skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Wanna guess what happens in that welcoming environment? My guess is people feel inclined to make some babies.

I would assume the exact opposite given that this will probably probably crank up pressure on working-aged people as more and more old people need to be supported by fewer and fewer young. I would also assume a significant exodus of the young to places with actual opportunities rather than a country sized retirement home where no one wants to invest in the future because anything built to fit the needs of the population at any given moment will be massively overbuilt in the near future.
The crash has not ended yet, and it's mostly second-tier players that have gone down so far. If somebody like Coinbase or Robinhood collapses, which is quite possible given their dire finances, there's going to be a whole new level of carnage.
What? Declining birth rates have nothing to do with oppressing women. Worker exploitation, poor social safety net, and wealth disparity are squarely to blame.
Huge premiums != large market. It just means the market is bigger than their production.

Manual transmissions are not "an order of magnitude less complex and cheaper." They're far more expensive because the volume is much lower and every configuration has to be crash-tested, so the cost of that crash testing is amortized over a much, much smaller number of vehicles.

Manual transmission vehicles get significantly worse mileage and this drags down the fleet emissions which means they need to spend significantly more pushing out low or zero emission vehicles, or can't produce as many SUVs and trucks, where the profit margins are highest.

Porsche and Ferrari don't represent the market as a whole, or any significant portion of it. Both are acquired to a large degree as investments - they often appreciate in value if well-cared for, or at least lose significantly less value compared to the average vehicle.

People are buying manual transmission vehicles because they're rare and likely to appreciate in value more, not because they're better in any sense. They get worse gas mileage, are slower, and less capable. Dual-clutch gearboxes can shift fast enough that the limitation in them is the rotational inertia of the engine, to the point that there's little or no interruption in delivered torque, thus enabling shifts without upsetting the balance of the car. No manual transmission car can be up/down shifted during track in / cornering / trackout without upsetting the car's balance; dual-clutch gearbox cars can be. And lastly, they can have more gears.

Early gearboxes had longevity issues (clutches) but that's largely been sorted out and is no worse than manual transmission cars.
> In a shrinking population, are individual people worse off

Yes.

A shrinking population means an ever-smaller number of workers need to support increasing numbers of retirees.

If you can work that out, then you've still got a small pool of workers producing goods for a large, mostly economically-inactive population, which means inflation and plenty of it.
> ...while higher-level artistic work will be done by artists, assisted by AI. Artists can get inspiration from AI artwork and reduce some tedious parts of their workflow.

I'm having a hard time seeing how increasingly better and freely available AI artwork doesn't just completely replace artists (and more generally how increasing AI capabilities don't just replace any career that does not involve some degree of skilled manual labor, at least until AIs get robust manual capabilities). In particular "higher-level artistic work" would seem to be that work which rises beyond what most artists do today. Prompt engineering is a far cry from making a painting oneself and there are likely many people who enjoy the latter who do not enjoy the former.
Pretty cool to read about somebody using their Porsche the same way I use my 12yo Toyota Rav4! My record is still fitting a full-sized washer and dryer in the back...

Don't feel silly for utilizing your vehicle's capabilities!
> Yet I suspect most people will be working on "N=12, 5 hours a day during office hours, except twice a year." And I'm not sure what's the reference techniques for that.

Here you go: http://bofh.bjash.com/
I'm still stunned there isn't a unified service that can tell you WHERE FIBER IS AVAILABLE BY ADDRESS throughout the country or just in specific cities. Even Google Fiber's dedicated map is horrible and incredibly annoying to grok.

Literally, has anyone at this address had a FTTH connection installed? I'd even pay $12/mo or a one time fee to check. So it sounds like Chattanooga apts likely won't have support anytime soon?
I agree, but did you mean Poincaré? (mentioned two times in the article).

It would have taken a longer time and perhaps a few intermediate steps, but I think we would have discovered it anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_priority_dispute
I don’t think that’s OP’s point (plus I’m not convinced we really are more productive). OP’s point appears to me to be something like “a good measure of productivity is how many people a single working person can support”. Today, most families need to have two parents working. This makes a pretty good inference, I think, about how much things have changed.
Talking about “developed countries” here, not SK specifically.

Is declining fertility really such a societal and evolutionary danger when we’re talking 1.4-1.5? If you think of us all as one race, the human race, the fact that a few corners of the world are declining in fertility is arguably an environmental victory that could soften some crises’s in the future. We are like 99.9% genetically similar, why risk gutting the carrying capacity of the planet to preserve the 0.001% of genes that give us sparkling blue eyes?

The whole contention that it’s terrible that high birthrate countries are so much more
feminist than low birthrate ones, well I mean just because the genetics of feminist counties might wane, that doesn’t mean their cultures will. Memetics is just as powerful as genetics, do rich countries really have to be the world’s stud? Can’t we see the poorer countries investing in people and the wealthier countries investing in things as teamwork?
... then the c.p.u. further compiles this to it's internal code as it executes it. “machine code” really is no more special in this chain of events than, say, LLVM IR.

I think this is the core point. Even though you are mechanically feeding machine code into the CPU, modern CPUs deeply transform your program before (or even while) running it, with potentially deep performance implications. With modern CPUs, the only choice we truly have is which compiler we trust to optimize our program.
>I'm not sure about that. I think licensees are bound by certain requirements to implement the architecture faithfully

Apple designs already deviate from ARM64 specifications, like adding custom instructions: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW:Apple-Instruction...
Does this seem difficult to follow to anyone else?

The author says the genius is the tracking of the content of the tree and not files.

As an example of this genius, he shows how git correctly (in his view) errors on the merging of two branches... where the content of the tree has no conflict but the history of a file does (in one branch it was renamed, in another it was deleted).

What am I missing?
What's the difference? At some point or another every decision gets converted into a simple metric: does it make us more money?
I played a lot of Anno 1800 on GeForce Now but got stuck late game with only 8 gb of RAM :-(
Quick complement. Where I’m from (Portugal) we use the literal number 0 for the ground floor.
> Controversial opinion (?): on your code hot paths and bottlenecks (and only there), where performance really matters (don't guess where they are, but measure with proper benchmarks) strive to avoid using Java Stream API, even at cost of more verbosity and/or less readability.

An example would be useful.
The best source for the development of C language is Bell Labs https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html

Excerpt:

By a general rule, in B the expression
*(V+i)
adds V and i, and refers to the i-th location after V.
Both BCPL and B each add special notation to sweeten such
array accesses; in B an equivalent expression is V[i]

C was designed to be as close to the machine as possible. Prior to C the only programming language for systems programming was assembly. If the compiler-generated code subtracted 1 from the index every time you indexed an array that would have been seen as not as efficient as assembly.
It's not that bad given the performance gain. Fiber patch cables are dirt cheap, FS.com optics are a great deal and also very affordable. Catch is to make sure you carefully buy hardware that accepts the proper optics, insane that it's somehow legal to lock down optics for specific vendors (I'm looking at you intel).
> The consensus opinion, at least 6 months ago, was that Tether = scam.

I think you're combining two different questions with the word "scam".

(A) Is Tether stable and able to keep its peg?

(B) Is Tether lying about its reserves (composition, quantity, or both)?

The answer to (A) is "not all the time" and perhaps that will turn into "not most of the time" (as we have seen with other stablecoins recently). Tether has actually lost its peg in the past by a substantial margin[1] before recovering.

The answer to (B) is still almost certainly "yes". They have resisted legitimate audits and have even said that full transparency would destroy their company[2]. We know they don't hold $1 for every 1 USDT, and some of their other reserve assets are more dubious than others.

The company has survived a "slow-motion bank run" recently[3], but it's unclear how much bigger or faster of a bank run it could withstand. Experts and investors are still betting that Tether will collapse in the near future[4].

1. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2022/05/12/tether-loses-1-p...

2. https://coingeek.com/tether-claims-revealing-assets-could-de...

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/22/tether-pa...

4. https://www.politico.eu/article/crypto-currency-tether-finan...
We're just slow.
Why do you assume the current population is the correct one? There’s a reasonable argument to be made that humans are over the Earth’s carrying capacity nearly everywhere, and are causing environmental and social damage to maintain the current size. It is quite normal in ecology to see crashes and recovery in the event of overpopulation. If we assume humans are biological organisms, it all seems pretty normal.
Both would happen simultaneously. Think of crypto like a balloon with only a narrow exit at one end going out into fiat: if you push down on Tether, BTC/ETH will inflate in Tether terms (because everybody who can moves into other cryptos) but deflate in USD terms (because there will be a run for the exits and a lack of buyers).
Patent trolls are one of many reasons to have personal and business finances buttoned up with proper LLC and other financial instruments.
I'd expect the compiler not to let you to pass a 0-based array to a library function expecting a 1-based array. I'm pretty sure that's how it worked with Visual Basic, which was the only language I ever used such a feature in.
When I went from Java to Ruby on Rails it was an incredible breath of fresh air, and a massive, massive time saver, and truthfully Ruby can do many things Rails can not, and it worked well.

On a language level though (I still hate java) but the type safety was nice and did save you a lot of worry. In retrospect I realize most of the issue was the frameworks available and all the terrible configuration stuff.

I love that today you have so many more options because for a lot of time you do save time on a per line level..
the gp is trying to make the point that countries with higher birth rates tend to be poorer and/or more oppressive.
It's unlikely it took you five minutes to get the hang of clutch control and shifting gears. OK, it is possible you managed to avoid kangerooing but only for a small range of circumstances.

From rest (with a gear selected and clutch depressed), you have to unlatch the handbrake, whilst at the same time gradually engage the clutch and deploy power via the throttle pedal. You have to ensure you don't go backwards on a hill nor stall the engine and quite a few other factors. You also have to be aware of what is around you and deal with weather etc. That's the simple description with only a few complications. At home we reverse hill start onto a narrow gravel track that runs at 90 degrees from the concrete parking stand - it is quite tricky! More so in a long wheel base Transit.

I drive two manuals - a car and a large van, and one auto - car, at the moment but I've driven most vehicles from 7.5t down, with or without auto.

An auto feels torque from the engine/wheels/conditions and your fuel input. You can floor the pedal to get going and then reduce power gradually as speed is picked up and eventually you know when the auto changes gear and can influence that accordingly - hard to describe.

In a manual you can see what is ahead and take action accordingly. You don't feel the actual torque but you can tell (with experience) from the engine noise and the feeling of acceleration.

It's all about using your array of sensors - eyes, hands, bum etc. and a shed load of experience. You do not learn that in five minutes and autos are not simply stop/start either.
Who was the tech big-wig who also took on the trolls? (other than Cloudflare..)
i'd prefer not to, but I'm a reasonable man
The government has made it all but illegal to make a car that isn't ugly
Sure, it's technically a word, but hardly one you'd casually drop into your conversations (with non-programmers)
A few are not, like application_id, user_version, and auto_vacuum.
Actually that's the only problem I have with DuckDuckGo. I don't have much trust in Google, but I have less trust in Microsoft.
> Declining birth rates have nothing to do with oppressing women.

I think the point was the opposite: countries with limited respect and opportunities for women have higher birth rates because women have less control over whether they have children and if good careers aren’t an option anyway there’s less opportunity cost to staying home with a child.
So to you it can be summed up to "it's all women's fault" ?
My VW GTI with 6 gear manual is such a joy. And what I fail to convey to my GenZ kids is the simplicity of it.

Once I started the engine on a hill by engaging clutch. Kids were puzzled, but not so impressed. Oh well.
Wayland is awesome and it has forced a much needed disaggregation of the Linux graphics stack. I’ve recently been playing with sway and wayvnc, and watching GPU accelerated web-GPU demo running on a headless machine over VNC. Yeah, Mac and Windows can both do that too, but it’s not nicely factored out like the Linux stack: KMS, DRM, libinput, etc. Wayland is also just a nicely designed core protocol. Surfaces and presentation and damages regions all make sense and it’s The Right Way (TM) to build a flicker free desktop on modern GPUs.

It’s not clear to me why people think writing a Wayland compositor should be easy. It’s not a window manager. It’s the equivalent of the X server and the WM put together. There should be maybe 3-4 Wayland compositors out there tops, and it seems like there are way more than that.
Add me as a data point. Wife kept overdrawing account, split finances, divorce. All within like 3 years.
Mechanical controls are safety-related - it's harder and more expensive to engineer a crash-safe interior with knobs and such. That's why with modern crash testing you saw a very rapid depreciation of pull-out knobs and the like. It's also harder to manufacture and repair. Electronic controls? You run power and a data bus to the unit, and you're done.

I don't think people understand how much engineering goes into a dash/interior in a passenger car, at least from a company that prioritizes crash safety. Everything is designed to give just the right amount when hit by a body flying around in crash. Even the lower part of the dash is designed to crush just the right amount if you "submarine" in a head-on crash - enough to stop you, but not enough to shatter your knees.
The notion of retirees dying alone surrounded by robots doesn’t strike you, at all, as kinda weird and dystopic?
This was my exact same though while reading OP's comment. Taxes will go way up since the number of people having to support all the old people will be fewer and fewer. The increased taxes will cause people to have fewer and fewer children. It's a vicious cycle.
I have just one child. I thought it was kinda sad that they're an only child but I didn't think about that its more than that. They wont have any nieces or nephews, if they have one child with a partner who is an only child my grandchild wont have any uncles, aunts or cousins either.

Its a huge contrast to other branches in my family where there are like dozens and dozens of cousins all living close to each other and always hanging out.
In defense of starting at 1: if you're counting things, starting at 1 ensures that the last number you said is equal to the number of things you've counted so far.

Toddlers love this invariant.
If you want to follow this, the thing to watch is the USDT market cap. It fell from $83B to $66B, then climbed to $67.5B. As long as it's not making new lows (i.e. people redeeming their USDT for USD), the chances of failure are basically 0. If it does start dropping lower, that's when people will start getting nervous again.
Birth rates are low pretty much everywhere in the developed world, but South Korea is an outlier in how low they are. For example, Japan's fertility rate is 1.3, compared to Korea's 0.84. That's a huge difference.

It's possible there's something unique to South Korea that causes it. Perhaps it's mandatory 2 years of military service for males. Or maybe their famously judgmental culture. I don't know.
The DARPA Grand Challenge ran in 2004 and 2005 (i.e. before 2007) and the cars there definitely all had emergency shut off mechanisms.

Maybe one of the competitors used an existing (i.e. not custom made) car part for this?

———

Found this from 2004:

“A DARPA-provided electronic stop device allowed a remote control shut-down of the vehicle in case of an emergency”

Is that a lead?

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Reinhold-Behringer/publ...
For most cases you could get away with some index transformation logic in the compiler (but probably your language would need special types for indices, so I do agree with you that it is not worth the trouble).
I saw the Stewart Brand documentary recently and there is a scene where he pulls out an entire rack of (frozen? it looked like) carrier pigeons. I wonder if they were "collected" in this sense.
Magnesium and potassium in sufficient amounts along with lowering sodium intake. Not only will it drop blood pressure but you'll feel more relaxed on a regular basis.
In my experience, you should take care of yourself and stop worrying about the company. You've given them enough service. The company has to take care of itself now.
It goes without saying.
Rumor of a worse camera And a price increase. Also production problems
> Defining index as the element wise offset is a precise well formed definition/name.

But it's less precise than offset and obviously introduces confusion. Whoever originated the term "0-indexed" should have just suggested we use a better word rather than keeping the inaccurate word (proven by the fact you're currently looking for a way to remove some confusion around the currently chosen word) and prefixing it with a digit, which itself is a confusing thing to do to an English word, thus adding to the confusing while subtracting none.
The ripple effect of technology (birth control). Maybe it is the great filter ;)
This one impresses me: https://openai-labs-public-images-prod.azureedge.net/user-BA...

The shadow of the hand is correct.
Ask HN: What happened to the law that would prevent social platforms censorship?
Every few months someone I watch/follow/listen to disappears from internet. It seems if someone is even slightly controversial they are wiped out off internet in due time. People don't even care about freedom of speech, sites collectively have started to disable comments. It used to be we would learn how important freedom of speech is through people like Voltaire, George Orwell, and so on. And how it formed the basis of our govt and how it has shaped our society and systems, often always for the better. Yet it feels right now people don't really care about principles and more interested in subduing the other side on all mediums. Almost feels like society as deteriorated a bit, concept of free speech is leaving fabric of society altogether. On campuses, on tvs, on social platforms. Whenever someone gets banned, it's welcomed. It's now known as cancel culture which celebrates censorship, just with different cover up term. Almost scary how irrelevant this principle is becoming.

Right now companies are shielded from liabilities of user generated content, but they also engage in selective editing. The new law was saying that a platform is either just a host of user generated content or an editor in which case responsible for the content, it can't claim to be a host and then edit selectively.
Well given that the current approach is to dump emissions directly into the atmosphere, I'll take the alternative.

Obviously EVs are a suboptimal solution. The real solution to transportation energy use is to switch to walking, biking, and transit as the principle mode of transportation,while switching freight mostly back to rail.

If you could just walk or bike where you wanted to go (ie, land use is good where you live), than these problems become much smaller.
Such technology could also represent a huge improvement in quality of life. Imagine augmented reality glasses with built-in ad blockers.

It all depends on who's in control of the device. It'll be great if we're in control and the technology is used to empower us. It'll suck if the corporations and governments are in control and the technology is used to manipulate public perception and extract revenue.
When all these things were worse, 100 years ago, people had more kids than they do today.
You're quite good about driving. I took not like 5min but like a 6 hours to get used to drive manual including parking at driving lesson.
There needs to be an anti-patent-troll membership organization. You pay a fee relative to some metric and the organization acts as insurance against parent trolls by fully defending any patent lawsuits that are obviously unjustified. And to keep costs low, membership in this organization would be public to deter patent trolls from even trying to sue a member in the first place.
Amazon Care health care to shut down, citing business model wasn’t working
The closest thing we have to a crystal ball is Japan, which is a few decades ahead in demographics, and it's been much more prolonged slump than sudden crash there.
As someone who hates how ugly modern cars have become, I can also acknowledge the extraordinary leap in safety they've achieved since then. Many of the rules are designed around safety.

Although a counterpoint to this is the giant A pillars limit visibility so much as to be dangerous themselves.
Get snow tires, and put some sandbags or other weight in the trunk.
That’s not true since my intense desire is to play video games, often being defeated by my responsibility.

At that point I’d say the burden is on your idea to say how it’s not.