skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can model the experience before having kids. Babysit a few different ages. Hormones don't always (ever?) change enough to overcome the predictable and significant costs. Likely more than 250k per child to get them to adulthood, and unlikely to stop there.

It also matter with whom and how you parent. Are sleep training, daycare, diapers, Tylenol, and bottle feeding the devil? Must you potty train from birth, diaper free? Naturopath parenting or bust?

Prepare yourself for sleep deprivation, higher risk of depression, many trips to the ER, and the smell of shit and piss. If your doctor or therapist insists you'll need medication and/or change your parenting style, then how many second opinions will you seek out before trying something else?

There is a balance of course, no one should neglect kids. Yet finding that, especially with an opinionated partner and the parent industrial complex, may be a long journey.
There seems to be a lot of misconception and misinformation about mapping. People (mostly influencers associated with Tesla) constantly cite it as a major bottleneck for scaling. And there are barely any technical details about the mapping process. Are you able expand on the following:

- Is the initial mapping effort very high and expensive? How long does it take, on an average, to fully map a city the size and complexity of San Francisco?

- How much of the mapping process is automated?

- How are the maps kept up-to-date? We know from Waymo's blog post a while ago [1] that the cars map continuously. But is human intervention required to verify an update (like a new construction zone that was encountered)?

- How much of the country have you already mapped? Waymo says they are testing in 25 cities, so I'm assuming the number is at least 25 cities.

- What does a vehicle do if it detects a mismatch of road conditions vs the onboard map? (I already know the answer, but this is one of the most frequent points of misinformation where people say it stops working)

Anything you can share without revealing your secret sauce is appreciated!

[1] https://blog.waymo.com/2020/09/the-waymo-driver-handbook-map...
I agree, the original Castle Wolfenstein was a fantastic game and was a lot more closer to something like Metal Gear Solid than Wolf3D in terms of gameplay. I still boot up DOS BOX and play it every so often.
you can buy prepaid cards with cash at any drug store. you have to pay with cash for most prepaid cards (or use a debit transaction).

the downside is the insanely high service fee -- 7 or 8 bucks per 500
> Look up actual energy efficiency of American mass transit systems per rider mile.

Could you pick a worse example?
Oh the irony of reading an article championing accessibility and design written in small pure white text on a near black background.
> especially since there are already powerful financial interests advocating for the other side.

There aren't actually powerful interests advocating for reduced safety. What they want is increased profits.

One way to do that is by eliminating safety measures to save costs, but liability for harm already removes that financial incentive because the cost of the liability should be greater than the cost of the mitigation in any case where the mitigation is cost effective.

Another way to increase profits is to impose "safety regulations" on smaller competitors so they go out of business and larger incumbents can raise prices. Powerful financial interests do not oppose this, they promote it.
As was Hogfather. I’d even call The Colour of Magic “okay”, it had a lot of issues for sure though.

“The Watch” is so far removed from the source material to the point where both Neil Gaiman and Rhianna Pratchett have denounced it as sharing no DNA with pTerry’s work (“Batman if he's now a news reporter in a yellow trenchcoat with a pet bat”), that I would be hesitant to even count it as an adaptation.
The story of D. B. Cooper: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ea/4c/2f/ea4c2fd4b1afb7406352...
Or, you become so used to using only a single pedal that when an emergency happens you delay using the brake and get into a crash.
That was what was so puzzling about it! Extremely sophisticated social engineering techniques over the better part of a decade, for no obvious reason [0]! It did seem to dry up after they arrested Bernardini for it a year or two back [1,2], though:

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/books/publishing-manuscri...

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/165234/filippo-bernardini-li...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/books/publishing-manuscri...
If an employer purchased data from a scummy tracking company about the use of apps on a personal device outside work hours I'd be outraged too. Even if the company discovered actual wrongdoing.

The ends don't justify the means. a private organization doesn't get to spy on its members. They can ask you to install MDM, they can't peek in your bedroom window. We live in a society.
Yes, but as a designer/developer, it would be useful to know if there’s a CSS/HTML/Javascript solution when your target audience includes a significant number of iOS users who will use the default browser on their device, namely Safari.
London is looking at apeing some Uber-like technology but for paying to drive your own car.
>Babysit a few different ages.

That's such a weird thing to say. If I said "you can model what its like to be in a happy marriage. Hang out with some randos wife for a bit" you'd think that is crazy.

Plenty of kids are little shits. I really really like my kid (and some others). Just like I wouldn't marry most people I meet...
No, it's a straightforward legal hack to preserve the "full faith and credit" of the United States in the event that the political party that markets themselves with "fiscal responsibility" kayfabe forgets they've only been acting.
Yeah, a read through cache seems more obvious than opt-in.
Um, maybe no … is the Answer? Hahaha, but is that What’s happening tho here?

Doesn’t look like it.

But anyway… does anyone think, I mean, don’t you feel like your brand of dismal dismissive negativity is definitely super uninteresting? At least boring and bad, right?

I mean — what’s the appeal supposed to be? Hahaha
Ask HN: Who is at the forefront of fighting climate change?
The urgency of climate change cannot be overstated. The rate of change is much higher than previously thought, and urgent action is required.

While technological solutions are essential, they alone are not enough: carbon budgets are shrinking, and the top 10% of earners are responsible for half of the world's carbon emissions. The wealthiest 1% emit 30 times more carbon than the poorest 50%. We need to transform our behaviours and how we live together in order to become accountable to our children and the planet as a whole.

Which initiatives / organizations / companies – teams / groups of people / individuals are actually working towards impactful climate change solutions? Whether it is through social or technological innovations (or ideally both)?

Let's share our insights. I'll start by listing two groups I know of based here in Montreal, Canada:

GHGSat (https://www.ghgsat.com) is a company that monitors greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sites using satellite technology. They have a team of scientists pushing the boundaries of emissions detection technology and have launched several satellites. They also offer an emissions intelligence platform called SPECTRA and have recently launched a free version that includes an upgraded version of their methane map.

Age of Union (https://ageofunion.com/) is an environmental initiative launched in 2021 by Dax Dasilva, founder of tech company Lightspeed Commerce. The team of changemakers support and actively work on high-impact projects, addressing urgent conservation challenges worldwide. In just the last year, they have helped fund 10 projects ($40 million). Protecting threatened species and ecosystems in Canada, Peru, Trinidad, Indonesia, Haiti, D.R. Congo and globally through Sea Shepherd.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

– Franklin D. Roosevelt
I got into 3D printing from zero knowledge a couple of months ago, and i found PETG an absolute nightmare to deal with compared to PLA.

Mind you, i only bought filament from Prusa and AtomicFilament, two very respectable manufacturers. Had zero issues with their PLA, and it looked beautiful. With PETG, no matter how much i tried adjusting live-z levels or playing in PrusaSlicer with print speed levels, temperature, layer height, etc., it all would mess up at some point. Out of 5 prints of the same object, I finally managed to get one great print out of PETG. But when I tried printing another one, I would start having various issues again and would have to adjust things again in hopes of eventually getting it right. I just went back to PLA and had zero issues at all since then.

Even though I am aware of PLA disadvantages compared to PETG, I simply realized that for my purposes, they didn't matter nearly as much as consistency and ease of good prints.
Even for a tech lead the former is definitely very bad for your resume. You pretty much kill your own career.
A minivan is still more practical. They’re just not “cool”.
If you want to be realistic, the more realistic option is for rich nations to fund green infrastructure projects in poorer countries. It is much easier and cheaper and likelier to succeed than every nation with a GDP lower than Connecticut developing a nuclear program on their own, or for carbon sequestration to become viable.

And alas, climate relief fund—or rather a loss and damage fund—is already a thing. Approved in the last COP and already ratified by the EU. (I know, it is much weaker than real climate relief, but proves it is possible). with some European countries already with some programs in place for paying climate relief in foreign countries.

If you want to be a realist, you should commit to it, and apply it equally.
You think working class people need to murder people? You may want to seek professional help if you actually believe this.
“we have 100 people so require 20 microservices”.

More like 3 people requiring 13 microservices
They were wrong and their argument was bad, but it remains a fact that America has dismal public transit compared to other developed nations (which is why their argument was bad).
Responsive, Pure CSS Off-Canvas Hamburger Menu
https://heyoka.medium.com/responsive-pure-css-off-canvas-ham...

These aren’t problems at all if you follow common practice and have the hamburger be a css styled list. It can be made accessible, usable with a keyboard, and vanish on larger screens.
I’m missing the sourcing on that poll. That article is an anecdote.
This isn't tracking sexuality. It's tracking who watches this content, which is definitely not aligned with sexuality.
There are no bad products, only bad prices. Subletting for 30% of what you're paying is more than 0% too.
I'm also pretty new, and in my experience, when it gets tricky is support. Quality models for 3d printers are made to print without supports, but a lot of these normal models have a lot of weird details and geometries that require supports. And then you gotta fiddle with a bunch of settings to find the right parameters for it.
Insane that a whole article is written about ads being annoying without mentioning that this is actually a solved problem with a tool called uBlock Origin that's free and open source that anyone can put on their phone or computer.

Seeing ads is a choice, teach people how to make it.

(obviously it's not actually insane but totally par for the course, it just should be insane, and seems insane to me, a chronically online person who has seen a couple internet ads per year for the past decade and a half)
It is scummy behavior to buy tracking data. But are there "outside work hours" for priests? Seems like it is an all-in kind of thing.
"The challenge in monoliths is that the boundary is so easily breached, and it will be over time because of expedient choices rather than deliberate, thoughtful choices."

I just doubt that people who don't have the discipline to write decent modular code will do any better with microservices. You will end up with a super complex, hard to change and hard to maintain system.
I took it to mean enough years have passed that it’s no longer easy/possible to change the decision and to then have children.
Secd: A silly implementation of the SECD machine
1)

We were talking about aircraft a moment ago. Are low-status people known for their frequent flying? There are a lot of places where the problem clearly has nothing to do with valuing people - skilled workers aren't exactly treated like dirt, but they're often the ones that regulation cripples. I personally want to see nuclear scientists and engineers allowed to drop their standards to only 2-5x safer than current practice by other energy providers so that we can open up an economic boom in clean energy but obviously that ain't happening. Crippling safety standards continue to be the order of the day.

2)

We're living through the greatest expansion of living standards in the history of humanity. There has never been anything comparable to what has been happening over the last 70 years in Asia. Such an unprecedented rapid improvement that the English language doesn't have the words required to describe it.

There is something there that the US should aspire to emulate. I don't think we know what [0], but more effort should be going in to figuring that part out. If it was placing little value on human life then the US should do that, the results justify putting emotions aside.

How much is this "placing value on human life" worth anyway? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_Uni... paints a grim picture of how useful all this valuing is to the people on the ground. There is a force in politics that doesn't believe poor people have the capacity to improve themselves if given small economic opportunities. This blinding ignorance is leaving people worse off. In practice, 4% real growth in the economy would do much more for everyone than complaining that pro-growth policies seem kinda mean. Why should people care that they seem kinda mean? They work.

[0] I heard a cute theory that Maoism decimated the bureaucracy so much that it couldn't control China's economy.
Unix Koans
Entertainment value is the only thing that makes HN valuable to YC. Admitting that to yourself is important; I wasn’t able to set aside my feelings of “the community is gone” until realizing that it’s just a different kind of community. One that seeks a certain flavor of entertainment.

You keep coming back because HN makes you feel good. It’s both as simple and as complex as that.

EDIT: This topic is much more nuanced than my comment here. Entertainment doesn’t imply that it’s somehow a lesser endeavor. But if Dan stopped entertaining the community, it would fall apart. It’s a necessary step in order to get to the most gratifying aspects of HN, and it’s why incendiary topics are so tricky.

I think most people would agree that Reddit is less entertaining than HN. Entertainment doesn’t mean cheesy. I wouldn’t find most political discussions very entertaining, whereas someone explaining how they hunted down a subtle bug is one of the most entertaining types of comments.

The best commenters here “play for the audience” the same way street performers play for the crowd. It’s all about skill. And if it’s skill-based rather than something random, you’ll have to admit that there’s a target to aim for.

That target is “be entertaining.” It’s called intellectual gratification in the rules, but fundamentally, you come to HN instead of Reddit because you’re entertained here, not there.

It’s my job to write substantive comments here. And it’s one I do happily, because I get so much out of it in return. But I have to be keenly aware of whether you, the audience, are getting something out of it too. That’s the essence of being entertaining.

My point here was that TikTok is gratifying in addition to “entertaining,” in many of the same ways that HN is. This was shocking, since I was expecting something horrible when I tried it out. It’s quite the opposite; you just have to look past the horrors for the gems.

Think of it like being trapped on https://news.ycombinator.com/newest, except sometimes you get the front page, and occasionally you get /highlights. You’d think you were alternating between something apocalyptic, something great, and something astounding.

TikTok’s algorithm achieves that, somehow. I’ve curated almost 3,000 videos. Actually, I just checked: 4,644.

As an accomplished contributor to ML and a long time community member, trust me when I say that I wouldn’t do it unless there was something valuable there. I’d lose interest, just as you would in Reddit’s /r/politics.
Nothing that you said prevents vendor lock-in. If my private keys are stored are in a Secure Enclave, I can’t copy them to a FOSS client or a Yubikey.

The list of members of the FIDO alliance is public. It includes several companies that most people refer to as “big tech”.
Argument for the sake of argument. Please no.
A few years ago we ran builds on m5d instances (the ones with local nvme) and they'd pretty regularly run out of capacity in certain AZs (although it was usually only a single AZ and there'd be a slight delay before the ASG grabbed one from a different AZ)
In a mobile-first world I couldn't find a way to edit anything on the page on my iPhone.

The idea might be nice but without any mobile support (where a huge portion of the world is) it's impossible to tell whether it's good or not as we can't try it.

//edit okay it does work on mobile after reading other comments. Though the link on HN is wrong as I'm writing this: it points to a non-editable page.
> from the computer store around the corner

They closed last year, it's now a 50-minute bus ride and then ~10 minutes walking (one way). Apparently we were one of the last customers to buy most parts for a desktop there. I fear we may not be able to refer to corner stores much longer if they're not of a type most people actually need on a weekly basis, with things moving to online sales

> In my case this took 24 hours.

Even shipping is faster than that, so yeah point still taken
> I can't imagine that strolling by an open office once in a while to see people in cubicles is that fulfilling.

To help spur your imagination, may I recommend a reading of the “Gervais principle” series by Venkatesh Rao over on ribbonfarm.com? :)
These addictive apps need a warning from the Surgeon General. It's not censorship, just a warning label indicating the well-known and well-studied phenomena around threats to health and personal security.
> I've always been puzzled by the 'its so selfish to not have kids' idea. Like where does that come from?

Why is it so puzzling? You're part of a whole, and producing children is important work to sustain that whole. If no one did it, the whole would die. Skipping that work voluntarily is a kind of freeloading (and also would typically involves redirecting the personal resources that would have gone to it towards increasing selfish consumption).

> If Norman Borlaug or Frederick Banting never had children but they otherwise did the work that they did, would you consider them selfish?

Maybe people like that, with one-in-a-billion achievements, are the exceptions that prove the rule.... except they both also had children.
It's an approximation of course. IME far better than just hoping you'll like it and adapt, having never done anything like it. Dating and living together before marriage is much the same idea.

Of course you may babysit a bad kid and have your own great kids. Babysitting first will still at least provide a frame of reference.
The old bridge was a couple 100 feet over, on the other side of the hill behind the house. Big difference if the freeway is behind a hill vs directly overhead. :)
My wife swears up and down she witnessed someone wave a driverless car (maybe a Cruise?) through an intersection in the Sunset.
Am I reading this wrong?

According to the wiki article, the quasar is 16 bn light years away, but the light we see from it is only 10 bn years old?
They're behind the Windows 10 desktop wallpaper we all know as well
Could you take the time to explain to me how labor movements have made meaningful progress throughout all of history?

Where I’m from, when the big city law-man came to foreclose/auction on poor widows homes, the entire town showed up with guns & stared until nobody bid over $1 on the home.

Do you view these people with disdain for doing so?

How do you feel about Peter Thiels “let’s put suicide collars on the security guards” schpiel? Is murder okay when the rich or right people say it is?
"Users who engage with LGBT content on TikTok may not identify as LGBT themselves, just as there are people who enjoy baking content but aren’t bakers"
I aspire to one day work for an organization that balances backward compatibility with necessary changes as well as the linux community can. It's not just the attention to maintaining it, it's the sophistication in how to manage the variant needs.
What about the fact that your kids are reliant on you to shuttle them between school, activities, friends’ houses, etc? This makes no sense to me. In a city they can walk from age 11 or so.
I'm convinced that micro-service hell happens when the primary app calcifies and becomes too difficult to modify.
There are scads of articles like this, either from the accessibility > all or the page size > all tribes, that obnoxiously "solve" problems by sticking their fingers in their ears and ignoring all objections. Throw in a snarky tone and sanctimonious justifications and bam: you got a black text white background web dev blog.

Sorry, but for 99% of websites, businesses, and individual browsers, the harm of moving all your navigation a flat hierarchy in your footer VASTLY outweighs the harm of a hamburger menu.
I think they mean from a user perspective. As a user I can create an account with a provider(be it google or myself), but I can't migrate that account without leaving a forwarding address at the original address.

The alternative would be storing the user data on a distributed data structure(like a pki network or distributed hash table) so that it's not tied to a single provider.
The Typology of Illicit Telegram Channels
There could be a dollar figure that could get me to think twice. But it looks more like a Heavyside step function than a curve and significant. Like winning a huge lotto.
Being a priest is a vocation, not a job. There are no working hours. Their entire life must be a reflection of their beliefs.
That’s not necessarily true. The biggest resource constraint on the earth we can’t live without is food and we are extremely inefficient at producing it. Right now it takes large fields of biological crops, but the future might solve that problem.
I didn't like this one. The first movie made it feel like you were inside of a computer, the second just felt like a generic cyberpunk world. It was also a bit too empty. I expected to see so much more data flying around. The music was good though!
> You can model the experience before having kids. Babysit a few different ages. Hormones don't always (ever?) change enough to overcome the predictable and significant costs. Likely more than 250k per child to get them to adulthood, and unlikely to stop there.

Agreed. I knew I didn't want kids because I knew many (MANY) parents with them and knew for sure I did not want that life, even the good parts.
Yes, when they do enough animal testing. That is literally not the case the head neurosurgeon is postulating. Immediately before the quote they say that animal testing is the only available option during early stage. They have no other choice which is why they do it, but if the FDA allowed human experimentation during such early stages it would be a interesting option to pursue in lieu of animal testing. That is literally saying that if they had a procedure that is not ready for humans under existing rules, they would totally do it if the FDA stopped having rules against it.