skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SF's development was also essentially stalled during that period, and the current owner has to do much more things other than (proper) management to cope with competitors. If you need a proof, compare SF with Gitea/Forgejo.
Economists call these Veblen goods. The high price is the point and counter-intuitively increase demand since the goal is to display wealth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
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I'm in medicine.
Hefty fees and wide adoption of such practices could help to adjust drivers' behaviour. By adoption I mean both in more areas and make driver license exams harder.

When I moved to NL I was at first annoyed by the speed limits of 30km/h in residential areas but after a while I understood and started respecting the limits.
It is actually cheaper than many luxury handbags that are not handcrafted, have less parts, and are less durable.

So yes, it is expensive because of tradition, but it is also a well made, practical item.
> Insane amounts of progress on robust hardware: Tesla Optimus

He lost me at this one. Tesla will need a lot more public verifiable proof of progress to look past the "guy in a spandex suit" thing...
And build smaller cars
Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace
While I appreciate the author's work, I suggest ditching Google Search altogether in favor of DuckDuckGo or anything else. At this point I only use Google when I need to buy something, as Google has become an expert in finding products tailored to my needs (but not in checking knowledge/facts - my go to here is ChatGPT/Wikipedia)
Eva is on some level a parody of Gundam used to explore adult themes of depression, isolation, loneliness, parental conflict, and figuring out your sexual identity. It's more like Akira or Ghost in the Shell than it is like Pokemon or One Piece. For an American analogy, it's like Watchmen vs. Superman. Watchmen is a case of taking the kids entertainment of superhero comics and using it to explore more adult topics.
> everyone has a different budget for observability

Wouldn't open source software make sense here? I may be too naive, but hosting 3 different services which communicate with each other instead of 1 service handling all that stuff would make more sense to me. Just my opinion as I have been recently engaged in this observability space.
With the high demands of work and school ramping up (just like in Japan ...) - who has time and energy for that? Especially with either the long commutes and/or the multiple jobs necessarily to keep one from being homeless? (look up country-wide median incomes to find out how many people are affected, especially cross referenced even roughly against rentals/housing and other costs of living).

Japan ref is just due to reading a lot of references to "why is the population shrinking?" discussions read over some years..
An Overdose Antidote Becomes a Tricky Issue at Some Nightclubs
Don't focus on the film or music industry. If you walk around any city in China, you'd see McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, and Starbucks all over. People use iPhones everywhere. American brands and marketing are all over China.

Come to the US and what Chinese products/services do you see?

The level of anti-country propaganda isn't close to being equal.
Fair use is irrelevant here as no small business would ever risk court dragging even though they are in the right. Especially since breaking ToS and "business damage" are easiest attachments to any lawsuit related to digital space.
https://archive.ph/JawjT
I think it depends on the porn in question. Would I be upset if I discovered my teenage son had some playboys stashed in his room? Probably not, no.

People are upset about the privacy and free speech aspects of this law, as well as the annoyance of having to hand over your personal information for something as basic to human nature as your sexuality. I think there's a 100% chance that there will be a data breach at some point and a bunch of people will have their porn habits leaked to the web. Not to mention the chilling effects when it comes to something like looking up more taboo kinks and not wanting your ID associated with that.

It's not just porn. I'm a member of the furry fandom. I regularly publish fiction in that community, I have life long friends in that community, it's a community that has helped me through a lot of dark places in my life, a community where I can explore taboo subjects in a safe setting. For most people it may just be 'porn', material they use to jerk off, but the fandom is a major part of my life. E621 and other sites aren't even necessarily 'pornographic', I rarely look at 'furry porn' to masturbate as a matter of fact. I'm being 100% honest when I say I follow the artists I follow for the art. It's just that in the furry fandom things like depicting sexuality aren't necessarily taboo.

Preventing other people from participating in this community, whether it's fear that their identity is going to be leaked correlated to their fursona, concern over increased tracking of possibly undesired sexual minorities, or just the pain in the ass required to take that first plunge and sign up for E6, feels like an attack on a major part of my life.

And personally, I don't feel like I should have to take responsibility for some parent who freaks out every time their kid sees breasts, but isn't willing to install parental controls on their fucking computer.
I can barely keep track of the number of languages that exist today. I feel like the answer is Wikipedia, but it would be great to have a central resource that language authors and communities could contribute to. Just answering the questions:

- What is the origin of the language?

- What use cases are the language best suited for?

- Language highlights?

- Language examples?

- Maybe language comparisons?
When I asked the question, I was mainly looking for languages with no GC, and can AOT compile to a static binary. C interop is a bonus.
Low risk, medium rewards: do more programming competitions. If anything, it reduces paralysis. Less paralysis is a good thing if I need to interview this year, though.

Medium risk, medium reward: deep diving further into the languages and paradigms I already use. Kotlin, Java, Android, MVVM, reactive programming, React programming, coroutines, CI/CD. Maybe even a layer down - things like camera, fonts, UI rendering. Not just what it can do but how it does it. Ideally learning enough that doing these things would be second nature. But is it good ROI with the economic situation? There's less need to hire the top 0.1%, I can sit happy at the top 1%.

High risk, high returns: Learn Ren'Py.

Non-technical: move in to a new place. Find a new school that doesn't kill the kids or kill my finances. That should be enough goal for one year.
> It amazes me that there is so little familiarity with Decision Tables.

They are just another language, overtly verbose, with no opportunity for a clean presentation of your ideas, that convey the exact same information you encode on your code, and isn't any more clear to laypeople than code.

That stuff has some utility in a place or another, but if you are really thinking about making people fill one up, you should look into letting those people use a real programing language.
> Why is it bad for our kids to see two humans have sex?

Because porn is not sex. In the same way that candies are not food.
>One problem with very progressive taxation is you become dependent on relatively few people, possibly with their own income sources undiversified. If these people move, the stock market has a flat year, or the tech sector gets hit, that's a lot of money, even if 95% people in the state are still doing ok.

Such as what happened to New Jersey when one person, David Tepper, moved to Florida.
How to celebrate the New Year in Greenland
Would be more convincing coming from someone working at Boston Dynamics.
Bye bye Quora!
Haskell is more than a stretch, should've just left it out
No, I just don't care about PornHub personally.
Well the thing to understand is "institutionalized" people can be pushed off whatever track they are on.

You just need to push. Great leaders do it all the time.

I have seen it happen when leaders are clear about what they want to achieve. Leaders who change goals and values with the wind end up on hamster wheels to nowhere.

A great example of it in large corps is the ability to push financial engineers around. Ofcourse you need finance background in addition to whatever your base skills are or its hard to pull off.

So financial engineers will show up to meetings with all kinds of tools to leverage cross border tax rate/interest rate/labor cost/currency/real estate/rent/insurance gaps. Plus ways to use large corp financial muscle to snuff out competition, play market capture games etc.

These guys are great to have on the team especially when the corp is going through bad times.

But when the tide turns and the skills of others shine, I have seen two kinds of leaders. One who gets so mesmerized by what profits financial engineering can achieve, they forget what their own strengths, goals, values and defer to finance logic.

But I have also seen leaders who will just push the financial engineer out of the room or convince them of some direction that will break their model. And its funny to watch cause no one can really argue against great profit making financial models. But it happens all the time when leaders know where they want to go.
Not shocked that a biased commenter immediately tries to imply that MOTB is peddling lies without taking the time to find that the MOTB funded the research and analysis on suspicion of forgery and published the detailed report of the findings.

https://www.museumofthebible.org/dead-sea-scroll-fragments
https://museumofthebible.cdn.prismic.io/museumofthebible/8ee...
They're crazy! (Checks how much I have spent on stupid phones...). Ah##!
I'd love to know the relative environmental impact of buying:

1. A single high-quality $400 leather randoseru to last six years

2. A single high-quality $200-$400 ripstop nylon bag with high quality zippers, etc (essentially, GoRuck quality level) to last for life

3. Six years' worth of $50 Jansports that last maybe ~3 years each

4. Six years' worth of cheapass $15 Amazon Essentials level nylon bags that last ~1 year each under heavy daily use
It is not, it is the exact opposite.

"Lastly, pornography use has been associated with an increased likelihood of committing both verbal and physical acts of sexual aggression.

With the correlation being significantly stronger for verbal rather than physical aggression, but both were evident."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/606dc23be90e0...
I don't agree on that. If they're doing it safely, more power to them.

There's no line around sex that makes it different than other things.
Earlier comments covered this, but legal recourse here is only feasible if the party filing the DMCA notice isn't actually authorized to represent the copyright holder. The validity of the copyright infringement claim is the purpose of the lawsuit, an QG can't go after you after the fact for having lost the case.
Sentencing has not occured yet. Sentencing has now been pushed back to mid-May.

https://ia801508.us.archive.org/25/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.5...
I should not have included Haskell, more than a stretch.
Show HN: We made a flamethrower out of scrap toys at a hackathon [video]
I initially thought we were talking about a lower age range than the 18-30 in the article. Which age range do you have in mind?

Even at 18-30 I don't think a decline is inherently bad. I think it entirely depends on the reason. Are men becoming less socialized? More addicted to porn? Sure, thats bad. Are they being more mindful of who they have sex with? Good. Are a smaller share of men having a larger percentage of sex? Hard to make a ruling on that one.
There are HTML versions but they don't seem to reflow

example:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/rudolph-erich-raspe/the-su...

A bit offtopic, but I never understood why .epub is a thing. For instance the linked HTML/XHTML version seems to work just fine (except for the reflow thing.. but I assume that a CSS issue)

.epub seems to be mostly HTML with a few pieces missing. I guess I don't understand why we needed a new format? and not just use a strict HTML subset?

I'd love some strict HTML subset that indicated the file can be used offline. I personally try to make all my webpages so that they can be saved to disk and opened from a single file (though if you embed images/videos this becomes problematic). But I don't have a way to indicate to a reader "Hey you can Ctrl+S this webpage". I'd publish .epub, but the browser won't open them
I think it's pretty rational given capitalism's explicit focus on short-term profit at the expense of negative externalities. Workers are replaceable. The US outsourced its manufacturing sector. Now the same people who oversaw that process would like to outsource the service sector.

I'm not a fan of the status quo, but it's clearly functioning as designed. The cruelty of this mostly affecting individual artists and their ability to generate a living rather than behemoths like Disney is absolutely the point.
Hi! Wanted to share this cool project me and some friends worked on during the summer of '23, now that the video is finally edited. It was an incredible experience, hope you like it :)
But maybe the Japanese value some of their traditions and want to keep them alive. There’s nothing wrong with that either.
Sometimes capitalisation matters are close to purely stylistic, but other times they really are part of the content, guiding pronunciation or emphasis, so that lowercasing them harms the work. What is your opinion of my assessment in the above comment of some of the specific changes in <https://github.com/standardebooks/charles-dickens_a-christma...>?
In the context of LLMs, graphs or their simpler cousins - trees are surprisingly good as both inputs and outputs.

My team builds LLM-based features as part of our b2b SaaS product.

The primary challenge is how to get fuzzy, incomplete, heterogeneous business knowledge into LLMs and do something useful with it. Trees have been excellent. Even simple cases like summarizing content, there is a big improvement in relevance, accuracy and precision.
Good to know that as a self-published author myself that the quality of any site is going to drop as soon as I put my book on there.

Every other book I read now is by an author with NO rating, I have read six this year, none were memorable, or my cup of tea I will give you that, but two of the four- or five-star offerings on Amazon were just as bad. As they say, if you don't open an oyster, you will never find a pearl.
I've got two kids and I work from home. If you really really need to focus, the get out of the house. Even with someone watching your small kids at the house, your lizard brain is still monitoring ALL the noise in the house, expecting some kind of disaster. (Your kids will be at home around the clock for the first year, or three.)

My (awful) hack is that I stay up really late while the house is quiet.

As a first time dad, do as many diapers as you can, wash and dry all of the bottles and/or pumping stuff you can, get the kid in and out of the car as much as you can, and just do everything you possibly can. No matter how exhausting it is, it's orders of magnitude easier than pregnancy, birth, and the first year for your wife. She'll definitely appreciate it, and it'll really help your marriage.
as this fantastic video about the popcorn button explains. Our economic race to the bottom has been sabotaging almost every aspect of engineering in our society. To save a few cents per microwave, the cheap microwaves don’t include a humidity sensor and then lie about having a popcorn button when it can’t actually work properly, which leads to everyone saying “don’t use the popcorn button” and now nobody uses the popcorn buttons even on microwaves that actually have a humidity sensor and a working popcorn button.
I've addressed many of those problems with a bunch of different tricks:

- I have a simonw/notes repo which will NEVER be public, which is for me to put issue threads in for things that aren't part of one of my other repos, or that I want to keep private. I sometimes change my mind and transfer issues out into other repos using this trick: https://til.simonwillison.net/github/transfer-issue-private-...

- I frequently run searches across every issue in my "simonw" GitHub profile, which covers both my public and private issue repos

- I also built https://github-to-sqlite.dogsheep.net/github/issue_comments - a separate Datasette search interface across 10,000 issue comments from my various repos. I use that a lot less now that GitHub search has improved though.

- For tying issues together, I use GitHub Projects - which can contain issues from multiple repos in a single place. I use that for my personal TODO list, and for collaborations with other people that span multiple repos.

- I link issues together a LOT - if you add a "- #123" Markdown bullet point list in a GitHub issue comment it will turn each bullet point into a fully displayed link to the referenced issue, including its open or closed state.

- You can use this for checklists too: "- [ ] #123" will turn into a checkbox which automatically checks itself when the referenced issue is closed.

- I use GitHub labels for things like "Research" to mark issues which are longer running research things as opposed to active bugs or features.
honestly I still don't get why I need zig, modern c seems just fine for daily coding, what are the must-see selling points that can attract c programmers to switch?
Seems like a great way to ensure money is spent within the local economy.
The backpacks look amazing.

In Canada catholic high schools students still wear uniforms. The uniforms are made to last. And the Canadian company that makes them has been in business for 50 years.
> Today, kids in the U.S. don't even tote many (or any) books, most of the content and schoolwork takes place on a lightweight Chromebook that stays in the classroom.

Not in Japan, according to the article.
I use felt, tesa or fitness tape. It’s almost like adhesive cloth, so it has small holes in it that leak light but block most light almost like polarized lenses. Put it on all kinds of devices and it numbs the bright LED lighting substantially.
I got a free backpack with my new Thinkpad laptop recently.
It's light, well designed, mass produced, easy to personalize
- would take this over the 450$ school bags any time of the year.

Just to be clear: you're using your freebie bag to carry a laptop and not 6kg/13lb of schoolbooks, correct?

Something tells me the answer is "yes" which kind of makes me wonder why you're mentioning it

Do you also drive around in a compact car and think "man this is so much better than a school bus" and pat yourself on the back every time you see a school bus
Rather uncharitable response if you read the article.

> Loll insisted on independence. Not only would the Museum of the Bible have no say on the team’s findings, her report would be final—and would have to be released to the public. The Museum of the Bible agreed to the terms. “Honestly, I’ve never worked with a museum that was so up-front,” Loll says.
This isn't really the math. A $50 backpack from a decent brand will easily last 5-10 years under normal use. You aren't getting anything extra in terms of durability from the $400+ worth of exotic materials and handcrafting. It's a signal of social status, like any other piece of luxury fashion, but not much more than that.
offtopic: earlier you were talking about serialization formats https://cpp.libhunt.com/protobuf-alternatives
https://nitter.net/DrJimFan/status/1740041712184246314
My kid has been using the same $100 bag for his entire school career. He’s in 5th grade and walks to school over a mile 90% of the year. In a northern climate. That bag looks like it will last another 5-10 years.

Frankly, his classmates have cheaper bags with similar outcomes so I doubt price is highly correlated with performance past a certain price point.
epub is just a collection of zipped HTML, CSS FONTS and images and as bog standard as you can get. You can open it with a Zip extractor and see.
No, Windows has a list of specific "generic device classes" where it will automatically load a generic driver. Mass storage and HID are the primary users of this.

But if it doesn't fall into one of those buckets Windows just doesn't enable the device whatsoever.

As noted in the article macOS and Linux do the opposite. They allow userspace programs to enumerate unknown USB devices and manually communicate with them.
I don’t know if there’s a formal method, but there is a method – given an English word, I can almost always figure out how to say it as an English-to-Japanese loanword. Somehow. I think it’s just something that comes naturally once you understand the phonetics?
I believe "Nvidia AI Lead" isn't accurate (and unnecessary here).

Author seems to have been working for only about 2 years since their PhD. While that shouldn't mean their opinion should be disregarded, it undermines the appeal to authority that is implied in the title.
Mostly because the definition of decent life has shot upwards way faster than economic standards.

From fixed standards, the median kid being raised today is doing way better than 100 years ago, even though people chose to have way more kids 100 years ago:
- Cars were death traps.
- Dying in infancy and 20s, 30s was common.
- Very few people went to college.

100 years ago, no one felt "indecent" to raise a kid they can't afford to send to college, or knew at a 1% chance of dying due to malnutrition. Now, for many people, they would feel indecent bringing someone into the world in that state.
Yes it could. The boss seems to show strong tendencies of narcissism. Narcissists gather so called “flying monkeys” around them which fuel their sense of superiority and they bind them through various techniques to them (until they are also discarded). In this case the narcissist the PowerPoint-mockup people are these flying monkeys, feeding the narcissist all the grandiose ideas and it gives the narcissist a high for going towards that idea - similar how somebody just announcing they will do a hard task, e.g. stop smoking will make somebody feel good immediately before even reaching that goal.

Then, the people to whom the actual task of implementing it was left can’t deliver the grandiose perfectionist idea, and the narcissistic boss can and actually wants to fiercely abuse their power over them in order to feed on the high of superiority and control over them. It’s the perfect position for this kind of person, they can feel high all the time (eventually the tolerance will kick in and the boss must leave though but this can take some time).

Organization-wise it’s a bad boss really. It’s the job of the creatives to come up with great ideas, then the boss should moderate that working together with the feedback from the implementers. Instead the boss is due to personal weakness too suggestible against the creatives and puts the damage of his own making on to the team with bullying.
If people found time to have sex in the middle ages, I daresay there's not currently a novel lack of time and overburden of work keeping modern people from having sex.

And, indeed, as the post concludes its investigation:

>> To summarize the main points:

>> The sexlessness epidemic has likely been exaggerated as the GSS data appears to have began with an underestimate and ended with an overestimate judging by the subsequent survey results and more reliable survey data

>> The trend which does exist doesn’t appear to be gendered but is affecting both genders equally, even if the implications aren’t the same for each gender

>> About half of the sexless men may be voluntarily so
Yeah but people let their kids have candy, you're just supposed to guard them against overindulgence or damage to their health...

Also by definition porn /is/ visual depictions of sex.