skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty delicate balancing act, and one that's getting harder because of the increasing complexity of modern society.

The issue is that differentiated careers - ones where you are hard to replace, your company will pay you more than commodity wages, and they'll give you time off for a sick kid because replacing you will cost more than just letting you take a day off when necessary - require a long period of time to become differentiated and hard to replace. That could be spending your 20s in med school and residency, or in law school and being an associate, or bouncing between lower-level engineering jobs before you get the experience needed to tackle big projects. But in most fields, it does take up most of your 20s, which means you really only get stability, trust, and the ability to downshift for family life in your 30s.

Ideally, on a societal level, you should be able to raise a family on one of those "commodity" wages. But that's not happening, largely because many of the necessities of life - housing, health care, and education - have become differentiated professions where owners and practitioners can get premium wages. We need to allow shantytowns and village doctors again before we can have large amounts of people having kids in their 20s.
Without sounding condescending or anything... Literate, successful people don't do many (if any) children because:

1) They reckon that things like "growing a family" are not the "meaning of life"

2) They value their time and respect the child, so they feel responsibilities on both sides

This is by all means a 1st world problem and immigration is a natural way to address the problem IMO.
> How about we increase wages so people can afford to work less?

Or increase taxes on capital and redistribute the gains, rather than relying on wages.
This article actually addresses this, and is one component of the larger problem:

"Older people tend to vote for their own self-interests, and in the case of Britain, end up controlling the government in power; voters with pensions and homes opt for lower growth and restricted housebuilding, further raising the cost of home ownership for the young and so pushing down the fertility rate still further. If we’re playing a generational blame game for the lack of children…"
I've read these. My first Rand exposure was Anthem, which I thought was interesting if a bit contrived (I read it as the same age as The Giver, felt The Giver was more relatable).
No, it's not. 'Children of Men' is about infertility; this article is about voluntary population decline (people choosing to have fewer children, an entire subject on its own). This is a bit of clickbait, of course.
Practical ethics by Peter Singer. It made me question a lot of my truths and habits and, in the end, made me more happy about how I live my life.
Elon is America’s smartest entrepreneur.

He and the brave employees of Space X will guide life to the stars.
Offer to pay them what they want.
How does that pertain to the discussion? We’re not focused on talking about unions here, we’re talking about why construction projects take a long time, so what does that mean for project duration?
"F equals MA and you can't push a rope" will get you though cow-college freshman physics. Not murdering your lab partner helps, too. :-)
As with everything, it has pros and cons. If you care more about the environment than the economy, then I guess it's a good thing.

The problem is that we have structured our entire system essentially as a pyramid scheme, where the ever more children coming from behind will mean that the standard of living keeps increasing.

As with every pyramid scheme, once enrollment stops, then the pyramid collapses.

I think theoretically, it's not necessarily about more and more children being born, but rather about productivity increasing. As long as generations manage to be increasingly more productive, then the pyramid keeps going. Obviously, population and output are heavily correlated, hence the issue.

Given how bleak the outlook is at the moment for the people coming into their parenthood years, I don't think anyone can blame them for not wanting to procreate.
I am pretty sure that this site was hosted on Svbtle as well. His other personal site still seems to be online: https://dustincurtis.com/
Simple, just pass go, and draw a card from Chance.
I think we do know a little of it. They used limestone and an acid -- so the touching surfaces of the rock were softened, which is how they conformed so closely and precisely to each other.
Even if you could initialize the prototype of an object from JSON deserialisation (which I’m not sure you can), JSON very explicitly lacks the ability to set accessor properties. So any injected property is still a normal property for which regular read and write rules apply
Well, good ABI/API’s and, let me really clearly separate this from the word ‘good’, standard OS GUI frameworks like Windows wpf and Mac OS X cacao for frontends is as far Lego as I have seen for now. Web frontends is where it all goes terribly wrong; nothing fits and everything breaks when you put X into Y when X and Y are from other authors generally. It is a shit show. But for backends and internally it can be done with good APIs. Problem is… not many people can write those, so you end up with something that says lego on the pack but is in fact lego after your ‘always was a bit weird’ cousin played with it with his flamethrower.
I read the following 3 in this order and it definitely co-incided with a change in my life for the better:

* A confession and other religious stories by Leo Tolstoy
* Happiness by Matthieu Ricard (a counter argument against French philosophers who believe happiness doesn't exist)
* The Diary of Anne Frank
* A Life Interrupted by Etty Hillesum (the most beautiful book I will ever read)
I'm assuming the grandparent commentor is confusing communism with democratic socialist states? The Scandinavian states look pretty nice overall.
Can confirm this too, second down from top right is the mute button (in the south-east US at least)
Haha I have no idea. But yeah just call the GPS algo a Time AI and voila, $21 m in funding to go get some kids in shenzen to put a GPS chip on a USB, PCIe, NVME slot.

Hey look we got a GPU to learn the Kalman filter algo.

Many are actually better than 10 ns basically a 1 foot CEP is 1 ns. If they are fixed and always on the accuracy it can build over a day is incredible.
I’m a fairly new interviewer at FAANG. I wouldn’t consider “invert a binary tree” to be a good question.

If a question did require “invert a binary tree” to be part of the optimal answer, then identifying this would be the most important thing. If the candidate then coded an suboptimal version, whilst mentioning that a more optimal one could exist, that’s almost max points.

I think there is a slight focus on “tricks” for coding interviews, but from the questions I’ve done and seen, these are more general problem solving strategies, rather than the slightly esoteric algorithmic tricks that get brought up on HN.

I haven’t seen a current question where a very specific algorithmic trick is required to get a good rating (but that could very well be my lack of experience). I guess dynamic programming may be the closest thing. But I would say that’s a more general strategy and the questions I’ve seen that use it are fairly rare. I’ve never seen a question require it for a good rating, the ones I’ve seen have it as extension type stuff.
Agreed that it's not perfect.

But asking to talk about technical topics is what is essentially trivia - is an absolutely worse approach.
I agree. I would also add continues to change my life. I read the Bible every day and am constantly amazed how relevant ancient wisdom is today.

In recent years teaching from Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament taught me how to understand my work. There is such a lot of nonsense on HN and the net about success. So many are pursuing a pipe dream. Below helped me to work hard, enjoy what I have, and not be concerned about what others have. See below, written in Ecclesiastes 5, thousands of years ago.

10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! 11 The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth—except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!

12 People who work hard sleep well, whether they eat little or much. But the rich seldom get a good night’s sleep.

13 There is another serious problem I have seen under the sun. Hoarding riches harms the saver. 14 Money is put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one’s children. 15 We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.

16 And this, too, is a very serious problem. People leave this world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing—like working for the wind. 17 Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry.

18 Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life. 19 And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God. 20 God keeps such people so busy enjoying life that they take no time to brood over the past.
I'm not sure that we're arguing different positions.
Thank you for your comprehensive and detailed feedback!

I'll leave Joakim to respond to your comments about his presentation, and I'll respond directly to your comments about the nutshell video.

> you've actually never demonstrated your product to me once

That's partially true, although I'd argue that by showing the components and bases from an example system, we are showing "the product". Perhaps you're thinking about showing code or filesystem structure from a complete production Polylith workspace? We do that in other videos, but didn't think it would be a good fit in the 10-minute "why?" introduction.

> The toothpick model isn't a mess, it's a masterpiece. I admire the person who made it, but you're telling me that I shouldn't want to build software with that model.

I agree that the toothpick model is a masterpiece! However, the reason we shouldn't want to build software in the same way comes down to one word: change. The real Whitehouse doesn't change shape very often, but all the software I've ever been involved in building does. That's why building software with LEGO pieces is so much better than building it with toothpicks and glue. Which is exactly why it's a such strong metaphor.

> Secondly, the Lego analogy is overdone. As I said in another post, every architecture has made this claim, even if they are actually toothpicks.

You might be right about this, but most of the other recent architectures we'd come across seemed to steer away from talking about LEGO (onion, hexagon, DDD, microservices, etc.), so we were hoping it wasn't overused.
What It’s Really Like to Write a Book
No, I disagree. Journalism is driven by market forces, but there is nothing preventing journalists from printing the truth except their desire to not bite the hand that feed them. This is not the fault of the marketers, but the fault of journalism integrity.
Waiting to have kids is the worst advice you can give someone. It’s a very difficult thing to have kids to begin with (contrary to what the “abstinence only” crowd would have you believe) and waiting can be the difference between having kids and heartbreak.
The reality seems grimmer than a post apocalyptic movie then - in that imagined future, there is no choice; in actual reality, it seems that individuals have chosen not to reproduce in spite of having the biological ability to do so.
How one company is working to guarantee the salary of college graduates
If "they're our university colours" was the reason, they likely would've said so when asked. Even if that was the reason when the outfits were chosen originally, that isn't the reason they gave when asked.
While 1. may be meaningful on mainstream IT FOSS projects, this has probably next to 0 relevance to gov FOSS services. Issue 2 is solved already. Issue 3. also seem irrelevant - I doubt folks other from academia and specific nerds will try to PR on gov service given the extensive in domain hard to get knowledge that is needed for that in genral.
It’s also great at translation. Actually really great down down to interpolated strings containing variables.

Take English strings.en.json, copy to strings.th.json, open side by side, delete English text and watch copilot fill in the thai translation
When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.
China's one child policy means China has had a particularly low fertility rate for decades. Even now, it's "up" to 1.6. That's lower than Russia, which is far from replacement level. Child policy only takes effect after something like 20-25 years. So China's population will be well into decline before the first effect of canceling the one-child policy will be observed, in 2030-2035 (2010 - 2015 + 20 years).

Additionally Health services in China don't match those in the West, so they will lose people far faster.

China is in a much worse state than even Eastern Europe when it comes to population. It doesn't look like it, but China went into decline 3 years ago and will not stop declining until at least 2060. And it will be quite a steep decline starting in 2030 or so.
AFAIK French policy was driven by mothers that want to continue working. Most jobs and careers just aren't possible to do with halved working hours even if it was paid well.

That's the European approach that children belong to whole community not only their parents and the authority and the burden is shared. I don't get why are you so hell bent on having exclusive authority over your child?
Defense is always exception, even in non FOSS. This is very bad example.
Is it really? What makes it better? My mother was 22 when I born. I went through a lot of pain as a child because of her an my dad’s emotional issues (I don’t blame them, they were young.) It took me until my late 20s to really work through some of the crap I went through as a child. Compare that to my cousin who’s parents were in their mid to late 30s. He’s had a much more stable life than I had. He’s already got a much better head start in life than me, and I think a big component of that was the maturity of his parents.
Vaccination status might predict views on the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Yikes. I'm not unsympathetic, but if there's any one recurrent theme I've seen in computing over the 40 years I've been here, it's make backups.

I always had a sort of genial skepticism of Svbtle: I liked the idea, but there was something a bit...for want of a more gentle term, a bit blowhardy about Dustin Curtis's own writing style, and like others, I was bemused by that "forever promise." It's impressive, but how can you guarantee that? In fact, it doesn't guarantee it, precisely, based on the footnote of the linked content:

> “Forever” means until the HTML-based “web” is no longer generally accessible or until Svbtle or its parent company becomes financially insolvent (which we intend to avoid given that users pay for the service).

(Emphasis added.) Many years ago I signed up for the "lifetime hosting" at TextDrive, which turned out to really mean "until the parent company went all-in on managed enterprise hosting"; Joyent's management appeared to be somewhat surprised and irritated that we expected "lifetime" to mean "if not our own personal lifetimes, then at least as long as your company is in business". Svbtle clearly tried to do better, and I don't doubt they meant it, but it's still a big ask.

Having said that, I also suspect it's basically a one-person business, so goodness knows what's up. Is there a customer service email address? Have you tried emailing "hi@dustincurtis.com", which appears to be Dustin Curtis's email address?
Slavery wasn’t some significant advantage for America (in a time when slavery was super common). It’s pretty widely agreed that dependency on slavery also set the south back economically by decades (look at the GDP north vs south for all of US history after 1800
I'd prefer schools spent money better.

Preschool in my district is 4 days a week, 2.5hrs / day.

That's a JOKE. Meant only for people who don't work.

But they also got another levy on taxes for "technology" and "new buildings".

They don't need more money, they just need to better spend the money they have.

Private daycare costs around $2000/month. That's more than tuition on the university ($1000/month or so).

So I just wish that once kids are in preschool age the preschool offered something reasonable

Also, have i mentioned that public preschool is not free? On top of taxes, we pay $400/month or so for 4 days a week, 2.5hrs/day preschool. It's nuts.

Oh, and they insert a random "teacher development days" where preschool is closed. Can't they do development in summer, when the school is closed anyway?

Being a parent sux.
At least you can still WFR (work from rubble).
My bad, that was a typo. It was meant to read

> don't hang out with people i don't want to be around
> Also how are you going to provide the additional goods and services these people will be able to afford

We could start manufacturing those more expensive but better quality goods, which most of people could not afford. There is no problem with manufacturing enough goods. There is problem that many people only have money for the cheapest shit which breaks easily and needs to be replaced soon which costs even more money and destroys environment.
Seems that taxing negative externalities like carbon emissions would be good start
That only severely impacts media without hardware wear leveling like Smartmedia cards. The more likely cause of failure is FAT corruption from power loss during writes.
Didn't numerous iPhones have front home buttons until recently?

But I think this helps my point, in that the iPhone was only a marginal improvement on already existing tech instead of the "first" to do whatever
Perhaps this is the thing that I don’t understand. Why wouldn’t an attacker have such means? This attack isn’t something that requires control of the network, it’s just a fantastic way of producing a lookalike page.
_The Mind Illuminated_ Hasn't changed my life yet but it might (found it three days ago out on hoopla.com). I say this as someone who has given meditation practice a good college try (more than a year at a time of daily practice) on a couple of occasions. Most books say just keep going and you will eventually fart pixie dust. This book says you can reach advanced practice in under a year BUT requires a consistent one hour a day which might be a deal breaker. This book gets very specific about technique, achievements and expectations which is unique in my experience. And the author is not saying you need to find a "mentor/guide". If you have seen a better book I would love to hear about it.
Before this new law, in France kindergarden already existed and 98% of children were already attending kindergarten. (It has always been free as well) I don't think this has been done to tackle the low fertility problem in France, but more to enforce a standardization of the education of young children.
I think that's a great questionnaire, but not for the intended purpose. Seeing that early in the interview speaks volumes and makes it so easy to just say nope and move on.

That questionnaire says two things. Either:

1) This is the hurdle you need to clear just for us to deign to speak to you in person, maybe. If you're lucky. You mean that little to us as a candidate.

2) We're completely oblivious of the lack of respect for you time that this shows. You mean that little to us as an colleague.

3) This is what "management / HR" says we have to do for new hires. You mean that little to us as an employee.

I'd love for that to be a false dichotomoy (trichotomy?), but I can't think of an option where this is interpreted as respectful to the candidate.
Anyone have any ideas?
Russia says it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine for first time
I think this is a case of 'don't build your castles on other people's land'
Reading the article through and through, it seems that it is a given that the world's currently huge population should not be allowed to shrink, for the good of the economy.

This is an .. amazingly shortsighted take, especially when taking into consideration the resource (over-)utilization and flat-out exploitative extraction which was required just to get us this far. 1/13 of all people that have ever lived are alive right now. Maybe--just maybe--it's a good thing that the world's population will shrink over the coming decades, and quite possibly we need to disconnect our economies from unbounded growth while we're at it.
This is an easy question. The answer is people started watching television.
No, I did not create this approach at all. It is the approach taken by Jehovah's Witnesses who started out by questioning beliefs and looking directly at the Bible to figure out whether a belief was Biblical or not. That's how they came to the conclusion that hellfire is a lie and many other things that the Christendom accepts aren't actually Biblical. It's a very balanced approach. It also avoids all the "God hates $group" garbage and gives solid reasons for what's going on in the world. If you want to learn about that method of Bible study, check out jw.org.
You shouldn't be flabbergasted, racism isn't new or surprising in America.
Are you seriously going to tell me that starting PayPal, having two divorces, 8 kids, and rolling that into Tesla and SpaceX makes someone the smartest entrepreneur? I thought entrepreneur included all parts of life. Elon is not a savior, he's smart, but he got lucky too.
I explain it to people of reproductive age as such: Kids cost roughly $270k (2022 inflation adjusted from earlier USDA data) to raise from birth to 18. Each child. Can you afford a Supercar or a fancy boat? If not, how can you afford a kid? And more than one? Good. Luck.
The Network State
There really isn't much of a choice, and even then it's not a long term solution. From the article:

"Morland talks of the trilemma facing ageing nations, whereby you can have two of the three: ethnic continuity, a thriving economy or a comfortable lifestyle without the huge stress of mixing child-raising and a modern economy. Israel has sacrificed the latter, Japan has chosen to take the economic hit, while Britain’s leaders have given up its ethnic continuity. But that, alas, was a short-term solution, since young immigrants don’t magically avoid the fate of Father Time any more than the rest of us do."
Did you have to practice to achieve this or just from reading the book?
Pencils are dangerous in space—they can cause fires. Also, the “space pens” were not developed with taxpayer money but instead by a private company, and they actually saved NASA a lot as they bought them for dollars instead of hundreds or thousands as they did with pencils.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
This is excellent news! We are already over the carrying capacity for the Earth. We just have to figure out how to structure our economies. "fixing" fertility is fixing the wrong problem.
Walkability is the fad now. Just like cars replacing streetcars was in the past.

In this case one I'm glad to support.