skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then, if that happens to still hold, after they're 80? There's something funny about human psychology that people can't just accept that there are people who genuinely do not have the same tendencies. Sure, sure, something about biology here, but I imagine the struggle must've been the same for asexual and homosexual people trying to explain why their apparent sexuality didn't follow what people biologically expected of them. I feel the same way about "child-free" life.

The better question to ask wouldn't be continuing to ask "Really???" with increasing intensity, it would be to ask exactly why more people feel content with a child-free life. Is it something about changes to perception of meaning in life, religion and faith, society as a whole? Seems like a more interesting path to go down.
At least part of that is the climate. A forest in a tropical zone is so efficient at processing nutrients that the soil beneath a forest is almost nutrient-free; the nutrients are always moving from plant to plant. If you take off the forest, what is left is not very hospitable and erodes easily.

Temperate forests accumulate humus; remove the trees and there are nutrients sitting there waiting to foster new growth.

(IANA forestry expert...)
You might be interested in https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/, which " is a ISO 26262 (ASIL D) and IEC 61508 (SIL 4) qualified version of the existing open-source compiler, rustc, based on Rust 1.68."
This is the rhetoric of low quality people making excuses for their cowardice.
Yep same. My mental health has been sigificantly worse across the board since it started.
Yes, I did and I provided an explanation for this in the comment you are replying to.

>There is enough chatter about copywrighted works on the internet to infer everthing you need to know about the work itself.
Engaging in bad faith doesn't make you right, it just makes you irrelevant.
Given the climate in the conversation around child-rearing on HN, I feel like the other side of the coin may be more surprising for people: The parents aren't any less happy, either.

So much of HN is certain having children is ruining one's life :-)
He bought it in order to rage quit the litigation to enforce his previous contractual commitment to buy Twitter. Nobody forced Elon to do anything. It was an incredibly unwise and impulsive move.
I stopped reading after "As a cyclist ..."
Even if it true, ironically such an ideology will not persist because they don’t have kids to pass it onto.
Before I owned a house I had a little Phillips puck-thing with four piezo buttons that you could bind to different smart light presets, no battery or wiring required.
Do these guys run integration tests of any kind? Makes it easy to assume malice in breaking fundamental features.
Even if you have kids, it’s a gamble that they will be anything more than an occasional visitor.

At 70 years old, your kids will be fully formed adults with their own families and lives taking priority and they don’t have time for some senior citizen’s problems or diaper changes. womp womp
I think the point is more about demographic crises.
Leaded solder is no more dangerous than lead bricks. The lead never vaporizes (look up the boiling point of lead if you don't believe me), so the same hazards of skin contact and lead dust are the relevant ones. And lead dust is less of a problem for solder because of the alloys used being a lot less prone to making dust than lead bricks (source: extensive personal experience with both).

The fluxes used in solder are far more dangerous than any lead.

However, carefully washing one's hands only goes so far. Your work area will still be covered in small amounts of lead residue just from all the transfer via tools and fingertips. It is very reasonable to avoid leaded solder entirely these days in favor of newer alloys like SN100C, which have performance very close to Sn63Pb37 (though not the same).
This is a bit of a tangent but this is a good example of why it’s hard to align AI systems to do what we want especially when conditions change, because what was a good proxy for what we want in one environment might not be in another

It also shows why “if it’s intelligent it will figure out what we wanted” doesn’t work; like us it has no reason to care what was “intended” even if it knows
Meanwhile their TOTP uses a nonstandard "ms-msa" protocol, forcing you to use their authentication application.

https://1password.community/discussion/139501/one-time-passw...
> I can't imagine many people connecting their phones (with all the usual distractions of notifications, chats, emails etc)

Good news, by default iOS suppresses all notifications when connected to an external display :)

> While there are use cases for this here and there, does it work as a gaming strategy for a company?

For someone like me? Agreed, it doesn’t really make sense. For someone whose only potential gaming device is a smartphone? I don’t know, perchance it could act as a gateway to upselling a macbook to users or just as a side act to macOS gaming. But that’s a very shaky guess on my part.
Probably getting down voted for erroneous use of the word woke, which in any case is co-opted by far right partisans.

Otherwise they're correct.
Can someone from Microsoft share why the login flow on all things Office/O365 is such a disaster? No other major company is so bad about this. You get bounced between a half-dozen domains (which I assume is somehow the root cause of the issue here), the "keep me signed in" check box literally does nothing, and so on. And you can't even blame it on trying to integrate incompatible legacy systems, this is all on Microsoft's first-party services.
Random stuff breaking or things not working quite right is to be expected with Microsoft products.
It is just a matter of time and one important step has been achieved recently.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/officially-qualified-ferroc...
8 months old too
The bottom line is you're still stuck on T-Mobile's infrastructure, which is a mishmash of old Oracle databases, insecure defaults and has a history of being breached.

Heck, up until the last year or two you could go to TracFone or any of their subsidiaries websites to refill/top up, type in a phone number on AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile and get the IMEI and sim number of the line, then use that to authenticate yourself as the end user with T-Mobile. The other details like name, address, birth date and such are publicly available in state voter rolls for the vast majority of account holders.

US carriers need to provide fraud prevention APIs for free that indicate whether a phone number has changed SIM card or IMEI # in the last week, and they also need to provide free access to their LRN databases so you can see if the carrier of a phone number has changed (eg: a port out attack).

As is, some banks have implemented the LRN query check already to deregister you from Zelle and phone number authentication when you call or text them for banking, but this significant cost burden due to phone provider insecurity should be borne by the industry creating the security problem.
> strong selection pressure going forward for people with a drive to have kids

This strong selection pressure also applies at the society level. See kid count differentials across various religions.
I really like using OpenStreetMaps, the maps are so much more readable than GMaps. And the map material itself is quite good too.
I only wish the search in OsmAnd was a lot better than it is.
Yeah, it's two different muscles for the rumbling vs clicking. Tensor veli palatini opens the eustachian tube and makes a click. The rumbling is from the tympani.
This is probably for people who are skipping sleep for work, and are therefore already cognitively compromised and making bad decisions.
> For hard real-time normal Rust (and I guess also Ada) is insufficient

Really? Expand on that please. I did not think so

> Soft real-time is absolutely doable with a GC

Some slippery definitions here. Clearly there is a middle ground (where I live) where rust works. GC languages do not

One GC pause, ever, is too many
It's buried in the article, but: "Coates was moving when the photo was taken, so when the shutter was pressed, many differing images were captured in that instant as the camera swept over the scene, since it was a panoramic photo capture."

So it's a pano doing normal pano things, but it's just surprising in context. If you have not yet tried it, you can have friends jump in and out of the frame as you slowly move across a scene and have silly photos where they appear more than once!

Edit: typo
Your point is 100% correct: I think immediately of how effective altruism turned into a contest of how many billions of lives you could save a century from now.

I can't go as far as saying "public good as the primary concern is unethical", because there's so many ways to twist abstract words.

I think immediately of someone saying the same thing about the Hippocratic Oath, or the Order of The Engineer, and they'd be just as correct. But the correctness is surface level: it is _rational_, but it is not practical.
I completely disagree.

A lot of people out there are doing things that they know are wrong but think that because they have a boss they no longer own the responsibility of behaving ethically. Check out all the testimony in the FTX trial for examples of this.
I think it will flip the tables completely. When "we" got into programming you more or less had to have aptitude for it and wade through dull documentation and still think it was fun to get anywhere. And there was a geek stigma. The recruiting body was really small for future programmers.

LLM are so much help to get a newbie to some sort of entry level it gonna flood the market compared to when we entered. And the pay has got really good too, in itself a big enough problem leading to flooding from bellow.
It's not artifice to point out that most contraceptives are not permanent, and don't prevent child-free people from choosing to have children later in their life. Calling those individuals an "evolutionary dead end" is entirely jumping the gun, and precludes the possibility that mature parents are more financially stable and well-educated.

Had my parents conceived me before they were 30, I'd have grown up destitute on the outskirts of Detroit. Giving people an alternative to adoption or abortion is important, even if you feel it's petty or antiproductive.
The hardship of having kids is not to be neglected. I have 2 and they're the people I love the most. The amount and sizes of sacrifices I had to make to have them and the continuous worry that something will happen to them... I'm always on the lookout. I can't fathom my life without them but I would imagine my life would have less worry.
911s aren't really about the straight lines. You can get a reasonably equivalent performing car for well less than half the price of the SC, so factor in that at least half the car's value comes from scarcity due to low production numbers and 911 halo effect. It's non-trivial to get these cars even if you can well afford them and they're considered iconic by many folks who love cars. All that said, this model is more of a collectible money grab to me than the car someone who loves 911s goes for -- I'm biased, 992 GT3 is more fun all day, and that's on a track where it belongs.
The fact you are asking should tell you something.

The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard.
Haven't there been a bunch of studies about this sort of thing? Lyrics aren't relevant to someone who doesn't understand language. Voice is just another instrument. Syllables are just notes.

Classical music is frequently cited as beneficial to learning and it has no lyrics. Nobody has ever suggested rap music is intellectually stimulating in any context, and they use a lot of words.

Even on rats in mazes, blasting them with Metallica seems to result in worse performance than Mozart. Myself, I can't work while listening to rap, rock or metal. Techno or classical only. Inducing a state of aggression/heightened arousal never leads to cogent thought (I can't work to Lords of Acid either!). There's a reason generals lead from afar.

I suspect music exposure may be related to autism in children, as a product of the spectrum of stimulation they're exposed to-- too much overall (urban life), too much of one type (war, domestic violence), or too little of any ("frigid mother"). The classical arts (a form of expression) are another thing that dropped off as diagnoses rose. We do not value art like we used to. Who owns a piano anymore?
> we no longer trust developers as much and we are re-introducing the complexity that we were fighting.

I hate this spin to somehow make it about not trusting developers to do their job right. As if it was an insult to test for correctness. Imagine skipping pre-flight checks for accomplished pilots, or load calculations for renowned bridge engineers.

This hubris of some software developers assuming to be hyper-correct geniuses really alienates me.
Lovely! I only learnt today that clickhouse has a git-import tool from my colleagues at ClickHouse. So if you also want to give it a go:

Download clickhouse:
curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh

Check out documentation for git-import:
./clickhouse git-import --help

Then the tool can be run directly inside the git repository.
It will collect data like commits, file changes and changes of every
line in every file for further analysis.
It works well even on largest repositories like Linux or Chromium.

Example of a trivial query:

SELECT author AS k, count() AS c FROM line_changes WHERE
file_extension IN ('h', 'cpp') GROUP BY k ORDER BY c DESC LIMIT 20

Example of some non-trivial query - a matrix of authors, how much code
of one author is removed by another:

SELECT k, written_code.c, removed_code.c,
round(removed_code.c * 100 / written_code.c) AS remove_ratio
FROM (
SELECT author AS k, count() AS c
FROM line_changes
WHERE sign = 1 AND file_extension IN ('h', 'cpp')
AND line_type NOT IN ('Punct', 'Empty')
GROUP BY k
) AS written_code
INNER JOIN (
SELECT prev_author AS k, count() AS c
FROM line_changes
WHERE sign = -1 AND file_extension IN ('h', 'cpp')
AND line_type NOT IN ('Punct', 'Empty')
AND author != prev_author
GROUP BY k
) AS removed_code USING (k)
WHERE written_code.c > 1000
ORDER BY c DESC LIMIT 500
> Boston's city hall

I had never seen it before and just looked it up, and I find it quite ironic that it could easily be mistaken for an eastern block administration building from the same era.
So is it definitely not a Mozilla issue but there’s no sensible issue tracker for it as a Microsoft issue?

You seem understandably frustrated. :/
Ukraine aid's best-kept secret: Most of the money stays in the USA
It isn't rhetoric, and I frankly don't care what some troll on the Internet thinks of my "quality." Professional ethics is something I deal with all the time. This ain't it.
probably :). I do wish where I live there was a track people could use. But going fast/high acceleration on public roads is just dangerous and involves those outside the car that didn't consent to the danger.
You were one minute faster :). Golf clap.
From what I've seen the filtration level between FFP2/N95 and FFP3/N99 doesn't make that much of a difference when it comes to covid.

Fit does.

The problem is the air going around the mask and through the seals, bypassing the filter entirely. As for the 99/95 in N99/N95, it is the percentage of filtration for a specific size of particle in controlled conditions, which may not be how effective it is at filtering virus aerosol particles. The N99 will most likely do better, but by how much? Just because the number suggest a 5x improvement doesn't mean it will be a 5x improvement, and all that is useless anyways if it leaks like crazy because of a bad fit.

But assuming the masks really are the reason for your lack of infections, maybe these FFP3s are simply a better fit. It is very possible as people have different faces.
Since you've brought up drones and smart bombs: What constitutes a war crime is a highly ethical and contentious issue with many people disagreeing on the exact scope. Yet, we've managed to write laws about it and get court decisions. Even if we want to, some things in life cannot be neatly packed into correct/incorrect categories. And the process alone of discussing whether smart bombs and killer drones should be build is helpful in shaping decisions on how exactly they will be build or not.
In the short-term it will unfortunately persist because technological and cultural changes happen faster than evolutionary ones.
Reminds me of this 20Q toy I had as a kid:
https://youtu.be/2C1No7cv84o?si=xAFibiv9LeVxM-rF
Hypothesis yet plausible scenario: Signal is actually a NSA/CIA-run honeypot.

As far as I know, nobody knows (for sure) what software runs on the official Signal servers. Only the official client app can be used to communicate with ONLY the Signal server.

US law (as far as I know) forces ALL US-based organizations (including non-profits) to cooperate with any and all government agencies, without being legally allowed to publicly admit or disclose that they're doing so. Thanks to Snowden we know that this has happened A LOT in the past. After Snowden, when exactly did the NSA stop illegally spying on everybody? ... Exactly...

With the above in mind it is possible that all Signal traffic is not actually e2e encrypted and is instead decrypted and re-encrypted at the server.

A less "far fetched" version of the above would be that there are simply known vulnerabilities in the Signal client app (and/or Android and/or iOS and/or other apps) that governments are exploiting to see all decrypted Signal communications.

IMO it would be extremely dumb for an EU country to voluntarily use software made in the US or in any other country if it isn't FULLY open source and FULLY audited (and compiled from source) by the EU country itself.

Just like it is extremely dumb that EU-based companies are PAYING to upload their own trade secrets to their direct competitors in the US through OneDrive.

If you think that the above is far-fetched, read this: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/switzerland-closes-inv...
Years ago, I worked for a small outsourced IT company. Basically running networks and systems for small mom and pop size businesses. The owner was the only successful salesman, and nearly our entire client base consisted of his MBA program classmates.

They all say his super pushy sales job and thought it was perfect. Almost everyone else would agree in person and cancel a day or two later over the phone. He was too pushy and no one wanted to deal with him long term.

Went to work for his competition, still only the owner was good at sales, but at least could sell to anyone who needed services.
The git CLI is notoriously irregular, as can be seen by your examples. Having a clean, regular language to query git objects seems valuable.
That's correct. If it had been only a billion, he would have cut a check for that and been done with the whole thing. He somehow convinced himself he could flip Twitter for a profit, or at least for a smaller loss than a settlement would have cost. You have to have some kind of ego to think that way.
People are already dying due to negligence and understaffing at long term care homes.

Why not just live the life you want and then check out on your own terms instead of rotting away in a filthy home?
>doesn’t make any sense to be child-free

"The world’s population is expected to increase by nearly 2 billion persons in the next 30 years"

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

Doesn't seem to be a problem for this generation.
Arguing by analogy and prejudice

I hate Microsoft for their demonstrated shady practices, I do not them for fictional sins they might, or probably not, committed
Office 365 Calendar broke for me a few weeks back and is still unusable. It forcibly leaps me weeks ahead whenever I try to scroll to today’s date. I literally cannot view my work calendar on my phone anymore.

I often wonder if they’re even capable of knowing there’s an issue.
Yes. I often feel concerned if I am not doing something productive. Being married with kids tempers that quite a bit.
You can no longer remove the location from a photo in Google Photos on Android
What is your comment meant to convey, except the fact you believe that, despite the available data, childfree people must really be going to regret not having children?

They do not express desire to have children. They do not have children. They do not regret that, even as their peers deal with theirs. What reason could possibly there be to believe that they would suddenly start regretting their decision after 70?

If it comes down to the fact they "won't have anyone to take care of them in their old age", I posit that their situation is not going to be very different from that of many bechilded people (modulo any money the childfree people might have saved by not having to provide for another human being), which will - and should, if having a "free" caretaker in their old age played a part in it - regret their decision.
You bring up the Hippocratic Oath, so let's use doctors as an example. If the "public good" takes precedence over the individual patient, then any patient with a communicable disease with a fatality rate should be euthanized. Do you think that's ethical?

Elevating public good as the primary concern necessarily means pure utilitarianism. There isn't a society on earth today that accepts pure utilitarianism as a valid ethical system.

And in countries that trend closer to pure utilitarianism, public policy is repugnant: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-venezuela...
Correct. The scale of this as a life misstep probably leads to some real mental gymnastics.
We don’t have that luxury in the US. It’s not that voters don’t want it, it’s that there is no feasible way to get there (without structural change to our voting system). Sure, US voters like the above comment have generally developed strong political identities to one of the two parties. But there is no chance for any third party under the current system. It allows for overwhelmingly entrenched party lines.

Should you as a voter choose to vote for a third party candidate, you’re basically voting against your second choice and for your last choice. “Voting for a third party is throwing away your vote” is a very real phenomenon, to the point here it is an actively exploited political strategy to promote third party candidates with overlapping views to your opponent to siphon off votes. See Russian interference promoting the Green Party in 2016 as an example.

And sure you could wave your ideals around and say “but you absolutely must vote for what you think is right, that is how change happens”. But in reality, under the US system that’s how you end up ensuring the least palatable party (to you) ends up in power. There are thousands of elections every cycle, and we have overwhelming empirical evidence that third party candidates are completely inviable at basically all levels of government.
https://archive.is/CIlEe
I use FreeOTP with it just fine.
Quite a way to go still until we reach Fast & Furious gear counts.
But after that, it’s actually expected to decline. Almost all of the developed world is below replacement level and the same phenomenon will happen to the developing world (already is in India).
How could a study take into account choice-supportive bias? (Also known as post-purchase rationalization)

When people make an impactful decision, they are highly motivated to find reasons why their decision was the right one - especially when the alternative is admitting being wrong, or having made a life-limiting error. Psychologically, it’s a lot easier to bury regret in denial than to face up to it.

Noting that those with and without children are both eligible to hold this bias.