skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how much of the decline in the birthrate is a by-product of fewer unplanned pregnancies directly cause by decreasing fertility.

When you're trying to have a baby, and it takes 10 times to get there, it's not that big of an issue.
When one mistake ends in pregnancy vs. ten mistakes, it can make a considerable difference.

Just a thought.
From YC in 2012 to being profitable with over 250 employees
The main feedback I have is that I wanted to read this near the end of my lunch break, because I've been interested for years in the idea that a reasonably-restricted subset of TypeScript (who needs all that dynamism) can almost definitely be compiled to machine code and be made super fast, faster than V8 -- so I was looking for a TLDR in this article and spent a couple minutes looking for it and then just reading whole paragraphs and still don't really know what you've got here.
(Edit: given the large umbrella it encompasses, I suppose you could consider things like AdS/CFT correspondence, where a direct "domain transform" with quantum field theory is proven, to be a useful tool that in some instances furthered QFT. But such results are scant given the enormous amount of brainpower allocated to string theory as a whole.)
It might seem legitimate but I disagree that it is. It needlessly promotes one alternative over unmentioned others, giving people the sense that the only mentioned alternative is the only sensible one.

Take a version of the trolley problem for example. A trolley is heading towards group of people tied to the tracks. You have the option to pull a lever and divert the trolley to another pair of tracks, but it will hit an engineer working on those tracks. You state that pulling the lever saves all these lives, but unmentioned is the alternative to derail the trolley to a runaway zone which saves everybody.

In this version of the trolley problem you can count the deaths due to inaction. Is it right however to shift the rhetoric and talk about how many lives saved due to one particular action without mentioning there was an alternative?
The link as it is currently leads me to a page containing garbled characters: "SPQÙûáÔ=iµ{h¤,œ¿¿\ÿ0-Ûq=ßö™iýÿþlVùto‡íx„ÈY¢««"(Yr»Ër©". When I add www. to the front of it I get the page about S300: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Grumble-Gargoyle.html
I feel like an archeologist, digging through a Win10 setting panel, to get to a Win7 style, that links down to an XP style dialog where I can actually change what I want.
Actually no, because you still need a place to live. So it doesn't really matter if your home is worth $!M or $100K because it would cost you the same to move somewhere else. As such reducing home prices across the board isn't that problematic, because there's no loss in 'value'. You can still sell your apartment in Vancouver and buy a 5-bedroom in Saskatoon.

The issue becomes people with existing outstanding mortgages. If we considerably reduce house values, would outstanding mortgages need to be reduced pro-rata? Who would 'eat' that cost? The government? The bank?
> however no one wants them

This is completely made up. Look at the prices they fetch. If you build it, they will come; zoning heavily restricts the level of mixed development, hence you mostly see detached homes or very large condo buildings with little in between like triplexes. There's a reason Montreal has generally been more affordable for years than other large Canadian cities (population notwithstanding).
IIRC, Google had a rule that you cannot bid on trademark names. Not sure if that changed lately.
Also agree.

I've seen code so mocked it was dubious that it could be testing anything, accurately at least.
But how can you manage to restrict yourself to play only on the weekends?

For me as a fully remote software dev, just after the daily was over and nobody needed to call me for anything I'd just play a couple of hours and then go back to work.

And yes being top of something feels great, I wasn't even close to top 0.01%, but I was top 20 of my country maybe top 10% worldwide and kept improving. I don't know if I was close to my ceiling, I don't think so because I had not started paying private coaches, but I considered it.
Yep, I've been using Next.js for several years and it's mostly great. One thing that I found is that Next.js still suffers from configuration fatigue, this was especially true before the team moved from Webpack to SWC. I'm glad to see that the team is moving more in the direction of "configured by default", but you still inevitably need to fiddle with the dials if you want to use things outside of the documented tool integrations.
Klik&Play was awesome. Must have made at least 30 dumb games with it when I was around 12-13.

I definitely never got anywhere typed code wise around the same time even though I really wanted to make games, all the options just approached you as if you had a comp sci degree.
That's insane haha
Well, that's why I use cross-platform tools. Heck, I often can simulate without even the Android emulator, if there's a Web or PC target for the cross-platform environment.
Just like building roads can't reduce traffic, building houses can't either. It will just cause induced demand as more people will go to that area to live. Instead we should encourage people to carpool - live as roommates, or have small apartments, instead of each person getting their own single family home.

/s (sort of)
A standard auction finds (approximately) the minimum price that no one else is willing to beat, a secret bid auction finds the highest price anyone is willing to pay. The latter is better for sellers, the former is better for buyers.
There is a huge crowd of local Canadian landlords that own or seek to own more than one property. This is the group that benefits from the narrative that Asian foreigners are buying up the local estate.

The really affluent immigrant groups aren't buying multiple properties, they already have a great deal of income, and their properties are well outside most of what HN can afford and do not impact the condo market which is the most competitive, accessible and volatile.

They already taxed and stopped foreign buyers but the home prices in Vancouver keep going up as sales amongst local Canadians make up most of the volume.

Now they announce this virtue signaling to appease the other Canadians who can't afford homes but the problem will not change.

In fact, without outside capital constantly coming in, the Vancouver real estate market is not sustainable. It literally is just another game of musical chairs, it is the news of some Chinese communist elite member buying a mansion in West Vancouver that gets local Canadians eager to own properties.

I'm no stranger to the anti-asian sentiments in Vancouver, just head over to r/vancouver to see people regularly blame Asians for the fact that they can't afford to live there. In fact in the 80s, they blamed Japanese, 90s they blamed Hong Kongers, 2000s they blame Taiwan, Mainlanders.

It's really disgusting to see the blatant racism against one group that is normalized but not for others. It literally is the same attitude that people with anti-semitic views constantly deride Jews of their financial success that largely came out of merit.
Thank you! I used your suggestion exactly like you wrote it, and he very much liked the physics engine concepts, and the 50% effects. He could see the direct relations with those and Mario Kart. Next time we'll try AI. I greatly appreciate you answering.
Can someone explain what Fast's USP was?

Every ecommerce platform I've used has a PayPal / Google Pay / Klarna button.

I click it and my payment & shipping details are there. Seamless.

So what problem was Fast trying to solve?
At least in the case of git a surprising amount of the monorepo tooling is making it upstream into git itself. I'm aware of engineering efforts from both Microsoft and Twitter that are in today's git (a lot of the work on things like the git commit-graph and git sparse checkouts in particular are designed for monorepo tooling, though in some cases benefit smaller repos too).

Microsoft's monorepo tooling has been especially interesting to watch from an engineering standpoint as seemingly almost all of it has been in the public eye, open source, and in most cases upstreamed. VFS for Git [1] was one of their first approaches (simply virtualizing the git filesystem and proxying it through servers as necessary), and while portions of it will never be upstreamed (in particular because it needs OS drivers) it's all open source, a lot of concepts from it were upstreamed into git itself and VFS for Git is mostly considered legacy/deprecated. Microsoft's more recent follow up tool was Scalar [2], which started as a fork of most of the remaining relevant bits of VFS for git plus a repo config tool that helped setup sparse clones while the git CLI ("porcelain") for sparse cloning took a bit to catch up with what the "plumbing" could do. Most of that got directly upstreamed into the git "porcelain" and since that point so much of Scalar was upstreamed into git that the remaining tools of Scalar are now VCed directly in Microsoft's git fork rather than its own repo.

In terms of raw engineering capability it seems we are in something of a golden age of monorepo tools available as open source, for those trying to use git for monorepos. Admittedly the tools may be available now, but that doesn't make them any easier to work with than the era when they were simply unavailable because there's often a lot of engineering work still to be done to keep the tools humming along (in bandwidth and hosting alone).

It's just interesting to see more of the tools available transparently, sometimes because they still have benefits to even smaller scaled repos. (While VFS for Git is unlikely necessary for small/medium repos, there are some times where sparse clones can be handy at even medium sizes. A lot of the engineering work upstreamed to make sparse clones performant and capable indirectly benefit repositories of any scale in reducing filesystem reads overall and adding support for storing better computed caches on-disk such as commit-graphs and reachability bitmaps rather than repetitively rebuilding them in memory.)

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vfsforgit

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
Git Credential Manager: authentication for everyone
In Hawaii they’re called fish ponds:

https://keolamagazine.com/sustainability/fishponds-in-hawaii...

You can see many preserved examples made out of lava rock and even explore them on foot.

Kalahuipua’a Historic Park near Kona on the Big Island also has some petroglyphs and traditional buildings near the fish ponds at Kakaiwa Bay.

https://www.hikespeak.com/trails/kalahuipuaa-trail-lava-tube...

There also used to be an amazing ocean fed hot spring tide pools in Kapoho (near Hill) that served as natural fish ponds but sadly they were destroyed in the lava flow in 2018 which incredibly turned the entire bay into a peninsula.
I recently put together a timeline of tech-ish things, to help put events like this into perspective: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/9a1b96ed3109690a2840...

Good for a few surprises: "wow, python is older than win 3.1!"
You don't happen to have that chain documented, do you?
I've always wanted to read that book but it always felt so intimidating. Would you say it's readable? It feels like it'd be really dense.
It seems to me that the state’s power over the physical world gives it a good ability to crack down on consumers of large amounts of electricity if it desires. Whether you’re getting power from the grid, or generating your own through coal, natural gas, solar, hydro, wind etc. you are making a big observable mark on the world if you control a significant amount of hash power. Therefore you require the implicit consent of the state to operate.

On the other hand, a staking whale with good opsec sounds pretty anonymous.

Interested to hear if I’ve got this wrong somehow.
I've posted a few examples here[1]. It's from the same ALU code that I had trimmed to give you an example. It just outputs some results to an RGB led.

It shows the logical view, the allocated blocks and the routing in Lattice Radiant IDE.

I haven't done much with the Cyclon IV yet, but I found the iCE40 very easy to get rolling with and the freely available tools have been great so far.

It's not a huge FPGA though so if you want to do large projects maybe consider something else. But as a starter I think it's been great.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/ZaV9Wvr
For those unfamiliar with the terminology, A&P stands for airframe and power plant. An A&P mechanic is someone licensed to work on the airframe and engine.
not the case for me, via a couple different browsers, dns, and client locations. didn't try chrome.
The problem with the approach in the article is that there are lots of reasons conversions can vary over time that are unrelated to what you're trying to study. If you have to use time to distinguish treatments, your best option is to alternate time periods (ex: one day on, one day off). But you can almost always run your two groups simultaneously, giving them different treatments, which allows you to eliminate the effect of timing noise.
Why yes I was born on the 20th of April, way back in 1969, why do you ask?
Yes, I get that procedurally firms make it harder to correct information than to initially enter it. I just want to see the justification that the law in question actually requires that.
no, never been evaluated for ADHD. But let's assume I knew I had it, what would change?
40% in 2 years is 20% a year. Considering the definition of small businesses, that’s relatively unsurprising. You’d actually imagine more than 1 in 5 giving up in a year.

In any case, 20% a year for first two years, compare SBA data from 2018:

> “According to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy’s 2018 Frequently Asked Questions, roughly 80% of small businesses survive the first year.“

So, right on track?
I think the phenomenon of few multilingual people in the Anglosphere is the result of little actual social necessity or benefit from actually conversing in another language in everyday life, making it both more useless and more difficult to acquire. And they have good company as education subjects that the market doesn't value much that then acquire a cultural premium: with fine art and philosophy.

I think this becomes more acute when one's profession is specialized and the professional circle doesn't value multilingualism, especially because of how much harder it is to become exposed to the genre/technical writing and jargon of your professional language in another language, as opposed to mundane professions.
kudos to your dad! (And you for trying to help). I feel like this issue is an overlooked aspect of our world, and often met with cynicism.

I agree with the suggestion to work on bank systems, or any place with old legacy systems that need updating. (he seems to have experience in that area?)

Any place where there might be a hidden bias for 'experience', even if your dad doesn't have knowledge of the specific language.

The other fields i'm thinking of is automation, or a mentor / teaching role?

Are former colleagues / peers of him still working? Maybe you can get some ideas via them.
It's sad Microsoft is lazy on this, it could be a marketing lever to make people have really simple and stable experience on their OS. And there's enough infrastructure to programmatically ensure "immutability" to some degree. Alas they have other unicorns to chase these days.
I don't know that it costs "a hell of a lot more" for a unit of reliable energy, but yeah, you can deploy renewable energy in smaller units more quickly (it might take you a decade to build out a GW of nuclear capacity or a GW of solar capacity, but at least in the case of solar you don't need the full GW to complete before you can start selling power). However, to be clear, this is the economic argument, not the health argument that the OP was debating.
CRTs, being analog, are theoretically capable of _any_ resolution. But in practice, most monitors were limited to between a few to a few dozen common modes. Toward the end of the CRT monitor's reign, most monitors could display higher resolutions than was really practical for their size, as the physical limit is the size of the "dots" that make up the phosphor layer. (Which is probably not at all the right terminology, because I'm not a CRT geek.)

The refresh rate compromise at higher resolutions was due to the limitations of the graphics card, NOT the monitor.

LCDs took a little while to catch up for a few reasons:

1) expense! It was hard and expensive to manufacture a display containing millions of transistors with an acceptable (read: profitable) failure rate.

2) colors! LCDs had a reputation for extremely poor color quality in the beginning. Blacks were medium gray at best and primary colors all looked washed out. Today's LCDs still have a hard time getting to "true black."

3) ghosting! Early LCDs had poor response times. Move your mouse cursor and watch it leave a trail across your screen. Fine for word processing and spreadsheets. Terrible for games.
And there was a button you could press to "de-magnetize" the screen which made this awesome noise!
Let's Talk About Bluesky
Ideally, hospital wards would have killer ventilation and air filtration systems. I have no idea if this is the case in the UK (or anywhere else).
Is it really easy to build more housing in a place like downtown Bozeman? Like if a developer wants to buy up a block of single family homes and replace it with a large condo building, can they do that?
People on his podcast also said it was a hoax in that timeframe. Your statement is just illustrating survivor bias.
I still remember buying a dirt cheap SGI monitor back in the day. But it took a while before I figured out how to mod the cable because of sync on green.
Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0: What's the difference?
Should you? Can you?

Ah, the sudden school vs the gradual school. The debate lingers (see siblings).
Secret bidding is designed to get the buyers bidding not just against other actual buyers and what you think they might have bid, but also against imaginary buyers that might also be out there.

In a hot market this is playing on the FOMO for people looking for a place to live.

Such shenanigans should never be allowed in basic necessities: shelter, food, water, medical care.
It was an Intergraph monitor, connected to an Integraph workstation. Carmack didn't use SGI's for development but they did use their servers for level processing
at this point its more about what metric of powerful are you comparing to? for example, nobody wants a liquid nitrogen cooled 8 gigahertz CPU any more. and measuring "flops" isn't that useful either. the old Silicon Graphics machines didn't have a single GPU in them and would not be able to render shaders or have/manipulate rasterized textures of basically any resolution, they just threw a lot of energy at a problem for a now-antiquated and useless approach to that problem.

and finally, if you make something with a bunch custom chips with a bunch of pins with high bandwidth, then you don't have another metric to compare to something else.

I'm open to the thought exercise but I can predict which directions the conversation would go, I'm just content with the variety of metrics on CPUmark these days.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fauci+%22trust+the+academia%22&t=h...

No results.
good first step, but now ban corporate landlords if you're really serious.
Only works on Chrome, not Firefox or Safari?
You cannot really prevent those kinds of cheats. Even if you use the most insidious spyware a coach can advice the interviewee from a different device.

The only way to prevent those kind of scams is to put all employees in probation for the first months of work and fire them if they don't perform, like it's common in the UK.
Funnily enough I purchased an Ergodox EZ after clicking through an ad for it.
I actually see this a lot with "niche" products (audio equipment, home automation, keyboards, etc) where I will have never seen an ad for anything in that product category but once I start going to the hobbyist and store pages for such products I get inundated with ads for one specific offering in that category for a week or two before all of my ads go back to what the usually are.
The Korean war would not have happened if China had been a nuclear power with significant perceived military power.
Russians have always had trouble with their offensives. But I doubt anyone thinks a pan european army can just roll into russia. The country is big. Supply lines breaks down. The winter is terrible. The russians are tough as hell and fierce when defending.
Are there any gems in here that were previously unavailable?
I don't think linux is ready for prime time. My latest experience trying this on a framework laptop was not pleasant and involved 3 installs in short succession.

So I installed Fedora. I find it doesn't have a tray to minimize icons into due to a conscious design decision going forward. Unfortunately two obscure pieces of software that I use require this: steam and seadrive. Well shit. I find some tweaks that enable this, most don't, and after half an hour I can get it to show a tray. I install keepassxc from their app store and it can't open my database or key file because the file browse window doesn't seem to open. I also have issues with seadrive but plugging in a external usb mouse solves it and I realize I can't right click wit the touchpad.

So I wipe it and try Manjuro. Taking care not to destroy my windows partition which is the default option it boots fine. I update everything and the wifi card no longer shows up in settings. I mean I can lsusb, find it with dmesg but it has errors.. After an evening of tinkering and trying suggestions online ranging from changing windows power settings to editing config files to installing older drivers nothing can get it to work. No reasonable consumer would be into this.

So I wipe it and install Manjuro again. Everything the same and it works after updating so I chalk it up to a failed update. This is on a laptop basically designed to run linux with a small set of possible hardware.

Plus to boot, I am happy I printed my bitlocker key because windows refused to initially boot with secure boot now disabled.
Tell HN: Levels.fyi Is Not Accurate
I know a data point for Google L3 is 250K TC, while levels.fyi shows 191K.

And I don't think it's an abnormal data point, although it's just ONE data point.
At least from what I've seen I get the feeling they're trying to go towards a unified UI / eliminate as much of the X types of UI... sorta. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like they're making better choices.
There seems a weird caching issue that I think I’ve fixed. Can you try again?
It kinda links to Alan Key 100kLoC OS. Nobody wants to learn 34 different sub systems, languages, scripts, etc etc. Some say BSDs are saner in that regard, the core is smaller, more integrated, better documented etc..
False sense of security sold by conference indsutrial complex is my biggest issues with unit testing. One time I've seen a junior dev wrote copious amount of unit tests to achieve near 100% code coverage. When this "perfect" code went into prod it almost took the whole system down. Because the junior dev was joining close to a dozen tables and each one of the tables has at least a million rows.

If the junior dev took the time to understand basic DB performance instead of writing dozens of unit tests, then it wouldn't have happened. I blame the gurus who don't write code for living, but peddle magic solutions like "clean code", unit testing etc. to sell more books and seminars.
Microsoft and Twitter, at least, have very publicly invested a lot of engineering work in making git a tool for monorepos.
Am I the only one annoyed that they use the term "supply chain" for a software build process?