MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by greatquux | 2025-05-18 23:28:01+00:00
It's true, though I try not to do this, I really try. But it's so easy for some kids (like my 11-year old firstborn) to just go play Roblox or Pokemon or watch stupid shorts on YouTube unless I'm enforcing some activity for him. And yeah I have screen time restrictions. It's a constant battle with him. We spend quality time with him for sure, and the taekwondo and drum lessons are great extra activities. But he only has one best friend he has regular hanging out time with, and one neighbor kid he knows that he plays with due to less people around us having kids. Family has spread out too, also due to needing to have dual incomes and car culture. So yeah all these contribute to the birth rate going down, but it's not so much parents fault entirely as it is the modern world's.
by Aurornis | 2025-05-18 23:28:54+00:00
> Flashing your wealth on social media or being a high profile executive is dangerous, crypto-ties or not.

Having your wealth held in a form that can be instantly, irreversibly transferred in a way that can be done anonymously by skilled individuals is an added risk.

Some of the same features that people celebrate about crypto make it uniquely advantageous to people looking to execute these attacks.

Yes, we know that in theory attackers could go after some random high profile person and force them to go through bank transfers and then go through all of the additional steps of washing that money through international banks in a way that hopefully cleans their trail sufficiently.

But anyone planning an attack like that would be drawn to a target that already has their money held in a digitally transferable format that is infinitely easier to launder using the modern array of cryptocurrency tools.
by mmooss | 2025-05-18 23:29:32+00:00
> It turns out that I am rarely in a position, while writing or thinking, where I want to glance through lots of old notes as a way to figure out what to say or do. Mostly that feels like sifting through stale garbage.

IMHO you may need to produce much better quality knowledge. You are missing out.

A good KB - personal or shared - captures high-value knowledge and lets you pickup where you left off, years later, with little effort. That way you are always working with the best knowledge you've ever had. What defines high-value?

First, it's high-impact - it changes things in significant ways: Trivia about C++'s origins is unlikely to be worthwhile; something from an expert that changes your whole perspective about C++'s design and applications may be. Also it's accurate, high-quality knowledge; otherwise the impact will be much reduced or it may even be significant in the wrong way - for example, Wikipedia IMHO doesn't qualify (in other ways too), but a lit review by an expert can be priceless.

Second, it's hard to replace: 1) Discovery is unlikely: you are unlikely to think of or encounter it next time, at least not unless you revisit the issue in depth. 2) It's hard to find - even if you think of it, you won't be able to find it or recreate it easily. Maybe it's buried in a book you won't remember. For example, if you have info on operating systems, you need little about Windows, Android, etc. because you use them daily (hypothetically) and info is easily available. Insights on TempleOS might be better, or from that keynote by Dennis Ritchie that you attended.

By capturing the value, you get much greater ROI - a lifetime or career of it - from your knowledge work. That also incentivizes deep, high-value knowledge work.
by comrade1234 | 2025-05-18 23:29:46+00:00
Previous generations just yolo’d it when it came to having kids. My parents were definitely not financially secure when they had us and we suffered for it our entire lives and my brother and I were a huge burden.

No easy answer. If you want kids maybe not think about it so much and just yolo it. For my wife and I we didn’t really want kids in he first place and we’re much better off for it.
by lowlystatsguy | 2025-05-18 23:30:50+00:00
I have a great community at work. People I would hire to work with me in a heartbeat. I work in a very high impact area. I am constantly challenged by having to learn new things to accomplish my tasks…

You would think management hates us though. My manager has told me that unit tests are a waste of the company’s time. That we should leave them to the software team (I am a data scientist), despite us repeatedly fixing bugs easily identifiable via unit tests in the wee hours of the night during a managerial meltdown. Several of my teammates have advocated for a think first type second approach to our development only to be told by the higher ups that “at this company, I’m known for getting shit done and I won’t let you stop me.” I’ve heard that anyone hired after 2020 doesn’t really know how to work hard because they’ve been “soft” on us since then (they are reeling back in control with RTO). Company surveys show that people are wildly unhappy on my team, yet managements response is to shrug and say “you need to own your experience at this company.”

Maybe I’m removing myself from potential sainthood, but no amount of abuse is worth taking for meaningful work. Companies like to tout their meaningful work as a glorified guilt trip much like sports teams often like to underpay analytics folks since they’re relying on your innate interest in the position as a reason not to pay you market value. As the article states, meaningful work can be found anywhere. Do not let your company define meaningful work for you.
by giovannibonetti | 2025-05-18 23:31:57+00:00
At work we recently switched from Wkhtmltopdf to Typst, which is a breath of fresh air. It is very fast and generates PDFs from scratch without needing to involve HTML or a browser engine. It is implemented in Rust and distributed as a self-contained binary.

This blog post convinced us that the switch was worth it: https://zerodha.tech/blog/1-5-million-pdfs-in-25-minutes/
by alright2565 | 2025-05-18 23:32:17+00:00
For building mains devices, you should start by learning about creepage, clearance, double-insulation, the role of earth connections, the requirements for isolation between low voltage and high voltage, etc. Basically a good bit of electrical engineering.

This is different from what you need to know to do house wiring. That's done by following electrical code, which is basically a distillation of the engineering above into a set of relatively easy-to-follow rules.
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-05-18 23:33:08+00:00
> It occurs to me that Efilists don't need to do much of anything.

Quite. The fertility rate is plummeting worldwide. I'd suggest these 'Efilists' visit South Korea to get their fix of low fertility. Even the nice Scandinavian countries are struggling to get their fertility rates anywhere near replacement—they are all at around 1.4 to 1.5 children per woman.

At this rate we will erase ourselves in about 200 years.
by GolfPopper | 2025-05-18 23:33:36+00:00
Edward Kelly[1] was in the right place at the right time, and I recall reading many years ago (though I cannot now find the source) some evidence that he was familiar with the Cardan grille[2], which was sufficient to convince me that he was mostly likely the author, and that the book was intended as a hoax or fraud.

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

2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardan_grille
by patcon | 2025-05-18 23:34:23+00:00
This does not surprise me. I've had the sense that the French government has been really forward in open source thinking since my interactions with ETAlab back in 2017. They were tracking some really bleeding edge civic tech stuff before anyone else was (including g0v.tw and the vTaiwan project)

https://g0v.tw/intl/en/

https://info.vtaiwan.tw
by echelon | 2025-05-18 23:34:28+00:00
It's gross. We should be doing the exact opposite.

Intelligence is a unique spark within a cold and presumably dead universe. We should be trying to awaken the universe itself.

We should be trying to extend human lifespans within the parameters of sustainability. We should be trying to extend our species beyond death and mortality and this single planet.

If we master physics, we should reverse the light cone and bring back everyone who has ever lived [1].

We should turn every atom in the universe into us.

And then we can try to prevent the death of the universe. Or build a new one. Or several.

[1] "Down to what level?", you ask. "Beloved pets that died?" I should think even the ants. Bacteria. If we're gods, then why not?
by ggm | 2025-05-18 23:35:06+00:00
I think the idea of this has been around for a while, I remember my mother saying back in the late 60s the stands of trees in some parts of britain reflected Roman occupation, which was confusing when she also said industrialisation denuded the landscape in the search for charcoal.

I like that this exploration of the landscape is using pollen from soil cores, there's deep history in the ground if you know what to look for. At university we did a core in marshland near whitby and our lecturer had us mouth-feel the grit. The layer with deep preserved reeds was remarkably different to the silt layers around it, and that was a 10-15,000 year old core sample.
by 01100011 | 2025-05-18 23:35:36+00:00
Yeah this seems like it will be worse than the rise in cults in the 60s/70s. People applying logic to false axioms and building horrific worldviews that seem purely logical to them.

I think we're due for a few doomsday cults. Unlike before, things like biohacking have brought down the barrier to lone whackos building terribly effective weapons out of sight in their garages. Buckle up.
by corytheboyd | 2025-05-18 23:35:53+00:00
The tiniest amount of light will keep me from sleeping. Seriously. A neighbor can turn their lights on across the valley and if I have line of sight through a window, it’s over. I tried lots of things, and at long last, I found this mask that I absolutely swear by https://a.co/d/cDbUv9J

I lost it once, and bought two more, so that I would never be without one again. It’s the only sleep mask that works. It stays on all night. It does not leak light around the edges. Everything “shaped like your eyes” is a complete waste of time. This is the correct implementation of sleep mask, and I will never go back.

It’s super comfortable, and even slightly muffles noise since it wraps around your entire head. I do like the effect of good sealing ear plugs (Mack’s 31 Db only), but find them extremely uncomfortable to wear multiple days in a row. I’ll bring the Mack’s on vacation, just in case I am put next to an obnoxious snorer, there is very loud city noise all night, etc.

I don’t have issues sleeping in too late, because I actually get sleep with this thing, and after some time, I was just back on a normal rhythm, very consistently waking up at the same time.

I care deeply about sleep mask. Maybe it won’t work for everyone, but just in case it can help a single person, I am unloading my mask manifesto.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-18 23:36:17+00:00
Partially true. Convertible laptops are the worst of both worlds. Most desktop OSes simply don't provide a good tablet PC like a tablet can.

My T480 has 2 batteries and lasts 10 hours but that can be extended by swapping the external one. I have 4 so that's about 20 hours.

32 GiB of RAM, 2 TB SSD, magnesium top case, and WiFi 7.

The T490 OTOH succumbed to Appleization.
by chris_armstrong | 2025-05-18 23:37:59+00:00
Many of the highlighted problems come from TypeScript allowing such complex type definitions in the first place, which in turn stems from JavaScript allowing such an open and untyped (and yet convenient) compositional model.

The expressiveness of JavaScript is a curse upon every library author who (in vain) may try to design an interface with a simpler subset of types, but is undone by the temptation and pressure to use the flexibility of the language beneath.

The author's instincts are right though - target a simpler subset of TypeScript, combine code generation with simpler helper libraries to ease the understandability of the underlying code, and where a simpler JavaScript idiom beckons, use runtime safety checks and simpler types like `unknown`.
by nunez | 2025-05-18 23:38:01+00:00
Depends on which one you go to. Supposedly the experience is insanely better internationally.

Regardless, at luxury hotels, the rooms are nice, sure [^0], but you're mostly paying for top-tier service.

If you want to travel somewhere within the US where you _know_ your room will be tip-top and don't want to lift a finger, the Four Seasons/Ritz/St. Regis is it.

[^0] They do have some huge, amazing suites that you won't find at a Westin, though.
by nozzlegear | 2025-05-18 23:38:10+00:00
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone tried to clumsily wield MLK's Birmingham Letter as a moral fulcrum to dismiss modern centrism. That letter was written at a specific moment in time, aimed at a narrow group of people -- white moderates who used "order" as an excuse for inaction on civil rights. He wasn’t condemning all moderation for all time, and invoking his letter every time a moderate calls for practical reform over revolution cheapens its message.

> Ultimately things are the way they are because there are so many moderates who propose no solutions to anything and are terrified of anything that could be misconstrued as a change.

Are moderates "terrified" of the change itself, or do you disagree with how they want to get there? When I call myself a moderate, I don't do it because I'm "terrified" of a better healthcare system; I do it because I want reforms that are realistic, durable and broadly supported. I want change, but I want a solid plan and incremental steps to get us there -- not fiery rhetoric and slogans that crash the economy.

> Moderates in Israel certainly seem fine with genocide.

I'm not Israeli and don't pay attention to their politics, but you're playing a rhetorical shell game here by exporting the moral failure of one electorate and applying them to moderates of all electorates across the entire world. If you want to critique e.g. US policy, do it on the merits, not by hitching your argument to atrocities halfway around the world and then implying guilt by association.

> They're fine with the pseudo-slavery system that exists in some US states like Georgia.

I'm pretty in tune with US politics and I can't figure out what you're referencing here. Are you talking about for-profit prisons and prison labor? I agree that those things need to be abolished, and that's why I supported Biden ending federal contracts with private prisons. As someone who has had several family members in the prison system, I sincerely hope to see more criminal justice reform.
by spinning_fan | 2025-05-18 23:38:45+00:00
I'm a little confused by the offering exactly.

The robot is up for purchase - this is straightforward.

> After training a model, you can send it to us and we will run it on one of our robots.

Why do I need to send it to you guys to run it on the robot? Presumably, I should be able to it on the robot directly, no?
by Sytten | 2025-05-18 23:39:01+00:00
I think that no matter that they do you will always find people complaining. That is humanity's favorite sport. Even when it's free and open source people still complain.

Making software for individual consumers is freaking hard. My own perspective as a founder shifted from "this is a viable method to build a sustainable business" to "let's use it as the base for B2B sales, but it is not viable".
by yuzzi | 2025-05-18 23:39:19+00:00
I just gave you a tangible suggestion for how you might maintain your standards and, at the same time, preserve your audience. Your response is basically "shrug, that's the way the system works". Reminds me of Hal trying to talk to the onboard computer in 2001 Space Odyssey. "I can't do that, Hal. That's just the way I work, Hal."
by skissane | 2025-05-18 23:40:30+00:00
If normies don't procreate, then the non-normies will – e.g. high TFR ultra-conservative religious minorities such as the Amish, ultra-Orthodox Jews, traditionalist Catholics, quiverfull Evangelicals, Salafists, Velayat-e Faqih Shi'a, etc

You may eventually find that the normies dwindle and begin to die out, while the non-normies grow and spread and spread – those non-normies may eventually become the new normies
by Animats | 2025-05-18 23:41:05+00:00
> it's that crypto makes them much worse by ignoring hard-earned lessons in traditional finance.

Indeed. A friend of mine manages a retail bank branch for a major US bank. She gets a few cases a week where someone appears to be a scam victim or is being coerced in some way. They want to make an unusually big cash withdrawal for their account history, or do an unusual money transfer, or something involving gift cards. She's seen all the standard scams by now, and is experienced in explaining what's going on to the victims. Often she can talk them down, or help them. Sometimes even get previously scammed money back.

A surprisingly large part of retail finance work is dealing with fraud and fixing problems. The routine transactions have been automated for years, after all. Crypto land lacks this.

Here's a bank's guide to current scams.[1]

[1] https://www.firstcitizens.com/personal/insights/security/top...
by lioeters | 2025-05-18 23:41:47+00:00
Welcome to the flight, this is your captain speaking. Just want to let you know our entire flight system was vibe coded to the strict standards you expect from our industry, iterated and refined in a virtual environment over twenty virtual-years, with no fallible human eyes reviewing it - even if it were possible to review the mountain of impenetrable machine-generated code. The pilot will be controlling the plane via a cutting-edge LLM interface, prompt-engineering our way to our overseas destination. Relax, get comfortable, and pray to the collective intelligence distilled from Reddit posts.
by chris_armstrong | 2025-05-18 23:41:52+00:00
Might I add - this isn't limited to languages like TypeScript which simply try and make underlying untyped languages (like JavaScript) safer. It affects well-designed strongly-and-statically-typed-from-the-ground-up languages which have expressive type-constructs (Rust, anything ML-based, etc.) used to reduce repetition and code-generation steps.
by chmod775 | 2025-05-18 23:42:55+00:00
> For my wife and I we didn’t really want kids in he first place and we’re much better off for it.

And that's the crux of the issue: Individuals in most western societies are currently better off not having children, while society as a whole absolutely needs individuals to have a certain amount of children or run into serious issues down the line.

Many societies (for example South Korea) are feeling this more and more. Way too many old people and not enough young to run the country and take care of the old. In those places not enough is being done supporting those who chose to have children for everyone's sake.

Foregoing children and having saved for retirement does not mean much if in 40 years you're competing for the now extremely limited basic services against people who are in the same boat. Worse, young people may now decide that they don't feel like feeding and providing for a large population of old people through sky-high taxes and being the victim of rent-seeking. They just might throw in the towel and leave for a more functional country, using their now higher income to support their own parents, but none of the others. Who now takes care of the childless?

It's going to be human misery on a scale you would expect to see in a modern society.
by danhor | 2025-05-18 23:43:01+00:00
> It appears to be possible to debug the Hazard3 cores in the RP2350 in the same way as the ARM cores:

It is, but (as far as I understood it), they're using ARM SWD IP (which is a fine choice). But since their connection between the SWD IP and RISC-V DM is custom, you're going to need your adjust your debug probe software quite a bit more than between different Cortex MCUs.

Other vendors with similar issues (for example WCH) build something similar but incompatible, requiring their own debug probe. This is a solved problem for ARM cortex.
by lesser23 | 2025-05-18 23:43:28+00:00
The term is helicopter parenting. Studies have shown children born after 1995 are significantly more stunted (they grow up more “slowly”) due to this. There are interesting consequences like, for example, the condition of college campuses and identity politics. There are also laws that punish parents for allowing their children unstructured, safe, adult-free time (the expansion of the definition of “neglect”). A great book called “The Coddling of the American Mind” covers this and more in great detail. These days, we have more than ever replaced the physical helicopter parent with devices.
by kevindamm | 2025-05-18 23:44:09+00:00
just a few picks in no particular order

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2945379/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11154

https://lips.cs.princeton.edu/pdfs/liu2024generative.pdf

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05440
by dataviz1000 | 2025-05-18 23:44:52+00:00
I tried to make it cleaner and organized with code and then output but I think I made it worse without explaining what or why. [0] Sorry. It is only some examples of how to query the DOM to isolate the most important information.

I'm not definite (I'm supposed to be working on something else sorry if I'm wrong here), however, I believe this is the code Browser Use uses for stacking context including piercing the shadow DOM. [1] Because they build a map with all the visible elements, they can inject different color borders around them. Here they test for the topmost elements in the viewport. [2]

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/682a68bf-c6a0-8004-9c20-15508e6b3b...

[1] https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/55d078ed5a49...

[2] https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use/blob/55d078ed5a49...
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-05-18 23:45:35+00:00
> At this rate we will erase ourselves in about 200 years.

Not at all. Two hundred years is, what, 8 generations? (1.5/2)^8 = 0.1. We'd have a tenth the population in 200 years, so 800 million people. That may erase modern civilization, but it won't erase us.
by jleyank | 2025-05-18 23:46:21+00:00
What age ranges are you talking about? Assuming people go to college or university at 17-18, they can complete their teen years breaking free of childhood while learning adult skills. I did 8 years of that stuff back in ancient times, and my day to day existence and academic survival was up to me. Yeah, my folks paid the bills for the first half, then TA'ing people paid the second. The whole schmere was a pay to play deal but the good parts really outweighed the bad. Socially rich environment, it was.

Looking back, there is/was only one great difference - social networks. I played with computers from 13 onwards. Required going to a computer centre somewhere or finding a desktop minicomputer. In a car or on foot, but it was "elsewhere". The big advantage of that era is that it wasn't a solo activity. Weird society, yeah, but one had to be civil (enough) to be able to get help and access. Micro's ended that need.

Not having to be on line all the time gave me some slack until I got a handle on scheduling. In that I was (quite) lucky.

And I figure "joining the military" isn't freeing oneselves from supervision, rather the reverse. Is there still social agencies that let you go elsewhere and help out or have they all been branded NGO's and eliminated?
by scripturial | 2025-05-18 23:47:22+00:00
Interesting hypothesis, I’ve not heard it before. It would suggest that atheists and nominal/non practicing religious people would decrease in number over time (whereas in the pre industrialized world everyone was incentivized to have children because they help run the farm/family business)

If true, it would suggest a future where the world is much more religious, or a world that somehow deindustrialized.