skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all good. I'm a bit of a pendant for word definitions people are using. I think loose definitions lead to all sorts of subtle miscommunications. Most of the time it's not a big deal, but I do have a soft spot for Ronald Dahl, so would like to verify when claims.

For all of the articles I can find written about Dahl's oompa-loompa slaves, not one of them puts together an argument as to why they are slaves. They just make the claim, and surround it with statements of the opmpa-loompas being originally black native inhabitants of Africa, and they worked for a white-man Wonka. I can see how people's minds go to slavery when describing a unbalanced power dynamic between an exclusively black workforce and a white boss man, but innuendo does not make for a compelling argument IMHO.

If the book doesn't mention them being imprisoned, doesn't mention being forced to work, talks about them being paid a wage, and given the choice on how to be paid, then they are not slaves. We can make lots of assumptions about what is happening behind the scenes of the factory, but we could do that just as easily to suggest the Oompa-loompas are actually the masterminds behind everything, and secretly control the governments of the world.

Personally, I think Dahl's original depiction was racist, but not describing slavery. The fact all these articles don't provide anything from the original text* showing that they are slaves makes me think this is a case of people wanting to inflate someones misdeads in order to generate clicks. It's easy enough to find real things to criticize the man for, but they should stick to the facts, or make an actual argument.

*The biographer was doing the same thing as the articles.
Just a catalogue of all the skills on display is already the stuff of a couple of lifetimes.
Congratulation for the launch! Where is the price list?
I'll post part of the article

“In this study, we compared how much adults age 70 and older said they’d want to change something about their life — in other words, whether they had any regrets about how their life had gone. We didn’t see any difference between childfree people and parents. This suggests that childfree people are similar to others in terms of life satisfaction and often don’t regret their decision later.”
What do you mean by arrogant as hell? I'd not heard much about them.
That’s true, actually, since this is in the context of recordings. Prior to sound recordings becoming available musicians were reliably in demand because anyone who wanted to listen to music had to have a human play it. Copying another person’s work required a person with considerable skill and either permission or willingness to use someone else’s work.

Recordings completely change that and would absolutely have been a disaster without some kind of IP laws because people would’ve been competing against a now unlimited supply of recordings. That doesn’t mean we have the perfect balance of rules but we need something.
I wonder how this squares with the research on cultures where parents scarcely talk to babies, and they turn out fine? [1]

1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/parents-in-a-remo...
Cool! You might even be able to run Rellic [1,2] on the LLVM IR produced by Clang when compiling Objective-C code. If it works, this will spit out goto-free C code, not C++.

[1] https://github.com/lifting-bits/rellic

[2] https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/05/17/interactive-decompil...
How is it not practical? If you have a newer iPhone or Android, you can add an eSIM like FreedomPop for the few calls or texts you might get from these vendors.
> Download clickhouse: curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh

Does this check the useragent to change the response? Clicking that link shows their home page.
It’s bad for industries and technological growth if you reduce populations. It could also throw the world into socio-political turmoil depending on the demographics. People can also live in outer-space. They don’t have to fill up the Earth (which has a lot of extra capacity regardless).
Not necessarily. They may simply not know what (if anything) they're missing enough to regret it.
It's an "evolutionary dead end" if we assume that people who intend to be "child free" follow through with it. What you're describing it more akin to waiting until you're more financially stable, which is perfectly normal.

There's an entire swath of people in society today who are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool, for a number of different reasons. Some of those reasons are marketed influences trying to convince people to do it too, which is more nefarious in my opinion.

No matter how you slice it though, from an evolutionary perspective deciding not to reproduce only has one outcome.
I often use Paul Graham's "kids" essay to describe to others what having kids is like. Much of it seems applicable to me.

http://www.paulgraham.com/kids.html
Those fine motor skills will go though, use them while you have them! Especially for fine soldering work you need a very steady hand and that which used to be trivial suddenly is a real challenge.
Most charged phones are used to watch tiktok and youtube videos. I would favor the AI generated image.
The rampant fecundity of the third world will keep us childless hedonists with a full stock of cheap and cheerful worker bees if we can no longer manage our basic physical needs.

This shows no sign of slowing or correcting that I can see.

If that doesn't work out, we are properly spoiling our nephews and nieces as a backup plan. :)
I don't make enough money to view a paywall. Thanks for the call out.
> If everyone did this there’d be no species left.

Nothing is eternal.
Yes, they would. They do. People express regrets all the time, and that does not make them monsters. They are human, and as much as they might or might not love their child they can acknowledge that their life would have been easier, better, less stressful without one.
It might not be so small, if you import a module just to declare a type, that's an import that happens at runtime, that might not be needed.

The correct way would be to do conditional imports that are only performed while typechecking in this case. But I'd expect the issue to happen often.
You can look at the cost trajectories of various energy production technologies through time - the one for fission does not look encouraging. Interesting that you see costs for fission and renewable as very similar. Data I have seen has huge differences.(https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/publications/no-2021-01-empiricall...)

Where did I advocate batteries as only storage? There are many options.

I might potentially be better to put more money into fusion rather than chase fission for anything beyond materials, medical, research, and weapons applications.
No one ever said development of the internet couldn't continue if copyright had to be respected, either, so the proof is in the pudding.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701117
Anti-natalism is definitely an ideology for some.
> Researchers at Michigan State University have reconfirmed in a recent study that about one in five adults in Michigan, equivalent to over 1.6 million individuals, consciously choose not to have children. This finding, aligning closely with an earlier estimate, suggests a significant portion of the population is opting for a child-free lifestyle.

> The initial revelation last summer that nearly 1.7 million Michigan adults were child-free had surprised many. Now, this data has been validated in a follow-up study published in PLOS ONE

The author is trying really hard to make this as dramatic as possible. Claiming that it has “surprised many” to learn that some people don’t have kids and don’t plan on having kids feels like a big stretch.

I think the real surprise for many people, at least in younger generations, might be that the childfree group was only 1 in 5 people. If you talk to young people or take a look at Reddit you’d get the impression that virtually nobody is having kids and nobody ever plans on having kids. Then you look at these survey results and the significant majority (80%) of people are either parents or plan to be parents some day.

Anecdotally, many of the happy parents in my peer group were convinced they were never having kids when they were younger. In our late teens I barely knew anyone who could fathom the idea. In our early 20s a lot of people were staunchly against kids. Now I still have many friends who don’t have nor want kids, but a significant number of people grew up and had a change of goals. I’ve also seen several marriages dissolve as one partner realized that they did actually want kids, but another didn’t. And somewhat surprisingly, I’m starting to see situations where the partner who didn’t is getting older and coming around to the idea of having kids.

It’s everyone’s right to choose not to have kids if they want, of course. I just think it’s strange that a vocal minority of the internet population have become so convinced that having kids or wanting kids is a minority position when the data suggests the opposite over a lifetime. Even articles like this fuel the internet controversy by burying the lede and picking the headline most likely to get picked up by the vocal childfree minority.
>Let's use keyboards to explain since the HN crowd tends to be much more familiar with those.

Let me go even simpler. There's still a market for expensive mechanical watches that only tell the time, yet cost more than the most expensive smart watches, and are less acurate than cheap Casios. In short, some people just appreciate beautiful mechanical cool shit and are willing to pay through the nose for it, regardless of specs and benchmarks.
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That post doesn't load correctly for me in a browser. It links to https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&co=GE... and quotes this part: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
Based on people I know, especially with women, there's this weird duality of broadcasting to the world how absolutely perfect and happy their childfree life is while privately crying ugly tears about how nobody loves them and they're going to die alone.

I guess knowing a couple of people like that, it makes it difficult to believe that everyone really is all that satisfied with their life.
The AI Treadmill:

Looking backward: GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI) becomes BOFAI (Bad Old Fashioned AI), then later becomes ROFAI (Retro Old Fashioned AI) then eventually AOFAI (Antique Old Fashioned AI)...

Looking forward: AI (Artificial Intelligence) progresses to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) progresses to AGIC (Artificial General Intelligence Consciousness) progresses to MAGIC (Miraculous Artificial General Intelligence Consciousness)...
Original Congruence Closure Paper in Python with Egglog
Yes, Reaganomics and late stage capitalism killed it
This is 100% my experience.

The amount of vocabulary that is learned through the experience and play of song is astounding. Similar to a song tied to a memory. Exposure to diverse cuisine and music before birth both seems to be helpful too to the degree possible.

The number of words I have seen the little ones in my life absorb and use before age 1.5 to 3 leaves you a little speechless.

So many words, syllables, full sentences, and a way to reduce some of the little frustrations of not being able to express yourself.

So many words seem to musically originating in a few ways in hind sight:

First is reading, talking and singing anything you can as much as one can. Learning the sound of the voices around them is super valuable if present from the start.

Next is ending up being children of the digital co-parent and teacher Miss Rachel. Her content on YouTube was irreplaceable during the pandemic, and the bonus of speaking in song was one of the biggest gifts to learn.

Last, but not least is a Reggio Emilia child development / care program. If a parent has a chance to check out a Reggio Emilia centric child care program in regards to this topic of learning expression, more than not it’s an invitation to explore and play with lots of music and vocabulary. What’s neat is no place can be Reggio Emilia certified because it’s a town in Italy, so the methods can be freely taught, learned and used at home too.

What stands out is all of the children in Reggio Emilia programs are not the same, they are very ok with structure but just as adaptable with going with the flow of the fire alarm goes off. The rigour in fuelling music, dance, craft, curiosity, imagination, exploration, interaction and expression.

There will be some parents who find this approach a fit for them, (it’s a little different than Montessori which can be tough for some children to switch into a regular world program) as it focuses on helping each child bring out their uniqueness at their own pace.
Now that you mention malice, here's a smoking gun, from the linked bug report:

> (it's not an issue with Firefox's implementation. This can be demonstrated by spoofing the useragent as a Chromium-based browser and attempting the same login flow […]).
You get how automotive energy storage and grid scale energy storage are totally different right? Like a huge portion of oil consumption is automotive and shipping and that has 0 demands on the grid. Yes, we need storage solutions for portable energy and solar fails on that mark too (that’s why EVs are battery backed and don’t bother putting on solar panels to regenerate those batteries). So when we electrify automotive, energy requirement needs for cars are going to skyrocket. Solar can thankfully probably accommodate a huge part of that because we can time shift charging to happen during the day but that also means that a good chunk of solar energy construction is being dedicated to charging storage capacity we built and put into cars and not offsetting our already substantial and ever growing non-automotive grid energy needs.

I don’t know why you claim nuclear has no advantage if we’re talking about a country whose grid manages to achieve that only 10% of grid production is coming from fossil fuels. That’s a lot smaller storage problem to solve than the 60-80% that renewables has to solve (not to mention it needs to actually build that capacity which is going to take a long time because all the evidence is that that % mix by renewables grows very slowly over long periods of time).
Many carrier queries like what Twilio offers will actually show the text messaging enablement provider, which can allow you to reclassify landline (RBOC), CLEC, VoIP and similar as a mobile number in the eyes of many vendors.
But that's not what the code does. There's a rule that says "avoid harm", which directly contradicts (imho) euthanizing someone without a very good reason (and no, I don't agree that "public good" is one). More importantly, there exists neither a rule nor a specific definition what public good means. You've taken your personal interpretation of the words from the preamble, ran with it and from that inferred that the code is unethical.
List of Car Crash Songs
Cool, hope it will be of use! I freedived for years before trying scuba, so for scuba I have no issues. With the head up and all air going there, my VTO is good enough.

But for freediving with the air going towards the stomach and much faster descent it's still a bit tricky. One thing is if I'm not equalizing quickly enough, no amount of force I can muster will open the tubes again without actually doing a more classic pinch nose technique. Doing a classic equalize you will often "overblow" air in and can descend a bit before needing to equalize again. But with VTO you're only equalizing to a perfect balance so will need to make sure to keep equalizing to not get under pressure. But of course not as much hassle hands free, I try to just do click-click-click continuously, almost every kick down to remind myself to keep it open. But yeah, if I get too much under-pressure I'm not able to open it again hands free.

I also feel head angle matters a lot, so trying to not bend the neck too much to look down, but instead swim down while looking "straight ahead" instead of where you're actually going helps for me.
> Back in 2004 ... Java was the go-to for serious web application projects... In a way in some areas we are creating the new Java. We became the people we originally displaced.

Given that in 2023 the go-to language for serious server applications is still Java (at least by plurality), it is not at all surprising that languages that wished to displace it but didn't (or haven't) would eventually become more like it if they want to play in that domain.
> If everyone did this there’d be no species left. It causes you to be “unfit” in a Darwinian sense.

It causes the population to be unfit. Evolution does not apply to individuals, but to populations.

> People might not care, but purely biologically it’s actually more healthy to be 400 pounds, smoke cigarettes, and die from a heart attack after having a few kids than be in good shape and eventually die with no kids.

... Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about.
I’m not a fan of big idea books, in particular when they’re by journalists, who are basically dilettantes. I’ll challenge the very premise on two counts. One, it’s debatable that the US was never all that mobile (see the latest American Economic Review) and two, median household income is way up since 2001: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N.
Every python linter or code quality tool has been able to detect unused local variables like this since at least the year of our lord, 1841.

You don’t need this baked into the language.
It's a single go executable that's much easier to install and keep up to date. It's been a while since I've used pihole but Adguard Home also had a better GUI when I first started using it.
I run about 1/3rd of that and there is no way that opening the floodgates on that is safe in normal traffic. Other people simply don't expect you to accelerate that fast. And I don't have time (or ambition) to do it on a track.
this seems converting graph/tree data model to relational data model ? hmm...
Unpopular question: At what point should companies officially deprecate support for
a minority browser?

Firefox is down to like 6% marketshare, barely above (what's left of) Opera. Even Edge has nearly twice the usage.

Is reasonable to expect a company to go out of their way to spend resources fixing something that works fine for 94% of their users, using any of several alternate browsers?

And this is Microsoft after all, the same company that's been through multiple browser wars and finally caved and joined the Blink family. Why should they care about Firefox?
People who remain child-free their whole lives generally don't plan it to be that way. It's the sum of cumulative questions asked at multiple points in your life: "am I ready to raise children?" We aren't predestined to dead-end lives or evolutionary staleouts, sometimes virile and willing individuals die before they conceive. I think your characterization is futile, and the wrong lens of looking at majority of non-sterile people.

Couples do indeed shy away from raising a child, but shaming them for temporarily turning down the question is the wrong response.
Likely just 0 testing.

Today I switched Outlook to the new Outlook and then it couldn't access my email account because of some licensing issue? No other error or how to resolve.

Who allows things like this to be shipped without minimal QA is beyond my imagination...
I did a slightly different generic implementation of heaps here: https://github.com/addrummond/heap

The main difference is that is that the comparison function is determined from the type of the heap element both for built-in and user-defined types.
Hi Kris. Thank you for reaching out in this way. I am sorry about what I said, and especially so about how I said it.

My undoubtedly harsh words intended to disqualify a line of thinking that I saw as logically dishonest and ethically dubious. Regardless, I overreached and turned it into a personal attack, which was not what I intended.

I've had enough of this terrible fucking website, and the terrible fucking people in it, even if there are also plenty of wonderful, insightful people in it, worth participating in conversation with.

The latter, to answer the previously stated question, are why I have participated here, even if it means having to share a space with people who do not feel the slightest tinge of doubt, self-awareness or embarrassment whilst crowning themselves "actual intellectuals".

This website brings the worst on me, and it brings the worst in others. Everyone here acts like they're so fucking smart, saying the most inane shit to each other, pretending each comment is a philosophy treaty, and patting each other on the back for it. I'm sure we're all really nice people when you meet us in person, even if we're unbearable shitheads in here.

And in trying to counter the hypocrisy, the self-reinforcing bubble of fake intellectualism, I too became part of it and turned into one of the unbearable shitheads. What a waste of time.
I've been trying to register because I just finished developing a command line tool that I thought others might want to use. Finding myself stymied here because registration has been closed since the 24th of November. Understandable if this a matter of people being still on vacation, or just back from ... but still, I am a bit frustrated.
Totally agree but as far as I understood op meant about acknowledging publicly like the study in the article. I have never seen anyone openly saying they regret having kids. Particularly in the US I would challenge you to find an example.
> Ensuring one's genetic line continues could be considered natural--i.e., of nature--intelligence.

Natural selection optimizes for the human species over tens/hundreds of thousands of years. You won’t see a benefit in your lifetime.

Not having kids, well, you see the result in your lifetime (tends to be a slightly positive result).
And my reasoning was that everything is an artifact of something else.

The model weights can't be scrutinized? Well no one can scrutinize them. Even those who made the model.

And because you don't have the hardware to reproduce Llama anyway, even if they gave you the code to build it, you can't verify they used that code to build it. And if you have the hardware and data, you probably still wouldn't spend MILLIONS to end up... with the same exact model they gave you in the first place.

Do you understand how meaningless this entire "Llama is not truly open" bullshit is?
https://ncase.me/nutshell/ is pretty neat. I don't know how well suited to "serious" applications it is, though.
But if the atoms produced different spectral lines, wouldn't observers on earth just end up wrongly believing they are seeing a different type of an element? For example you might think a star is made up of hydrogen when it is made up of helium?

I have no knowledge of how spectal lines work so pardon my ignorance once more, but is it possible for gravity or other forces to produce spectral lights of similar elements than the original one or is it a very unique fingerprint not similar to close by elements?

Also, if gravity can bend light (blackholes), how come it cannot attenuate it? Light is on the EM spectrum and the speed of light is different in different mediums so I am presuming it is similar to how electrons attenuate on copper wire.
> Fun Rust novice exercise: Write a linked list implementation in Rust.

struct LLItem<T> {
next: Option<Box<LLItem<T>>>,
value: T
}
You're cool as a cucumber! And you enjoy arguing. Here's a hint, though: ultimate rationality is not the end-all, be-all of life.