skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uh, poor people have way more kids:

Not in a wealthy country like the US they aren't.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/562541/birth-rate-by-pov...

Poor people get the burdens of a rich economy (ex: increasingly complex living) but have far fewer resources to offset them.
Does this account for macroeconomic effects?
The long tail is really the important thing. Most things over the last 10 years ended up binary: either almost no one used it, or everyone used one thing. All efforts by centralized services to take it over have failed. And most of those efforts were only viable in the now fading overheated market driven by free money.
Gibson > Stephenson

Whenever I think I am remembering Snow Crash, I’m actually thinking of characters and plot lines from Neuromancer!
TSMC fab construction site in the US is a popular target for drone video and such videos are regularly uploaded to YouTube. I watch them, and there is no evidence of stopping.

My understanding is that TSMC is happy with construction, and their main worry is CHIPS act. No CHIPS act fund is actually distributed to advanced fabs yet because US government has so many conditions.
And don't forget we're mostly getting men's views here too.
Show HN: Windows 95 themed Portfolio site
So, I've been working on my portfolio site and am glad it's completed now.
Giving your valuable feedback or reviews on this would be great.

github- https://github.com/useDeep/portfolio-v0

ps Have a nice day.
>> The reality is that the "dark" majority of preexisting code has essentially no performance requirements/concerns; they're business scripts that could literally run on a toaster with no problem if you could get the code onto it.

Which means this whole thing is pointless from an end user point of view. The technology stack is getting very deep - Python, Rust interpreter, WASM, in a browser. I'd love to get back to running things on a toaster with no dependencies.
>> fund a panda refuge in Montana

For those wondering, https://www.zoomontana.org/animals/red-panda.
This is a phrase that consistently bugs me-everyone just copying one another and repeating it.
> Ideally, it should be introduced after lambdas

Like syntactic sugar over `func`? Since func can already be anonymous and passed around just fine, I don't expect them to add additional syntax for functions.
Thing is, fab building, integrating production machinery, fab supply chain, and operations still has a lot of special sauce in it. Some of those factors are not affected by transistor physics converging at a limit.

But, for less than cutting-edge chips, if your budget is a bit more than for printing on paper, it's getting there.
Loved Seveneves, but it is one of the best examples of his not having an ending.
"On the other hand, there were these students who live-LaTeXed math lectures on their laptops..."

I'd suggest very few could actually do that successfully. First, they'd have to be truly fluent touch typists—that is being able to keep their eyes fully focused on the lecturer and being fully fluent in LaTeX.

And I'd suggest that's a very tall order if say the lecture was on math or physics—say on a topic such as the Navier–Stokes equations. Not only would their eyes be focused on the lecturer and what he/she's writing on the blackboard but they'd have to be sufficiently fluent in LaTeX math to enter rows of partial differential equations on-the-fly and be completely wordperfect about it.

No doubt there will be a few exceptional people who can perform such a feat but I'd bet the number would be miniscule.

Edit: when I was taking lecture notes I'd often resort to transcribing lectures from recordings to get the stuff that I missed or that wasn't clear at the time of the lecture. Unfortunately, back then there were very few video recordings of lectures which meant that transcribing math, physics etc. was essentially out of the question.

There were however audio cassette recording of subjects where visuals were less important such as philosophy. Even with these subjects I found that transcribing the audio into coherent notes was timeconsuming and difficult and often it required me to replay sections of the tape over and over. This was worthwhile as it drove the lectures home but it was damn hard work.
It would be great if you had a link or source for the claims on the page before you start.
Your two examples aren’t quite equivalent.

true = false

raises a match error while

true <- false

in a with statement doesn’t.

You can actually use true = false in your with statement, but it will still raise the match error.
"The world is looking at a debt crisis that will span the next 10 years and it’s not going to end well, economist Arthur Laffer has warned"

You lost me there. The famous Laffer curve is empirical nonsense, why should anyone trust the author here, and what are his motives?
Everything is only something. The question is more how much it costs to produce and distribute that thing, and who is paying for it, and whether they negotiated for exclusive hosting rights as part of their financing deal. Joe Rogan’s podcast is just an audio file, but Spotify pays to make it so only they can host it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39274882
GDPR is dumb. All government regulations are dumb.

The only regulation that works is self-regulation. The way to ensure that companies self-regulate is by punishing them (directors and shareholders) harshly whenever they cause harm or damage.
Made it to 45 seconds before looking at the clock - though i had the mouse over the circle so it was greyed and in the middle I needed to move it around because it was distracting.

Cool site though. How long does the "mental boost" last for? I.e. 1 min of focus for x amount of boost?
"Gentle Parenting" is another instance. It could mean that you set boundaries but are more cautious about how you give punishments, attempting to fit the punishment to the bad deed. Or it could mean that you let the child do whatever they want and give them everything, teaching them that there are no negative consequences to their actions and that others are there to serve them.
I like the current system; it makes different users' choices comparable to each other, so the overall ranking shown afterwards is conceptually coherent. "Unlimited choices ranked by ordinal numbers" would make everyone incomparable with everyone else.
Having been involved in podcasting for almost a decade now, I take a generally pessimistic view of the future the RSS based distribution system of podcasts. It largely only exists because of decisions made by Apple many many years ago that they have not gone back on. They set their APIs to public which allows a podcaster to submit to Apple and then all of the various podcast distribution platforms can pull in that data to allow you to subscribe to the RSS on their platform. Apple's introduction of Podcast Subscriptions was their first move away from this model (with Apple hosting the audio) and I wouldn't be surprised if they moved to get more control in the future.

When Spotify entered the market they paid a lot of money for exclusive content, but for the 99% of podcasters their interaction with the space was the same as Apple, submit your RSS and it serves it from your hosting. However, Spotify also bought two podcast hosting platforms: Anchor and Megaphone which ends up blurring that line a bit. As far as I know the Anchor/Megaphone hosted podcasts are not treated differently by Spotify, but that could change at any time.

The recent change from Google with the retiring of Google Podcasts in favor of Youtube Music is a tremendous step in the opposite direction. Youtube Music does NOT use the RSS based distribution method, with podcasters uploading their files directly to Youtube. Google even offers an RSS import.

From all of the metrics I have seen the above three platforms make up 80%+ or so of the podcast user base. So if they made changes to make things less open podcast creators would be forced to follow. Making it feel like the openness of podcasts is, at least in 2023, more of an illusion or an act of charity than anything else.
Interestingly, I started reading it over xmas break -- based on a recommendation. I got, probably, a quarter of the way through it before I went back to work. And I haven't felt the urge to pick it up again.

I was reading above comments about how liking NS is a matter of taste. So I'm not sure if I just "don't get it" or if maybe it's just "not my type of story."

FWIW, so far, I just simply don't care about any of the characters. Just curious for those that like the novel: should I? Or is it more about the ruminations of technology that is important in this book?
For me it would be the Pin-Operator. Which is only needed cause variables can "mutate". IMHO it's not that common that we need to "reassign" variables, we could life without the looks-like-reassignment.

I touched Erlang before, it's hard to get my brain to accept elixir is different in regards of variables :)
It seems to me that OSDev.org is unnecessarily married to the idea of "low level == C": https://wiki.osdev.org/Languages

Would be interesting if someone with knowledge (e.g. David Chisnall) could help clarify whether this seeming of mine is seemly.
> It’s not content distribution.

Yeah, this is what I thought. RSS will give a URL to a sound file, which is hosted by someone, somewhere. It doesn’t sound like there’s anything inherent to podcasts -- not even RSS even though it’s so ubiquitous -- which prevents the content distribution to be more centralized.

If a podcast recording is exclusively hosted by Spotify, that is where everyone gets that podcast; even if they got the URL for it elsewhere. It’s a bit like saying I get my articles from HN (disregarding that I don’t use RSS for it).
"Don't let them drop us " Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan
I wouldn't put much stock in the strategic implications of these publicized papers outside of the strategic implications being that they want you to think China is a discernible threat.

It's similar to the Israel/Iran thing with the end goal being trying to drum up the warmongers.

Just reading a few sentences of that, it reads exactly like warmonger rhetoric that we all know intimately rather than inside baseball.
Surely

el.style.display = el.style.display ? 'none' : ''

(after toggling we've already obliterated any possible third value for it anyway, doesn't seem significant)
I'm building my own SSG using Zig.
I don't think they were talking about the people, but the geography. The Taiwan and Japan are both physically close to China. Taiwan is 125 miles away. Japan is 500+ miles away. Germany is 5,500 miles away.
It’s a privacy measure so that third party sites can’t see which page a user is coming from. It’s not necessarily anyone’s business to know the previous URL in a user’s browser history.
I'm pretty sure OP is referring to either the ramifications of that event (the climax of part 1), or perhaps the end of part 1 which sets part 2 in motion (with a drastic change in focus).

I'm being deliberately vague in order to not reveal spoilers.
15 years ago I downloaded podcastaddict, it keeps my RSS feeds and updates them all every morning at 7am, or at the press of a button.
Maybe this will give it critical mass -- with more people able to join, perhaps more will stop visiting twitter and We Can Have Nice Things Again.
But when I go offline on my last device, I leave the room, right?

Can I query the room’s message archive after rejoining? And is there a solution to not display me as having left and rejoined the room to others every time this happens, i.e. persistent room membership?
And you'd think that would be the quickest and easier thing to do, but the automakers got distracted by Tesla and went into making new platforms.

The only company I've seen that didn't go this route at first was Volvo. The XC40 Recharge is a nice product.
I am on Mastodon now. Not sure I want to?

I don’t want much and Mastodon lets me shout into the void just fine.

Social networking with people I know is so fragmented now it feels like no service really matters.
I have read three of his books so far - Snow crash, Cryptonomincon, and Seveneves.

By far his most fully formed and epic book for me has been Seveneves. It is hardcore Sci-Fi at an epic scale both in world building and time.

I got 700 pages in when I had to return it to the library or be sent to collections.
maybe not the 'simplest', but I guess there's a wordpress/ghost plugin for this
As someone who wholeheartedly agrees with this statement, I do wonder why this mentality is so prevalent. Is it just a consequence of natural selection? Those who want to grow and compete will inevitably dominate those who do not, and so propagate more?
We still know so little about the actual micro scale and macro scale structure and connection graph of the brain. This is a neat advance in tissue integrity but it is not a brain. It's like melting sand into a pile that holds itself and considering it an advance in computing.

Still cool through.
> Out of curiosity, I tried getting mulberries - but since those grow on trees which only start bearing fruit after 10 years of growth (!!!) - those can't be produced at a commercially viable price point.

That doesn't seem to follow. If nothing else, there are a lot of existing mulberry trees.
I've never owned an iPod, so no podcasts for me. I have thousands of MP3s (none purchased from iTunes) I listen to on a small portable device (not a smartphone).
One or two decades ago I read on some newsgroup on the internet (and having experienced it myself), that Neal Stephensons storylines never actually
It currently loading just fine while sitting on top of
HN as the west coast wakes up. We’ll see, but that’s already better than a lot of platforms.

I do wonder why a static site like this couldn’t just be put somewhere always-on, like github pages.
Check your local laws. Many state and local law enforcement was relying on the federal laws because their local laws didn't allow this already (or did but in restricted from and so using the federal laws was the easy option). But many is not all and I have no idea what state you might live in.
Different kind of chop, but my team was getting sold. I had zero idea.

For a year in advance we kept having to break services and databases into two parts or clone services for corporate and for us. It was done under the guise of “we need to be agile” but it made zero sense without the hidden context.
it's not rare, it's rare that it's the best engineering choice.

if your management can't allow even a python script, but it can allow bash? then it's not an engineering problem. as you even allude - your business does not have a software engineering culture.

a good engineering culture does not depend on job titles or budget or degree either. but it can't exist without healthy management.
I don't think there is such thing as manufacturing investment without subsidization any more.

And it most often results in the Winner's Curse: the entity providing the greatest subsidies win's the "investment", but they give up so much in the process that the economic benefits are wiped out.

See: Tesla in Buffalo, VW in Ontario, FoxConn in Wisconsin.
Sounds like a use case for simple Python rather than RustPython?

If you go full RustPython, surely looking to eek out performance must be a major reason to even go there rather than just script with CPython like it was 1999?
I mean it's susceptible to fire an ac/cooling failure - other than that? Redundant power, redundant connectivity are both feasible?
same could be said about a company’s commercial real estate holdings / leases - arguably more accurately.

context matters, and experience lends understanding. so yes, remote workers may better understand a remote context, which may be a benefit, or not.

whereas accounting is mad that money is being torched needlessly.

just because you don’t see the relation, correlation, or even causation, doesn’t make it not there.
There's also django-reversion, but I can't say I loved using it.
By the stats, USA is the brutal one: https://data.oecd.org/chart/7kW3.
It’s going AFAIK, but had a bunch of mishaps and talent/labour shortage, so it’s going slower. I’m curious how big its output is going to be, compared to the one that’s supposed to start producing chips in 2024 in Japan.

Just a bit disheartening timeline wise. It took Japanese ~3 years (2021-2024) from the announcement to production, versus ~5+ (2020-2025 TBD) for North American factory. I hope we figure out the logistics and have it easier for the second factory though!
The abrupt reset snapped me out of my thoughts which felt kind of unpleasant to me. Unless it is an intentional part of the experience, I would probably use a smoother end animation. Something that gently prepares you to get back to work (even if it just for a few seconds) instead of kicking you straight back into the world with unfinished thoughts.
Ask HN: Is there a lnav alternative that works with ELK / Loki / Splunk etc.?
I find that lnav is very nice for on-the-fly analysis, with how you can easily build filters and see the results immediately. It's basically the best tool I've used that mimics a "tail -f | grep" workflow

I know you can do similar with Kibana / Splunk UI, but I still find that lnav is a lot faster to work with, only drawback being that it only works on files.
That's probably the key part. If someone goes in expecting earnest sci-fi like Neuromancer and the satire part doesn't click early on, they're likely to be disappointed. (That being said, IMHO there are some aspects of Snow Crash that come off as low-effort, independent of the satire.)
Actionable error messages are a lot more work and are not always feasible.

A library discovering a mismatch between a configuration setting and a value it received by API isn't in a position to make a decision on which is wrong: is it misconfigured, or is the value it received via API under the control of the user?

The caller of the API isn't necessarily in a better place to make a decision. The higher up the stack you go, the more context you have on the action the user is trying to perform but the number of potential errors increases exponentially. It's usually not feasible to contextualize every possible error condition, particularly for things like configuration which are side-loaded while executing code and are a library implementation detail from the perspective of the application writer.

Consider access denied to a file: is this a user mistake or a permission mistake? Should the user change the file permissions, or not try to access that file?

Consider quota exceeded while writing to a file: should the user free up space, create a smaller file, or ask their administrator to give them more space?

What if the quota was exceeded due to a configuration setting in the application specifying where to put scratch files?

It gets very complicated very quickly, and even the simplest of actions - like writing a byte out to a file - have errors that require global knowledge to give good actionable feedback on.
Gatekeeping is the right solution sometimes, no?

What if the goal is to keep the relevant communication channels populated exclusively with technical users?

I've seen F/OSS projects completely overrun with support requests from non-technical users. Is it wrong to want to avoid this from the start?
I didn't know acute anxiety due to alcohol consumption was neurodegenerative disease.
Time to send letters to the core js standards team to ask JR for permission (plus giving him a briefcase and a deus ex machina ;)) to bring the full jQuery treatment into core JS. In order to replace the cumbersome JS things with jQuery. Why always complicate things...
>Ford made these same promises 2 years ago then bailed when the interest rate rose.

Sometimes investment makes sense, and then things change and it doesn't make sense anymore. That's fair, isn't it?
$1.3B seems like a lot of money but it isn't for a car factory, especially spread over many years.

For context: Tesla is guiding for $10+B a year capex spending for the next 3 years.

Nevada factory took $6.2B and Tesla plans to spend additional $3.6B

Toyota is still under-investing in EV. $1.3B is nothing.

https://www.tesla.com/blog/continuing-our-investment-nevada
Nothing kills my interest faster than seeing Manjaro. What a bad choice of distro, for users, and/or as a partner. To me, it shows they don't get it. SBCs can be such a nightmare.
You're swapping out your DNS for a Russian controlled DNS service. Seems dumb IMO.
I don't think they're trying to get exclusives to attract people to their platform, but I don't think that means anything beyond that. When you're buying consoles if you can only buy one, you get the console with better games. But almost all podcast platforms are free to join and get podcasts from, so if someone listens to Joe Rogan or some other show (for free) on spotify it doesn't create a barrier for participation on any other podcast. The platforms are just buying audience with exclusivity deals, but nobody is locked in.
I once tried to link error messages directly to the offending line in their open source code, such that it would be clear to everyone what is broken. It never worked correctly, and I stopped trying. If anyone can create an elegant way to do that, it would be a game changer for open source.
It is not “racist” to observe that if the inbound population is high and the native population isn’t reproducing that it is a replacement.

People need to stop allowing themselves to get shamed into not stating facts, personal observations, math and logic.

This author is non credible.
Good question on how much boost. I'm not sure. Will try to dig up the original studies
Consensus is that there is no single "flip this and you're gay" gene, but we've known for decades there is a genetic component because of twin studies. Fits right up with what this person says they've found.
We still know so little about the actual micro scale and macro scale structure and connection graph of the brain. This is a neat advance in tissue integrity but it is not a brain. It's like melting sand into a pile that holds itself and considering it an advance in computing.

Still cool through.

On a side note, the brain is amazing. The more we learn about AI the more amazing it is that the brain emerges from a relatively sparse instruction set, self assembles from widely available local resources, and becomes a general purpose computing engine able to simulate enough of the world internally to promote survival and propagation of its instruction set.
That’s tomorrow’s problem!
/s
it's very 'scoldy' too
> I don't think you grasp quite the implications of what I was saying, this kind of approach could take _seconds_ to even start running your python application.

Indeed, the web demo takes about 5 seconds to cold-start on my beefy PC, between downloading the 22MB WASM blob and compiling it. It also grows the WASM heap to 160MB after running the simple Fibonacci example, and WASM heaps can't (yet) be shrunk, so the only way to reclaim any of that memory is to discard the whole instance and start over.

It's cool that it works, but not very practical.
Personal laptop is M1 MBP 14" 16GB/512GB. It's great, the only thing I'm tempted by is the form factor and weight of the M2 Air.

My main work laptop is a 2019 16" MBP with an 8 core i9 and it seems like an old piece of shit in comparison. It has serious issues managing heat and power consumption. It actively loses battery when plugged in if I use an external display while being in a video call.
Relating to keeping podcasts open and decentralized: podcasting 2.0 and the podcast index are projects to prevent large players dominating distribution and discovery of podcasts.

https://podcastindex.org/
https://blubrry.com/support/podcasting-2-0-introduction/
By "pollution" they mean "net greenhouse gas emissions".
It's weird for olives to be excluded though. They've never been considered "vegetables" as opposed to "fruits".
> I know, reading is hard.

We're done here.