skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> (Although the actual syntax of `if __name__ == "__main__":` is IMO utter trash and it amuses me that a language so obsessed with getting rid of symbols and looking like pseudocode decided that such cumbersome, obtuse and ugly looking boilerplate was just fine.)

This reminds me of when I tried learning Ruby. The tutorial I read started by talking about how elegant and beautiful Ruby could be, and how easy it is to read and understand Ruby at first glance, even if you’re new to it. Then they explained that the toString method in Ruby is called `.to_s()` and that lambda arguments were surrounded by pipe characters and I was like “wat”.
> The repo isn't even linked in the X post

It's a thread of 4 tweets. Twitter has a limit of 280 characters per tweet, so usually people split their text into multiple tweets. The link is in the 4th one, as you might expect.

https://nitter.net/milosstanojevic/status/168889655879052083...
Why do you think it exclusively a Japanese problem? Nearly every western nation is experiencing the same set of trends, Japan just happened to get their first.

One part of the problem is that this is so compartmentalized. If you work at a place where people have children... they all have children for the most part. If you work at a place where they don't have children, then nearly all of them are childless (or have just the one). Same for non-work social lives.

This means there's some significant fraction of people who look around them and can't notice that it's happening here in the US too, their own personal experience contradicts the trend too thoroughly for them to believe it to be some sort of fluke.

In Japan, at a guess, I'd say that exact nature of the discouragement, they just keep putting the pressure on that "here are the 10,000 things you must do first" until children become an impossible achievement.
Leos are generally given the “heroic/action-y” tropes, so if you are, for example, trying to pick Major League Baseball players, astrology could help a bit.

Right for the wrong reasons is still right.
The OP has a slightly different prompt -- so this answer wouldn't qualify.

"System: You are a helpful assistant that generates SVG drawings.
You respond only with SVG. You do not respond with text.

User: Draw a unicorn in SVG format. Dimensions: 500x500.
Respond ONLY with a single SVG string.
Do not respond with conversation or codeblocks."
Verizon is remarkably good at this.

Under the stewardship of Yahoo and Verizon, Tumblr has lost a whopping 99.8 percent of its value: https://www.extremetech.com/internet/296569-verizon-sells-tu...
not necessarily, it may send them an email inviting them to create an account with control of your account.
The settlers brought the lottery to America. It's had a long, uneven history
Feeling frustration about something not working is a normal part of software development. Reporting a bug, or choosing not to use that software are normal too. Making a public video trashing the work of 100s, using the language he did, is a meltdown.

I've worked on public software before, and it's left me with an extremely low opinion of this kind of behaviour, and the kind of people that show it.
One of the best things you can do to make your life significantly better is to figure out how long it would take you to get a job that you could survive with, then save enough many in the bank to be able to live that long without trouble.
My hot take, as we approach the equilibrium population in the world (perhaps the sustainable carrying capacity), fertility rates will naturally decrease. Some countries have already exceeded their equilibrium populations; therefore, their fertility rates will decrease below replacement rates for some time until they reach equilibrium (which is not 0, which fearmongers may promote). As climate change progresses, it may be the equilibrium population is even lower than we expect right now.
there is no technical reason why you couldn't unbolt openai interface and bolt in llama. Moreover, once you have this, you need only load the model into memory once. emulating different agents would be handled exclusively through the context window sizes that llm's expect. each agent would just have its own evolving context window. roundrobin the submissions. repeat

what's crazy to think about is what new things will become possible as the context window sizes creep up.
$ qalc 10W*(8h/day)*1year to kWh
zsh: bad pattern: 10W*(8h/day)*1year
$:1 noglob qalc 10W*(8h/day)*1year to kWh
(10 watts) × (8 hours/day) × (1 year) = 29.22 kW·h

Amazing. I use qalc frequently and you just improved my life, thank you!
Why doesn't the government pay for the time spent raising children (for example at 3x minimum wage), and cover expenses (e.g. rent, food, clothes, education, school uniform etc.)? I think then for some women it would be more profitable to raise kids rather than work at Walmart for example.

If that is too expensive for the budget then you could grant citizenship to families with many children from developing countries.
It is possible, and desirable and meritorious; for people to agree with each other over some cause, and work together to further their shared goals. They may well disagree about other things and work in opposition to each other in those areas, without drama in the area where they do work together.

This is not some pleasant fantasy of how the world might be. It is this way for many, and they live better lives because of it. If someone is a "feminist" and you are not, it doesn't mean you can't enjoy being fans of the same sports team. We've got a passion for orthdoxy in society lately that has been making people forget this, somehow.
As another dual citizen

1) At the end of the day, no one told Pakistan military what to do about journalists, media, kidnappings, etc.

2) Ukraine sold Pakistan battle tanks in the 90s when no one else would and also took Pakistani side on Kashmir. If this was the result of “interagency consultations” people in the Foreign Office need to find new jobs
> we consider the height of a Minifigure (4 cm) to be equal to the average human height (170 cm), we can define a LEGO/human ratio of 1:42.5.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Dimensions-of-a-LEGO-bri....

Taking that into account I’d say the scale model would maybe be somewhere around 1:32 of the real size (because Lego pieces have a fixed size so you can’t scale everything perfectly).

The real life Concordes are ~62 meters long, have a wingspan of ~26 meters, and are about 12 meters high.

So at this scale the Lego model would be roughly 2 meters long, approx. 82 cm wide, and somewhere around 40 cm tall.

For comparison, the Lego millennium falcon has dimensions 84 x 56 x 21 cm.

The real question, I think, is how true to life we require the model to be. Like, the amount of details in it.

I could see the 1:32 Lego Concorde costing less than the Lego Millennium Falcon, if some sacrifices were made in detail.

So, maybe a price of somewhere around $500 USD could be achievable?
The theory may be “breaking down” but is gravity? That was the title’s confusing implication.
Bit disingenuous here. Concorde faced several real issues. Shockwaves from going supersonic restricted flight paths. Costs were massive and the number of seats were limited, as was the total customer base, meaning it was always going to be a struggle to make it profitable. Sure, the Air France incident sped up its demise -- but it was on the way out anyway.
Nothing wrong with Lego releasing a product that will make money, but I question if any kids today know about Concorde let alone care.
The best theory I've heard is that it was a charlatan filter: asking someone if they can do something known to be impossible. If they reassure you it can be done, you know it's a scam.

That MP could have been making reasonable use of the filter for an era in which a learned person would know that such a machine should be possible, but not if technology is there yet.
Jerry Thompson: How Photography Works
Sure, and I support that, but the usual documentation of performance reviews, OKRs, etc aren't enough? (I don't know how any of this works, having not worked a real job.) Surprised management is so eager to automate their own jobs.
How a single dev is working 10 jobs thanks to automation and AI
hierarchize would be a better term than generalize
Yea what teenager feels isolated especially during lock down /s
I predict that fertility will remain below sustainable levels
due to housing market being concentrated in fewer hands
If you want to go with the a different hobby and have $3800USD lying around, there's the flying RC model Concorde.

It's 11 feet long.

https://www.turbines-rc.com/en/concorde/2019-hm-modelltechni...
They're likely understaffed. They're also going to want to know why you're using it. My colleagues have had a case of someone downloading some program which was doing something that was already provided. Turned out "ours" was missing some features, so they've changed that.

It can also work as a deterrent. If you know you're going to have to fill out a form, maybe you won't download random stuff unless you actually need it.
Interesting that HN was able to DDOS a Google service
Absolutely I have tons of Lego UCS, Modular City, and other model sets but 7ft scale is absolutely incompatible with my house. I have the UCS Falcon and Star Destroyer and those are just barely allowed to stay out of storage because the Falcon is on an angled 3rd-party display stand and the Star Destroyer found an unused corner to sit in.
Different countries use different methods so you can’t use this as a comparison.
“ The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in their sources and method of calculation.”
> This is completely false.

It isn't completely false. You're doing super limited stuff as a hobbyist that barely works.
You think kids are the ones buying $200 lego sets?
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please state the value prop of doing that?
It is amazing/scary how wide the gulf in comprehension between the parents and non-parents of the world is becoming. Both groups can reasonably argue the other is being selfish as part of some core moral failing, and both seem to consider their choice of group membership to be the universal cure to the woes afflicting the other.

Then you have those who genuinely have no choice stuck in the middle of this nonsense.

Ultimately society is going to have to accept some higher proportion of people being childless than in the 19th century, and work out how to maintain an appropriate balance that enables everyone to have a shot at actually leading a fulfilling life without the moralising in either direction getting to critical mass.
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If you take the inside view and look inside Uber, you might find that they handle each specific edge case according to specific rules.

But taking the outside view, you don't need to know all the specifics. You can just check Uber's general reputation (or lack thereof perhaps) for fair dealings with drivers. That general reputation will reflect how they are dealing with those edge cases in general.

Just like in the 2010s you could be reasonable certain that a job at Google meant you got free food, even if you didn't know the exact specific rules about what food would be available when and where.
The asymmetry in DPRK prevents overthrow by the citizenry. It would need to happen by a coup / military overthrow. Read a book by an escapee and you'll see that DPRK will execute people in the streets which keeps the populace under control.
I'm probably a bit older than you, my peer group is either having kids or they are never going to have kids. We are on that precipice.

The people who really don't want kids, the ones sterilizing themselves, are all depressed. They have miserable lives. They aren't traveling and having great vacations, they aren't becoming CEOs, they aren't living in the lap of luxury. They're mostly alone.

Oddly, the people who have kids travel a lot more despite it being much harder with a kid. We have a lot of family demanding we visit and who wants to visit. We have a lot of things to show the kids.

The folks with kids are generally the ones with more illustrious careers, the ones higher up the food chain. Some of that may be that it's easier to have kids when you have more money.

Wealth is not just money. It is the whole of your circumstance. Your home and whether you want to be in it, whether you like your life partner, and how your family unit gets along. You need enough money for things of course.

Your theory sounds great on paper, but I don't think it holds up.
A Half-Million Americans May Have Tick-Linked Meat Allergy, CDC Says
there's plenty of tools for safe outputs now in LLMs, that would never do this. They probably just rolled out a half hazard non pro level solution that used a non RLHF model
Crafting Generative AI Apps with WebAssembly
Exploring a rebuild of LangChain with Extism
> And no, most progressives are not working class, and basically none of them are lower class. That's pure vanity; the belief that you, a wealthy person, stand as a tribune for a group of people you yourself are not a part of. A group you're imagining in your mind.

Sorry, but that's simply 100% wrong. I know enough progressives from the strata you're talking about to disprove that anecdotally - you'd have to show me data to convince me otherwise.

> Waiters and bartenders, for instance, are not progressives. They're either anarcho-syndicalists or they want to own the bar.

This shows how much you're simplifying the world. No, not literally all waiters and bartenders fall into one of those camps.

> No one, but I mean no one, wants to live in the world imagined by upper-middle-class whites wherein "equity" means we should all give up stuff for people with [spew of bullshit about "disproportionately climate challenged communities of historically marginalized buzzword buzzword bullshit"]. That's just you. The rest of us, like immigrants? We think you're fucking ridiculous.

Given what you write here I don't think it makes sense to continue this conversation. Have a nice day.
https://archive.ph/guDNo
Why so many people love vim? I have a genuine question. I was trying to delete contents of a file and paste new content. It was nightmare for me to remember the 3 or 4 finger combination shortcuts with small and cap letters involved during the process. I like if the shortcuts using Ctrl or shift or Alt or Command or Windows buttons over 3 finger with caps changing keys. The cognitive load in remembering shortcuts is nightmare. Please give me a genuine opinion and justification. Does it really makes someone that productive? If they are keyboard wizards to type faster can't they do even faster with modern ides with similar proficiency. I know this topic is near and dear to many. Especially, the creator is died and folks can get even emotional. But I have same complaints about any terminal based ides. I just don't get complex long form keyboard shortcuts!

Edit: typo
Ask HN: Competitor is playing dirty with us. how would you response?
Woke up in the morning to discover that one of our competitors had chosen to release a blog post with more than 10 lies and misconceptions about our product. Given that our market is still relatively small and our product is well-known, with all its features advertised, it's quite clear that this is a direct attack against our product strategy, aimed at undermining some of our potential leads. How would you respond to this?
I would need to migrate my chunky config files. Some issues should be easy (moving files to ~/.config), some other trickier (vim-specific functionality).

But alas, the motivation is not big enough for me to invest the effort.

Some features I'd like from Neovim are built-in LSP (but Vim has that thank to plugins), and tree-sitter based syntax highlighting.

That's not enough for me to move to Neovim.
Is HN the new sudoku? Haha.
Why should anyone use your free plan without backups? Your service is nothing but liability and vendor lockin. That mentality is why won't even pay for your service. By making backups of premium tier you effectively hold free-tier data hostage through liability.

Once the user becomes invested in the free tier it's impossible to migrate the data out of your service or self architect backing up that data without significant risk with a complicated stack. The whole entire point is to have secure and reliable experience. You need to restructure the free tier to maintain profitability but include backups. Heck you could even limit the free plan with 2 backups
This is for the kids parents
Do you work at AMD and therefore have some kind of insight that we don't? Based on my own experience it's much more likely the call was just a marketing exercise, completely orthogonal to actual development.

Gfx drivers are complicated, long term projects. They're not something that get fixed with a phone call.

He found a bug, and made a bunch of noise about it. No need to make it more than it was.
The ad literally says "Adults welcome". This product is for adults, not kids.
>couple in our late 30s who decided not to have kids

I fear for people who choose this path. Being childless in your 30s sounds like a blast. But that's just one stage of your life. How fun is life going to be when you're 40+? Or when your health begins to decline? Maybe it will be worth it, maybe not. When I visit older relatives who are childless (at least to me) their lives come off as hollow and sad.
This assumes that someone trained it on non edible items. That is a reasonable assumption, but it is also easy to see how the product developer overlooked it.

TBH, there's often a huge chasm between product planning and real world users at companies and organizations like this.
Commercial flop because the US banned it for "reasons"

There was ban that was quickly overturned. The ban was not for "reasons," the issue was noise pollution and it is a legitimate issue. A lot of working is going into NASA's X-59 project[0] to make overland commercial SST more practical.

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/specials/Quesst/
Now answer? Are you fucking kidding me? You think I’m going to follow your orders? Are you really stupid or do you just have poor social skills?
What in the Bible is at odds with gravity?
It seems these are all structural problems that Japan can address directly.

Universal child care, family leave might help.

Still, I look at the generation younger than me in the US and see them in the same spot. We’d already be in their situation if it weren’t for immigration.
> My hot take, as we approach the equilibrium population in the world (perhaps the sustainable carrying capacity), fertility rates will naturally decrease.

We already surpassed that point of equilibrium long ago. Humanity is now consuming 1.7 Earths of resources every year. Some countries like the US consume a lot more than that.

https://www.overshootday.org/how-many-earths-or-countries-do...
That's precisely the point of their comment though. There's more context than just how long Netflix was open. It's not a "bad look" if it's literally how you do your job and are productive.
Just because someone owns the hardware doesn't remove your right to privacy (neither morally nor legally in the UK/EU).
Lego is really killing it with all of their sets more aimed at Adults lately (they have been for a while, but seems like there is an increase lately).

Pac Man, Giant Disney Castle, all of the space ones (including the recent rover), and others. I am quickly getting a backlog of lego sets to build with how big these are.

Not personally a plane guy, but this does look really cool and if I was I would likely quickly buy it.
More word salad.
Lego has a lot of products that are less "kids toys" and more "low entry model making" or "3D puzzles". At the Lego stores, the two are in separate sections.

(Not that a kid cannot buy a "serious" set and that an adult can't buy a "whimsical" set.)
To me, the recent breakthroughs in generative AI seem as big as when the Internet or the smartphone became generally available.
What's so different about kids these days that would make them not be interested in cool planes?
Because you think “any kids today” are the ones who requested and built Saturn V models, a rocket which last flew in 1973?
If you presented that image to a random 100 people and asked them what it is, would a substantial number of them say “a unicorn”?
Also - should the thing we optimise for in a language be how easy it is to learn? You learn a language in a small fraction of the duration you will actually use it for.
I'm wondering if those who have hundreds of tabs open in their browser suffer from a similar condition
Same.

We're in our late 30s and are definitely not having any.

That said, I believe that a couple that is 1000% sure they want to have children and know what they are getting into should absolutely do it. The issue is that there are so many parents/future parents locked into the "you'll never be ready" or "you can never be too sure" mentality and fail to fully grasp what you're sacrificing and leaving behind when you become a parent.
They won't have a "smeagull" role, and a "john" role, etc. If you're a dev in a dev shop, the "dev role" could cover a sizeable number of people.

In my company's case, they do have roles. The "accountant" role has like 60 people. They're all doing mostly the same thing, so it wouldn't make sense to have 60 accountant1..60 roles.
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Don't mention the Americans in the middle east.
Fast.com frequently tells me speeds that cannot exist. Why yes, I am definitely getting 1.2gbps over this gigabit Ethernet and 940mbps Internet connection.
My two best friends are both sons of hoarders. One of the dads is a full "the city is gonna condemn your place for being uninhabitable" hoarder that could have easily qualified to be on the Hoarders TV show; the other is more like "has too much stuff and is too reluctant to get rid of it". Unfortunately, both of my friends have inherited their dads' traits.

I offer to help out and often remind them that "the stuff you own eventually owns you".
"They need to use the bathroom and eat."

You put food in a bowl and leave it on the floor. They eat it when they are hungry. It's quite simple...

Bathroom? If you feed them at the same time every day, the usually go to the bathroom at the same time every day. You build habits. They go out before you go to work, and then when you come home, they go out and relieve themselves.

There are also grass pads for smaller dogs that can be left inside the home.

These are not difficult problems.

"They make noise and destroy things"

If yours does, you have a sh*tty dog that probably isn't being taken care of correctly.

Most cared for dogs just sit around, sleep, and wait for their owners to get home.
A poverty mindset mixed with a surplus of things available to people creates hoarders. When someone without a lot of money gets something for free or very cheap, even if they don't end up using it very often, they don't want to throw it out, because if they need it later they will not be able to afford to replace it at full price. Sometimes the behavior can persist even when the person eventually gets money. They become used to living that way, and keep preparing to be poor again even after their fortune has changed.
The point is you don't remember them, they become second nature, intuition, and you just sort of... do it without thinking. Assuming you've given time to learn it, editing with vim takes less mental effort and is faster.