skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Yoku's Island Express" is worth checking out. It takes it one step further and doesn't even pretend to be a pinball game, but a platformer with pinball mechanics. I guess there were Sonic the Hedgehog games that did this a while ago, but this is the most recent game, as far as I know. It's a very satisfying sensory experience.
Besides being available and enabled by default on pretty much all Android phones these days?
However, this characterization appears to be based on the Uzi Rule (the assumption that if J.R.R. Tolkien did not specifically deny the Orcs all carried Uzi sub-machine guns, then they must have carried such weapons; they simply didn’t use them in any scenes of the stories). The Uzi Rule illustrates the absurdity of fan attempts to redefine Tolkien’s Middle-earth on the basis of Absence of Denial, which is a classic logical fallacy.
On hard constraints: You can have kids at 40 if your partner agrees. If your partner does not agree you need to figure out which one is more important to you, kids or your current relationship.

That said, are you sure you are otherwise ok? What you write sounds like you may be dissatisfied of your current life in other dimensions as well as not just "having kids". Please don't get kids just as a bandaid, if the motivation is that your life sucks and you imagine getting kids will make your life better - because it likely wont.

Speaking from experience - especially dreaming of an easy way out (I wish I had cancer) sounds like you may have mental health issues. When I was into clinical depression I used to dream of getting a disease and dying out. I really suggest you talk to a professional about these feelings.
What's your wife opinion on it ? If she wants them too, then it's not too late to try. Yes, there are more risks but the window is not totally closed. If you can't or won't conceive, then adoption is always a possibility no matter your age.

If your wife doesn't want kids, I'm afraid that you will have to make a difficult decision either way. But, you can still become the cool uncle if there are kids in your family: take them to trips, attraction parks, movies,... and offer the parents a deserved break.
Recent thread[0] about it.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33169684
I have two kids, one is independent second one is almost three but still needs my semi-supervision. Most of my time I spend working or pursuing hobbies. But outdoor time is still limited but I guess that too won’t be a challenge soon.

I have seen a few folks who are without kids in their late 30s and 40s. While they are financially successful they seem sort of lost, without any purpose. For me, having kids gives me that anchoring purpose. It’s two new humans going through their own life journey and it gives me immense satisfaction that I am playing a small part of that and that I will live on in their memories, hopefully good memories :-)
It's my understanding that there's greater risk the higher the age, but instead of asking random strangers, I recommend speaking to your primary care doctors and also finding a doctor that manages pregnancies. They can inform you of the risks and mitigation strategies. As far as I know, it is not too late.

Secondly, you should absolutely find a therapist (edit: missed that you're doing that already), perhaps one that specializes in these issues, and also a psychiatrist to help manage your anxiety.
The idea that intelligence is problem solving is quite limited. It's like trying to frame every problem as an economic problem (with a single profit/loss dimension).

> The entire human body functions similarly to the brain

That's a bit of a stretch.
Rethink will support connecting to WireGuard upstreams sometime in the coming months. We are actively working on it.

Apparently, macOS has a nice bunch of NetworkExtension APIs intended for Firewalls (though, first-party Apple apps can bypass those firewall rules pretty much on-demand). As for iOS, afaik, there are no equivalent NetworkExtension APIs.
Uh older dad checking in ... if your parents are in their early 50s and have several children with actual work schedules ... they are not old. Heh.
At what age do routines become a thing?
Is documenting a big project with UML needed, good to have or even not possible?
Sorry if you find this question offensive. Not my intention whatsoever.

You have been in the two extremes of parenting. From deciding not to have kids to miserably missing the kids you didn't have.

So, my question is: Is this really about having/not having kids, or is it some kind of existential crisis projected in the absence of kids in your life?
Why not look into adoption? There are many many children looking for a stable, loving environment.
Can someone ELI5 the RCS thing for me? I don't get it...

From the answer and the wikipedia page it sounds like this might be a decision that the other side's client (SIM? carrier?) makes, to reply via RCS.

And my device would be able to receive this only via data connection? Or would my carrier detect that I'm not currently in 4G covered area (middle of Germany for example...) and send the text via regular SMS?

I'm a bit worried by the first point, really. What does that mean for e.g. pinephones or google free android? Do I risk silently missing text messsages?
Instrument things and DIY to tune, but start from Passivhaus standards. There's a ton of great developments on ERVs and insulation that could use more attention in the US.
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Ironically, an entirely made up statistic.
It's still used in that sense but it's very rarely used for actually sending texts between people.

Basically, SMS used to be a big revenue driver for operators. That business has dried up almost completely. The notion of paying per message is just completely gone. So, operators stopped caring about SMS a long time ago. In the same way, call minutes are increasingly less relevant. It's all about 4G and internet now.
> With the US going (almost) full iMessage and the rest of the world having already settled on another app there simply no point to supporting SMS.

I think you just described the core of the problem: Signal has a very US-centric view of the market, and has no clue that SMS is actually still relevant elsewhere, and a low-hanging fruit for capturing user-base.
I don't think that would work, because then they'd just introduce their own messaging standard.

https://xkcd.com/927/
Step 1. Donate sperm.

Start IVF now.

Look at overseas options ie Thailand if you need a donor and it's tricky locally.

[Start looking at surrogacy] - This is hard

Continue counseling. There's something bigger going on, a kid won't solve your problems.

And who knows, maybe in 30 years time you can do it. I'd bet aging might be reversable by then. It might just cost $. I have heard rumors of cloning, also needs $, start with IVF.
Interestingly, this is effectively a tag hierarchy (orthogonal to the content), which is also a DAG.

https://twitter.com/mikeybtags/status/1582509479806980096?s=...

I wonder what disadvantages such a tag hierarchy has?

I imagine enforcing the acyclicity is hard/effortful.

Using (inherently hierarchical) folders (with no symlinks for folders) enforces the acyclicity constraint, and avoids diamond issues, so that’s neat.
Enlighten me please, how can you register with a username and without a phone number in WhatsApp?
Most European countries have had unlimited SMS way before messaging apps where a thing
> where all the ISPs share some portion of the network (in Openreach’s case, the last-mile network) so every ISP has to build every last inch to the home themselves

There could be though if US regulators wanted too.

In my country (New Zealand) for example the government did a deal during the switch from copper to fiber that regulated the network owners. A network owner would get exclusive rights to install their cables in a particular city and in return they would be prohibited from retail sales and would have to provide wholesale access to their network to ISPs at regulated prices.

Now something like 90% of the country has access to at least gigabit fiber (up to 8 gigabit available in some areas) and a choice of a dozen or so ISPs.
Pretty accurate. Military service does prepare you (a bit) for kids. Guard duty lets you sleep for 3 hours before your next shift. Then another 3 hours and that's enough. Yep, early childhood parenting.

Discipline, boredom and acceptance cover many of the other challenges of parenthood.
This should be part of the iOS setup screen: "For how many years have you been using iOS devices?" and automatically disable it if the answer is superior to 10!
> Companies (Google or Apple) are never on the consumers side, and yet we fall for it all the time.

It genuinely surprises me how often the HN crowd falls for it.

I would have expected them to be more aware than the average consumer of how tech companies use lock-in to trap their users.

Perhaps there's a blind spot because lots of HN folks work on projects or for companies that (hope to) use the same tactic?
It's a very tough scene, especially if you can't handle the fact that once you've see your kid, you realize you could have seen him or her 20 years ago. It's a really fucking tough scene.
Does you spouse want to have children?
I dont think it is neccesarily impossible at that age.
Exactly, and the only way to one day be actually have teenage kid(s) to share the joy of climbing with, is to have earlier looked after young kids that weren't ready yet to go climbing. ;) OK, some people may say when they're teenagers they'll just want to "hang out at the mall" but I suspect some things, like e:g rock climbing, or making music, are potentially still very cool to teenagers even when being done with parents. (Disclaimer, ours are still young, so yet to see if they'll want to do that later, but their level of interest in the outdoors and music is highly promising so far...)
XBOX might be turning a profit if the 360 recall didn't happen and they didn't completely flub One. They're in a better spot these days.

The iPhone didn't come out of nowhere, it was an assemblage of past ideas and technologies mixed in with a few important new ones (multitouch is a biggie) in a market where there were plenty of devices that could functionally do the same things it could do. I think some forget that it didn't even launch with the ability to run apps. What made the product a breakout hit was nailing accessibility.

The Metaverse thing is hype bullshit in an attempt to get people to take Meta's toy seriously, with the real long term goal to make AR glasses that are truly accessible. No sim sickness, no face brick, no heavy strap, no controllers required, full 6DOF with eye tracking, varifocal etc. A lot of problems to solve, but that would make for a consolidation device much like iPhone/smartphones were and getting there first means an app store monopoly and the warm corporate comfort of of app sale percentages.
> 2. Loose hope it’ll get better

I think there's a bit more nuance to this than this sentence might imply. Because hoping things will get better is betting on external circumstances to go your way.

It reminds me of of something similar I heard somewhere: everyone always thinks there will be more time for things later. There won't be, there will only be less time. And I do not mean that in a cynical "every day is one day closer to your death" kind of way, although that's technically true I suppose; there's research showing on average you'll have less time per week and everything. To have more time later you need to actively plan on and work towards making more time.

Ever since I've heard that I've been much more mindful of how and where I spend my time, of what I plan and what I don't.

So with that in mind, my take on this would be "don't expect things to get better on their own, see if and how you can actively work to make things better, but accept it if there is no possibility right now."
The pirates probably used a pirated IDA to pirate it
A friend of mine became father and grandfather just a few days apart at the age of 50. When my younger son was born, me and my wife were 37. There is a good chance your biological window is still wide open.
Your data is completely switched off when you run out? In Europe it would be illegal to market this tariff as a "flatrate" and typically data plans are just reduced in bandwidth once your volume is used up.
> This form comes from Britain

All forms of English, ultimately, come from Britain.
You can try adopting or sponsoring kids. There are literally millions of kids in poor countries who could use some help. Wanting to have your own kids is in some ways a biological instinct. A lot of childless women also feel it very strongly. So it's very natural to have such strong feelings. Therapy can also help in dealing with it.
> unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website

What do you mean? The whole point is that I can search Instagram here without an account.
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Here's an angle to try on - if you hate it, ignore it: Consider the selfishness of your desire. Going by how you mention families with young kids, it seems what you want to do is call a person into existence solely for your amusement and pleasure. To cause someone to be subjected to life with all its struggles (such as you are experiencing now), for 80 years or so, because you want to have fun playing with them while they are a kid and experience the ego-fulfilment of having a kid be amused by you. It can go further: Since you don't consider adoption it seems like you're invested in specifically creating somebody to be an extension of yourself, maybe so that you sort of 'live forever'. If someone brought me into the world specifically by that hubris, saddling me with a life that I have to work to maintain so that I don't experience huge suffering, then I would probably hate them.
but… WA also doesn’t have SMS support?
Then something else is wrong with your life. 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work, these leaves 8 hours of personal time + 32 hours on weekends. Where exactly are >4 hours going each day?
I get your point, but it seems to ignore the geopolitics involved in something like the CHIPS act. Those government investments are not to save the poor struggling semi industry, it is a strategic move to limit overseas dependencies in a supply chain that is seen as critical for the MIC and the economy at large.

You are right that those semi companies do not need the government investments to build fabs. However, those fabs materialize overseas, depending on overseas supply chains. The EU and US regions want to build out more of the supply chain domestically, for strategic reasons. Those governments could simply legislate to impose heavy restrictions, but that hurts the competitiveness of the companies involved. And so, they combine that stick with a carrot, which is the government investments. You can already see increased restrictions on the semi supply chain in China, timed right after the CHIPS act passed.
I agree with all the points mentioned. I hope this accelerates the development of signal - especially on desktop where there is still no integrated video player!!
As others have said, it's not too late for biological children.

But you should also consider adoption. You can love them just as you can love your biological children.
Are you sure? Women can have kids after 39. Maybe not easily, but should be possible until like 45. Definitely with medical assistance.

Is she on board though? If not, you don't need to stay with her. Your goals in life are worth more, and you don't want to resent her for the rest of your life "you're the reason I don't have kids and I regret it always"
Yes, but the point is that in some countries this happened so late that everyone already switched to Whatsapp before SMS became effectively free. And once everyone is on Whatsapp there's no point in switching back to SMS.
“Try disabling slide to type. I don’t use it, so if it’s on, it introduces inaccuracies.”

What. The. Hell. I disabled slide & predictions and typed the above sentence myself to test it, and the only very few mistyped keys were those that I have seen that I’m going to mistype.

Really, Apple?

WTFF?

All these years…
Both games were developed by HAL Laboratory, they probably share common code.
I am in an apartment building in a large city where OpenReach will only supply 3mb fibre despite how many times we ask or complain.

There are other 2 or 3 year newer apartment buildings 10 meters away in 3 directions which have fiber to the premises rather then awkwardly run lengths of the cheapest aluminium cable that they could find.

I was considering using starlink but found prepaid MVNO 5G cheaper (though it is unreliable)
Men can have kids even in their 90s. Their are some documented cases of even that. It's women's fertility which is often the limiting factor to procreation.
This is clearly not just upgrading libraries.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/porting-to-the...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2014...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/wpsl-t...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/w8x-to...
> And just to be clear, I absolutely do get that for some people (fresh parents, people living at home to take care of their parents etc.) remote work is a real blessing.

All the fresh parents I work were the first people who wanted to get back to the office, because they have too many distractions at home. Meanwhile, I know many childless folks who have peace and quiet at home and are much more reluctant to go to an office.
> Did you ever think about how you'll never again be able to stay up all night and research new technologies, or have a hobby like kayaking, or .. All because of parenting?

All false. Yes, there is a time like that, but then your kids will grow up and will go sailing and hacking with you, it's not never. Also yes, you'll learn to live with less sleep, for a while.

Anyway, what a funny crisis, at times where money is god, where individual happiness is searched for through product and service consumption, people don't even know why have kids anymore, what a great testimony about our civilisation's decline.
No, but it's very unreliable and Signal doesn't work (Germany, Deutsche Telekom, Android, Mi 11 Ultra).
You seem to come from a point as if I don't care about the intricate knowledge of programming languages or as if I don't care about learning how different languages manage to solve the same problem but from a different angle or with a different approach. I really do.

What I don't see here in this article is none of that with some very loose arguments around picking Rust vs some other system programming language. Very typical of such type of articles regardless whether they're coming from Rust, C++, Go etc. "I rewrote XYZ in Rust" or "I rewrote XYZ in C++" or "I rewrote XYZ in Go" is basically like saying "I rewrote XYZ in a Turing-complete language". Go figure. How relevant that really is?

Any problem can be solved in any programming language but the important distinction which is very often left unspoken and not demonstrated is what is it that you managed to improve? Is it that you managed to improve the code quality, shorten the development cycle, decreased the number of bugs or was it that you managed to improve the performance? In absence of ability to demonstrate the pros and cons of the approach one took, I will keep finding such articles biased with the lack of real content and therefore annoying. Some will call it programming language circle*erking.
> It's not that sort of rational choice.

It has to be. It's all nice and rosy to feel blessed by sharing your life with another human being, but it is a lifelong commitment, with a good chunk of time and money dedicated to it. If I look at the first link investigating income (https://www.investopedia.com/median-income-by-state-5070640), I see that between 9% and 19% people are below or at the poverty rate in the US. Is it rational to have a child in this situation ?

Children take focus and abnegation for education. Do you have the mental space for them ? Will you keep your cool at all time and never let anger get the better of you ? Do you have the support structure for helping you, the parent, when things go wrong ?

Only people with comfortable lives, who can afford kindergarten, nannies or people-to-whom-you-drop-them-off, all the specific furniture, can say the choice is not that rational. But that's definitely not where most people are.
This is happening already. Have you seen how many people Big Tech is hiring in India while laying off folks in the Western world?

Working from the office is not a solution to cheaper software talent in the developing world. In fact, I expect what happened to blue collar workers in the West is now coming for Tech employees.
I'm creating yet another recipe hosting website https://faluszelen.hu (just in Hungarian).
I'm thinking of it as a replacement for my physical recipe notebook. Loads insanely fast, have no tracking, ads, story or anything distracting, just the ingredients, steps and a way to easily edit it on the fly.
Also it's free to host, except for the domain name fee.
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This was posted in the Signal discourse on the same day of the announcement (and linked deep in 630+ comments of the HN post), and I'm glad it's reposted here because it paints a very different picture than the previous blog post.

The hidden gem is that basically Google is taking over control of RCS, and by proxy "text messages". There will only be one Android implementation, and it's Android Messages. It (finally) comes with E2EE messages with something resembling the Signal protocol, but you lose the possibility of writing a custom UX for that, as was possible since Android 1.0. It's particularly ironic during Google's campaign pushing Apple to support RCS.
> Are you saying that bo company should be allowed to include a free messaging app?

No. I'm saying that it kills the messaging app market to have the de facto monopoly company for office software release a basically-free messaging app for offices.
Yes you think correctly, I think that some months ago HM is filling of tech news instead hacker news.
LOL I replaced my old worries and anxieties with exciting new worries and anxieties.
Don't try this at home

1. Rhyzostoma is one of the few edible jellyfishes because its diet is a little special and they "don't have" stingers. Is known since decades that the entire family is mostly safe to eat. You can rub against an alive Rhyzostoma without major problems. Other jellyfishes aren't so benign.

2.Jellyfishes are >95% water, this means that if you try to just put it in a frypan with hot oil you will end with a fire in your kitchen. Not different than trowing a water glass into boiling oil. People eat it only after dessicated.

3.Flavor would be less than awesome; Probably not much different than eating agar-agar or everybody would be eating it yet since Rome empire age. The article mentions also the known problem with aluminium salts for processing it.

4. As Rhyzostoma is a filter feeder, often concentrate in rich areas with currents of fresh waters mixing with the seawater. This fresh water can be (is often) contaminated. If there are a lot of Rhyzostomas in some place will be a lot of nutrients (AKA contamination) in that water.

But is a solution for overfishing. Sort of.
Discussing, or claiming that it was definitely a lab leak? Because the former should be fine, and encouraged, the latter, until it's proved either way, is disinformation.
One of the greatest games of that time and genre. I still have the CD box set. Need to dig it out!
This used to be a problem but has been largely solved for the last 3-5 years. Emoji while slightly different looking are tonally consistent across devices.
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