skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this view is shared by some of the most renowned geopolitical analysts in the USA. It's not popular in the mass media, but it is absolutely not a view that should discredit anyone, unless you believe you and the media are qualified to say John Mearsheimer[1] does not have a balanced view of the conflict, while you, with all your background knowledge about Ukraine and Russian relations, do.

His arguments are easy to read if you're at all interested in different views: https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

Here's a very good article that criticizes his views:

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09/tragedy-john-mear...

> Stephen Kotkin, the preeminent historian of the Soviet Union, and Michael McFaul, the US ambassador to Russia between 2012 and 2014, acknowledged that Mearsheimer was “a giant of a scholar” and “one the clearest, most logical realist theorists out there”, but he was wrong to blame the US for Putin’s invasion.

Some of his statements in this article:

"International politics is a tragedy – it always has been, it is today, and it always will be. Those who believe that you can escape the iron cage, and transcend this Hobbesian world, are delusional. My argument disturbs liberals greatly.”

“The tragedy ... is that you could have two states who are content with the status quo and have no interest in fighting or competing for power. Nevertheless, because they cannot know each other’s intentions, and because they operate in an anarchic system, they have to assume the worst about each other and have to compete for power."

Even if you disagree with some of his arguments, I would think anyone with a rationale view of the subject will agree that there's at least some truth to it, and that the Russian government is not completely mad for thinking in those terms, as the West seems to so strongly believe in general (notice how governments always paint a picture of the "enemy" as being a mad, senseless thug - this is nothing new).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mearsheimer
I've heard Nazis used encryption.

Ergo, encryption helped Nazis.
no problem, immigration's gonna fix it
Heck yes, I know.

I've programmed in it myself, on both the Commodore 64 and the BBC Micro. I liked that instruction set. Those were the days of 8- and 16-bit computers with slow speed and low RAM (compared to today), when people used all kinds of clever tricks to save a byte here or a clock cycle there. Good fun.
TFA says that you were right before 17. There is a lot of fuzziness in the words we use.
A 2.1x modifier isn't fair though, because life cycle is also reduced by 1/3.

Also, if I have a 15 Pro Max and it overheata, I'll simply go and have it replaced under sane consumer laws.
> Poverty is a variable to properly taking care of a child, that does not mean that the parent means that being poor automatically makes one unfit to have a child, which is what you're conflating, if I understand correctly.

In fact, the other commenters were conflating these two things, which I wanted to point out. I agree that they should not be conflated.

> If one is poor but can provide the proper nutrition and housing to a child, then great, have them, but if not, then no, I don't believe it is controversial or offensive to say that it would be better for them to not have a child. Child abuse is a big problem for a reason.

The right decision for an individual couple to make is not the same as the right policies and practices for society to implement.

There are people who are unsuitable for having children, but that number is vanishingly small (or at least it should be). Everybody else just needs support, resources, and instruction.

It might be better for a couple that does not have support, resources or knowledge to forgo having children. Whenever that happens, though, it is a tragedy for humanity. The rest of us should find ways to support families that are otherwise lacking, so that having children is the best option for them.
It is.

> Several came into English in the 1400s, but didn't develop its quantity meanings until the 1500s. (Several initially meant "distinct or separate" in English.) Yes, meanings: several originally referred to more than one.

>> They be but one heire, and yet severall persons.
— Edward Coke, _The first part of the institutes of the lawes of England _, 1628

It even mentions Jupiter's moons later!
https://www.theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-onlin...
Call it E-Hobo.
I must note while IBM is no longer a shining beacon of innovation, it still exists, still employs almost 300K people, still part of SP100 and still one of the largest technology companies in the world. It may eventually diminish even more than it has now, but I don't think it's time yet to talk about it as if it were dead and buried.
I love this article! Thanks for sharing
I have aphantasia and it’s definitely a real thing. I realised I have it after seeing it on a daytime TV show when it was first discovered. Before then, like what happened with the writer of this, everyone just dismissed it as nonsense, “of course you can see images in your head!”

Finding out it was a condition was a very exciting day. today now also feels like an exciting day!
Housing is expensive because speculators use it to get rich.

You will not stop the artificially high cost of housing without addressing that root cause.
However as per your link, there is growth on the 'premium' side,
of which the model in question is.
My theory is we've become sufficiently entertained that we could easily envision never becoming truly bored of our lives. There's a constant flow of social media, games, content to stream, etc. If you feel a void in your life, a lack of purpose, you may choose to invest in a child. But, it's a very expensive hobby which requires a ton of time and dedication. Like all long-term investments, there's no reasonable way to know if your ROI will be above your desired threshold when you made the investment.

I'm in my 40's and when I was born my parents had newspapers, radio and 3 channels on the TV. The channels stopped airing content after midnight. They'd have been bored to death if they didn't have kids.
In the worst case you can copy paste a patch into a new local file in the repo and then apply it with git from there. I’ve had somebody slack me patches before and it is not a big lift.
Please report this kind of stuff as a GitHub issue.. The odds of getting a problem solved (and not just by jumping to another solution) is way higher. If I where to guess uninstalling Nim through Homebrew still left some packages behind and now you're seeing some conflicts. Try to delete `~/.nimble/pkgs` and `~/.nimble/pkgs2` to make sure you're starting fresh and then try again.
Existence of "point of view" does not make it subjective. You can think the moon is made of Swiss cheese, that doesn't make its composition subjective, it just makes you wrong.
Control behavior by regulating the intermediary

Most police accountability discussion are binary ideas, false dilemmas

When you can easily ignore the police officer themself and create triggers that affect other people. Officer does something sketchy? Massive lien on the entire pension fund. That’ll make the people in the department keep each other in check. Make the consequence for not crossing the “thin blue line” greater.

There are lots of intermediaries vulnerable to this concept when looking at it this way.
Sure, but I'm talking about the etymology and origin of the word couple as in people, which derives from the same word as couple, as in two. I'm not saying anything about the sociological relationship of a couple versus a pair of people.
> I'd like to offer a more critical perspective as a Portuguese living in Portugal.

I’d like to offer some context for comments such as these as a portuguese living in Portugal.

The portuguese have very low self-esteem as a people. They very often criticize their own country in very harsh terms with a strong bias towards “the grass is always greener on the other side” and tend to steer conversations away from any positive aspects (most often by trying to present them as negative).

Foreigners are expected to passively agree with negative comments about Portugal. But beware: contributing with additional negative aspects is frowned upon and will trigger a sudden patriotic episode.
I no longer bring mango pickles from India——I started making it since 2022[0] San Francisco Bay Area Summer.

[0] https://twitter.com/1ndus/status/1497310793964027908
Because at some point our public servants had a modicum of integrity in their stated mission: the public good.
The Iraq invasion was an atrocity no doubt.

The difference is that, in the American system, the political faction that engineered that invasion has lost most of its power through a democratic mechanism. The Bush-era neoconservatives are not the dominant force in the Republican Party anymore. Trumpism is clearly opposed to foreign interventions.

In the Chinese system, a similar reckoning about Tiananmen and other atrocities remains unthinkable. The one true Party must be on the correct path, and faith in that can’t be shaken.

As broken as American democracy is, a two-party system fueled by private money is still much better than a single-party system that also controls the money.
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> What, might I ask, is the minimum acceptable level of income that a couple should have before having children? What do they do, those hard-working, upright and moral couples who don't make enough money to meet your standard? Should they live their whole lives childless, and die alone?

The whole tone of your message, talking about child as a passive thing that you conceive for the sake of making parents “not alone” already speaks a lot about how much you give a shit about whether A KID would be happy being born into this family.

In which family did you grow up? Pops and moms were happy campers with middle class income?
UFOs in Brazil, the Official Story
I’ve suggested binary distribution as part of a black box exercise in the past. Locking down the source and being able to change details for each candidate would mean solutions posted online would not help.
Indeed, and back before the modern day, people really only had sex as their main enjoyment, which they now don't really need anymore. Of course more kids were conceived in the past versus now, they were bored out of their minds otherwise. Once we get virtual worlds with fully realistic sensory input, I doubt people will really have kids at all anymore.
Personally I gave up having my own computer about 10 years ago. Probably not the “safest” strategy, but I always found it a bit wasteful to buy a second device.
If I were a government, I would let the police do its job without mass surveillance. Also, not all problems can be solved. Or, if I were a government, I would command all companies and individuals to drop what they are doing and work non-stop on cancer research.
Ask HN: What's the best local sentence transformer?
Basically what's in the title. There's been such a crazy amount of development in local LLMs if you look at LLaMa, Mistral, etc.

It feels like using OpenAI's Ada to get text embeddings is probably not at all the best option at this point. What would be the best / most cost efficient way of getting text embeddings these days? Preferably open source.
I really looked forward to each issue of Dr Dobbs Journal, and Creative Computing!
Presumably you mean cafes free from leeches taking up all the seating, after buying one coffee per day.

+1 for that
Not sure and also not sure how to prove that. She was mostly cursing in our
team meetings, did not let her directs finish sentences, and was really loud. She also didn’t show up for almost any of the 1:1s - he favorite way of communication was randomly calling team members on their cell phones while she was driving and called that 1:1. 15 years in tech; this experience was unique for me.
Because suing your own good companies (like Google and Amazon) is unbelievably expensive for tax-payers and anyways counter-productive. That's why.
I’m a solo indie developer trying to do almost exactly what this article advocates for and tbh, I’m not sure it’s been the right move.

I’m almost 2 months into a project which essentially boils down to an iteration of Asteroids & have a demo up on Steam, but while I’m really pleased with it so far, I’d be surprised if the game even makes $1,000 at this stage, let alone $10,000. I’d be very happy with the latter though as I’m treating this very much as a learning experience, not the least in terms of getting my head around the marketing & community building side of things.

I’ve also worked on a game which I’d consider to be a “modest success” that took 2-3 years with a friend & sold enough copies for my share to so far pay (almost) £24k/year, which as others have mentioned isn’t exactly a competitive salary for a software developer generally.

In particular, while I can probably build small games in the 2-3 month timeframes suggested (especially if each is an iteration on the last), don’t forget all the “marketing admin” & trailer making & so forth. That’s also definitely not enough time to build enough wishlists to get any Steam visibility etc.

Still, definitely timely food for thought for me personally!
What would you have people do instead that is actually helping and not virtue signaling?
I think the authors strategy is only feasible if you've built out a few middle tier games, have processes and optimised the build loop.

Just because you must release at least 2-3 mid games, or more, per year to break even
AKA what most people know of as “the suitcases that Blackpink use”. They popularized it when they were filmed riding on them last winter.
4 hours one way! that's sad
I've noticed listed problems, they surely do exist. but stepping back a little - proposed solution sounds like: "lets make a brand new version control system for already existing version control system".
Definitely, it's this. The EU treats companies like they're horrible monsters, and then looks away when it does far worse shit.

It's (the EU's) authoritative to companies by suppressing them with penalties and bueacratic laws, but allows itself (the governments and states) unending tolerance in whatever it does.
seems like a circular argument
Your comment has little to do with the nonsense being spouted about monopolies almost always being due to government.

"Free market" isn't a particularly well defined concept given the broad range of its interpretation and use, eg: Churchill's "Land is the mother of all monopoly" comment wrt land ownership dragging down a truly 'free' market., etc.
This is what i've always wanted - moddable languages.

Currently if you mostly like a lang, your options are to keep using it and occasionally complain about your frustrations or make your own lang from scratch, never seeing it go anywhere (unless you win a lottery). I know at least 2 nontrivial projects that are "Rust but X done differently", plus a whole bunch of Rust-based scripting langs like Rhai.

This opens the possibility of having different presets of tradeoffs tailored for specific tasks. Rust marketed itself as a systems lang and a lot of people including me thought that + memory safety would make it a great choice for gamedev. But anybody who actually used it to make non-toy games is bitter and frustrated about it. It's too verbose, borrowck gets in the way, features we need have been proposed years and and then nothing, ....

Now we can have what we need without compromising Rust for uses uses. Number literals that automatically infer to both integers and floats and check that no precision is lost (which is NOT silent casting). Even automatic casting in high-level parts of gamelogic. We can have automatically inferred partial borrows.

This would make Rust actually usable for gamedev and many other tasks without giving people from other areas a reason to stomp down our ergonomic features.
What is the definition of "reasonably comfortable life"? From the point of view of most of human history and most of the people currently living on earth, even the poorest people in US and Europe live _unreasonably_ comfortable lives.

If the viewpoint you promote was common anytime in history humanity would not exist today.
The changeset workflow is what Gerrit uses. Gerrit is great.

There's a free service (GerritHub) that lets you use Gerrit for your public GitHub project. The learning curve for it is pretty steep if you've never used Gerrit before, though, and it does have some reliability issues. But for a certain kind of project it can really transform the code review experience.
I frequently use “suggestion” to provide a change I think would be better.

‘’’suggestion
<code block>
‘’’
even if nothing is being sold, the fact that the author went to so much trouble to write umpteen paragraphs of dross, but didn't bother to transcribe the actual useful information. I may not be suspicious, but I am annoyed
> It's well known by psychologists working with child molesters that CSAM consumption leads to action.

Do you have a study on that that you can link to?

I feel like so much of what is done in this space is based on what someone thinks would work, not what actually does, making us all waste time and effort. Very much like the "videogames cause violence" argument.

Paedophiles existed before such materials became widely available. Arguably it was more common back then. What's the reason and how to stop it?
Personally, I've never understood the selfishness argument, especially by parents, as 1) Isn't it more selfish to create a literal new entity of life just for your own whims? and 2) What is wrong with selfishness, especially in light of their own selfishness in 1?

This is not even to mention that many parents simply do not care for their children well, as parental child abuse cases as well as the number of potential adoptees in the world is non-trivial. Now that is truly a cruelly selfish act more than any amount of not having kids can be, to bring a conscious entity into the world and then to let it suffer.
I don’t know if there actually is a sizable group of people or a sizable group of influencers who astroturfed enough public awareness into a sizable group of people.

That output is just a highly concentrated sample of what academic and cultural influencers have been paid to promote either on TikTok or Reddit or the classroom.

A problem that will only increase as the ability to put on mass propaganda campaigns virtually only gets cheaper and more effective with the help your friendly AI assistant.

No that output is trite rightspeak gobblygook that no one could possibly believe without significant coaching on tv, social media, the classroom, and finally your HR mandatory education requirements.

addendum: every now and then I’ll notice a mass influencing campaign because I will get a PING from Apple News about a story, typically about topics and from news sources that Ive explicitly banned. Shortly afterwards PING! not just the same story but same catch words and sentence structure starts popping up everywhere else on the internet. So yeah I think some of what is on the internet is forced programming made to look like a majority opinion and AI is being trained on that not actual people’s opinions.
Bernaise was credited with "public relations" i think he was just hired to market. Famously his "Torches of Freedom" - which got cigarettes in the hand of women.
Anecdotal comment: Check out Chezmoi. Its worked really well for me.
Food Delivery Robots Feeding Camera Footage to LAPD, Internal Emails Show
> From my point of view, life is beautiful and challenges make it interesting

This is a very deep and philosophical question, I think its perfectly reasonable for people who are not depressed to still come to the conclusion that they don't want to create more life since life itself is too difficult.
Even in a best case scenario of being born to a rich, loving family in some prosperous democracy you still have to deal with yours and everyone you loves mortality.

I think there's another interesting issue that may be going on - people postpone having kids more and more, many start seriously considering it in their late 30s. That's an age where most people also start feeling the squeeze of midlife - ill parents you need to take care of, sometimes your own health starting to decline a bit etc. It's not surprising some people give up on kids.
At the risk of sounding shallow, Bad Lieutenant is amazing
That's why God invented Parens.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-08
Your head and feet are moving at the same speed. Very fast. The board leaves you behind by stopping. You now put one foot on the ground. Because of friction, your foot stops and goes flying behind you before you can put your next foot on the ground or apply any meaningful weight to it. Because your foot was thrown backwards, it applies angular momentum to your body and you begin spinning around your center of mass (aka, falling forward). Less than 100ms has passed at this point. In the best case, your other foot is impacting the ground, right now, directly under you. But it can't take your weight before it has flung behind you and adding to your angular momentum, forcing you to go face first. It is at this point, you are capable of realizing you are going to fall face first. You have ~80ms to realize this, and put your arms up, before impact. Even if you have amazing reflexes, an impulse isn't reaching your muscles in less than 40ms, that means you need to move your arms from 'keeping balance mode' to 'defensive mode' (including applying resistive power to keep them there) in less than another 40ms. It literally isn't happening.
The USA already has less than a 3rd of the population of India or China, but I don't think feels seriously threatened by either (in terms of a likely direct attack).
Apps did not just fail to help me meet someone. They really harmed my self esteem. Even when a match on an app becomes a real date, the lack of any context other than the app makes those dates really weird. "Could I have kids with this suspicious stranger from the Internet?" I could never be myself. Never had a second date through an app.

Met my SO after I had stopped looking for romance at a hobby club. In social and hobby contexts people can glimpse the breadth and depth of your personality. Others can vouch for you and speak well of you. You actually have something to talk about. It feels much more organic and not forced at all.

I challenge you to make 200-300 friends and acquaintances and not find a romantic relationship. Looking back, that's actually what I was doing, and somehow romance fell into my lap. We go married last year.
Who are they being selfish to?

Or maybe parents are selfish? They ever asked their unborn child if they want to be born?
You can book Tokyo-Osaka Shinkansen tickets online now. The lines owned by JR Central all have online booking now. You can also connect your IC card to your ticket, so no paper ticket is required.

The people are typically oblivious because they are indoctrinated into following the process without questioning things.

If you speak with Japanese people in a private, psychologically safe setting, they will open up about all sorts of things, including continuing to use fax machines!
deepspeed
Shift to mobile is an underestimated factor in the decline of Google. TikTok is becoming search engine of choice for mobile first generation, not only because of the user generated content but because UX on search is much superior
"To worship is part of being human."

Proof for that? I don't deny is has been a big part of much of human existence over the millennia, but there's zero evidence it's a necessary part of our very being.
Hmm, reminds me of a certain movie…
Serbian gunmen not the Kosovo police at that point.
Except TSMC, what unicorns does Taiwan have?