skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are different subjects, or if you prefer, the same subject at different times in their life. They're asserting that societal pressure experienced during childhood has an effect on how sexuality is expressed during adulthood. I chopped it into different parts in order to dissect and analyze it; I ultimately included the entire comment (except a sentence neither of us found relevant and you yourself didn't include), and I was not hiding anything; the entire comment was always available to be inspected, the structure and content of the comment was not in dispute, only it's interpretation.

Consider that, in the example sentence you came up with, you are referring to the same subject, at different times.
"Studying a lot of books, articles, codebases and discussions on software architecture" - like what? 90% of it is "write clean code", "put in a cache", "normalize your db", "use a queue if the service is really spotty/unreliable".

"Fundamentals of Software Architecture" is 95% fluff. So is "Clean Architecture". Most patterns like CQRS, DDD, fully event-driven etc are complete overkill and a sign of a BAD architect unless there is a real cause for it. 90% of the job is NOT overcomplicating.

"Trying to persuade people to avoid technical debt at all costs" - put in a linter and concrete rules (even if a rule is loose, note that in writing) or devs will get upset and think you are singling them out.
Having children is one of the big things that we cannot reasonably speculate our reaction to.

Life is so fundamentally different before and after you have children you must care for. There is no amount of theorizing or philosophizing that will prepare you for the reality of the thing. You absolutely cannot trust the opinion of anyone who does not have children. They simply do not have the necessary experience.

People with children however, have had life without children and life with children. So at least they have a basis of comparison. However, every experience is different. Being a single teen mom is a different situation than even being a teen mom with a supportive family. And different again than a "typical" mid-20s couple having a child.

And everyone reacts differently. I can only say how experiences affected me. Bob can only say how experiences affected him. So you really can't base your decision on other people's experiences either. Not because of "greater fools" but because of self-selection bias. Most people who you will talk to about being parents enjoy parenthood and love their children.

So while you don't know whether or not you'd be a good parent or if you'd like your children until you actually have children, it's still a decent reason to avoid having them. Not wanting to confront the question is a valid reason to avoid the question.
I do not see how it could be more efficient from a first principles perspective.

Energy = force * distance = mass * acceleration * distance.

Broader distributions means increases in distance means increase in energy consumption.

And usually having more space means having more stuff, which means an increase in mass, which also results in increase in energy consumption.
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Life is very basic at its core. The purpose of all life is survival. Offspring is paramount for survival.
Does that negate the fact that pornography negatively hijacks the dopaminergic reward system?
Sure - it’s a bug, it’s been fixed. The issue occurred on 30 Sep and there’s a discussion here:

https://solana.com/news/09-30-22-solana-mainnet-beta-outage-...

And the fix: https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/pull/28172

That’s how software works. Things break. They particularly break at scale. Nobody’s done this before. If Eth was as busy it would break too.
Downtown SF has horrible QOL issues and will take a long time to recover. Downtown Columbus has had no problems continuing to thrive, because they don't tolerate shitting in the streets and shooting up in front of restaurants.
This is incorrect, as you and I discuss here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33879888
> women are increasingly refusing to have sex on men's terms

[citation needed]
This thread might be helpful: https://twitter.com/LuozhuZhang/status/1538171370814570497

Essentially, zkEVMs map EVM bytecode to equivalent zero-knowledge circuits (containing the logic of what is and isn't valid, i.e. double-spending) so that the entire execution can generate a proof. It is a lot of math.
See ripgrep, and Microsoft plugins that have to be additionally installed, depending on the workloads.
Agreed. Fun is to be had. Is essential, actually.
I love wrastling toddlers, too.

I wanted to say—these two lifestyles you describe (raves and toddlers) are not incompatible. I’ve had to get better at scheduling and communication, that’s all.

For me, it was really helpful to develop concrete agreements with my partner. (E.g., I get to travel 8 weeks a year, I have to schedule 1 month in advance, and it can be for any reason). I don’t like the view that having kids means giving up on what you love to do in life.

4th kid is on the way. Seems nutso to me, but because my wife really wanted another. And if that is her dream, I am not going to stand in her way.
Given the high complexity of FHE, surely there be limits to FHE based transactions?
Absolutely not. I know many people who absolutely hate the idea of having kids in their core.
The iPhone SoC was made by Samsung in Austin for many years, so this has already happened. At the time everyone assumed that Apple wanted to diversify away from Samsung for other reasons which were not necessarily financial.
All the humans who took the test were probably also trained on strongly held opinions instead of "I'm not sure what I think about governments recognizing marriage, what do you think?" Shared at a pub with friends.

Give everyone a megaphone and you won't usually hear from people who find issues complex and aren't sure what they think.

This one is for you chatGPT. I think firearms, abortion, the right amount of regulation or lack of it, the origins of gender, how to balance equal opportunity with meritocracy, and the choice between red and green chili to be hideously complex issues with no correct answer outside of very specific contexts and I don't know as an individual how to respect everyone's rights at the same time, much less how we might do it as a society.
Could you give some examples? Congratulations on your success implementing this stuff
A hype free no BS guide to data slas
No mention of meshes, contracts, lineage, catalogs, lakes, swamps, etc. Just simple (but real) code to update data at the right time in the right order.
My view as a "full stack" architect and developer.

Depends on the size of the firm. Very, very large ones will see you write little code -- generally to the detriment of the company, the architect, and the teams they interact with.

Good architects are hands-on. They write proofs of concept implementations before recommending a tool or technology.

Bad architects dream up nothing but gormless and inscrutable charts and diagrams that, like crap ink on vellum, slowly fade into illegibility in a remote Sharepoint server.

Good architects clarify and explain. Their job is to assist teams in melding disparate technical viewpoints with that of the business -- who themselves often lack focus. A good architect facilitates that: they'll rarely look at lines of code, per se, but more the general trend and direction.

Bad architects dream up complications that serve no one but their own ego. I once worked with an "architect" who spent most of his time mapping out some data, represented in JSON, using eBNF -- a tool used for specifying formal grammar for computer languages. It could've been solved with an example + some data typing in the margins. Don't be like that dude; people struggled to make sense of the trivially simple data we had to store. For larger things use a schema-like structure; for smaller things, trust that people and teams are not stupid.

Good architects are skilled at everything. They've hacked up CI systems in batch or bash files, before the current tooling even existed. They've built all manner of systems, in a range of environments and possibly languages. They're pragmatic, and can spot trouble a mile ahead.

Bad architects envelop themselves in what ever the buzz du jour is: like microservices, which is never an opening gambit for 99.9% of problems you're going to encounter in a greenfield project. They're the ace up the sleeve when all other performance and scalability efforts have failed. Good architects know when to tell a tech lead to lay off the technobabble: chroming your CV is not in the interest of the business as a whole.

Good architects prefer plain, old working tools. That usually involves a RDBMS. Sometimes many; and often times you need to make existing ones talk to other things. Bad architects thing old means bad. XML is not bad; what people did with it was, for example.
At worst their advice is just as wrong as the conventional wisdom they're contradicting.

I would say that the major factor isn't age, it's situation. If you are in a stable relationship with someone who can help financially and emotionally support an additional human, having a child could be an option.

If you are in a precarious situation, do not bring another human into it.
Could be an outlier, watched porn for many many years, my penis works and I have a sex life.
If the control group are men in long term marriages with active sex lives, then I dare say we don't have sufficient sample sizes for a real world study.
Sorry your Phoenix experience was so bad for you. It's great out here though. Don't know why the top comment is dumping on Phx as if it doesn't have a great road system.

Our grocery options will improve as soon as the german discount chains set

Frys is not more expensive than TJs [0]
When you drive east from AZ, you drive past the cheapest gas in the US[1]

[0]https://www.frysfood.com/savings/weeklyad/
[1]https://gasprices.aaa.com/
How is that providing context? Add how many companies experiment on pigs and how many pigs they go through each year, compare that to Neuralink and you have something you could call context.

As it stands, that number doesn't really provide any context at all. Even maybe misleading as you're talking about any type of animal, I'm assuming? While Neuralink seems to focus on pigs as they are commonly used for device testing.
That's not even what I'm talking about. I was thinking of SEO content, ads, tiktok, twitter, facebook garbage. Please more well articulated viewpoints!
Yep, that pretty much sums up the state of GUI civil wars at Microsoft.
I don’t know, is an unborn fetus an American citizen? Because the mother definitely is, right now, without any doubt - and pregnancy is a very dangerous, sometimes even lethal state, with long-term serious health problems. I don’t see any defensible arguments to strip bodily autonomy from a current citizen, it’s not a zero sum game (I’m sure you can create some ad absurdum situation where stripping someone of their rights “for the greater good” turns out very nightmarish). These matters should only be discussed by the mother and her doctor, that’s it.
So… then you disagree with avoiding animal suffering whenever possible. Or rather you’re fine with avoiding animal suffering whenever it doesn’t keep you from eating a chicken sandwich?

I have no problem with that attitude.

But let’s not delude ourselves. As (relatively) wealthy people in developed countries, we’re absolutely fine with people and animals suffering when it lets us have a hamburger or put an iPhone in our pockets.
In terms of usability, I still just find Dwarf Fortress to be a decade behind Rimworld. The fact that we had to use Dwarf Therapist for years... Rimworld just has it all on the screen within four clicks, with clear indications on how to resolve issues like mood modifiers.

Dwarf Fortress in all its complexity, embraces fuzziness in how things work, and focuses on a bit of a higher-level focus (fortresses reach many more dwarves than a Rimworld colony). However, this complexity makes the game a lot less accessible too. I hope the UI changes help bring ease of use and clarity!
For me it was opening up on LinkedIn and making myself "Open to work", recruiters were reaching out daily (or close to it).
The entire point is it's a universal basic income. Giving geniuses money is missing the entire point.
I wholly disagree. SaaS are similar to automations for end customers.

The CapEx spend of tens/hundreds of engineers that built the SaaS is offset by 1 company to remove the needed engineers from each company.

Companies used to: build their own authentication layers, databases, infrastructure, code repositories,etc, etc.

What starts in consumer always moves to Enterprise. So will AI and automations.
I'm continually surprised by the resiliency of the urban housing real estate market given the remote work transition. Why pay such a huge premium to sit at home? I understand wanting to be where the action is, but e.g. the New York rental market just seems insane.
regulated does not mean criminalised.

imagine if cocaine was as freely available as pornography. Is that the type of world you'd like to live in, to raise your kids in?

and for the record, I think cocaine can be wonderful.
Thriving on Mars
> Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et a

The same argument could be made about Trump and he got record number of votes. A man who has never stepped inside a church and slept with an adult actress while his foreign third wife was giving birth to his 4th kid.

With 26 lawsuits about inappropiate sexual behaviour. And a history as a debacherous family money bachelor.

if the people on the right cared about social morality why reward that history with the highest office in the land? Its hard to imagine somoene more inappropiate and yet it brought unprecedented support.

> Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for married couples.

those already exist and single mother and sex out of marriage have increased since the 60s, so something seems to not add up.

> And yet, the claim I’ve read is that in the USA increases to this have not correlated with improved outcomes to eg household wealth among black Americans (since the 60s).

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

This is a great source to compare median wealth in America. If even wages for upper middle class have fallen in relative terms in the past 50 years, what effect are gonna marginal increases on substandard welfare programs gonna do?

If your rent goes up 10% annually, who cares if your food stamps go up 1-3%?
All those tokens are pump and dump.

They exchanged dogs "worth" 1 milloon each for 2 cats "worth" 0,5 millon each - and some people would come and buy this crap at those valuations.

Once the music stopped playing (no more bagholders coming to buy) turned out that dogs and cats valuation is closer to zero than to millions.

What is the reason to value any of those junk tokens more than 0? Bitcoin is at least "the" original.

The 700 other shitcoins are just shit.
The Invasive Reach of ‘Digital-by-Default’ Immigration
Exactly. It seems that most of the "childfree" arguments are based on this terrible modern, industrial, low-trust worldview that assumes that parents are solely responsible for their kids.

Unless both parents come from a really dysfunctional family, this should never be the case.
Not stimulating yourself again or not going on a similar streak again?
So the NFT part is entirely redundant?
Manipulating information (i.e. editing bytes) mostly.
> I don't understand this. The core problem with gender dysphoria is that you feel significant discomfort with your biological sex.

Indeed, and that's why you see people undergoing medical treatments to address that problem.

Why anyone in their right mind would be against people seeking medical treatments to address their health issues is beyond me.

> If it were possible to legitimately "re-educate" oneself to not feel this discomfort, that would be considerably cheaper, less invasive and less problematic overall than trying to change one's sex.

You're desperately trying to avoid the point.

I repeat. You can reeducate an impotent man to stop worrying about his erectile dysfunction. You can reeducate a man to stop bothering with being bald.

Why is that somehow not targeted by this authoritarian belief that you're entitled to force upon others to undergo reeducation camps to accept an outcome they don't want nor feel comfortable with?

Why is that only minorities vilified by certain religious conservative pressure groups should have no say in what they can and cannot do regarding their health and personal well-being?
What a confusing read. I largely can't discern the sarcasm from impassioned outrage. Nor am I certain that "any decrease in population is catastrophic" is the message that I was meant to receive, but that is what I got out of it. I've heard this argument before and I have never been able to piece together the logic. My best guess is that it's mainly a difference in perspective, and somebody's catastrophic is to me simply worse than what we have now.

Yes, there will be a time when things are worse. Rise and decline is a pattern in pretty much every facet of every trend that I can think of. Nothing goes up forever. Just because Earth's population flatlines at 10m, doesn't mean humanity is heading straight for extinction. I mean, it's possible. But far more likely is that at some point, for some reason, things turn back around and the population starts growing again. In the meantime, overpopulation and underpopulation both come with their own problems, and I'm not sure which is worse. We're only ~300 years into the industrial revolution after all. Maybe it's time for a little pullback. That is healthy for the real long-haul.

Sure, none of us actually wants to be a part of the hard times. We would rather the great-great-great-grandchildren that we've never met and never will be the ones to bear that burden. But somebody's going to have to deal with it eventually, and yes, it could be you (and me). Meanwhile, having a smaller number of people on the planet (while creating some problems that we had forgotten about) will surely also make some things easier. If literally no one wanted to have kids anymore, it might be a real problem. This is just another urban perspective; I could believe that no one in a city wants to have kids anymore. At least some of us forest dwellers are still breeding like rabbits.
Sounds to me like there's a disturbance in the force...
The state does want babies. Notice the meek state opposition to recent changes in availability of a certain healthcare procedure. Don’t expect that to be changed back anytime soon.
This should at least get you going on the topic, in that even if it's too much or too little it's a rich source of terms, and directly addresses the topic: https://www.gwern.net/notes/Attention

I also want to make clear that while this is fundamental to this particular technology, I'm not saying it's fundamental to all possible AI architectures. But it is pretty ingrained into how transformers work. I don't think it can just "evolve" past it, I think anything that "evolved" past it would be a fundamentally different architecture.
Thank you. Nobody ever seems to mention how much founders get to stand on the heads of engineers and scientists who were paid with tax dollars. Kind of how the libertarian musk fans ignore how much aid his companies have gotten from the t taxpayers.

In the heads of somebody who believed The Fountain Head and Atlas Shrugged were bibles, there are 1 or 2 people doing 99% of all work in the companies.
> Pornography should be strictly regulated

The government should fuck off and not get the idea that it has any authority over the sexuality of consenting adults.
The two experiments mentioned involved 61 animals, so it's not 2 out of 1500 but at least 61 out of 1500. And I think it would not be unreasonable to assume that there are more cases than the ones explicitly documented in the article, given the immense time pressue Musk seems to be creating here.
I wish. A few people actually upvoted, we seem not to be alone. But when we look at the broader society, it looks like everyone just wants to consume. Maybe they also just struggle to find something outside of the digital world that brings them the same kick of dopamine over and over...
I don't want to get back into the human cattle cars called commuter trains and buses while the "officials" are driving around in Suburbans and parking in "official spots"
(1) Reducing localized air pollution by offsetting it somewhere else. The creation and use of cars is one of the most inefficient ways of transporting people to date. And this doesn't take into account all the environmental damage causes by mining practices to get the metals used for his battery and the car.

(2) Musk actively hampers government investment in one of the best pieces of infrastructure for reducing transportation related climate change and pollution. See his rebranded vacuum tube train aka the Hyperloop [circa 1799 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain] and how it stopped government investment in high speed rail in California

(3) as for the sociopathic tendencies. The dude claims all the credit for every company he has ever been apart of. Dude doesn't even have a physics degree but doesn't correct people. He is actively promoting the great man of history theory [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory] which is complete bullshit. It takes a group of people to accomplish most great things of history. Hannibal crossing the Alps by himself wouldnt even be a foot note in history of Rome... But with his officers helping him push his military through and into Italy... Well one of the greatest enemies of Rome in her history. Same thing with spaceX, Elon musk didnt design and make his companies rockets... He hired great leaders to dedicate to who made it happen. He is just a 21st century salesman.
Well, this may change after the wedding website Supreme Court case that is currently under consideration. The Supreme Court is weighing freedom of speech vs discrimination protection.

It may soon be legal to not allow certain races to be your client.
I agree. It is a bit weird to see such subjective takes and cultural pessimism in an article like this. Hadn't noticed it the first time around, probably due to my own biases. So thanks for pointing it out.
Everywhere? No. But it is commonly the case that the jobs are in one place, and the "good towns to raise a kid in" (schools, parks, low crime, or even just affordable housing suitable to raise a child in) are in others. Sure, perhaps when you've made your way up in your career field, you can go into a smaller/private practice of some sort (thinking law, finance, medicine here), but typically, for a lot of white collar fields, you start off in larger institutions, which typically means cities.

Could this change with the growing use of remote work? It could. Whether it does or not though remains to be seen.
The article is literally about how the evidence for this hypothesis is incredibly weak and cherry-picked.
Yeah, I can imagine the maintenance would be fun, but I can equally easily imagine that it would join the ranks of disassembled devices and half-finished projects in my garage. I can also imagine that you get into situations where you need a quick $200 or something for some borked part and just don't want to constantly invest in some expensive toy. Or worse, that you need some part that you just cannot find anywhere. After all, they only manufactured a few thousand of the things. Eventually, I assume the well of replacement parts dries up and you're left either custom-building a new troll or castle or just letting your table sit idle.
And the next logical step is to make it illegal to ejaculate except inside a woman and ban birth control, because they're preventing the sperm and egg from becoming a human being, which they clearly want to do. Those cells need autonomy! Birth control is injustice!