skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't worry. There'll be jobs.

You've been reading too much Hacker News. There's a disproportionate amount of people who are employed and don't post.

People posting about their experiences of being laid off or having trouble finding a new job need to be heard. We are here to support them and have a good conversation, so they can get through this phase in their lives.

Life is somewhat unique, and you'll have your highs and lows. There's no way to prevent you from pain and suffering in life; whatever comes, you'll need to figure your way out, but only when it comes.

It would be best to do what you like instead of focusing on CS. Everything has cycles, and it seems we are at the end of one cycle. Soon enough, we'll have a new one.

Go enjoy your life and live day after day; also, please make sure to take care of your personal finances, never live above your means, and save some, and I'm sure you'll do just fine.

Worrying about the future won't solve anything.

Also, if you are concerned about AI and the current mentions from top industry experts that say we'll have AGI soon, it's all BS. They just want to fil their egos.

I wish there would be consequences for them to create such fuzz and this terrible mental state into others, by lying and making cocky predictions. But karma will make sure they'll get what they deserve.
They did say that, when they decided that what is playing is actually important to them, so if I can't get my Star Trek on my Netflix, I'm not going to pay for Netflix, it means that everyone has to make their own, exclusive content.
> (Netflix, Spotify and YouTube all blessed me with "all your downloaded content is gone" experience on long flights).

I've definitely had Netflix region-lock most of my content when I made the mistake of briefly switching on wifi to find my connecting gate at some airport. Apparently even though the content was available at my starting point and at my destination that didn't apply to the connecting country.

Have yet to hit that with Youtube, and I really hate Spotify so avoid using it.

> - Doesn't randomly disappear after 6 months when I started watching the series because some license expired.

A few days back Prime lost both of the two series that I was in the middle of watching at the start of February. Super-annoying!
PDM is a better tool in general, the documentation is not great though.

The big plus is: it supports mono-repos with multiple projects, unlike poetry.

The answer to some issues by the poetry team (including monorepo one) was along the line: “deal with it”.

Fine, switch to PDM.
The article goes on to describe the difference in approaches. What do you think of what they describe? Both governments pursue it, but by different definitions, and the US more aggressively. I'm not sure how your comment applies to that.
This opens also the possibility to steal money and then pretend that you were fooled by AI impersonating your boss to give you orders that you can't refuse. Sending fake videos of your boss to yourself. Create a smog curtain and give the police a digital hare to chase that does not exist. Wow. Looks like the plot of a new Netflix series.
Thanks for the post. I had also been using MessagEase for years and was blindsided by the popup and confused how there's almost nothing about it online. So now I'm googling for messagease stuff from the last week and found my way here, I guess this thread is buried and invisible on actual HN.

I jumped over to thumb-key for now and am treating the brain-breakage as just some healthy neuroplasticity exercise since I'm not very serious about mobile typing.
Well, in most sane countries "surprise bills" are illegal.

If I bring my car for maintenance and we agree on checking brake fluid and air filters, they cannot decide "Oh, the profiles of the tires are off, we'll change them". No one would need to pay them for this, as it was not agreed upon and is therefore not part of a contract.

So your case makes no sense at all.

Except that perhaps you life in an insane country, or are not well versed in basic contract law :-)
If the original comment was funny，I wouldn’t have downvoted.

But it’s just low effort, extremely online snark.
Free full paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26676734_Tiger_Moth...

Besides the fact that the sonar is needed for accurate ranging, as mentioned by another poster, these moths produce their sounds in response to the bat sonar, so their sounds would not be useful to find them without sonar.

As mentioned in the paper, there are also other kinds of moths which are poisonous and which do not jam the sonar, but which emit warning sounds that the bats learn to avoid.

Other moths also emit sounds, but those sounds do not prevent bats from hunting them, except perhaps for the first few times until a bat learns that those moths emitting sounds are good to eat, so their sounds do not have a jamming effect.
I think HN could cope by weighting upvotes/downvotes/flags more heavily based on the age and reputation of the user taking that action. It was distribute moderation responsibility to users a bit more.
Was anyone able to actually read this article? I was greeted by a barrage of popups and overlays that even broke the back button
>but they literally built the city to be a center for international conferences. //

Well, they literally enslaved foreign men to work as indentured workers, stripping their human rights, in order to build the city...
This is why public transport is so important. I can spend my 30 minute trip in reading the news or learning something rather than driving a car.
I recently replaced the battery on a gen 2 shuffle. It was reasonably easy though required good eyesight
Your right to buy electronics doesn't trump my right to a market undistorted by monopolist power.
What an interesting choice of platforms! How / where do you use them? Why them specifically?
For tracking pixels there’s also 204 No Content HTTP response which is 0 bytes
Makes sense! One way to to this is using the Daily Activity Schedule by psychiatrist Dr. David Burns. The schedule consists of two columns: The “Prospective” column, where you write and hour-by-hour plan for what you would like to accomplish each day, and the the “Retrospective” column, where you record what you actually did during the day. The simple act of filling the retrospective column each day pushes you to think about what you do, as you mentioned in your article.
i'm pretty sure lots of greek people know calculus, learning latin isn't that hard, and there are actual calculus textbooks in greek now anyway

if, on the other hand, you mean classical athens (platon and sokrates and all those dudes) then, no, they weren't, archimedes wasn't even born until like 180 years later
It's good not to breath for environmental reasons too.

In contrast, kids are necessary to stop overaging and the collapse of our society.
I'm getting kind of old, forty years ago I was across much of this and collaborated on a book about some physics of this nature after interviewing Oliphant.

The crux of many of the issues with either design was getting a sufficiently high number of neutrons being created within a dense enough source of further neutrons to ensure a full (as full as possible) fission reaction of all the fissile material.

Not quickly enough, or with too few neutrons and a "damp squib" would result - a fission reaction that starts, expands, and blows apart the source material with far less than the desired "full fission" release.

A fully symmetric spherical implosion compressing inwards all about a sub critical sphere (perhaps formed by bring halves together earlier) was one approach, another was rapidly bring together an excess and to compress a richer source | generator of neutrons for the extra boost to be sure.

There's more on that here:

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Scien...

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Scien...

and I'm more or less loathe to go on beyond what I can readily find online - although I doubt I can add much beyond what is on public record, I ultimately spent much of my career detecting radiation, environmental and weapons by products, rather than creating bursts of energy.
> Instead of spending all 30 minutes in the lunchroom, or surfing the web, he can do housework, do his daily errands, shopping, or what not.

This is by far the most beneficial part of working from home for me and one my employer semi-appreciates. Time to do those very short tasks which usually get dumped over on to the weekend.

Laundry for example. I put a load on before i start work in the morning, move it to the dryer a few hours later (when every office person is stood at the coffee machine) and fold / put away at lunch.

Its only 15-20 minutes of tasks but spread over four hours, it means i don't have to spend half a weekend day stuck at home.
Well, lets look at the data over at OurWorldIndata: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-un?tab...

Looks like the last time there was a big change was 1960, I assume that was the development of good birth control techniques. I'd theorise that families never really wanted children, and once given the means to make effective choices we discover that humans don't think it is that rational to have kids.

It is a weirdly philosophical problem - similar to what we will soon face with artificial intelligence - of what exactly are we trying to do as living entities. It is hard to find a path that isn't either nihilism or, from a factual and materialistic perspective, insanity.

I personally think this is probably a good thing. Evolutionary forces will push society above replacement rates sooner or later by whatever means it takes, but we should enjoy the window where we don't need to fight about resources for as long as is possible. If only the African nations would get their birth rates under control, anyway.
What is a "simple maintenance task" that requires you to bring the car in at the manufacturer?
Paytm, once India's hottest startup, sees its stock fall 80% since market debut
You could try using Yandex instead of Google. They're more than happy to list free options on the first page of results.
Excellent - would be interested to know how you get on with it.
>The error messages and diagnostics emitted by the language are the feedback mechanisms.

The error messages and diagnostics are emitted by the tools like compiler, linker or interpreter and are part of their interface. Language standard may codify some error messages, but language itself cannot present them to you because language is not a program.

>Just because a programming language is all text doesn’t mean that usability metrics don’t exist for it.

Just because some usability metrics can be applied to a programming language, it does not make it UI. Interface implies interaction. You do not interact with language - it cannot receive UI events and react to them, you interact with the tools that understand it.
For those of you who decided not to have kids in your 20s-30s, and are now in your 40s+, when changing that decision now becomes increasingly more difficult: did you regret it? Did your position of “I want to live my life, I don’t want the hassle or the cost, or there are too many humans already, or something else”, did that position change or weaken?

Asking for a friend :)
rules_pycross looks very interesting and is sorely needed in the Python ecosystem. I will follow its development!
I've been hoping to Spotify to go out of business since they went and took Rogan's podcast and a few others as Spotify-exclusive. Not always a Rogan fan, but he's occasionally had some interesting guests. However the Spotify experience was so bad I abandoned podcasts that required me to use their client.

(Suppose I should think of dialing back my Spotify hate a little now that apparently in the renewal they're no longer keeping Rogan as Spotify-exclusive)
I actually removed it after trying it to word it differently as I knew someone would pick on this instead of focusing on my main point. Thanks.
My three biggest pet peeves are:

- You can't turn your queue into a playlist (and you can't see previous queue as part of the queue, only as limited history.)

- Clicking a song or album sometimes clears your queue and starts playing that instead (I know there is a logic to it, but a mistake or mis-click is easy).

- There is no shortcut to add to queue, just long press then find the menu item.

It's possible everyone else is only listening to albums or curating playlists then playing them, but I like to pick things as I go like a jukebox and it sucks at it.
It is just a theory, but i think, apps were often written by people, who want to avoid conversations with strangers, who can exert some kind of power, who say no arbitrarily, because they can. At some point it took off and it became business as usual and since then its rolling.

But i suspect there is much more and many people are not like that. It should be richer and not so monotone.
> if we scale the activations in a particular layer in a non-linear network, some neurons in later layers may ‘activate’ or ‘deactivate’.

Normalization removes this problem. Magnitude information can still be encoded separately in a log form so differentiation can still happen when scale matters, but scaling doesn't have much impact by default (small initial weights following magnitude element).
I "operate" 92 Toyota Corolla just fine without it spying on me
That sounds complicated.

I would say if one cannot live without a smartphone (for stuff like banking and all + instant messaging) a good middle ground between a dumb and a smartphone is a kaios (formerly FirefoxOS) phone + an android or ipad tablet for home. KaiOS phones usually have a small screen and are underpowered which limit the appeal of browsing and doing too much shit on social medias but the basics are there:
- google maps
- whatsapp
- a web browser
- wikipedia
- note taking
- audio player
- a small camera (not for nice pictures but to snap information)
- 2FA OTP app

Usually all the stuff you might really need an android for (banking, healthcare, whatever) can wait for you to be home but you can still decide to bring a tablet in a bag when you know you will need it for a specific task (or when travelling).
fpick – Interactive File Picker
Interactive file picker to traverse through directories tree in a terminal
> Look at yourself and be clear about this: we're thinning, the typical white middle-class couple is facing extinction.

> Society needs fixing, not having less kids. Smart people need to have kids too.

Society needs fixing to preserve the place of the white middle class?

I am, to be clear, a well-educated white single man over 40 (who has enough to do without this restaurant-based existence you think is the apotheosis of childlessness). But I think society needs fixing so that I am not in a class protected by privilege. So far I think the threat of extinction is having no meaningful impact either way.
Microsoft was an early IPv6 adopter, they even experimentally "forced" it onto their customers by making their DirectAccess VPN tech IPv6 only! They control both Azure, and the OS it runs on (Windows). Sure, bits of it runs on Linux, but they have their own distro of that too that they control (Mariner).

This would be more like complaining that Linus Torvalds prefers not to use open source software.
The environmental argument against kids insults me (not that you should care). As if it's a binary choice between preserving the environment and preserving our species. I like to think that humans of tomorrow will find ways to solve problems we don't yet know how, so that we can save the environment and our species :)

That said, here's a fine poem in support of your angle:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48419/this-be-the-ver...
It does indeed happen. There seems to be a few different types of it. Sometimes a whole band will just disappear off the platform - chalk it up to contractual disagreement. Sometimes a particular album will not be available on Spotify, but other albums from the same band will be - likely some issue with the label that produced the album. Finally, sometimes the particular version of the song you like (e.g. a certain live version, acoustic version, whatever) will disappear but others will remain (e.g. studio version).

However, it really doesn't happen that often. I probably have a few thousand songs save on Spotify and perhaps a dozen have been taken off after many years of using the platform.
But not any commercial use, only that which is covered by the license.

Whereas the copyright holder has broader rights.

So a licensed user is not “equally entitled”.
Your main point is, to be clear, inherently discriminatory on a basis that looks a lot like a shallow proxy for race.
People who don't care about the environment are breeding like rabbits. Their children, too, won't care about the environment.

The best thing you can do for the environment is to find someone as passionate as yourself and create a large family of conscientious, thoughtful, active environmentalists.
Yeah I get the feeling that the “I’m so productive now that I’m not being interrupted by coworkers” is basically “we don’t communicate with each other anymore”
Dude I make fun of everyone. Left-handed people, fat people, white people, nerds, drummers, vegetarians, vegans, meat eaters, comics, inmates, journalists, rich people, laborers, poor people (I’ve been all of these things). Chinese and black moms, Polish people, my half-breed kids, cops—-as with Bourdain in that quote, I often make affectionate fun of people through exaggeration.

They almost always get the joke. I don’t give a flying Wallenda about those who don’t. Life’s too short. People love laughing at themselves and their cultures. And they love laughing at others even more.
Because it's not the high-water mark of childless existence?
Yes, going by how easily that stuff all ends us being leaked, it very much appears like that information is desperate to be free. Keeping it tied down is difficult work.
8MB RAM! would be a luxury in 1997.

I would likely use Hotdog[1] for the website. It came in a CD with a Magazine and that is how I learnt what HTML was (before I ever got connected to the Internet).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog
I also had some fun thinking on a tiger moth jam, and how that may have batted a sonar.
Fantastic, thank you - will watch it carefully... ha 7 years!
There is an open discussion on this in Python community:

https://peps.python.org/pep-0735/
I'm developing a wasm game, and currently I am targeting WebGL2 in order to run in iOS Safari.

Me (and others, I'm sure) are currently waiting for WebGPU [1] to land in Safari so it will make sense to target it.

WebGPU allows for simplified porting of desktop games to the web, such as WGSL shaders [2]

WebGPU will be the next big thing [3], and currently it is enabled on Chrome Windows/macOS, and can be enabled in Firefox Nightly with a config setting.

There's also an issue with limited language support. For example golang still has some stuff left to stabilize around the WASI, and the resulting binaries are rather large.

In rust, things look better. I can compile a release of my game to about 8MB .wasm file, which gzipped sits at around 3MB. Most other tooling I have looked at produces far larger wasm binaries, which makes it a no-go for mobile apps.

Hopefully, 2024 will be the year of WebGPU!

1: https://caniuse.com/?search=webgpu

2: https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/

3: https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/wiki/Implementation-Status
The system prompt has a typo:
You are an _excerpt_ Ruby developer
He is just the face of a massive content farm spitting out lots and lots of low quality videos on like 10 different channels.
> the privacy scene

lol

> Also I think the shift to SSDs from spinning rust delayed the adoption of widespread video piracy 10-ish years ago

Huh? 500GB (and more) drives became available at 2006 and by 2008 dropped below $150.

Also there was no demand for extra-high-wanna-see-every-original-pixel quality, so XviD releases with atrocious quality but a fine file size were common and were fine on 40-80-250GB drives in 2001-2005.

> you can create a large library very quickly

Music library and video library are a different things. While the most people 'store forever' the music they dloaded (well, they were back in 2000s, probably not so much today), the video library is mostly useless for the most, because it's dloaded for 1-time consumption.
IMO Nickel looks better in this regard as it allows you to use typing only when it helps. Plus, it has contracts that complement the type system.
The author might want to check out the orderless completion style which goes even further and matches the groups in any order, so in the example the string "emacs articles" would also match (as well as "em art" etc.)

I used Emacs full time for more than a decade without fully understanding completion and that meant I wasn't able to tweak it to my liking. Things would break and I didn't understand why. Although I think company is probably the most polished and best in-buffer completion UI there is, using modular components like eglot, orderless and corfu has helped me to understand the various aspects of completion and get it all working how I want it.
... ok, I can see how the host MAC segment could be an issue if the UUID is generated "client" side and distributed..

What's the risk (in terms of "pwning") when the UUID is generated on a server?
That weekly bus/train was in Ireland, funnily enough.

> most of my chance interactions lately come from talking to other parents while my kids play in the street or playground.

I think there's a signal here that's the difference. If I'm on a bus, I probably don't want to talk to anyone. Similarly, if I'm in a grocery store, I don't want to talk to someone in the baking aisle, I just want sugar. But if I'm out with my kid/dog, I know that's an inherently more sociable situation that may end in an interaction.

> Sure, usually it's a pleasant hello and then not much, but sometimes you meet people you get on with really well.

I've a dog and live in Edinburgh, I've found that the people I get on with are people I see repeatedly. Neither of us made the effort the first time, but after 2 weeks of seeing each other every morning at 8:30 in the rain and the dogs saying hello to each other, you can end up talking. I immediately have more in common with this person than going to the same destination as them, for example!
I had my first child in my mid 30's, and one of my friends started when both him and his partner were in their 40's. No regrets, but the biological challenges can be very real -- my friends had to use IVF for both their pregnancies.

I don't know anyone who had kids a bit later in life who regretted it purely due to their age. Though being now in my mid 40's I think I would struggle with the sleep deprivation and noise of a new baby....
The irony of this being hosted on Getty Images is not lost on me
Life is what any of us make it. The antinatalist position is fundamentally fatalistic. It’s a total negation of the one redeeming feature of the universe: anything could happen.

I respect not having kids. The idea that you’re inherently better off not having kids is nonsense.
> “In light of the compelling consumer proposition, piracy services are subject to rapid global growth”

I bet they are seeing this as some sort of push by criminals to take viewers away from streaming platforms, or at least that's how they will present it. And 0% of those millions they invest in fighting piracy will go towards actually making a more compelling consumer proposition.

And I guarantee that none of them will mention how piracy has always existed and was always an option. There is no new tech that suddenly appeared like P2P in the early 2000s.

The real statement should have been "We finally got so greedy and icompetent that it's driving more and more users to piracy."
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