skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. I wasn’t ready to have kids at 30. I had my son at 33. Only now am I entering some stability in my career. I am very fortunate to have made wise decisions in my youth that shaped my trajectory. I made the most of the opportunities I had. I’ve squandered many too.

I don’t actually wish I had my son earlier. I’m happy with our current situation. I’m able to give him access to a plethora of resources and attention so he can flourish. He’s turning 4 this year. I wish I could make more of him because I think this world is better with him in it, than not.

No, I said “early if possible” only because we cannot change the realities of biology. My wife is the same age as me, and we can likely have 1 more before she’s “done.” If we could have 3 or 4 with ease, we would.

An alternative solution would be for men to marry young. It’s a reasonable solution. But my wife’s age and maturity is a huge benefit too. She wasn’t ready to be a mom at 25 or 30.

It’s a difficult dilemma and balancing act.
I often recall a quote, the author of which I've forgotten, when I read about population decline. "There were around 1B people in 1900, and few would say the world was empty back then."

No doubt it will be a hard adjustment, but those that are around could enjoy a better quality of life than we do as long as you don't define quality as 'inexpensive junk'. More natural resources and open space per capita is pretty nice in itself.
I think there may be a different way to think about it:

- the larger a society / civilization. The more specialty it can support

- reducing the size of a civilization can result in a reduction of specialty.

- this can result in a reduction of capacity and effectively inflation and a reduction in technology

There are definitely other factors as well, but GDP is almost directly correlated to population. A reduction in population is effective a civilizational contraction.

If we start seeing a general reduction in population above a certain threshold (idk what that is), you may even see cascading failures. Entire technology sectors are abandoned, etc. which could result in civilization collapse.

Arguably, this is similar to what happened in the Bronze Age when the interconnected trade networks failed. Similarly, during the dark ages.

Quite possibly we are seeing one now.
In FireFox it's under the accessibility options.
the dcurt.is domain in your hn profile doesn't work either.
I recommend getting a couple of good books for doing physics with python:

- Learning Scientific Programming with Python by Christian Hill - OR -

- Numerical Python: Scientific Computing and Data Science Applications with Numpy, SciPy and Matplotlib 2nd ed. Edition by Robert Johansson

AND THEN one or two of these depending upon interests:

- Understanding Optics with python

- computational physics: problem solving with Python by Paez, Landau, and Bordeianu

- Classical Mechanics: A Computational Approach with Examples Using Mathematica and Python

- Dynamical Systems with Applications using Python

Your colleague can browse through those (some of them are probably in the university library) and see which ones they prefer. Doing physics with python will make the learning process more fun, imo.

Some other books for getting a full picture of beginning and intermediate python are:

- Introducing Python by Bill Lubanovic (book might progress a little slow for your colleague but a good starter book)

- Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho (there is a new edition coming out shortly... this is a good intermediate Python book).

- Neural Networks from Scratch in Python by Kinsley and Kukiela... you build a basic, but complete, NN library in python with optimization, back-propagation, and everything using numpy, python classes, and so forth

Other than searching for topics to learn, I also recommend these resources to learn more about python and python for physics computation:

- https://learnbyexample.github.io/py_resources/

- https://composingprograms.com/

- https://pythonprogramming.net/

- http://scipy-lectures.org and this Hacker news post and links therein: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25682103

- https://pythonnumericalmethods.berkeley.edu/notebooks/Index....

- Mr. P Solver's Youtube Channel (highly recommended!)

- Freecodecamp (someone already recommended that)
It's due to resource consumption per individual, multiplied by the number of individuals. Since multiplication is commutative, both terms are equally at fault.

But since we have ample time left to change our lifestyles and societies to be more eco-friendly, there's no harm in ignoring one half of the causes, right?

Edit: To clarify, the half that is being ignored is the number of people, in the people times consumption per capita equation.
The problem is that any publicly funded initiative is immediately treated as a cash cow that has to be milked to death. Industry, lobbies, special interest groups, insider deals, etc. etc. Everyone has to get a piece of sweet sweet cake. The longer this takes the more money is needed and the more cake there is. This is true regardless of whether its for infrastructure, schools, or defense acquisitions. Its functional systemic corruption, even if no laws are broken (because those who make the laws are part of the system).
> This hinges on the contracts actually working as intended, which is something they often do not. Code in general rarely does poorly in that regard.

Exactly the same can be said about the legal system. People are just a lot more used to the many existing "glitches" of the legal system in comparison to "bugs" in smart contracts.
Dostoevsky 's crime and punishment has taught me a lot about the human spirit.

I've nothing practical to say that the book taught me but the consequences in real life of what dostoevsky has taught me are innumerable and at the same time too subtle to talk about them. I learnt the meaning of love (a romantic and deep one) but also the meaning of hate, self destruction. What nihilism is and what are its consequences. Human spirit is complex and I feel that today's society tend to simplify it in a very rough way.
1904 Vacuum-Tube invented

1961 IC invented

1974 personal computer

1983 internet

1998 g

2004 f

On average 20.6 years between the innovations I listed. Consider that since the inception of BTC (and ETH) there might not have been any actual innovations that would fit this rubric.
In professional environments, x86 really took over only in the mid-2000s, especially with the Opteron. Whether x86 ever took the performance crown is debatable, if you consider the big PowerPCs IBM still sells.
Thanks Dustin. If you don't mind sharing, it would be interesting to know what caused the outage.
That's an awful solution. Some small fraction of people in the way shouldn't get an enormous multiplier over market value, in some kind of giant prisoner's dilemma auction.

If you offer the group a certain percentage of market value, that could work out well. But unanimous consensus is not a reasonable way to get land for big public projects.
> There’s a bit more to the story than you may think here... you also aren’t allowed to be homeschooled. It’s illegal.

I believe this isn't correct. Homeschooling is legal in France, although restricted. You need to be able to prove your kids are receiving a proper education.

https://www.parentconcept.com/french-home-education-law

> They ban religious practices for minors (wearing hijabs, for instance).

I also think this is incorrect. Religious signs are forbidden in public school for students and teachers alike (as France is a secular country), but there's no law preventing minors practicing religion.
I think “comfortable” sums it up better than anything else. When I run OpenBSD, I know what’s running on my system (up until the firmware at least), but more importantly I understand it. Even the kernel is easy to dive into.
> Compared to actual contracts which are human readable.

People are just more used to and exposed to texts written in, say, Englisch in comparison to code written in, say, Solidity.
The Bay Bridge faults have non-trivially been blamed (rightly or wrongly is unclear) on Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Company who provided a lot of the materials [1]. The Wikipedia article doesn't talk about the steel itself (surprisingly!) but does mention they did the deck work, the automatic welds, and so on. There was plenty of blame to go around though.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_span_replacement_of_...
3.5", I'm sure, and I'm almost certain that device requires Windows drivers to function as expected. And a CR2025/2032 battery.
Russia will then have the opportunity to welcome the climate refugees in the next 10 years. I think Russia will be more temperate and there will be opportunity for lots of farming work.
Having kids for the economy and what else is selfish. Kids should not be brought to fix things screwed up by their parents and grandparents. These kids are used like the fuel cells like in The Matrix, not because there is some benefit to them, there is none btw.

Life itself is pretty hard for most people, most just don't accept truth and make up a reason to cope. Copium. It's heartbreaking seeing children fleeing their home, losing everyone they know like in Syrian and now Ukraine just in last decade.

Then there is climate change, which will be devastating in near future. Even IPCC report is manipulated by lobbying.

https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1490987272044703752
You should travel around and see if you're still worried about filling it up
The size of that M1 Ultra package is just enormous. I’d love to see what it looks like under the heat spreader.

It’s also interesting Apple is cooling both sides of the chip. Is that just for efficiency so the computer is quieter? Intel/AMD chips that put off way more power aren’t cooled from both sides right?
Because we are a tribal people and don't want to be invaded by foreigners. Additionally, adding to the labor supply and suppressing wages does not help families afford to have more children. A nation should boost its domestic birth rate, and if there's a cultural problem that pushes towards declining birth rates, they should address that. Bringing in new people is not a solution it is just another problem.
Indeed, the author's 2000-page online textbook, heavily promoted on the internet, is a classic trap for unwary students.

It looks alright at first: volume I is light on math, but full of neat examples. But it's full of intuitively plausible but slightly wrong statements which fall apart in more general situations, reflecting the author's lack of technical expertise. This problem steadily gets worse: volume IV is an oversimplified introduction to quantum mechanics which contains almost no math, and serious conceptual errors on almost every page. Volume V covers a bizarre mix of particle physics, consciousness, and sexual reproduction. And volume VI is the author's almost math-free personal theory of everything. Because the change is gradual, a student can get seriously misled without noticing, like the proverbial boiling frog.

On HN, people are always asking how to get started self-learning topics like physics. The tragedy is that this has been a completely solved problem for decades: the standard textbooks are excellent. But people don't hear that message because self-promoters pollute the discourse.
Love this!! Does this actually replace the entire data stack for early teams?
except Segment I suppose
Its not Children of Men thats happening, its Elysium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBtePb-dGY).

Nobody wants to go backwards in terms of tech, creature comforts and things like that so you wont see people returning to farm the land and live off the land like you used to see just a hundred years ago.

Everyone here is almost certainly playing their part in building the future and that means less people are needed on the planet. Brains appears to be beating brawn, which is why you get paid high wages.
I’d prefer go. Rust just has a bad name for infrastructure. Who wants rusty infrastructure? Can you imagine the news articles about rusted gas stations? Go on the other hand has a great name for vehicle infrastructure. Swift could work too.

/s
>You want to protest something and yet not get shot.

I wouldn't be so sure. Didn't some people get arrested for protesting with a blank sign? I also saw a video of protester with a sign "two words" getting hauled away.
Multi-user static blog setup with Nix Replit and Hugo
The Physical Review is a gigantic set of journals, and like anything of its size, many of its published results are wrong. At this very moment I'm writing a rebuttal to a PRD paper that arrived at nonsensical conclusions due to some basic algebra mistakes.
I was going to suggest, why not buy your own gas pump's and do a hackathon!
My suggestion: Start reading in Matthew. Once you get through, go back to Genesis and Exodus. Leviticus is a harder read, but worthwhile because it provides so much context for the rest. But if need be, skip to Judges- it's an action packed book, and I genuinely enjoy it, as I do Ruth. If you get stuck on Chronicles, skip to Ezra. Esther is an especially wonderful book!

What I'm really trying to say is: The Bible isn't a book that HAS to be read in order. It's not presented in chronological order and every book has individual value. Once you develop a love for the Bible, then the harder reads will be that much easier :)
> there are already many powerful C/C++ package managers, the most well-known and most used are: vcpkg, conan, conda, etc. Although they are very powerful, they have a common problem: The build system doesn't have built-in support for them.

CMake supports pkg-config, for what that's worth.
USPS is in big financial trouble because half the government is actively trying to kill it, by not allowing it to raise prices.
How is this relevant to a comparison between the 3090 and the M1 Ultra? They're comparing it to the Macs they already own.
Sounds like it might address a lot of the misgivings I have with using Linux as a workstation; maybe I'll play with it some time
I do agree that not every game is for every person. I'd prefer it if the games could be made easier, but FromSoft can do what they want. What I find frustrating is that asking for this feature produces intense backlash in many communities.

I'm not asking to be able to button mash my way through. Perhaps this is a problem with terms. I'd like a "hard but doable for me" mode. That mode is tuned lighter than the default tuning of the game as released.

Consider that the games already come with many various forms of hard mode. You can do NG+ runs that are harder. You can do SL1 runs that are harder. You can put all of your souls into Resistance and waste your character. If the game shipped without level ups and everybody was forced into SL1 runs, would that make the game better? Surely for some people that'd place the difficulty right at their boundary of "hard, but doable." But for you (or certainly me) that'd be a frustrating wall.
In populous areas, it can influence the map routing when you ask your phone to pick a gas station. If there are many, it may (?) filter out low stars.
I wonder which people are incapable of becoming Americans and why? As far as I know there are few legal restrictions at least.
New York has an interesting History of projects being ramrodded through dubious means (at the expense of the public) under Robert Moses in the early 20th Century, I imagine stops were put in place to prevent that from occurring again.
Except what's missing from that logical train of thought: the current incentives are not there for that to happen. There are often very strong DISincentives.

But then again: very few corporate NPCs can think outside their bureaucratic box. If they could, they wouldn't be NPCs.
> I reflected on why the referendum had become a footnote in history rather than the trigger for violent conflict

Because all the propaganda around catalan independence is bullshit.

It gas nothing to do with gray hair, which, BTW, are mostly tourists, mostly from UK, people that can afford to travel in autumn and that don't enjoy the same climate, if not much better, of catalonia at their homes (or if they can afford to travel go somewhere else, because they are not old!)

https://www.thenewfederalist.eu/i-have-never-supported-catal...
Or, more comprehensively:

>Apple's new M1 Ultra isn't faster than an RTX 3090 when running x86 games under emulation or when directly comparing Geekbench scores

Actually, I think I see why they went with the shorter title.
Yeah I agree POSIX compliance is irrelevant in the interactive usage context, the only issue that rose here and there were command substitutions mostly, something which this release takes care of.

The sole reason I was contemplating switching to zsh in regards to POSIX was the fact my shell scripting knowledge is rather shallow and I could perhaps improve it a bit while working on functions I write for personal interactive use.. Needless to say I've written them in fish haha.. If my assumptions are right what I need to master is combining properly the coreutils and the general mentality of piping things from one command to another etc - I could be wrong tho
Oh no, indeed, how could someone possibly object to killing civilians in cold blood with the full military force of an arguably-developed nation, while themselves committing such horrible crimes as - gasp! - deleting files? patterns of bits have human rights too!

Get over yourself.
In case you didn't know: Putin had his long-planned "Mission Accomplished" rally about Ukraine yesterday, intended to have been a major propaganda moment, only that they didn't have a victory to celebrate.
It was the anniversary of the Anschluss of Crimea, so they focused on that and a "Support our troops" message instead.

My suspicion is that the style of the flight suits had been chosen for propaganda in connection with that event: supposed to have been a reference to a victory they didn't had.
This is awesome! I would prefer to use it with Pascal though; will give it a try anyways!
> But since we have ample time left to change our lifestyles and societies to be more eco-friendly, there's no harm in ignoring one half of the causes, right?

What exactly is being ignored?
Racism isn't new in America or anywhere else in the world.

The difference between America and the rest of the world is that America has more immigrants relative to its population and in absolute terms than any other country.

Out of curiosity, can you name a non Western country less racist than America?
Why would they do that, though? The thing the representatives care most about is getting re-elected. It's much easier (and productive to their interests) to point the finger at various other causes for economic decline than attempt to convince your constituents that bringing in immigrants is the solution. No one wants to be told that they are the problem, and "the other" needs to be brought in to fix it.

Many people are racist/xenophobic and don't want people of other races or cultures "taking over" their neighborhoods or towns. Even those who aren't actively racist are just resistant to change on that level, because it scares them.
“…it is common for people to move to where the work is.”

This really resonates. In my 30-40’s peer group, zero of them live in or near their home city/town. Some grandparents have been financially successful enough that they bought a second home to be near their grandchildren, but the “new norm” seems to be both parents work full time to make ends meet without any other parenting support.
Indeed, but who has to be forced to have fewer children than they’d like?

I wish I could have afforded children when I was younger. I guess I’m one of those these elevated minds have decided should not get to do that their children can have a better life. I don’t actually take it personally, but that is what’s happening here from a perspective that isn’t their own.

I don’t think our problem is scarcity. I believe our problem is living in excess.
I'm glad the author mention Czech Republic. We have baby boom here. Well lockdowns affect births quite a lot a guess. I personally know about ten families with 2-3 children (oldest 5y) that are our close friends and we meet regularly. We are able to make home kindergartens quite easily (many parents prefer it over regular kindergartens with nonsense covid restrictions).

Our gonverment supports mothers financialy 4 years if you choose lower monthly pays. Usually it is 30 months.

Also we are quite ignorant to trends like "having children is not ecological" or "there are more than 2 genders" or "same rights for same sex couples". At the end it doesn't matter. Those ideologies just support death, no life and eventually die with time. Which is exactly the problem that is described in article.
pretty damning state of current compilers, I would conclude. I thought that they got much better in the meantime.

but having a look at clang or GCC, I can confirm. still baby steps, years ahead for proper optims.
Homeschooling is a super american thing and tbh, should not be allowed. If you're so scared of your children ever interacting with anyone apart from you, you probably shouldn't be a parent.
If I recall, al-Qaeda and Islamic State weren't innocent victims of NATO's aggression, and Putin approved the action of some NATO countries in the first conflict and involved Russia in the second for the same reasons (but stuck around for longer to ensure his man won the civil war). Russia has been involved in more conflicts in recent years, whilst also having been invaded 0 times since WWII for obvious reasons.

Even if it were possible for sane leadership to believe that invading a nuclear superpower would be a practical possibility for NATO if only enough neighbouring nations were members, it's pretty obvious that since Iraq totally discredited the idea of "pre-emptive defence" in Western eyes nearly two decades ago NATO hasnt had the slightest bit of interest in committing the ground troops to actually win wars against even its weakest rivals, whilst Russia has championed best-defence-good-offence by sending troops with various degrees of justification into several of its neighbours. Pretty sure they're the ones with cause to be nervous.
Actually babies are not very good workers; I'd rather have adults who are already capable of working as employees.
Yeah, they also allude to "better ways to do it" both in the main text and the last paragraph:

> The next post will discuss better ways to implement higher precision in numerical calculations.

There are lots of automatic row / column swap techniques, particularly for sparse matrices that ensure you avoid catastrophic cancellation. You wouldn't do this automatically, because most matrices are reasonably conditioned (and figuring out the optimal swaps is NP complete and so on), but there are lots of algorithms to do well enough when you need to.
How does this compare to youtube-dl or yt-dlp?
> He’s a control freak like any other bureaucrat. Otherwise…

He’s a $BAD. Otherwise he’d do $THING_I_WANT.

I mean, even if both parts turn out to be true I doubt this is how it works.
The packet for a recent city council meeting in my town of ~8000 people was >500 pages long. It's ridiculous.
that's kind of my beef w/ the 3000 series gpu's in general.

Yeah, they're fast and all. But at significantly more TDP and with default coolers larger (> 300 mm) that can fit into my (previously perfectly fine "full size GPU") case? Are they really that much better than my 1080?