Try not to respond like this on HN. Better to not respond at all, if this feeling strikes you.
The title is bad and it doesn't clarify its meaning for a quite a while. I made the same wrong assumption as you at first, then I made the same wrong assumption you made in your update to your comment! (it being about…
Sorry, I don't follow what your second sentence is referring to. But I should be more clear: I'm not commenting on a specific situation, only on the "growth mindset". I.e. it should be an "improvement mindset", which…
That's causally backwards. What we want is for families to have jobs and an American quality of life. Not to just create "jobs and families" as if they are the product at the end of the manufacturing line. That goal…
Continued growth to what end...?
I couldn't get a vector on the author's thoughts in the first paragraph. Please, write with a clear idea in mind. (note that this is not an appeal to binaries)
This is a really common problem ("X is bad, people complain about X, people complain about people complaining about X"). It's very hard to pin the "right amount" of complaining. But for my money, there is no ceiling on…
> gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time And yet, as somebody who has no idea what platform you're referring to, I can still guarantee you that gettimeofday() is used to measure time on that platform. A…
The Earth's rotation is slowing down in the long term, hence the need to adjust. In the short term (where 10 years is "short") it can speed up or slow down, but long-term it is slowing down. Note that this is not an…
The third one in the archive wouldn't accept "tase" or "sate" for "seat".
I think it's fascinating that "race is real" is a 2+2=5 example for you, but for me, "race is not real" is 2+2=5. Of course what I really think is that both are quippy oversimplifications. Really the fundamentals…
Essentially indistinguishable? That's going so far. Please don't do this. It's so counter-productive to provide evidence for the "they call everything racist/white-supremacist" accusation.
Is this thread just one big semantic misunderstanding, then? I think of ethnicity and race as casual synonyms, and when they are distinguished, I think of ethnicity as cultural ("Hispanic") and race as biological…
There's no need to torture semantics. We all understand how the terms "black" and "white" are used in the English-speaking world. They are umbrella terms with varying usage depending on what superset/subset of people…
It sounds like this is an analogy in support of the parent - is that the intent?
>Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives Am I not understanding your question? Either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.
Obviously it has nothing to do with some kind of mass non-awareness that fertility falls with age. (Caused by being "not sensible"? Not sure what that means here.)
Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like the paper just has a misleading title, and this is about having children, not fertility.
This is unrealistic, uncharitable, and tribalistic.
"I'm being punished for being honest" is such a stereotype of childish self-defense, I'm shocked to even see it.
Usually this format of quip is meant to imply hypocrisy, but that doesn't apply here, so I don't know what you're implying. It's also more typical of a Reddit or YouTube comment, rather than HN, but that's a separate…
I have written apps for J&J. They have internal talent, but they flood every team with breathtakingly incompetent contractors (and AI has exacerbated this). I could go on for hours, but let's just say their leadership…
I was surprised to see it - I thought "boffin" was good-natured but highly irreverent, like "nerd". But I can't imagine any publication writing the headline, "Computer nerd claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does…
I think it's pretty obvious that genAI is a very smart technology in terms of the implementation, but a dumb technology in that enables devastatingly dumb outcomes. It also enables very smart outcomes, but they are…
Don't be ominous. Just say things or refrain from posting.
Try not to respond like this on HN. Better to not respond at all, if this feeling strikes you.
The title is bad and it doesn't clarify its meaning for a quite a while. I made the same wrong assumption as you at first, then I made the same wrong assumption you made in your update to your comment! (it being about…
Sorry, I don't follow what your second sentence is referring to. But I should be more clear: I'm not commenting on a specific situation, only on the "growth mindset". I.e. it should be an "improvement mindset", which…
That's causally backwards. What we want is for families to have jobs and an American quality of life. Not to just create "jobs and families" as if they are the product at the end of the manufacturing line. That goal…
Continued growth to what end...?
I couldn't get a vector on the author's thoughts in the first paragraph. Please, write with a clear idea in mind. (note that this is not an appeal to binaries)
This is a really common problem ("X is bad, people complain about X, people complain about people complaining about X"). It's very hard to pin the "right amount" of complaining. But for my money, there is no ceiling on…
> gettimeofday() should never be used to measure time And yet, as somebody who has no idea what platform you're referring to, I can still guarantee you that gettimeofday() is used to measure time on that platform. A…
The Earth's rotation is slowing down in the long term, hence the need to adjust. In the short term (where 10 years is "short") it can speed up or slow down, but long-term it is slowing down. Note that this is not an…
The third one in the archive wouldn't accept "tase" or "sate" for "seat".
I think it's fascinating that "race is real" is a 2+2=5 example for you, but for me, "race is not real" is 2+2=5. Of course what I really think is that both are quippy oversimplifications. Really the fundamentals…
Essentially indistinguishable? That's going so far. Please don't do this. It's so counter-productive to provide evidence for the "they call everything racist/white-supremacist" accusation.
Is this thread just one big semantic misunderstanding, then? I think of ethnicity and race as casual synonyms, and when they are distinguished, I think of ethnicity as cultural ("Hispanic") and race as biological…
There's no need to torture semantics. We all understand how the terms "black" and "white" are used in the English-speaking world. They are umbrella terms with varying usage depending on what superset/subset of people…
It sounds like this is an analogy in support of the parent - is that the intent?
>Hundreds of places use one software tool for managing lost items, and I scraped their archives Am I not understanding your question? Either their archives are public on purpose, or their endpoints are simply unsecured.
Obviously it has nothing to do with some kind of mass non-awareness that fertility falls with age. (Caused by being "not sensible"? Not sure what that means here.)
Maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like the paper just has a misleading title, and this is about having children, not fertility.
This is unrealistic, uncharitable, and tribalistic.
"I'm being punished for being honest" is such a stereotype of childish self-defense, I'm shocked to even see it.
Usually this format of quip is meant to imply hypocrisy, but that doesn't apply here, so I don't know what you're implying. It's also more typical of a Reddit or YouTube comment, rather than HN, but that's a separate…
I have written apps for J&J. They have internal talent, but they flood every team with breathtakingly incompetent contractors (and AI has exacerbated this). I could go on for hours, but let's just say their leadership…
I was surprised to see it - I thought "boffin" was good-natured but highly irreverent, like "nerd". But I can't imagine any publication writing the headline, "Computer nerd claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does…
I think it's pretty obvious that genAI is a very smart technology in terms of the implementation, but a dumb technology in that enables devastatingly dumb outcomes. It also enables very smart outcomes, but they are…
Don't be ominous. Just say things or refrain from posting.