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Ask HN: Remote Internship
Hi everyone!

A friend of mine is looking for a remote internship opportunity for the summer.

I am not familar with the places one has to look for one so I came to ask you if you know any good platforms he can sign up for or if you are awareT of any concrete offers.

He's based in Sofia, Bulgaria but he's studying CS in Linz, Austira right now. He's looking to work with C#, Java primarily. He's already gone through a 3 year bootcamp where he learned C#.

Thank you.
As an American who moved to the EU after having a child in the US, when I tell people we had to pay for our son on a payment plan, they cringe. Yes, we had insurance, but ironically, the calculated conception date was 2 days before we got insurance -- reality is that we got insurance when we decided to have a kid, so the calculated date is actually wrong. Thus, it was a pre-existing condition and insurance wouldn't cover it. True story.
There’s a really fundamental socio-economic change that nobody has touched upon here yet, as it’s such a slow one with such inertia it’s barely noticeable from the ground.

Having children used to be a profitable enterprise. You’d get married, bang them out one after another, hope that a decent number survived, raised them cheaply, and put them to work as soon as they were able.

Once, and if, they were grown, they would then be part of your family enterprise, be it subsistence farming, cobbling, scrivening, or lording, and would add value.

Now, having a child is a definite cost centre for the individual, for the family.

As healthcare, industry, and the idea of the nuclear family and the individual have developed over the last several centuries, birth rates have declined rather precipitously - if you are 40, you probably have one child, one sibling, at least two uncles or aunts per family side, and your grandparents probably have six siblings each.

You can see this process happening at various stages, in various parts of the world. It’s universal.

This is a long term trend, and it has been on the trajectory to where we are now for a long while.

It isn’t terribly problematic, to my view, as it hasn’t been previously.

Yes, it leaves an eldercare labour and pension gap, but if other trends in industrialisation and the decoupling of human effort from realised value continue, this will fill said gap.
AU is also very easy for me to understand as a lay person.
Here's another possible cause that I don't see mentioned: The spread of the internet removed a lot of the mysticism surrounding births and allowed any woman to look up how it's really going about. Some might simply not want to take the risk because potential complications during and after birth are manifold.
So I guess we can agree that emulation of current hardware and games that can run on current console hardware is not piracy by itself.
Rockfall danger: Swiss village evacuated
And yet here we are commenting on HN ;)
Well now you're assuming what I'm assuming, which is fair enough because I assumed by your comment that you were saying the UI responsiveness isn't really a concern in DAWs. It's definitely a secondary concern, but people are accustomed to buttery smooth UIs and complain when they're not.

That said, I'd argue that even latency is still a concern for things like meters. If they are noticeably out of sync with what you hear then users will again complain.
There was a funny diagram I sawed that presented the birth rate of my country and placed the launch of Tinder to the timeline. The same year Tinder was published the birth rate started going down. Most likely there are other better explanations for this but it made me think. How has the radical disruption of dating market affected the way people form relationships and start families?
I honestly don't get it, but I'm not an economist so I may be wrong.

Pensioners cost the state a lot, and in my naive understanding population growth - so more tax payers - has funded that for the last 100 years. Declining birth rates, and reducing immigration, reduces proportional tax income and therefor smaller pot for pensions and healthcare.

But as I said, not an economist.
> People don’t consume a finite set of resources, they create more.

Not at all, people don't create resources, we consume resources.

> As populations rise the net general standard of living goes up, not down.

As long as we believe in infinite exponential growth. Instead we are starting to hit the wall and it time to stop dreaming.
Only time I tried Groff was last year, because I liked the idea and the speed.

But couldn’t finish a single document, because by default accents in French or Chinese characters cause documents compilation issues.

Tried using mom, without much luck.

Wasn’t aware a secondary tool was needed to make it work, as Unicode is not supported by default.

On top of poor documentation, I gave up.
We werent talking about consumption reduction and similar. Decision to not have kids because earth may be not livable is infinitly more drastic
The probabilities (in form of log odds) can be directly accessed in the OpenAI playground, I believe. The "try again" approach would only work for temperature = 0, when the model always returns the tokens with the given probabilities. For temperature = 1 it always returns the token with the highest probability. Usually they use something like temperature 0.8 in ChatGPT, I think, which still biases the model toward the more likely tokens. In the playground the temperature can be set manually. (Again, for fine-tuned models, which are the majority, those are numbers are not probabilities but "goodnesses".)
> I dont know anyone that is seriously worried about this in such a way

In 20 years not, but it's reasonable to believe for anyone outside America and Central Europe that wide swaths of the planet - particularly the entirety of Africa and lots of Asia - will be unable to support human life.

Hell, we're already seeing issues with water supply even in Central Europe, with France restricting water consumptions because of drought [2], and Germany's water reserves are dwindling as well. India is suffering from a massive heat wave [1], and last year's devastation in Australia should still be in living memory.

Anyone who is not worried about the future of the planet is either ridiculously ignorant to reality or completely incompetent. And the worst thing is, politicians in power play down climate change, act like future technology (anything from nuclear fusion to desalination plants) will save us, or deny it entirely - and wide swaths to outright majorities of people believe that.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/17/weather-...

[2] https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/05/10/southern-france-re...
Overconsumption certainly is, and that's tied to population.
The formal end of the "one child policy" in China was only 2016.
I think you can still fork it if it's not free software, but it needs to be a private fork. I think that, unless they say they are distributing their software on certain conditions, just copyright alone wouldn't prevent you from modifying the code for personal usage.
I asked it how to destroy a goverment, you could see my dissapointment when it answered the following:

> I'm sorry, but I cannot provide you with information on how to destroy a government. My primary function is not to promote or advocate for any violent or harmful activities. I suggest you focus on more constructive and positive endeavors that contribute to the betterment of society.
I have walked down a street named Wall in NYC but I've never been to Wall St and I know nothing firsthand about the culture there. I have, however, participated in very petty childhood and teenage crimes with other troubled boys, was a buyer of controlled substances for decades, and have been a gigging musician for periods of time, so I've been around criminality.

One thing about every crime that involved more than one perpetrator that I know about is, there is a period of conspiring beforehand, which happens - must happen - away from the eyes of others. I encountered many weed dealers over the years who just used their cellphones as convenient appointment books/ledgers for the police, and I tended to not go back to them, cause they'll be out of business soon anyways.

If you put a bunch of people controlling large sums of money in a single floor of an office building, it will be very easy to gather in a bathroom stall and plan the execution of any sort of crime over a few rails. They're basically being forced into it, because the environment itself guarantees obscene and ubiquitous graft.

If they necessarily must communicate over digital means, they still can do it, there's plenty of ways to get encryption that works well enough to evade the pigs. But how many of these guys are actually smart enough to implement that? Most of them are going to assume that people smarter than them are keeping an eye. I connect to a remote desktop for work, and I take it for granted that they have my laptop's camera on when I'm connected. Because the light is on. Bet theirs is on too. It is probably more terrifying to them than Big Brother to Winston Smith. Any eye is terrifying to a criminal, and these fellows, they are still criminally-minded, they are just denied the crucial quiet, dark spaces in which to plan, so they are finding ways to stay happy with merely a million or two per year, with maybe a trip once or twice a year to plan a big score.

If the USA really wanted to fix this, they would put every one of these people in a room by themselves and never let them talk to each other unless they're working for the same client I suppose. From home or at the office doesn't matter, but they should have twenty microphones around them at any moment they are working, each one monitored by a committed Marxist who would just love to hand them over to The State for Processing.
I always think most of mathematicians is genius. They can hold all concepts and relationships between thems in their mind.

The result is the way they explain concepts to broader audience mostly failed. Abstract nonsense for no purpose.

I'm fine with it... until i see the application to learn more about theory.
At the press conference they asked if it could be triggered by humans instead of waiting for it to happen like avalanche prevention but the issue is that you can't just drop a bomb from the air or fire at it like an avalanche. You would need to drill holes to place explosives and at this point it is way to dangerous.
In fact, there's an inverse incentive at play here. Slack is on the hook for missed SLA, so any admission of issue is legally and financially culpable. This means they don't want to admit to an issue until it's impossible to deny there is one.
Ive seen crazy stuff on the internet too!

But until I or you manage to meet at least one person with such approach, then I do recommend to do not take it seriously
The mobile UI is just lacking all around. There are a ton of features that just don't seem to exist. Searching inside a repository? Nope. Browse files of a given commit? No chance. There's a bunch more, but both of those bother me very frequently.
Are you being sarcastic? If I'm making a painting and someone wants to start scribbling on it, am I selfish for not allowing them?
>if the people that care about the environment stop having children that means the people that are passing on their life outlook are mostly ignorant of the environment.

That argument seems rather doubtful to me.
Many people are living genuinely precarious lives. Some are well aware of it, others haven't quite realised it yet or are firmly in denial about it.

Humans don't breed when their own lives are precarious and it's rational and realistic to assume the lives of their kids will be even more so.

I see no mystery here.
> If you aren't living together with regular partner taking next step of getting kid rarely happens.

Hard to live together with your partner if you're living with roommates (or worse, parents) because you can't make rent or can barely afford a 20 m² micro apartment.
If we're talking about mortality salience, then there's quite a lot of evidence that mortality salience predicts a greater desire to have children, which is the opposite to what you're suggesting.

From an evolutionary point of view, this seems plausible. Obviously not having children because 'life is hard' is almost certainly dysgenic.
Marriage is only worse, but having kids without marriage comes with most of the same risks and inequalities. Like what are the chances that the father gets custody?
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What does "Stolen phones should mostly not exist" mean? People steal stuff all the time, that's reality.
From your perspective, do you think there's a good possibility the USA will improve the living conditions of our generation and the zoomers? I'm very skeptical and that's why I don't live there anymore, but I'm curious about those who are sticking it out. Is the hope that there'll be some kind of political change, a slow shifting to more progressive politicians?
That old trick….
I always thought this type of argument assumes that the immigrants will magically locate and fix societal problems that lead to the decline as they integrate, and that that would be an unreasonable expectation.

Could this be saying that future dystopian megalopolises should sustain own existences by capturing free-ranged humans roaming wastelands, promise them successes and citizenships, and then letting them die without offsprings?
> That feels actually anti-rational, since if the people that care about the environment stop having children that means the people that are passing on their life outlook are mostly ignorant of the environment.

This assumes that parents successfully pass on their life outlook to their children, but if that were true then society would have never changed.

I don't share the life outlook of my parents.
It's still piracy because it's not a direct copy from your legally owned game.
>Anyone who is not worried about the future of the planet is either ridiculously ignorant to reality or completely incompetent.

Worrying here was reflected by drastic actions. Not worrying didnt mean not worrying at all.
The UK's government is, frankly, gone nuts. They complain about no one picking fruits from fields and empty supermarket shelves, they don't want immigration, they don't want population growth, and they don't want imports from the EU.

All of that doesn't add up even in the slightest to anything that makes sense.
Eventually all wealth will end up with fewer and fewer people until the system completely collapses. Debt burden is just another instance of the rich making themselves even richer at the expense of working people - this year tax payers are expected to pay over $660bn to rich people in interest payments.

There needs to be some way of taxing the ultra rich effectively to be able start balancing the books. Every time this is discussed people start talking about high earners and never about the types of people lending the government hundreds of millions of dollars.

For example the average tax rate paid by the top 400 wealthiest people in the US was just 8.2% (2010-2018) and that is on additional income not the billions they already have. Let's not get started with Trusts handed down generationally to avoid inheritance tax completely.
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There was no question to be answered.

You responded to an opinion which compared the relative elegance of two scripting languages with your own opinion.

I also provided an opinion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-...
I wasn't aware of __builtin_unpredictable until yesterday. I was aware of __builtin_expect_with_probability. Unfortunately I've found both of them to be essentially useless with today's compilers.
Reminds me of a place where every screen, dialog and domain object was specified in a single table with hundreds of fields that could only be accessed or changed via a custom app that looked like a primitive DOS spreadsheet app, and often contained pointers to other objects in this table via their line number "pointer". There was a week-long training course when I joined just to explain how this worked.

Oh, and everything in the app was done via messages which were again specified by their line number in the same table as above and processed by a single ginormous switch statement with huge amounts of fall-through being used which led to messages being dealt with in whatever arbitrary order made that work, and which often then sent their own messages in a recursion hell.

They were part-way through updating the app to Win32 when I joined, and apparently gave up that project after I left in 2001, to a new job where the world of Java applets running on the Microsoft JVM seemed like a whole new modern world.
This is not the same category of machines, it's too big.
Same, but with long walks instead of gym time!
Deleting the content of an inactive account is bad.

Deleting the whole account so that it cannot be reactivated by the owner is worse.

Making the old account available again for anyone to register is disastrous.

Which is it that they’re planning to do?
I mean, disregarding "love" and whatnot, at least in the US, there are lots of bureaucratic benefits to it.

I'm not religious or anything, so a wedding in itself doesn't mean a lot to me, but my wife and I got married in no small part so we could share health insurance, help with her immigration, and lower our tax burden. I don't regret the marriage, I trust my wife, and we've been pretty happy for the last eight years.
There are two kinds of status pages. Those that show you red when the service is up (automated) and those that show you green when the service is down (manual and automated) - or some mix of those two. You don't want made up information too, so for the manual one you'll get some delay for the analysis of the situation.

Your actions are extremely unlikely to change if the downtime is for less than half an hour. So what exactly do you expect to happen here?

(Yes, I got annoyed at a thousandth comment that essentially says the status update is not instantaneous and perfectly reflecting the situation)
I don't know why it does but the evidence is pretty clear that it does. Look at arm vs x86 today.
Welcome to Germanys Landgerichte (State Courts). Sony probably knew, that this judge would rule in their favour (former rulings, of old age, ...).
Now the defendant has to appeal the ruling, which costs a lot of money and time.
There’s a movement called birthstrike with people who are refusing to have kids because of concerns around climate change:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/mar/12/birthst...
> The 85th percentile speed is [...] one of the best indicators of a [...] safe speed

That does seem like a gross oversimplification. 15% of the cars driving through a neighbourhood at 40Miph/65kmph or faster doesn't make that speed a safe speed for that neighbourhood.
There's no common law tradition in germany. Courts are not required to follow precedents.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Germany#Comparative_law
I can see the reviews in my head already:

1 star: No WiFi, no windows, no hot water

1 star: dusty

1 star: aliens didn't abduct me :(

5 stars: lots of storage room for my luggage

4 stars: service good, but had weird dream about a furry weighing my soul against a feather

1 star: aliens did abduct me :(

2 stars: nice views, but smells of camel
Musk has said he wants to put them in Tesla factories first. The humanoid setup was chosen because working stations are designed for humans
It reduces the amount of young people however no?

If people have children in their early 20's, is conceivable that by the time of their deaths at least 3 generations of their descendants would be alive.

If they instead choose to have descendants in their late thirties, only their children would exist, and perhaps their grandchildren would be in their early infancy.

I know many people that don't even want to have children, and even among the ones that do want, most push it to their late thirties, and stop at 1.

I don't really think it's a problem. It's just how life nowadays is set up, for economic, professional, sociological, and cultural reasons.
> Alas, the site that inspired me doesn’t seem to exist anymore, but basically, it was a grad student who was procrastinating as I do and had decided to write their thesis in groff.

I believe the site referenced was a blog post I wrote and submitted here in July. Unfortunately the post's popularity used up the free trial it was hosted on. The post can now be viewed here: https://yockyrr.gitlab.io/jstutter/ with original comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202209
> Once, and if, they were grown, they would then be part of your family enterprise, be it subsistence farming, cobbling, scrivening, or lording, and would add value.

> Now, having a child is a definite cost centre for the individual, for the family.

I get what you're saying, but I mean nowadays it's not like they grow up as a purely sunk cost... A fairly-average-in-all-industrious-matters child will get a job and make an income, and there's a good chance the child will produce more than the input cost. It's up to the family if they're going to share that total wealth with each other though.

In fact, compared to before, there might be even more opportunities for children to increase that "return on investment", if you really want to think that way.
Based on the notifications I've been getting all morning, I can say for sure it isn't.
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I'm German anyway so I can't say much about the US - but given that Trump of all people still has more popular support in the polls than Biden has, and the average age of Congress members continuously rising? No chance.

For Europe? It's not as bad but still bad - we share the same issue, too many gerontocrats in power and the Boomer generation will dominate voters for the next 15-20 years given they enter pensioner age now and will probably live to age 80-85.
Er … for those potential parents already living at the economic margins, where having a child would be a demonstrably poor decision, then just having children and consuming less would help them or their children how?

Indeed, who is to say that the perpetuation of one’s family tree is at all desirable or necessary?

Maybe the best outcome is not to play the game at all.
Making the four-day week work for Britain
I love this! I totally get it. If it was commercially available it's something I would definitely be interested in.

I also know some pretty serious photographers working with large format black and white film. I think they would be interested in something like this.

I think they would consider the eInk its own medium and try to shoot stuff that suits it in particular.
There is one counter example to your position that immediately comes to mind: architects! If you create something, the primary driver should be its users, and not your ego. I believe there should be a law which mandates that architects need to stay at least 5 years in every building they "design" so that they actually see and feel the consequences of their work. Art might be a different issue, but just because someone is creative does not free them from the responsibility to build something useful! If the user experience is no fun, the user has every right to complain.
People forget all the reasons gay marriage had to be fought for; no matter how solid a relationship is, the external privileges of having that status recognized matter.

(Also, few of the posters in this subthread are looking at the woman's side of the game theory)