skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"decent standard of living" has changed a bit since WW2 also.

Granted, it'd be hard on a single median income today, but if you're making two, three times median - in your 20s - it should be doable. And that's everyone on a six figure tech salary, to start off with.
In another comment, you claimed that “Black Lives Matter leaders … died in mysterious accidents and car fires.”

This ventures firmly into the realm of conspiracy theory.

Do you feel you are presenting objective facts, as opposed to participating in disinformation or propaganda?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37722962
Development is one of the worst cases for a tablet though. Almost any other task works better.
bay area/silicon valley. I had joined ~6 months ago
To sum up, you don't have kids because you want to save them from... life.

Uhh are you okay?
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Great to see this topic on HN(aphantasia). I learned about that about 3-4 years ago from my colleagues. Before that I wasn't aware that people can see images. I certainly couldn't (still cannot).

I read a lot about this topic and it's fascinating. This does not only apply to images but also sounds and smells. I cannot "imagine" them too. So I presume that a great musician is able to imagine certain instruments clearly in his head. At least a friend told me that he could do this. And a master chef will probably be able to imagine the taste of different ingredients.

I however cannot. At times this realization feels quite sad. I try to however see the benefits to this.. there are some. E.g. I have a great sleep. I always told my wife that I close my eyes and the world is gone. I then can just fall a sleep given that I am tired enough. She never understood that.

Were this held me back in my life is drawing and chess playing. I am good chess player on club level but I never managed to play blindfolded more than a few moves. I now know why. I also always needed references before me when drawing. I imagine a good mind's eye could be of great help here.

I will certainly try the techniques mentioned in the article/video. But I think if you can learn it depends on whether you have the ability at all. I might have dreamed with pictures very rarely but I am not sure about it. We will see if the technique does something for me.
imho rational beings have to reject it as it undermines trust and hence society as a whole.
Yes. Bugs are there, but either they're shallow, well known and worked around, or have low impact for the majority of people using them.

The epitome of that was utf-8 support for a long time: there were a huge number of bugs, but alaphabet based languages would be mostly ok, and most devs would know it was a mess and work around that as much as they can.

To me one should expect any software to be broken in numerous ways, and take the time to check what happens around the area that are critical to them.

> compose software from small, self-contained,isolated, well-understood parts, so that you can reason about the whole more easily.

That looks awfully close to the micro-service approach as well. The approach can be good, but it still gives me pause.
> As much as I like "free speech" to be the answer, this is a pretty chilling downstream result of a platform not being able to do heavy human moderation.

A net income of $23 billion in 2022. Meta is willingly not doing heavy human moderation; profit is more important than genocide.

There's no excuse.
> well it's just not really clear that adding a statistically average human is the way to increase human prosperity / reduce human suffering.

All of history has been an steady march forward of more prosperity and less suffering accomplished by an entire population of, on average, average people.
Much different from one of Bob Widlar's random maxims that was "[digital?] every idiot can count to one."
they arguably operate from china
I have a feeling that, unless you are blind due to illness of the brain, that everyone has the capability to visualize internally. This would include your wife when she is reading. I think they difference is that some people have access to this visualization consciously, with their frontal cortex, and for others it's subconscious. If you didn't have this visualization, I believe it would be really hard to commit what you read to memory and have any sense of a story.

When I meditate, one of the practices is to label thoughts as they arise. When you do this, you realize that a huge amount of thoughts pass by subconsciously. You notice them more and more as you label them, but it feels like a deep rabbit hole of thought that I haven't gotten to the bottom of yet.

edit: just looked at the article and realized that the technique is essentially thought labeling. This is one of the most common practices in Buddhist meditation.
All these comments, like this, are hilarious. I grew up below the poverty line, and it was great. Big screen TVs are not what makes life worth living. Something tells me you commenters value belongings so much because they're all you have and are.
They did a lot more than just that: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
Occam's razor can be double-edged sometimes.
It is too much work. It’s way too complex.
No, I was responding to your questions, specifically:

> is there really all that much demand for the size of game advocated for?

Yes, people do buy and play small games.

> Aren't those publishers asking for bigger games because that's what the market is looking for?

Obviously, there is demand for big games because big games sell. But the publishers focusing on big games doesn't mean that there is only demand for big games. There are multiple reasons why publishers would not be interested in small games or small studios.
Good on Portugal for the effort but nothing out of the ordinary, in terms of CO2 this is average performance:

(select Portugal, emissions over
the last 12 months)

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

Gas still accounts for a lot of the production
For many species, having offspring is a no-op. The Luna moth literally has no mouth (and I'm not sure if it must scream, either), so when it procreates, it creates yet more offspring that also have no mouths. The moth does not do anything while it exists beyond procreating, as there is nothing it can do; in other words, it existing is simply a no-op, in the computer science sense.

Therefore, even if procreating is our only purpose, we can still ponder what the point of doing so actually is. Since we are intellectual beings, we can decide whether it's a logical decision or not, so that we don't end up no-ops either. I've seen friends and family members where kids are born to teen parents, who then have kids as teens, who then have kids as teens, and so on. Those are the equivalent of the moths, those teens have not had the chance to grow and achieve more, they were simply procreating to procreate, and they could not get out of poverty as their entire life was only dedicated to sustenance. Personally, their lives were very sad to me.

Finally, do not fall for the fallacy of appealing to nature, as just because something is natural does not mean it is moral. Many animals will forcefully mate with one another or eat their prey alive, that does not mean that humans must do the same. So too for procreation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
I had one like this. Endlessly postponed.
in short: sorry an preplaned meeting with the boss was cancelled. please drive 4 hours (oneway) for an half an hour meeting in person. Then when it begann: you didn't met the expectations, please go back to the office. Pack everything up and i will escort you out.
Would-be parents aren't authority figures when it comes to either what the goal of parenthood should be, who meets the criteria, or what reasonably comfortable means. Would-be parents get to have their own goals based on their own constraints.

My differing opinion is that it's irresponsible to opt-in to raising a child if you lack the facilities to care for your basic needs, with a bit of margin. If one minor setback risks putting you on the street, and you have no support structure at all, probably don't try and get pregnant. You should be able to provide their basic needs until they can provide their own. That's it, except that income/expense pressure is intense enough now, in many areas, that meeting those requirements can be even more difficult than it might have been with an above-average income than in previous decades.
House prices in the USA have less impact on the total world population than you might think. Similarly, the number of people living in a situation where having children is a smart financial decision for the future is a lot larger than you might think.

Remember this [1] picture?
Related: the number of people in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to explode further. Average age there is, according to the google infobox [2], 18.8.

In other words: US-internal policies are not going to move the needle on world population much.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Valeriep...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=average+age+sub+saharan+afri...
Palantir was funded by the CIA (In-Q-Tel).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

No letter required.
Brit here. ‘Couple’ always means two, to me.

Years ago I read ‘The Difference Engine’, a steampunk novel written by an American set in Victorian England. I thought the dialogue etc seemed quite realistically English until one of the protagonists returns from a bar with ‘a pair of pints’. No Brit would ever use ‘pair’ like this although ‘couple’ would work, sort of.
If you ever find out the name of that chemical, I hope you'll post it on the chance I'll see your reply. I'm very curious to know more.
Even in countries that fix such financial issues, people still don't have children. Many people simply don't want to have them, no reason is required.
Not the time or the place. It would be misinterpreted. I don't want it to misrepresent the place.
An interesting linguistic nuance in (at least British) English is that you can say "I went to get 2 or 3 things from the garage" and it would still be accepted as correct if you actually got 5 things.
In what world is this NOT a controversial point?!? Genuinely, I ask: what is the cultural environment in which you exist, such that you can make this argument without at least knowing that other people would find it deeply offensive?

> If you cannot properly take care your children, don't have one.

OK, so poverty prevents a person from "properly" taking care of children? Would you say that poor people able to take care of their children, but only "improperly"?

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?
German food, great sandwiches, find me a better airport to eat in America than Munich?
So there’s clearly stuff being done to train a younger generation to speak English better than was the case previously.

The problem is that even with that, the mindset still appears to preserve the notion of Japanese supremacy over everything irrespective of data to the contrary. So improvement isn’t happening.

Take the Shinkansen as anotherq example. Impressive if you look at the train specs and reliability/punctuality. What isn’t seen so readily is the manual process of booking seats at stations with limited options for booking online. That manual process is often so inefficient that you might as well travel by a slower train given the loss of time involved.

Similar inefficiencies are observable throughout Japan. The people are typically oblivious because they are indoctrinated into following the process without questioning things. True of the younger English speakers as well from what I’ve seen. Not entirely sure if that’s blind deference, fear of conflict/group judgement or the result of brainwashing into a collaboration over competition mindset. Maybe it’s a mix of all of the above.

So I see very narrow examples of personal excellences where that obsession and perseverance doesn’t involve getting others on board. But innovation or improvement involving groups is more dysfunctional than anything I’ve seen elsewhere by a wide margin.
True. Rich and stable ME states (UAE, …) have very low birth rates. The ones that have undergone turmoil like Yemen have higher birthrates.
Not everyone is as primitive.
Jesus christ this is such pure pseudoscientific wankery.
Of course nuclear generates less waste than intermittent sources like solar or wind. Nuclear occupies orders of magnitude less land, requires less concrete, steel, copper, aluminium. And it's still comparing apples to oranges since nuclear is not intermittent and doesn't require building extra storage and grid infrastructure to account for variability.
I just don't think creating life is that special :) or necessary. There's already too many humans in this world. And I don't view it as something sacred.

In fact if I'd want a child I'd adopt one and give them a better life. I think it's better to lift an orphan out of poverty than to reproduce myself. Also, I have too many mental issues I would not want to bestow upon a child.

But I'm just not interested in either.

None of my friends who have kids have done this out of a sense of community or purpose though. It was a choice driven by their own desire, just as selfish as my own reasons not to have any.
Yeah it actually seems pretty legit. On the basis of that test, they invited me to participate in some more tests that are not publicly available. For the other tests 3/4 I met the threshold that “may” indicate I am a “super-matcher”. However, I doubt it!

I’m unlikely to find excitement as a forensic scientist - I’ll have to satisfy my craving for adventure elsewhere ;)
I don't know why you're forwarding a false dichotomy here, there's a lot more than doomscrolling and writing Ansible playbooks if you don't have children, and there's a lot more work to having children than tending an idyllic garden. And it's not as if you won't be up at 9 pm fixing production issues and rewriting Ansible playbooks even with children. In other words, one does not replace the other.
Great article, but slight issue. The iteration expression shifts left by 2, effectively limiting the height of the tree to 32. You probably want a rotation instead; otherwise you’ll be locked into child 0 from depth 32 down. I suppose with a good hash the manifestation would be rare.
> I’m often surprised that computer systems work at all.

I also remain contunually amazed that anything works. It boggles my mind, because I have seen how software gets built. How can it possibly all work?

I think my answer to this conundrum and seeming paradox is that it doesn't all work. We have trained ourselves and been trained to accept things that aren't working as something else.

And like you say, people treat the computer system either as all knowing and infallible or as a scapegoat.
That was a great read, thanks for posting.
Korean Kimchi making shares a similar process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimjang
Just not living in a slaver country, unlike you.

Written from my second hand computer.
I was surprised to find such confidently ignorant and repulsive takes. It's one thing to have your own goals for your kids, it's quite another to set some ludicrous standard for others.
Another example that makes me cringe every time is how Americans seem to have absolutely no knowledge or respect for food names.

Like the champagne vs sparkling wine debate. Like, yeah, champagne specifically comes from the champagne region, and it’s a white sparkling wine made with the « méthode traditionnelle ». We have hundreds of wines made with traditional method, with their own name, many better than actual champagne. But if you allow yourself to call everything champagne, you lose variety AND quality (just use crappy wine with a soda stream and call that champagne, this is probably what you get in some places in the US). Same for cheeses, don’t call it gruyère if it’s not Swiss or French, it might be the same ingredient, the same recipe, and might taste the same or even better fwiw, if it’s not from the correct region it’s not gruyère. And don’t get me started on American « parmesan ».

If you don’t respect name, there’s no way to be sure you’re getting the real stuff, and at this point you’re juste at the mercy of big industries selling you whatever crap they want. That’s why American products suck.
I've seem some studies on salted pickles potentially being carcinogenic, specifically causing stomach cancer. This is due to pathogens, n-nitroso, or carcinogenic enzymes in the pickles. The most commonly cited one is kimchi. I don't think the science is final though, and I did see another study that claimed they were only dangerous for those with h. pylori infections, and another that the consumption needs to be high.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4316045/

https://www.buesingnaturopathic.com/fermented-vegetables-can...
Brings back memories. Yeah, byte, pcw and dr Dobbs journal were special.
The state will be stopped by widespread use of anonymous strong encryption.

It's the widespread part that confounds cypherpunks, and why PGP, Signal, Let's Encrypt are important despite the bikeshedding they attract from purists.
Can't really use them because of my tinnitus...
Their weather too. I always remember the opening chapter from Bleak House when anyone mentions English weather.

What I do like about their food is breakfast. It's simple, tasty and would set you up until 4 pm. Plus the tea and the cookies but I don't consider those "food".
Physical media is a relic. Most laptops don't come with a drive and most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind.
Or put another way, "unique" is being used completely correctly in "very unique", it's "very" that's being used to mean "obviously".
Sounds like you are a hammer and see nails everywhere.
Depends on the country. In Holland this was about up until WWII. After that in Catholic areas. My dad was born after the war and from a family of 7.

In other countries it continued even longer.
Had the same experience, also company telling me they do not like the recruiters. Will not use them anymore in the future.
Yes, but that's just a white lie :D
That makes sense, yes we have trained ourselves to see things that don’t work as working , like frogs in boiling water!
I can see images in my head, but never color. I have never, ever been able to imagine any color, at all, in my head. My dreams are even in black and white.
I'm a Kiwi living in AU; perhaps I've been misunderstanding Aussies all this time! I've never been aware that anyone would interpret it as anything other than exactly two, I'll have to bear this in mind.
> It seems to me the Occam's razor solution is not that consciousness is an emergent behavior. The modeling of the world in neurons is a physical thing that we can measure, and replicate in software. But with this we haven't gotten any closer to explaining why sensation is associated with some such models and not others, that there are two states: consciousness and unconsciousness. The added bit that Occam's razor trims away is the assertion that there are two states, not just the one observed state: consciousness. Panpsychism -- or cosmopsychism or whatever -- is the Occam's razor solution.

We have a brain we can cut in and alter someone's consciousness. Obviously consciousness lies outside his body, Occam's Razor!
> I think the moment you say this you kind of lose the ability to say that you have a balanced view of the conflict.

This Ukraine / Russia conflict could have been avoided. NATO could have respected Russia’s views towards expanding to the east.

USA has been warned time and time again this would cause a conflict at this point. Even USA state officials [0] warned against it. Yet NATO decided to ignore all warnings and keep expanding eastward until it became too close for comfort to the Russians.

In a way quite similar to the Cuban missile crisis.

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[0]: https://theconversation.com/ukraine-war-follows-decades-of-w...
The best food in America is Mexican.
A lot of these are covered by copyright, trademarks or simply by contracts

> that build a better widget for a larger device - cars, computers, phones ever suppose to make money?

The same they do today? By selling actual products?
lots of things appear in the bible that have just sort of been dropped over centuries, I also think Christians as a group are more splintered than Muslims - but that may be my lack of knowledge on this front - I certainly believe fundamentalist Christians are into this thing but not sure what percentage of each set [Christian, Muslim] has this as a core tenet.
When you spend eight hours coding on your work computer, you make lots of little tweaks to improve workflow. If you then do nearly no coding on your home computer, it's unlikely that you will perform the same tweaks. I try to keep my systems set up almost identically, but that's a lot of work. (I now try to use ansible for that but after playing around for a bit I'm having doubts if it was the right choice. Keeping everything in sync is not exactly ergonomic.)

Some particular quirk of autocompletion could become almost pure muscle memory, and if it's suddenly missing, you notice.
There's a cereal called "Honey Bunches of Oats". Maybe that word can veer off into non-numerical quantities.
Your chances at peace and quiet are much much better in the suburbs though, where there's probably less than 5-8 families which could disturb it, whereas my apartment buildings alone has 25 families, and the neighboring buildings (definitely within earshot) have dozens if not hundreds more. All this density also translates into much more car traffic outside my window, much more dog barking (when people walk their dogs), much more children making a racket when playing etc.
> Try explaining these concepts to children. Now that’s a challenge!

Could be but I don't want to :) even in work I don't have the patience for training others because it slows me down.

> I can guarantee that’s not true for everyone. Of course, maybe even some single couples get bored of having sex, and maybe even single men see their libido drop with age!

Of course it's not the case for everyone but on average it is for sure. All my friends say they simply don't have enough time or opportunity. Let alone doing more wild stuff like going to sensuality resorts or swinger clubs. It becomes more of a standard up/down "let's get this over with before the kid wakes up" kinda thing.

> Technology gives us means to so more with less, so we are far from the limits of even what Earth can support, let alone our solar system.

Well it hasn't actually delivered that. Right now we're doing more with much more.

Look at the ocean full of plastic, the ever rising oil use. The climate crisis.

If technology can give us those means it should really start doing so pretty soon before we really screw the world beyond repair.

And really, exponential growth has to stop somewhere. Eventually it has to. Better to do it before the absolute limits are reached and it becomes another acute crisis like we have now with the climate.