skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we think of centrally planned economies, we think of things like communism. But monopolies and duopolies are also a form of central planning. Without competition, decisions are all made by a select elite (and not the market). That inevitably leads to disaster. For far too long we've let corporations grow uncontrolled like a cancer. It is time to break them up. There are many more disasters like Boeing waiting to happen.
What I hear from millennials is "life is suffering, our future is doomed (global warming, mass extinction, insane politics, increasing loneliness), why would I force some kid to have to grow up in this shit world just for my own fulfillment?"
Given how much water ended up in the ocean instead of downtown, I think it did a damn good job.
i agree with this. in a world where everyone (except a very few) has the same kind of life, it all just seems normal so you would not consider changing that. but as some people have less kids, more and more people learn from that, so the idea spreads (as does the education around how to avoid having kids).
Sadly there’s no one tool to rule them all. The only choice is to use the best tool for each platform.

Superluminal is far and away the best profiler imho.

Tracy is a great instrumented profiler. But damn do I love a good sampling profiler. Tracy can sample. But I had serious issues with it on one of my projects I could never get around.
Very cool project.
Conspiracy-minded theory: only once the government successfully arranged for a process (behind closed doors) to subvert or capture any US-based cryptography efforts or communications.
Fair point although entering a new industry often requires starting completely from scratch.
Not necessarily. My parents also both have quite a few siblings, and aren't particularly religious. They were born in the 1930s when it wasn't unusual.

I may have a couple of dozen first cousins, I don't really know, but they are geographically distant. I haven't met one since childhood, and I can't remember getting along with them very well.
Not an SF, but Gödel, Escher, Bach would be liked by many who are into Math.
Definitely. These solopreneurs all kept trying after failing and I wanted to share a bit of their story!
It's not even the schools that have that dynamic first. Lots of daycares are sketchy as
hell and they also charge crazy high prices so you can't just pay for better. You have to take time out of your day and go suss them out and dig up inspection reports.
There's no statement, so it just looks like random destruction. But people in SF have vandalized e-scooters and specifically blocked tech companies' buses before.
Tax write-off means you don't pay the taxes. It doesn't mean a full refund of 100% of the cost by the government.
> You, here, right now reading this are the absolute last leaf, the most extended branch, the most outstretched and sun-bleached arm of a tree of life that has been proceeding for four billion years. You are the last link in a chain that has not been broken for four billion years.

It's 3.7 billion, not four.

More importantly it's a vast tree of life, not a chain and not a hierarchy with humans at an upper lever with only royalty, priests, and God above.

If the sapiens go the stromatolites will still remain, with a lineage far older than apes.

Humans aren't about to go extinct but it's high time their population numbers stabilised, perhaps even reduced a bit.

The case can certainly be made by those that care that should the human branch be pruned the remaining mass of the tree of life on earth might very well thrive and surge in breadth and depth after a rather large number of other prunings at the hands of humankind.
We're doing well! Hopefully less time spent writing reports or building illustrations
The cost to raise a child from 0-18 is $310k per the Brookings Institute. This does not include daycare or college.
HN has a blindness for the vast land area of America that isn't The Bay Area, NYC, Seattle, Boston, and a handful of other insanely expensive locations. Home ownership has probably plummeted in those markets (I don't have the data) but it leads to certain types of comments being passed around as fact.

The narrative on Twitter/TikTok that every Millenial and GenZ is starving to death and on the brink of being homeless is really exhausting.
By socioeconomics, I'm referring to all those different factors.

The point is that "I don't want to have children because I'm worried about the impact of climate change" (social) or "I don't want to have children because I think it'll be too expensive" (economic) is not caused by biology and thus there is no selecting such concerns out of the gene pool.

Not even mentioning that evolution doesn't even meaningfully work at these short timescales. Modern humans are essentially identical to ~40,000 years ago, simply not enough time and pressure for evolution to do its thing.
>They're deliberately forgoing those options and deleting it. You don't have a loss until you attempt to generate revenue and find that the revenue is less than your expenses. If you just throw your product away, that's not a loss.

That is exactly how it works. You already spent X on an asset. If you throw the asset away, then you just have deductible expenses.

Same for the widget factory. You can deduct the material and factory expense of making of making defective widgets. If you trash them, you write down the value of your assets.

>But we shouldn't have a tax law that does that, because that's a huge waste of society's resources (materials for the widgets, fuel for the incinerator, people's time and labor).

This is the crux of things. Those arent society's resources, and never were. They are resources of the warner Bros and the widget factory.

Tax law isnt and shouldn't be about forcing people to do what you want. If someone wants to waste their time and resources, that is their choice.

It seems like this whole thread is people angry that they dont own the property of others, and get to control them.
> cram 3 kids into the 2-bedroom you already own; don’t worry that the schools are bad and dangerous and that’s why the place was cheap; that kind of thing

Everyone used to do exactly that.
I like that it forces me to really be smart about planning out those 300 operations, plan around constraints like tool/material availability, and then sometimes even re-evaluate mid stream when you realize your plan was off a little
Why anyone would want a public record? I think you mean why would anyone want to share their purchase history?

If the record existed it would obviously be a gold mine, many people, [foreign] governments and faceless corporations would be all over it, they would be uncovering all kinds of things we couldn't have imagined and most likely didn't want to share and/or have terrible implications.
It’s just a data channel. This changed with nat and the introduction of the PASV command which allowed the client to set a non-well known port for the data channel
I recently left a long-established, mid-sized company that has been stuck in a miserable mire of Scrum that stands as an ironic antithesis to the manifesto the countless (and exorbitantly expensive) agile evangelists we’ve had slink through our doors exhort yet fail repeatedly to achieve.

The new company has no formal agile process, but effectively is kanban. I gotta say, it’s glorious. Leadership gives us a clear and actionable goal, we self organize the work, and we approach it in a way where we can iteratively build and release things every few days to maybe a week or two and get it in front of stakeholders for feedback, adjust as necessary, repeat until it’s done. If something urgent comes up, stakeholders are apprised, we handle it, and we return as soon as we can. We have a little bit of documentation to help with the bus factor and onboarding. No bullshit, no scrum master or coach, no planning poker, no fucking stand ups or parking lots or sprint planning or retrospectives or scrum-of-scrum or refinement or the dozens of other meetings that took 1/3 to 1/2 of my time at the old place.

We can afford to do this because we’re a small, focused company where everyone knows their role, we get the fuck out of each other’s way but we hold each other accountable, and the pulse of the org is built around this lifecycle. As the business gets larger, it will stress this nice and cozy arrangement and I imagine we may have to add some light process to keep it from spilling apart, but I’m really hoping this ground up culture of getting things done can scale.

That’s the thing of it. scrum arose out of people trying to boil down and extract the magic of very successful teams so we can duplicate it everywhere, but in the process of trying to make it a machine you just install and turn on, it has turned a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a Frankenstein monster where various leadership members-who may unfortunately not be as smart or effective as the folks they emulate-pick the parts they like and push it down onto their reports, whether it works organically or not. Worse than that, it gets applied piecemeal across the organization rather than the organization being built around it. And of course they change it unilaterally and don’t coordinate across teams.

I think you either have it or you don’t. If you’re waterfall and can’t do anything but waterfall, just do waterfall and don’t make everyone miserable by wasting their time trying to pretend something you're not. If your org isn’t effective, sure, give it a shot, but it’s going to take an organization-wide, focused effort to make agile work. At any rate, I can’t understand or justify the amount of money and time we throw at snake oil salesmen and charlatans in the scrum/project management space.
Someone already mentioned Permutation City by Egan, but look at his website for other math ones; he is considered one of the hardest sci-fi authors out there (?).

I second "The Three Body Problem" series (writing is meh but I think the ideas are excellent. Disclaimer: first half of book one is a slog to get through but the second half onwards is fantastic, in my opinion. I keep thinking about the book many years later on a near biweekly basis).

"The Gods Themselves" by Asimov isn't a book mentioned here yet—it has nice math-physics energy ideas.
Also mostly positive experiences, and indeed extra security makes some things harder.

I think you don't hear about the 'silent majority' as much on the internet versus the small minority that's frustrated about something and complains about it.

Proton is simply the best service available at the moment if you value privacy above best usability.

Having said that, there are some limitations that need solving, for example;
- can't increase text size in emails (iOS app.) such a basic feature... (you can only pinch to zoom which doesn't work on a small screen.) Some emails are nearly impossible to read.
- searching is terrible (it's much much better in the web client, you can even search mail contents there.)
- can't get notifications for specific email threads / contacts

For now, i'm happy to pay a company that invests in my privacy, and thereby support future improvements.
Those people aren’t youths. They’re in their 20s and 30s. What are you talking about? Is that considered youth at this point?
Does the supercomputer in your pocket not have wi-fi? Who is centrally intermediating or making you pay to use wi-fi to connect to nearby peers?
The second I clicked on the video I instantly recognized those synths as being Kevin Macleod's music. Very iconic
OP is planning on implementing braking next, which will make the same capabilities available in this open source design.
Recorded history you mean the history of domestic and emotional abuse, alcoholism, family disputes, lying and nromalised cheating? Then we are doing fine.

Congratulations on your millions. My dad beat and cheat on my mother, and his dad beat and probably cheat my grandmother.
I have seen a bit more criticism of electric cars of late in the press and on social media, particularly in the UK, but I think that's just because of more widespread use amongst the general public. They are not electric car haters but just normal people pointing out the issues they have found. This is bound to happen as more people are now using electric cars and finding out firsthand the issues with things like relatively poor infrastructure along with a few of the other weaker points of electric cars, such as poor resale value, range fluctuations based on weather and highway inefficiency etc and a few electric car evangelist types are getting upset that not everyone thinks electric cars are perfect in every scenario.
@dang: Actual title: Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like Coyote vs Acme Should Be a Crime
I just don't have any interest in kids. They're expensive and they require a ton of sacrifice. I'd rather travel, golf, do hobbies and generally enjoy my life. The only people that seem to want me to have babies are my parents so they can have grand kids... too which I've told them "Thank you for having me, but that's not a valid reason for me to sacrifice my life". I don't really care about the preservation of the human species. I'm going to be dead in the next 40 years or so, why should I care?
I think this is very confused. People these days are really rich compared to people in the past who had more kids, poorer people in countries like the US have more kids on average than richer ones, and poorer countries on average have more kids than richer ones. (People don't seem to have fewer kids because they're poor; they seem to have fewer kids because they're rich!) Despite major housing issues, people live in bigger, fancier houses than ever, homeownership rates in the US are higher than most of the history of the US, and homelessness, though tragically common, still only directly affects a tiny minority of people, on the order of a fifth of a percent, which is not the sort of thing that seems very connected to the widespread change to having fewer children.
> Here I am, just fine, a self-made millionaire today.

That says everything about how you view the world. "self-made". Nothing about how your adoptive father contributed, your peers or the entire society you grew up in.

Something else I'd love to get away from is that having money != being a well adjusted individual.
I see. I didn’t mean literal genetic evolution. Cultural if you will.

Parents who fail to instill love and desire of family into their kids won’t get to be grandparents. A few decades ago maybe you could take it for granted “everyone ends up having kids” now it obviously is a dead end unless you really help your kids through it. It feels to me like the next generation will have parents who will be intentional about this value. Others won’t bother having kids to begin with.
GP probably meant "30 years left for whatever particular movie".
The human population is expected to peak at ten billion, and that's in the latter half of his century. We have no reason to fear declining birth rates in an existential sense.
But in 10 years nobody has built a low-cost design right? Since OP has open sourced the build and software, that may change now.
My parents and grandparents actually never said that.
> If the author cared about getting accurate results they wouldn't be posting an anonymous online survey.
if you don't meet the right lady by 40 then you haven't been looking hard enough. meaning, you were not really interested or focused on getting married. i am the only male among all my cousins that i know of to be married with children. and i am your proverbial geek who has a hard time meeting women. which my cousins or brothers are not. they had more opportunities to meet women than me (as far as i can tell), but for me, getting married and having children was one of my life goals. i achieved my goal. my brothers or cousins simply didn't even have that goal.
Definitely, beavers are excellent, but not on purpose. When we say "human hubris" we're thinking of ourselves as bad for being able to think of things. Bacteria, by comparison, cause less havoc, but that's because their activities are limited by what's evolutionarily adaptive. They caused a mass extinction once, but that was a couple of billion years ago. None of the other creatures are being deliberately good. Neither are humans, on the whole, but at least it troubles our minds sometimes.
If you kock down your house, you literally cant sell it. Also, there are multiple ways of changing asset value besides sale.
Lots of people in SF feel that these tech companies are pricing them out of their hometown.

Or it could just be regular vandals looking for an excuse to tear up something and a vague memory about a self driving car killing someone in the news was good enough to tear up one of them.
smdjson is validating as it moves through the file
> In terms of salaries, most companies tend to top out around half of my current comp.

While, I am not in ML or ever worker in FAANG, here in EU my experience is also the same recently. Infact, I’d say I am fairly underpaid given my experience & responsibilities but the latest openings are disaster in terms of comps and benefits. Also, unlike what my EU brethren will parrot, most opening cite “hybrid” & “flexible” but then they reluctantly share much late in the interview that yeah need to be in office at least 3-4 days a week, and we prefer in-person meeting because “collaboration”! Sadly, watching the wages going down(despite all the touting of inflation adjustment), EU is slowly catching up to US fever without catching up to the wage levels.
How to Give Up Sooner
As an introvert, I feel I had to work harder to compensate for the fact that I didn't naturally find myself in environments where I'd meet people and engage with them, but I've also found that the attraction I've gotten from women has steading increased over time. I've found it far easier to date in my 40's than in my 20's. Not just people who wanted a serious life partner. Some of it does seem to be women equating older men with more maturity, some of it hopefully reflects actual maturity...

I don't know if you had to learn how to do this, but for me I think a large part of it is also the same thing you mention - it took a lot of effort for me to figure out, but the same parts of my nature that was a disadvantage for me when younger drove me to experiment, even take notes, until I figured out what I got wrong and how to improve myself.

Ironically I've found one of my best assets when dating in my 40's was my past struggles. Particularly recognising them and being able to use them to give observations about how clueless men tend to be about dating based on the mistakes I used to make myself.
Nobody is stopping them from wasting their time and resources. They are free to waste them as much as they want. It's just not a tax-deductible business expense to do so. There is a difference between "we won't allow you to do something" vs. "we won't subsidize you to do something". It's one thing to want to waste your resources, it's another thing to demand that everyone else pay you to do so.

What's to stop the CEO from building a mansion with the company's resources and selling it to himself for $1? Then having the company write it off as a loss? Oops! It was just a bad business decision and the company lost money. Oh well! We can't stop them from wasting their resources if they want to!
2019 data is fairly out of date. 2023 shows India is below replacement now (2.1 and dropping). china drastically so (1.2 and dropping). Those are the biggest populations by a large margin. Projections
for the region show continued declines, not sustainable at all.
Ah yes back when NANOG was an irc channel and anyone could join and discuss their routing problems.

It was a simpler time for sure
> i assume, the maintainers would still do their unpaid thing.

That's a broad generalization. Sure, there are pure-passion maintainers doing voluntary work and can afford that by living on savings or alongside a paid job.
I’m not a tax attorney but companies have been destroying product for loss purposes for ages.

Motorcycle companies crush inventory to take the losses. I’m sure any company with excess product does similar things. I’m guessing they do it because it gives them the best return. The IRS likely requires it to prevent the company from double dipping.

With movies, I don’t even want to think what obligations trigger on “release”.
> According to census.gov, the current national homeownership rate is hovering at about 66%

majority of those 66% are older generation who benefited dramatically on homes prices increase.
New gen is priced out.
Scroll down the World Bank's fertility numbers on this page [1] to get to data by region. You can add the entire Arab World, Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia as having sustainable fertility rates. And places like Latin America are in decline, but still in the realm of realm of being saved at ~1.9. The only places currently in catastrophic collapse at the EU (1.5), North America (1.6), and East Asia (1.5).

For those who don't understand why 1.5 is so much worse than 1.9, it's because fertility is an exponential system. Every generation's (~20 years) size is (fertility_rate / 2) times as large as the one prior that gave birth to them. So after 5 generations (~1 century), a fertility rate of 1.9 would see the next generation's size go from 100 to 77 (100 * (1.9/2)^5). A fertility rate of 1.5 would go from 100 to 23. South Korea, at 0.78, would go from 100 to 0 - extinct, in a century.

And most people, across the world, do have children at what you'd call "young" ages. Female fertility rates start to decline rapidly as they age, obviously hitting zero at menopause which tends to happen in their 40s. Even when successful, an older parent results faces exponentially increased odds of seeing a variety of issues with the child, such as Down Syndrome.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...
Sam Walten owning numerous supermarkets was "nothing"?
On a related note:

to those who say "it's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" I say "Damn the darkness!"
Teenagers and college students now have the opposite problem, from what I've seen. They're so shy and quiet, almost depressed. I was pretty shy as a kid, but compared to them, I'd be considered extroverted.
What did you end up doing with your kids and what age did you part ways with the school?
> Ultimately lower cost airlines will win out because flying is largely an undifferentiated product and connecting flights are just an opportunity to be left stranded somewhere. They add complexity and cost.

MentourPilot made the exact opposite argument recently. The low-cost airlines are being disproportionately negatively affected by current market conditions. Some of those are due to a fluke, and some due to the low-cost carriers buying the wrong size aircraft, and some of it is due to the big carriers intruding into their market.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_nKC7HxyOk&t=9m00s