I’ve wondered if a ‘follow’ feature would be useful on HN. It’d allow curating timelines of comments from interesting users.
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I've been looking for a 'Grafana for personal metrics' (eg. weight, personal finance, etc.). Does anything like this exist? Ideally very simple, stripped-down metrics/observability w/ ability to input data in UI or via API.
> For this context, I think trying to make these distinctions is a distraction.
So basically you don't want to have a discussion that might make you reconsider your belief.
No I just don’t have time to write an entire epistemological defense of “reproduction and parenting is a key milestone for humans”. It should be self evident. If you don’t think so, consider what happens if untrue (hint: no more humans).
> Parenting is a biological and psychological life milestone
Allow me to disagree. First: there's no evidence of any change in your body, as a male, after becoming a father.
Second: supposing such a "wireless" change would happen, getting someone pregnant and immediately disappearing from their life would yield a perceptible change even with distance and no involvement with the life of the child.
Third: I personally think there's no innate drive to parent, and only an innate drive to mate; everything else is injected by society.
There could be a great discussion about whether male parenting and reproduction comes from the bio/psycho/social drives.
For this context, I think trying to make these distinctions is a distraction. By way of common sense, reproducing & parenting has been a HUGE factor in the propagation of human life (this is so obvious it's kind of funny to write).
New(ish) parent here. Two things:
First, the bad news: lots of comments saying stuff like "Don't have kids to fill a perceived hole in your life". In general, the advice "Don't do ____ to fill a hole in your life" is good for frivolous things, but I don't think this applies to being a parent. Parenting is a biological and psychological life milestone. To me it's felt more like leveling up my maturity than buying or achieving something. An analogy is something like going from relying on my parents to moving out and being independent. I realize this step isn't for everyone, but am skeptical about 95% of ppl so confident they don't want to take a step their linage has done for thousands of years.
Second, the good news: my experiences (and accounts of friends as well) suggests that attachment to a child is less biological and more developed than you'd expect. When my daughter was born she felt like a stranger; I didn't know her. The more time I spend with her, the more she learns and depends on me, and the more I grow emotionally attached to her. This suggests you'd get 98% of the parenting experience through adoption vs being a biological parent. You'd miss out on stuff like "o wow her eyes look like mine", but at least in my experience, this has been less important than I would've thought. The big stuff like seeing them learn, their innocent joy, and you 'paying it forward' in the circle of life would be the same. (NOTE: these are my 2 cents as a biological parent. It'd be worth reading some adoptive parent accounts as well). Also, if adoption is not for you, I'd still recommend getting involved in helping kids in some way (education, financial, etc.); again, what are we here for if not to help the next generation?
jlizzle30 commented on One Hundred Engineers Are Enough to Run Twitter solimanwrites.com/100-wor... · Posted by u/ahsoli
Is this satire?
Worth highlighting the last item, since guessing most won’t make it that far:
>> Critiquing our approach
>> Research That Can Help Us Improve
>> We’d love to fund research that changes our worldview—for example, by highlighting a billion-dollar cause area we are missing—or significantly narrows down our range of uncertainty. We’d also be excited to fund research that tries to identify mistakes in our reasoning or approach, or in the reasoning or approach of effective altruism or longtermism more generally.
In the same way dropping foreign aid on a country to ‘solve’ hunger can make the problem worse, EA money could distort market forces if it became big enough. I suspect it’s very difficult to find investments that return more net good than standard businesses.
You're missing roughly 30,000 employees to run a service that, at steady state, probably needs about 30 software developers and a few hundred second or third level customer support folks, with first level being handled by outsourced local-language companies.
And then there's Uber self-driving. Uber AI; Uber electric airplanes. Uber freight, Uber restaurant delivery, Uber grocery delivery, Uber this and Uber that. Oh, and Uber scooters.
> 30 software developers
- iOS rider app
- android rider app
- iOS driver app
- android driver app
- ride/driver matching
- routing/supply
- security/compliance
- fraud detection/prevention
- backend rides services
- backend user services
^ 10 teams of at least 10 people off the top of my head. Amazing how underestimated engineering resourcing needs are.
> there's a natural "limit" on the happiness I can enjoy at any given moment
This is roughly my experience, although, you can choose between peaks & valleys vs emotional stability. Highs are generally followed by lows and vice versa. The classic rockstar chooses to swing wildly between drugs/sex/crowds/etc. and addiction/depression/death while the buddhist munk reaches nirvana by maintaining an even keel.
Keep in mind there are other life considerations besides 'happiness' of course:
1. retrospective life satisfaction
2. responsibility
3. morality
4. procreation
5. etc.
Collect weekly bite-sized updates to know how your team is doing.