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> It's honestly embarrassing to see this article somehow climb to the top of HN.

To be fair, upvote doesn't necessarily mean "I agree with this", it often just means "this is the topic I would like to discuss".

I agree that the article is crap though.
10 childless years with a little more money and free time vs 50 years with children and then grandchildren.

For most, the investment of having children during the front end of life is no brainer with huge returns.
Search engines are factual

Only in the sense that they index what other sites say, which might or might not be factual or honest.
The merits of the writing itself are dubious as many commenters point out. However this doesn’t mean the overall message of the article is wrong.

We are truly the worst stewards of this planet capable of sustaining life. Every year we slowly kill the planet, harm local ecosystems, pollute the planet with GHGs/plastic/microplastics/… and continue to do absolutely nothing about it.
The Plasticine?
As a parent I would like to know which approach demonstrably reduces the harm done to children.

Is there any reliable data on that?
Often the benefit of management consultants is they help the company feel better about firing or laying off people.

Actually a robot would be perfect at that. No one likes doing layoffs but chat gpt won't mind
I know this is borderline ad hominem, but your arguments feel so far from reality that it's hard to discuss in any detail.

Yes, worker demand would go up, but that would only be for a portion of jobs. Imagine you have a small, desktop ant farm with fixed supply of food. You add an additional 10x ants to that farm. Sure, some of the new ants will collect food for the queen, but what do the rest of the ants do? The colony doesn't have any additional food source, they were already surviving with 10x less ants.

Likewise, whether or not centralized geographic areas scale well doesn't really matter. What matters is how all other options scale - and they scale worse.

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I've lived in rural America for the past decade for my wife's job. I've been fortunate to be able to work remotely, but without that I'd likely be unemployed or far underemployed. There just aren't job opportunities for me in small towns.
Yep, that's what always gets me about those advocating for "responsibile" restrictions on AI or other technology - the writer always seems to have the base assumption that they are one of the esteemed few with the lofty intelligence and morals required to tell the plebs how to think. It's no different then the nobles wanting to keep literacy and printing presses away from the lay people
The point is to not treat it like a religion. Scientific conclusions are not blessed by god as divine and absolute truth. As much as we wish the world was black and white, it's much more shades of gray, and we should each do our part to make sure that religious zealots do not use "the science" as a political cudgel.
It's time people internalize the systems theory rule that the goal of a system is what it does.

The maximum number of people that can hold a goal is 1. More than that, and there's no goal.
Cool! I've tried a directive and tried a component (with slots) but I haven't tried a composable, mainly because I wasn't sure how to set up event handlers that way. (I don't have a lot of experience with composables)
Layoffs from the Founder’s Perspective
Hero?

Running code on other people's computers is heroic?

I guess there is a certain amount of bravery and or hubris required to do so.
As someone who has been saved from more serious injury by a helmet more than once … that’s flat-earth levels of delusion.
Why do you keep saying Serbia should stop waging wars when Serbia actually didn't wage any wars in the last 24 years at least? If you don't count Kosovo war (considering it's Serbia's territory as per the UN) then it's more like 28 years.

It would also be extremely foolish for Serbia to ignore hostilities towards Serbs from others. How long into the past can we go? 24 years, 20, 50, 100, 200, 300? Violence in 2004 on Kosovo? I mean you seems to be perfectly fine excusing current terror against Serbs by something that happened 25 years ago. The whole issue in the Balkans is lack of trust due to experience with each other, which is not really good. You can't have favourites here.

What you're writing is pure nonsensical propaganda with throwing out 'promoting nationalism, constant violence'. Show me an example of Serbia promoting violence in the last 20 years? I think they are quite pacified. Kosovo is a complex issue and you can't just expect a sovereign country to give a part of their internationally recognized territory away. I guess you equate Serbia not recognising Kosovo as independent country as promoting nationalism and violence. It's like saying Ukraine is promoting violence when they fight in Donbas. Serbia and Kosovo were on their way to peace and some kind of normality when EU negotiated the treaty 10 years ago. Guess who it is that didn't implement what they signed. What is happening today is a direct consequence of that.
If you fake and get away with it you’re already admitting to a type of laziness, so it expands y til finally you are faking it so lazily that you get caught.

Faking data realistically is almost as hard as getting it honestly. I know, I “expanded the data pool” for my eight grade science project.
Any models of folding ebikes that you liked? I’m in the market for one.
Comparatively, very little [1].

And with developing nations quickly moving up the economic ladder, there's perhaps hope this comes to an end within a few short generations.

[1] https://www.plasticethics.com/home/2019/3/17/the-countries-p...
> However, the enable input is a fairly obscure feature for a flip-flop component; most flip-flop chips have a clock input, but not an enable.

The clock-enable is actually really common for flops in an integrated circuit; it might have been unusual in the days of discrete TTL, but as the article concedes, practically every cell library or FPGA fabric you can find will have it.

Not only is it commonly present, but the CE is used all the time by the synthesis/technology-mapping process, indeed any time you write an `if` without an `else` within a clock-edge sensitive process, the tool is probably going to use a CE.

On an FPGA, the only other option is a LUT-based feedback mux which can be undesirable for various reasons, including the use of additional routing resources if the fabric has no dedicated route in each CLB from the output flop to the input LUT, and the increased fanout on the flop.
> The images were not distributed, and have been confiscated by police.

I was actually happy this guy got arrested and sentenced until I read the images were not even distributed. Now I'm conflicted about it, and lean towards this being repressive and wrong. I mean, how did the cops even find out about this? Seems like a privacy violation has occurred in order for the arrest to happen in the first place.
This is South Korea, you know where they popularize this with at one point less than 14 year old girls:

https://www.koreaboo.com/lists/kpop-idols-youngest-currently...

(and she's now slightly over 14, and I do mean slightly. Long way to her 15th birthday)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2_5AZjAoMi0 (you might want to watch this one in incognito mode. I mean it's youtube, so it's "not sexual", but calling it SFW is lunacy. you'll see what I mean)

At least she looks like she might be 16 ...

In short: I feel like this society is long past the idea of sexualizing kids being perfectly OK.

Obviously, I have kids, I'd like this guy to stop. But I do think, uh, could this whole young girls KPOP thing stop too, the whole thing? Obviously it is creating guys like this. In fact the guy is at least not using, and not hurting, real girls.

Because yes, KPOP has lead to suicides by the "artist" girls, whereas this guy (correct me if I'm wrong) so far has not hurt a fly.
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but timers ("hey siri, set a timer for 10 minutes") is the most common thing I use a voice assistant for. Works great, though.
`form-sizing:grow` would definitely be more intuitive
US schools receive funding based on the region they're in. Therefore, poor neighborhood => bad school.
Can you point to the evidence that a bicyclist being hit by a car benefits from wearing a helmet.

Also, the exact same logic applies when a pedestrian is hit by a car. How many articles do you see where an article about a pedestrian being hit by a car talks about the pedestrian not wearing a helmet.

Why not?
Does this survey ask people after age 45, 55, and so on?

The winter can be much colder for those without warm memories of summer.
In your case, what measures do you take to prevent correlation across the relay and your service? Who manages the relay?
> How can someone who likes viewing this look at a child on the street and not see them as a sexual object?

You have causation backwards. They look at it because they see children sexually, not the other way around. If it worked how you propose, then homosexuality could be changed to heterosexuality simply by viewing the right porn - and vice-versa.

If you think gender is different than age, try making yourself attracted to 70+ year-old women by viewing porn featuring them.
It's not just choices, it's the economic reality. I don't want my children to grow poor..my generation knows how poor and not poor looks like, while older generations were generally poor ignorance made bringing more kids into that not such a big deal.
But we are not ignorant, and we know that this economy is very good at giving us the shiny but non important stuff, while depriving us a stable home healthcare and education. At that, I'd rather have less children that are more affluent.

And I'd rather economy change it's broken record of growth at all costs, cause that's definitely not sustainable.
Cluttering existing properties with overloaded meanings is also not great IMO.
> I think it’s a stretch to associate fungal infections with autism.

I think this tends to discount the emerging narratives about the link between gut microbiome and neurotransmitters.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9504309/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234057/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.6491...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacte...

People are not used to this idea that what happens in your microfauna may play this super important role in what happens in your head, but there are already links to things like parkinsons and anxiety/depression.

To me it's not a stretch to associate fungal infections with a neurological disorder or symptom presentation at all, it's a pretty natural extension of the research that's happened over the last 10-15 years. And in several (human) case studies and research scenarios (mice), there is evidence for an actual causal link and not just "people with neurodivergence have fucked up microbiomes" too - treat the microbiome and you treat the parkinsons, or the ASD, and you can induce autism-like symptoms in mice by infecting their microbiome with B. fragilis.

Not a doctor but this does seem like probably the biggest thing people have tended to ignore (studiously, in some cases), that microbiome might play this huge role in things like weight or mental health. 100 years later, we are going to look back at this as an obvious case of science more or less ignoring what was right in front of our faces because it wasn't medicalized yet.
> with an (empirically battletested) consensus mechanism.

In fact there almost as many consensus mechanisms as there are blockchains. In the beginning it was PoW that defined what was a blockchain, but with its obsolescence in favor of Proof of stakes for many chains the situation got muddier. Facebook's Libra/Diem for instance was based on a strongly consistent algorithm (as opposed to the eventually consistent nature of PoS) that's not that different from PBFT and ByzPaxos.
Thanks! Looks promising from the outside. Will surely check out
$50k is chump change for Google. Regardless, there are costs and regulations associated with making a phone, and if you aren’t willing to adhere to that, you’d better keep making search engines and other websites.
Some observations:

1. Interesting, how fundamentally analog element such as capacitor, find its way into dynamic logic circuits.

2. The article states that asynchronous computers are not made anymore. Is not google TPU asynchronous?
Ask HN: Why does iOS lie about storage space required for updates?
I go to my iPhone settings to install an update. It says I can’t install the update because “at least 3.92 GB of storage space required.” I check my storage space. It’s 5.88 GB. Does anyone know what’s going on here?
Totally, the other animals that also have negative footprint are pets, farming animals due to their food and care

All other animals are autonomous and participating in the ecosystem
Well as long as one keeps their mental rot within themselves, I don't see how its anyone's business. Thought policing is much more dangerous for society (and the children) than someone's private nonsense.
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You're infantilizing an entire subgroup of humanity based on nothing but your perceived stupidity of them.
There are plenty of compact options for sure, but I haven’t found any as ‘hassle-free’, at least when I reach my final destination :)

I also have a folding e-bike which has larger and wider wheels than a scooter, which is preferable in my opinion. The problem with scooters and e-bikes, even folding ones, are that a lot of buildings will not let you take them indoors. Or most will have you use a freight elevator, which is operated manually AND has set hours that it’s run.

There’s also the difficulty of storing/locking them if you go out for dinner or some other event. Something as small as a Onewheel that you could pick up and walk with, and is small enough to store under a table, or take on a train without blocking anyone is a dream in this sort of environment.

Edit: I should also note that I’m speaking from my very NYC perspective.
The line is surely at "inaccurate" which is mentioned up-thread and in the case. Neither of your scenarios describe an inaccurate datum, just old (but not outdated)
Someone selling solutions to a problem the salesman doesn't believe exists is a swindler. But yours are not the only possible beliefs, and having different beliefs than you doesn't make someone a swindler.
Yeah citations can be as simple as "this concept was mentioned in this paper first".
> who the hell is buying these houses

REIT

> where the hell is the money for them coming from?

From thousands of investors
Yeah, I feel you. Clearly in that case, she dodged a bullet.

But you hear about people having to explain drug possession charges, or even robbery charges from their past when they were a different person. We pretend like we actually want the judicial system to at least sometimes “fix” people but we make it next to impossible to do that. We assign a “price” to pay back to society, and the whole point is that price is supposed to be concrete and understandable.

The line is hard to draw between crimes where “society agrees you’ve ruined your life” (child molestation) and “society wants you to get better”. (drug possession, I hope?)

Maybe I’m more so vouching for “public awareness” to be a part of the sentencing procedure? (Allowing crimes without that punishment minimum to be forgotten on public platforms like Google.)

We already have laws/precedence that make the distinction between degrees of homicide for example. So the fuzzy line problem is already kind of solved in that sense? We’ve being doing that sort of difficult sorting for other punishments for many centuries. We just assume that EVERY crime is worth remembering at the moment.
Fair point; it's not that changing diagnostics mean that there can't be environmental/dietary changes contributing to increased autism cases, it's that the article just entirely skips over that part. It describes an outcome, describes a potential cause that could explain that outcome and then says, "and obviously also diets too."
My favorite people misunderstanding statistics & risk management was 2020 summer many people biking helmetless in unprotected bike lanes while wearing a face mask.

Clearly the risk of catching a viral load outdoors in summer at 20mph is multiple orders of magnitude lower than smashing your head on cement while moving on a city street..
> $50k is chump change for Google.

c.f. my comment:

> > > It shouldn't be too expensive, but

People just don't read and understand that you can agree with the broader scope of comment but not the details.
This piece is very readable, but a tiny bit funny is how loaded the storytelling is, given the subject matter.

The storyteller wants the reader to think certain things about characters and events, and facts and impressions are cherry-picked and deployed just so, to support that.

I guess seeing the persuasion as that of a storyteller might be understood in this kind of journalism (I don't know, especially since the subject matter seems delicate), but I believe that scientific research needs higher standards.
Authors shocked to find AI ripoffs of their books being sold on Amazon
Its not backwards. It may be circular. They view it because they want to, but viewing it doesn't satisfy the craving long term. It reinforces it.
Yes but how much more convenient would it be with haptic feedback‽
SPA = Single Page Application
There really is no ethical way to run the experiment that would give us that data.
Is it really overloaded though?

Without fully reading the spec it seems reasonable.
The planet will survive just fine. Over enough time, whatever species manage to survive this, will evolve to thrive in the environment we have created. See e.g. the plastic eating bacteria. However, humans might not survive the major alterations we are introducing to the ecosystem. Or at least, we probably don't want to wait long enough time for the human physiology to adapt to it.
I don't know why you are so insistent on this.

With chemotherapy, we have literally have so much empirical evidence that the benefits far outweigh the risks. We understand the mechanism of action of chemotherapy enough to assess its risk profile.

With lobotomies, we understand enough about the brain now to know that the risk profile is extremely bad. Additionally, empirical evidence has shown that outcomes are pretty bad anyway! We have better tools and ways to understand the brain now to not give people a brain-destroying "treatment" that is basically a random, low chance of success. Would you reasonably prescribe getting shot in the head as a treatment if it had worked on one person?
Fortunately, in the US it’s fairly easy to draw a line: There’s no First Amendment exception for “I’d rather you didn’t remind people of that.”
I have one but it's quite heavy and designed more around cargo, trips to the grocery store etc. I have used to it commute into town to go to the office a few times and it works ok for it, but if I started doing that every day I'd probably buy something more 'commutery'.

I have a rad power bikes 'expand 5'.
Awesome. I loved BeOS back in the day. Waiting for Haiku to make a release.
The widespread use of "trust and safety" as the term for moderation teams always surprises me. It's such a laughably transparent form of spin that I'd call it Orweillan if it weren't just so pitiful. It's like when an HR department renames themselves to something stupid like the "Teammate Advocates", and you can't help but feel sorry for whoever thought it would do anything but make people laugh at them
This is a common failure mode tech people get into in debates: finding an extreme example as an analogy. There's lots of obvious differences of context and differences of degree which get swept over by a very abstract kind of stripped-bare framework, "what's the essential philosophical difference here?" If someone can't see those differences it's almost pointless trying to enumerate them because honestly it feels like a disingenuous debate trick (my apologies if I'm wrong in that accusation).

You have an extremely wealthy corporation incentivized to collect massive amounts of very personal data about every part of you and you desires and psychology, incentivized and well-able to collect it in hidden and powerful ways across the web and build deep learning models of your psychology and desires, and store them in a place where it's possible for nefarious actors and governments to either legally or illegally access and use that information for unknown purposes. If you object to this characterization, fine, start with the objection, but it's an obvious characterization which I've presented, and it's obvious that this is what people are concerned about! Starting the conversation with "it's no different, philosophically, from your grocer knowing your love of chocolate" is such a non-starter only because it seems so disingenuous, like, how could you not see how your interlocutor sees it differently? It just presents so clean and abstract a little simplification, though, so it's handy for winning point in a debate setting.
I have been part of the C++ standards committee for 13 years.
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New evidence was released in the DOJ vs Google case. The judge for the case called this evidence "embarrassing" to Google.

It's a bad headline. There's no a complete sentence here. "DOJ vs. Google evidence release" is a noun phrase ("release" here is used as a noun), modified by the clause "that judge calls embarrassing exhibit". In that clause, "judge" is the subject, "calls" is the verb, "that" is the direct object, and "embarrassing exhibit" is an object compliment, which refers to the same thing as "that". So basically we just have a big noun phrase.
bad school in the US => colleges particularly enthusiastic about accepting you as an underprivileged child

lower tier school in germany => no higher education
StopTheScript (NoScript but for iOS)
I totally agree, and I assume that's why a new property is being used. But I'm failing to see a real distinction.

Yes, it's a form component, so as the user provides more text input, the element grows. But in that case, text nodes are being inserted into the DOM and thus increases the dimensions of the element's content.

If a div has `width: fit-content` applied, then it is expected to grow and shrink according to...the dimensions of the element's content.

What's different? I know that I must be wrong, but I'm honestly not seeing it.
> ET with its own space capsule will not happen anytime soon.

Or may have already ready been and gone billions of years ago.
Not sure why people use TG for secrecy anymore, as it's been proven to have none of the benefits sought after by privacy forward folks.

This is just another nail in the coffin.
> I’m happy they are acknowledging that

A full year after the CSPC told them they had problems YEARS after their customers had been telling them they had problems.
The entire Justice department under Lina Khan has been a failure, a first year law student could pose holes in most of her arguments.

She has been slapped down repeatedly by judges.
Sorry, you’re right, that’s the wrong word.

I mean “tried and convicted”.
That’s interesting and easy enough to experiment. While I do not have mixed performance cores, I have been curious if pinning processes results in any noticeable smoothness. I get annoyed at various Gnome garbage that occasionally thrashes.