skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> on the contrary, it seems the world over women are having fewer children in just about every country, as the economy of that country becomes more prosperous

That observation seems to be generally correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility

An aspect that is missing from the Wikipedia article however is being able to afford moving out or having children - a problem that is really prevalent in the poorer EU countries (see e.g. https://www.handelszeitung.ch/panorama/hotel-mama-warum-jung...). When lots of young people are unemployed/underemployed and rents astronomical, they have to stay at their parents' home for very long time (in Croatia, average is 32 years). Hard to procreate when you don't have your own space and privacy to have sex in, and even harder to raise children in such conditions.

Many Western countries seem to have adopted immigration as a band-aid fix against employment vacancy (Germany recruits its healthcare staff from countries as far away as the Philippines ffs), but exploiting migrants isn't sustainable in the long term - the "brain drain" kills the origin countries slowly (good luck finding a nurse on the Balkans).

The real fix would be to improve on the conditions that parents need to have children: build affordable housing, (US specific) increase employment security by killing off "at will employment", raise minimum wages to a level where a single worker can feed a family on their wage, and provide assistance to parents.
One of my all time favorite films. As soon as I read this headline I thought of it immediately. Could this lead to a new breed of ambulance chasers seeking a different kind of pay-day?
> I cannot stress enough how impossible it is for anyone as a late teen or older to decide to become a GM. It has never happened.

I have been a serious chess amateur for the past 20 years. I am now stronger than I ever have been (mainly because access to training materials has improved greatly in that time), I have no doubt that I could improve more if I devoted time and effort into more focused training like I have done during competitions. I know one or two people like me. I think the thing stopping me and the other people I mention from climbing the Elo ladder is lack of interest and motivation, not ability. You develop different vistas concerns and interests at 35 to 40 than you did at 12 to 20

My point is that with time, it is possible to improve and stating categorically that because no late teenager has ever become a grandmaster, none will sounds wrong. At one time we believed that ladies couldn't become grandmasters, the chinese could not beat westerners, grandmasters could not be minted before the age of 15 etc.
I'm not OP but this doesn't seem to answer the question. You presented a lot of speculation and mentioned two things that I've never heard of
Any language has stumbling blocks. That's _really_ different from fundamental issues with the language. There is no working around most of the issues mentioned here.

I think a million and one posts on 1-based indexing and "why no OOP" or some perceived weakness of the modules system and other silly things like that have led to a base defensive attitude.

But this post is criticism from someone actively using the language, well thought out, and things that you can not work around. It includes real currently unresolvable pain points.

And it doesn't sound like the Julia lang team has a plan for how to address them. Or it's not communicating that plan. After all, the talk you link by Jeff Bezanson name checks many of the issues raised here two years ago, to then continue to not talk about them ever again.
Indeed. The eFlyer 800 by Bye Aerospace, 925km range (at max payload) at over 320mph cruise, would be faster than the 200mph Cali HSR project that would’ve been at most 850km in phase 1 (and that would’ve been multiple hops most likely).

https://byeaerospace.com/electric-airplane/

(They hope to certify it by 2025, but it’s going to be a tough road to get there.)
Why are we surprised that workers are showing the same amount of loyalty to their employers as employers show to them?

The power dynamic between employer and employee is 100% in favor of the employer. Anything that pushes power back to the employee is probably for the best.
> FYI, China kicked out crypto miners, which is why hash rates tanked in the last few months:

The coal mine flood happened about a month before the widespread ban of Bitcoin in China, and we can see both events on the hashrate over time chart.
There aren’t electricity lines running over all tracks. In particular freight is still often hauled by Diesel engines.
"Coders at Work"[1] - a series of enjoyable and varied interviews with seasoned software developers. It features a mix of different styles of programming, types of project, and challenges encountered (technical, organizational, and collaborative).

[1] - https://codersatwork.com/
> I work for a Fortune 500 company

I think this is your problem, not modernity. In my 7 years working I've always stayed at smaller companies and I've never really had the problems you describe.
I don't they necessarily need other evidence for the time. The article and most of the comments here are focussing on its inaccuracy in geolocation and classification, but it seems to be an accurate recording of loud sounds that ring out across the city. A high false positive rate actually works against the suspect. He needs it to have missed one.
US employees also commonly have health insurance, typically covered by the employer in the tech field (or any median+ full-time job). Somehow foreign posters on HN constantly fail to recognize this fact. One would think after more than a decade of it commonly popping up here, the false narrative would stop (and it's corrected in every thread where it comes up).

It usually goes like this:

US tech salaries are great, but you have no health insurance. Or: yeah but you have to pay $12,000 per year for your own health insurance, so you have to deduct that to get a fair accounting on salaries.

When the reality is: if you work in tech you're likely receiving good health insurance coverage from your employer, and you're simultaneously paying lower taxes than in Germany.

Which is another way of saying that US salaries would be even further beyond peers if one takes an accurate accounting of the health insurance benefit + taxes.

Once you go through the effort of pointing all of this out, then they'll revert to: yeah but the quality of life is still superior so there. Having watched that forever process here across more than a decade, I've learned that people - even intelligent, seemingly knowledgeable people - often just shoehorn whatever lies or false narratives they need to feel good about their context when they lay their head on the pillow at night. And that's why no matter how many times it's corrected, the false narrative in question will never end.
1. Many owners run a cord from their house — this can be solved with a modest update to city codes and maybe a trenching service to help run lines under sidewalks.
2. Street lights have power lines and it seems like that infrastructure can be reused: https://metroenergy.org/programs/current-projects/streetligh...
3. We should be doing everything possible to discourage urban car ownership — EVs still make the city more expensive for everyone else, hurt people, pollute (tire, brake, sound), and require far more space than any other form of transportation.
> That is odd, it didn't seem to happen when the Republicans were in power.

Except it literally did. It literally happened when a Republican was president.

> We saw a tremendous amount of censorship of Right content and people.

A tremendous, but more than the left? Not at all.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again...

I don't know, most of the reports that looked into this couldn't find anything to back this up. Numerous studies back this up.

So please, share studies that back up that statement, because so far, the evidence doesn't support that theory.
I’m making an excellent side income with cryptocurrency. The Bitcoin boom and bubble allowed us to get a down payment for the house we live in. I don’t know where the money came from but cryptocurrency investment has been a boon for out fiancees.
Is there a difference really? Microsoft spent years and literally billions to get developers on their OS (see Balmer's "developers developers developers" speech in the nineties).
Of course some people consider this evil.
It's just as crazy as people legitimately believing he is a Russian agent
Did you read the settlement? [1]

> New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office says it found that Tether sometimes held no reserves to back its cryptocurrency’s dollar peg. It said that, from mid-2017, the company had no access to banking and misled clients about liquidity issues. [2]

It also depends on what you believe the role of that settlement was. Some speculated it was a trial balloon for a federal suit.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/23/tether-bitfinex-reach-settle...
Maybe someone from the medical research community can comment, but the evidence here seems pretty weak. 4 cases, all self reported, where the patient is the one that identified the food additive when looking for such things. The chance for a placebo effect is strong. Also not sure how to interpret having multiple vegetarians in such a small sample. None of this of course invalidates the hypothesis, but the evidence appears super flimsy.
This is becoming less true every year. Tesla now has 250kW superchargers, and there are even 350kW CCS chargers starting to be installed. In practice, for a Model 3, this means that you can charge the battery up to about half in 15 minutes.

For a long day of driving, say, 700 miles, assuming charging available at both ends, this means two charging stops of 15 minutes each instead of one gas stop of 5 minutes.

IMO while this can always be improved, this is now at the "good enough" point for long distance driving. Obviously to make this a true reality, there needs to be widespread charging available in parking lots, and more 250kW Superchargers, but progress towards this is rapid.
BLAKE3 has a large state, it's a tree hash, so you need to keep the tree of hashes, which is proportional to logarithm of the message size. SHA has fixed state for any message.
There is a huge difference between voluntarily giving one's wealth away to one's choice of entities than the government forcibly taking that wealth from one's estate. Giving one's wealth away is a choice. A freedom. So should be the option of leaving that wealth to one's descendants or successors (biological or otherwise).
Neural pathways have to be formed while the brain is still malleable
> Its not Tesla that is pushing electric (they're basically irrelevant number wise) it is the Paris climate accord.

What? BEV were non existent before Tesla. Tesla is and has always been the leader in this space. Mary D. Nichols (chair of CARB from 2007 to 2020) credited Tesla for the adoption of EV and said they needed Tesla to enforce regulations (without any EV manufacturers, the state could not actually enforce limits since there would be no alternative). And because things were moving in California, other countries said they should speed things up and not just rely on hybrids as the goal. Since then, politicians are simply watching the adoption curve of EV, doing projections and announcing bans... right when they will not be necessary (because EV will already have replaced ICE). Watch what's happening in California https://cdn.motor1.com/images/custom/plugin-car-sales-califo... how is this explained by the l'accord de Paris?
If you want to decrease economic inequality, this is not the way to do that. That's even assuming it's worthwhile.
Julia is incredibly fascinating for me as a language to observe, although I haven't got the time/patience to try it out yet. Its language design seems incredibly progressive and yet pragmatic: they've repopularized dynamic dispatch (which makes perfect sense in a mathematics-oriented language), and has a unique mix of dynamic and static typing that seems perfect in paper.

In practice, Julia seems to suffer from the initial architectural decisions that the creators has made when the language was young - the biggest which is its heavy dependence on LLVM. This is a problem since LLVM is mainly used for static compilation of code for languages like C++/Rust/Zig and not with dynamic execution - its included JIT is famous for being unreasonably slow. Even the dev seems to know this but they don't seem to have that much choice - since too much of their codebase is dependent on it. (For example: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jeff-bezanson-remarks-on-l... - LLVM codegen keeps getting slower, which in turn cancels out all the little optimizations they can do for the language) It's a language that seems so perfect on paper but suffers from its real-world implementation - and therefore captivates me in a special way. Some major architectural overhaul might be a much better move (such as a fallback bytecode interpreter independent from LLVM) - but it's definitely going to be a major effort.
As I sit here reading this, I'm trying to fill out the two sides of the argument in my head and I find the pro-estate tax position is a little less than clear to me. Estate tax goes to various levels of government. What about governmental tax revenue is meritocratic? Surely it's the same thing? And what makes its expenditures meritocratic?
re:"weekly roundup"> F# Is The Best Coding Language Today

Have you looked at http://nim-lang.org ?
https://archive.is/afifu
Would a future version of the Wireguard protocol and implementations benefit from switching to BLAKE3? Enough so that it would make sense for them to make the switch either, as the only difference between now and then, or alongside other changes they may have in mind? And if it makes sense, are they planning on doing it?
Maybe not fair to say "beat". Probably more fair to say "beat or draw"...
>I don't really get what makes it UNIX-style

I think what they meant was that it's an entirely text based program. Perhaps they are conflating UNIX with CLI.
Is this a philosophical question? I'm sure we can imagine a scenario that a son's contribution to family wealth is greater than his father's. We can also imagine a scenario that the son squanders the whole lot.

Capital management is not a trivial task. Successful management of great sums requires great skill and attention. The world is fraught with dangers when handling a fortune.

As an aside: America is not a meritocracy. It's a dynamic, imperfect system, often described as a presidential republic, and we're constantly rewriting the rules of the game.

What a great person should yearn for is opportunity - access to capital need not be inherited. I think we should strive to empower our best people with capital resources appropriate to their level of skill and experience. I don't think the government is the best mechanism for choosing who those managers should be, but I think it should definitely have a role in making sure the game is fair.
TikTok is the latest battleground of dances being pilfered for profit
Free speech has never been perfect. Heterodox ideas are often wrong, and sometimes those ideas have a cost. But sometimes, heterodox ideas are right, and absolutely crucial to us making progress. The latter category of ideas is the main reason why we have free speech. But, it's not so easy to discern the heterodoxy we need from the heterodoxy we don't, and it is far too dangerous to entrust anyone with that responsibility. It is very easy to suppress important information by accident, and obviously very easy to do so on purpose.

Facebook has already demonstrated the danger of censorship, their own incompetence, and the flaws of relying on orthodox-aligned sources. Up until recently, they were suppressing the lab leak hypothesis. That hypothesis is now considered plausible.
Nothing new will ever work for certain manager types that can only work the way they are used to workingm, aren't very introspective, and don't think about problems beyond the surface.

In my experience much of what gets discussed 1:1s should be discussed with the larger group during retro times. This can be setup for anonymous feedback if that makes people more comfortable(it also comes with benefits anyone involved so you can "read the room").

Coaching can work well with a rotating peer coaching setup.

Now you can get 20+ people with leads reporting to a single person who owns the employee relationships. Dump all the useless middle management.
The fact that many people may agree that Amazon has in some way made their lives better does not inherently mean that Bezos should now get to decide on the disposition of all the revenue that flows towards the company. The point of taxation is to keep pulling some chunk of the overall money flow back into the pool where we have some collective, political control over its disposition.

How big that chunk should be, and what the process(es) should be used to decide on its disposition are open for debate, certainly. But the idea that because $X flowed towards Amazon, and everyone did that voluntarily and feels good about it, now Bezos gets to decide how the accumulated sum should be spent - I don't consider that a sensible view in any way.
I think the problem isn't the technology or the idea, it's the business model and the associated incentives. ShotSpotter's customers are the police, and the objective of police is to secure convictions, so ShotSpotter is incentivized to help them do that, not to produce true and accurate predictions. Exonerating a defendant isn't going to win them more business.
> The Walton family can't throw my in prison. In fact, they can't do much of anything to me besides perhaps denying me a Sam's Club membership.

They most certainly can. They simply have no reason or motivation to.
I don’t like Citizen, but is it inherently a bad thing if there’s more accountability in the form of distributed filming of the government and its agents?

My issue with citizen is more how it fear mongers and the general sentiment around what it’s doing.

I also think it’s a terrible idea to encourage people to put themselves in potentially dangerous situations.
Right... but I don't classify its performance of "saying 5 gunshots when their was 4" a failure.

If it can say "I heard a gunshot, sounded like it came from around here." and a gunshot occurred somewhere around there, with only a few false positives. That's fantastic. In my view, that's "great".

It's just not iron clad evidence, prosecutors are overstating its statistical power. That needs to be checked.

Furthermore, since it can and does record human voices speaking, and creates permanent records into the private hands of a for-profit company that is allowed to sell that data to 3rd parties, does it actually cross a line from being useless to being harmful? It might.

Yah absolutely. But the thing is gunshots are pretty loud noises compared to human speech. There's no reason to think a microphone needs to be sensitive enough to capture human speech to capture a gunshot, nor placed in a location that is well suited for capturing human speech, nor would a place that IS well suited for capturing human speech a good location for capturing gunshots.

If I was placing a microphone to capture the sound of gunshots, I'd be putting it on the tops of streetlights, telephone polls, and the corners of buildings. You're not going to be hearing people from there.

So if we see that behavior of ShotSpotter sticking microphones in inappropriate places for public surveillance purposes, then I think they should be taken to task for it.
When I watch super grand-masters calculate tactics, or play simuls while blinded, I know that they are just built different in a way that I was either never built for, or would have had to begin my training early during development.
Privacy Badger, Firefox, and NoScript here, and I can read the article fine. I'd suggest you try a few js-blocking add-ons.
It looks like you are okay with silencing of dissent against the government so long as that clamp down only affects the ideas you disagree with. History tells us that this does not stop and will continue its grip and eventually silence all dissent against the government no matter from whom.
> What tether is doing is reframing what 1:1 collateralization means.

Or in simpler terms, Tether is a crypto money market fund, combining the convenience of money market funds with the transparency of a Ponzi scheme. If you read even the little transparency they do provide very carefully, it doesn't exclude the possibility that they're lying through their teeth about their backing: the commercial paper is described as being valued at face value, which, combined with the extreme reluctance to even hint out which industry the commercial paper is in, is not reassuring at all.
That's weird because Herbert Diess (CEO of VW) already said that they won't be able to overtake Tesla in EV but will fight for #2.
"Yes, money can be used to buy power. But it's not power in itself."

Try convincing someone who has to work multiple jobs to support themselves and their family of that.

"A strong meritocracy would focus on giving positions of responsibility (auditing/regulating/decision-making type powers) to people who show the merit to perform them well. Money is an advantage, but it is not the power to shape social systems."

A "strong meritocracy" has about as much chance of existing as a non-corrupt totalitarian or communist system.
That is my experience as well. I will usually drop what I am working on to help mentor or assist someone having problems right away. It is quick to connect and the problem is occurring right then. It basically cuts the transaction time in half compared to the in person version.
> An evangelist/growth focused role is exactly what a promoter is.

Right. move into. Because that was not a part of my job description at Mozilla. They didn't dislike the stuff I was doing, but it's not my work.

The disparagement is the implication of lying:

> You can judge for yourself if their promotion of rails was grounded in truth.
> Users including me only want something that works.

In this case I see no reason not to buy preinstalled Linux. Typically, they buy preinstalled Windows, so I do not see any large difference here.

> Linux is inferior from a usability perspective

No, it isn't. Proprietary apps on Linux may be.

> If what you say is true and that this usability issue can't practically be changed then linux will always be doomed to be less usable than windows.

Yes, although this has been slowly changing for years. One can hope that it's not forever.
That's your personal interpretation, and in my opinion it's quite revealing.

It should go without saying, but I guess it needs to be explicitly stated here: it's good to have -qualified-, diverse candidates in leadership roles. Obviously just putting some underqualified person isn't going to work out and it's a bit tautological to state this. There's nothing about "young" that automatically means "lack of experience", or "old" that automatically means "experienced". There's nothing about "more diverse candidates" that means "not qualified"- that's your personal interpretation. It doesn't mean "more qualified" either.

Leadership (and really, all company roles) benefit from having different perspectives. When your perspective is from generally one group it's easy to be out of touch and just start missing the mark.
Probably not yet. If we're lucky, someone will provide a write-up soon.
That is not an argument, that is a statement of belief.