skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>France give plenty of incentives for couples to have children,I think this year the national budget is more than 5 billion

plenty of incentives for couples to have children
when you are poor yes. when you are in the middle class you'll get some but not all. for instance a first child would get you 180 euros per month (if your household earns less than 36k otherwise you get 0 and still pay high tax unlike poor people). diapers and milk for a month is already way more than that especially with inflated prices of today.

> And if you're rich enough to not qualify for direct help, the tax breaks your child provides you is greater than the maximum amount the poorest families get for a child

so. let's do france.
the tax break is of a maximum of 1500 euros for a child. I don't know if you have children but I guarantee this costs much more than that

so lets take the best example that will fit your narrative: someone who earns 35k household in france. he'll get 2160 euros/year + tax rebate of 700 euros. that will be the government help he would get. I round it to 3k euros a year for a child...

now if your household earns 40k or more you'll get 700 euros rebate a year.

and if you earn much more the max is 1500euros from tax rebate. knowing that rich people send their kids to expensive childcare, schools, buy more expensive goods.

so for lower income families and people in midle class below 35k youll get 3k/year. knowing you need to move to a bigger apartment and seeing the cost of cities like paris your 3k euros are gone. so yeah. it is not worth it financially to have a child in France. EXCEPT if you are really poor and unemployed.

compare that to korea who now gives 755$ per month per child and has a similar economy size/salaries
>Epic is also a great company

No, it's not. It does the exact same shit that Activision does except it targets an even younger more vulnerable demographic. Did you forget about this? https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/12/245-milli...
Poor SK...
That is not at all necessarily true. We have another 5 billion years or so before the sun exhausts it's hydrogen and starts substantially changing.

Applying even current levels of intelligence and knowledge (nevermind projecting even hints of the growth rates over the last ~10K years since agriculture, writing, etc. started), that is more than sufficient to develop resources for interplanetary and interstellar travel.
Mastodon (both the software and the communities around it) is the first successful mammal in a world of dinosaurs.

The challenges highlighted in the post feel generally true but the conclusion of it being doomed doesnt follow.

What you have in the broader fediverse and its protocols is a alternative set of blueprints for building online interaction spaces. All transparent, open source and not predicated on obscene business models (gulping the planet's entirety of private data) in order to survive.

Dinosaurs will continue roaming the digital Pangaea for a while but it is their gene pool that is doomed. They actually face all the same issues in essence, but are considerably less nimble in coming up with viable adaptations.

Will people launching mastodon instances in vast numbers in five years? Will it be an elixir bonfire? Maybe a pythonic AI fediverse? I don't know what will evolve. But that meteor on the sky is harbinger of major changes coming up.
I use a .name address (a .name domain with a catch-all address), and have only once had it rejected by any automatic process. I've had a couple of humans question it, though.
That gets asked frequently https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&query=ask+gmail+s...

Best theory I've read is that sometimes Gmail needs to let some unclassified spam through and have users report it to get feedback on an algorithm change.
I have to say, I am slightly disappointed that the opening of Sokal's "Transgressing the boundaries" paper isn't immediately recognizable by an HN audience ...

oh well.
I did up thread.
I think an important part they left out is- if you want to make a lot of money, you need to optimize for money.

That means everything you do should have the goal of landing a higher paying job. Instead of studying things you find interesting, focus on learning skills that are frequently mentioned in job postings. Learning how to make your own compiler, for example, might not be the most profitable investment of your time.

To a salary-maximizer, work is simply a way to improve their resume. Before committing to a project, consider whether talking about that project will help you in an interview.

Most importantly, to make more money you need to constantly apply to better jobs even if you already have a high paying job you are happy with. This is where the majority fail, as most people won't apply for other jobs unless they are unemployed or unhappy. Some people are so deluded that they think they can get a better salary through promotions, simply by working hard at their current job, rather than through job hopping.
> The idea of a social network where almost all of your friend and family are on, is really something that started in the 2020'.

I would disagree with the timing here. I think the peak "everyone on one network" was Facebook in the early 2010's and since then the market has splintered to other social networks, sometimes along generational lines, others based on use case.
I've had math instruction at the undergraduate and graduate level at top universities, with good instructors that I liked, and I can say without question YouTube is superior. There are many channels with outstanding content. This video is not an outlier.
The problem you're describing isn't a lack of interest in facing cross platform/browser challenges, but rather substantial barriers to entry preventing developers from doing their job.

To test on Safari, you need a mac. That is a substantial cost. We assume it doesn't exist because we work at places that offer us macbooks (of note, all my teammates test on Safari because we easily can now), but when we are talking about the web at large this is a tremendous cost and is why so many websites are broken on Safari-exclusively (as opposed to both Safari and Firefox). So many websites, even from large companies, are developed by a handful of people, and their habits carry over. This establishes an expectation of not caring about Safari and all of its quirks, it gets relegated to "the user will just use another browser if it's broken".

For this problem to cease existing, Safari needs to be released on other operating systems. Until then, Safari will always be disregarded and untested.
- big duration of videos

- un-abstracting abstract concepts by creating concrete examples, which end up taking the focus away from the abstract version

- serial timeline, that is like a blackboard being constanty erased instead of adding to one big construction
Pound force is the unit for force. Pound mass is the unit for mass. Colloquially people say pound.for both of them
What do you mean? At least one of the cases was is routinely overblown to high heaven by people who hate the company and haven't actually read up on what happened.
Just listen to some music with spectrum visualization, this is a Fourier transform of what you are listening right now.
"The reality is people don’t want to pick their favorite community, running an instance is expensive and complicated, and owning your data isn’t a product feature."

This is the problem that affects all federated/decentralized projects. Same thing with Urbit. No one wants to keep their computer running 24/7 to support a network. and no one wants to bare the financial burden of paying for a server to host a community.
I agree. They are great fun to fly, and also very beginner friendly.
So it's Afghanistan again, then.
> also rarely injects this with a pretense of authenticity as Western media nearly constantly does

In other words, a show is just a show, instead of the way it is in modern Western media, which is being an instrument of social change first and only incidentally a show. The latter is exhausting.
It's Time to Build AI – UX
Maybe but the first party mastodon iOS client pails in comparison to the more professional offerings. I suspect the mastodon server would similarly pop in comparison to a more professional rewrite.

Remember they switched out the core engine of mongo as well (wild tiger) and then it became a lot less of a joke.
Well I suppose that in some sense you are right. You can do deep learning without even knowing any math at all, by plugging together libraries and frameworks that other people wrote.

Also maybe you will say that "higher" math is by definition a curiosity and if it's practical then it's not "higher".

But if those aren't your arguments, then you can consider one example that the tensor 'differentiable programming' libraries used in deep learning use automatic differentiation and matrix calculus. Matrices are taught in high school, and calculus is taught in high school, but matrix calculus generally isn't as far as I know. Or at least not at my high school. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_calculus
You know how to make account sharing really onerous? Mandatory MFA (and don't allow sane solutions like TOTP or U2F enrollments).

Or, you could mandate that every account must use a SSO identity service, like Google/FB/Amazon/Twitter. Then small-time account sharers would need to consider whether they should give away keys to the kingdom as well.
It's also worth pointing out that, so far, this is not the case. It may be prudent to be, well, prudent, but we're at an all time high in population and an all time low in absolute poverty. It's possible that more people is a factor in this, not less, and that those boundary conditions are never met.
Css is like sql. Doesn't need any kind of abstractions.
Speed limiters and automatic braking get most of the benefits without any need for hard AI problems. What AI promises is a way for governments not to have to take the heat for holding drivers accountable, but hundreds of thousands of people are being killed waiting for it to materialize.
His Neural Network vid is my favorite video on the topic.
> So if I don't get dividends, can't vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company's assets, what is the actual value in owning stock? Do I just wait for the share price to go up, sell at the peak, and pass my shares on to the greater fool? That's starting to smell a lot like the worst sort of crypto trading.

Basically. Classy gambling at this point.
While I'm not a supporter of death penalty, and the case as presented looks like a potential tragic lack of due process, I would like to bring up a counterpoint to an underlying perspective on drugs.

There's this undercurrent narrative in the Western world that laxer and more lenient stances on drugs will lead to better social outcomes. And based on this belief, pressure on other cultures to adopt the same mindset. But as far as I can tell, this belief, and its still nascent implementation, hasn't fully panned out and it feels to me like it might not be turning out for the best. And yet leniency toward drugs appears to be trumpeted as a solved question.

Without taking a position for or against lenient drug mores, I would like to just bring up the possibility that the current Western point of view might not be universal and also might not be what is actually turning out to be best. Legalization of mild drugs is still a new phenomenon and the effect it will have on societies will take decades to take effect.

I know this is probably an extremely unpopular line of thought, particularly amongst all my friends who disagree quite strongly. But it's a question on which I have changed my mind in recent years.
I'm a part of the StarCraft 2 community and we were similarly hopeful about this deal as StarCraft has been neglected by the company for years. The community was already in full doom mode over Korean tournament funding getting pulled, this is not going to improve the atmosphere.
Assuming those eyeballs would ever hit a legal streaming site.

By the time the content airs, the advertising money's mostly been made and traded already. In the terrestrial broadcasting world -- this is most definitely the case.
Disclosure: I work in GCP engineering, thoughts are my own and not Google's, etc.

My impression is that Anthos is probably not what you need if your use case is deployment of a managed product into customer GCP projects (or AWS accounts).

Instead, copy the P4SA architecture that GCP uses for managing its own services in your project. Create one service account per customer, and have the customer grant that service account whatever permissions your control plane needs to manage the resources deployed into the customer project.

You can package those permissions into a Role for easier use.

You can see how this works by looking at Google's existing P4SA permissions in one of your cloud projects. They show up in your cloud IAM console if you remove the filter for "Google-Managed Grants".
The latest fad I've noticed is subjecting movie-goers to 20 minutes of ads before even the previews start. The family and I hit a "mainstream" cinema to see the latest Dracula movie. We were in our seats by the posted start time. I was expecting the previews to start then. I mean, I know they're not going to start the movie at the time they say they're going to start the movie. But I was kinda surprised they waited 20 minutes before starting the previews.

If your business model is "we're going to make you pay to sit in a dark room and listen to uncomfortably loud advertisements," then I think I'll just stay at home and catch it on streaming.

I contrast that with seeing Cocaine Bear in an EXTREMELY janky theater. The kind that looks like it's been fully depreciated. It looks like they popped the popcorn a few weeks ago. I'm glad they never turned the light on in the theater, I didn't want to see what was on the floor.

But... they didn't pelt me with ads. When I walked in, there was cheezy music being piped in. I sort of worried the projector was broken, but a few minutes before the time the movie was supposed to start, the previews started. No ads, just coming attractions. And only about 5 minutes of them. The movie started more-or-less on time and I'm happy to report the sound system was not completely blown out.

So it seems like my choices are: Clean Theater but I'm not the customer, I'm the product or Sketch Theater, but it's clear they're not getting paid for my eyeballs. I think my preference is to watch the movie on my PC after downloading it from a torrent site.
> society is not getting a commensurate return on investment.

What investment is “society” making in tv shows and movies?
Not many can afford a career as short as 30 years, particularly average engineers making average salaries.
"COL adjustments are HR policy, not laws."

We're talking about federal jobs. Compensation is infact laid out in regulation. Stuff like a GS15 step 10 (top) has a set base number, but is then adjusted for duty location.
> On most days, I spend more time trying to enter 'the zone' than actually in it.

On a good day, it takes me about 20-30 minutes to enter "the zone", but only about 5 minutes of distraction to be pushed out of it. This is the main reason why I quit my job when they moved to an open-office layout. The constant disruptions were absolutely destroying not only my productivity, but my happiness.
Web Applets were pretty cool in theory at least, but a disaster in practice.

Also never fails to amaze me that if Adobe hadn’t been so lazy with making Flash performant on Mac, Steve Jobs wouldn’t have delivered the death blow. ActionScript was not a bad language!
GPT-4 Prompt: Please assist with providing English glosses for a German text. For phrases which are not easily interpreted word-for-word, please provide a gloss for the whole phrase. Otherwise, provide a gloss for each word. You may output the glosses as a list, one gloss per line, german on left, followed by an arrow (-->), and then the english gloss.

Here's some of the output:

Es --> It

war --> was

ein --> a

sonniger --> sunny

Tag --> day

im --> in the

Wald --> forest

und --> and

ein --> a

Mädchen --> girl

namens --> named

Lisa --> Lisa

ging --> went

spazieren --> for a walk

Sie --> She

hörte --> heard

plötzlich --> suddenly

ein --> a

Geräusch --> noise

und --> and

drehte --> turned

sich --> herself

um --> around

I was expecting "drehte sich um" to be grouped together, but I'm pleased with the glosses.

Note how "sich" is glossed with "herself". That's understanding the context properly. Much more useful than a dictionary definition of "sich". Similar for "sonniger" which Google translated as "sunnier" out of context.

EDIT: Note that GPT-3.5 gave me exactly the same glosses.
I genuinely don't understand this sentiment in 2023. Maybe in 2003 it was reasonable, but if you have the money, just spend it to buy the content you want. I get that there's a lot of "crap" that you don't want to see, but I appreciate some of that, and I'm sure you appreciate some of what I call "crap". I don't see how you go from that situation to justifying not paying for it. There's a price for the content and it's not $0. You can either pay it, or enjoy free things. There's so much content out there.

Can you offer a full throated defense of why you feel it's okay to pirate media in 2023, with so many options for consuming media legally, on whatever device, at any time? That was the dream of pirates in 2003, but we've achieved that dream legally today and it's still not good enough for the pirates it seems.
heavy metals in rice

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663342/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34073642/
My drone stayed without connection for more than a year already. Sure it politely says at startup that said zones need an update but other than that keeps functioning without a hitch.
It's weird how most small indy titles/studios on Steam seem to support Mac just fine but it's the big guys that seem (increasingly?) reluctant to do so!

Perhaps because small studios start with ready-made game engines that are already ported to Metal?
Read this as "Transformers in Scratch" at first and was very curious.

Obviously implementing transformers in Scratch is likely impossible, but has anyone built a Scratch-like environment for building NN models?
There is a duplicate sentence in your landing page.

> To use the AI technology from OpenAI/ChatGPT, you will need a key. For the first 100 questions, you can use our key. For the first 100 questions, you can use our key. ...
we gutted most of our manufacturing and outsourced it to china decades ago. we Let our entire non military manufacturing industry die on the vine so there isn't much of a culture of supply chain left.

blame harvard business school. The cumulative damage of their Alum to the american economy is astronomical
I'll probably keep my Mini 2 until someone has the semi-legal cojones to put a 4G transceiver in a drone. Now that would be some great fun.
Good luck monetizing it or even post the source code on GH and not be legally bullied..
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/12/porsches-synthetic-gaso...
Training an AI on an image would not be covered by fair use doctrine.
Microsoft acquiring Bethesda fixed none of their management issues; why would this be any different? Further, Microsoft lied to EU regulators about what they'd do with the Zenimax / Bethesda acquisition.
I wonder when the FTC is going to crack down on mobile gaming for this reason. Google and Apple profit tremendously from various companies targeting vulnerable demographics in their games.
The active tracking is very impressive (see this review, 10 mins in): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejmGSZtLu6I The way it flies sideways & dodges obstacles, even while the person is running all over the place, is awesome.
I haven't heard the phrasing "Upload to a GAN" before. It also doesn't seem to be defined in the sources at hand. Can you provide a source and/or definition?
> He had the most extensive mental catalog of the wrong ways people could understand and the failure modes of students.

Back when I used to teach math classes as a grad student, I realized that a teacher has to actively work to keep that "mental catalog" for students. The problem is that longer you are in the math world, the clearer the subject becomes. The result is that to you the teacher it really just becomes braindead obvious what's going on. As time goes on, you have to fight this "problem" more and more to keep touch with the issues your students are having.
Passkey objects on macOS are encrypted at rest within the iCloud Keychain sqlite database in Library/Keychains/*/. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt the keychain extraction tools that exist.

I don't know why you would want to though. Since (1) passkeys will rarely be a required nonreissuable credential, and (2) losing access to iCloud Keychain is extremely improbable. For many users, showing ID to a phone store clerk is sufficient for iCloud recovery. For others, it's using their laptop, a recovery key, or a recovery contact.
It would make sense as a service offered by banks. They already have to verify ID. They're usually required to take financial responsibility for their errors, too.
I host a weekly 80s/90s obscure movie night (mostly Hong Kong action Z-movies, Godfrey Ho and the like) and RARBG has come in surprisingly clutch. If the movie got a HK theatrical release it's the first place I look. Japanese stuff too.

Other surprising sources: Tubi which often has better quality video processing for the stuff where the VHS/DVD master is all that exists (protip: yt-dlp works), and Internet Archive where people upload all kinds of stuff, including Blu-Ray rips.

A ton of stuff is also on YouTube but it's often a low-quality master and/or edited for content so it's usually a last resort.
I get that it is a classic but arguing that understanding less words and examples in a book makes the message stronger is a tough sell.
Yes, and not really. Although childcare is not a barrier in our situation.
Brief reminder that Petapixel has had a noticeable bias during the rise of generative AI.
Hmm, that is a big difference, but if your program uses, say, 200MB, then I imagine it would be more like 208MB vs 242MB? But having lower overhead is still important for smaller things. Also I wonder how the memory usage is lower, is it because things are shared somehow?
We're on a 2.x version as well.

For us, it's just incredibly hard for us to justify the effort _and_ risk. Particularly, the risk.

Most of us have been burned by a major upgrade (either here or elsewhere) where things have broken in non-obvious, hard to test ways. This is particularly problematic in the dependency chain where support is limited. Breaking issues may turn us into unexpected maintainers of key libraries.
Ask HN: What are the top pains of software developers?
Other than finding work and office politics, what are your worst pains?
"Last Highway Landing" -- not!

Unless "of a commercial aircraft" is implied. Because a private plane landed on 280 (in the Bay Area) back in the 1980s. I actually met the pilot who did it; his engine threw a rod and he was not going to get back to Palo Alto Airport.

Fortunately, a freeway has plenty of room, if there aren't cars on it.
Honestly? Assume they collect everything, such as location, the pictures and videos taken (and not taken), flight paths (this one I know for sure), telemetry from the device and drone, etc. Even if they're not doing it now there's no reason they wouldn't in the future, they are basically a monopoly when it comes to consumer drones and they are in China, they don't give a ** about privacy.

Ironically, I do recommend them, they simply are the only option in the market right now and all of their drones have something interesting to offer.