skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re certainly very lucky in many ways, but besides the financial aspect, a lot of it is just practicing it with the kids and getting them used to it, which is the case with many other things in their lives, and part of it is changing our own expectations about traveling. We go a lot slower than we used to, with more and longer stops on road trips, and give ourselves a lot more time/wiggle room at each place. If we need to drive 9 hours, we might break that into three days, and visit places that are about 3 hours apart. If we fly somewhere and it’s long, we try to go to immediately go to a hotel as close as possible to the airport so that we can all conk out if we need to. When we’re not stressed about timetables, it’s much easier for us all to have a good time. We don’t spend so much of our time at the destination, but that’s fine, there’s lots of cool stuff to see on the way, generally. We keep our schedule at the destination similarly sparse. Also, we take turns with everything, it’s not on mom. Don’t know how she’d handle that on her own.

It takes work and energy, and we do some things differently than we used to, we’ve had to relearn some things, but it’s not putting the fun parts of life on pause for 10 years. You adapt, and still have a lot of fun, and you get to see these little people learn and grow, which is amazing. Ours are in a pun-making phase, which is hilarious and terrible.
> In 1950 you could afford a car and house on one income - but that house as much smaller than the typical house today.

"Typical" is doing some really heavy lifting there given the kind of housing stock available in, say, East Coast urban areas. Most of those remotely-affordable houses are a hundred years old in the Boston area, for example.
Per Wikipedia, nuclear LCOE runs to $81-82/MWh, so is not cost competitive.
Correct. With enough effort we may soon be able to interact with others via our phones using only eye blinks. The one thing this generation needs is less physical activity.
Near / Byuu wrote a lot about their experience with timing bugs on the SNES and how it takes a quite powerful CPU to emulate it cycle-accurately.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...
They employ 45 people and demand for their products is outpacing supply. Assuming they're at least breaking even, that's success.
Earlier you expressed skepticism about the ability of nations to carry out actions to get their fertility numbers back up. And I agree with you. There's quite a lot of evidence, historical and present, that it's really not so easy. And especially for nations that only act once a problem becomes catastrophic, or politically convenient, we'll probably be well into a death spiral before we start acting. So the most probable outcomes aren't looking very hot.

But I'd say here that you're not carrying forward that same reasoned skepticism when offering immigration as a solution. Because the exact same holds true. There are countless examples of mass migration throughout history, and they generally don't come with a happy ending. Rome, over the centuries, became an empire of immigrants, in some ways akin to the United States. Yet it was also ultimately destroyed by immigration. The Goths, fleeing the Huns, were take in as refugees by the Roman Empire. Those same refugees would ultimately go on to destroy the Roman Empire.

In the present day, mass migration doesn't seem to be fairing much better. Prior to the migrant crisis throughout Europe, many expected that the migrants would integrate, become part of the normal mass of people, and it'd ultimately be a win-win situation for everybody. That belief was not well supported by history, and ultimately proved to be false. And in the US today, cities that express an extremely positive attitude towards immigration tend to rapidly express a different view once faced with large numbers of immigrants.

And immigration on the scale we're talking about would be absolutely massive, and never-ending. And I'm not even getting into the countless social/cultural/political problems this would all entail. I'm merely focusing on the most extreme - would this destroy the countries engaging in such? And it seems to me that the most probable answer is simply yes. Well actually in modern times I don't think it'd destroy them. The most likely outcome is what we're seeing happen in much of Europe - parties that oppose the immigration would rapidly come to power, and end up working to mitigate the damage, and end such a population strategy.
Kalman filters might be one of those weird cases in mathematics where the 'simple' version is simplified beyond all recognition.

I mean what you're really doing is take a measurement then simulate the possible future states and combine this information with the next measurement and repeat.

You can imagine e.g. taking multiple pictures of a tennis-ball, estimate its position and speed from the first picture, simulate where it's going to end up, and compare this with the next picture to see which estimate is closer to the truth. Or more old school, measure the inclination of the sun and compare the resulting line of possible locations on a map to the spot you thought you were.

Of course the exact calculations are beyond impractical. So you use sampling to simplify. However that still makes it difficult so you assume the distribution is somewhat close to a Gaussian distribution. And then you simplify even more by assuming the evolution of the system is just a linear transformation. And that's how you end up with the Kalman filter discussed here.

I'd be amazed if anyone could really understand what's going on just based on the linear algebra.
JFR is also quite good, for those on the JVM world.
Yea, Bartender does its job really well… simple and stable. Would also recommend.
Once upon a time, an actual bank robber crashed his car after a high speed chase and ran into my neighborhood. The police cordoned off a few blocks and were searching, but weren’t sure where the person was.

I attempted to post an alert on NextDoor, and that’s when I learned all about their anti-racism and inclusion filtering. The platform automatically lectures you if you’re posting a “look out for this suspicious person” post.
“Refusing to pay for…Apple’s design decisions” makes no sense when you just spent $2000 on an Apple laptop, in order to not pay an indie dev $16
> even if they do it keeps changing because "agile".

If you think "agile" is the reason requirements change...I don't know what to tell you. Requirements will always change, full stop. It's like a force of nature, there is no universe in which everyone just "knows" what to build up front and has a fully spec'd out API that you can go off into a cave and implement. Real life never works that way, and software engineering is not the right profession for you if you need that.
The question of "what people want" is fascinating.

Like forever, some of the smartest people around admitted that they
did not know. They created the entire field of market research. Today
I think that is dead. In the past decade we moved to an entirely
different model of force-fed consumerism, which is driven, as you say,
entirely by the supply side. Oddly the near communist era uniformity
we see goes against our stated beliefs in data-driven, targeted
markets.

A whole other layer is how we increasingly project our own desires
onto others and assume they must be crazy not to want the exact same
thing as ourselves. Where does that come from? Here on HN I get tired
of hearing these very strident, cock-sure remarks about "what people
want is...". Let's just admit we don't have much idea about what other
people want. There's nowt as queer as folk. And some of the most
interesting markets may in fact be marginal. Smaller markets do not
mean unprofitable ones.
Rough calculation get's me a dyson sphere big enough to bring the black body radiation of the sun down to ~4k being hundreds of times the orbit of pluto. At that point it's actually an interesting question of where you get all the mass for the nesting shells.

R_sol^2T_sun^4 = R_shell^2T_cmb^4
(R_sol^2*(T_sun/T_cmb)^4)^(1/2) ~= 2 light months.
If you want to create a world where there's no bullshit jobs at all then you'd be creating a world where millions are unemployed.

We are rapidly heading in this direction with automation. AI is beginning to fulfill the final step in this process creating a world where 90% of jobs don't need a human.
Florida AG has unlimited funds for CYA but not to help the people who most need it. Figures.
One thing I cannot live without: The Emacs-like Scratch buffer.
it's quite simple to do in vimscript:

function Newscratch()
execute 'tabnew '
setlocal buftype=nofile
setlocal bufhidden=hide
setlocal noswapfile
endfunction
com! Ns call Newscratch()
I judge boring by how many external dependencies a website depends on, this is not boring. Boring is a server with Postgres (or SQLite). Maybe two servers, in which case you'd need a load balancer (another dependency).

> I write code and run the dev servers (Django runserver & webpack dev server) by using PyCharm. Yea, I know, it’s boring. After all, it’s not Visual Studio Code or Atom or whatever cool IDEs.

He seems a little fixated on calling everything he does "boring", even when uh... using an IDE?
https://www.scotsman.com/news/world/startled-marines-find-af...

That’s rural Afghanistan, not Kabul. “Taliban Shuffle” by Kim Barker is entertaining and relevant.
From the article:

>> There are numerous forms of wage theft, from employers not compensating workers for time worked, violating minimum wage and overtime laws, misclassifying employees as independent contractors, not providing legally required meal breaks, confiscating worker tips, or illegally taking deductions from worker wages.

Yeah, one of those isn't like the others. I know unions and the tax people hate it, but some people are perfectly happy to be independent contractors.

Having said all that, for all the others make the company directors personally liable.
Phones becoming thinner and lighter would be amazing though. Imagine iPhone 7 sized device packing the features of iPhone 15 Pro.

Having the screen be responsible for (or assisting) haptics will also mean “spatial haptics” can be a thing, with extreme precision. Also, no more “finger obscuring speaker opening” while holding your phone.

I’m all in on thinner phones with less parts.
Note: "Manhattan".

(Also of course if it's a new baby they may just not have gotten around to moving yet. But 100k doesn't exactly make you fabulously well-off in Manhattan.)
The free app Dozer gives you the ability to move icons into a collapsible section, which also solves this problem from a different angle. https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer
Just use something like RDM to set the screen size to the choice that is a few pixels shorter. The system will take those pixels off the top and the notch will disappear. The top of the active pixel area will be a bit lower.

I suspect those settings are available in the controller because some Apple engineers also hate the notch.
An open circuit would then be a C not a |
The article makes a bold claim and then provides scant evidence. One of the cases it highlights makes mention of "no code tools", but nothing to do with the actual AI they claim is at work.

Let me provide a counter point: I work for one of the largest corporations in the US, inside an organization dedicated to advancing AI solutions across the enterprise. I would know of anything sufficiently advanced to "threaten" anyone's job white collar or not. This is simply not the case.

(going to be a little vague here for the sake of anonymity)

Here's a few examples where I see the opposite of the claimed effect.

1. In the call centers: at best improved search capabilities can help agents do work faster, maybe ultimately such productivity gains could reduce staffing, but that'll probably never happen. Search is improved a little with AI, but LLMs are kind of garbage. We've even partnered with a Big Tech Company With Famous AI People and the results are unusable.

2. Back office: call it the shuffling of papers. Think of the series of transformations of, say, new orders and things like that as they pass through various systems. These are already automated to the hilt at most every company! AI is maybe assisting with quality control a bit but whatever jobs exist in this area already survived being automated. They aren't going anywhere.

3. Fraud detection: Any company operating at any scale already has great (almost all automated) systems in place for detecting whether they are getting ripped off. Again, already automated to the hilt and anyone with a job in this area isn't going to lose it to any amount of further automation.

Articles like the one linked to need to explain, at the very least, exactly which jobs in 2024 have already escaped 50 years of automation efforts. It should beggar belief that somehow these corporations that ruthlessly cut and automate already somehow have jobs left which don't actually require a person!

Anything short of actual AGI (that is, a perfect human simulacrum that can be infinitely cloned) isn't the threat to human employment that these articles want us to believe.

The real question is what motivates these outlandish claims? My best guess is that it's paid PR firms seeding these articles at respectable news outlets like the WSJ just to keep pumping up the bubble a bit more. Keep it going and let the early money get a sweet exit before this whole thing collapses.
This feels like the usual "overnight success, 30 years in the making" kind of stuff.
The thing is, I really like the thin bezel, but why has the notch to be so massively big? The camera hole looks like it's just about 3..4 millimeters in diameter.

PS: also looking around, there seem to be plenty of laptops with thin display bezel and no notch, if others can do it, why not Apple?
While this is being done intentionally now, it has been an issue for over a decade. - And it hasn't kept people from preserving these games in the slightest.

Even now, there is a lot of work being put into reviving games that required master servers etc. by means of reverse engineering and essentially cracking. I do however agree with you that this is not the way it should I be and I still think developers and publishers should be legally bound to either allow software that they sell to function indefinitely or release the server code when they shut down the official servers.
This phenomena is pretty widespread in the service industry and I would venture to say that a significant minority of businesses participate in some version of wage theft.

For example, one of my jobs right out of high school was waiting tables at a local restaurant. If you were opening, the expectation from owners and management was you'd get in early to help open but would wait 15 minutes before service started before clocking in. So on those days you'd do 30-45 minutes of fully unpaid labor. There was well understood that if you complained about this not only would they fire you but they'd call up all their industry buddies and you'd basically be on every other restaurants no-hire list. At the time I was pretty naive and didn't think much of it, just figured that's the way the world worked. Doing the math, because I always made more than the tipped minimum wage, I think it only ended up costing me $7/week in wages - but if I stole $7 out of the till each week for a year in a half I'd be charged with a felony.
> “The process for filing a wage-theft complaint form is very onerous and cumbersome, so there’s an immediate obstacle in the process itself. But once that form is filed, it takes months if not years for the department of labor to even investigate it.”
in cases similar to that, it would be a reasonable thing to do
It's also quite common to have a light indicator that goes away when the device is turned on. TVs often do this - they have an indicator LED to show that they are plugged in, but turn that LED off when the screen is turned on, because it can be distracted, and is anyway no longer needed.
IMO, complaining is probably a more effective way to get the message to Apple in this case than buying a different computer.
From the article, it seems like the people she was helping generally _had_ friends doing it as well; her role really seems to be more of a combo wedding planner/crisis management thing.
How far do you have to drive to go to a supermarket from that development? To a library? (Silly me, expecting people to go to a library in 2024, right?)

If Dallas or Houston or Austin had decent mass transit out to those areas that'd be one thing, but they wouldn't be very "mass", and therein lies one of the problems. Car culture increases isolation and generally shits up the world ever further; somewhere like a YOLO development in the suburbs to exurbs is deleterious to human flourishing and saying "well just buy something where you need a car for everything", as opposed to like the one-off Home Depot run or something, is just trading problems.
It's just so you can see how good it was
> misclassifying
Yes, but there would still be a very high selective pressure to have more resistance to illnesses and famine.
That's true, but the star formation rate peaked around Z = 1.5, which was long before the solar system formed. By the time our solar system formed the rate was maybe 1/4 of the peak, and has fallen since.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.11126.pdf

I don't think it's a reasonable assumption that the rate of life (or civilization) formation would remain constant on a planet around a red dwarf over extended periods of time. I don't think Earth could survive for trillions of years as a life bearing planet, even with a more long lived star. Without radioactivity and primordial heat, plate tectonics would cease and the magnetic field would go away. The lack of magnetic field would mean the atmosphere would be lost as well.
Cool dashboard
C++ FQA Lite: Defective C++
Horrible tittle but interesting article.

I quote:

It somehow seems less impressive that a small subset of men take most of the market, when that market mostly consists of a somewhat similar small subset of women. A minority of men and a minority of women are having fun (?) with each other while most people of both sexes are either living in traditional couples or standing beside the whole spectacle without even participating.

I’ve also questioned the metrics that say only a few men have all the women. It turns out a few men have sex with a few women, just lots of it.
Why consumers don't care about GPUs anymore [video]
> My first too; I enjoyed it but if I wasn't meeting up with old friends, I wouldn't have bothered.

It gets better on repeat visits. The first one is daunting, it's a very busy conference with lots of running around and often not making it into a full room.

Once you figure out what's where and the general flow of the place it's a much smoother experience.

My current strategy is to mostly ignore the big keynotes. You can always watch the video afterwards. To me the most important things are the talks where I expect to have questions to ask, and the stands. If you can't ask a question after the talk you can often still talk to the speaker in the hallway.

With a bit of practice and a plan you can have very cool conversations with some very interesting people, and sometimes people organize an after-FOSDEM dinner or similar type event.
The standby light on a TV in on for standby and off when viewing because a) it could be distracting and annoying for the extra LED to be shining while viewing in a darkened room, and b) the "on" state should be pretty obvious because of the stuff on the screen.
It takes 1 day to learn, to avoid years of extra clutter on the screen.
But an option or a long press tooltip would be nice for special cases.
Given that context your reaction is more understandable.
> I just wish I could throw Ansible into the flaming sun.

What's wrong with Ansible? I've successfully operated a few services at scale (~20 VMs) with it and it's always been the most dependable part of my setup. I basically use it as a "better bash" for configuring machines.

I do ignore their recommended project structure that results in an explosion of YAML files for roles, vars, etc and just define a set of simple playbooks, one for each component of the infrastructure. Everything is hooked together with a few python scripts that generate a dynamic inventory and hook up other vars that are passed to the playbooks. Works great and does what you expect.
Firearms officers raid hotel after Harry Potter fan's wand mistaken for a knife
The article says Williamsburg, which is in Brooklyn, but still NYC so that 100k is not going to get you much.
> No children: no society.

Also not my problem. I'll be dead.

> What happened that after a few hundred thousand years of having families we suddendly need to be "absolutely certain" to have kids? Human nature is the EXACT other way round.

Human nature was to live out as a hunter-gatherer in some African savannah. Why would this hold any power over how people choose to live their lives in the Year of our Lord 2024?

> Concerning "being fully aware that our previous lifestyle would be no more": this in itself partly shows the problem.

You sound oddly interested in how I make life changing decisions that don't affect you in any way.
Most people end up doing carpentry/subcontracting to make ends meet. If you make very artistic or high concept pieces and can develop a following, that's a good way to make much better margins. A bit like selling paintings.
> some people are perfectly happy to be independent contractors.

Literally nobody is denying that. The issue is that many companies are also happy to use the classification to their advantage when the roles don't meet the legal standard their society has put forth as the requirement for someone to be an independent contractor (largely e.g. genuine independence in their work).
>We just need to solve the question of which wars are just, first, I guess, so to enforce our no vehicles bylaw we’ll have to solve all of politics.

That one is easy. Just war is the one that bring many benefits to me and my friends (well, whatever you call my social intimate circle), while destroying those other evil dudes that cast some shadow on my stable predictable world resources exploitation, all that only at the cost of nameless plebeian peons.

Or said otherwise, war is unjust when it negatively affects "the mighty me who can unleash propaganda to manufacture consent toward whatever fits my agenda".
There’s still room for my HAM radio, right?
Whether you are happy to be a contractor or not, there is a legal definition of contractor vs employee and it is often misrepresented to the detriment of the eponymous contractor.
I run vaultwarden in docker and use jwilder/nginx-proxy and jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion to add an SSL proxy.

It is nice, because it has the option to keep http open on the subdomain for doing let's encrypt stuff, but the actually SSL site will be internal only.
DuckDB as a REST API with Mkfifo()
> Cops are as safe as they were generations ago.

Actually, according to the data you shared, they’re safer, at least from gunfire and stabbing. This is probably a direct result of these precautions.

> Fear-the-public mantra is super helpful to companies that sell gear to maximize civilian harm

Are you seriously accusing me of being a shill for companies that make SWAT gear? Give me a break.

I don’t think every search warrant needs to be executed with a predawn raid and flashbangs, but those measures are clearly warranted if the search warrant is for a residence inhabited by suspected domestic terrorists with an animosity towards law enforcement.
People are aware.
98 did not, XP was the first one. So, this was addressed there merely 23 years ago, give them some slack! ;)