skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are first-take conclusions I draw from the article:

> The only discernible effect on female winners is that wealth increases their short-run (but not long-run) divorce risk.

Women still divorce their sucky husbands. It just takes longer. This could result in fewer kids, or it could result in kids whose homes are broken during later childhood or adolescence.

Reading the actual paper, this is, in fact, the conclusion the authors come to: "In contrast, the only exception to the pattern of null results for female winners is that lottery wealth almost doubles their short-run probability of divorce. One interpretation of the absence of a discernible long-run increase in divorce risk among these women is that wealth accelerates the dissolution of marriages that were already underway."

> We also report results which suggest that when married men win the lottery, the windfall has a tendency to stabilize their existing marriages

Winning a lottery helps men feel secure enough that they aren't as sucky to their spouse.

> lottery wins cause the largest increase in marriage rates and the biggest reduction in divorce rates among unmarried men with low incomes.

So if you want stable marriages that have children the best thing to do is make people wealthier, especially those of lower income. Make men wealthier and they'll get married more and have more children. Make women wealthier and the men they stick with will be ones they like sticking with. I can't see this latter leading to fewer children, on average. I'd expect it would lead to more.

Where'd you get your idea from?
"The amount of water held by impact glass beads in lunar soils is estimated to be 0.03–27.00 × 10^13 kg, assuming a global depth of lunar soils of 3–12m"

That's the same as a sphere of water with a radius ranging from 415 metres to 4.01 kilometres.
> we used to declare what version of HTML a page was written in with the doctype tag at the very top of the file.

Um, we still do that. It's just that the doctype for HTML 5 is very short and doesn't mention the version number explicitly. (It's `<!DOCTYPE html>`.)
It's baffling to me how westerners don't realize that you could solve two different problems in parallel.

When America started its space program, were all of its problems solved?

In fact, are all of America's problems solved now?
I looked at XUL, gosh so it is gone now.
In fact I bought a book, something like "Building Rich Internet Applications with XUL"
Which I never really read or used.
This is a moot point for about 60 years. Europe, like the US, have massive agricultural overproductions which distort the world markets, due to subsidies. Most of the disastrous monocultures are used to feed bovines, a very inefficient source of protein for the human diet.

Basically, it's a lifestyle and politico-economic choice, not a need.
I would agree that a bleaker view of the future plays it's part as well. But I would not just pin it only on climate change.
This kind of comment is the first one to show up like clockwork whenever a HN story comes up which doesn’t mention India and poor/corruption/hungry/religion in the same sentence.
You think non Americans give a flying fuck about a DMCA claim?

I would love to be tried, remotely by an american court for breaking DMCA by bypassing DRM for american made software.
That's not an argument to keep live grenades laying around, it's an argument to remove them from the spec.

Like signed int being UB. Define it to have 2 complement semantics. Problem solved. I'm sure the nutters trying to extend C++ with templates will howl but this is C not C++. And seriously C++ is dead man walking at this point.
Down-vote and move on. That’s exactly what you’re blaming women for, isn’t it?
Traffic on StackOverflow falls ~12% in the last week
Since the advent of ChatGPT, there has been an accelerating downward trend in growth rate of traffic in StackOverflow. If one were to extrapolate the traffic from before the release of ChatGPT, currently there is a ~12% difference between expected traffic and real traffic. Over 60% of the difference has happened in the last 7 days.
early SpaceX also had a very low salary cap.
I believe even the optimistic estimates are still at hundreds of dollars per kilogram launched. Local sourcing of water could still be more cost effective than relying upon external shipments from Earth.
Wouldn’t most other places in Europe be much more suitable though just because of lower population density (and energy prices in some cases)?
What do you mean regarding Ukraine? Do you mean the US should have persuaded Ukraine to give up some of their land?

I don’t fully understand what you mean with ‘negotiated settlement’.

All I know is these ‘negotiating’ strategies don’t work with tyrannical regimes. Germany tried and failed. Trying to bring in China into the world economy also didn’t seem to make them give up their hunger to swallow Taiwan.

The mindset of these dictators is different… see Bill Browder’s writings on this subject.
TIL: this comment is about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controve...
Strange generallization. In any environment there are always those that don't belong.

There must be some double digit percentage of them who are genuinelly sculpted in specific way in that harsh working environment. Or you are saying that stressor doesn't make you better in any way (if you survive it).

Probability looks higher that you will find such people at ex-Space X group then other more relaxed and/or bureaucratically leaden companies, IMO.

They shower them with money because, as always, they don't know who is genuine and who is not, only results will tell but looks like a solid bet anyway, more then showering with money random engineer of ex anything.
This assumption of a rational market has been fucking up people's lives for a long time now. What's it gonna take to put that conceit to bed?
"Your margin is my opportunity"
-Jeff Bezos
It an objectively free market capitalist view. I don’t know if that’s the same as woke..
Of course, that's technically incorrect. The way the standards are written, the compiler is free to replace the program with any other program that has the same (in a precisely defined sense) observable behavior (these are the famous "as if" formulations in language specs). Heating up the CPU is not considered observable behavior.

If someone really just wants a delay, it's easy to either (for programs running on normal OSs) call a sleep function, or (on tiny embedded systems) add an empty inline assembler statement that the compiler can't see through.
They're no more tabloids than Tucker Carlsen is a news anchor.
tl;dr:

1. You can do most of it with HTML + CSS these days, so better use that.

2. It's not actually gone, it's a process with a big step taken
Can't recommend this more. I moved out of Sweden and worked in UK tech for 7 years, earned a filthy amount of money, and are now moving back to Sweden to settle down.
I advise a visit to OS/2 museum.
Thank you for mentioning Wasniak book!
I really enjoyed iWas.

Another great book is “Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer” (Second Edition) 2nd Edition
by Paul Freiberger (Author), Michael Swaine (Author)

And I like as well a book from Merrill Chapman. “In search of stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters”.
> everyone I knew could afford to buy a house on a single salary when 28-30

Did you grow up in 1958? Because that's the last time that was true.
There is one more:

- Bug-fixer: Deals with problems that four others will end up ignoring because they all moved on to other jobs creating new systems filled with more bugs that will be fixed 5 years down the road. Bug-fixers can like the work, but it's not glamorous because a lot of the time, it doesn't introduce new value.

They say people are good as their last project. It has rung true for me for years. I have become the bug-fixer again in my new project. But, it usually includes trying to come up with incremental improvements if there result of the issue was direct or indirect lack of something else.
If you mean "phone support manager", just say "phone support manager"... :D
But it's compared to the sun which has a different size to mass ratio.

So it's a huge difference between 30B times size of the sun and 30B times mass of the sun.
Because somebody else then has an incentive to move into the market, increase production, and get the prices down. If that doesn't happen, then the market economy we supposedly live in is broken. And that would be a bigger problem than chip shortages.
Whatever Firefox does, no longer matters, it is even worse that The Year of Desktop Linux, and I am typing this from Firefox.
For very large values of one:

https://www.ah.nl/winkels?storeType=XL
So offering them enough money so that it would be profitable for them to close their farms is bossing around?

Using land for housing or (data center for that matter) is just more efficient most of the time.
What really attracts people to those places? Cuisine? Night life? Tinder opportunities?
30B time the mass of the sun is already huge but 30B times the size of the sun would be much much bigger.
"The question we set out to answer in this study is how the Swedish personal wealth distribution has evolved since 2007. This year, a right-wing party alliance was elected after a long period of Social Democratic rule and among its first reforms was to repeal the wealth tax ... Our main result concerning wealth inequality in Sweden is that it appears to have increased since 2007. The recorded rise in the Gini coefficient and top wealth shares is about ten percent"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/roiw.12294

Note that the study above only analyzed wealth in Sweden over the time period of 2007 (when the wealth tax was repealed, not 2005 as I erroneously wrote in my earlier comment) and 2012.

Germany and Norway don't share a comparable Wealth Gini (like I said above, it's WEALTH Gini, not Income Gini).

While absolute wealth inequality did grow in both NO and DE since 2008, SE's Wealth Concentration also at a much higher starting position than either NO and SE in 2008

2008 - 2019

DE 0.667 0.816

NO 0.663 0.798

SE 0.742 0.867

2008 - https://www.nber.org/papers/w15508

2019 - https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...

And finally, roughly the same old money families/nobility that existed in Sweden c. 1700 continue to have a roughly similar impact in Sweden c. 2012 from a social mobility standpoint.

https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Swede...
It seems women-hostile because:

1) It doesn't seem to follow from the paper. Which states that the wealthier partner tends to retain most of the married wealth.

> While the richer spouse redistributes some assets to the poorer spouse in the typical settlement, the amount of redistribution is smaller than the amount required to ensure an equal split of the assets. This empirical finding suggests that the <lottery winning> spouses in our samples may anticipate retaining a larger share of the prize money in the event of divorce

2) If the only thing keeping a marriage together is the lack of wealth necessary for one party (the woman) to adequately survive after the divorce, then this is not a stable marriage.

You seem to have come into this with an already formed opinion. Which is fine, but the opinion seems to be about circumstances not addressed by this study.
Oil has the Petrodollar, what’s the currency for the semiconductors in the future?
I bought a MK3S+&Enclosure this year instead of 5 clones.
I'll be buying a MK4 and an XL, again instead of 15 chinesium clone machines.

Free Openness, reliability, trustworthiness - that's what I paid a multiple for.

Joseph puts his name on every machine, every spool of filament. I trust that if and when something goes wrong, it's his neck on the line to make it right.

I welcome a newer, stronger, toothier approach to Free and Open hardware and software.

If that means a patent trust, or a consortium for enforcement, or whatever collaboration between large players can become, it would be great if this could be the catalyst.
No. The real issue is the fact that when Natura 2000 guidelines became a thing, we undemocratically decided on the wrong species to protect. And when we realized this would effectively kill all economic activity in NL, there was no way back.

Even when all farms disappear we will not reach the goals. And right now the emissions of farms are (likely) illegally exchanged for other polluting activity like airports.

We should have a hard think if it’s really necessary to ruin our country to protect species that are abundant in other countries.
Either it's ChatGPT or it's all the layoffs. You don't need StackOverflow if you're not working
The land is owned by the lords. The problem is the latest generation of wealthy lords has figured out how to stay wealthy. As their wealth grows, the plight of the common person grows as well. The wealthy haven't allowed themselves to become poorer, or even relatively poorer. They've only grown their riches.

Because there is a lack of taxation on the rich, they tend to accumulate assets. They can then depreciate these assets while using their income for leverage. Ultimately every dollar the rich landlords collect is a tax on the poor.

The very concept of ownership may seem a little bit unnatural. How can one person own the dirt someone stands on. How deep down do they own it? Is it a radial ownership of the earth?
Could you point me to these plenty cheap areas? I work remotely and may consider moving there.
This is not about code that's found to be unreachable through static analysis (where compilers might warn), but about a manual programmer annotation that claims the code is dynamically unreachable even though statically it might look otherwise.
Can you list some? I see the last ten years as a great failure in tech following the decade of real innovation and paradigm change that came before it.
I know this meat is still used ofcourse. But with a country as small as ours, there simply are better uses of the space for our country and people.
He accused Twitter of being politically biased to the left and suppressing tweets, so he bought it to "allow free speech", except in his mind free speech apparently equates to being able to promote right wing propaganda.

As a platform, sure it can be better, and it wasn't exactly under the best management before (although the Twitter file leak actually made the old management look better than everyone thought). But lets not pretend that Musk is in this for the platform - he wants control of information to boost Republican leaders because in his mind, he is the savior of human race, so the best leadership is that which allows him to do the things he wants to do.
> Some were just abusive managers

> They were basically office politics machines, optimized to promote themselves at the expense of everyone else

> Obviously this isn’t unique

Most middle management is like that. You must be extremely lucky to work people who are not like these. During my 20 years I had maybe 3 people out of the 100 I have worked with who were decent and looked out for the people who they managed.
Firefox is so spammy and not better for privacy. It opens tabs all the time to advertise how much that big browser is taking care of your privacy, while begging for your email to upload your passwords to their server so you can [place minor feature here] reopen a tab on your desktop.

How do I know this? I use Firefox for porn on mobile, therefore didn’t connect it to ANY of my Google accounts, anything, blank state Firefox, imagine my happiness when PornHub greets me with “Hello [NAME] [SURNAME], would you like to sign-in with that Gmail account that you also happen to use for work?”

This single datapoint absolutely proves that Mozilla’s care for privacy is a legend. Like saying “A honest politician.”
That naive utopian attitude will change as soon as you have 2+ people.
(farms are usually companies)
Even better. When provided with your context (use case, models,…) it can adapt its answer to it.

Although that can also lead to hallucinations, it’s still quite wonderful.
Can you explain me how the math works on this? Because I certainly can't afford 99.9% of the houses/apartments in Sweden.

Let's forget anything crazy. Let's just talk about a 70sqm apartment in Kungsholmen

and of course wealth percentile matters. In fact, I understand that way too well. How do you raise your wealth percentile then? The whole point people are raising is that it's hard to become wealthy in Sweden from income. Actually much harder than in other countries. It might have worked for you in the last 20 or 30 years. Not sure that means it will work for others the same way in the next 30 years.
I’ve gone the other way. I’m starting up a robotics non profit that gives everything away for free and solicits donations for support. [1] We’re bootstrapped by a philanthropist who wants to see this become a reality.

With this model, people all over the world can benefit from our work. If we tried to go the route with patents and traditional funding, we’d end up designing a farming robot which only works well for large farms in California and would be too expensive for most of the people we want to serve.

Patent protection in many ways slows down innovation. 3D printer development was pretty static for the first 15 years and only advanced significantly after the patents expired. Then people all over the world contributed ideas on how to make better 3D printers for cheaper, and in ten years the price went from $25,000 to $250. Under patent the price only ever dropped from $50,000 to $25,000.

So you can see how open innovation produces a lot of value. The “problem” with this is that the value is hard to capture. This is what Prusa is experiencing today. Your solution is to lock down information harder and use the threat of legal action to restrict the spread of ideas. Unfortunately this creates a system where people in wealthy countries are constantly doing engineering for things which could benefit people in poorer countries, if only they were cheaper. Clones allow for cheaper versions to be made locally in the poorer countries where their labor costs are lower. But with widespread patent harmonization most countries can’t legally clone important goods, so they go without.

What we can do in the wealthy countries, instead of locking down ideas, is to explore new way of organizing our companies and projects. Countless people make a living asking for donations on YouTube. We see more engineering projects supported by this model, including Godot ($15k per month in donations) and Blender ($185k per month in donations).

This kind of open innovation can allow engineers to pay their living while producing products that are open for all. Imagine how much benefit the rest of the world would see if all of our MRI machines, manufacturing equipment, and other vital technology was open source?

For me it is imperative to find a way to make it work. Abandoning this would to me mean that I have failed those people that need my skills most. Those whose lives would be forever changed with increased access to advanced technology. I can not lock down my work and keep it out of their hands. They deserve better.

[1] https://community.twistedfields.com/t/january-2023-update-ne...
If anyone thinks there's "suddenly" a social movement, it's likely that they just didn't notice that it has been happening for a long time.
Don’t make your laws more lax than even the ones in America then? We’re talking about Holland here not some poor and corrupt developing country..

It’s no great secret than corporations are generally profit seeking and will try to utilize any “legal loophole” they can find. It would not be reasonable to expect them not to when the system they operate in strongly incentivize them to prioritize profit over anything else. I mean “nice corporations” will simply be outcompeted by the ruthless ones…
Very good points. Not that I've paid close attention, but the Great AI Apocalypse Panic seems to be confined to:

- In-too-deep SF fans, whose understanding of the Real World is like TVTropes - but without the "Real Life" sections
- Noise-makers in the attention economy, who need some new thing to hang their "OMG you gotta read this" hooks on
- People who churn out text (or art) for a living, who worry that the latest AI's are going to eliminate their jobs
- Intellectuals and wanna-be's, whose livelihoods, self-images, and/or aspirations bear far too much resemblance to "Get an A+ on a Turing Test"
- People who pay too much attention to the above groups, and repeat
The Lex Fridman podcast[1] with Aaron Smith-Levin, a former scientology insider (who grew out of it), made me believe that Scientology has been overly vilified, most likely because it threatens power of specific people, just what the scientologists claim.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lN9zkK_k0
Skilled Workers
Not the same person you're responding to, but I'd have tons of children too if the economics weren't a factor at all. There's just something incredibly fulfilling about raising a child. It's similar to the feeling you get when helping somebody else out in need, except you also get to experience all the magical parts of the world all around you with them as they experience them for the first time. A lot of other things feel trivial by comparison once you've experienced that.
Brexit eBay forced me to create a new EU account, effectively nuking 15 years of reputation.
I think some people are having wrong expectations heading in to this. If it explodes 30 seconds after leaving the launch pad it's still a huge success. Anything beyond exploding on the launch site is a success. They have a bunch more vehicles lined up behind this one as failure is highly expected, almost to the point of intention.

I'll be legitimately happy if it doesn't explode on the launch pad and at least gets any debris into the ocean instead of on land. This is just the beginning.
KsqlDB: The database purpose-built for stream processing applications
They halved their emissions in just a couple of decades. If you truly want progress, be realistic with the deadlines you state and keep on giving them the incentives to continue this positive trend.
Come to think of it, the only place I've seen a significant percentage of Linux was in an energy company in Western Australia...
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I worked on that codebase personally but here is a write-up on it:

https://blog.bitmex.com/bitmex-technology-scaling-part-1/

https://kx.com/news/kdb-powers-trading-platform-bitmex-high-...

https://www.odbms.org/2017/09/use-case-kdb-integral-to-bitme...

It really works, and also the codebase is quite mindbending. There is a weird elegance to it but also huge lock in.
Your content-chatbot repo was very useful when I was figuring out how to achieve this sort of thing with langchain. I was able to knock together a chatbot for a client's documentation site in an afternoon. But I guess the real value for SiteGPT is the ease-of-use and the client-side chat interface.
This is silly. If your marriage is falling apart, you can’t wait for “the incentive system” to be changed. By whom, anyway? Also, many women will not leave the father of their children just for financial incentives. If there is the case, you gotta ask yourself what your marriage was based on in the first place. I agree that social pressure does play a role. For instance, I just saw a New York Times article that said “My husband doesn’t want sex anymore, do I divorce him?“. I agree with you that that is a disgusting framework of entitlement and replacability. But: If such cultural messages have more influence in your wife’s behavior than you, you gotta ask yourself… If you choose to believe what you just said, you’re gonna be a divorced Joe Rogan subscribing expat in Thailand pretty soon.
> The other way isn't really definable as an assignment mathematically.

It's an equality sign. See also, := and unification.