skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One just just says that private healthcare leads to better results

And this is a clear case of ideological, not scientific thinking.

From an example prespective, the next 23 richest countries behind America, all have public healthcare.

From a mathematical prespective, healthcare is a natural monopoly and therefore not bound by market forces.

From a legislation prespective, free laissex faire medical practice is dangerous and impractical therefore regulation is needed, once you interced to that level, you benefit from integration and monolithic procedural systems.

And from a larger economic view, by tying employment to healthcare you reduce labour strength, which means uncompetitive companies can run for longer by keeping their workers hostage, if they could leave for another company the economy at large would benefit.

Other than believe on paper that gubernamental overreach is inefficient, there is no angle you can justify private healthcare as the sole means of addressing a public need. Even the few arguments that are still used to defend the system such as "wait times" hold little wait when you look at the 40% of Americans who skip recommended surgeries due to cost. Wait times are lower because tons of people are not being provided a service. Which is inarguably much worse than waiting, hence why America has lower living standards and lifespan than the countries they bemoan the waits of.
Every teacher in Ontario lost $600.
Human's at scale are fungible. "Destruction of productive and healthy societies by prolific but unhealthy ones". I hesitate to use the word dog whistle, but this is pretty inarguably racist. Unless you'd like to clarify which 'unhealthy' cultures you're referring to. For many value judgements, the lack of social cohesion, level of violent crime, historically high rates of imprisonment etc make the US an 'unhealthy culture'.
ether was a popular concept before Einstein and special relativity but we have discovered since that is actually not needed. just saying :-p
You forgot the most important point, security when your old, if you have 10 children's the "burden" to provide money/time to the parents is smaller per child.

If the state is not providing "insurance" the family has to.
> My parents didn't like me playing with Barbie dolls; they explicitly told me that it wasn't something boys did.

Same with me, but let me ask you a question. Were you the sort of kid that actually listens to their parents? Because i didn't, and most of my peers didn't, either.
Two inexpensive G-Shock watches: the DW5600 and the DW9052.

I’ve had a fair share of broken wristwatches over the years, so much that I began to “babysit” them.

It’s comforting to know that the G-Shocks can take a beating and keep working as intended. There is no need to take care of them and, if you get a model with solar power, you don’t even need to worry about the battery dying.

I’ve chosen two non-solar models because their modules display the time even in stopwatch or timer mode, and I alternate between them so as to extend battery life.
Yes. Explained here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878216#33878459
Yeah, but the ethnicity of cops is blue.
Due diligence is for the founders and startups that the VCs aren't that excited about. When the VCs really want something, due diligence, especially the sort you mention, and any sort of business plan / model / etc goes out the window. They'll fall over themselves to get a piece of the action in some hot company in some hot market, even if the founders are total jerks, the company has no real business plan or model, and the long term plans are vague. The startup funding game is all about investing in startups as a financial asset, not in startups as a sustainable business. VCs will put you through the "you need traction" "you need a business plan" "we need lots of due diligence" if they aren't that into you or you're an option vs. an opportunity. Venture capital is a hustle, and you have to know how to play the game. Most startup founders play VC as if they're going to a bank and getting a loan and have to justify everything, when VC investing is really about pattern matching and lots of gut reactions, and VCs are investing in what they believe is a chunk of something that will be worth more in the future. The actual business and startup founders are only the side part of that hustle.
I believe it’s hope relative to your personal circumstance that drives hopes for the next generation.

Do I think the next generation will have a better life than I had?

That’s easier to answer yes to if you started with little because the baseline is low.

For the squeezed middle in countries that have stopped developing? Probably not given the current trajectory
Kid-having emerges. This (western biased) article is blaming the victim.

An entire generation bled dry by student loans for useless degrees, unable to buy homes that their elders view as retirement funds. A thousand and one more entertaining things to do online which don't risk creating 18-year bundles of debt. And absolutely no idea how to break the cycle for your offspring.

Pick one thing to fix and spend your life addressing it and maybe you'll have it solved in time for when the population reaches 9 billion.
There's no denying that gender dysphoria exists and has always existed. OP made the claim that it might be statistically over-represented.

Looking at the Hijra example, it looks like the Hijra demographics are around 0.5-1% of the population.

In the latest polls [0], the proportion of Gen Z that identify as transgender is over 2%.

Is there repression/stigma in South Asia keeping some people in the closet? Is the culture difference having an effect on gender dysphoria? Is there a gender dysphoria "contagious" effect? I don't know, but those are interesting questions.

[0] https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-tick...
Great talk about that here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi_nFz1CJSI
China and India both have declining fertility rates as well. It seems like fertility is incompatible with economic development.
I think you're missing good old corruption from your model but otherwise ya.

I worked for a company in their project management area and it was straightforward and not fraught with moral judgement.

Later I got promoted (Crying emoji) to a new role and suddenly everything I dealt with seemed filled with interests and corruption. This jump corresponded with the budgets of the projects and programs I dealt with.

Same org, different parts of the org. Bad promotion :(
This. ChatGPT is best seen as an amalgam of everything it was trained on. It isn’t expressing deeply held opinions, it’s synthesizing things that other people might say. There is no memory or consistency across different sessions and random seeds.
This is why I like the Lutron switches - they work both manual and via HomeKit and if you change state one way you still can the other way - and they have a physical tiny tab you can pull to kill power to it if needed as a third backup.
Are there actual people with Tourette's? Yes.

Are there actual people who "learned" to have something Tourette's-like? Yes.

If you don't distinguish between the two, then Tourette's is absolutely overrepresented.

Denying that this can be the case for gender dysmorphia is neither reasoned nor logical and can absolutely lead to harm.

There has to be a way to respect and help people without turning off our brains.
I don't see any problem if the framework offers all it needs to run the application. Angular was a good choice these days and you were able to build pretty performant products.
I would be on your side if that would be a new project from 2022.
Low speed informational text message would be good use tho
> But deep down I get it. Babies are a huge opportunity cost. Financially speaking, they are like winning the lottery but backwards. You can't even think of having one without cancelling your subscription to a good night's sleep. And if you take into account inflation, economic recession, and the rest of the news cycle's highlight reel, even a one-child family can seem to have one too many mouths to fish Lego pieces out of.

Every time I visit family for the holidays, I see this in real-time and it reaffirms my decision to not have children. I have an incredibly comfortable lifestyle saving for retirement, traveling and buying real estate. The moment I become responsible for another human, that all goes away.

Saving for college? Yeah right, state schools are gonna cost $100k per year by the time my kid would going off to school. Retirement? Inflation is already killing my parents' retirement so I've got to bank that I'm still probably not saving enough right now anyway.

More power to people who want that in life, but I can't tell you how many coworkers or family members I've met that had kids and just seemed like shells of themselves afterwards.
I worked in a consultancy and had to sign contracts when visiting company clients and using their equipment.

It was always my understanding that I signed as a representative of the company, not personally.
I got laid off last week. I have had ~40 linkedin messages so far. Turned that into ~10 initial calls. I am waiting to hear from ~7 hiring managers. I hope to have a job offer signed in the next month.
Thanks for the suggestion, that sounds like a workaround too.
Vietnam and China were country with huge population of daily bikers. People used bike for all walks of life, even traveling very long distance. None of them mandated helmet wearing for decades. And AFAIK, the number of death or serious injuries was virtually zero. Maybe today bikes are a bit faster, but I don't think it makes any significant difference.
The problem is the current systems are getting less efficient at supporting geniuses financially :

- The Academic Genius (Scholarship -> Tenure) : Supposedly, you have minimal work schedule (the article is pointing to some worsening fault lines)

- The Entrepreneur Genius (VC funds -> Equity) : You supposedly work on what you "love". It its true that you have to be a somewhat business-genius too to navigate the system, but this did work for a lot of people in the last decades. Where are we heading? I don’t know.

- The employee Genius (Salary -> Social security): Well, ChatGPT is again stirring that panic : a lot of knowledge workers jobs may not be immune to automation (soonish). And Social security is not in a good shape.
I strongly disagree. Here's a family home with garden in the Berlin area that you can rent-to-own at 1900€ per month: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/expose/135035667

So with a 100k€ annual salary, one working parent alone can buy the house and feed the entire family. You consider that an "insult"?
I wish Debian would release 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS and so on.

That is the big feature of Ubuntu for me. Can set in my calendar when it's time to migrate services to the next version.
But IIRC there are issues with un-staking?

Definitely a big leap forward in terms of reducing energy use.
Not everyone can do this, but if you can manage to first do contract work, IMHO it's win-win for both parties. From the company's point of view: senior engineers are very expensive -- having a contract period lowers risk. From the employee's point of view: you get a good idea of what the company is doing / what your exact role would be before you commit.

In theory, it's at will employment yada yada. But in practice, it makes a difference.
I have decided not to have kids, at least partly because I believe Earth is already overpopulated for the living standard that humans deserve.

Occasionally, someone asks the idiotic question, what if everybody made the same decision? Well, if they truly did, I would have made a different choice.

All these projections about (white) replacement are fundamentally flawed because they assume that the reasons for the decision won't change with the demographics.
The most chilling statement out of the article to me is "Musk’s impatience with Neuralink has grown as the company, which launched in 2016, has missed his deadlines on several occasions to win regulatory approval to start clinical trials in humans, according to company documents and interviews with eight current and former employees."

To think a company that is apparently being forced to cut corners and move faster, resorting to "hack jobs" on animals in order to show progress, wants to test on people turns my stomach. How do you effectively shift from that negligent approach to the careful diligence demanded when testing with people? What happens when the human trials take too long to show progress?
From you comment history, you really love talking about a "planned economy". I wonder what that means to you. Usually it means the government does the planning, but that doesn't make sense in context.
Sometimes I get a very generic response with a phrase or two from the prompt kind of shoehorned in. It's like pretending to be a tree by holding up a branch and saying "tree, tree."
See Biden's pro-union stance to the point he avoids naming Tesla when talking about EV manufacturers because Tesla is anti-union.
> The code footprint is small, the surface area for vulnerabilities is small.

I disagree. Their NIH-syndrome and ancient practices seem to be a constant source of new CVE:s [1].

1: https://curl.se/docs/security.html
I mean, it depends what you mean by 'left', to an extent.

But if you take the sort of populist nativism that has become fashionable on the right wing in the west, in most countries, one of the biggest if not the biggest demographic gaps is around education; people with third level education or better are _way_ less likely to be into Trump, or Brexit (only about 30% of people with a degree or better voted to leave!), or the recent transphobic panic...

Education is a less reliable predictor for whether someone will, say, vote for a centre-left party vs a democratic socialist party (or a non-populist centre-right vs centre-left party). But it has become a _really_ strong predictor for voting for the populist right vs something which is not the populist right, particularly over the last decade.
That can still be filed under ‘people living longer,’ no?
Basically "old people"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/659779/cable-tv-penetrat...
> Landing lead/lower management roles seems to be difficult if you have limited experience leading people. Those seem to be mostly staffed internally.

Because at most places lead/lower management is another word for yes men that have proven their blind loyalty to the CTO, usually for 2 or 3 years. They don't wanna hire a manager who may question the status quo, especially when it comes to architecture and best practices.

> The market value for a profile like mine in a big German city seems to be around 100k € including some small bonus.

That sounds low to me and attainable in Europe if you have 5+ YoE at the right places. It sounds to me like you are being lowballed. I'm getting similar offers with way less experience.
I don't forsee climate change being addressed under today's economic system of 'build wealth and support themselves', so I'm not sure what kind of world you envision.
> the product of dim people with a figure it out later attitude

I wonder how many of the "figure it out later" attitude people overlap the "absolute faith in higher power" people? Poorer people possibly have more subscribers to religious faith?

A decline in the religious population, that comforted themselves with wellbeing of their offspring being a matter of prayer and ritual and whatnot, has had some impact on peoples' outlook in this matter?
Plenty of us still do and still are, despite the plethora of articles like this trying to plant the seeds of bad influence :)
You can't just put something between quotes and pretend I said it. I agree there's some great brain interface related tech out there, and there's a bunch of awesome stuff being worked on.

Musk being the shepherd of such a project terrifies me. He has almost exactly the wrong personality for it.
> pro-labor

True that, mate. In no developed country you can do more unskilled labor for the same money.
A word of advice to anyone on the fence about having kids: There’s nothing wrong with choosing not to have kids, but do yourself and consult with actual parents for what it’s really like to have kids. Articles like this one, which are written by someone who apparently has chosen not to have children, are almost universally terrible at representing the true experience of being a parent.

Yes, being a parent involves a period of reduced sleep (as this author points out). No, it does not mean your world ends and you’re never sleeping again. The low-sleep phase is temporary. It’s such a short duration relative to the rest of your life as a parent that it really doesn’t matter much in the long run. Same goes for changing diapers and dealing with baby vomit. If you’re focused on these experiences as the defining characteristics of being a parent, you’ll completely miss the big picture.

This article also has a big strawman at the center:

> I don't see how babies could possibly come back as the preferred lifestyle choice for couples in their 20s

Most of the parents I know in my area had kids in their 30s. And it’s fine! Obviously you don’t want to be too old, but having kids in your 30s is basically the norm among working professionals. The fact that this author is focused on having kids in your 20s makes me wonder if they’re living in a childfree peer bubble or if they’re simply too young to see their friends and peers grow up, have children, and enjoy it.
> Outright bans and persecution of homosexuality is relatively new.

In most of Europe at least, homosexuality could not be openly practiced for most of the middle ages. There were certain exceptions, but it was not generally considered acceptable, and it was persecuted by the church or other moral authorities, at the very least as ostracism if not outright legal punishments - usually seen as a deviant sexual act, which were also routinely punished. Since the states were far weaker than modern states, it wasn't as systematic and universal as the Nazis attempted, but it was still happening.

Even in societies we perceive as more open such as ancient Rome, homosexual acts were often not explicitly accepted as normal, except for some we today would (rightly) consider abhorrent - adult men having sex with teenagers, but never the other way around.
That, and "developed and implemented". ChatGPT seems fond of this student paper boost-the-word-count kind of redundancy.
You have just described Genesis in Bible.
I... don't really see a problem with this, at least from the article. The actual complaint as far as I can tell is related to the fact that they moved fast enough to make mistakes, specifically because they want to get to useful treatments faster. If we lived in a vegetarian world I might object to it, but in this world there's an actual price for a sheep's life.
This is appalling if true. People will try and justify the pain and suffering of these animals and the employees by the potential benefits of these devices, but none of this is acceptable. Who’d even want a device like this put inside their brain by a company responsible for botched surgeries and unnecessarily killing living sentient beings. The idea that this is a result of this new wave of toxic productivity mantra is also terrifying.
TLDR: Yes, of course
Could it be a deliberate test for being persistent? "Candidate does not jump through hoops to follow up, if they are not sufficiently interested we aren't either"

Then on the other hand, nobody ever got promoted for being nice to rejects. If their processes select for ambition (and they sure do), nothing that does not promise promotion will ever get done and that should qualify as explanation three times over.
OpenAI BlogWriter
I am working on a WordPress plugin which uses OpenAI API to generate blogs via AI. The Plugin name is OpenAI BlogWriter. (https://github.com/mrabro/openai-blogwriter)

I am added pretty simple flow to create/generate blogs. Thinking about the ways it can be used in WordPress for bloggers.
Your suggestions/Ideas would be highly appreciable to make it usable in good and easy way :)
After your first sentence I thought the next would be “uncontrollably dropping two f-bombs for every noun and one for every verb” but the classic hallway “at ease, make way” is good fun too. It was hilarious how it could travel in waves up a hall ahead of the drill like a preceding shadow. My floor was enthusiastically and maliciously conformant and loud about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning
What you’re describing sounds a lot more like centrist pragmatism than it does the dogmatic progressivism growing popular in the west.

It sounds to me like what you’re describing is “using facts and data to better understand your experience of reality” which is certainly not what I would call the progressive mindset these days.
Reminds me of the great short story Manna. It has a much more idealistic and more be the book definition of “universal”.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
They don't seem to be DELIBERATELY torturing them, but there seems to be a lot of easily predictable negligence going on.
I dunno. My social set would never discourage a child from this at all. However, of those of us who had children, only one (out of, like 50+ children in our extended set) was gender non-conforming boy at 3 and liked to wear girl's clothes and play with dolls.
Highlighting a comment that does a better job: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879534

This is a valid criticism. What you have highlighted is a shortcoming in my ability to elucidate this topic.

My comment is more an invitation to explore the argument yourself. This isn't a formal debate where I've shown up prepared with notes, I didn't know I'd be speaking about this topic today. If I tell you what I know, you can think about whether it makes sense to you, and you can use extract search terms to research and learn more. You don't have to take my word for anything, but I don't have to remember how I learned something to participate in a casual forum conversation either.

That being said, I am starting to make an effort to catalog resources and be able to share them, because I do think it makes my comments better, but this is a work in progress. C'est la vie.

As to how this argument relates to the Tourettes-like symptoms discussed in the article, these are simply different phenomena. It's reasonable to observe this phenomenon and ask, "Does this apply to other phenomena?", and in the case of the increasing number of open trans people in our society, I'm telling you the answer is "no" and doing my best to explain why.
Came here to say this - I live in London and see many a fellow parent struggling to even have space for the kids they already have (or soon will have). Trying hastily bolt on a loft extension - if they can afford that.

Meanwhile landlords are reaping in INSANE rents from anyone who didn’t manage to buy back when that was at least a realistic dream.

People are people. The urge to have kids is incredibly strong. But if you are living in a tiny flat earning no money then it’s going to at the least be strongly suppressed.

Parents are getting _older_ as well as fewer so that should give an indication of what’s going on here.

No-one is in a financial position to have a baby in their 20s anymore, and by the time you’re in your 30s it’s biologically already harder to have a baby.
> "Why? Why did you bring me into this world?"

"This world as in the safest and wealthiest world we've ever known? Son, for as long as humanity has existed, we've mastered all the challenges that have been thrown at us. Challenges much worse than the ones we are currently facing, be they environmental, societal or other. You'll find your place in this world and make the best of it."

Of course he'd be an angsty teenager asking that question, so I don't think it'd get through to him for the time being. I'd get him Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for his birthday.