skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had these general impressions as a guy who started out with PHP who didn't know much at the time:

Python really presented itself as a general purpose language for me. For example, as a language that could do a lot of the general scripting that you could do with Bash could but using a language that is much, much easier to read. Even though I can write it better now and appreciate how much faster it runs, at the time I had a really hard time writing and understanding Bash scripts.

Ruby on the other hand, almost seemed as a language you had to learn as a pre-requisite to get to use Ruby on Rails. But if you did not care about Rails, then there was little incentive to learn it. Since I already used PHP for the web and had lots of experience with its respective frameworks (like Symfony) I did not feel the need to double up on a web language / framework combo.

And, yes I know it is used in other frameworks/software but the perception that I had at the time was that Rails was the most popular use case for it.

But then when Python really solidified itself for me as the truly general purpose language was seeing it as the language behind projects like Pandas, Numpy and Ansible for example and being able to use that software no problem.

And all this in spite of the fact how readable both of them were and the fact they both have great package managers.

So all those things being equal I chose to learn Python because it seemed like I get more out of it beyond web development.

I will say this about Rails though, Ruby on Rails is one of the most influential web frameworks of all time and Laravel borrowed so much from it.
> The increase in demand drives up the price of offsets,

Except there are limits which the demand, for the most part, can't overcome.

> Im lumping in things like direct air capture, bioenergy carbon capture and storage,

All of these things are energy intensive, aren't they? So as energy becomes more expensive, so do they. Demand never gets quite so high that it's worth it to pay for this, because the price is always rising. There's another alternative in such situations... "just don't buy carbon offsets". The PR hit's cheaper after all.
Oh no, what will all of the lazy babies do now to be dazzled by nonsense?
The hard problem is defining censorship. 1a is applied pretty damn broadly in general - think Citizens United.

But even if you take a more narrow definition of it (ask your government to change its ways), does that mean you can stand outside your Congressman's house at 1am with a megaphone?

Would it be censorship to stop that?
Can confirm. In Germany, recipients of a US visa often complain that their title isn't used on the visa, only their name. Especially PhD visa applicants.
Many people feel this way in their mid 20s, it often changes when you hit your early to mid 30s.

Most of us don't believe that it'll happen to us either. :)
Why would it? It's not worth using.
Yeah, thought so. I'd personally go through that in an hour. MVNOs are great but only if you barely use the service and don't care about getting throttled at peak times.
> That's all ignoring the: do you actually care at all if your great grandchildren have a habitable planet?

Their great grandchildren will be able to comfortably inhabit it alright, that's all that matters to them, at the very best.
If people in a country are just substitutable like that by people from other countries without anything of any importance being lost, then we don't need to care for per-country replacement rates, just global ones. Except if the concern is purely economic.
There is no “bouncing back”
Can't go wrong with a Thinkpad X1 Carbon. Perhaps look into one of the previous generations if the newer ones are too pricy. They have great Linux support, and I suppose they're thin enough. I'm hoping to get one at some point.

I'm running Arch/i3 on a Thinkpad X13, it's decent enough for most dev work.
I agree, it's not surprising given birth control and economic pressures to join the workforce, but it is new and distinctly modern, and writing it off as "some people just don't want kids" isn't a satisfactory explanation.

Something is deeply wrong in a society if it has all of the social safety net tools, like Finland does, to ease the burdens of childbearing and people still choose to not do it. It's a society in a slow, generations long suicide.
...there are studies from pre 2000 showing resistance development. So: Yes.
The fall of Babylon: failed tele-health startup once valued at $2B goes bankrupt
neverland doesn’t have a need for geriatric medicine.

you can have a ton of fun for a large portion of the rest of your life, and hopefully something happens such that later life care won’t be a concern. robot caretakers, clinical immortality, or otherwise.

this isn’t judgement, that may be the safer gamble. but it is a gamble.
I don’t think having children is protection against ending up in a nursing home.
> A trivial example is total number of miles driven. If we end up driving twice as much then that's your CO2 gains gone right there. Considering that's exactly what's happened since 1983 does that seem unlikely?

Yes, it seems unlikely that we would double our number of miles driven because this is a factor of time spent driving, population, and speed. There's no indication that speed limits will increase or that people are interested in longer commutes, and population growth is stagnating.

> Do EVs do anything to reverse this trend? Do they do anything for pedestrian safety? Do they do anything about the need for parking and huge roads? Do they do anything about noise and particulate pollution of tyres? Do they do anything about road rage? I could go on and on.

Climate change is a much more significant problem than these. I can live with wide roads and parking lots; it's much harder to live with our global breadbaskets succumbing to increasingly severe droughts and the geopolitical destabilization that entails.

And there's no way we're going to pivot away from ICE cars to public transit quickly enough to meet climate goals even if there was the political will to do so (and there isn't, because lots of people get a lot of value out of cars, and even places with lots of public transit options are seeing a rise in car ownership and usage). There's just no way it's going to happen over the next century.

Moreover, there's tons we could do about pedestrian safety, tire pollution, road noise, etc without eliminating cars, but we lack the political will even to do these things so there's certainly no way we're going to abolish cars and transition to public transit / cycling lifestyles.

> Focussing solely on one single metric is extremely foolish

It's foolish to treat all metrics as equally important. You can't live without food; you can live with car noise.

> of course it's exactly what the car manufacturers want because they've found a solution for that one metric

Yeah, car manufacturers love paying Tesla so they can keep making ICE cars /s. Cars are wildly popular in the west (car adoption is increasing across the board, even among the Dutch); the auto industry doesn't need to do a psyop to convince people to drive--it's just much more convenient than the alternatives even where the alternatives are very well developed/supported.
If you embrace hopelessness and do nothing to make the transition away from fossil fuels, it’s your own life that will be grim as carbon is more heavily taxed and life becomes increasingly unaffordable.

I’m personally quite optimistic, because I’ve already made most of the necessary adjustments, and it wasn’t very hard at all.
Yeah, just seeing the axle grease requirements and inventory on an aircraft carrier is a wakeup call. Our military is 110% reliant on oil to even function at all. The economic scale of consumer oil consumption and the petro-dollar are a key military concern to enable warfighting ability. When that sinks in, Iraq and Afghanistan make a lot more sense.
I guess like heavier than air powered flight will never happen. I mean there would be so many problems.
Japanese old people are healthier and more able to take care of themselves which is a big difference and in my view preferable to mass migration.
Here [1] is his court case. The NYTimes is not reporting the events in a remotely fair way. It was an attempted mass murder. After tormenting a family of 4 who gave them everything he demanded, he then declared his intent to murder them all and started shooting them one by one. Those that survived did so only by good grace. One survivor, for instance, was shot point blank in the head. Another was able to fake have been shot after lunging at him.

And it wasn't circumstantial. Ford was a local who was immediately identified by the family during the act. The surviving family members all identified him, and their story also matched perfectly with that of the accomplice - until he later started creating overtly fabricated tales. Ford was also offered a plea deal that would have spared his life. He instead decided to try his luck with this whole 'I was just in the car, honest' story.

That he felt people would just believe him is what you get from sociopathy + narcissism. He was convicted after less than 7 hours of deliberation. Notably Texas isn't as fast and loose with the death penalty as its reputation either - in those 7 hours they had to determine if he would likely be a continuing threat to society and whether there were any possible mitigating factors that might otherwise yield preference to life imprisonment.

[1] - https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/...
Does it support TPM emulation, and ansible/vagrabt?
Then there should be consequences for destroying environment and making earth inhabitable for humans. Oil industry knew that burning fossil fuels will lead to global warming. Plastic industry knew that recycling is a total sham, and most of it will at best end up on a landfill at worts everywhere including our food. They knew but then they lied to us to make more profits. Maybe we should take that ill gotten profits from them and if it will bankrupt them so be it. Because we're slowly getting out of time to do anything.
I would assume they mean gathering requirements, aligning with other team goals, etc. before picking up the pencil. Which I agree, is a huge part of “engineering” vs. “programming”
Stable resistance exists:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC105185/
Yet when I search for teams in the start menu, I get two entries for "Microsoft Teams (Work or school)". If I click on the one without "new", it'll launch the old one and ask me if I want to go back to the old one or keep using the new one.

https://i.imgur.com/FFn1PWa.png
Yes, it's really bad.

We actually couldn't open a joint bank account with both names separated. They'd accept the papers signed in the official names, but the names on the cards and other communication needed to be unified for their system to accept it. They'd accept to reemit card with the correct names only as an exception by abusing the card renewal system apparently
Canada, just look at Bill C-18. If that's not enough, they are about to try to pass an "anti-hate" bill as well targeting the internet, e.g. demanding taking down any content flagged as hate within 24 hours or massive penalties, so of course the default will be censorship to avoid penalties.
Anecdotally, people still want kids, they just think they can wait, and then for many it's too late when they realize they don't have time anymore. Fertility clinic demand is through the roof while birth rates fall...

It seems to transcend culture so it's logical to think it's economic, but I think one factor is that we're indoctrinated about how bad it is to get pregnant, the importance of birth control, availability of abortion. Pregnancy is something that is framed as life-ruining. And so young people have to take the time to get over that indoctrination, and it often takes too long.
Ask HN: Is this AI shopping assistant anywhere close to be useful?
Hi.

I am one of our founders of this shopping app called Benjamin and I don't even try to say that I am super experienced with LLM/AI stuff. We've wrapped around this AI tool that helps you shop online (or at least should) so that you wouldn't have to wonder on every page when you are trying to find something useful.
What you guys think, would this be any useful for release? We haven't announced this yet anywhere, but we have already created a small CTA to the end of the messages to potentially get some users for our app which is our main product.

https://www.benjaminone.com/benjamin-ai

And yes I know, the first comment will be ''I would have built this in 1 hour''. Rather than that all the feedback is well appreciated :D
There is no highly-developed country with replacement-level fertility. And, in fact, the only places left with fertility rates that are above replacement (and not rapidly dropping) are sub-saharan African countries with a median income below 5k USD. On the other end of the spectrum, you don't see fertility rates tick up again until you get to the 500k USD and above bracket.

My personal hunch is that this is a form of market failure. If you're a young woman, delaying childbirth in favor of more education and a higher income makes perfect sense, on an individual level. But the more young women take that path, the fewer are available to form communities of care. Consider the economic cost of replacing that network -- neighborhood moms, grandparents, immediate and extended family. Raising a child with one parent working is strenuous, with both it's only possible through expensive and sub-optimal childcare programs.

One typical response is that we should simply subsidize those childcare programs. Fair enough, but the countries that have taken this idea the farthest -- the Nordics -- have still not achieved replacement-level fertility.

Another response is that the earth is too overpopulated already, and we should have fewer children due to climate change. However, we know exactly how many people will be alive in the latter part of this century -- given relatively static mortality rates -- because those people have already been born. Crashing the population after 2100 won't really help anything, and will in fact only introduce more economic challenges and crises for our descendants.
>The Peter Pan life has a lot going for it.

Trust me, this feeling passes. You want to be prepared for when it does.
Let's face it, we don't really need 24fps+ footage from the moon. Nothing is changing on a timescale that would be interesting. Even if the cameras are on a rover, take high quality panoramic 360 stereoscopic images every time the rover moves to a new destination. During the course of the next move, it can be uploading that data.

But who are we kidding? A group of internet forum nerds coming up with something that the people at NASA/JPL/ESA/etc haven't already considered?
> But realistically neither are viable without storage.

What do you call viable? Because there's a huge difference between the consequences for nuclear not having storage or peakers (a moderate price bump) and wind/solar not having it (basically, hours/days of blackout).

If I reversed the situation and said that wind turbines have as much of a waste problem as nuclear, you'd be outraged, because having to handle radioactive materials isn't comparable to polymers not being recyclable.
GPUs are pretty close to an instantiation of a dataflow architecture. I have a soft spot for vliw on deterministic memory latency but the runtime scheduler + variable memory latency is probably better.

The insight is that GPUs are memory driven - warps basically wait for memory operations to complete while other warps do stuff - so execution proceeds driven by memory access patterns.
Also, [dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321595
"Just after the iPhone 15 event announcement? Surely not!"

Someone was preparing the Pixel 8 store web pages and accidently pressed 'Publish'.
Teams stole a lot of ideas and talent from Skype.

It is not like they just invented Teams from a cleanroom. They used the human and code assets from Skype to make Teams.
probably has two email accounts, on with firstnamelastname and the other with @gmail.com, and keeps mixing them up
I actually agree with this change, creditcards in the 2020s is just racketeering. Why? Because afaik almost all transactions are digital now, and they charge an absurd rake for every transaction they process. A 3% transaction fee seems like little until you realize the profit margin is only 6% ... why should they get 50% of the spoils?

Companies like Amzn, costco, HEB, and now cell carriers are all moving towards their own cards which allows them to greatly reduce the fees incurred. CC fees and corruption is one argument in favor of CBDC. (granted there are plenty of reasons against)
infinite loop captcha?
> whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids?

This is definitely not true. Look at the fertility rates of any of the aforementioned cultures. Humans will never go extinct because they're making the conscious choice to do so...
I didn't even know that I could put my Bachelor of Engineering degree next to my name, and from what I can tell on the Internet, putting it next to my name would be considered pretentious.
The rising BRICS dominate hydrocarbons and they aren't giving them up, selling or using.

We should be focused on mitigation strategies and superior technology that wins conversion based on market forces and not government mandates and long term subsidies.

The Green Suicide of the West isn't going to help climate change, and will probably make it worse.
See also "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders." [0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
I agree, in addition, it's recommendation engine has rapidly devolved into "suggest only the most popular books in this genre" type recommendations.

Say, if I want to read grimdark fantasy novels, and I've already read all of Joe Abercrombie and Mark Larwence books and didn't like Glenn Cook, good luck getting anything else out of the algorithms. There's no discovery, just regurgitation of whatever has been blessed by the masses.

And that's when things aren't manipulated. Take any popular category and it's all gamified. Someone is manipulating the most recent book to the top of the "best of all times" list, even recent self published crap gets into the top recommendations for popular categories. It's all manipulated garbage and Amazon doesn't seem to have any interest in changing it since it gets them sells or Kindle Unlimited subscriptions for that self publisher.

I've fallen back on critics and awards to curate my read lists. It's not as specific, but looking back on what I've enjoyed reading most recently, almost all of them have been awarded a hugo award. So now I just go through the award winner lists and pick something that looks interesting. I recently discovered the Imperial Radch series this way and really enjoyed it.
Maybe, but between dating skills and allocation of spend I may otherwise be committed to the strategy whether I regret it or not.
That’s exactly what I think is happening.

Make no mistake, oil will always be needed for many purposes, but some of the big consumption drivers are starting to have price competitive alternatives.

It’s notable that half of all global oil consumption is used on roads.

You can’t turn back the clock on the fact that many of these alternatives now cost less.
Eh goodreads is fine… just ignore all the advertising and track your reading and your friends’ reading (if you want)
I want to minimize how much I get yelled at online, so I’d rather not cite a source this time and make it look like I’m taking a side. The point is there are lots of examples, easy to look up, and from both sides, not just one side
Per capita metrics are useless when it comes to climate stats. The ice caps don't care about how much hydrocarbons are burned per person, they are only affected by the net amount of hydrocarbons burned on a global scale.
Why not just killbots?

Much less dystopian than a future of elders left alone to be tended by palliative care robots.
>Perhaps in modern society, whatever you do, people only want 1-1.5 kids?

This clearly isn't true because the Amish and Ultra-orthodox Jews still want/have 7-8 kids, and they live in modern society. I'm not sure about the Ultra-orthodox, but the Amish are certainly capable of sustaining their standards of living even if the rest of America dies out, so humanity wouldn't go extinct, it'd just become 100% Amish (and whatever other cultures are able to maintain persistently high fertility rates).
>Atmos isn't very compelling without overhead speakers.

Why does this myth persist? ATMOS is substantially better than hardcoded channels even with a barebones 5.1 system. Obviously more is better, but object-based spatial audio is a major step up.
Censorship is aimed at dissent from the ruling class, and broadly never left or right. Leftist examples include within the nation state of the United States (most closely aligned with the 95% of leftist voter roles in DC and Eastern Virginia) through the persecution of Assange, social media censorship most transparent in the Twitter files, Hunter Biden laptop reporting (see Greenwald), media censorship regarding COVID treatments, and banning Trump and many others from social media.

I know a lot of people will say, “but there’s a good reason and that censorship is justified.” It is still censorship.
What's it like walking through life this snarky/hating everything/everybody by default?

Why do you have to categorize people into "blocks"/groups in a derogatory fashion?
The basic idea of Atmos is having audio streams with spatial coordinates and then downmixing them to however many speakers you actually have and where ever they happen to be placed. That's a great idea (and basically how games have worked for donkeys years).

But even if you do get the object-based streams, it still contains a "bed" of 7.1(.2) audio channels that still require precise placement of your speakers.

Besides which, even 5.1 content is mixed horribly by content providers (use the center channel for dialogue, people! And lay off the explosions for a bit..)

What makes it ultra disappointing, is that the atmos brand is just slapped on any old thing. If it's not in a cinema, it's not 128 objects, but maybe 20. If it's atmos music, it's something else. And how does a tiny soundbar deliver on immersive sound from all of those channels and objects?

Well-mixed 5.1 is still a joy to hear.
> I love the comment of "Degraded Performance"

FWIW, they have an additional graph on the main page

https://status.openai.com/

And in that graph they mark the current status of ChatGPT as “Major Outage”
> This just sounds like a mopey slow answer, sorry. I'm not hating on what they're saying but I'm not going to intentionally make my life slower/worse because of some disjointed idea that doesn't make sense. "Someone else needs it" sounds like fake ... modesty or something.

Well, you'll have to take my word for it: these people I'm describing are brilliant and accomplished engineers who advanced lots of projects in their jobs, and taught me a lot. I saw what they did. I saw them troubleshoot hard engineering problems, and solve them. This is not hearsay, I saw them at work.

So I guess I'll follow the evidence.
We'll just normalize MAID, and people will volunteer to shuffle off this mortal coil. Insert a WSB meme, drawn in mspaint, about a cheap handgun being your retirement plan.
But why didn't they leverage the Skype brand? Wasn't this the whole point of Skype for business?

Obviously the consumer product we were all once familiar with wouldn't suffice in terms of features, but I never understood why they didn't stick with the Skype brand.