skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried to read the poignant guide three times and hated it and stopped every time. Didn’t care about the cuteness, at all, and was super confused. Just my experience.
> She feels kind of resentful toward feminism telling her she didn't need children to be happy.

Not everybody has the same needs or desires, and feminism defends that women can be different from one another and not just making babes machines.

Your friend seems so confused about feminism as about how difficult is to have children after 40. As you say in another comment.

I do not know from where are you but it seems that better education could help your friend in many ways.
I am a big fan of that old Bloomberg column by Grove referenced in this article. I don't think his proposed policy mechanism is either the focus or necessarily a good idea, but in context, it's for illustrative purposes: not the main course.

As I read it, I think a better summary is that Grove felt that the importance of tacit knowledge was not given enough weight in the assumptions seen in the Washington Consensus (in the IMF sense of the term), the general underpinnings which the United States followed to some degree. Some more modern development economics, seeking to explain the failings of the Washington Consensus, more apparent by 2010 than in 1991 or 2000, develops thinking along these lines.

For example: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/03/26/The...

Grove also points out that there's a collective action problem that prevents private entities from making progress on the issue, and government is the agent in the right place to experiment with adjustments.
> How does a woman not know this?

How often is this issue even hinted at in popular culture?
If you interpret the room with chairs in it as a storage room, all of the facts are relevant:

- we had 19 chairs in the storage room

- we used 10 chairs (removing them from storage)

- and then we purchased 9 more chairs (adding them to storage)

The answer from chatGPT is consistent with English and makes use of all the facts; either the question is testing for deception (intentionally sharing misleading information) or chatGPT made the correct inference, by assuming good faith and using all the provided information.

This question says something about us — that we’d assume deception ahead of unclear reference to a storage room by a good faith speaker.
From the linked Bloomberg editorial by Andy Grove, https://archive.is/OQLuP

> The story comes to mind of an engineer who was to be executed by guillotine. The guillotine was stuck, and custom required that if the blade didn't drop, the condemned man was set free. Before this could happen, the engineer pointed with excitement to a rusty pulley, and told the executioner to apply some oil there. Off went his head.

> We got to our current state as a consequence of many of us taking actions focused on our own companies' next milestones. An example: Five years ago a friend joined a large VC firm as a partner. His responsibility was to make sure that all the startups they funded had a "China strategy," meaning a plan to move what jobs they could to China. He was going around with an oil can, applying drops to the guillotine in case it was stuck. We should put away our oil cans. VCs should have a partner in charge of every startup's "U.S. strategy."

Thread rank graph: https://hnrankings.info/34386813/
Frustrating to see NPR going to clickbait and such silly dramatic reporting.

I'll save you a click - a female representative proposed an update to the dress code, to bring the women's dress code more in line with the men's. The men's dress code wasn't updated because it was already more restrictive. That's it. That's the news.
I'm assuming that it shot up farther than expected rather than out of nothing at all.
+1 for the concept of "we were dead before we were born". I've always found that the simplest answer to "What happens after you die?" is "The same thing that happened before you were born: everything".
I got the "lifetime" Plex Pass as well but I fully expect to outlive the product. I hope...
It's a nice series of comics. But I guess there's lots of philosophers' inside jokes there as well. But obviously it's not taking a very admirable position on the great philosopher heroes like Sartre, which I find refreshing. It's making fun of them.
> To me, it looks like a problem of women having unrealistic standards

A woman who marries in Japan generally winds up taking care of both sets of (generally long lived) parents as well as the household and the children.

That's a ferocious amount of work with very little social support.

Countries keep complaining about women not having children but do absolutely nothing to make having children not suck.
I find the focus on children’s books to be a little sick. Educating the next generation is not an area to content farm for profit with minimal effort.

I’m honestly curious. What do you see in this worth promoting? Generating low effort (“in 2 hours”) content with ML is not news.
A small assortment of HP RPN calculators. Cold, dead hands, etc.
Interestingly, the letters to Canaan are written in a mixed Canaano-Akkadian language[1], not in a Canaanite/Hebrew. It is a mixed language with predominantly Akkadian vocabulary and Canaanite grammatical features. It used the cuneiform writing system of the Akkadian language. To the north in Ebla city-state there was another East Semitic language - Eblaite [2].

My speculation would be that Canaan's elite was either Akkadian, or at least they were educated/influenced from there. This is also aligned with the Biblical stories that mythical Abraham come to Canaan from Mesopotamia/Sumer.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaano-Akkadian_language

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eblaite_language
What sort of _credible_ sources do we have that the COVID vaccine affected DNA?
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer. This is a good post, but I'm a bit surprised it doesn't talk about memoized selector functions at all. We specifically teach those as a way to improve performance, by avoiding costly transformations and consistently returning the same result reference until the inputs change:

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-6-performance...

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/fundamentals/part-7-standard-...

- https://redux.js.org/usage/deriving-data-selectors

Use of `React.memo()` also helps in cases like the large list, especially if you're only passing down the item ID as props to the list item components and letting them select their own data based on that ID.

Also, as of Reselect 4.1, there are some additional options built into `createSelector` for doing comparisons, such as an option that can do a shallow equality check on the _new_ result, and stick with the _old_ result if they're the same:

- https://github.com/reduxjs/reselect#defaultmemoizefunc-equal...
It's like a tech demo, a preview of the future. Give it 5 years and it will be super refined and probably the future of low cost animation for kids TV shows and stuff. Then even further, like how no one animates without a computer now, no one will animate without AI assistance.
It's an <input type="date">, so the UI of the date picker depends on your browser.
There's a saying they like to throw around: When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Pithy non-answer: no and why would you want to?

Serious answer: yes but it's not a change of personality. It's about recognizing fear and developing skills.

When I experienced this level of deep self doubt I emerged having learned a few things.

One, I'm not broken and don't need to be fixed. I'm more like some sloppy code that got rushed to production and could use some fixes. I do them one at a time to remove whatever blocker is hindering my happiness at the moment.

Two, I'm much happier when I do things I like. I took up oil painting because I wanted to. I painted a nude and hung it in my living room. I became a private pilot. Full in your own blanks.

Third and most importantly, I learned how to deal with racing thoughts. Racing thoughts feed on the energy we put into fighting them. If you fight them you feed them. Meditation was my method but it's tricky for us. We are told it relaxes you but when we try the racing thoughts give us an experience of failure. The trick is to stop fighting them and let them flow freely, while gently bringing your attention over and over to the meditation object (typically the breath). The first meditative state described in the oldest Buddhist texts "is accompanied by sustained and appplied thought". It's normal for everybody. Sooner or later you learn not to believe everything you think and freedom begins.

Best of luck.
> You just send the log output somewhere

How?
Is declining birth rate really that bad? We are at 8 Billion humans already, how many more can the planet support, with all its environment and inequality problems?

That said, birth date decline is not uniform around the world. And countries like Japan have bad immigration policies. With Japanese people living longer and longer, the ratio of younger to older is severely skewed. This is not a good situation to be in.

Interesting times ahead
At this point data on Android bugs shows that Rust clearly won.

Also if we don't want government spying easily on all our devices (even open source ones), we all have to take safety seriously.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34286253
Time speeds up as you get older because every day is a decreasingly smaller proportion of your life lived. A fixed 24 hour duration is perceived as a smaller and smaller window into our lives, at any point in time. So life speeding up is just a mental distortion.

Instead then, focus on figuring out how to live more healthily. Advances there objectively provide dividends.

Also if you’re selfishly wondering what type of problems to devote your life to, develop your empathy and do things that benefit others, because as your time on the clock runs down, the value of your successes in that category don’t also diminish, unlike everything else. Giving is the gift that keeps on giving, so to speak.
John Wick here. please be nice. you probably never had a dog - i hope you will one day and experience the joy of such a companionship.
Many women do not know this. It's not common knowledge. I'd wager most men also do not. I'd also wager most men also believe they can easily have children until the moment they die, but this is also not true.

Infertility is a socially stigmatized affliction, and so its presence in our society is understated.

It's not helped by celebrities having children well past their expected child-bearing ages, and pretending it was a non-IVF pregnancy.
Hunting for Truffles Is a Perilous Pursuit, Especially for the Dogs Who Dig
> Print debugging is a technique that will never go out of style. It works on any system,

So if you connect up a bunch of wires and everything goes well "too easy" you can get output from some, not all, systems.

What you describe is no what the comment about "print debugging" means, to me.
Homo sapiens are safe. Lawyers are not.
No. I take my vacation days, but I never take a “vacation”. I always stay home or close to home, I don’t like travelling unless I need to.

The last time I lost internet for an extended time (my cable got dug up) made me an anxious mess for weeks.
> Is declining birth rate really that bad?

It is when your social security framework depends on an ever-growing population.

Hey, I guess that makes it a pyramid scheme, doesn't it. Interesting.
Yes, auto loading in Ruby and Rails is a mystery for most programmers. So that's not mystery.
That's actually low by Google standards, onboarding 16% of the company. There's been reports elsewhere that the average tenure at Google is 2.5 years, meaning a typical year sees onboarding 40% of the company.
And because the last step is to freeze them, making them no longer appetizing.
I suppose the gist of it was that I felt stupid all my life and never challenged myself as a result. Then I found out I’m not, at least according to that scale.

I had aspirations I didn’t pursue because I thought I wasn’t capable, for example. Lacked confidence because I believed I wasn’t competent. Suddenly I was faced with the notion that I wasn’t failed by genetics or something I couldn’t control, but rather, I’d simply lived for decades apparently completely unaware of myself and wasting my potential. What a strange thought.

My score wasn’t exceptional. I expected it to be much lower, though.

I’m still not sure how I feel. I wonder if I should do more with myself or not, if any of it even matters, that sort of thing. I suspect never knowing actually could have been better; it’s unlikely at this point that I could ever realize potential that I was previously unaware of. I don’t think it serves me at all. In a strange way I guess I liked assuming I wasn’t intelligent. I genuinely don’t feel intelligent.
Now I'm certainly no expert in this area (and I'm sure it shows) but xdg-desktop-portal was built to support Flatpak and is linked fairly closely to PipeWire.

"The protocol is great, you just need to rebuild your Audio/Visual stack to support it" is certainly a reasonable take when dealing with something as weird as X. But, and I say this with a certain level of sympathy, bit it showcases a deep inflexibility in the design of Wayland.

Taking screenshots is not that hard by default. I'm very glad that someone is taking on the mammoth task of improving the linux graphics stack, but it is obvious that they designed screenshots out of the system then had to work for a decade to design them back in by reworking the way multimedia is done, and de-facto we're only going to be able to use Wayland in conjunction with XDG standards making sure that implementing the light protocol in a light compositor is a mistake. That isn't the end of the earth, it is no worse than what we do now - but it is a glaring weakness in the Wayland protocol that could have found a way to be usable from 2008 -> 2018.
Which countries have the lowest and highest retirement ages in Europe?
Interesting! Didn’t realize that in Japan women are still treated so poorly. Wonder how long it will take for the cultural norms to change.
What a lot of people don't seem to realise is Ruby was eating Python pretty badly around 2005-2010 as Rails and Github exploded and other things like Vagrant, Puppet and Chef took over.

Ruby had all the mindshare and hype over Python back then. To me as a Python fan, it felt like Python had peaked and wasn't going to grow further.

Then Node came along and stole the bandwagon followers that had flocked to Rails. The Ruby community was mostly the Rails community, so this kinda capped the growth of Ruby.

Python though had lots of competing Web frameworks, and other use outside webdev incl core tooling for Linux distros etc. Ansible (and Salt to a lesser extent) came along and stole back share from Chef/Puppet. Less fashionable Python kept on trucking along and was well placed to pick up machine learning.
> Also, if there was any interesting work, if you weren't some sort of political beast or very assertive, somebody would just steal it from you before you could do it anyways.

This happens in every company.
This statement reminds me of the book Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Great read if you like SF and have not read it.
In source-code formatting vertical alignment is well-known pattern. Is there something else you're thinking of?
Perhaps it's a measure against failure? Do these capacitors fail open?

Or price, although that would raise new questions. Another is availability of components. Or perhaps the form factor (these capacitors seem slightly less tall than the ones on the other board in the picture).
If you kept your diary secret and wrote it for yourself, it would probably be more useful.
Via network socket, serial port, parallel port, however the system in question communicates with the world.

If it's an actual standalone deaf, dumb, and blind black box with zero world interaction then you should, at least, have a hardware probe and step debugging capabilities and you can always flash a sign of some kind on some bus or another.
That is not an unpopular opinion, people have been arguing on this forum for proper legislation around these types of security incidents and breaches for years.
That's interesting to hear since many years ago I took PATH trains at all hours of the night and never saw such a thing. There's a lot fewer PATH stations (13) than NYSubway (472, which I believe is the most stations on such a system in the world) so it might be easier for PATH to use overland money trucks, especially in NJ.
Side effects include: headache, nasal congestion, and Benjamin Button Syndrome.
Amiga Speech by Ron Nicholson (Amiga Ireland 2023)
> countries like Japan have bad immigration policies

Bad in the sense that they can have a shrinking population without ceding their country to foreigners, without sacrificing their nationhood on the altar of economy?

As you say, we are at 8 billion already, how many more can the planet support? Well, think globally, act locally: how many can Japan support? Reducing population one country at a time is much easier than the global coordination problem of reducing it for the entire world.

How can you at once be aware that the global population is already too large, yet demand each country have perpetual population growth, either through birthrate or immigration?
You're overthinking. There are no hidden tricks. It's simple logic: the room has 19 chairs. The number of chairs in use is irrelevant. You got 9 more chairs; how many chairs you have in this room now? Of course the answer is 28.

It's a problem created to test the limits of interpretation of large language models. Here's another one: "What would be the gender of the first female president of the United States?" [1]

In previous versions it used to get this wrong, but the current version of ChatGPT nails it every time. Seems it's getting better, likely incorporating human feedback.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-...
Don't AMD GPUs still have firmware blobs, they just happen to submit them to upstream linux-firmware?
the paren'ts exact same point holds, how long to swap an attentive person in. Have you done support chat? it will immediately be one person to 55 cars, and add in the latency, they're not stopping that tesla move left and hit the breaks issue let alone a 30 car pileup.
But a smaller target might mean less funds for security, as it's basically a constant overhead.
It's not some big mystery and it's documented just fine.

If you have a normal chunk of static jsx, child "i" maps to slot "i". If you wish to omit a child dynamically, you put a null in its place.

If you have an array of children being built dynamically, every child needs an explicit key. This avoids state being shifted up and down needlessly when you add/remove.

You will never get another component's state back because changing the type forces a remount.

Unlike React, Live has the ability to preserve children even if the parent type changes (a morph), but this is opt-in only and will still discard the state of the parent.
Oh man, I feel so lucky that I've switched exclusively to Github actions late 2020, no good news from CircleCI since then.
> All economy is fragile because it is based on perception.

There are several ways of looking at it. Rather than "based on perception" I prefer "based on relationships"

The economy is a network of relationships concerning material goods and services (is one definition). One of the mistakes a lot of dry economists make is to forget that. As Maggie (in)famously said: "There is no such thing as society there, are just individuals". Wrong

This was illustrated in the Asian Financial Crises in the late '90s. Thailand and Malaysia were badly effected. Thailand, that has hardly been colonised, did better than Malaysia (according to Joe Stiglitz) because the ancient communal ties still existed and people, hence the economy, could fall back on them when the money system collapsed. In Malaysia those ties had been broken by colonisation and there was more misery.
Can everybody create money?

If Alice and Bob agree that Alice owes Bob $100, Bob will have show this $100 in his books and pay taxes on it. Does this mean Alice and Bob have created $100?

Are there other players, who can create money that is "more real" than the $100 Alice and Bob created?
What I never end up understanding about such topics is what is truly meant by "understanding" [that we have finite lives]. Don't we all know that anyways? Are we being asked to calm down and accept that? If so, isn't such futile for those that couldn't initially (as I don't see how reading a book would change their psyche) and placebo for those that could (as they've just never considered life in that way)?
40 % assuming a steady state of headcount. If they are growing, onboarding the growth happens in addition to that -- so 60 %.
> does HN likes audio geekery

Only if scientifically backed.
Why?

That's all money ever was.

Gotta remember, money literally has never been objectively anything. It feels like it should be because there are numbers involved, but it's always been wildly subjective.
Restoring a Vintage Rolex GMT
I don't know if I would call it an addiction, but I feel very similar in the sense that I spend a ton of hours on the internet and tinkering with technology.

I did take a break. A long break. I joined the Army in 2021, after being laid off during the pandemic, thinking I wanted to leave technology for good. Then after I graduated from basic, I realized I was probably going to be a shitty, unfit soldier and that I missed all of the interesting technical and engineering challenges we solve as software engineers.

I'm still working on getting back into the profession (pretty much due to my own laziness the past year... I guess needed time to recalibrate after everything). But, I have spent countless hours the past year setting up homelab equipment, various servers, writing scripts and small programs to organize stuff.

Youtube isn't something I really could get addicted to, because I don't like learning from videos or watching stuff I could read in a quarter of the time. But I guess I do have a pretty bad TV addiction. I wasted tons of hours when I was depressed binge-watching shows online. It's to the point I don't even watch movies often because I prefer the intimacy I feel when I know the characters well and am deeply immersed in a series, especially something running multiple seasons. I binged all 5 seasons of the Handmaid's Tale a few weeks ago in less than a week, for example, and considered immediately rewatching them all.

As another has stated below, I guess this is to fill the void that occurs in life when we are single and childless, unemployed, or both.

I still don't think if I would call my internet usage or passion for technology "addiction". The TV/Netflix/etc. ... sure. That's fair. But I think it's fine to be obsessed with something like programming, especially if it's your profession. People who get paid to do something they love are lucky.
Yes it's entirely stand alone. No dependencies.
That's the point :) It is not.

We are mortal, that's just a fact of life. I do agree with the comment OP though that both:
- Maximising every day is bad
- Ignoring life is bad

In the end its all about balance and content as the top voted comment goes.

I would still recommend the book to everyone!

EDIT: Also as one of the comments notes here:

"If you don't feel some existential dread at some point it's because you aren't being honest with yourself"
> Sure, there can be logical errors, and it can be corrected.

Yeah, but the vast majority of my bugs in C projects were logical errors :-/

Logical errors outnumber memory errors at roughly 100:1
I went through the motions of making the transform, and am still in the process. I wrote about my experience:

https://carlmastrangelo.com/blog/become-an-extrovert
275,000 acres is a square of 30 x 30 km (20 x 20 miles). It ain't really that big piece of land