skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rode an e-unicycle (EUC) for a few years as my main mode of transport. It was super fun, and after my first year I was really quite good at it, good enough to even dodge a few cars on instinct: my response was entirely unplanned, a reflex—a sharp turn, rather than an attempt to slow down, that I was shocked my body performed in retrospect. (Turns rely on center-of-mass and rubber friction, rather than motor acceleration or deceleration, which are limited.)

I loved riding that thing, it felt like flying. It was addictive. I rode it like wings, my instincts were so good it felt like I was one with it—it no longer required any intentional planning. Sure, I had my share of spills, but learned from each one where I'd messed up and how to become exceptionally careful, and was fortunate that I recovered from each in a few days.

I say all this because, like you, I now realize it was the single most life-threatening risk I've ever taken in my life. These things you write are 100% true:

> All it takes is one missed sign, one pothole, one inattentive driver, one loose bushing, one nail on the road, one patch of oil. You get the idea. The number and variety of risks and significance of the damage they could do should be enough to avoid.

> All it takes is one "oh shit" moment where you miss the transfer of center of mass. You face plant and possibly slide directly under the path of the hazard you braked for.

You are extremely exposed, and trusting your life to firmware developers.

99.99% of the time it is the unbelievable feeling of flying, slicing through the wind.

0.01% of the time it is slamming your body into rough pavement at 20mph, like diving face-first off a two-story building, no warning. No way to see it coming.

My EUC now sits in my shed, gathering dust.
Corporate devs are still in perforce paired with some web review tools. It is a big cultural problem for a lots of devs out there that they are not familiar with open source flows and tools.
Why does English ever have synonyms? I'm not saying you're wrong, clearly (as a a Kiwi) I've been misinterpreting Aussie usage, but "there's already another way to say that" is pretty common.
selfish question but I'm about to give talos/cilium a go, have you evaluated that? my smaller testing was encouraging
It is a relevant portion of a personal budget, if you include transportation costs. On a national level, though, it's huge. Portugal imports all of its oil and gas, and has a trade balance that is permanently on the slightly negative side. Energy is a very easy way to fix that, with excellent economic second order effects.
Anyone have a recipe for the lemon they would enjoy sharing?

I love pickle of all kinds, and my Meyers produce more fruit than I can handle, even sharing fresh lemons with friends. If I can also share some as preserves, that sounds like a fun way to continue the sharing.
I feel Arxiv is kind of this.

Back when I was doing research I had a couple of "papers" that I think had interesting ideas but I just hated the submit/publish dance (part of why I left academia after I years). So I just uploaded the "unedited" PDFs into Arxiv, thinking that maybe someone would find them useful.

Fast forward 10 years, I was surprised one of those PDFs was cited by more than 10 published articles. I'm happy I had my cake and ate it too: I could help someone with my ideas and didn't need to do all the bureaucracy.

As I think Churchill said: " everyone wants to be famous, but nobody wants to be useful" (sorry I I completely botched the quote) .

People nowadays care so much for their image .
Exactly the same for me, I always assumed people were speaking metaphorically when they talked about "seeing" with their mind's eye until a few years ago I first heard about Aphantasia and was like WTF
Sorry to read about your plight.

The warning signs are in her being a self-proclaimed alpha. The monopolizing meetings, etc are a sign of a very toxic person.

You can't generalize from this one encounter to the industry in general, although your experience is not at all unique.

Good luck and hope you land in far more congenial company and soon.
Yeah but that’s kinda the point, motive/intent is a question and in question. Thus, you take it to the courts to decide after you make your arguments.
Booking.com leaves hoteliers thousands of dollars out of pocket
Getting fired for not being an alpha can be considered workplace bullying.
I think you might be missing the point.

The apparent concern that these comments show for the well being of children is misdirection and rationalization, hiding the true intent behind anti-natalist perspectives, which are fundamentally eugenicist in nature.

At their foundation, these comments presume that there are people who deserve to have children, and that there are people that do not—in other words, that there are children that deserve to be born, and that there are children that do not deserve to be born.

Poverty is just a proxy for other qualities that would be much too controversial to articulate explicitly.
I think he was a polarizing figure, but I was happy that somebody wrote about the computer experience at all.
Yes, I disagree quite strongly with the blogpost. He writes

> For it to make any sense at all, human beings would have to exist on some unitary plane of power and oppression, our relative places easily interpreted for the purpose of figuring out who we can punch

I think this is obvious bullshit. You need a strict, easily interpreted hierarchy of oppressor and oppressed in order to implement this strawman version of the punching up/down rule. This straw man is what I was referring to when I described it as a "commandment" in my previous comment.

On the other hand when the "rule" is interpreted in a more realistic way. Which is something like "make comedy about whoever you like, but consider carefully why you want to make fun of these groups of people, and consider the context of what you're doing", then you don't need this strict hierarchy at all.

To be explicit: I don't think the concept needs a consistent definition of "up" and "down" in order to be useful.
> As a programmer, it's my experience that the computer itself usually works correctly. It's almost never a hardware bug.

By hardware do you mean CPU?

Also, these days, "hardware" is still something that's either got a microcontroller, FPGA, or some other thing that is eother running or was designed with software. The area is quite muddy, especially if you deal with hardware systems of a collection of various computers and hardware components.

And I'm not so sure things aren't CPU or IC bugs that get bubbled up. The amount of Heisenbugs and various other transient bugs make me question that.

In my experience with instrument control systems, the bug could be anywhere from a cable to the UI or anything in between. These systems had to be developed in strict layers to help isolate bugs and also workaround them.
At some point the link has been changed to an article in the Guardian, which has more info: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/19/1
One 2005 twin study [0] found religiosity was approximately 40% genetic.

[1] argues that pro-religion alleles are likely to become more common over time, since in the contemporary world religious people (on average) have more children than the non-religious

It seems unlikely there is any single "God gene". Rather, certain personality traits (such as agreeableness) increase the likelihood of a person accepting religion, and genetics contributes to those traits, which in turn indirectly contributes to religiosity

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15745438/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125629/
"but other people do bad things" is not an excuse, it's just deflection
Poverty is a variable to properly taking care of a child, that does not mean that the parent means that being poor automatically makes one unfit to have a child, which is what you're conflating, if I understand correctly. If one is poor but can provide the proper nutrition and housing to a child, then great, have them, but if not, then no, I don't believe it is controversial or offensive to say that it would be better for them to not have a child. Child abuse is a big problem for a reason.
It is indeed quite a stretch to see how this could affect world population in the next few years, but I have read about people going through crazier developments over the course of a lifetime.

One example scenario would require some narcissistic billionaire women to start producing their personal cloning machines. Production could go up to, say, an extra one of them (except for the billionaire part) each year. If that catches on, in a similar fashion to plastic surgery, we could see global fertility rates revert to Catholic levels. It also helps to think in terms of identical twins, triplets, and beyond.

Having a lot of children is now mostly limited by raising of said kids to require a lot of effort and money. It does not seem like a stretch to assume that robots could lend a hand here, at least on the 75 year horizon.
Apple used to be heavily invested in getting its computers into public schools in the US, kind of like how Google is with Chromebooks now. we didn't get candy-colored iMacs until I was in like 4th grade.
> and coming home and making babies with your wife

You mean raising lord’s kid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur

> I still lean towards a romantic past - working hard with your village friends, then going to the pub with them, and coming home and making babies with your wife, in a home you own, with a tended garden and many children, sounds better than writing Ansible playbooks and jacking off to pornhub. And this is the life of a loser in the past, compared to a "winner" of the present.

Why are so focused on porn? Modern life is amazingly diverse with activities: jumping with parachute, sports, dancing, games, science clubs, I could go in forever. Maybe instead of lamenting try to actually do something except for jerking off and writing ansible for 9 hours?
Classic (pun intended)!

Welcome back to the future, I mean, forward to the past.
> We should work towards counteracting those systemic incentives, by making it easier for middle class, educated people to have kids (an example would be % tax breaks for each child, which would be more money for middle class people).

Yes, and we should also reduce poverty as well, no? So that we can make it easier for currently-poor to have kids as well?
What about Georgia and Chechenya, where was the NATO expansion there? Why did Russia invade them?
What about Finland, why didn't Russia invade them when they decided to enter NATO? If this entire war is about stopping NATO expansion?
>Finland is a good place to move to fix most of these, if you're willing to live with the tradeoffs.
And yet, it seems like the slowdown is hitting us as hard as anyone... so I don't think it's actually that.

I think you hit the nail on its head so to speak. Here in Poland the parenting/childcare situation is probably worse than Finland from what I hear, but much better than it used to be. The change in benefits for example eliminated child poverty, but had zero effect on population growth(which was one of its selling points).

I think unless we manage to invent "artificial womb" in long term (as humanity) we are going to have huge problems. Not because there will be less of us. No, but because the huge majority will be very old. This will blow up our heathcare, economy etc. Who will care for all these old people? Robots?

This is a very serious problem that will hit us in next ~30 years. Imagine if a single person at work supports 5 pensioners? Someone can say, what do you mean, these pensioners are living off investment income on the decades of their contributions. But this is not exactly right. For them to consume someone has to produce. If there is shortage of workforce there will be shortage of goods, the prices will skyrocket, the workers wages will adjust, but pensioners will be left with nothing or will be helped by the state. Also imagine what impact on national security this will have? Religious sects that promote having large families will thrive, imagine what that will do to our societies.

I propose in medium term this is a far bigger problem than climate change.

What is the solution then? Immigration. (the legal kind). We (the West) have to establish systems that promote migrant integration. For this we absolutely have to give up the insanity of "cultural relativism". No, cultures that cherish freedom of the individual and ones that treat women as property are not equivalent. Without the strong backbone of acceptance our culture is superior and certain things are non-negotiable (like individual liberties, freedom of religion, expression, identity) this will not work. But if we can manage to implement this without sliding into extremes people from other places will want to come, live here, work and raise their children. This will solve our (the West) population growth problem in the short to medium term. In the long term? Only robots and artifical wombs.
If you were in government, how would you propose to limit child porn?
I’m quite interested to learn and understand the line of reasoning for this comment. Care to elaborate?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
You could use the same argument for the two World Wars in the 20th century.
I think the argument is that the models are trained on real pics?

The other argument could be that it increases the chances of someone moving on from the consumption state to the abuse state.
Ask HN: Do you use products of a cloud marketplace?
Hi HN,
do you use products of cloud marketplaces? If so, what products and how is/was your experience? Have you ever considered using them?

Thanks
It's a distinction between method and goal.

'Authoritarian supporters of privacy' is a position it's possible to take.

Which begs the question of whether democratic/authoritarian or surveillance/privacy is the more important characteristic.
I wonder if this is really real (aphantasia I mean) . I know that it can be blocked so it's probably brain area related.

As long as you can remember the shape of objects and recall them to draw on paper as a kid, I think that you probably are capable of conjuring images up your mind (or sound, or perhaps even touch).

Then, I have had time I felt my internal visualization was unusually impeded.
Pattycake: An optimizing compiler for ts-pattern (10x faster, experimental)
Source: this is the pattycake release tweet from Aiden Bai.

https://x.com/aidenybai
https://archive.ph/rlG6g
No, you are wrong. Emulators should never touch the original data format save up for converting it at will, as qemu can do by using qemu-img.
Good feedback! my reply is mainly calling out your "pride and accomplishment" claim as the only other reason to have kids.

I agree that there are plenty of reasons to not have kids. and also that plenty of people probably shouldn't have kids from a moral calculus; though importantly it's not our calculus to dictate.

In any case i still say that having kids for the sake of humanity is a Just reason to have kids. Problems and all. Humanity is basically a huge injection of problems and chaos. What else are we going to do.
Wow, why would they spend so much energy rewriting Rails code into React?
It's absolutely shameful. These people are not naive children. They know exactly the ramifications of the tradeoff, which indicates that they are not doing so in good faith, but rather at the behest of vested interests.
Sports, science, literature, movies, skydiving, games, online games, learning, I can go on forever about different modern activities.
Revealed: Three Aircraft Carriers Sunk in Battle of Midway
That is quite impressive because they also had a hand in the creation of 'public relations' i.e mass marketing. A very powerful combination!
> any middle game will almost certainly be crowded out

eBay and Amazon sellers have a trick for this: listing zillions of variations or combinations. Not sure if game devs already figured that out. Probably some of them did because 12k looks a lot.
> try to grab power to stop evil, it’s natural

Those who seek this kind of power over others are themselves EVIL by definition
The iToilet?
Wikipedia is always the good place to start from : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
just be glad your parents chose to err on the side of life
so latest death is one with a helmet, and an “error state” after the device is pushed to “certain limits”

I’m sorry, what?

This is very scant on details
DKIM: Rotate and publish your keys
You say you’re open to any testable hypothesis. But I’d argue that there is just as little evidence that consciousness arises from biological processes as there is that it arises from the universe. And the article talks about that. (Ie the so called “zombie” problem)

You can’t prove that I’m conscious and I can prove that you’re conscious. We only make that assumption.
I came to the US a decade ago—-brought a carefully sealed plastic bag of mango pickles in my checked luggage.

It was “triple” packed because the oil will leak beyond the first layer!

As recent as last month—-my sister-in-law shipped a small plastic jar of fat red chilies pickle to Bangalore which I then brought it to San Francisco via a United flight :-)
Similar happens with shotspotter in the context of early stages of criminal court proceedings.

https://law.stanford.edu/publications/soundthinkings-black-b...
Any sufficiently complex system operates constantly in failure mode
Yeah they really can. My wife is an artist and she can literally just close her eyes and imagine layouts and colour schemes. The whole thing!

The downside is it’s hard for her to shut it off.

I have the opposite problem and see nothing. Only learned about aphantasia a few years ago - made so much sense when I realised.

I am super excited to try image streaming!
Not really, just that there is a lot of suffering (not to mention many willing adoptees) out there, and that there is no need to create more suffering by having children one cannot adequately care for, it is not some sort of hidden conspiracy theory to advance eugenics. If that is what you believe, then it is likely that nothing anyone says here will sway you out of that viewpoint. If anything, the anti-natalists will extinguish themselves anyway, so the problem solves itself.
"Couple" implies a specific sort of relationship between two people—there are lots of pairs of people, even pairs who know each other, that we would never refer to as "couples"!

That's a distinct meaning from "couple" as in "couple of apples", where it really does just mean "two".
Copy the content of the email to your clipboard, type `git am` in your terminal, paste and C-d to complete.
Traditional corporate network architectures were electrical packet switching networks with a hierarchical topology. This design worked well for smaller networks, but when scaled to large datacenter networks, it resulted in unpredictable packet blocking and dropping. This made it difficult to build disaggregated storage-compute architectures for latency-critical distributed SQL/NoSQL databases or near-realtime streaming big-data workloads.

The advent of faster and cheaper network speeds and feeds made it economically feasible to recreate decades-old circuit switching network topologies like Clos/Fat-tree in packet switched networks. This solved the problem of packet blocking and dropping for any-to-any traffic patterns, even at line speed. This simplification of the network topology made it easier to place workloads within the datacenter and to build larger workloads.

However, there was still a problem of head-of-line blocking due to flow routing imbalances. This could cause packet drops and latency spikes. This problem was solved with the development of end-to-end traffic aware routing techniques using software defined networks (SDNs).

As companies built more datacenters, they needed to interconnect them with high-speed campus/metro networks. These networks could be fully meshed, but there was a limit to how much bandwidth they could support. This led to the need for software defined controls for managing traffic priority and quality of service (QoS) across these high-demand links. This was especially important when campus/metro links failed and degraded capacity.

However, implementing all of these network functions in routers would have made them very complex, expensive, and difficult to manage. This led to a deeper dive into SDN.

As companies gained more experience with SDN, they realized that the traffic patterns between large pods of hardware (cells) within a single datacenter were fairly stable. This meant that the full-clos topology between these cells was underutilized. Additionally, the next generation of network speeds and feeds was so fast that it would have required a complete rip and replace of the existing infrastructure.

To avoid this rip and replace, companies looked for ways to make the existing layers feed/speed agnostic and to improve their utilization. This led to an interest in optical switching, but with much faster switching speeds and software defined control (unlike traditional telecom optical circuit switching).

Today, the hardware and software stack needed to implement all of this is still very bespoke and not as mature as electrical packet switching networks. This means that it is not yet a viable solution for smaller players. But the amount of investment AI/ML workloads are attracting and how much of a big difference these OCS interconnects can make between these large pods will likely lead to renewed interest in commercializing the OCS solutions for smaller players. So, in that way, this publication is very timely.
> Are you saying that poor people who have children are implicitly irresponsible for having had children?

Yes. Not implicitly, explicitly. That’s how I was born and suffered for 20 years until I earned my way out of poorness.

> What do poor people have to do to have kids "responsibly", in your view?

If you can’t give your kid what other parents can (and I’m not talking about obscene gifts, just basic activities such as going to clubs, or attending social places) - you shouldn’t have kids.