to get specific tires. We went to a more traditional winter tire on my wife's Tesla and it lost like 0.1 mi/kWh (it was averaging like 2.9-3.3 mi/kWh).
It is the opinion of the EU Comission that monopolies are ok as long as they do not abuse their power and if they do they get slapped with a fine.
I can't quite reconcile the FB attitude of "we only hire the best and brightest after making them demonstrate their technical prowess" vs "computers are a bit hard please can everyone change everything to make it easier?"

Why not just agitate for a move to French Revolutionary Decimal Time as well?
I feel this is a common trend for any social media. I feel similarly as you regarding how Reddit has changed, and while some of that was due to changes to the website, I'd attribute most of it to an increase in overall popularity. Reddit used to be a collection of fairly niche forums, but has really ballooned into almost Facebook levels of social media. It seems like that's just how the internet works, and eventually new, more niche places for people to discuss will pop up and the cycle will continue.

There probably aren't fewer smart/interesting people on HN than there used to be, but its possible they're just less likely to be seen often or voted to the top.

Of course I say all this as someone who started spending time here relatively recently, so its pure speculation on my part.
The whole shit show could have been avoided if the UK had just organised free and fair elections in the 1920s.

Instead the British had to oppress the Catholics for generations creating the civil war that inevitably flared up.
The IRA was the British fault.
Water, high taxation, red tape, and an inefficient, generationally corrupt state government.
Spain, France, Portugal, and Germany seem to be where we could learn a lot of valuable lessons.

All EU countries, all next to each other - Germany is bar far the biggest success - also the most densely populated - and yet hasn't seen home prices run away like in France and Spain. On the other side - Portugal hasn't either.

Like Spain, it hasn't exactly had an amazing economic boom...
When I was a kid, the younger you were the more computer-savvy you were. I figured it was due to being exposed to computers earlier in life, and I thought that in the future young people would be tech geniuses from growing up immersed in the internet. I was a fool.
From my understanding vasectomies are much easier to reverse than the female equivalent that might account for some of it.
Well, I live in a city that has designated many buildings as historic for one reason or another, and seems kinda slow to approve new buildings. There is some interest in building affordable housing, and making new developments include affordable housing. That's all great, but I think we really just need more units, and maybe not every building that's 100 years old needs to be preserved for eternity.
The "I've never heard of this ..." comment can also be explained by the possibility that the person making the comment is one of the fraudsters. This adds 10% to the 1/3 chance in your example. So no matter how high the rate of fraud is, we would expect to hear comments like this.
They still do, yes.
There's a lot of awesome stuff I don't know about, but I also hate being actively marketed to. My web preferences are HN and a select set of Subreddits (and where those point me.)

I am glad because I tend to buy all of the shiny objects that catch my attention. On the other hand, there's a lot of cool things I am missing out on because of my lack of engagement on more things that just my very focused hobbies.
Just another reminder that scientific consensus should not be blindly accepted with religious fervour.
coming up with the network is not the challenge. hasn't been since www. the challenge is making the right incentives and popular adoption of the network.
We're taking the "every human on the planet" seriously instead of considering it hyperbole for "we would need to hire an insanely order of magnitude higher of people than are qualified for that job"?

And humans aren't robots: you can't moderate dozens of tweets a minute and still meaningfully moderate. You can do that for maybe a few minutes before any pretense of moderation has been replaced by mindlessly clicking "okay" until the light turns on and the pellet-dispenser goes "ding!"
Ask yourself deep down how often do you feel depressed? I bet 90% of people feel depressed sometimes. Feeling depressed sometimes is just the human condition.

I bet the discussion around depression would look a lot different if it weren't so profitable to make antidepressants.
That pretty aptly describes how I feel about Framework laptops, as well. The difference is that these seem to be more cost effective, come with ports, and have better, longer warranties, offsetting how quickly costs get externalized to customers.

I'm afraid of this becoming a subscription service for hardware. Buy our chassis, now buy all the things that used to come with your laptop, and don't worry, when you feel your underpowered chipset lagging, you can pay the price of a new laptop to upgrade a single part.

But hey, that part is technically reusable so that's sustainable, right?
IVF still works if you've had your tubes tied. There are options available in either case in the rare event the patient regrets it later.
They're different doctors! Surgeons are a subset of doctors, and plastic surgeons are the ones who decided to chase money over glory
Can I get a QRD?
As a city-dweller, I'll be glad when the decline of ICE cars removes the loud sound of accelerating engines, and the reduction of PM2.5 particulates improves my health.

Sure, it's not a cure-all, and more pedestrian areas, better bicycle infrastructure, more medium-density housing with walkable neighborhoods, and heat-pumps instead of burning oil or gas are still important issues. But just switching from ICE to electric engines is a cheap win that I'm glad to get as well.
Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. Started a few days ago and I am about half way through.
I got a good chuckle out of this one. Especially amusing are the uses of just... as if one can merely wave a magic wand and--poof--cities appear!

> just needs some more cities

> When China needs new places for people to live, they just build a new city.

No. China builds new cities not for people to live in but due to crazy economic decision-making.

Also, let's ignore broken supply chains and unavailability of all kinds of parts required and materials to construct livable housing, and also ignore the western US' unfolding water disaster.
I do bristle at the whole "1970s inflation spiral was caused by inflation-pegged wage increases demanded by unions" argument. The logical end of that argument is that when inflation happens, wages should suffer. Meanwhile we have oodles of subsidies and tax/legal carve outs for big business and variously protectionist trade policies. Why isn't it "when inflation increases capital gains tax also increases", hmm?

It's also an odd argument for a supply-failure-induced inflation spike. Fiat currencies just have a hard time dealing with that kind of thing--such situations come dangerously close to making people realize the currency is literally worthless because all you have is this weird paper when you want gasoline. The bug isn't a bug, it's the system working as conceptualized (printed money = the stuff/services you can buy with it).

The question is: why aren't wages also thought of this way? I don't really care that I make N dollars. I care that I can buy N gallons of gas. Unions sought to make that a reality in the 70s, perfectly reasonably, and we've let conservative economists make that the boogie man.

I think a fair counter argument here is "if there's less stuff, we can't guarantee that your wages will always let you get N% of it", but my rejoinder here is why are wages the first thing on the chopping block? It seems like we have a lot of other areas to trim first, but our immediate reaction is "lower wage power by not pegging them to CPI, and raise unemployment by raising interest rates", both of which workers bear the brunt of. That strikes me as pretty unfair.
It's fine by me, but it was better 10 years ago when people didn't talk politics all the time. Or maybe I just got older.
This is also an argument in favor of functional programming over OOP class-based programming.