skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can calculate the years of life lost if people excercise less due to no available substitutes, and compare it to the current expected years of life lost from the chemicals.

Considering they are called forever chemicals, I suspect the results will favor the ban.

Someone's running hobby is not as important as clean water. Neither is your omelette. I'm sure there are professional and medical uses for those clothes, but we can't just spew crap that never goes away into people who don't get a choice not to consume it.

Also didn't they have unleaded avgas for years? I thought the leaded gas was just to keep some really ancient engines running? Probably wouldn't have been that expensive to subsidize replacements if so.
I am someone who has decided to go all-in on djot for my software.

Personally, I care about the edge cases. I also don't care about multiple parsers because I want to write my own. (I currently depend on Sphinx, Breathe, and MyST, which are heavy dependencies.) And I don't store my code on GitHub because of Copilot and because of [1].

I decided to go all-in on djot for several reasons:

* I can write my own parser.

* djot can target any format, which means I can use the same docs to generate manpages, a docs website like [2], and perhaps PDF's if my docs include something like the Rust Book.

* djot's extension story [3] is the best of any format, and I need extensions that don't exist in any format for things like EBNF in a specification.

That said, I think you are correct that this will not take off as much as CommonMark has. I guess I was just sharing that I don't care and why.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2020/04/i-am-moving-away-from-github...

[2]: https://docs.yzena.com/

[3]: https://github.com/jgm/djot/discussions/77
Are you referring to the original DAB (using MP2) or the upgraded DAB+ standard (using HE-AACv2)? I think most, if not all, stations have switched to DAB+. I'm told the quality is better than FM and based on my experience it's certainly not worse as far as I can hear. Of course, since FM is analog it degrades linearly whereas DAB+ is digital: it either works or it doesn't. This might skew the perception of quality.
I think this is a great article which is missing a great ending.

I have similar thoughts but closer to rather having a decent keyboard then having one more computer. My idea is to place a keyboard in a pair of gloves which is able to serve as either regular wireless keyboard to a device with screen or wired keyboard with earphone instead of screen.

I appreciate your thoughts on how our screens shape us as computer users and I think that audio interface will make our computer experience more like intimacy: most of people are OK when 20% of screen is proposing you an adware (because rest of the screen still serves on purpose) but nobody will listen even one second of adware per 59 seconds of content.

That is how I see the future of portable computers: keyboard as a main source of input, sound as a main source of output, FOSS operating system and ability to be the keyboard for unlimited number of those computers with screen.
That's a surprising comment. As a lifelong unflinching atheist who criticised the institution of marriage and thought that religion oppressed women, I wouldn't have said de Beauvoir provides much for Catholics to relate to. Unless you meant it as a joke, i.e. if more people read de Beauvoir, there'd be fewer Catholics. Could you elaborate?
Pretty sure it's on Azure. Would be fascinating to get some idea of the compute and storage resources used by the model.
Got laid off in June, was contacted with a lot of different opportutities but most of them were start-ups with no revenue. I joined a start-up which has been a horrible experience(Toxic culture) and I'm back looking for a new job again.

I think I had something like 3-4 offers rescinded and a couple of interviews where I reached the final stage just to be informed that the company halted hiring.
Having a kid is the most fun I’ve ever had. Used to go to raves, done bunch of crazy sexual stuff, as well as most drugs under the sun. There’s nothing close to chasing a toddler in a circle for an hour.
Have you tried chatting to it? I think it would ease your anxiety. It is impressive, but you'll see what it's definitely not when you actually sit down and quiz it. Still impressed though.
Writing a 3D Game in C (in 2022)
Reflections on building and publishing a game using a 50 year old language.
"Are we millennials so busy coming up with pronouns that we can't find a weekend to make copies of ourselves?"

Oh sod off with this. The primal prerogative of reproduction is predicated on the primal need for safe and secure territory.
The wealthiest oligarchs of the boomer generation have done everything they can to ensure the consequent generations are unable to attain that one entirely reasonable primal need.
Women's rights have had an affect on birth rates, yes, but I'd rather take away the oligarch's right to own all the single family homes than my girlfriend's right to decide what to do with her life.
Many OCD sufferers will not agree.
> If you’re focused on these experiences as the defining characteristics of being a parent, you’ll completely miss the big picture.

Right. Because that’s the easy part, when they’re babies.

At first I didn’t believe my friend’s dad when he told me it actually gets more difficult when they get older.
Is one of the indicators - if it is a publicly traded company, its probably evil?
I have always wondered how an initial singularity could generate something that is not symmetrical ?
used redmine for a few years,will use again
No, that's you reading into the article. Go look at recent global demographics data, it's not restricted to "wealthy white people", it's been an issue in East Asia for decades and countries from in Latin America, to Iran, even India all are dealing with or are now fast approaching the issue.
You kid but in reality our children are nothing more than mere genetic copies. Memetically they are assets of the state and the media, academic and pop-culture class. No one really cares about the genetic part (it's generic) today; furthermore, there's no culture or tradition to pass on, so you're essentially paying a great amount to run the debt-economy.

I'm sure people have caught onto this, esp. with the breakdown of the family system (a big cause is the memetic disconnect). It's not even like you'll be looked after later on in life - there's zero justification for having kids (other than things like 'companionship', which let's admit it, a dog would do a better job of).

If you're a guy esp. in insanely misandric countries like India (where you and your family can be thrown in jail at the mere word of the bride; where the culture/languages of the land are increasingly banned by the colonial state) it's even less so.
How is this not good news for humanity?

As many people as he annoyed, RMS had a point.

http://www.art.net/studios/hackers/hopkins/Don/text/rms-vs-d...
I know. Might as well throw in Powerball and slot machines as well.

I have at least one friend that makes risky investments for the very reason you gave: he's not going to get rich any other way.

I still disagree with him though. I prefer the "get rich slow" schemes over all the others - even though it means I'll never own a yacht.
The number of articles with titles like "Why do Americans disguise themselves as Canadians when travelling abroad?" seems to disagree.

As far as "national pride" goes there is a big difference between the US vs CA.

Here (Canada) you would be hard pressed to find cCanadian flags. Really only two places fly them, government buildings (schools, offices, etc) and US big box stores (walmart?).

I lived in the US for ~6 years and this "flag" thing really stood out at first. Like i'd drive around and there would be bridges basically covered in flags. This is something you will pretty much NEVER see here.
The "trans/gay/lesbian is cool now" explanation doesn't hold a lot of water to me. If I had the choice to not be gay, I wouldn't be. Life would be so much easier, emotionally and otherwise. Sex would be lower risk and it would be much easier to find a romantic partner. I spent a long time - two decades - suppressing it, as hard as I could, and it did not go away. Instead I was anxious and depressed. After I started to accept myself, those things became a lot better. I look forward to the day I come out.

Transitioning is 100x harder. The nonconformity is obvious. The antagonism directed at transitioning people is unavoidable, strong and potentially deadly - violent and lethal attacks on trans people are becoming much more common every year. Compulsory sterilization for people legally transitioning is still mandated in many countries and was only abolished in progressive countries in the last few years.

No, nobody is doing any of this because it's "cool".
Very similar experience. Checking on my application using the link they provide would still show "under consideration", but I knew after 2-3 weeks I wasn't going to get a call back. Someone finally got back to me after I emailed/called a few people I had dealt with along the way and they confirmed it.
> The only solution is to ban condoms. Will solve so many problems.

It might solve the "problem" that the article discusses. But it will create many many more worse problems.
I don't think wasting the eggs is making the omelette any nearer. Sloppy science makes replication difficult.
Real parents consistently make it clear how terrible having kids is.

The childless among us hear every complaint and lament about how terrible it is. Why would we do that to ourselves?
> Five people who have worked on Neuralink’s animal experiments told Reuters they had raised concerns internally. They said they had advocated for a more traditional testing approach, in which researchers would test one element at a time in an animal study and draw relevant conclusions before moving on to more animal tests. Instead, these people said, Neuralink launches tests in quick succession before fixing issues in earlier tests or drawing complete conclusions. The result: more animals overall are tested and killed, in part because the approach leads to repeated tests.

> On several occasions over the years, Musk has told employees to imagine they had a bomb strapped to their heads in an effort to get them to move faster, according to three sources who repeatedly heard the comment

> filed a complaint with the USDA accusing the Neuralink-UC Davis project of botching surgeries that killed monkeys, and publicly released its findings. The group alleged that surgeons used the wrong surgical glue twice, which led to two monkeys suffering and dying

> included one instance in 2021 when 25 out of 60 pigs in a study had devices that were the wrong size implanted in their heads, an error that could have been avoided with more preparation

> staff accidentally implanted Neuralink’s device on the wrong vertebra of two different pigs during two separate surgeries

Surely they could have a more scientific approach that would avoid having to kill so many animals and also make progress faster because the environment would be more stable. If it's borderline illegal to accidentally kill animals or making them suffer when it could prevented, I'm not sure.

As it seems right now, they have something of a cowboy approach to science which will lead to unnecessary pain and death of animals, and walking in circles in their progress as they don't seem to know what they are doing.
Not to mention that this represents a very median case, whereas a lot of parents want to pay for higher status schools and real estate to get access to higher status education, it's a never-ending keeping-up-with-the-joneses pi*-ing contest. To raise kids around my peers, a child could easily cost $500k+.
Similar to you, I left my job about a year ago after working non-stop for 25 years (worked through college, software development, architect, director, eventually C-level, all at the same small company). My break was to focus on spending time with my children. It has been very rewarding. Initially, I thought I would take 6 months off and then get back into an IC role, but after a year, I am in no rush. I have played the interview game with a few companies in the last few months, but so far have not found an inspiring place yet. There still seem to be plenty of opportunities with small companies out there.

When I left a year ago, I thought that it was likely that the industry would start to slow down within those 6 months. I have been watching everything happen with mild curiosity. I am fortunate that my wife has a healthy career, so looking for any work has been low-stress.
It’s your decision, but not having children because of your comfort is like saying you won’t ride an amazing wave as a surfer because it’s hard and dangerous.

Yep, it is. But when you ride that wave it will be the most amazing experience of your life. Even if it is hard.

it’s your choice, but you’re definitely missing out on something special. Something we were genetically created to do (which makes it even better than surfing)
I'll go one step further, it's total BS. :)

I tested as a genius level IQ in elementary school. I went to special educational programs in grade 4-5, then a school with a stream just for "enrichment learning" (bused in with other kids) from grade 6-12.

I tried pot for the first time at 12, was a typical stoner at 15, and went into the intellectual pursuit of "working in a kitchen" until my mid-20s.

My family was financially and socially stable enough that I could move back home with my parents at get a degree in Computer Science when various medical conditions prevented me from working as a cook any longer. I would have had a minor in "Math" had my university handed those out (they started a year after I graduated).

I in no way excelled. I had a decent GPA but it was hard work and my mature student status that got me through that first year back and kept me in it to get a degree. I couldn't handle being in university any longer so I dropped out of the Masters program.

I have I had gone to university right out of High School I probably would have failed and gone on the same path. My genius IQ did not set me up for curing cancer. It set me up for "I don't have to study to do well in school" and let me figure out "I can stage in different kitchens to travel around and see the world while also in a job that doesn't care if I am high all the time".

Giving me a guaranteed income would have probably stifled even that little bit of ambition.

I do think there's room for giving kids who didn't have the millions of squandered advantages I had some financial help but it should not be based on IQ.
this seems like a hazing ritual to make sure only those willing to be abused make it in.
This was a protoss strategy in StarCraft that was fun as well. Except you just built them right next to their base you didn't need to build out from yours.
> I saw this in the school I led, especially in young girls. One of them starts cutting, suddenly we have multiple girls cutting. One of them struggles with bulimia, suddenly the guidance counselor is reporting that she has an inordinate number of girls coming in for counselling about bulimia.

When you showcase suicides on TV you also have upticks in suicides. Same goes for mass shootings, copycat murderers, and even political protests.

When the 101 dalmatians movie was released, there was also an uptick in demand for dalmatians.

I fail to see how this means it's ok to fabricate diseases to downplay the effect that mass media has on people.
Sure, but you don't need to abuse the chickens while you do it.
You'd exclude most elderly people whose fingerprints have faded away, or people with hands a bit too moist for the print to register, etc.
Decades ago, a woman had to do the cleaning chores... nowadays you are the women because you do the cleaning chores. Its the same sexism thinking, but the path is walked the other way.

Always be wary of persons who sort your behavior into 'male' and 'female' categories.
I actually don't see how signing everything solves the problem of AI generated essays unless you build a submission system that doesn't allow copy/pasting over a certain amount or that somehow assesses whether or not the 2000 words it just received were actually written by the user holding the keys or not.

Signing just is a means of asserting an authority over an item and then tracking that item once it's in the chain. The original validity of the authority isn't guaranteed just because it's signed; that was a non-trivial part of the debate over NFTs, wasn't it?

So I don't think signing really proves anything about the authorship or authority over the content written, it just tracks the content. The author's example that you can know they're the one who posted it doesn't really have anything to do with generated reports, and it doesn't even prove that they were the ones who uploaded the content any more than a classic blog with a username/password system. It just means that someone with access to the keys to upload provided content, not _who_ uploaded it. It's presumed it's the author as hopefully they kept their secrets safe, but that's not a guarantee.
Why does signing things stop someone from generating content using AI and then signing it?
Yes, I'm exactly the same.
10 billion is not enough, if you subscribe to the capitalist tenet of never ending growth.
You need to expand those future markets!
Upvote.

For anyone else wanting more context, this is an ok starting point: https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/relationships/the-hist... (but note that the side of the story from inside the gay community is yet another matter, as niom hints at)

Basically, before most people knew that "gay" was a thing, there was much less pressure on men to be performatively straight.
This topic is absolutely fascinating. Here are all the ingredients for the bomb:

- Demography department: a) fertility, b) pension systems, the link between economic growth, population growth, and productivity growth (how can you have a safe pension system anyway without economic growth? will people have access to safe investments, if all safe investments simply track economic growth? can we have economic growth which is based solely on productivity growth if population is contracting?)

- Climate warming department: lifetime CO2 emissions per human being, and environmental impact.

- The perception of all the above. If most people believe than the above problems are more severe than they are, due to amplification (schooling, social media, institutions, etc), then they will want to have even less children.
If considering children you focus on financials/comfort, you're going to get the same answer every time.

You don't do it to be better off or more comfortable. You do it to have a meaningful relationship.

It's really the same as having a life partner. Why do it when going out costs money and you'll have to adjust your schedule to their needs?
I have friends who haven’t had a good night’s sleep in years because of one of their kids being unable to settle into normal patterns.

I’m sure they’d still say it was worth it.

Mind you they are getting divorced now so who knows.

I think it’s fair to say YMMV on the sleep front.
The same government that tortured and killed thousands of beagle puppies for no scientific purpose (in order to pad a budget) now coincidentally cares about animal welfare, just shortly after it had been badly embarrassed by the company's CEO. How strange.
Don't believe that was worth saying twice quite frankly you're the only one trying to redefine "improvement".

Here's a very simple non-UI example for you. You have learned to cut an onion one way. It takes 5 minutes to cut it that way. Someone else comes along and tells you that you can cut it this other way, and now the process only takes 30 seconds. Is there some learning here? Yes. Are you suddenly incapable of cutting onions or are no longer an expert in cooking just because you learned a faster way? Absolutely not. But overall it is an improvement including any learning process.

Existing customers who remain stagnant because they are terrified of any change are customers who eventually leave when they're marketed to by someone else. It's truly that simple.

Don't get it wrong, this isn't an argument in favor of mindless UI changes (and frankly Thunderbird's changes are garbage) as bad UI updates do exist and should be argued against, but this idea that improvement doesn't matter is so beyond absurd!
A (relatively weak) inherited instinctual desire to procreate aside, people have kids because it improves their personal outcome. Without modern machinery, the work input of kids will improve the family farm's productivity by more than they consume. With high infant mortality, more kids improves the chances that enough will survive to adulthood. Without modern social safety nets, elders would simply starve or die of exposure if grown offspring didn't take care of them. And so on.

Take those motivators away - and replace them with demotivators such as very high child rearing costs - and the birthrate drops. Low sperm counts? If they aren't zero, people will find a way to have kids if they really want them.

It's a great self-regulating mechanism. The planet's population is getting uncomfortably high, so the birthrate drops. Great.

While the city I live in hardly looks like, say, Shanghai, there has been nonstop residential construction here in all the decades I've lived here. Does this have to be normal? Do cities have to expand until they fill the planet completely? Obviously not. Of course it's going to suck when "peak infrastructure" exceeds the population but not as much as an infinitely growing population would.
Your 'basic' premises are quite loaded, with an emphasis on personal freedom that's not actually inherent to either industry. Here's another (equally biased) framing:

Finance: increase abstract 'value' no matter the practical cost.

Defence: invent more efficient ways to cause harm.
An AI should mention both sides of the debate, especially when it comes to moral questions and/or political opinions.
> I mean, fertility rates have been going down for 50 years; women are having half as many children, and some are so focused on their careers they might as well repurpose their wombs into walk-in closets.

Jesus. That language alone is part of why many women choose to remain child-free. Women aren't living incubators ffs.

> Maybe governments will wake up to the urgency of this issue and start implementing ways to encourage young people to take a look at Ikea's crib catalogue.

And that sentence hints at the problem. My parents could afford two kids on basically one income in the 90's Munich. Me today? Barely two cats on two incomes, and not that small incomes either.

When wages are so low that people struggle to live paycheck to paycheck - in America, almost a third of all [1] - they obviously won't have children if they can prevent having them.

We need significant wage increases, we need actual provisions for parents (i.e. paid parental leave for both parents for at least a year), we need lower rents and lower utility bills.

Oh, and we need lower working hours as well. 8 hours a day is already stretching it particularly with commuting involved, you need time and mental space not just for having sex, but also to actually care for a child.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/24/more-americans-live-paycheck...