skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I'm not trying to be bleak, but do you have any evidence that any of the religions out there can deliver on their promises? Like I'd be somewhat inclined to listen, but extraordinary claims and all that...
Kids aren't expensive. They're a distraction from dopamine and career advancement.

My peers are all wealthy and they'd rather jet set than settle down. By all means they could raise families of two to four kids and still be incredibly comfortable. Vacation home comfortable.

Instagram is the anti-child. Instagram and the endless feed of social media, internet, and things to do.

Once you have children, the dopamine ends and the self-directed path takes a backseat. Nobody I know wants to give that up.

It's not just the wealthy. I know upper middle class people in their 40s who are partying on the weekends and taking trips all over the world. It's the life they want for themselves, and children put an end to that.
Having children has also become higher risk, both in absolute costs - as well as risks associated to the likely possibility of divorce and single-parenthood.
Are you a woodworking software engineer or a musician software engineer?

Actually, that is probably the same group.
There was also that time Jon Postel asked all the DNS root server operators to make his server the root, and they did. https://www.wired.com/2012/10/joe-postel/
It could be mutated by anything in the package that contains the type. The only thing Go can make truly immutable - as in a compiler error if you try - is a constant primitive.

Functional options have some niceties - largely their ability to evolve without breaking changes - but as the GP points out, completely break discoverability with intellisense. Having to do some dance with filtering usage to find the options available is just worse than a static config struct with zero values that are meaningful for anything not set.
I am in a circle of people who absolutely could and my experience (including me personally) matches the GP comment. There are certainly people who cannot afford housing, but the kinds of people I know are people who own detached homes in reasonably large cities all by themselves and things are not that different.
> I’d say half my friends have had trouble conceiving

There's probably statistics out there but I've not looked into it - but anecdotally I also know a large contingent of people who've had issues conceiving. Many late 20s, too - people always seem to think it's more common in your 30s but so many of them were confused by the experience.
and what was the life expectancy during these times? 20-30 years for the population as a whole, according to GPT-4. It did mention some wealthier folk might live longer if they can avoid the many other dangers like war, disease etc...
You could give it a whirl I guess. The folks that I know who have many (5+) kids are religious jews, catholics, muslims and mormons. I don't know if all of these people have defered sex till marriage but they are certainly not the ones racking up tripple or even double digit bodycounts. Are you saying you have a line of reasoning that people who maintain religious adherence today are doing it so they can have unrestrained sex?
Was it DEC than ran Alta Vista? They were involved in some search engine
> To a degree this resource can be stolen from other countries, via immigration. But this only works to a degree and at a larger scale it is still a zero sum game.

It's going to increasingly become a challenge. China's population is contracting. India has hit replacement and will start to see decline barring immigration over the next 20-30 years. Only sub-Saharan Africa is left with above replacement birth rates.

We're about to hit increasingly aggressive competition both to hold on to people, and to attract immigrants as more and more countries start getting bitten by demographic shifts.

At the same time it's going to have significant economic ramifications when more and more market categories stop getting "free growth" from growing population sizes.
>Sanders started franchising Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) at the age of 62, using his first Social Security check to fund the business.

That seems like not much funding! Looking at Wikipedia:

>Sanders believed that his North Corbin restaurant would remain successful indefinitely; however, he sold it at age 65 after the new Interstate 75 reduced customer traffic.[29][30][5] Left only with his savings and US$105 a month from Social Security (equivalent to $1,147 in 2022),[5] Sanders decided to begin to franchise his chicken concept in earnest, and traveled the US looking for suitable restaurants. After closing the North Corbin site, Sanders and Claudia opened a new restaurant and company headquarters in Shelbyville in 1959.[31] Often sleeping in the back of his car, Sanders visited restaurants, offered to cook his chicken, and if workers liked it negotiated franchise rights.[5]

I don't think anyone could fund a business on $1,147 a month. Then again Wikipedia talks about unspecified savings. Those should be substantial after selling a restaurant?
But he did read the "book" (source code). But ignoring analogies, can you cite a specific benefit to running the benchmark when discussing parsing correctness?
Gathering accurate publication dates is the only problem I’ve faced with RSS.

Some of these channels flat out don’t give them to you at all. Instead, I have to either resort to polling methods or archive data.

I’m open to better solutions
And yet there are more people alive now than there has ever been.

Plenty of chances for a good life out there, more than ever.

What is this bizarre obsession some have with endless growth?

Why is it that having more and more people is so "
essential"?

How many billions are enough to stabilise at?
I've been thinking lately how important it is that software be not only open source, but simple enough to be forkable. The fact that Keycloak is open source almost seems irrelevant given how massive the codebase is.

Browsers represent an extreme case.
Much of this is inherently interesting self-directed development work, and there already seems to be an ample supply of people who want to do it. If you’re looking for a market that would clear better by increasing compensation, look to gaps like documentation and live support and security patching that go ignored because they aren’t fun (for nerds).
Because they leave their laptop in their home country. Not all companies approve of remote work.
> your claim that using UDP will somehow saturate a shared circuit between multiple subscribers?

Yes. And it isn't specific to UDP. Basically any file transfer will keep going faster till at least one network segment is saturated. At that point, if the server keeps sending data a little faster than a regular congestion control algorithm would allow, you will cause packets from other users streams to be dropped.
I take it you attend a FSSP or ICKSP church?
I dont know why this was downvoted. cadaver-derived growth hormone supplementation correlation with alzheimer's is well established.
While I understand your sentiment It will be interesting to compare income versus average revenue per employee of tech businesses to other kinds of businesses as well. I have a feeling that employee expenses of 30% are quite normal across all industries.
They're not real losses. They could sell the movie. They could release it. They're deliberately forgoing those options and deleting it. You don't have a loss until you attempt to generate revenue and find that the revenue is less than your expenses. If you just throw your product away, that's not a loss.

Ultimately we write tax policy for the benefit of society, not for Warner Bros. In theory, we could write tax law so that it made financial sense for a factory to produce widgets and send them directly into an incinerator, because they could claim this as a "loss" and offset profits from other activities. But we shouldn't have a tax law that does that, because that's a huge waste of society's resources (materials for the widgets, fuel for the incinerator, people's time and labor). We could use those resources to do something more productive and tax laws should encourage companies to do productive things that improve the world, not spin their wheels for imaginary losses.

If you deliberately burn down your house and try to collect insurance on it, we call that insurance fraud. If you deliberately destroy your product and try to claim a tax loss on it, that should be fraud too.
At minimum, children do come at an opportunity cost. Either you’re geographically constrained to be near family, one of the parents must not work, or you pay very real direct costs for child care.
I'll speak as someone that waited until almost 40 to have kids and who feels, in hindsight, I was being completely selfish. I prioritized my career, my travel, my sleeping in, my social life, my leisure, etc. As soon as you become a parent, you realize you shorted yourself and your kid shared time on earth together. I also just don't have the energy or physical ability to play like I would have at a younger age. It's not something you can really grapple with or consider the magnitude of as a childless person purposely avoiding/delaying it. I don't think it's necessarily intentionally selfish in the moment, as you're living it, but later sometimes you get to reflect back and see your decisions as what they really where with the clarity of hindsight and you'll understand what you really did. It's a weird thing that happens and I think part of the whole "wisdom with age" thing. I think I was just being selfish. All the travel and me stuff I did in my 20s-30s is not really very important, my identity as a parent to the humans I created is my identity now, It's the only part of my identity I really care very much about. Sure I still have hobbies and travel and stuff but it's on an entirely different plane of importance.
Hi dylan. Can you tell me about your self and what you do so I and others can better contextualize your comments?
> then sell it

Yes, but you have to sell it, at which point it's a capital loss. And you can sell the movie and take a loss that way as well (assuming you actually sell it at a loss).

What you cannot do is delete the movie and then claim it as a capital loss -- because you haven't sold it.
Best as I can tell there is no difference between Shorts and full length videos when coming from the RSS feed. It even loads in the full player on the website when following the url.

The best I've come up with is to use youtube-dl to get the duration and if it's shorter then 60s drop the item.
I live in California on a latitude identical to Melbourne. And solar costs 3x more. Tariffs are tiny. I still don’t get it!
There are lots of reasons why people don't have kids which don't have anything to do with their expense.

I can think of several people I know, who (I think) would have made perfectly fine parents, but probably (or even definitely) never will. Waiting for "Mr/Ms Right", who they never manage to find - he or she always seems to be already taken or chasing somebody else or being chased by more appealing options. In other cultures/societies (and even previous versions of their own), at some point they would have settled for "Mr/Ms Good Enough"–but, they've absorbed a culture which discourages (even criticises) doing that. Plus, many children of divorced parents are hesitant to have kids with someone less than ideal, because they worry it will lead to their own kids going through what they did. I doubt changes to working conditions can do anything to address those kinds of issues.

Replacement TFR is 2.1 for low mortality countries; in 2021, the OECD average was 1.58. If we talk about that shortfall, 0.52, how much of that shortfall is due to expense/workplace/career/education-related reasons, and how much due to other reasons? (I don't know.) If it is mostly due to expense/workplace/career/education-related reasons, targeting those factors may make a big difference; if it is mostly due to other reasons, targeting those factors might not make much difference at all.
Software Engineering Aphorisms – A Subjective Take
It has nothing to do with multiple jobs. A lot of companies don’t want their employees working abroad.
I mean if we wait long enough everything will be on port 443...
I initially read this comment to mean “we wanted larger family, the secular world doesn’t do that, we became religious and we’re happy”. Am I understanding that correctly? If so, this strikes me as a very novel argument in favor of religion, and is more convincing to me than most others.

I do wonder what I’d say if/when people question the fervor of my belief though, if I truly converted just for a community with larger families. I imagine “I believe in big families” wouldn’t cut it.
Shit experience with large family would do it. My grandparents had 12 living children, less than half my aunts and uncles decided to have kids, and those who did had 1-3.
Only intact chicken's egg found from Roman Britain
Being abroad.
Automatic dependency injection doesn’t solve that, it masks it and makes the onset of pain from poor design appear much later than it would without - by which time it is harder to fix.
Pfft, who hasn't at some point? ;p
You know what is also anti-child? Having parents that were completely unprepared to be parents. Stop with this dopamine epidemic nonsense excuse for everything that isn't working the way you want
I am not the one you're asking but I was born an atheist and discovered religion as an adult, through intellect. Here's my answer from that background.

Ready? The answer is "we don't know." There may be a Gd, there may not be. There may be meaning, there may not be. You can't really know either way.

The answer is that it doesn't matter. The question is what kind of life do you want to live. One that lives as if there's meaning or one that lives as if there isn't? I know my answer. If I get to the end and turns out the meaning was just something I made for myself, and that there's nothing special about my children and my values other than my deep affinity for them... that'd still be a pretty great life.
I just think most people aren't looking for websites with Google Search, and Google knows this. You can just type in a few words and you have "enough" information show in the Google specific panels. Searched like "super bowl", "food nearby", "X drama", "shooting in Kentucky", "hurricane map", "headphone gift 2024", etc etc etc.
Post author here. Geofabrik has even started providing extracts in the Shortbread vector schema, the same schema we'll be using for our vector tiles.
That would only make sense if the issue was biological and not socioeconomic. No one's getting selected out when the issue isn't a biological predisposition to avoiding procreation.
Having tried multiple times to move away from Gmaps on Android, all the OSM based apps I've tried are barely usable at best (sadly).
James McNerney, the CEO of Boeing who oversaw the development of the 737 MAX, was one of Jack Welch's underlings (along with eventual Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli and Welch's successor as CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt). [1][2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNerney

2. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-boeing-was-set-on-the-path...
Good cabs and good craftsmanship. Paso Robles is one of California's gems.
You can start with the IANA list [0]. You won't find posts like this listed but it should be a good place to start regardless.

[0]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...
Related blog post criticizing this study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340146
I was using Archie and gopher in the late 80s. Do you mean web search instead of internet search?
I used Android for a long time before switching back to an iPhone. While mostly I’m happy with my iPhone, I do miss some of the UI customization features like being able to switch graphical shells like this
Technology is fine. It's what people do with it that makes it beneficial or harmful. We have had a handful of sociopaths, megalomaniacs and weaponizers of it.

Edison on electrocution:

https://archive.ph/OvZ9y#selection-887.0-945.133

“The most suitable apparatus for this purpose is that class of dynamo-electric machinery which employs intermittent currents,” Edison wrote. “The most effective of these are known as ‘alternating machines’ manufactured principally in this country by Geo. Westinghouse.”

Edison’s logic was twisted, barbaric and possibly brilliant: If he could convince the world that Westinghouse’s alternating current was a swift and efficient killer, his method would be seen as safer, increasing his market share.

“The electric chair’s midwife was greed,” Brandon wrote, “the kind of pure, unadulterated greed for which the Gilded Age was famous.”
This is not a conspiracy anymore. Just open top 100 companies, compare 3 years back locations with this years. You will see a rise of non-US locations.
There’s lies, damned lies, and statistics quoted by AI. Average ancient life expectancy numbers are substantially lowered due to high infant mortality. Once this early danger had passed, most people lived to approximately the same age we do now: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18359748/#:~:text=Their%20me....

This wasn’t a children of the corn situation.
On Linux, /etc/services often contains a list of at least protocol names and numbers.
You sound like someone who lives in a suburb and watches too much news on TV.
Remote work is a luxury, most people in the workforce do not work remote. However yes if you work remote that is a possibility.
This is an argument for smaller airplanes. There will never be an A380 again but also the larger twin isles may be be an endangered species.

The A321 XLR seems to be a harbinger of the future, smaller airplanes serving more city pairs point to point. Ultimately lower cost airlines will win out because flying is largely an undifferentiated product and connecting flights are just an opportunity to be left stranded somewhere. They add complexity and cost.

But in this scenario there is still the need for longer flights in larger planes and we're seeing that in A350s doing pairs like Perth-London or Singapore-New York. Even those are more economically marginal with the larger planes and making something somewhat smaller with a very long range makes more sense.
Eh, whatever.
What if someone is not waiting on anything and just doesn't want to have kids out of any number of reasons? It's alright if you have regrets, but I don't see it as selfish if you never intended to have kids in the first place.
I genuinely haven’t met anyone who deeply wanted children and then didn’t because of “socioeconomics”.

I met plenty of ppl who talk about the climate or cost of housing as the reason for other ppl but I never knew of anyone making a decision this way. You know someone?
Such is every aspect of life, fortunately or unfortunately.
> Kids aren't expensive. They're a distraction from dopamine and career advancement.

They really are.

You can pay for some of it by letting your and their quality of life suffer, instead of with money (cram 3 kids into the 2-bedroom you already own; don’t worry that the schools are bad and dangerous and that’s why the place was cheap; that kind of thing) but not all of it, and most people don’t find making those compromises acceptable either, if they have the means not to.

The main costs are lost income OR childcare; housing; and healthcare. The rest isn’t exactly cheap (man they eat a lot as they get older) but those are the worst bits, and they’re very expensive.
IDK if meta comments are ever allowed but: it appears HN has changed this headline, dropping the imperative clause “…should be a crime”. Why? I get that they want polite conversation on here, but pretending that the whole thesis of this essay doesn’t exist seems like an ineffective and terribly obscurative way to do that. But I’m probably missing something?
Well, my thinking here is that increasing available time by reducing the number of hours people have to work to live is going to be a net benefit to individuals like you’ve mentioned in your first paragraph too. People are more likely to go out and do things and find each other if the majority of their energy and waking lives aren’t tied up with work.
In the old Cubli videos they go further, chaining together "jumping up", balancing, and controlled falling to demonstrate locomotion!

https://youtu.be/n_6p-1J551Y?si=zvwORnuPZmgXw0S8
Announced officially to the mythical cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list...

Fighting to legalize cryptography on the internet. PGP was banned. Sending encrypted emails was illegal...

Cypherpunks won. Thanks to them.
The original agile manifesto is silent on the topic of management. Self-organizing teams are a good practice, but once you scale up and have to coordinate the work of many teams across a huge portfolio it generally becomes necessary to have some level of hierarchical management in order to prevent chaos and dysfunction.

https://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
Dipping into the Most Stunning Hot Springs
It's hard to penetrate to the heart of the matter, because I'm not sure what you are saying.

> Other person: "I like these very common qualities about housing that many other people also like. This is proved by the fact that houses with all these qualities have much higher demand and price".

That's backwards. The other commenter was saying their home was less expensive and larger than what was in NYC, and therefore superior.

> we can just generalize things based on obvious and common preferences

We can't truly say something is better or worse without some scale on which to measure it. Is a Macbook or cloud Linux instance better? It depends on what we want to do with it - graphic design? Macbook. Host some files publicly? The Linux instance. In other cases it depends on the user - a veteran Linux sysop may use their favorite OS for more things, an Apple guru will prefer theirs.

For some things almost everyone shares the same scale and generalizations are accurate. We could generalize that people prefer running water, heat (as needed), roofs that don't leak, larger spaces (to some limit), lower costs, etc.

But for other things people have different scales and then generalization is false. In this case, preferences for location vary widely; some want NYC because on their scales, it scores really high; some want quiet suburbs, based on their scales; some want rural or small town, warm climate or four seasons, etc. The other commenter seemed to assert that their scales/preferences were universal, and I disagree.

IMHO the best part of human interaction is learning about people and points of view I don't already know - I learn infinitely more than hearing myself talk or by framing their points of view in my perspective; that limits what they say to what I already know, like a someone insisting mathematics be described only in English words they already know - they need to learn new words and use some actual math, or they are limiting themselves. The other commenter seemed maybe to think it was a fight (I don't want to speak for them), so we didn't get far.

> you are playing a word game that ignores anything that actually matters

It seems like you're saying that the other person's ideas are games, and yours are the only ones that actually matter. If you notice I'm not addressing your ideas, you might be right, but not because I'm playing games - I actually have different ideas. My ideas aren't measured by how much they agree with yours - I use a different scale in that case.

Those are the very best chances to learn in life, IME - an opportunity to open territory I didn't even know existed 5 minutes before. If I am curious and interested (and I genuinely am), I find that almost everyone has very interesting, valuable things to say. You too.

I think I'm signing off, as this thread isn't yielding much of that sort.
First generation immigrants (in Europe) have higher birth rates than second generation immigrants despite being poorer. It's not just about costs - it's about cultural expectations.