skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
its quite possible there were never any rationalised benefits for having kids - we are motivated to have sex, and kids just happened as an outcome. Sexual revolution and the widespread use / availability of effective contraception is a very modern innovation in evolutionary terms - we might just be witnessing the revealed preference of humanity to have sex and not have kids
The Ruuvi is a complete beast. It'll last for years on a single coin battery. I got them from the initial Kickstarter and replaced batteries last year.

You _can_ read them with just a cell phone or hack a Raspberry Pi as a BLE listener, and It'll work just fine most of the time. Even ESP32 has a system for reading the tags with esphome I think.

But for the best results I recommend getting their official Gateway: https://ruuvi.com/gateway/

The antenna on that thing is completely ridiculous. My Raspberry Pi had to hang from the ceiling to get even 10% of the readings from my sauna (lined with foil to keep the heat and moisture in as per Finnish building code).

I got a the Gateway, quickly powered it up at my desk and boom, it found the sauna tag immediately, zero packet loss.

I've got one in both my fridges and freezer, zero issues. Sauna goes up to 80C normally and is MOIST, no problems. People even float them in pools, just cover the moisture sensor hole with tape and double bag it in ziploc.

You can get similar BT devices from china, but they eat up batteries like candy and the signal strength isn't that good.
> No dependant types either.

You're funny
In the first case (negligence) you were saving water.

On the second case you were trying to kill the plants.
Not OP but Genesys helps me emphasize narrative play over just battles fwiw
Designing a PL is a hard complicated process, very slim portion of professional programmers are able to deliver some novelty here. I think any judgement should be treated as merely a feedback on the usefulness of this language. The effort alone is exceptional accomplishment. Take care.
And all consumers win. This is the beauty of capitalism, it's how it's supposed to work.

It fails when you get high barriers to entry and company colluding
Yes, I have. My gaming desktop is running Manjaro Linux with a 1660 super and game performance is great. I haven't yet run into a game that this PC struggled with. My home media center is running LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi 4 and video playback is perfect. It can play 4k h265 video with no problems.
> if you give people the choice of doing nothing vs doing something/anything people will, out of shame, do that thing.

That’s an awfully broad generalization. Anecdotally I prefer to avoid intervention though I don’t mind going to the doctor in case that would be the wrong choice.

I am the child of a doctor so I wonder if that influenced my attitude.
It is more like the president is jealous of the Eurozone and thought he can do the same by lowering the interest rate. The obvious problem is that he didn't pursue any austerity policy to lower the interest rate, no, instead he messed with the central bank and just set the interest lower by decree. One of the reasons why interest rates are so low in Germany and Switzerland is because of their tendency to conduct austerity. Germany insisted on a debt brake after 2011. That is how you get lower interest rates.

Getting inflation in check merely requires that the Turkish government raises taxes and does not borrow any additional money whatsoever. The risk of deflation is so far away it won't hurt the economy.
SQLGlot supports nested queries and EXISTS. SOME, ANY, and ALL aren't fully supported yet but it's only a couple lines to add support since I already support EXISTS.

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/main/tests/fixtures/...
https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/main/tests/fixtures/...
Decrypting Recent Security Incidents
I think a trillion dollar company can afford to loose some percentage of its income.

Particularly if it opens the door for new innovation. Things like subscription services to alternative Siri/Alexa/Google. Instead of the current Alexa foisting more advertisements and things you don't want onto you, Google's complete invasion of privacy/data, and Apple's complete ineptitude. This is something that can't happen right now because the hooks aren't well designed in iOS or Android. Making it so that you don't have the concept of "private APIs" for such things levels the playing field.
It bases your life expectancy on your IP address... where do you live that has an average life expectancy of 58?
Exactly. The objection to and the definition of unfairness is the same. What differs is the facts which allow us to agree on who is being unfair to who. To me, the former is values, the latter is not.
Not as sad as it is for Ukraine.
welcome to plan9, there is cake and napalm at the table by the door.
They’re a luxury good. Decide if that’s the luxury you’re interested in, why, and if you’re willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for each one.

People who don’t have kids have low regret rates not having them. People who do have them either won’t share their regret having had them, or genuinely enjoy the experience. Do what you think is best for you, and own the decision once made.
It's kind of a fun shibboleth for those of us that hacked on the systems back in the day. The ROM used ][ instead of II and we used that string when we discussed the computer online. I still type it that way just out of pride.

It's kind of like C64 hackers that say KERNAL instead of "kernel" since that's what Commodore docs called it.
The motion sensor isn't useless, you just lack imagination :)

You can slap one on your mailbox lid for example and have an alert pop up when the counter changes. It has X/Y/Z acceleration sensors too if you want to know the direction of the motion.
I edited my comment. I apologize - I was way off on both points.
And sometimes people are actual morons

Not always, but definitely something to keep in mind when dealing with popularity metrics
I used Zig for a couple of Advent of Code problems last year. I decided that Zig is not a language I’m going to be using. Here’s why:

- If you ever want to allocate memory, you have to pass in an allocator to the function doing the allocating. You also have to explicitly allocate and deallocate.

- Zig has no concept of a string - it’s just a slice of bytes. This also means Zig has no support for string concatenation, UTF-8, regex, or any of the other many niceties we’ve come to expect as standard.

Zig is not the next Rust or the next C++ - it’s very much the next C.

Zig may be fine for people programming an OS or very highly performance sensitive application. But it’s too low level, and too obtuse about being low-level, for me to ever want to actually use it.
> Money is not an accounting system created by the state for various purposes. It’s a solution to certain frictions in a barter economy.

That's a story that's often told, but it doesn't seem to actually be true. An examination of the historical and anthropological record shows that barter systems only exist in societies that formerly had money, but no longer do (for example, because the empire that was backing the currency collapsed). In societies that never had money, you see a variety of things, mostly formal gift economies, but sometimes things like tracking and cancellation of debts not denominated in a single unit.

If you'd like to learn more about this, read "Debt, the first 5,000 years", by the late anthropologist David Graeber.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. People who have children just so they have someone to take care of them need to be downvoted into oblivion.
Interesting story as I recall Bank of America saving 5x that amount per year by doing the exact opposite move.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-americas-350-million...
It’s one of the most rewarding aspects to my life right now. It’s a long term play and I hope I get to lay in my deathbed proud of my children. That’s really it…
While we’re at it, it’s not clear what “1.9x” means. Does it mean I pay the employer?!?
The thing I see missing in the comments is that sourcing hardware over the past few years has been incredibly difficult. It will get better, yes, but that may have been the last straw to convince them to switch.
> Might it simply be the social setting that makes it work in a class and not with your own kids?

Oh, totally. It does work with my kids somewhat, but there has to be at least a minimal reason for constraint and at least some desirability of the options. At school, constraint is expected and things that are not entirely fun are tolerated.

Asking A or B for breakfast as someone else pointed out, when they're not interested in eating, isn't going to do anything.

Also--my wife and I do the "A or B --- or -you- propose something" with each other. Prevents just absently saying "nah" to a long list of options.
I wonder how much of that savings comes from closing data centers and how much from getting off IBM mainframes. It's hard for me to see why a company like FedEx would need to be spending anything like $400m a year on data centers unless a big chunk of that is paying IBM to rent their mainframes.
I am sceptical about microrings.

The big point of putting optics on chip, or at least close to the chip is to reduce power consumption.

Huge terabit class router chips spend 1/3 of TDP to drive PHYs.

If you just replace a power hungry copper transmitter with a power hungry optical transmitter, you don't gain in power budget, and lose on cost.
re: addressing some of your assumptions/claims

Sabine Hossenfelder: Is Elon Musk right in saying that we are too few people? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI1AaZ9OkH8
The Network State (E-book by Balaji Srinivasan)
The whole article is about smart home stuff that doesn't spy on you.

IKEA being the biggest one. Their stuff doesn't ring home for anything except for firmware updates. There's no built-in remote control over the internet, no IKEA account needed, nothing.
If fact, I would argue that the juxtaposition of the main characters being essentially polar opposite’s is what gives the show most of its effective (dark) comedic moments.
Are you saying that part of the expected savings from going on-prem is that you will have to disassemble equipment bought from major OEMs and examine it for microscopic metal dust?

That doesn't sound like it will save much money, honestly.
Yes, but that's not a problem with screening as a concept, that's a problem with those screening methods. We accept "destructive testing" in medical screening (e.g. biopsies; x-ray fluroscopy with both radiation and carcinogenic chemical tracers; etc.) because we haven't structured medical screening in such a way as to incentivize investment into "non-destructive testing."

The medical establishment doesn't care about the potential for harm from repeated use of methods on patients†, precisely because we think of them as things that only need to be done rarely. There's been no need to optimize for "low cumulative impact" in screening methods, because there's currently no incentive to do screening often enough for it to matter.

Let me put it this way: the state of the art in MRI technology (reducing required size + cost per machine to enable more frequent + "trivial" use) is being pushed forward economically almost entirely by demand from Operations Research in the aerospace industry, rather than by demand from hospitals wanting to have more MRI-machine capacity per patient. That's ridiculous.

† The freshest example of this on my own mind isn't diagnostic per se. Have you ever noticed that dentists don't tell you to close your eyes — nor give you UV-blocking wraparound goggles — despite shining a UV light directly at your face for 30 seconds at a time to harden UV bonding resin they've used? They know it'll hurt their eyes if they stare at it all day — which is why the UV lights they use have circles of UV-blocking backscatter guards, to allow them to look at your face without reflected UV light hitting their eyes. But there's no concern for what they're doing to you, because you're only getting a few cumulative minutes of concentrated dental UV per year, vs. their cumulative hours of exposure.
Mercurial solves a lot of the UX problems. Maybe if Meta open-sources the API-compliant rust rewrite, we'll have the scaling sorted too.

Commits are automatically "branches" off trunk. You typically do 1:1, commit:PR. As you make new changes to the same PR, you `hg amend` instead of another commit. Those commits get merged into trunk.
It's a bit more nuanced than that. The argument doesn't start from a position of "we don't like the result" (although I'm sure many people are primarily motivated by that), it starts from a principal that the government should generally reflect the wishes of the majority (while protecting minorities with constitutional rights that require a super-majority to change).

I would argue that this is the opposite of "we don't like the result", as it's saying (if steelmanned) "we support this higher ethical principle, regardless of what results that leads to". Also, the fact that one side wishes to change the rules actually is a great argument in this discussion, because changing the rules (through the approved process) is completely different from breaking or ignoring the rules, which is what the other side is accused of doing.
Well not completely off, it is true that if the commission and council aren’t on board this bill will be stillborn.
Based on algorithms like those, my 6-7ish beauty score would stop me from becoming a popular social media influencer if I wanted to.
Isn't that lovely!
Small nitpick: an inch is 2.54 cm, not 2.56 cm. That makes the html element 284035.5 cm high, which I guess is the height of that "whws" div plus the height of text and margins above and below.

In any case about 28.4 m is a long way of from 18.94 km.
Thought you might catch that! I've actually helped swap a few things to SQLGlot from pypika.
This isn't a good faith question. You start with a bunch of unsupportable supposition and then ask us to defend it. If the assumptions this question are based on aren't accurate, then all you're really doing here is throwing stuff at the wall and asking other people to unstick it.

So that's my "answer": You created a baseless hypothetical. The hypothetical itself is the problem here, not the concept of kids. Nobody can name benefits that outweigh the "costs" here because the costs are complete fiction and designed to be insurmountable.
I hate press releases that do not link to the work.

But what a neat study area:
https://hazen.carnegiescience.edu/research/evolutionary-syst...
Ask HN: What is your rejection rate when applying for jobs?
Ask HN: How to manage poor service and quality at software provider? Rebates?
Our small organization has signed a 7-year contract with XXXXX...a fund accounting and CRM provider based on Microsoft Dynamics. Honestly, it has been one of the worst experiences in software. The expense is through the roof at $100k pa which they started charging on Day 1 when we could not even use the system because we need to pay consultants $1500+ a day to help us organize the data. The service levels are poor both in terms of quality of response and response time....once they did not close out an issue because they thought it resolved without checking .with me and then they took months to answer. One reply to a support ticket said the request was invalid without providing a solution. The software provider admitted today that their service/support levels are poor. Any one have advice on how to get rebates or money back or a discount on the rates going forwards? Or is it possible to break the contract?
Not sure about 'mainframes' specifically.

But one of the easiest way to retire anything, is to stop doing new work on the older systems. Any new project should go on the new tech.

Soon enough you will see the older systems gone. It won't happen in weeks or months, but 1 - 2 years is enough.

At one point the whole banking industry used to de-facto run on Java. Eventually people just started doing new work on Python. These days Java is just another tech there.
It has to be a small number, given the rarity of the honor.
“X times less” is is not X times Y, it is Y divided by X. That “less” in the statement turned multiplication into division.
Very nice map!

What seems to be missing from Felt is some interactivity to make this map useful. I can’t tap on a route to see it’s length it get it to open in google maps for routing. I can’t tap on a pin to get its address or get directions to it.

It’s just a zoom able picture, which isn’t a big payoff for all the effort needed to build the map.
more attractive than 100% of the spice girls. i'll take that :)
i've bought open source software companies before and without revenues you are useless. there's this idea that github stars and # of downloads mean something here, hate to break it to ya but they aren't worth much

the rules/valuations of open source companies are no different than closed source ones, in fact, it will be harder to justify any sort of valuation because the code is widely available. Once you go away, another fork or iteration will spring up. Tougher when the insane multiples we enjoyed thanks to low interest rate is gone.

You are better off trying to build the company but you probably already did that.
I went to college, even tutored some math classes there, "1.9x less" is... somewhere between nonsense and poor math communication skills, I think. Skewing toward the former.
I've been digging into the Memex, and Ted Nelson's take on it with Transclusion for a while now. I know he, REALLY, REALLY thinks it's a great idea... I remain unconvinced at a gut level, though intellectually I suspect Ted is right.

I'm beginning to think a new type of bookmark with 2 ends instead of 1 might be the way to go in terms of meeting this type of functionality in building an associative trail.
Careful with your glass houses. Without restrictions on Japanese companies selling chips in the US, Silicon Valley would have been very different.
> both parents will need to work to fund raising a child, so the mother necessarily has to do 1.5 or 2 full-time jobs

Doesn't need to be true. A woman can take a year off or so to breastfeed and recover from the birth, at that point you can send the kid to daycare and split the child care duties. In my house my wife prefers the child care stuff so I pitch in by doing most of the other household chores, but since my daughter was 1 I've changed as many diapers as she has. Really she doesn't have to work, but she didn't like staying home with the kid and the household budget we would have to meet for that to work out.

> grandparents most likely don't live in the same city so you're reliant on strangers to raise your children

This part sucks, I agree.

> increased risk of autism / ADD / lack of focus because of the internet

You choose what your children get to do in their free time. It's really easy to sit them down with a tablet and walk away, but nobody is forcing you to do it. There is an old saying, "You can be friends with your children when they are 14 or when they are 40, not both."

> the world is already over-populated, and however hard it is for you to compete with your peers, it'll be even harder for your children

It isn't overpopulated with people like your children will grow up to be. Children in the west benefit from public health measures and educational opportunities that will potentially enable them to be net contributors to solutions for overpopulation. The world can't be overpopulated with geniuses, with enough of them we can make new worlds.
Same, SD card failure was the only failure I ever had. Nowadays, I just run an SSD instead.
Its not be most C-level execs are these companies can present it as IT evolution and progress. Balance sheets look different because accounting has costs in different places. It all looks good.
> This is why residents of DC ... should be allowed to choose representation in Congress

I agree, but noticed that when suggestions of combining DC with surrounding Maryland come up, many folks go silent. This gives the appearance of just using DC to get extra Democrat votes.
>lol, they have such a high churn rate on hardware that I seriously doubt they'd give it much thought at all. Their use case is unique to a tiny number of companies - high churn, low capital constraint, no tolerance for supplier delay. In such a scenario CUDA vendor lock in wouldn't even register as a potential point of pain

Considering that PyTorch and Tensorflow are the two most popular deep learning frameworks used in the industry, this argument doesn't make sense. Of course they care about CUDA lock-in, it makes them dependent on a competitor and limits the range of hardware they support and thus potentially limits the adoption of their framework. The fact that they chose CUDA anyway is essentially confirmation that they didn't see any other viable option.

>Also, to the point on NVIDIA's opencl sucking: anybody else remember that time that Intel intentionally crippled performance for non-Intel hardware running code generated by their compiler or linked to their high performance scientific libraries? Surely NVIDIA would never sandbag opencl...

If NVIDIA were somehow intentionally crippling OpenCL performance on non-NVIDIA hardware, it would be pretty obvious since they don't control all the OpenCL compilers/runtimes out there. They very likely were crippling OpenCL on their own hardware, but that obviously wouldn't matter if the competitors (as you mentioned, OpenCL was designed for heterogenous compute in general, so there would have been competition from more than just AMD) had a better ecosystem than CUDA's.
> we live in Germany, and it is absolutely illegal here

Why is it illegal?
How disappointing
You think we're in Minority Report already, mate? Not all police technology is a Precrime department. This software is likely meant to help allocating resources efficiently.
How so? I personally find dependant types to be very interesting, but I get that they are a PITA to implement. So, for me, it was simply an observation that there are currently no plans for dependant types. No value judgement intended.
I see it this way: the EU may choose whatever way it wants to compute a fine -- they are making the law, they could have written a fixed amount, or an amount based on revenue made in the EU (which is probably a pain to define and certainly easy to "workaround"), or an amount relative to the average temperature in the Sahara over a year.

Whether it's "fair" is an entirely different topic. And I guess any company could try to fight that decision in court.
It depends on what you mean by "general purpose computers", 8-bit computers like the Apple ][, Commodore 64 (and in Britain/Europe things like the ZX Spectrum) were actually quite popular before the NES. In fact many NES games were actually ports of earlier computer games.
I get the sense that you have ingested a lot of information that reinforces your world view of upcoming doom and negativity. The internet is good for that!

What books, ideas, authors and thinkers would you tune into to challenge that? For example, would you even consider Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now to challenge some of those premises?
You're mocking everybody who has responded in good faith to your question here. If this behavior is at all typical for you, don't have kids. Leave that to people who are gentle, selfless and kind.